Oathbound (2)

"There are no more than a couple dozen or so of such items on the mainland. Great wars had been fought with thousands of rankers dead whenever a sole relic appeared in the world," June said with a deep voice. "Even the Emperor managed to establish the Sivian empire because he had the complete inheritance of a soul relic set. Powerful people wouldn't like seeing some common-looking iron ranker having one of them."

Well, I have two of them, Warden added mentally.

June looked at him suspiciously and shook her head, probably guessing what he was thinking, which made her bring up the soul oaths again. "Are you prepared for it?"

"Well, one question," Jaron asked. "I don't have a class. So what should I be taking the oath on?"

"Just repeat after me," June said and took a deep breath. "I took an oath on my name and my soul, to never divulge any confidential information about Warden without his explicit permission."