Chapter 158: The Only Path
"Can I be a Core Palace Disciple or not?"
Rhain asked directly, without beating around the bush.
Myrielle looked at Rhain with a solemn expression.
"It is not that I do not wish to grant you that status," Myrielle finally said, her tone measured and frank. "Believe me, if it were within my sole discretion, I would give you the Core Palace token right now simply to put my new disciple's heart at ease."
"But Stormveil Academy has stood for a thousand years precisely because its rules are just and fair. The standard for a Core Palace Disciple is absolute and universally known: one must reach the eighth level of the Spirit Manifestation Realm before the age of twenty. There has never been an exceptions."
