I Just Want A Peaceful Life

by Stayrr

( avg 45k ) What if the strongest person reincarnated to another world. Will he keep pursuing his dream to have a peaceful life? “Ding.. The Idle system is fully integrated.” “Wait… Why am I keep getting stronger!” Or will he conquer this new world? Seek and stay tune Angus's adventure in another world.

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Sin has always stuck with humans since ancient times. No matter who it is, humans always commit sins in their life.

It is as that already becomes the law and norm of the world itself. Even the heroes, kings, or other righteous people also could not escape from committing sins.

But what happens if it happens to the strongest person that only wants peace. Will he escape from the evil clutches of sin, or will he overcome it.

Year XXXX

"Huft… Huft… Brother, Why?" What have I done to you to poison me like this?!" said a man.

"Kukuku…. Uhuk… What you did... is take everything for me!! Uhuk.. Now, come and die." the other person in the room attacked his brother once again despite his injuries.

"Nonsense! I never take anything from you?! I always give everything to you, brother!!" said the man

"Shut it, Angus! Shut the fuck up! If you want to give me everything, then how about give me your life?" Said the other person with the craziness in his eyes.

"But, Why? I always love you, brother. So, Why.. Why did you do this, Victor?" said Angus while dodging the attack.

"Exactly!! Because of that, you become Master's favorite student, become the strongest person, and even get Julie's love." replied Victor while keeping launching an attack.

"What!! I never loved Julie! Wait… Brother!! Is Julie the one that coerces you to poison me?" said Angus.

"Enough nonsense, now.. DIE!!" Victor launched another attack against Angus.

However, Angus could repel the attack easily despite being poisoned.

After exchanging a few moves, "Hahaha… As expected, the one that inherited the master's power. Even after being poisoned by [Devil Tears, you still could move like that. But now that power is mine!!" Victor attacks his brother madly while ignoring his wound.

During their exchange, hundreds of people approach the building where the two brothers reside. *BUK* *BUK* *BUK* Many grenades launched inside the house at once. Then, it explodes together. *BOOOMMM*

At the last second before the massive explosion, Angus gathers his chi to protect his brother and himself. But, his brother already loses all his reason and keeps attacking him using the poisoned knife.

"Uhuk.. Brother, are you okay?!" said Angus.

"Hahaha… Just give up, brother! Give me the master's power, and I will end your suffering" [Victor]

Looking at his brother already beyond hope to save, Angus punches him in his heart at a fast speed ending his life. Then, Angus closed his brother's crazed eyes.

"ARRRGGHH" Shouted Angus after losing his only brother, Angus release surges of massive chi and clearing the rubble around. *BOOM*

"You bastard!! Why did you do this to my brother?" As Angus looks at the approaching group of people.

"Hoo.. truly an embodiment of evil to survive that kind of attack while being poisoned." Said one of the men with shaved heads and wearing monk attire.

"Angus, there is no other person that is stronger than me in this world!!" Said a muscular person

"Fufufu… that's the price for ignoring me." Said a beautiful woman with a devilish aura

"Hahaha… Look at that power. Now, I can wait to eat you!" said a crazed thin person holding an alcoholic jug.

Looking as more and more renowned practitioners of martial art come with hungry eyes towards him. He finally understood why they came after him.

"I see… So, All of you want is my master's legacy. But, did you think that poisoning me is enough to defeat 10.000 years of inheritance?!" Angus claps his hand and takes his final battle stance.

Soon, the group of people launches an attack on him without any shred of hesitation. Various kinds of attack consist of guns, grenades, sharp weapons, and chi-based types of skills coming to Angus.

Six days have passed since the start of the battle. During these six days, Angus already lost count of how many people died at his hand. Each minute passes by, another life is claiming in his hand. A mountain of corpses is already piling near him.

He even wonders just how many people they prepare to capture him. What infuriates him the most is they seem to lock down the entire area and cooperate with the local government to make this attack.

For six days straight, Angus continuously fought and passed what was truly human capable. All his body was riddled with various wounds and blood from his enemy and his own blood.

If he is not poisoned, he could already run away or fight for another week. But, each time he used his chi base skill, the poison inside his body corroded him slowly.

"Hold on, everyone. He is already at his limit. The ten thousand years' legacy will soon be ours." Said one of the people to encourage themselves.

Looking at the opposition group that fears to attack him. "Hahaha… With that kind of mentality, you will never get this power." Angus gather all his remaining chi toward his heart and explode himself *BOOOMM*

"Shit…" Before the opposition group could react, they already got engulfed by a massive chi blast and part of the town.

At Angus's last moment, 'Damn… at the end, I really can't preserve my master's legacy. Huft… six days, huh? That means I miss the six-day time to manage all my idle phone games.' In the end, I really can't preserve my master's legacy.

'Funny, I still think about those games. Well, not that it matters now. At least I finally got the peace that I once longed for.' as Angus's consciousness goes into the darkness.

Inside the darkness, Angus lost track of time and control over his body, even his thoughts. Before long, he sees a bright light from far away and feels like being pulled off towards it.

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On a peaceful day, where everyone is passing their daily life, There is a big mansion at the edge of the town. From inside the big mansion, people could hear a woman's scream. The mansion is filled with a lot of guards and servants.

While the guard looks nervous and keeps their vigilance, all of the servants look very busy. Some of them come and go from one of the most oversized rooms in the mansion.

Inside the room, a woman has child labor. *ARRGGHHH* Once again, the woman cries and tries to push her baby to come out using all her strength. Before long, the baby came out. However, it still stays silent without crying.

The baby only feels being grabbed by a giant hand. But, he still cannot see or hear properly. Before he could contemplate his current situation, he got slapped in his butt. At this moment, like an instinct, he cries loudly. *OWAAKK*

The baby seems surprised at his own action. But all he could do was cry with the baby's voice. Finally, after crying for a while, he feels exhausted before falling asleep.

Hearing the baby cry, the people in the room feel relief before a man comes into the room hurriedly with worry.

"Honey, how are you?" as the man looked at the beautiful pale woman hugging the newborn baby. At the same time, the nearby people with priest attire emit strange light that soothes the mother and the baby through their hands.

"It's okay. I need to rest for a little bit." The woman reassures the man.

"*Sigh* Thank God, you made it. Now, let me see my son." The man looks at the baby in the woman's arm.

Looking at the healthy and strong baby lovingly, "Welcome to the world, Angus… Angus Victory."

Few hours after that, Angus finally wakes up. He can't look or hear appropriately because he is in the newborn baby's body, while his limb also feels very weak.

As the former strongest martial artist, he didn't panic for long and retained his calm. He tried to understand his current situation.

'Urrghh… Where am I? I feel so weak. Let's inspect my body first.' thought Angus.

As soon as he tries to inspect his body, his mind feels overburdened and once again falls asleep. Soon, every time he tries to think about some heavy stuff or examine his own body, he will fall unconscious for a few hours.

Fortunately, at one month's age, Angus regained his sight and could hear properly. The moment regained his five senses. He was surprised at his current condition.

He already guessed it a few weeks before, but thinking he reincarnated into a newborn baby is unexpected.

However, being a newborn baby is a headache for him. It's because he cannot control his body properly. As an expert of martial arts, control over his body is very important. Without it, he feels worse than being a disabled person.

His nightmare only got worse when he couldn't control the need to poop before he could even cry for help. All he could do is resign his fate to nature.

During his time as a baby, he also tries to gather some information about his surroundings. He found that his family is quite wealthy from the house he stays in.

Although, it is pretty old-fashioned compared to modern life in his past life. But, there are a lot of servants to take care of it. Angus suspects just hiring all these servants probably already costs a lot of money.

He also found that he is not in the same world as in his past life. Because at this mansion, some people could use strange energy to help them do their task despite the low technology around.

The strange energy is similar to chi from his previous life, but Angus is sure that it is not chi. By some fortunate event, he also learns that his current name is similar to his past life, Angus Victory. After knowing his name, he begins to remember his brother.

His name is quite a mix of his and his brother's name. While remembering his past life, his mood becomes gloomy.

'Haa… At least now, I was reborn in a rich family. I don't need to live frugally like in my past life. Yosh.. Let's enjoy this life peacefully to the fullest.' thought Angus.

As time goes by, one year has passed since Angus was born. Even though being a baby is boring, he likes its peacefulness. He feels like his long wishes are already granted because of this peacefulness.

During this one year, he could only stay in his room in a caged bed to prevent him from falling. He often sees his family check on him sometimes.

His mother has black hair with brown eyes and beautifully white skin combined with a top model face from his observation. She always pampered him a lot and always played with him in most of her free time. Her name is Cecilia Widespread, the wife of the head Victory family.

His father has blonde hair and a slim figure with a strict classic military disposition but still retains his charismatic, handsome face.

Despite his petty figure, Angus knows a dangerous aura hidden behind it if he is provoked. His name is Jacob Victory, the current head of Victory Family.

His parents love and care about him, giving him a sense of belonging he never knew since he and his brother were orphans in his previous life before being adopted by his master.

He also found that he has two older brothers. The first older one has blonde hair similar to his father's hair with brown eyes. The first impression he got is that he has a cold personality and is quite a prideful person. His name is Jason Victory.

His second brother is younger and likes to prank people. He looked like a free-spirited person that had too much energy. He is a small kid with blonde hair and black eyes like his father. His name is Vergil Victory.

As for Angus himself, he inherited his mother's black hair and his father's black eyes. He also found that his family is quite influential in the military.

Many people gave their blessing to him during this one year. This shows that his family is quite influential.

'Well, this is a good family since I can just be goofing around while letting my brother inherit my father's position. There is no way I want to get into another bloody brother fight.' thought Angus inwardly while he remembers his fight with his beloved brother.

Besides his family, Angus also learned a few word languages that people use in this world. He never heard any language that people used in everyday life from his past life. He is sure that he is not in the same world as his past anymore.

So, Angus speculates that he is in some remote region or genuinely reborn in a different world.

Moreover, he found the strange energy everyone uses that is similar to chi. People in this world called this energy mana, like in some fantasy game he played in his past.

Late at night after his birthday party, he rests inside his room alone while enjoying his peacefulness.

'Ahhh… It will be perfect if I still have my handphone with those idle games' Thought Angus while enjoying his pillowy bed.

Suddenly, He hears a sound inside his head.

"Ding.. The Idle System is fully integrated." [System]

"Starting the system in 3.. 2.. 1.." [System]

"Welcome, Host to the Idle system." [System]

"Please select opponent in next 30 second" [System]

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"Please select opponent in next 30 second" [System]

'Huhh… Idle System?! I guess I miss playing my idle games so much to even hallucinate about this.' thought Alex while looking at the hologram panel in front of him.

Soon, the countdown passed.

"Host has not selected an opponent. The opponent will randomly generate." [System]

"Match complete… Opponent Ant." [System]

"Estimated time of winning in 1 second." [System]

"Battle ends. You receive 0,0000001 Soul Points."

"Next match, opponent Ant. Estimated time of winning in 1 second." [System]

"Battle ends. You receive….." [System]

At first, Alex ignores this, but the sound keeps ringing inside his head.

'Hmm…. Don't tell me… This is...' Angus immediately inspected his body.

Now his body and mind are strong enough to handle the burden of inspecting his body. He already could do it a few months ago but still chose not to do it since he didn't feel the need to do it.

As Angus inspected his body, he didn't find any change at his body or anything wrong besides his chi.

'Maybe it was because it gave too few soul points for me to notice it.' though Angus, who still believes the system is genuine since he could still hear the notification.

'Either I am crazy, or this is the real deal like in those fantasy books.' While thinking this, Angus inspected his chi as it seems different than in his past life.

He found out that his almost non-existence chi changes into a strange energy called mana that is easier to control. He could circulate this mana easily despite having a toddler body.

If it is an ordinary chi from his past life, he needs to meditate at least a whole day or train very hard just to move it a little bit. Unlike chi, this energy also seems very gentle as Angus knows just how dangerous chi is, no matter small it is.

As Angus contemplated the system and his body, "Battle ends. You received 0,0000001 Soul Point" Angus keeps hearing battle notifications from the system every second.

Irritated by hearing the same sound repeatedly, he immediately searches his way to the setting option of the idle system through various actions like calling system, notification, or setting.

In his past life, every game he played always had a system setting to configure the game itself for the user to play more comfortably. The primary setting, such as mute notification, always has in every single idle game he played before.

After a series of tries, he finally could summon the Idle system menu with thought. He could see a transparent holographic panel in front of him.

In the holographic panel, he found some functions such as notification and enemy selection. He also sees the inventory and shop tab but grayed out being unavailable to select. The only available is the Host chart tab.

Ignoring the others, Angus immediately finds the notification setting. He mutes most of the notifications while leaving the few important ones. Then, he finally looks at his Host chart to find out about his status.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 1 Year Old

MP: 1/1

Strength: 1

Dexterity: 1

Intelligence: 1

Vitality: 1

Soul Point: 0

Besides that, he didn't find any explanation or information about it. No experience or even level like in the game from his previous life. After inspecting carefully for hours, he still didn't find anything about it.

Then, he went back into the enemy selection function. From it, he found a list of a lot of people and harmless animals. Rather than animals, it could be called a harmless insect for now.

For the people listed, all of them left with [???] in their name beside his family. He speculates that it happens because he didn't know their name yet.

All the people in the list grayed out, being unable to be selected. The one available for him is only some harmless insect such as ant, mosquito, wasp, etc.

After doing a few more tests, he becomes more interested in this system. Since his days were always dull, he finally felt like getting a real toy to play with for a long time.

He chooses the most possibly benefited harmless animal that he could defeat before going into sleep as he is pretty exhausted from thinking all this stuff.

As time goes by, four years have passed since Angus received the idle system. He finally knows how absurd this system is to his body.

Each time Angus won, he got a little bit of a soul point. This soul point could be converted into other attributes with a certain ratio.

He could exchange five soul points with one of his Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, or Vitality. As for mana, he could exchange one soul point for one mana ratio.

Although the change is minimal, he knows this small change could decide his life in a dangerous situation as a seasoned fighter.

He also believes that the conversion rate will increase as his body grows stronger, like in those idle games he played before.

In summary, he will get stronger by doing nothing. But, this is a headache for him as he didn't want to become stronger.

In truth, he didn't want anyone to know that he is a strong person. He is still traumatic of being betrayed and hunted by anyone like in his past life. Angus's last moment in his past life already gave him enough lessons to understand this. All he wants is to live a peaceful life.

