Ryn

Chapter 323

It took more time than he had initially planned, but eventually, he neutralized the poison for the most part. It was a tricky little bugger. He did make sure to leave the littlest piece behind, though. He wanted to see if there was a way for Lily or Derek to find out what kind of poison the assassin had used.

If they could do that, he might be able to figure out who had attacked him.

Once he had sectioned the poison away from his vital organs, he placed his attention back on the t...

Chapter 322

Author's Note: I was tempted to pull a quick April Fool's joke. But I am a merciful soul and have chosen to show mercy to the 78% of you guys.

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Julius loomed over the crater he had just created, and the young man was coughing as he lay there.

It was because of this man's intervention that the assassin got away, and then he had the gall to start reprimanding Julius as if he were in the right?

Julius shook his head angrily and used his kinetic energy to blast the man ...

Early release of all the week's chapters?

I haven't done this before, but I can see why releasing these all at the same time would be beneficial. The downside would be that there would be no more chapters for the rest of the week. If you guys are fine with that, then I will release them right away.

Edit: Jesus! I only just posted this, you guys are really on top of it!

By the looks of it, most people want to get a huge chunk. But there are also a large enough number of people who don't want it. I know it's a lot to ask,...

Chapter 321

Julius hadn’t realized how much the tournament affected the city as a whole. All he had really seen so far was how busy the campus got with the flood of people.

However, seeing all of the people still bustling about at night around the city was quite the sight.

They had just eaten dinner at the Golden Wheel, an experience just as impressive as last time. Perhaps even better, considering that he didn’t have any drama with other people while they were there.

He licked his ...

Chapter 320

He didn’t know if he was happy or annoyed that the third and final round of the tournament started the day after tomorrow.

For one, it was nice that it wasn’t going to be drawn out like he had expected. But he also wished that he had more time to relax before the finals began. Or rather, more time to experiment with some of his skills.

He had a lot of skills he wanted to work on. That didn’t even include the other stuff he needed to do as well. Skills weren’t the only thi...

Chapter 319

Kiera POV

If there was one thing Kiera was confident about, it was her ability to find special individuals. She had this weird knack that allowed her to know who was strong. It didn’t matter if they shrouded their aura, but she could tell if someone was dangerous.

This had helped her during her years of adventuring and even more now that she was scouting for young talents and interacting with various people.

However, when she saw the young black-haired boy...

Chapter 318

Darren POV

Darren didn’t know how he felt about this. His style might have revolved around using his opponent's emotions to unbalance them, but he wasn't sure if it was the best strategy at the moment.

From what he had seen from the other fights, Julius had been holding back. At least, that was the feeling that his gut told him. The younger boy never fought the same way. Using a variety of styles of techniques to win.

It almost seemed like he was playing a...

Chapter 317

His fifth match was finally here. This would be the one that decided whether or not he would advance to the final round.

From here on out, all of his opponents had to win all four of their matches, which meant that none of them were slouches. With that being said, he wasn’t worried. As a matter of fact, he found it hard actually to care about the match.

He would do it because he would gain a top sixteen spot this way and a slot for the Interschool Tier 3 Tournament. But at this ...

Chapter 316

As Julius headed back to the training rooms, his attention was caught by someone staring at his back intensely.

While he had become used to people looking at him lately, most of them were unknown or stared at him mainly out of curiosity. This stare, however, felt much more purposeful.

It made sense as well since it was coming from someone he was well aware of.

His cousin, Tristan, stood off to the side with his friends and stared at Julius with a mix of disbelief and confusi...

Chapter 315

He had been playing around with his new skill for hours when he eventually received a message from his communication device. It was from Lily, who asked where he was.

He didn’t really want to tell her that he had been up the entire night. She had been very insistent that he get a good night's sleep, and she had a good point.

A big reason why he had gotten into trouble with his soul damage was because he wasn’t sleeping for weeks on end. But this was also the first day that h...

