Bol's eyes snapped to the newcomer. His body went rigid.
A man sat in a foldable chair in the middle of a battlefield, with orange-tinted glasses, a Relaxed posture and a faint smile playing at his lips.
Who is this? Why do I feel like something went wrong?
Bol reached out with his senses, probing the stranger's Ashe. What he found made his stomach drop.
Third grade Adept. Scholar route.
No. No, no, no.
Scholars were practitioners who sought comprehension of reality through pattern recognition and knowledge accumulation.
Their Route Core processed information differently from Warriors. Where a Warrior's Ashe carried force and impact, a Scholar's Ashe carried analysis and understanding.
Most Scholars were disinterested in combat, wars, or politics. They buried themselves in research, chasing discoveries that brought them closer to understanding the mechanics of existence and the path back to the Source.