'Haa… Such a troublesome just for wanting a peaceful life' Thought Angus inwardly

Still, unlike his past world, this world is filled with many kinds of different dangers. Not only he needs to think about the threat from humanity but also from nature itself.

The only reason he is now in a safe place and at peace is because he is the son of the duke inside one of the biggest kingdoms in the world.

After contemplating a little bit, he chooses to hide his strength and only use it just to protect his dearest one and himself.

Angus didn't want to get betrayed or have another bloody brother fight anymore. Because of this, he developed a lazy nature and liked to read books during these past years.

He also concludes that this idle system works similarly to idle games he played in the past. But rather than experience, it gives him soul points.

After a few times secretly testing his idle system in these last few years, he already got the gist of how the system works. Inside the host chart, it is similar to the status panel of any player-based game.

MP represents his current mana.

Strength represents his body strength.

Dexterity represents his body speed and reaction time.

Intelligence represents his mind's work speed and memory.

Vitality represents his body's endurance.

What confuses him is he didn't have HP (Health point) like in the game. At first, he thought his health was too small to be calculated, but after a few times of testing, he still found nothing about it at all.

He speculates that since this is a reality, the system decides that HP is too hard to be calculated by number or his HP is too small to be calculated by the system. After all, the system only shows integer and rounded numbers.

After four years, his soul points have already accumulated by 15 points from killing various insects. All these years, he still couldn't choose people as his opponent inside his automatic battle.

Angus speculated that he needed to beat them in real life first before the automatic virtual battle worked, or he still didn't have enough strength to win a battle over them in a life-death battle.

A spar battle and a life-death battle are different. The latter has a high degree of difficulty compared to the former.

'Well, that didn't matter since I don't want to become stronger anymore. I just want to enjoy this peacefulness.' Angus returns to reading his book within the shade of a tree inside the mansion's garden.

But, he is soon disturbed as he notices a butler approaching him stealthily. Even though he never trained, his senses are still better than any ordinary person.

After a while, the butler showed himself, "Sorry to disturb you, young master Angus. You got called by your father in his study room." Said a servant with butler clothes.

"Father? Alright, I will see him now. Thanks for the notice, Moro." Angus stood up from his lying position reluctantly before going toward his father's room.

Arriving in front of the room, Angus knocks on the door *Knock* *Knock* "Come in." Angus hears a response from inside the room.

The moment Angus entered, "Ahh.. Angus, you are here." said Jacob, Angus's father

"Yes, is there anything you need, Father?" said Angus.

"Actually, in three years, you will enter the royal academy like your brothers. So, I want you to study early so as not to tarnish our family name." said Angus's father.

"Okay..." said Angus.

"So, starting tomorrow, you will be tutored to not fall behind with the other nobles." said Jacob.

"Err… does this also include physical training?" said Angus.

"Yes, it will focus more on physical training since you never trained on it before. I know you don't like to do some physical training, but at least you need to get the basics of it." said Angus's father

'I already know all the basics just from looking at it. Damn it... *sigh* I guess I will play along as long as I don't do anything absurd.' thought Angus inwardly.

"Haa… Alright, Father. Is there anything else?" said Angus

"No, you can go now. Also... I expect something from you, Angus." said Jacob

'No..no… Don't expect anything from me. Just let me goof around.' thought Angus

"A-Alright… Then I shall go now." as Angus exits the room.

Looking at his son out of his room, Angus's father could only sigh inwardly before going back to his paperwork and forgetting about any unnecessary thought.

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The following day, Angus arrived in front of one of the rooms inside the mansion. This room will become his study room for the next three years until he goes into the royal academy.

Arriving in front of the room, 'Huft… I hope I didn't get any weird teachers. Well, at least I could learn the one called magic besides the books.' thought Angus.

Although Angus wants to hide his real strength, he is still interested in magic. For Angus, who never knew the existence of magic in his past life, he finds magic is a marvelous thing that could contradict some physics and his past common sense.

Because of this, he wants to learn magic. But, magic itself is a complicated subject that not everyone can do it. Only a talented and hard-working person could do it.

*Knock* *knock* After knocking on the door, he hears a pleasant female sound from the inside, "Come in."

Angus immediately enters the room and sees a young woman in a strict teaching uniform that gives the vibe 'I am a teacher'. The woman is quite beautiful and tall with deep blue hair.

But, he knows behind her petty figure hidden an aura of a skilled fighter that is already through many life-death situations. He confirmed it by how she positions herself and her entire body language.

Before he could think further, "Done admiring? If yes, hurry to your seat, Mr. Young Master." Said the blue-haired woman in a sarcastic tone.

Without saying anything, Angus immediately went back to his lazy expression and sat at his seat.

After Angus took his seat, *sigh* "Well, my name is Andria Cobalt. I will tutor you for the next three years until you enter the royal academy." she looks disappointed by Angus's previous behavior.

After that, she immediately began her lesson. In summary, she teaches Angus some common knowledge about this world. From Andria's explanation, Angus found a lot of hidden dangers behind his everyday peaceful life.

One of them is the danger of monster hordes. Unlike in Angus's past life, the world he resides called Firuman, inhabited by many races and other living beings besides the human race.

But the most dangerous one is the monster, a being corrupted from miasma, which is also called corrupted mana. The monster tends to go berserk and seek the only destruction of civilization.

As for the reason behind this phenomenon, nobody could uncover it from ancient times. The only possible explanation is from the myth where a powerful evil god corrupted some beast into a monster through miasma and sought the destruction of civilization.

Fortunately, other civilized races are also not so weak just to be destroyed by a monster horde. They could utilize mana to protect themselves and fight back against the monster horde.

As time goes on, both the monster side and civilized races begin into stalemate situations. But, the danger of monster hordes still exists as they grow stronger and increase their number over time.

On the other hand, the civilized races could only pass down their mantle to the younger ones after growing at a certain age or slowly cutting down monster numbers.

Still, this kind of problem will only happen in the future for him to worry. Instead, he worries about his matters about the so-called politics between the nobles. If he is not careful enough, he may get stabbed in the back by other nobles.

Angus knows precisely how dangerous humans can be from his experience. Although he already decides to leave this matter to his brothers as the heir, he still needs to be careful around the noble society.

Fortunately, Angus's rank as noble is not tiny as the son of the duke. Basically, not many dare to stab him or try to 'use' him openly.

A few days later, Angus was called into the training ground by Andria for physical training. Because of the monster horde threat, all the people in the kingdom have learned some sort of self-defense since childhood, especially the noble one.

Since Angus wants to hide his real strength, he tries to put on a façade that makes him look like he has average physical strength.

The moment Andria tries to push him further than a normal average kid could do, Angus immediately stops his exercise and looks at her silently.

Angus looks at teacher Andria silently with an expression like mocking her, 'Are you a retard? To push me to do this?'.

Occasionally, he immediately leaves the training area while making excuses, "I am sorry, teacher. I need to go to the bathroom for a while."

Many times Andria tries to punish him for that. But Angus always gives the same excuse to go to the bathroom before going for hours. Then, he will be found falling asleep below the shade of a tree in the nearby garden.

Because Angus is also the son of duke Jacob, Andria cannot do anything too excessive about him besides tolerate his behavior. Even after she reported this matter to the duke himself, she only got a reply as let him be since he was still a child.

As time goes by, Andria gives up trying to push Angus training harder during the physical exercise. Fortunately, Angus was interested in magic, so Andria still could tolerate his lazy behavior.

Many young nobles also prefer the magician's path since the magician is positioned at the backline in battle. This way, they are safer than other combatants who fight on the front line.

'Hm… he also will not go further in this magician path because his mana is quite low and his mind power to construct magic circles is almost below average.' thought Andria as she looked at her students who tried to cast simple fire-based spells.

Andria will never think Angus planned all of this to give him the impression of a weak, spoiled noble son who is very lazy. Still, it is also true that Angus' mana and mind power are below average since he didn't increase them during the past few years.

Because of the status panel, he could monitor his growth rather than use it to improve further. He used it to make it stagnant.

Few years after finding out how the system works, Angus knows that doing specific actions continuously, such as training or reading books, will increase his status.

Reading books will increase his intelligence which will increase his speed to construct magic spells. So, Angus uses most of his time pretending to read books while he is just sleeping or goofing off.

He did all of this hassle because he learns he will be tested with a machine that will roughly calculate his body strength and mind power in the royal academy. Knowing this, he immediately planned to stagnate his growth by doing his daily routine carefully.

'Hmm… not too bad' as Angus looked at his status panel.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 5 Years Old

MP: 5/10

Strength: 3

Dexterity: 3

Intelligence: 4

Vitality: 5

Soul Point: 31

"Alright, Angus. Today will be the last day of our class. Tomorrow you will go to the capital city to be tested inside the royal academy." said teacher Andria

"Make sure you will not mess up, or I will get 'lectured' by your father." said Andria tries to remind Angus, who is yawning continuously with a bored expression.

"Yeah-yeah… Just take it easy, teacher, or you will never get married." Replied Angus while teasing his teacher.

During the three years' time, Angus became more familiar with his teacher, but mostly he would tease his strict teacher about some of this stuff.

"Grr… Huft…. If you just have a little bit of talent from your brothers. I will not worry about you at all. But, to be lectured by me for three whole years and could only barely cast 1st circle basic spell [Flame] truly hurt my pride as a teacher."

"Easy, teacher Andria. Actually.. I also want to be like my brothers. But…" Angus stopped for a while.

'Angus… He…' Thought Andria as she immediately felt wrong to bring up such a topic.

"Don't worry…" said teacher Andria

Before Andria could finish his sentence, "But, I think it is too bothersome to do it. So, teacher, why don't we just end this class and enjoy the weather in the garden. Today has good weather for laying around." Angus smile innocently

Hearing this, "That's it…. Angus!! no lunch break until you finish the test!!" As teacher Andria's rage explodes from Angus's behavior.

"Whattt… that's not fair." Angus stopped working on his paper test.

'Haaa… How come the mighty Duke Jacob produced a son that is so lazy like him. I truly worry about this kingdom's future.' thought teacher Andria.

Before Andria could think further, "Err… Teacher Andria, I think I got a stomach ache and need to go to the bathroom." Angus once again faked his stomach ache.

*Crack* *Crack* At this moment, teacher Andria already reaches her limit, holding herself to not pummeling her lazy-ass student as she grips the table firmly.

"That's it… Angus. Let's change the test. If you can get out of this room before tomorrow. You will be passed." said teacher Andria

"But, if not, don't think about leaving this room before tomorrow. Not even your pathetic excuse will work." As teacher Andria is ready to beat up her student.

"Whaatt.. That's not fair. My father will never approve of this kind of teac…" said Angus.

Suddenly, Moro opened the door. "Excuse me, Ms. Andria. Master gave his permission to your request right now." Then, Moro closed the door silently.

"Hehehe… You hear it yourself. Your father just gave his permission to do this kind of test." Replied Andria happily.

'WTF… D-did... My father just sells his son?' thought Angus

"Don't worry, all you need to do is go outside this room. So, what are you going to do now? Didn't you get a stomachache a while ago? If you don't hurry, you might shit your pants." said teacher Andria.

'Damn, this is too troublesome.' thought Angus.

"Tch… it seems you don't believe me about that." Angus starts to loosen his belt.

"W-wait.. Why are you undressing?" teacher Andria was baffled seeing Angus's action.

"Well, since I can't go to the bathroom. I might just do it here. You know nature calls." Angus took off his pants.

Flustered by such action, teacher Andria immediately looked back to avoid looking at Angus. "Shameless kid!! Did you have no pride at all?!"

During this moment, Angus immediately opened the window and prepared himself to jump. But, Andria also notices Angus's sudden action with her high perception. She immediately tries to catch Angus before he could jump out the window.

Using her trained body, she arrives behind Angus without delay. Before she could catch Angus back, One of Angus's palms pointed towards her hidden below his armpit and shot a small fire from it. [1st circle – Flame]

The fire is small, but it shoots directly towards teacher Andria's eyes. Her instinct flared up at this moment. She immediately retracts her face to the side. This action is enough to stop her for a moment.

Using this opportunity, Angus jumps down towards a nearby tree and runs away without saying anything.

Meanwhile, teacher Andria could only be shocked by her student's previous actions. Angus's action to try to run away may look simple but also very difficult to achieve. It is because the hidden attack is so precise that it attacked Andria's most vulnerable spot during that moment.

Andria could only dodge it because her body is tampered with in many life-death situations. But, she believes not even elite soldiers from the capital could avoid such an attack during that moment.

Still, she believes Angus manages to do that as a fluke, a lucky shot. Otherwise, Angus is another terrifying genius who could predict other opponents' reactions and plans such a dangerous play.

'Haa… to think I even thought of him as a genius now. I need to take a break. All this teaching job has exhausted me. But, first, I need to report it to Duke.' thought teacher Andria while she went out from the study room.

As teacher Andria goes towards the duke's room to report about his son's behavior, Angus is lying around at his usual spot while sweating and breathing roughly.

*Huft* *Huft* 'Damn… I will never get used to this weak body. I hope I can do the test sooner. Still, teacher Andria is quite bad to do that kind of test for me.'

'Well, I hope she will not think of something unnecessary that gives me more 'trouble' later. Especially after that time blundering with my father.' As Angus calms his mind and subconsciously changes his breathing rhythm.

A few moments later, "*Ding* Vitality has increased by one."

Angus immediately curses his luck, 'Damn… I just subconsciously use my breathing technique. Haa… Let's forget it. Time to sleep now.' Angus closes his eyes and falls asleep under the shade of the tree.

Meanwhile, inside the Duke's room, "Alright, thanks for your help, Andria. You can go now." Said Duke Jacob with an emotionless tone.

"Then, I shall excuse myself." Replied Andria while she went outside the room.

The moment Andria goes outside the room, "Moro, what do you think about this?" [Jacob]

"Master, I believe it is just a fluke or lucky shot that young master Angus could get away from that situation." Said Moro from the corner of the room respectfully.

"Hmmm…" said Jacob.

After a moment of silence, "I can't do it." said Jacob while thinking something very hard.

"P-pardon me, sir…" said Moro.

Before Moro ends his sentence, "If I am in Angus's position, I will never get out of that room despite using all sorts of trickery and my vast experience. Even replicating that kind of feat is almost impossible." Explain Jacob in a serious tone.