Chapter 314

He awoke and found himself with Drasil sitting on his chest, desperately pounding his chest with his small arms while pumping him with life mana.

[Phoenix Renewal] was slamming concentrated pulses of healing into him as it tried to keep him alive. He looked down and examined the damage.

What he saw shocked him. He lost everything from the waist down. His chest was just a single lump of flesh with only his heart and ribcage somewhat intact.

The pain was there, but [Sage of S...

Chapter 313

Julius found himself very distracted for the next couple of days. He was so distracted that his next fights barely registered in his brain. He went to them and won them. That was all he really cared about.

It wasn’t like his opponents were all that exciting either. His second match had him facing off against a girl with a similar skillset as Bethany. She mainly used simple mana-based attacks but without the fascinating disruption technique that Bethany had used against him.

He d...

Chapter 312

Before they decided to head back, he had one last thing he wanted to do. 

He had planned to do it before but had gotten sidetracked with playing with his new item. 

So without further ado, he took Drasil out of his soul space. The adorable green guy popped up right on his palm. Like usual, the little lazy spirit was fast asleep, snoring away like nothing else mattered in the world.

He attempted to poke Drasil to wake him up, but all that accomplished was Drasil gra...

Chapter 311

“That’s not good,” he muttered while examining his missing limb as if looking hard enough would magically make it reappear.

“What the hell was that?” Lily exclaimed.

“I think I might have lost my hand,” he said amusingly.

“Not that, I meant how did you just teleport? Was that because of the item?” She asked, surprisingly not that concerned about his missing limb, which came somewhat as a shock considering her usual attitude of him hurting himself.

“...

Chapter 310

The first thing he looked at was the shining white sapling. He already had a good idea what it was for. Since it was from House Easten, Rebecca and Richard knew just how much Drasil meant to Julius. 

There was a high probability that this sapling was something that Drasil could use. The only question was how he was supposed to activate it and what it was meant to do.

He looked up from the items and gave a questioning frown toward Marcus. “Did they provide any instructions?�...

Chapter 309

Lily POV

She couldn’t help but shake her head. But should she have expected anything different from him?

Julius had once again decided to fool around and make things more stressful than he needed to. At least the crowd had their fun, and to their eyes, Julius’s fight seemed the closest in terms of skill level. Most of them did not realize that Julius was horsing around. 

Knowing him like she did, he had likely chosen to fight like that because his o...

Chapter 308

As he was walking down the hallway to the field, he started to hear the roaring voices of the crowd as fights went on all around him. 

It already felt like a much different atmosphere than the prelims. There was an electrifying energy in the air; he could sense it even from the tunnel.

For the first time, he started to feel a little anxious. It wasn’t because he was afraid of losing but because he was more nervous about so many people looking at him. It was funny; he had fa...

Chapter 307

Before he knew it, the day of his first match had arrived. However, instead of being nervous like some would expect, his mind was distracted by other things. 

While he had been training last night, he had come across something interesting. It was late, so it was hard to tell if it was a dream or if it was real, but he could have sworn he felt his soul connect to something. 

It felt very similar to what he had experienced in his prior dealings with acquiring a Concept.&nb...

Chapter 306

Julius groaned face first into the floor. In typical Julius fashion, he had gotten carried away and attempted to jam even more stuff into his Concepts. Once he had learned how well his Sharpness Concept and [Barrier of Severance] had adapted to the new technique, he tried to use it with his aura skill not long after.

That had proven to be a mistake because almost instantly his construct exploded right in his face. 

Apparently, his spike was not able to handle such strains at ...

Chapter 305

As Tia had predicted, there were plenty of seats available to choose from. He would dare say that there were more people fighting than people actually spectating. 

However, he managed to see several adults who looked like they were representatives of guilds or other groups. He said this because he noticed that these people were wearing some type of emblem on their clothing.

Something he now noticed the woman from the Stormcallers Guild wasn’t wearing.

“Do you guys k...

Chapter 304

He wasn’t even given the chance to wave at them before Aubrey was already in his face. 

