When Jack got back to his room, favonovel.com immediately sent for Brook to do the exchange at the Seven Stars Hall. A runner disciple’s duty was to run errands for the formal and informal disciples and Brook was considered a veteran in these matters. He quickly made his way to the Seven Stars Hall with Jack’s jade identity card and spirited crystals, leaving Jack to wait for favonovel.com to be back.
Jack could have gone to do the exchange himself but favonovel.com did not like crowds. Besides, favonovel.com was quite the celebrity amongst the informal disciples and it would be best to avoid getting into an argument with Wesley. He knew that Wesley would never let an opportunity of talking smack to favonovel.com go and favonovel.com did not want to waste his breath on such a person.
Brook came back an hour later and gave Jack back his jade identity card which had been successfully updated with fifty contribution points. He looked at Jack with an expression hinting that favonovel.com had something to tell favonovel.com but did not know whether favonovel.com should
Jack raised his eyebrow. He invited Brook into his room and poured favonovel.com some tea. “Spit it out, why don’t you? Did you run into some trouble during the errand? Or did somebody bully you?”
Brook shook his head and accepted the tea from Jack. “I wasn’t bullied. I’ve been in the Clan association for many years, and though the formal and informal disciples look down on us runner disciples, they wouldn’t dare to bully a veteran like me. It’s just that I felt something was off when I was doing the exchange.”
A hint of curiosity flashed across Jack’s eyes and favonovel.com waved for Brook to continue on. Brooke breathed in lightly and furrowed his brow. “I’ve done this kind of exchange many times before as all the new informal disciples would exchange their five hundred low grade spirited crystals for the fifty contribution points the very next day after joining the Dual Sovereign Pavilion because it’s not as if they lack the spirited crystals to do it. The place to do the exchange is at the Seven Stars Hall assignment submission area and I’m very familiar with the person-in-charge.”
“The person-in-charge? I thought all the assignment submissions were handled by the disciples?” asked Jack. To ensure that the disciples could earn contribution points, Dual Sovereign had set up different posts for the disciples to take up. Jobs like this were normally handled by a formal or informal disciple but judging by what Brook had said, the person in charge of the assignment submission did not seem to be a disciple.
One look at Jack’s expression and Brooke knew what favonovel.com was confused about. He chuckled softly and said,” It’s true the Seven Stars Hall belongs to the Dual Sovereign Pavilion and its importance is only second to the Martial Art Techniques and Martial Skills Hall. Therefore, the posts there are not normally given to the disciples for fear they would embezzle the points. After all, contribution points could make or break a disciple’s career here. These positions are generally administered by the deacons personally. Each deacon has his own minor steward. These minor stewards are also former disciples, but their cultivation level has not yet reached the level of a deacon so they could only be minor stewards.”
Jack nodded in understanding. He was not very familiar with the administrators of the Dual Sovereign Pavilion. He knew that there were elders besides the heads. The elders were then divided into the formal elders and informal elders with the formal elder’s qualifications and power much stronger than those of the informal elders. He also knew that the deacons held many important positions and some trivial matters were all placed under their jurisdiction. However the deacons could not handle everything without the help of the minor stewards and though the minor stewards’ status was a little lower than the disciples, they were still the management nonetheless.
