Ryn

Chapter 86

Julius could understand why Edgar was considered one of the best fighters at Goldencrest. Strength, speed, skill, he had it all in spades. He had a perfect balance of offense and defense. His fire affinity did an amazing job of giving him the necessary explosiveness and intensity, while his earth affinity gave him the stability and fortitude to withstand any attack.

It wasn’t like Edgar’s use of aura was that amazing. For the most part, Julius thought that he himself had better cont...

Chapter 85

Julius was surprised. The skill didn’t feel necessarily bad, but it did feel different. He could sense that some of the life mana was taking a detour of a sort. It wasn’t like it was taking longer to heal or making it more inefficient, if anything this change was making the skill better overall. However, he could feel the mana going through a cycle within his core before distributing it through his body. 

His immediate assumption was that Drasil was doing something to his skill...

Chapter 84

Julius and Aubrey were facing each other once more. This time, he wasn’t just going to allow her to hit him again. 

Aubrey kicked off just like last time and headed right at him. Julius created several spikes in quick succession and threw them at Aubrey. He was happy to notice that the spikes were created much more effortlessly than before. Each step of the process that went into making his constructs was easier and more natural than before. 

The mana flowed right into...

Chapter 83

Julius stood up from the mat, feeling a little off while doing so. He felt stronger, but not just in a physical sense either, he instinctually understood that his body could handle mana much better than before. 

He could already feel his mana enforcing his body without activating any skills. He didn’t realize it previously, but his body was like a clogged drain. Now though, it was sparkling clean, his pipes were free from any obstruction and mana could flow through him much more ...

Chapter 82

Stephen Youma POV

Stephen Youma was old. He had been stuck at Tier 4 for most of his life, a debilitating injury to his soul when he was younger had left him bottlenecked. He wasn’t able to find a way forward, no matter how many expensive elixirs or healing services he paid for, none of them worked. For a while, he had been devastated, he knew he had the talent to reach Tier 6, but it seemed like fate had other plans for him. 

It took him many years to come...

Chapter 81

Julius was sitting on the bench next to Aubrey, both of them out of breath from their sparring. Aubrey had improved her clone technique very fast, it took Julius much more mental focus to decide which one was real and which one wasn’t now. Aubrey was still frustrated about how much mana and aura it cost to use it, but Julius could already see how she was becoming more efficient.

However, he believed that no matter how much practice she had, the technique would always be a big mana eat...

Chapter 80

The four of them were on their way to the library, to meet up with Kyle and Derek. Professor Keller had shown up, but it was toward the end of class when it was almost already over. 

Aubrey had kept prodding Julius about what he wanted to show them. He must have told her no a dozen times, but she was persistent. When they walked into the library, he waved at the librarian who smiled at him over the book she was reading. 

He left some books in the return area, before foll...

Chapter 79

Julius’s classes went very similar to the day before. Physical Training just involved him pushing himself hard, using kinetic energy liberally to make it more difficult on himself. Julius, however, did notice that some of the nobles who were causing trouble the day before had not shown up. They must have thought that they had better things to do instead.

The next two classes he had weren’t that different. Intro to Mana was another lecture on the principles and general usage of mana....

Chapter 78

When Julius got back to his dorm, he saw his roommate, Henry there as well. Ever since their first conversation, they hadn’t said a word to each other. Not that Julius minded that. His first impression of Henry was not the best.

Henry was sitting at his desk, scribbling away on a piece of paper. He didn’t even acknowledge Julius’s entrance, he only looked back upon hearing the door open and then proceeded to turn back to whatever he was doing without a word.

Julius didn’t ...

Chapter 77

Julius didn’t know why Professor Youma had asked him to stay behind. Did he do something wrong? 

Professor Youma had assistants helping out with the class like the other professors. So he waited for everyone to leave before he paid attention to Julius. The older man stood up from his place on his desk and started to roam around the room. He didn’t say anything to Julius, but he just paced around the room.

Julius started to feel a bit weirded out by the situation and was a...