"..." Moro couldn't reply to his master.

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"Tell me, Moro, do you think you could escape from a room guarded by the angered Blue Lotus, Andria Cobalt?" Asked the duke to his loyal butler.

After Moro thought for a while, "No… master, That's an impossible feat even with my special trait abilities. But, master, if I may presume according to Andria herself, she gets distracted during the test."

"Moro, did you know why I agree with Andria to do the test?" asked Jacob

"Didn't it teach young mast…" said Moro.

Before Moro could finish his sentence, "No, Moro. He is already mature enough to realize his behavior." Interrupt the duke himself.

"From the start, Angus is smarter and mature than ordinary kids of his age. A few years ago, I wanted to give him some kind of 'push' to change his lazy behavior, but the moment I pay attention to him, the more I marvel at my sons." said Jacob.

'At first glance, he is doing everything like a lazy person. But, during my observation, there is no waste movement at all in his every move.' thought Jacob

'Even for me, this kind of feat is hard to do. I even got some insight just by paying attention to his movement.' thought Jacob while remembering the scene from one year ago.

Remembering that, 'Come to think of it, he also notices me despite my attempt to hide my presence.' thought Jacob inwardly.

After being silent for a while, "I realized that my son is actually too genius to be comprehended by normal common sense."

"I know that his mind has already surpassed our imagination. All he needs is just a little bit of push for him to reach a greater height." said Jacob enthusiastically about his sons.

Looking at his master's speech passionately about his son, Moro could only change his judgment about Angus silently.

"Still from the Andria report, his capabilities are very low compared to other noble's standards." said Jacob.

"That's true. With the young master's current strength, his test result will be low. He may even get bullied inside the royal academy. Perhaps, I need to arrange some shadow guards to accompany him?" said Moro.

"No need, tomorrow I will accompany him myself. At that time, let's see who still dares to bully my son." said Jacob while smiling evilly.

'At least this way, I could repay him for helping me break through my shackles and advance my grade.' thought Jacob.

One year before Angus's test, Angus just did his routine, as usual, skipped his lesson, and lay down below his favorite tree in the garden.

After trying various positions to make him more comfortable, he finally couldn't help but look at the nearby corner where his father hid himself for a second before ignoring him.

Knowing that his cover's blown, Jacob immediately comes out while hiding with a surprised expression.

Jacob tries to calm down, but his urges to know more about Angus's fine control movement get his interest. "Angus, how did you do that kind of movement?"

But, Angus only looked at his father expressionlessly for a while before tilting his head.

'Great job, Jacob! Now, you look like some kind of weird man in front of your son by suddenly asking him a strange question.' lamenting Jacob inwardly.

"Father, What I see and what you see are different things." Said Angus in a serious tone.

At that time, like a burst from the tight dam, countless memories and scenes flashed in Jacob's head.

Jacob immediately shouted, "Shadow Guard!! Prepare the basement training room, and don't let everyone disturb me." Jacob walked away from his spot.

Before he went away, Angus said in a soft voice, "Good Luck, Dad." only Jacob could hear using his enhanced perception. On that day, Jacob managed to break his shackle and advance to a higher grade.

To battle against monster hordes, civilized races utilize mana to protect and fight for their life. Both sides become stronger by breaking past their limit from continuous fighting through life and death situations.

As many people continued to break through, they started to classify the threshold by measuring their power. Each threshold represents its mana core grade.

Each time someone passes their current limit and breakthrough, they will advance to a higher grade of mana core. All the grades are measured by a number, with one being the lowest.

With each grade they advance, their control and quality over mana will increase by leap bound. Some races even gain some unique ability each time they advance their grade.

However, the mana core grade is not the only one that decides the winner for battle. A race mainly consists of low-grade mana core may have higher combat capability than the other races, such as the beast-kin race.

Some races are born with high mana core grade people like the demon race and elf race. As for the human race, they have average power strength regarding their mana core grade. But, their combat capabilities are very versatile enough for them to survive countless battles.

Likewise, the higher the grade, the more difficult one to upgrade their mana core. Especially for Jacob that already arrived at the peak of grade five.

However, by getting some epiphany from Angus's 'tip', Jacob managed to breakthrough into grade six before the age of 50, which made him the youngest grade six of the human race.

Now, only a few people still could contend with him beside the emperor himself or other national leaders, who already reached the realm of legendary, grade seven mana core.

Suppose anyone tries to bully his sons during this time, especially Angus, who helps the duke breakthrough. Dying is the last chance for them to think. This is also the reason why Jacob thought highly about Angus despite his low combat strength.

As a seasoned fighter, Jacob knows that people like Angus are the one that could move the world around.

Despite all of this, Angus remains oblivious to his father's thoughts. More than unaware, he feels like ignoring him and doing what he wants to do even though he knows about it.

Both Angus and Jacob have a sort of tacit understanding to never bother with each other over the years. But, they are ready to help each other in a difficult situation.

This is also the reason Jacob agreed with Andria's test. He wants to help Angus stimulate his passion for maximizing his true hidden potential through Andria's test. But, his 'potential' is much deeper than he thought in the first place.

'Well, he will 'learn' more at the royal academy anyway.' thought Jacob while he was back doing his work with Moro support nearby.

The following day, inside Angus's bedroom, Angus immediately opens his eyes and catches the thrown clothes.

"I see… As sharp as ever. Now, hurry up and get ready." Said Jacob while looking at his son with a bright smile.

"F-Father.. Why are you here?" asked Angus confusedly

"Why?? Of course, to accompany you through your first day of school." Replied Jacob happily.

"EHHH!!!" said Angus

"EHHH!!" said Angus.

'What the hell just happened? Didn't we get tacit agreement not to disturb one with the others before?' thought Angus inwardly.

"Alright chop.. chop.. hurry up. I will be waiting for you at the dining hall. You don't want to be late on your first school day, right?" said Jacob leaves Angus to prepare himself.

'Damn… My years of planning to become low profile went away. Huft.. Let's think positively first. What could be wrong with being accompanied by your parents during your first day of school, right?' Angus is getting undressed and taking a bath.

'Unless… that parent is at level fucking grade six and hailed as the youngest six grade person in the human race. Damn!!! Huft… that's it, just let it be, and everything will be as smooth as sailing on top of the water.' thought Angus inwardly during his bath.

A few moments later, Angus sat in the dining hall having breakfast with his parents. During this time, Angus keeps having negative thoughts about his first day. His negative aura even changes the mood of the dining hall.

Noticing this, his mother immediately asked worriedly, "My dear son, Angus. Is something troubling you?"

"Ahh… N-No, I am just a little bit nervous about my first day of school." Replied Angus.

"Are you sure? We can postpone your departure if you still are not feeling well. Right, honey?" said Cecilia, Angus's mother.

'Yes… With this, at least I will not get accompanied by my father and create a sensation.' thought Angus inwardly.

"Non-sense, Angus is just fine. Besides, I will accompany him today. So, he will be safer than being by himself tomorrow."

'WTF!! You are the one that makes me not feel safe at all.' thought Angus inwardly.

"Well, that's right. Then, promise me to take care of Angus, okay? I hear from Andria that he is quite a troublemaker." said Cecilia,

"It's okay, honey. I will keep him safe." said Jacob.

'Haaa… What a day to start.' As Angus already gave up on changing his destined fate.

After breakfast, Angus and Jacob go in front of the mansion. At the lawn in front of him lay a circular low pedestal stone engraved with various kinds of runes. Few servants use some high-tech-looking machine near the pedestal.

"Come to think of it. It is your first time using a teleportation device, right? Just make sure not to throw up so badly." said Jacob to Angus before checking the device himself.

"Throw up??" asked Angus back but only get a silent reply from his father.

A few moments later, Angus says goodbye to his mother and a few servants that always take care of him before stepping on the circular pedestal with his father.

After a while, the pedestal shone brightly. At this moment, he felt like getting shaken by the space itself and disappeared along with his father. The next moment, he realizes that he has already arrived at an unrecognized plot of land filled with some people nearby.

At this moment, he feels disoriented from the space turbulence when he gets teleported by the device. In contrast, his father seems fine as he is already familiar with the sensation.

"Well, it seems you are better than I thought since you are still standing on your feet. At least you are not throwing up all your breakfast." Said Jacob while looking surprised at Angus's condition.

"Well, just take it easy and take this letter to the registration office. If you get some problem along the way, just say my name, and that will take care of it. I need to go to another place to meet with some 'friends'" As he notices that some adults are approaching them.

'Yes… Finally, it is about time to get away from this annoying old man.' thought Angus happily.

"Alright, have fun and make some friends." said Jacob while Angus immediately grabbed the letter and got away from his father.

Along the way to the registration office, Angus is still feeling light-headed from the teleportation device. He feels like he wants to throw up all his breakfast right now.

He could still hold it as he had a similar experience in the past when he fought against a man that utilized vibration to empower his attack. All of his attacks give a shaking and impact to disoriented him.

Although, the teleportation device didn't do any damage to him because of its safety. But, the shaking is ten times worse than he felt from his past life.

'Urggh… It seems I need to take a little bit of rest first.' thought Angus after he did his registration at the nearby office and rested at a nearby bench.

Fortunately, the registration office is not too crowded. It is because the royal academy has strict requirements to enter. Not only is it costly, but it also has a high degree of various complex tests.

Angus manages to bypass the test because he is the son of a duke. If he is the son of some viscount or lower nobles, he still needs to attend the examination. Still, he will get measured through a device for his strength later to decide his rank.

The royal academy utilizes a ranking system to motivate the student to become better. They only divide the class based on the year. But, they still mix the students inside the class from the high-ranking students to the lower-ranking ones.

While Angus rested at the bench, "You look so pale. Are you alright?" a petite girl asked Angus.

"Ahh… Y-yes, I just feel a little bit light-headed." Reassure the small cute girl in front of him.

"Really?? You look like my Daddy after having a party the whole night." Said the black-haired girl.

'Oi… oi.. Just what kind of father would teach such a thing to a small little girl?' thought Angus inwardly.

"Nahh… It's okay. I'll be fine after resting for a while. By the way, my name is Angus." said Angus tries to divert to other topics.

"Ahh… Where is my manner? My name is Millie Golberg. Are you perhaps a noble?" while Millie looked at Angus's attire.

"Ohh… Sorry to be rude to you. Yes, my full name is Angus Victory." said Angus.

In the Heart Kingdom that Angus resides, it is common sense to introduce your full name from one noble towards others.

"V-Victory!! A-Are you by some chance the rumored third son of Duke Jacob Victory, the fire dragon that hailed the youngest six grade in the human race??" said Millie with high enthusiasm

'Why did you even need to mention all my father's titles like that??' thought Angus inwardly.

"Errr… Yes, I am the third son of Duke Victory." Respond to Angus.

"W-what… I-It's an honor to m-met the son of.." Millie keeps stuttering her words.

Before she could finish her sentence, "Millie.. There you are."

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"Millie.. There you are." A beautiful small girl in noble attire approaches both Angus and Millie.

"M-Mia…" responded Millie

"Come on Millie, we need to go now or we will be late for the test." As Mia takes Millie's hand.

Before they got away, "Hey you also seem like a new student. You better also go towards the testing ground now." Said Mia proudly before leaving Angus and dragging Millie.

After both of the girls left Angus alone, "Huft... it seems I better go now."

Then, Angus slowly walked towards the test area. After asking around a few times about its general direction, he arrived at a big colosseum-shaped building.

Looking at the building, 'I have a bad feeling about this.' [Angus]

The moment he enters the building, he sees a circular arena that has a big globe crystal in the middle. He immediately recognizes it as the testing device from the book he read in the past.

But, the one that startled him is the number of people that gather in the audience area. There are a lot of people of various kinds of age.

Not only some senior year students present but also some of the teachers. He found his two older brothers also came to this event.

He also found his father being accompanied by the headmaster along with a few old teachers and nobles around him. Feeling Angus's presence, his father looks and nods at him.

'Damn… Don't look at me and notify the other teacher, you stupid old man' Thought Angus

During this moment, Angus immediately feels a sense of dread from 'gathering attention'. before that could happen, Angus has gone from his spot, hiding between the other first-year students.

After a while, the headmaster, Antonio Grande, opens the testing event with some boring speech that almost makes Angus fall asleep.

The event is also some kind of show for the people about how strong the new students that were accepted by the Royal Academy.

It's also a sort of showcase for the nobles to show their next generation. Combined with the attendance from Angus's father, there are a lot of people that are gathering at this event now.

After the boring speech from the headmaster, "To open this test ceremony, May I bother Duke Victory to give his blessing." [Headmaster Antonio]

Then, Angus's father walked towards the center of the arena near the measurement device. All the audience immediately looked at him, before long he flicked his finger loudly while using gloves and producing a spark of fire.

The spark soon became fire and got bigger. In less than a second, it started to become a fire pillar that changed shape into a dragon made of fire. At this moment, the audience could only look silently while sweating from the heat the dragon gives despite its distance

*ROOAAARR* the dragon roared and disappeared into the thin air a second later. "With this, I open the testing event of the heart royal academy." Said Duke Victory while getting away from the area.

Looking at such marvelous performance and control over fire elemental, the previous silent audience, even some of the teachers, cheered loudly. *WAAAA*

Some of the teachers even begin to take note fervently about the performance. After a few minutes of abrupt cheers from the audience, the test started with a teacher calling the new student number and names.

Since Angus arrived quite late, he got quite a big number and called almost at the end. The device will measure their body strength, mana capacity, and mind power. All the new students only need to touch the big globe crystal in the arena and charge it with mana.

Then, the globe will show some numerical numbers about strength, mana, and mind. Normally, untrained adult people have around 5-10 points as a result depending on their talent and body.

As for the new student that consists of 8 years old kids, just getting 5 to 8 already hailed as a genius.

During this time, He found a few interesting people that had high results. There is one called Ian from the commoner that has 7 at strength and 6 at both mana and mind. So far he has the highest result in the first year.

It is until a golden-haired girl with a cold face and prideful manner going into the arena. She wears a high-class noble attire. The moment her name was called all the audience immediately fell silent. Her name is Jayna Heart, the fourth princess of Heart Kingdom.

Satisfied with the audience's reaction, she slowly touches the globe and imbues it with her mana. The globe immediately calculates her strength and shows the result.

Strength: 5

Mind: 7

Mana: 8

This kind of result is absurd and creates chaos among the audience. Even for second-year students, it is hard to produce such a result. This is because at a young age mind power and mana heavily rely on talent.

