Re-Awakening: I Ascend with a Legendary class

Chapter 272: Madam Ruby

Inside the tent was bright with the light from windows and floating dim crystals illuminating it.

Almond saw a table near the end and the tent was as big as a room with more doors inside that didn’t match the tent’s size from outside.

On a couch at a side sat a figure covered in a red hood. The figure appeared to be of a woman with her dress highlighting her ample bosom and long dark blue hair cascading down her shoulders.

"Commander, I found this kid in the cavern. He says he doesn’t know how he arrived there."

The figure behind the table had luxurious blue-white armor, clearly a person of higher status and power than the one that brought Almond inside.

’These two...’ Almond internally gulped. The hooded figure and the man behind the table felt simply too powerful as he gazed at them.@@@@

"You go back," the man spoke to the soldier, who promptly left before looking at Almond, his eyes glinting behind the helmet. ’Weak blood, unawakened soul...how did someone like him appear here?’

"Where are you from?"

’Questions...’ Almond made his move quickly.

"I am from...I can’t remember," Almond’s eyes shook as appeared to be struggling. "I can’t remember anything."

He severed his own memory temporarily before answering, making his words truthful. He didn’t want to speak anything of substance. Remaining unknown was best until he figured out this location and his situation because nothing was in his control except for what he chose to reveal about himself to others.

"What’s your name?"

"Almond," Almond answered. "Almond Crowshade."

"Haha..."

The woman chuckled softly and stood up.

The commander looked at her, a strange look in his eyes. "Madam, is he perhaps the reason for your visit here?"

’Huh? That shouldn’t be possible...’ Almond blinked and turned to her, but he couldn’t feel any feedback from her even when using his All-Seeing Eyes. It was the same with the commander.

"Of course not, but I would like you to hand him to me. He is clearly very young and stumbled here unknowingly. Someone like him shouldn’t be here, so I’ll take him back and find out more about him."

"If that’s what you want, I have no objection. Are you leaving right away?"

"Yes," the woman began walking towards the exit and glanced at Almond as his eyes met her ruby eyes. "Follow me, kid."

Almond nodded, his expression confused but calm as he followed her.

The commander narrowed his eyes as he saw them leaving, ’A boy appearing out of nowhere in the cavern, and her visit here.’

’Madam Ruby, this is not a coincidence for you, right?’

...

Almond turned to her and saw her looking at him as she smiled and spoke the words that made Almond’s heart tremble.

"And you...belong to me. Your freedom is my whim, and your life is mine to dictate. You are intelligent enough to understand and accept that, right?"

Almond took a deep breath, composing himself as he smiled, albeit weakly, and nodded, "I understand."

"You do not understand, yet."

Madam Ruby’s eyes gleamed as they bore into him.

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"You still have ideas that make you think you can leave. I don’t know what powers and abilities you have. I know you are hiding things about yourself."

"But you will tell me all that soon because your only way out is showing your worth to me and increasing your value," Madam Ruby patted his head and smiled. "Now, you can ask me anything you want and I will answer. After each question you ask and I answer, I will ask you and you will answer me, truthfully."

Almond looked at her, feeling her eyes as if they burst out with chains, binding him completely.

’Well...I certainly fucking did not seek to get dominated by an older woman, so why the fuck am I here?!’

Almond sighed and nodded. "I understand."

"Good."

Madam Ruby floated down, taking Almond with her as the ship slowly descended on one of the floating islands above the city that housed a huge fancy crystal-metallic palace.

They arrived at the palace’s door as guards with over 10k in stats as Almond inspected opened it.

To his left in the big garden were ten people, looking young like Almond, as they were training physical sparring.

Upon inspecting them, Almond gulped because all of them also had over 10k in stats. But suddenly, the status that he usually perceived blurred and bent before turning entirely unrecognized.

’The fuck?’

’Wait, could it be that the stats and powers perceived here are different than what I’ve been perceiving? That must be why that evaluation tablet showed something, but I couldn’t perceive it. Evaluation means she knows about my stats...and maybe she found more.’

As he entered inside and arrived in the hall, Madam Ruby told him to sit on the couch and she also sat across him comfortably, putting one leg over another with a meter-radius round glass table in the middle on which a servant put two glasses of juice.

"Drink and then ask me your first question."

The glass juice floated towards him.

Almond grabbed it and chugged it entirely. ’Orange and pineapple? Nice.’

After finishing the glass, he put it down and cleared his thoughts before opening his mouth.

"So, Madam Ruby, my first question is a series of questions. Where am I? Where is this city? What world is this? Where is this world?" Almond asked. "Yeah, that’s it for the first question. Where exactly am I in the reality?"