Chapter 76

Julius was walking toward the cafeteria. He didn’t know what he could do. He tried to remind himself that Kyle didn’t say they were dead for sure, he had just implied that it was very likely. With that being said, it was still difficult to keep believing that they were alive though. 

He was so wrapped up in his own head that he failed to notice Liam and his buddies walking toward him. It wasn’t until Liam put an arm around his shoulder that Julius paid attention to him. Juliu...

Chapter 75

Lily had a confused expression. “House Hyperius? The Marquis house?” 

“Yeah, that same one. What do you guys know about it?” Julius asked them.

Derek was the one who answered. “My father told me that House Hyperius lost many of its powerful members in the last monster flood. Unfortunately, that led many other houses to take advantage of it and start poaching many of their assets over the last decade. They retained most of their core holdings because of their Patriar...

Chapter 74

For close to an hour, Julius and Aubrey took turns trying out their new techniques. Aubrey had made an interesting discovery herself. She found out that the same way she was able to infuse her clones with her aura could be used in another way as well. It took a lot more aura and concentration but she was able to give the clones a more realistic feeling to them. 

Julius could still tell the difference thanks to [Spatial Perception], but it wasn’t as easy as before. 

Jul...

Chapter 73

Julius honestly thought it wouldn’t work. However, much to his surprise, the life mana easily slipped into her and started to heal her fatigue. At the time, when he had acquired [Restoration], Julius didn’t get to check if the skill was a self-healing skill or if it was a healing skill that could be used on others as well. The troll’s skill certainly seemed like it was a self-healing skill, especially considering how effective it was. That being said, Julius also synergized the techniqu...

Chapter 72

Lily POV

Lily didn’t quite know what to make of Julius. When she first saw him sitting in the upperclassmen cafeteria she only saw a small first year with black hair alone far away from any other table. 

He’s here awfully early. First years don’t show up for another couple of days. 

Lily was reminded of the first day the four of them had met Edgar. They had seen a muscular boy sitting alone at a cafeteria table. Little did they know ...

Chapter 71

Edgar had a hand under his chin, “I still don’t get why Professor Keller would want to spar with you. Even if he knew that you had an aura skill, it wouldn’t make him that interested in you. No offense.”

Julius didn’t take any offense to that. It was true, an aura skill wouldn’t explain why Professor Keller wanted to spar with him.

“He said that he liked to fight strong people,” Julius said.

Aubrey straight-up laughed at that but she saw that Julius ...

Chapter 70

Round two didn’t go so well either. Neither did rounds three, four, or five. No matter what Julius tried, he wasn’t able to penetrate Gabriel’s defenses with his constructs. [Extreme Mana Resistance] was according to Gabriel, an epic-ranked skill that almost completely protected one from mana-based attacks. Furthermore, Gabriel had another epic-ranked skill called [Steel Fortress] that literally made his body a living fortress. Julius thought that since mana-based attacks didn’t work,...

Chapter 69

It wasn’t like Julius had much of a choice. Gabriel might have been teasing him, but he was right. Learning techniques and sparring while handicapped was good and all, but he would need to push himself and go all out if he wanted to see actual results.

Julius didn’t say anything to Gabriel, he just walked over to a bench where a pile of silver bracelets was lying in a container and grabbed two pairs of them. He snapped a pair over his own wrists, feeling them resize and activate the...

Tier 3 Officially Up

Hey everyone! I just wanted to let you know that Tier 3 is finally 20 chapters ahead. Many of you have already upgraded, but I just wanted to give an official announcement. I plan to keep on expanding Tier 3 to more than 20 chapters, so we'll see how much I can write.

You guys are amazing and thank you for all of your support!

Chapter 68

Lily was Tier 3, so her physical attributes were better than Julius's, but she made sure to limit herself the best she could. To be honest, Julius didn’t think it would have mattered if she did. Maybe Lily thought she was being helpful, but after a few minutes, it became obvious that Julius was a much better fighter than her. She even started to notice and began using more of her actual physical abilities. 

Her raw speed and strength were impressive but they didn’t matter if sh...