Although, both of the categories could be increased by working hard at a later stage. It still will give a huge head start compared to others.

Looking at the result many students felt down from the princess result. But, few students also feel more passionate just by looking at this result.

One of them in the first year is the boy named Ian. Just his burning expression, Angus thought that Ian almost wanted to attack the 4th princess right now.

'Well, Like it has anything to do with me anyway.' [Angus]

Soon, Millie and Mia also tested with results above average for first-year students. It is around 4 to 6 for their average result with strength being the lowest 4.

Finally, Angus's number and the name got called. "Number 24, Angus Vic..Victory" As the teacher that called his name startled with my name.

Once again the audience fell silent and focused on Angus as they wanted to know his result. The result of the third son of the fire dragon of the heart kingdom.

'Haaa.. I hate this kind of attention. Well, Let's just get over it.' Thought Angus as he approaches the center arena.

Looking at the big crystal ball in the center, 'Hmm… such a strange device. I wonder how it works.'

After erasing such unnecessary thought, he put his hand on the crystal ball and gave it some of his mana.

The crystal ball immediately produces such a result that surprises everyone.

"This is…." [Audience]

"This is…. So average." said one of the Audience

Strength: 3

Mind: 4

Mana: 2

'Well, it seems not to be very different from the system calculation.' thought Angus while looking at the result.

While Angus thought about unnecessary things, "Um.. Do you want to do another test?" asked the teacher in charge of the device.

But Angus's answer surprised everyone, "Nah… I already expected such a result. Rather why don't you hurry to call the next student so we can move along." said Angus walked towards his seat.

The responsible teacher didn't even know what to do and only looked at the headmaster for help. But, before he could ask the headmaster, a loud laugh was heard from the senior year student.

"HAHAHAHA…Teacher, you must be joking, right? There is no way such a weak, pathetic ass like that is the son of the mighty Duke Victory." Said one of the senior students, and the audience also chatted around, thinking that it might be a joke.

At this moment, the arena immediately becomes hotter in seconds. But, the senior student didn't notice this and kept making fun of Angus. Feeling the change in the atmosphere, a middle-aged man begins to reprimand the student loudly at this disastrous situation.

"SHUT UP YOUR GODDAMN MOUTH, HENRY!!!" said the middle-aged man.

Looking at the old man's angry face, the senior student called Henry shut his mouth with a pale face. During this moment, everyone begins to notice the strange rise of temperature in the air.

"I see… So, he is your son, Count Dalton." Said Duke Victory in a deep voice.

At this time everyone is silently afraid of being burned by the mighty Duke Fire Dragon. As for Count Dalton thought to himself, 'Damn… Why does this son of mine happen to be the one that makes fun of his son? Moreover, is he truly his son?'

"Haha.. Don't worry about it, Duke Victory. He is just some kid.."

Before he could finish his excuse, "So, you also think that Angus is not my son??!" Jacob looked coldly and approached Count Dalton. With each step he took, the atmosphere began hotter.

"No.. no… Duke Victory" as Count Dalton thinks how to get away from the fire dragon in front of him.

As all this is happening, Angus could only lament his future getting some unnecessary trouble from this event.

'Haa… To think this kind of thing really happens. Father is always very sensitive about his family. I hope my father could still think rationally.' thought Angus inwardly.

Then, Jacob looked at Angus for a few seconds. Within these few seconds, Angus only shook his head. Looking at this, Jacob could only smile silently. But, to others, his smile looks like a devil smile ready to burn someone in hell.

After a few moments of silence, "Since Angus is weak, why don't your son protect him? Didn't it be the job of the strong to protect the weak? Unless… you want me to teach you how to protect the weak?" Jacob shows a smile that is not a smile at all.

"Y-Yes… Duke victory. O-Of course. It's my son's honor to protect the son of a mighty duke fire dragon." The count immediately agreed with Jacob before being burned into ash.

"Good… If by some chance Angus got hurt a little bit in the academy, then I guess I need to give you some tips about how to become noble." Said Jacob

Jacob looked toward Angus for a few seconds and went back to his seat.

Looking at this, 'Ahh.. I see. So, he wants to assign a bodyguard to protect me and remind those stupid people. Great move, Dad. I guess I still need to learn many things about noble's politics' Thought Angus.

After that, the test proceeds normally as before. But, the people weren't in the mood to look at the other new students.

Moreover, no one gives another surprise like the 4th princess or Ian's result. Soon, the event came to end with a few words from the headmaster Antonio.

Then, everyone immediately gets out of the building, afraid of the Duke Victory, while leaving few people inside the building. As for Angus before he tries to get away, he is forced to stay behind by his father with a silent glare.

'Haaa… Having an overprotective parent is troublesome.' thought Angus

After the other people leave, "Brother, Good to see you." Angus got called by his second brother Vergil as his brothers approached him.

"Vergil, how are you doing?" replied Angus cheerfully

"Fine. How's mother?" asked Vergil

"Mother's fine as she should be." answered Angus before looking at his older brother.

"Brother Jason.." said Angus.

"Hmph… Don't talk to me weakling. Talk to me after you become strong enough not to tarnish our family name." Said Jason coldly

"Aww… Don't be so cold, Older brother. It's been some time that we see Angus." Said Vergil to amend the atmosphere between the two brothers.

"Hmph…" Jason ignores Vergil before leaving his two brothers.

Looking at Jason's attitude, Vergil could only shake his head before going back to Angus, "Don't worry Angus, he's just a little bit cold outside but warm inside." Reassure his younger brother.

"It's okay, Vergil. I don't mind it. Anyway, you got stronger than last time we met." said Angus

"Of course, Ahh.. Yeah, If anyone tries to bully you, just call me and I will mincemeat them." Said Vergil while flexing his muscle proudly.

"Then, I guess I will trouble you to take care of me, brother. Anyway, brother, I hear that running…" Angus and Vergil begin to chat about various things to catch up with others.

They stop their talk when their father approaches them. "Father, good to see you. That fire performance is amazing as always." said Vergil

"Good to see you too, Vergil" replied Jacob before looking at Angus.

"Angus, we need to talk." Said Duke Jacob.

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"Angus, we need to talk." said Jacob.

After that, Angus and his father go into one corner to have a private conversation. As soon as they arrive, Jacob flicks his hand and creates a barrier made of fire around them. [3rd circle – Fire barrier]

"Alright, with this, the others could not hear our conversation." Said Jacob while looking at Angus, who looks like a kid marvels about his spell.

But, Jacob knows that Angus not only looks at his spell because he keeps looking at the weakest spot around the barrier. Even after changing its location a few times, Angus manages to keep locating them easily.

Before long, "Ehem… Angus." As he tries to gather his son's attention.

"Ahh… Yes, What is it, father?" While Angus changed his expression to the lazy one.

"Learning inside of the royal academy is different from the one at the mansion. I can't always back you up. However, starting tomorrow there will be some people to protect you if you get into some problem. So, you can try and learn peacefully here."

"Alright, Father. *yawn* Is there anything else, father?"

Looking at Angus's nonchalant response, "Haa… No, that's it for now. I need to go back to my work. Just send me letters if you need something." Jacob changes the fire barrier into a small fire dragon before riding it.

Before the fire dragon flies away into the sky, "Angus, I expect something from you."

Angus only could wave his hand with a fake smile, 'Just go away, you show off troublesome Dad.' thought Angus inwardly.

After having their 'talk', Angus goes back to Vergil, who is waiting for him nearby. They planned to tour the royal academy together. The royal academy ground is very large, almost like a small town itself. It has a complex area that some people usually lose their way.

Fortunately, there is no lesson on the first day of the semester. The older students only need to re-register and check their scheduled class in the main hall area.

As for the first year, they need to attend the test and put their belongings in their assigned dorm while also checking their schedule in the main hall area.

After sightseeing around the academy, the two brothers go towards the main hall area. During the way, Vergil also explains some essential rules inside the academy, such as no killing, maimed, thievery, or other malicious deeds.

Apparently, the rules are quite strict that even the noble titles are useless unless you are the son or daughter of Marquis/marchioness noble above rank.

Besides that, the academy will punish harshly toward anyone that breaks the rule according to their offense. In some cases, they may get expelled.

The main hall is very crowded with students from different years. They could see a board with glowing words. The board shows their ranking and the class schedule. There is also a big receptionist desk that gives the dorm key to the first-year student.

The dorm will be used until they graduate or there is some unexpected accident. Since Angus is the son of a duke, he got the privilege to get a luxury dorm.

After getting the key room from the long queue without any hassle, he approaches Vergil, who seems to be having some sort of argument with another boy that many followers surround.

They seem to notice Angus as he approaches them, "Sorry for the wait, brother. The queue is very long. Umm… did I interrupt something?" said Angus in an innocent attitude.

"Nah, just some bugs flying around." said Vergil while dragging Angus away.

Hearing Vergil's sentence, the other boy immediately flared up by bad-mouthing Vergil, but the two brothers were already gone.

After going outside, "Who is that, brother?" asked Angus.

"Ohh, that's the son of Marquis Dane, Gabil Dane. Just ignore him if he approaches you. He is just such a sore loser since I got the first rank in our year. Come to think of it, did you already see your ranking list?" asked Vergil.

"Nah… Probably near the last or at the last rank." Replied Angus with a carefree attitude.

"Hahaha… I already expected that, Bro. Well, you still need to pay attention to it because…" Vergil begins to explain the importance of ranking.

From Vergil's explanation, the student at the royal academy is used to having transactions or doing daily life by using points. One of the ways to acquire points is by having a high ranking. Each month students will get points based on their ranking.

The first ranking gets 500 points.

2nd to 5th get 200 points each.

6th to 10th get 100 points each.

Below ten only got 50 points.

The last place got 30 points that were barely enough for their daily life.

Students that break the rules will be punished and also get their accumulated point deducted. If the points reach minus for a certain period also could lead to expulsion.

The student is also free to have barter and trade points from one with the others, except with the teacher.

They also have trading centers that exchange points with money but have limited amounts for each person. One person could only trade for 50 points within a month.

Each 1 point is traded for ten gold coins which are very expensive even for a noble. An average ordinary family of four could have lived a luxury for months with ten gold coins.

Before leaving his home, Angus got many allowances that will ensure him for a long time. By trading this money with 50 points for a month, he didn't need problems with his daily life inside the academy. So, Angus didn't think much about it.

Arriving at the luxury dorm called Spring Dorm, the two brothers say goodbye to each other before Angus goes inside the dorm.

The dorm has quite a lovely garden and yard with a lot of big areas around the perimeter. Angus could even find some protection barrier around the dorm. Although it is not as strong and sophisticated as in his manor, it is still quite sturdy.

The moment he entered the building, he found two kids glaring at each other. The first one is Ian. He almost aces the first-year ranking board while the other student is Jayna Heart, the 4th princess of the Heart kingdom.

"You commoner should bow down your head when talking to this majesty princess." said Jayna proudly.

Then, "Hmp… If you could beat me. I will bow down to you. But if not, you should be the one that kneels before me." replied Ian

"What did you say, Commoner?!" shouted Jayna.

Then, both of them begin their argument while the other two girls and one boy inside the room could only look from the side.

Before long, one of the two girls with black hair realized another newcomer, "A-Angus, are you also staying here?"

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"A-Angus, are you also staying here?" called one of the girls with black hair.

"Oh.. isn't that Millie? Yes, I also stay here. So, did you know what happened here?" Replied Angus

At this moment, Ian and Jayna look at the incoming person but seeing the person is Angus, they ignore him before glaring at each other again.

"Hmph.. You just got lucky this time, commoner." said Jayna before leaving for her room.

"What did you say?! Did you think I was afraid of you?" Replied Ian, ready to launch at her.

Looking like they are almost starting to fight for real, Mia begins to drag Jayna to her room while the other boy holds Ian.

Then, Millie explains the situation to Angus. Apparently, Jayna wants to occupy the dorm for girls only and tries to drive Ian and the other boy out of the dorm.

However, the moment Angus comes into this dorm, Jayna seems to reluctantly accept the boys living at the dorm since she didn't want to have trouble with the sons of Duke Victory.

Hearing this, Angus thought inwardly, 'Damn, to think I got sexist as my dorm mate. But, none of it matters anyway.'

"Tch… What's so great about being the princess?" Said Ian while he goes toward his own room.

"Well, since the matter is already solved, I will also excuse myself. By the way, my name is Axel Pomel. I hope we can get along with the son of Duke Victory during our stay in the Spring Dorm." Said one of the boys that was just holding Ian.

"Just call me Angus. I hope so too. Anyway, Nice to see you again, Millie." Angus also goes towards his room on the second floor.

The dorm looks relatively small on the outside, but the inside is quite spacious as each room is enchanted with some runes and reinforced with strong barriers.

Entering his room, he found a double bed, wardrobe, and a few support furniture here and there. Combined with decoration around the room, make the room look like a royalty chamber than a typical nobles room.

'Well, at least I know why it's called a luxury dorm. Now, let's begin the plan.' as Angus undressed his clothes.

Then, he looks at his status panel

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 8 Years Old

MP: 10/10

Strength: 3

Dexterity: 3

Intelligence: 4

Vitality: 6

Soul Point: 31

Then, he increases his vitality into nine and his Intelligence into seven and leaves his Soul point by one. At this moment, he feels reinvigorated, and his mind becomes more apparent.

Since Angus already created a persona as a weak person, he could finally train his body properly and increase his strength to his heart's content.

As the wise man said, the best weapon is deceitfulness. Although Angus' real goal is to enjoy living in peace, he also needs some power to stay alive.

During his private lesson with Andria, he knows that to survive in this world, the only one that matters is personal strength.

Even though Angus disagreed with this kind of law, he still needed to abide by it somehow. At least he needs strength to protect himself and his loved one.

Angus increases his vitality to increase his chance to survive unexpected situations. As for increasing his intelligence is to have a better processing mind, good memory, and understanding anything better.

Angus planned to create a persona that is weak but knowledgeable, like a scholar. So, Angus needed high intelligence, at least until he could become a person with an eidetic memory. Moreover, he also could cast spells faster in some emergencies.

He found that the weakness of a powerful spell is the time it takes to cast it. Otherwise, all high-grade magicians are like mass destruction weapons that could destroy a kingdom or country in the blink of an eye as long as they have enough mana.