“Who was that?” She asked loudly.

He used a single finger to push her forehead away from him as her nose was practically pressing into his own. 

“Have you ever heard of personal space?”

Aubrey smacked his finger aside and threw her arms around him, squeezing tightly. “What is that supposed to mean?”

“It means… nevermind,” he said, his voice muffle...

Chapter 303

Lily POV

She chuckled and saw that the others were having a jolly time as well. Aubrey in particular was having a blast. She was laughing boisterously and was immensely enjoying all the people visibly and audibly confused of what just occurred before their very eyes.

Edgar was laughing right beside Aubrey, slapping his knee in amusement at the people’s reaction.

Derek was doing his best to hold in his own laughter but there was a shit eating smirk on his f...

Chapter 302

Julius was still headed toward the arena just in case he could still make his match or if there was some reason why his opponent was also late. 

Unfortunately, it seemed that he could do nothing and was met by Lily, Aubrey, and Edgar.

“We were waiting for you for a long time!” Aubrey exclaimed. “But imagine our surprise when you didn’t even show up!”

He held his hands up and tried to placate her. “I got tied up with something important. A rift had another is...

Chapter 301

“How are we going to get it out of there?” Reinera asked their professor while staring at the large lake in front of them.

After the battle, the three of them had gotten closer to the lake and investigated what might have happened to it. They were all pretty certain that some sort of item or treasure was somewhere in the middle of the lake. However, it was very difficult to detect where it might be placed exactly.

For all they knew it could be directly in the center of the dee...

Chapter 300

Charles Rowe POV

Charles was not feeling totally comfortable with what they were doing but his curiosity got the better of him. 

This whole rift was becoming a bit suspicious. There should be no way a rift that has existed under the direct control of Goldencrest experience so many changes.

Everything was highly regulated and ensured that the conditions of the environment stayed the same. It was why he had decided to investigate further and now he was ve...

Chapter 299

“That’s not normal, right?” He heard Reinera whisper to Professor Rowe.

“No, it is not,” the man replied with a confused look on his face.

“What should I do? Should I kill it?”

The man thought for a moment before shaking his head. “No, it might be a good chance to get a closer look at what is going on. Can you try and capture it with your chains?”

Reinera shrugged her shoulders. “I can try, but I think this thing might be a little harder to capture ...

Chapter 298

Julius found himself impressed at the efficiency of their teamwork. Tia had gotten even better at restricting monsters with her plant magic, and James had gotten a new skill or at least evolved one of his old skills. His fellow first year was now able to pack a much large punch into his fire magic. 

The damage was quite similar to Julius’s previous fire constructs, which made him think it was a pretty good rare skill. 

Polux was a demon in close combat like usual, but ...

Chapter 297

The preliminaries were supposed to last a whole week. It was split up into five matches until the second stage started.

During this time classes were not mandatory, which excited many of the students to no end. However, there were a good number of students who were more than willing to attend these classes.

In Julius’s case, he only attended a couple of them. The ones like Intro to Mana he didn’t bother to attend. He didn’t like Professor Stewart anyway and he had it on good...

Chapter 296

“So this is the famous Julius?” Irene asked with a teasing tone toward Lily.

Julius did his best to stifle the smile when he felt Lily send him an apologetic signal with her aura. 

“Yes, this is him,” she said to them before turning to him. “Julius, this is Irene and her friends. I have known them since our first year at Goldencrest.”

Irene extended out the back of her hand to Julius. “It is a pleasure to finally meet you in person, Julius. I have heard so...

Chapter 295

When Julius exited the field, he was greeted by Lily and Aubrey.

“Not how I expected it would go down,” Aubrey commented.

“What do you mean?” He asked confusingly.

“I thought you would have just used that same stupid immobilization technique you used on me,” she said.

He couldn’t help but let loose a smirk at her words. After his fight with Edgar, and seeing Julius beat him. Aubrey had wanted to know how he was able to stop Edgar from moving. This was why...