Chapter 53: Tong and Gavrex
Seeing her reaction, Riven immediately knew she was up to something. "Where are you going?" he asked suspiciously.
"To meet my master, of course! He’s not part of the Elemental Pavilion, but rather he teaches a general type of thing!"
"And that is?"
"You should know that my master isn’t a part of this sect. We’re just... working for them. But then at the same time, we are part of them if we are working for them. For now."
Riven groaned. He felt that anytime Kivara wanted to say more things about the rules of the practitioners’ world, she just ended up making it even more confusing. "But you said sects protect their path jealously! How can you be part of a sect when you are just working for them and might learn their secret techniques and Path?"
Kivara shrugged. "This is a small Clan, Riven. And besides, the practitioner world has been existing for hundreds of thousands of years. Don’t you think some Paths are open secrets by now? Besides, sects don’t employ others to teach about their Path. They usually place them in places where they don’t come in contact with such.
"Like teaching history, or about the different types of monsters, or fighting. Students that are sect members learn their Path and techniques directly from instructors that are part of the sect.
"It might seem confusing, but employed instructors don’t have access to the different Paths that the sect provides. Even if it’s a common Path. In short, they only teach and instruct in the general studies."
Riven nodded as he digested what she explained.
"Besides, most of them only teach we lower practitioners."