As for the reason, Angus didn't increase his strength and dexterity because he knows how to improve them efficiently without wasting soul points. Moreover, the increase from using the soul point feels unnatural and needs more time for his body to adjust itself.

As a master of martial arts, he will choose a weak body that he has 100% control over a stronger body that he could not control.

It is not because a stronger body doesn't have an advantage. With a 100% control body, Angus could utilize his past skill more effectively despite being weak.

His skill could bring his weakness to produce such devastating attacks that few could block. The real example is when Angus tries to run from the Andria test. It may seem that he got away with luck, but all the movement is already in his control.

Using this as an example, he didn't need to increase his strength and dexterity until his limit reached or in some emergency situation. Moreover, he could also have more endurance to handle his hard training by utilizing his current vitality.

Done inspecting his body, Angus begins his training by doing some weird stretching pose for certain amounts of time. He combined each movement while pressing some of his acupuncture points.

After doing this stretching for a few minutes, he was already sweating like crazy with rough breathing. But, he forcefully continued on and also changed his breathing rhythm.

Changing his breathing rhythm almost makes him suffocate and gasp for air. Fortunately, his nine points of vitality helped him endure this kind of training for a few hours before he stopped as he didn't have the strength to move anymore.

But, even in this position, he still forces himself to practice different breathing rhythms that he usually uses. At this moment, he sees that both his strength and dexterity already increase to five from the training he just did.

Since his current body is weak, His training result is also significant compared to when he is done at the latter time. He believes at that time he will need help from his soul point to increase his stat further.

As for his mana point itself, it has already increased to 15 points. Angus forced himself to keep practicing the breathing rhythm that almost suffocated him, raising his body endurance and absorbing chi from the surroundings.

However, since there is no chi in this world, the one he absorbed is mana. Although the effect is the same, the result is different. Since mana is easier to control than chi in his past life, he could gather and refine it more easily.

In the past, he needed a whole day of using breathing techniques just to increase the same amount of mana he gathers now.

The gathered mana itself is in a different location from the chi. The gathered mana is located at the heart, while chi is around the abdomen. Angus found in the books that this gathered mana will soon form mana core after reaching a certain threshold.

This kind of threshold is different from one person with the others. From his current knowledge, there are many techniques to form mana core faster, but all have high risk and leave hidden danger towards the user.

Angus also didn't find any technique like his breathing technique that is quite safe to gather mana, refine it, and increase one's endurance at one time. But, he knew someone in the world must also have a technique similar to his breathing technique.

Since it is an absurdly rare technique, he will not teach others as his goal is to have an enjoyable, peaceful life, not create another army that will take over the world.

Otherwise, he will already teach his family about such a technique. Still, the breathing technique is torture at first since he feels drowned and could only have a small air every few seconds before feeling drowned again.

Soon, Angus passed out from fatigue while forcefully using his breathing technique.

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The following day, Angus wakes up along with the sunrise. He felt his body become stronger with better control and flexibility from the training yesterday.

After doing some light stretching, he takes a bath. Fortunately, each bedroom is equipped with a personal bathroom. So, Angus didn't need to worry about others finding him sweating a lot from the training.

Aside from that, his stomach also cried for food as he hadn't eaten anything since yesterday's breakfast. The only reason he didn't collapse is because of his breathing technique and his endurance.

The breathing technique Angus used is a combination of secret techniques from various martial arts that passed down since ancient times, so the effect is also very vast.

In Angus's past life, there is a saying that breath is the source of life and power. Just by breathing, people could survive in various kinds of conditions.

This condition includes not eating or drinking for months. Still, Angus will feel discomfort from not eating or drinking.

So, rather than become a masochist that torture himself for no reason, he still prefers eating than fasting like some monks in his past life.

After taking a bath, he wears his uniform that he stores in his pouch space storage, limited space storage that could store inanimate objects. He also begins to take out some stuff from it to decorate his room.

Then, he goes towards the dining area, where some servants supply the food on a circular dining table. Looking at the circular table, Angus knows that the 4th princess will be angry about this as she can't sit in the head table position.

Angus remembers from Vergil that the dorm will only provide breakfast for free while the lunch and dinner need to be managed by the students themselves. The students could still pay the servant in the dorm to serve them lunch and dinner by exchanging some points.

Thinking about the fight yesterday, Angus predicts there will also be some fight this morning as the other students will gather in this place.

Fortunately, it is still quite early, and there are no other people than him in here. He immediately takes a seat and eats his breakfast with gusto.

Done eating his portion, he directly goes outside the dorm building towards the garden. One of Angus's hobbies is enjoying the fresh air in the morning with nature.

There's no way he will miss the wonderful scenery that the Spring Dorm provides in its garden, especially if it is combined with the beautiful sunrise and cool sensation in the morning.

During his enjoyment, he practiced his breathing technique silently. After a while, he heard some chaos inside the dorm building like he expected.

'Well, time for me to go to class.' thought Angus.

He didn't want to be late for his first day of class because of some kids.

Angus strolls away while enjoying the morning scenery that the royal academy provides. Firuman world has cleaner air than his past world. It also has more greenery and less pollution thanks to mana-based technology.

Soon, he arrives at the first-year section. The first year is divided into a few classes. Each class consists of 5-8 students, with one homeroom teacher supervising them. Rather than class, Angus thought of it as a group study since it consists of a small number of people.

The reason for this distribution is because each student in the royal academy is precious and will turn into a high figure. So, they feel the need for the student to be taught more privately.

After looking around, he arrived at his class 1-A. The class is still empty as not many students around his age like to wake up early.

Looking that he is still too early, he takes a seat near the window with good scenery before sleeping on the desk while hiding his face with his arm. Although he is sleeping, he still keeps his vigilance towards his surroundings.

Soon, more people come in and create some noise by chattering with each other. Angus keeps ignoring them while doing light sleeping.

After a while, the noise went away and was replaced by silence. Then, Angus feels a kid approach him.

"You over there, sleep somewhere else. That place is mine." Said a female voice with a demanding tone.

Knowing that it was just some other spoiled kid, he ignores it and keeps sleeping. But, at this moment, Angus feels the kid gather mana in her fist and punch him towards his head.

Since he already felt its intention before, he pretends to wake up, stretching his arm high, and misses the intended punch that goes through the table.

'Oi.. Oi.. With that much power. My head will splash like a watermelon.' thought Angus.

Then, Angus looked at the perpetrator of the attack. She was also surprised to see him dodge her punch. The attacker is none other than the 4th princess, Jayna Heart. She immediately realizes her mistake to provoke me as she becomes silent, not knowing what to do.

'Hoo… It seems father's performance is still fresh in her mind. Well, let's tease her a little bit.' thought Angus inwardly.

"Huh.. Princess Jayna, Why are you here? Ehh… What happens to my desk?" said Angus innocently.

"Y-Your desk…" replied Jayna in a small voice.

"Wait… Don't tell me. Those assassins also follow me to this academy." said Angus in a serious tone.

"Assassins??" said Jayna confusedly.

"Yeah.. Since I was a child, there have been some assassins that try to kill me like now. If I didn't wake up just now, my head might already blow up like a watermelon."

"Err.. No.. This is" as Jayna becomes paler.

Looking at the pale Jayna, Angus interrupts her once again, "Don't worry, princess Jayna. As the noble, I will protect you from this assassin. I just need a volunteer from the class to notify the headmaster about this matter."

The other student could only look silently at how the situation transpired. But, looking at the confused kid, "What are you waiting for? The assassin may still be nearby and could attack again?" shouted Angus.

"W-Wait!!" The 4th princess tries to stop the situation from becoming more escalated.

But, once again, Angus interrupted her, "Don't worry about it, princess. I will.."

"STOP INTERRUPT ME!!" shouted the princess as she couldn't hold it anymore.

Before she continues, "There is no assassin. J-Just forgets about this matter." said Princess Jayna

"Eehh.. But.." replied Angus.

"JUST FORGET ABOUT IT!!" Said Jayna in a slow pace and threatening tone.

Looking at this, Angus immediately smiles evilly, "Alright, I will forget it."

Hearing and looking at Angus' tones, she knows that Angus is just messing with her around. But, remembering how scary the duke Victory was, she could only swallow her emotion.

Before she took a seat, "Umm.. Sorry, Princess Jayna." Angus called her again.

"W-What's it?" replied Jayna coldly as she didn't want to deal with Angus anymore.

"Well, my desk is broken, so I still need to tell the teacher about the ass.." said Angus teasingly.

"I will share it with mine!" yelled the princess.

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"I will share it with mine!" yelled the princess.

After saying that, the princess realizes her blunder and blushing from being embarrassed sharing a table with another boy.

Before she could think of any excuse, "Nah… It's inappropriate to share a table with a princess such as yourself. I'll just go ask the teacher with an excuse that the table suddenly broke." Angus went outside the class while ignoring everyone.

The other student only could watch Angus leaving the class, jaw dropped. As for Jayna, she didn't even know to be angry or not.

At one point, it is her fault, but Angus's non-nonchalant attitude also quite annoys her. Still, in the peak of being annoyed, Angus once again does something unpredictable like this.

Angus gave the impression of an unfathomable person that could not be predicted but was also quite annoying at the same time to Jayna.

Stressed out by multiple accidents from the fight in the Spring Dorm in the morning to now, she could only go to another seat and lay down on her desk grumpily. The other students stay silent, afraid to annoy the stressed-out princess.

After a while, Angus came back with another person. After the teacher puts the new desk at Angus's 'precious' location, she introduces herself. From her attire, she looks like the homeroom teacher that will teach them.

"Alright, kids, my name is Elis Springfield. You can call me teacher Elis. I will also teach you basic courses until your 4th year."

I am a specialist in the world language subject as it is part of my research project. Those that are interested in that subject may ask me in my free time. Now, I will explain some rules before we start the lesson.." said Teacher Elis.

Teacher Elis explains some academy rules, how points work, and few other things inside the academy.

Apparently, besides basic courses such as Combat training, History, Monster Studies, Science physics, Arithmetic, Magical runes, and World language, students could choose some side courses outside the basic course's scheduled lesson.

The side course is very vast and varies from Noble's ethic to Smithing. There is even a course called management that teaches how to manage your things, especially money.

Students could take side courses as much as possible. However, they need to attend 75% of its official meeting and complete its assignment. Failing to do both will be punished by a reduction of 200 points on each subject.

This way, students could not take all the courses and also learn not to overestimate themself. The basic course will occur every day beside the weekend and ends around noon before lunchtime.

As for the side course, they all have different lengths of time depending on the subject itself. Each side course also has its own time and schedule.

After receiving the paper about the schedule of the side course, Angus decided to attend Magical Engineering on Monday, Smithing on Tuesday, Alchemy on Wednesday, Enchanting on Thursday, Ancient Language on Friday, and Monster Physiology on Saturday.

He planned to give the impression of becoming a researcher or scholar that works behind the desk. This kind of route is usually taken by people that don't have enough talent in combat strength.

Usually, people didn't try to take this many side courses at once, but Angus feels he could do it since he has nothing to do, and this is the real purpose he came to the royal academy.

After being exposed to many magical things in this world, Angus's curiosity over them is very high. Besides, he has the system to help him in his studies. So, he wasn't afraid to fail in any of them.

Besides basic and side courses, teacher Elis also told the student that the academy holds various contests every three months.

One of them is a class tournament contest where each class will fight one with the other. The tournament will give points and a few random resources based on the class rank.

The first rank will get 150 points for each person. The second and third rank will get 75 points, below it will not get any points.

Since this first year has only five classes, the competition is quite lax compared to other years that have more classes. Still, they need to enter the third rank at least to get the point.

'Haa.. Another troublesome event. Since we have this spoiled princess in our class, she may push us to win the tournament.' thought Angus before looking at the very energetic princess who heard the tournament.

Soon, the class ended, and the teacher left the student to themselves. At this moment, Jayna walks into the front of the class, "Alright, weaklings, I want…"

Before she ends her sentence, Angus just walks out of the class without stopping while the others only look at him.

The moment Angus was outside the class, "Angus!! Where are you going?" Shouted Jayna, but Angus himself pretends not to hear her and continues walking while enjoying the outside scenery.

'Hmm… I guess I will have lunch first at the canteen before attending the Magical Engineering course. But, before that, I need to trade some points in the trade center.' thought Angus while walking towards a specific building.

Arriving at the trade center, he immediately entered it and found himself in a similar place to the bank in his past life.

The only difference is that few rare items are displayed around the room. These displayed items could only be traded with points.

He also heard from Vergil that the trade center would auction some rare items every three months after the tournament event.

After having a long queue and trading his point with his allowance, he goes to the canteen without any hassle.

Still, some students seem to recognize him and try to escape from him, afraid to implicate their family because of Angus's father.

'Well, it doesn't matter since it is more peaceful this way.' thought Angus as he had his lunch quietly in a certain corner.

After having his hearty meals, he attends his Magical Engineer class, which is an advanced and difficult class for a first-year student like him.

Just a dozen minutes after the teacher began his lesson, most of the new students had already given up listening to the lesson.

On the contrary, the old teacher didn't mind it since he was already expecting this. Unlike the others' expectations, Magical Engineering involves a lot of advanced calculation and physic knowledge to understand.

The course is to understand the structure of material before doing some practical things like combining the material especially dealing with mana.

The teacher explained that it will be 100% theory for the new student except for some particular 5th year above students.

Fortunately, the first two weeks are the probation period for the side course. So, the unfortunate student will not have stuck at this course for the entire semester.

As for Angus, he still has some basic knowledge about his past life, and his intelligence stats also helps him pick up a few things from the lesson.

'Haaa… If I had the idle system in my past life, I wouldn't even need to study at all in my past life. This system is best just to idle around.' thought Angus.

Finishing his Magical Engineering course, Angus went back to his dorm and found that the dorm caretaker was repairing the circular table in the dining hall.

Looking at this, Angus contemplates something before going to his room and begins to train his body.

While training his body, he checks his system and finds a new selection of enemies. It's a first-year student of Heart Royal Academy.

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First-year student of Heart Royal Academy.

Angus found its description enemy with the average strength of first-year students.

"Need to be beaten first in the manual battle before being selected as an automatic battle opponent."

There is a new function called a manual battle. After thinking about it and using his knowledge about idle games in his past, he concludes that he needs to beat this opponent in battle by himself before could select them in an automatic battle.

Angus speculated that this new opponent appeared after he witnessed some first-year students during the testing ceremony.