Chapter 67

After Julius finished Professor Hashen’s class, he was tired. He hadn’t used [Pseudo-Phoenix Renewal] all day, he wanted to see how far he could push himself before he wore out. He was starting to feel the soreness from his Physical Training class and the last ten minutes of his sword-fighting class had been a struggle. 

Now that he had stopped using [Pseudo-Phoenix Renewal] Julius realized that he had quite poor conditioning. It had only been due to [Pseudo-Phoenix Renewal] an...

Chapter 66

Professor Rowe had stopped talking, his smile was wiped off of his face like it had never been there. His posture was no longer slouched and relaxed. His eyes were deadly still, as he observed the still-talking students. It was a dramatic change that caught the attention of many students who were watching. 

Julius just sat back and waited to witness what happened next. Finally, one of the students in the group noticed that nobody was talking except for them and nudged his friend wh...

Chapter 65

He tried to keep an open mind, he really did, but he didn’t like the class at all. She taught the exact opposite of how he used mana. Where he was more intuitive with his use, she was structured and inflexible. 

The best way he could describe it was by comparing it to throwing a baseball at a target on the wall. For example, when Julius threw a baseball, he didn’t have to calculate exactly how far something was and what was the optimal angle to throw it so it landed in the cent...

Chapter 64

Julius ran hard. A lot of the students were simply jogging at a pace they were comfortable with. But Julius was here to improve, and how would he improve his physique if he wasn’t pushing himself? 

He wasn’t the only one with that mindset.

There were a dozen or more students who were with him the entire way. It had only been a minute or so but Julius could already see that there was a distinct divide in mightsets. In the front group, were students who were obviously Tier ...

Chapter 63

The entire group had told Julius to stay away from Liam. They didn’t like the guy and were always on guard against him. So when Julius saw the guys staring at Julius from afar, Julius pretended like he hadn’t seen him. He scanned his gaze right by Liam and continued on his way to the back of the line. 

Julius made sure to keep an eye out for Liam with [Spatial Perception] as well as making sure to watch out for any aura attacks. He didn’t have Lily or any of the others with h...

Chapter 62

Julius left the cafeteria and wandered about campus, occasionally bumping into another student on accident. The idea of leaving Heston crossed Julius’s mind, but that seemed like an overreaction. He needed to calm down and think it through. Odds are that Tristan wouldn’t recognize him and even if he did, did Julius believe Tristan would send someone to assassinate him at Goldencrest? Samuel and Duke Greyson might be bold but going that far that would be stupid.

Goldencrest is one of...

Chapter 61

After the beach with the others, Julius went back to his room. He didn’t know if his roommate was still there but thought there was a good chance he was. Last night Julius had noticed a lot of bags and items that hadn’t been unpacked yet. So, there was a good chance the other boy was still moving in.

Julius walked through the campus, observing how much more busy it was in just a matter of a day. Now, it seemed like the entire campus was alive with hundreds of students going back and...

Chapter 60

“Well, my father was a noble, but my mother was a commoner” Julius admitted to the group

Julius watched as the group all wore slightly uncomfortable faces, hearing the past tense he used to describe his parents. He didn’t mean to make them feel awkward and felt like he needed to put them at ease. 

“Don’t worry, I didn’t know either of them. You don’t have to feel bad,” he reassured them.

Lily was the one who spoke up, “Of course, we would feel bad. Tha...

Chapter 59

Edgar POV

Edgar and his friends were hanging out in Derek’s dorm together, just spending time with each other before the semester started. They wouldn’t have much time once it did. At the moment Lily was telling Kyle and Derek about their interaction with Liam earlier this morning. 

“Yeah, he tried to use his aura on Julius. Can you believe that ass? A tier 3 trying to pressure a first-year…unbelievable.” Lily explained to them.

“But you sto...

Chapter 58

Edgar nudged Julius with his very large shoulder and asked, “How was your first night?” 

Julius had to keep himself from being tossed off of the bench, and responded, “It was productive, I saw some of the facilities after we signed up for our classes. It’s impressive how much is available to students.” 

“Yeah, just wait until classes start, then you will begin to wonder how the school manages to afford this,” Edgar said to him.

Edgar noticed Drasil si...