'Hmm… Now, I need a place to fight this opponent without being found. Let's see… how about here?' He locks his door and punches the wall with some of his strength.

The wall didn't even dent despite only being made of wood. He was satisfied with the result and did some light stretching. After getting ready, he opens his host chart to check his status.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 8 Years Old

MP: 15/15

Strength: 5

Dexterity: 5

Intelligence: 7

Vitality: 9

Soul Point: 1

'Yosh, time to get some exercise after a long time.' Angus felt quite excited about having an opponent after a long time.

Despite Angus's tendency to pursue knowledge in this life, he is still a martial expert who loves battle and challenge. If not because his dream is to have a peaceful life, he already challenges anyone he sees as interesting.

Then, he chooses the manual battle selection. A holographic panel appears the moment he chooses it, "You will enter a manual battle with the First year of Heart royal academy. Yes or No"

Angus chose yes without hesitation. As soon as he chooses yes, he arrives in a massive room in white. In front of him, there is a black humanoid creature with red eyes.

Angus could feel the strong bloodlust that wanted to kill him from it. Feeling such a bloodlust after a long time, he only replies with a smirk.

Then, a holographic announcement appeared in the air.

The battle begins at 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. Fight.

The moment it begins, the black humanoid kid charges towards Angus madly and punches at him rapidly. But, Angus already predicted all of its clumsy attacks before counterattack it with his punch at its face.

The humanoid creature flew from Angus's punch far away before trying to get up weakly. "Come on, is that all you got?" Taunting Angus.

Like it could understand Angus, it looks at him angrily and points its hand toward Angus before creating balls of fire. [1st circle - firebolt].

Balls of fire flying toward him at fast speed. Angus already read its trajectory and only used minimal moves to avoid them while keeping approaching the humanoid creature.

Angus could see that the humanoid creature became weaker after casting the spell. Feeling that this is the end, Angus gathered his mana in his fist and blew off its head to end its suffering, feeling that this is the end.

Although Angus is a peace-loving person, he never goes mercy towards his opponent as it also means an act to hurt himself or his loved ones. So, Angus is becoming another person when he enters this life and death battle.

The moment Angus killed the black humanoid creature, he got an announcement panel, "Congratulations winning against the First year of Hearth Royal Academy. Winning time 1minute 56seconds." [System]

"The automatic battle against the First year of Hearth Royal Academy is available with the expected time of 1minute 56seconds" [System]

"Do you want to repeat the manual battle to achieve better winning time? Warning: The battle time cannot be lower than 1 second. Yes or No" [System]

'Huft… That's anti-climatic. Well, what do I expect from the first year's average strength?'

"Hmm… So there is also winning time. I just want to test the strength of those things first, but it will be much better if I can decrease the time."

Angus chooses to battle with the black humanoid things again. But, the moment it starts, Angus uses all his strength to propel himself and end its life with a single powerful punch.

After doing that, Angus breathed roughly because he uses almost all of his mana in his decisive attack.

'Huff.. Huff.. It's been a long time since I felt this kind of fatigue. Guess I need to increase my mana more from the start.' At the same time, Angus begins to use his breathing rhythm and check his winning time.

Winning Time: 1.8 seconds

'Well, I guess that is my best for the current me.' thought Angus.

Then, he chooses No selection and exits the white room.

Angus found himself back in his room with around five minutes passed by since he did the manual battle. Then, he rechecks his system and finds some other first-year students also could become his opponent with a percentage of winning.

As Angus checked more about the student, he didn't forget to choose the First year of Hearth Royal Academy in his automatic battle and give him 0.000016 soul points every 1.8 seconds.

It means he will get around 0,5 points each day which is a considerable boost compared to before. He also found that he could only do manual battles with students that he knew their strength, like first-year students.

It means the more Angus witnesses someone's capabilities, the more available opponents he could challenge in manual battle.

'Damn.. I will become stronger just by doing nothing if this case continues.' thought Angus while closing his system panel and continued doing his training routine until late at night.

The following day, Angus attended his class at the nearby field as today is Combat Training. Its course is similar to what teacher Andria teaches during his three years being tutored. But, they also teach how to use spells in combat properly.

After a few light stretches and warm-ups, Teacher Elis holds a small tourney to gauge the student's strength.

Angus found this kind of practice troublesome and, at the same time, an opportunity to witness her classmate's strength and open their manual battle selection.

The teacher also awarded ten points towards the winner to increase competitiveness and motivated the students to give their all. Since the class has an odd number, one student will get a chance to have fewer fights.

But, the class consisting of kids wants to show off their power by fighting more, so the reserved seat leaves with Angus as he didn't want to fight a lot.

Soon, the match starts with princess Jayna against one of Angus's classmates called Burke. The match started one-sided as Burke didn't want to hurt the 4th princess and could only defend or dodged.

"Tch.. Fight me like a man, or I am going to beat you more!" yelled the princess

Because of this, Burke began to make more mistakes during his defense and got knocked out by the hardened princess fist.

The second match is between a boy called Hugo and a girl named Wylda.

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The second match is between a boy called Hugo and a girl with the name Wylda. The battle started with wylda casting [1st circle – Aqua ball] towards Hugo rendered him being knocked down.

Because of [Aqua ball] properties, his clothes also become wet. Still, the power of the aqua ball is relatively weak, so he could immediately stand up and approach Wylda before she could cast another spell.

Looking at the approaching Hugo, Wylda tried to fend off him and make some distance to cast another spell. A game of cat and mouse begins within the two students.

Soon, Wylda gains some distance after having a lucky shot of a [Aqua Ball] towards Hugo and knocks him down. Then, she immediately casts another overcharge [Aqua Ball] with more mana in it.

A spell could be overcharged with more mana to become stronger and potent, but it also takes more time to cast and mind power to calculate the spell to hold the magic circle.

Looking at the overcharged water ball spell, Hugo tries to get up and approach Wylda quickly. But Hugo still got blasted by the spell and got knocked out of the arena.

Then, Teacher Elis ends the match and declares Wylda as the winner. Wylda goes back to her spot and immediately calms his ragged breath from casting spells many times.

For a first-year, Wylda's performance is outstanding as she could already cast 1st circle spells in battle without trouble a few times. Still, her mana is insufficient to cast spells more than four times.

However, this is an excellent performance. Most first-year students couldn't even perform 1st circle spells more than twice, especially in the battle where you need to pay attention towards your opponent.

'Hmm.. it seems she didn't consider fighting in the next round. Looking at Jayna's personality, I doubt she will try to hurt an exhausted girl. Well, none of it is my problem.' Thought Angus inwardly as he half-listening to the evaluation that teacher Elis gave after the match.

Done with the evaluation, teacher Elis called Angus and princess Jayna for the next match. Jayna is looking at Angus like she was waiting for this moment her entire life. She wants to beat him down because of yesterday's event and Angus's personality that keeps ignoring her.

As for Angus, he makes one of his shoe laces lose before calmly walking toward the arena.

Before the match started, "Umm… Teacher, I surrender." Said Angus in a lazy tone.

"Eh… you sure about that?" asked the teacher.

"Yes, I know my own capabilities. I will lose easily fighting with such a strong princess Jayna. So, it is just a waste of time." Explained Angus with a lazy attitude.

Hearing such an explanation, the princess who wanted to beat Angus replied, "Coward!! If you are truly a man, fight me!"

Hearing this, Angus replied, "Princess, this has nothing to do with gender. It's just that this fight is pointless." At the same time, Angus walks outside the arena and back to his spot.

"STOP IGNORING ME!!" Shouted Jayna

At this moment, the princess, clouded by anger, cast a spell toward Angus's back [1st circle – Flame Shot]. Looking at this, teacher Elis reacted and released her own spell to stop her [1st circle - Entangle].

But, Jayna's mind power is relatively high, and she cast the spell in a matter of seconds before being stopped. All the small fireballs already approached Angus's back. Still, all of this was also predicted and monitored by Angus.

By making it look like a coincidence, Angus kneels down, pretends to tie up his loose shoelaces, and manages to dodge all the small flame balls within a hair breath. The fireballs managed to explode in the distance.

Looking at the [Flame Shot] misses Angus's back, teacher Elis feels relief before releasing princess Jayna from her spell.

"Jayna, I don't know what kind of grudge you have with Angus, but in my class, an act like a sneak attack is truly dishonorable, especially the one that is doing it is a high-class noble such as yourself." rebuked Teacher Elis.

"As a punishment, you will be disqualified at this little tournament and make Wylda the winner by default. Now back to your spot so we could continue the lesson."

Reprimand by her teacher, Jayna feels down and confused about why she lately becomes easily agitated by these minor things. But, she immediately puts this back in her mind before focusing on the lesson teacher Elis gives.

After a few practical lessons about basic self–defense, teacher Elis explains about elemental affinity. In Firuman, every person has different elemental affinity since they were born. The elemental affinity is helpful to decide the path of someone to take.

For example, Wylda has an affinity for water, so she could quickly learn and cast more water-based spells than other elements.

But, this does not mean she could not cast another spell besides a water-based one. She will need more effort to learn and cast other elementals compared to water-based spells.

To learn about one elemental affinity, people usually look at their hereditary elemental affinity or try many different kinds of elemental-based spells to know about it. It is also very rare for people to have more than one elemental affinity.

It also didn't mean that having many elemental affinities is stronger and better. Because at the later stage, the one that has complete mastery over their elemental mastery is stronger than people that didn't manage to master them.

Having many elemental affinities will only hinder them from getting a complete mastery over their element since mastering an element takes time and a lot of practice.

It means having many elemental affinities also needs working more than having only one elemental affinity. Still, having more elemental affinities also could cast more versatile spells than only having one elemental affinity.

According to Angus's hereditary elemental affinity, he should have fire affinity from his father or wind affinity from his mother.

During the private lesson with teacher Andria, Angus already checks his elemental affinity. He is inclined more towards fire elemental rather than wind-based spells.

At that time, he didn't try to learn another elemental base spell not to increase his intelligence stat. Now, he could freely learn all the 1st circle spells the academy provided to find his true elemental affinity.

Although it takes time and needs a lot of hard work, he still has an idle system to easily help him learn those spells.

Soon, the combat training course ends, and Angus immediately leaves the cafeteria to have lunch. In the afternoon, he attended the smithing class and found it quite interesting.

The new student of this course will be taught how to do the basic smithing process theoretically. It is similar to the smiting process on earth, but the tools use mana as their energy source.

The teacher, an old man from the dwarf race, a half-height race with a long beard and fat body composition, told them that it is essential to have better mana control to make the tools work more precisely.

Unfortunately, new students of this course could only become helpers for months before they start to do any real smithing.

Done with the smithing class, Angus goes back to his dorm and enters his room silently.

After looking at his status chart, 'Let's fight against other students.' thought Angus.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 8 Years Old

MP: 15/15

Strength: 6

Dexterity: 6

Intelligence: 7

Vitality: 9

Soul Point: 2

After having a manual battle with all the available opponents from the system, Angus found that the opponent's strength is based on what he knows and perceives. The stronger the opponent also yields more soul points.

The strongest opponent he could face is Princess Jayna, which gives him 0,000024 soul points for every 1,5 seconds. It means he will get around 1,3 points every day.

He also tests to fight with other students, but none of them could fight back even a second if Angus got serious from the start. All of this is because he always approaches the opponent fast before killing them with one punch.

Besides that, he also found another function from the opponent selection. It is called multiple battles. From its description, he could fight multiple opponents at once and get higher rewards of soul points.

The reward is quite huge, around 2-3 points if he decides to fight all the first-year students that are available at once. Unfortunately, he couldn't set the automatic battle with multiple opponents. Otherwise, he could harvest more points using this way.

Another huge discovery is that he could get an item from the humanoid opponent. He speculates that the drop chance of getting an item is very low.

He only gets the item by fighting the same opponents more than a hundred times. After that, he didn't get any kind of item anymore.

The item is a spellbook and stored in the inventory function that just opened. After doing various tests with the inventory, Angus found that only items generated by the system could be stored there. Besides that, no other things could be stored inside the inventory function.

The spellbook itself is called [1st Circle - Aqua Ball, which drops from the humanoid opponent Wylda. As soon as he touched the book, he got a question panel.

"Do you want to learn the [1st Circle - Aqua Ball] spell by Wylda? Yes or No."

After contemplating a little bit, Angus chose yes. At that moment, Angus gets a lot of basic information about Aqua Ball spells. He could even cast water ball spells as good as Wylda the moment he learns it.

Moreover, since his mind power is higher than Wylda, he could construct and modify the magic circle faster than her. Still, Angus didn't have water elemental affinity to cast the spell rapidly. However, it is an excellent function to learn spells/skills.

'No wonder I never got the spellbook item before. This function is too overpowered.' Thought Angus

Knowing this, Angus realizes that this is a very overpowered function that could make him learn any kind of spells/skills easily.

Angus speculates that to generate spell books, he needs to meet various requirements before it could drop. Otherwise, he will get another spellbook after killing virtual Wylda more than a hundred times.

'Either I am unlucky, or there is some special requirement. Otherwise, it is just a one-time drop item. Anyway, this has become more interesting.' thought Angus inwardly.

As time went by, three months passed in the blink of an eye. The time for the class tournament event soon comes. In the past months, Angus's combat capability has increased by leap bound.

Besides his power, he also got the title of Untouchable Scholar. Angus got the title as every student was afraid of him because of his bodyguard, Henry Dalton, and Duke Victory behind him.

Angus's father also makes his acquaintance's son/daughter to help and protect Angus somehow.

Since Angus is famous for being weak, many other strong students try to bully him. But, before bullying Angus, they always end up being forced back by Angus's 'bodyguard' across the academy.

Moreover, Angus seems to manage to 'avoid' all the bullies that come after him. Be it another student that tries to prank him or even a student that wants to challenge him.

Some students are bold enough to challenge him at a duel, but Angus immediately turns down by surrendering. A few days later, the challenger ends up being in the hospital after being challenged by another stronger student.

He also got a few good marks at his side course and is always found in the library during the weekend that gives him the moniker as scholar combined with the previous deed he became known as 'Untouchable Scholar'.

During the weekend, he tries to learn various spells and skills to increase his repertoire. Using his high intelligence status, he could learn some of them quite easily.

At first, he didn't have a place to practice. But, after 'manipulating' a little bit of manual battle function, he got himself a practice room with a living target inside it.

During the time Angus practiced spells and skills, he found the distinction between the two of them. Spells only increase the power based on the magic circle and its comprehensiveness. As for skills, they grow along with the user's proficiency and understanding.

For example, a first-year student doing basic skills [Bash] could only give a strong punch. But if a six-grade combatant is doing [Bash, he could easily obliterate a building. This is why skills are fewer in number than magic spells.

Skill prowess depends heavily on the proficiency of the user. The more often he uses, familiarizes, and masters the skill, the more potent its effect.

The royal academy gives some free skills and spells at the library. But to learn and practice it depends on the student themselves. The academy's teachers could also teach skills and spells for points.

However, Angus will never use these options to hide his real strength. He could learn the skills by himself using his past experience. As the strongest person in his past life, he could learn any skill as long as it is not too complicated.

While for Spells, Angus heavily relies on his own intelligence to learn it. Magic practically has the same way to cast and utilize it. The only difference is the magic circle they need to be constructed.

During these three months, he also found the rule for spellbooks's drop rate. Apparently, it drops only once with different kinds of drop chances according to the difficulty of the spells. He also found the same rules apply with skill books.

Although it only drops once, the books will drop again from the same person the moment they get enlightened or make huge progress at their respective skills/spells. All of this is on the premise that Angus already witnessed and learned more about their progress before.

He also found another item besides the book that the system drops, but most are categorized as materials. He said that because it always drops from monsters.

To familiarize himself with monsters, the student got a chance to look at a few live caged monsters during the monster studies course.

The first monster he sees is a brown wolf, a 2-meter tall wolf full of muscle. Its expression is very aggressive and full of bloodlust.

The moment the teacher shows them to the first years, most of them collapse or piss their pants from bloodlust. Only students with strong minds could handle their fear but still shivering heavily.

At that time, Angus pretends to be shivering and afraid that he is rooted in his place. He also manipulates his body to become paler than it is supposed to be.

To make some sort of resistance toward the monster's bloodlust, the teacher will occasionally bring students to look at a caught monster every month during the monster studies course.

Now, Angus participated in the briefing of a class tournament contest.

'Haa… when will this end?' thought Angus as he half listens to the briefing by teacher Elis.

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The class tournament has a different kind of theme each time. This time it has a theme as a survival contest. The tournament will take place in a nearby forest owned by the academy. There are two hours for all participant classes to eliminate others.

Once the two hours are up, the battle will stop, and the most surviving people in one class are the winners. If there is the same number of people, the teachers will judge who the winner is.

Besides fighting with other classes, they also need to fight monsters that are scattered inside the forest. The monsters are varied but most of them are only ungraded and few 1st-grade monsters.

It will be difficult for the 1st and 2nd-year students who still do not form their mana core to kill one of these monsters. But, if the student manages to kill the monster, they will get 50 points for each person in their group.

For safety reasons, the student will get barrier-generated items that could hold attacks from the 2nd-grade monster.

The barrier will get alarmed if being attacked with the strength of a 1st-grade monster twice. Then, the student will get disqualified and need to get out of the forest.

Hearing this tournament, Angus thought silently, 'Damn.. What a troublesome tournament?'

This kind of tournament is a headache for Angus because many unexpected events could happen, especially fighting against monsters in the wild. If something goes wrong, he needs to reveal his real strength.

Because of this reason, Angus decided to visit the monster house, a place that contains monsters to be studied by students.

The monster sent into the tournament has the same species as the one in this monster house. This way, it will motivate students to learn more about the monster.

Angus wants to learn more about these monsters and open his manual battle selection with these monsters.

He plans to learn their fighting habits and patterns in the manual battle before entering the tournament. This way, he could at least somewhat avoid any unpredictable situation during the match.

After learning about the monster closely, he goes to the smithing area. He needs to take some material for weapons to protect himself in case of an emergency.

Fortunately, the academy provides iron ore in low quantities for each smithing student to increase their smithing mastery. Since Angus never uses his quota from the start of the term, he has enough iron ore to forge a weapon.

After taking his iron ore, he goes back to Spring Dorm. Spring Dorm has many facilities. One of them is a smithing area that its residents have never used before. None of the residents of the Spring Dorm could do or interest in smithing beside Angus.

Arriving at the abandoned smithing area, Angus starts the fire in the forge. Although Angus only acts as a helper during his smithing course, he still has some experience making his own weapon in his past life.

As a true martial artist, Angus needs to learn the art of making cold weapons to know how they actually work.

Since he has only limited resources, he plans only making throwing weapons that specialize in piercing. After hours of hammering and burning, he finally made five throwing daggers that are very slim and thin but have a sharper edge.

'Hmm… Not too bad. Still, I am quite rusty to take this much time to produce these daggers' thought Angus inwardly after inspecting the daggers.

Because of that, he still needs to skip his side course for the entire afternoon. After that, he returned to his room and prepared himself to fight some monster inside his system.

Experimenting a few times inside the manual battle, Angus found that he could bring anything he touched to the battle arena.

He could bring things to the battle arena and also cannot be too big, like the bed or other big furniture. Apparently, the battle is happening inside his mind while his real body stays still after trying to record himself during the usage of manual battle.

Angus will also get the same wound if he gets injured during the manual battle. Using this as a rule, he also speculates that there is a chance he could get killed if he dies during the manual battle system.

Soon, the time for the class tournament is approaching. All the students inside the royal academy are in hype to fight against monsters or the other students. After getting some speech from the headmaster, the tournament officially begins from the 1st year.

At this moment, class 1-A is in their position outside the forest waiting for the signal. As always, princess Jayna took leadership among the rest of the group. She keeps making some speech about beating the others and wins without having real planning.

'Well, what did you expect from an eight-year-old kid to think of a plan?' thought Angus while having a bored expression.

*BOOM* After a while, the signal for the tournament began. The group immediately goes inside the forest in search of the other team.

While this is happening, Angus wanders inside the forest, aimlessly separating himself from his groups. Looking around that no one is nearby, he closes his eyes and focuses his mind.

"HUMP!!" as Angus releases a thin layer of mana to the ground. [Mana Echolocation]

Soon, he got feedback and knew the approximate location of others. Then, he goes towards the nearest monster location. Angus planned to get eliminated by fighting with a monster.

After five minutes of walking, he found a scaled monster that was two-meter tall. It's called Mandile, a huge lizard that is moving very fast with a poisoned claw. It is also famous for being aggressive.

Since Angus didn't hide his presence, it immediately found him and attacked him. Angus pretends to look afraid at this encounter and stays still.

Suddenly, a barrier from his school emblem became active and protected him before the claw approached Angus. But, the Mandile ignored it and kept clawing at him. Soon, it managed to activate the alarm in Angus's school emblem.

'Fiuhh… With this now, I just need to go outside the forest.' thought Angus inwardly.

A few moments later, A teacher came and frightened the Mandile with his mana aura. Looking at Angus is fine without a scratch and half-sleep eye expression, "Are you okay?" asked the teacher.

"Yeah, fine. Now, I just need to get out of this forest, right?" replied Angus with enthusiasm.

"Y-yeah, I will bring you out…" said Teacher.

*BOOOMM* A loud explosion was heard from somewhere inside the forest. Then the teacher's communicator rang loudly, "CODE GREEN, all teachers need to go towards the North immediately!!"

"Tch.. Just what is happening at this beginning tournament? Can you go toward the base by yourself? I need to check the situation." said the Teacher.

"Sure, no problem. I could walk by myself." Said Angus before the teacher went towards the explosion source.

'Just to be sure, let's check what is going on.' thought Angus as he uses [Mana Echolocation].

"This is…"

"This is.. Damn, I need to get out of here fast." said Angus.

Few minutes before the explosion, Jayna's group wandered while searching for the opponent.

"Damn it, where is that Angus? He is supposed to be beside us as the weakest. Now, we need to search for him too." Grumbled Princess Jayna.

Before long, she feels a presence in front of her. "Who's there?" said Princess Jayna.

"It's me, Ian. Hahaha.. This is really great. I don't need to search for you now, Brute Princess." Mocking Ian

"What did you say, commoner?" As Jayna is ready to battle.

During their three months stay in the royal academy, Jayna and Ian often fight with each other. Most of their fights end up in a tie before they exhaust themselves.

However, Jayna is better at her academic score than Ian and makes her the first ranker among the 1st year students.

Because of this, Ian always sought to fight and tried to win against Jayna, while Jayna herself felt the need to maintain the first ranking as the royalties.

Soon, They begin their fight. Jayna shots small flame balls towards Ian rapidly [1st circle – Flame Shot]. But, Ian already expected it and dodge them easily while casting his own spell [1st circle – Aqua Ball].

Looking at the fast-approaching Aqua Ball, Jayna engulfs her fist with fire mana and punches the approaching water ball [Fire punch]. The collation between them creates a mist of water steam that Ian uses to his advantage by launching a close combat attack.

Then, both of them were entangled in their fight. While they fight furiously, Jayna's and Ian's group also start their own battle. Jayna's group may have fewer people than Ian's, but they are stronger since the princess herself is often training them.

A few minutes later, a roar was heard from the nearby bush. Two brown wolves approach the group after hearing the commotion. The brown wolf releases their bloodlust and makes all the students paralyzed on the spot beside Jayna and Ian.

Looking at this, Ian and Jayna stop fighting each other and ready themselves to battle the approaching brown wolf. But, they underestimate the brown wolf's speed and strength. Before they could react, Ian and Jayna were already knocked down by the brown wolf's claw.

Fortunately, the barrier erects in time to protect both of them. Using this momentum, one brown wolf pinned Jayna inside the barrier and kept attacking the barrier.

While the other brown wolf fight pursues Ian and is knocked back far away. At this moment, Jayna's mind is utterly in chaos. Although the barrier is active and protects her, she still felt her life almost gone at the last second.

Combined with the bloodlust and pressure released by the brown wolf, she begins to paralyze on the spot while her mind goes into chaos.

"I am going to die.. I am going to die.. I am going to die..

I am going to die.. I am going to die.. I am going to die..

I am going to die.. I am going to die.. I am going to die.. ARRRGGGHH" screamed Jayna.

At this moment, her hidden mana becomes chaotic and erupts brightly into an explosion. Her expression turned into a crazed one while screaming. The scream is enhanced with mana and pushes the brown wolf back. Then, it is quickly trying to escape from Jayna's aura.

Before it could get away, Jayna already pinned the brown wolf on the ground using her hand. "DIE DIE DIE!! YOU MAGGOT!!" As she brutally shreds the brown wolf into pieces.

After finishing off the brown wolf, she is going after the nearby paralyzed student as she couldn't differentiate between ally and foe."DIE!!"

But, before she could approach the other student. A person in black clothes appeared from her shadow and restrained her [2nd circle spell – shadow bind].

"Princess… Calm down. No one will kill you." The black-clothed man tries to calm Jayna.

Still, the [Shadow Bind] could only hold her for a moment before Jayna mana exploded once again. At this moment, behind her is a figure an elderly with a majestic presence before going inside Jayna [Soul Possession].

Then, Jayna attacks her shadow guard before he could react [Barrage Fire Punch]. The power of the punch is vastly different from the previous and launched the shadow guard dozens of meters away.

At this moment [2nd Circle – Entroot] [2nd Circle – Binding Chain]. The teacher already appears one with others and restrains her.

Then, Jayna begins to mutter in a sort of ancient language [WEAK.. WEAK.. All OF YOU WEAK. YOU CAN'T RESTRAINT ME]

Under the aura of Jayna, all spells are degrading before they turn into nothingness. All the teacher feels dread at this moment, they feel like in front of the presence of a legendary 7th-grade combatant.

In the presence of Jayna, all the teachers cannot move a single bit. Before Jayna could attack one of them, she heard chanting from far away.

"...Will of wind and light encased by storm. [4th Circle – Elemental Blast]" the headmaster Anthony comes out and casts his spell toward Jayna.

A surge amount of lightning, wind, water, and fire elemental appears from the magic diagram. They combine together into a vortex in front of Anthony and push Jayna back towards deep in the forest.

Meanwhile, inside the deep forest, Angus hurrying himself to go to the base. Suddenly, his instinct flared up and immediately moved away from his spot [Rodeo Maneuver].

Using his strange footwork technique, he dodges the incoming Jayna that landed on his previous spot, creating a crater on the ground. At this moment, Angus could see Jayna slowly crawl from the crater with tattered clothes.

[How dare you maggot hit me?!!] She releases another powerful surge of mana that makes her body veins revealed like it is going to rupture anytime.

Looking at this, Angus knows that the situation is going from bad to worse. 'Just what the hell did I do that I deserve this. Haa.. Better wrap this up.' thought Angus releases his own killing intent to counter Jayna's madness aura.

Feeling the dread sensation from Angus's killing intent, Jayna began to freeze. [W-who are you?]

Angus only looked seriously at Jayna before saying, "Tch… Weakling"

Hearing Angus's response, "W-WHAT DID YO…" She once replied without an outburst.

At this moment, Angus approaches her while mimicking a beast movement [Beast Walk]. Along the way, he throws his hidden daggers toward her head.

Jayna managed to react to the sudden attack by pummeling the dagger using her fire punch. As Jayna got distracted from his dagger, Angus approached her back and slapped her back neck heavily.

Less than a second later, Jayna feels like being electrocuted and howls loudly, "ARRRGGHH" before slumping to the ground unconscious.

Looking at the petite body in tattered clothes, Angus gave his coat towards her and removed his melted hidden dagger away before he waited patiently for the teachers.

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Few moments before Angus clashed with Jayna, "Huft.. Huft... Wake up everyone. That's not the real 7th grade king." Said Anthony in rough breath after enduring the full force of Jayna's aura.

Hearing this, The teachers wake up from their stupor and a few quick witted one immediately after Jayna. As for other teachers could only sit in the ground shivering from the aura's side effect.

A 7th grade being is in the entire different realm than others. Just their aura alone could paralyzed and make someone crazy. Some cases even lead them to suicide themself.

Looking at the shivering teacher's condition, Anthony could only shook his head before deciding to wrap up this incident first. Using the [3rd circle - fly] he managed to catch up with the other teachers.

Arriving at the Jayna location, he saw Angus sitting near a crater where Jayna herself lay unconscious in the middle of it.

The moment Anthony found Angus at the spot, he felt that the matter just turned into the worst possible situation. Fortunately, he found that Angus is unscated condition. The only problem Angus has is his rough breathing and his pale face.

Looking at this, principal Anthony immediately commands the nearby teacher to bring both of them towards the school infirmary. After that he closed the tournament for the day until the situation became clear and safe.

'Haa… I am already too old for this.' Lament the old principal inwardly.

Arriving at the school infirmary which looks like a small hospital, Angus immediately pretends to sleep. However, after a few moments he fell asleep naturally.

Meanwhile Jayna receives intensive care from the teacher and vice principal. Not too long after that, principal Anthony came.

"Ellen, How's the kids?" Asked the old principal worriedly.

"The fourth princess's condition is quite dire. Her body is forced to handle pressure that is greater than her limit."

"Because of this she needs to recuperate for a long time and cannot do anything excessive for a while. For better recovery she also should not cast any spell at least in a month." said the vice principal Ellen gravely.

"Haa… As long as she is still alive that's already good news. How about the boy? Angus?" asked Anthony.

"The boy seems fine. He just got a little bit of shock and mental trauma but he will heal in no time." Replied Ellen.

"Huft… At least we avoid the wrath of the fire dragon and king. Make sure to take care of them carefully. We cannot offend their family and make things more complicated." Continue Anthony.

"Alright… Rest assured Anthony. I will do my best to take care of them." Reassured the vice principal.

Few moments after that, Angus woke up from the arrival of his brother. "Angus, Are you okay?" Asked Vergil worriedly towards his little brother.

"Ehh… Brother Vergil, Y-yeah I just need a little bit of rest." As Angus tries to excuse himself by so he has more sleeping time.

After that the two brothers had more chatting a little bit before Vergil leaving Angus to rest. From the Vergil, Angus found out that Princess Jayna was still in bad condition because of the forced possession she used.

'As expected of royalty with a strong line to have those possession skills. Well, none of it has anything to do with me anyway.' Thought Angus inwardly.

Bored without anything to do, Angus checked his system and found new opponents in fiery red color inside his manual battle menu.

Princess Jayna (Possession)

Current chance of winning : 11%

"Hoo… This is new." Looking at this Angus couldn't help but feeling challenged. But, he still sane enough to not try to fight her now.

He knows that he has a high chance of dying if fight her in a possession state right now. Like the system stated he only has 11% chance to win against her in possession state.

Different from the fight he took before. The manual battle will create an exact copy that only seeks his death from the start. Moreover, it will utilize anything while regard its own safety.

From Angus experience, if it is cornered, it will always do a suicide attack. A suicide attack from Jayna in her possession state is enough to kill him few times.

Brushing this thought, Angus decides to go back to sleep. Unbeknown to him, princess Jayna is resting next to his room peacefully.

While Angus is having his sweet dream, near the border of the academy a hooded person walks silently under the cover of the darkest night.

After looking around for a few times, the guy began chanting silently and soon the transparent barrier that covered the royal academy lifted up a little bit making a human size hole.

Then, a few people in black hooded clothes appear from the barrier hole. The chanting guy stops his chants after all the black hooded people pass the barrier.

The chanting guy only gives a silent nod before all the other black hooded people disappear into the darkest night.

Few moments later, Angus wakes up silently after his instinct tells him something is not right on the outside. But, he didn't find anything wrong when looking at the window from inside the room. Trust his instinct he uses [mana echolocation] silently.

'Tch… Another troublesome thing. At least do it when I am not around.' Thought Angus silently.

Suddenly, he wakes up and sits on his bed while screaming loudly, "AAAARRGGHH!!"

Hearing such a screaming from Angus, the vice principal Ellen and a few guards hurriedly come to Angus's room.

As soon as the people come to Angus's room, "M-Monster… I see monsters outside the window!! Help!!" Said Angus frantically while faking his shivering body.

Looking at this the guard and vice principal focus at the window instantly. The guard didn't notice anything wrong but the experienced vice principal immediately felt few small mana fluctuation on the outside.

At this moment, her eyes flashed a little bit [Mana Eye]. she instantly found a group of black hooded people camouflage themselves under the darkness night outside the room.

Noticing this she immediately screams using enhanced mana voice, "INTRUDER!!"

The black hooded people notice that being found out, decide to uncover from the shadow and launch the attack towards the princess room.

However, at this moment Vice Principal Ellen claps her hand and flares up her mana, "Active defence mechanism, Entroot!!"

Many huge roots appear at fast speed and attack all the black hooded people nearby. The black hooded people seem not surprised from the sudden appearance of the root and keep approaching the princess room calmly.

However, few guards already notice this from all the commotion and manage to fend them off from entering the room through the window.

Although they only guard inside the academy, they still have strength of third grade. Soon, with the help of root they manage to subdue almost all the intruders.

Looking at all his comrades get captured while the leader of the hooded man tries to escape the root's grip, the guard feeling a little bit of relief.

But, the leader of black hooded men suddenly flares up his mana, "Hmph!!" *BOOOM* *BOOOM*

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"Hmph!!" *BOOOM* *BOOOM*

The captured black hooded intruders explode by themself and destroy the surrounding root.

Fortunately, the school infirmary is strong enough to withstand the blast. Still all the guards get disoriented from such the shockwave of the explosion.

Using this chance, the last intruder escapes by turning into shadow and disappears from his spot.

Didn't expect that the intruder will suicide by explosion themself, Vice teacher Ellen also could not react to send another root before the intruder gone.

'Damn!! They managed to get away.' Thought the vice principal.

"Bring all the injuries to the inside, notify the captain guard to secure the infirmary perimeter, and someone calls Principal Anthony about this." Command the vice principal.

After that she checked Angus's condition, "Alright, kid. Now everything is saf..."

Interrupt Angus while faking his body to become rough breathing, "T-The monster… Is the monster dead?? What about that loud sound? Am I.. Am I going to.."

Looking at this Ellen reassured Angus, "Hushh… Calm down, Angus. Everything is alright. There is no monster. Nobody is going to hurt you."

After a while being calmed down by the vice principal, Angus showed symptoms to become calmer before falling back to sleep.

Seeing that Angus is finally asleep, she goes back to her work to help the principal about this incident.

As soon as the vice principal left Angus alone, he checked the surrounding silently with [Mana Echolocation] and didn't find anything abnormal beside the increase of the guard. Then, he went back to his sweet dream that he longed for.

The next morning, Angus discharges from the academy's infirmary after getting some calming potion. Although, the potion is actually useless for Angus but it could calm his mind and make his mind more clearer.

This kind of effect is quite startled and quite miraculous for him. Normally, this kind of effect is quite useless for everyday life except for refreshment.

However, if it is used by a magician it will help them a lot especially in dire situations. Magicians need a calm mind to cast a spell, the moment their mind is in chaos their ability to cast spells is also lower.

The potion could help magicians to stay cool in most chaotic situations. Even Though there is a spell that could achieve such an effect but it will cost mana and has a lesser time effect than the potion.

Unfortunately, the potion is quite expensive since it is highly sought and hard to produce in the market. Their usage is not only for magicians in battle but also for medication for the case like Angus.

Inside the chaotic world like Firuman where people will constantly fight against monsters. Like any other kind of war, many people will get injured physically and mentally. The potion will help them to recover faster.

This is also the reason why Angus chose to take the vital courses that could support someone in battle. Apparently, a master in supporting jobs such as alchemy, blacksmith, scriber, etc. is highly sought by everyone, even the king himself.

If not because it takes a very long time and resources to nurture a master in this kind of job, everyone is already applying for this job.

Leaving the academy's infirmary, Angus walks aimlessly before changing his route to the secluded area inside the academy.

Arriving at the secluded area, he gathers his mana in his hand and punches towards the shadow below the tree. Before the punch touches the shadow, it materializes into black cloaked person.

In a split second the person managed to avoid Angus's fist, but Angus kept launching his fist towards the ground. *Blam* *Crack*

The ground below the black hooded man turns into a huge crack and makes him a little bit disoriented from the unstable ground.

Using this opportunity, Angus follows up his attack by swinging his enhanced mana kick. Receiving the sudden powerful kick, the man feels like being hit by a bull and flies away for a few meters before stopping after crashing the nearby tree.

Didn't want to give his opponent a chance, Angus approached the guy using [Beast Walk]. Instantly, Angus arrives in front of the black hooded man and punches him in his guts towards the air.

The man tried to change into shadow again but failed and got launched in the air. He could only fly in the air hopelessly. While Angus is on the ground, look at him with cold eyes and in a horse stance position. In this instant, his body is covered with mana [Iron Body].

The moment the man fell back to the ground, Angus stomped his leg to the ground until it cracked and launched his hand towards the man like a spear [Spear hand].

Feeling the rush of his mana in his hand, Angus penetrated the man's heart easily before it could react to anything.

Because of Angus's harsh attack and strong momentum, the man's body got forced into the air once again before finally dropping to the ground became a gruesome corpse.

As for Angus himself, he is already meters away from the location in clean state. If not because of his rough breathing, no one will think he just got into a harsh fight.

'Haa… Huft.. Huft… I don't know why he chose me but you got the wrong person to stalk.' Thought Angus inwardly while calming his rough breathing.

After calming his breathing, 'Just like I thought, I didn't feel anything when to take away someone's life. Haaa… Why a peaceful life is so hard to achieve. For God sake I am still 8 years old and they keep bothering me.'

Little did he know that the one that stalked him actually just wanted to get revenge on him because of foiling his asssasination plan yesterday. But, the man never knows Angus's true strength.

While walking away from the battle spot, Angus keeps his vigilance and uses [mana echolocation] silently.

After calming his breath he takes a detour in a more crowded area before he meets a familiar person in teacher attire on his way to his dorm.

"Hmm… Aren't you, Angus? Are you alright now?" Asked the teacher

"Yes, thanks for your concern, teacher. …" Replied Angus politely.

"Ahh… I have never introduced myself since our meeting at the tournament. My name is Oswalt. Just call me teacher Oswalt." [Oswalt]

Teacher Oswalt is the teacher that comes to help Angus when he gets disqualified in the tournament.

"I see, thanks for your concern and help from before teacher oswalt. I am fine now after taking medication that the vice principal gave." [Angus]

"Alright, if you think so. Just don't push yourself. You are still young anyway." [Oswalt]

"Sure. Then, I will be on my way teacher Oswalt." [Angus]

"Yeah, take care of yourself, Angus."

Leaving the teacher Oswalt, 'Hmm… Weird, he has the same smell as the last intruder that I just killed. Well, none of it matters.'

'I will just take care of him if he tries anything to harm me.' Thought Angus inwardly while still having his usual happy going expression on the outside.

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Two weeks have passed since Angus's first real fight and kill. During these two weeks nothing major happened.

A few days after the assasination, Princess Jayna is woken up and is transferred to the royal palace for better protection and medication.

As the princess is away, the academy is back to their peaceful life. The tournament resumed and came to an end like it should be.

Unfortunately, other students cannot look at the tournament besides the result. Otherwise, Angus will use this opportunity to open more opponent selection in his system.

Angus's capabilities already surpassed his peers a long time ago. Now, he feels bored and lacks a new opponent in his new manual battle system.

If everyone is not avoiding him, he already gets more opponent selection. Still he also enjoys this peacefulness.

The reason he wants to improve further is because of the intruder. Apparently, his system will unlock and register his/her full power for people that Angus kills.

Noticing this Angus hopes to make the intruder become his battle partner for a while. However, he was surprised to find that the leader of black cloaked men is actually a 4th grade person.

The system calculates Angus only has 37% to defeat such a person in frontal battle. The reason why Angus could kill him before is because Angus launched a preemptive strike without giving the intruder any chance to retaliate.

However, if Angus battles in the frontal battle, he has a lower chance to win, even by utilizing every skill he knows. Angus realizes that he is still weak compared to other people in this world in frontal battle.

Because of this, Angus decides to visit the monster house again. The monster house is the only place where he could open the new opponent in his system.

The last time he went inside the monster house was before the tournament. At that time he only visits the part where they keep the ungraded monster.

From his last observation, he found that he needed to meet the monster a few times while cross check the knowledge he got from the book about the monster's ability to unlock its full power in his manual battle system.

The ungraded monster gives less soul points than Jayna without her possession. So, Angus planned to visit the first grade monster area.

The first grade monster is stronger than the ungraded one. Because of this they keep them in a more secure area.

Usually students need permission from their teacher to enter this area. However, Angus is part of the monster physiology side course. So, he could enter the area as long as he is under the supervision of the staff that maintain the area.

Arriving at the monster house, "Ohh… Angus come to study more about monsters again?" said one of the supervisors of the monster house.

"Yes, Mr. Kyle. Can you show me the way to the first grade area?" Asked Angus politely.

"Sure, I'm also just going to check that area." As Mr. Kyle showed the way.

The monster house is a complex building that is guarded with heavy enchantment. All the intruders or monsters that break free will get lost instantly inside the building because of the constant change from enchantment.

The only way to walk safely inside the building is by having a password rune engraved in their body. This also password rune needs to be renewed every day from the upper echelon of the academy.

It could be said that it will be harder to break free from the monster house than assassinate someone inside the academy.

Soon, after turning and passing many corridors with stairs, Angus arrived at the first grade area. The area is dimly lit with only magic artificial light around the area.

There are rows of big cages all over the area and often hear the sound of a beast roar all the time.

"Alright, I will survey the surroundings. You can check the nearby monster from this side and remember…" [Mr. Kyle]

Before Mr. Kyle completed his sentence, "Don't wander off. Yeah - yeah… Mr. Kyle. You already said that thousand times." interrupt Angus with a playful tone.

"Hahaha… then, I will be off. If something happens just notify me with this badge." Said Mr. Kyle while he gives a guest badge towards Angus.

Catch the badge and see Mr. Kyle already walks into the deeper part, Angus goes towards the nearby cage while taking out his notebook from his space pouch.

Inside the cage there is a big armadillo-like monster with red colored all over its body. Noticing Angus, the monster immediately growls while spouting fire from his mouth towards him.

But the fire stopped by the enchantment cage easily. After a while, the monster gives up to hurt Angus and just stays in the corner of the cage.

"Hmm… Fire Armadillo. It said that it could spout fire like a flamethrower. But, the most dangerous thing about this guy is he could curve into a ball and generate fire around his body."

"Then, it will roll and become a huge bulldozer that could obliterate almost anything in its path after having enough momentum." As Angus read his note about the monster characteristic.

After a while of reading its characteristic in his note, Angus enhanced his vision with mana [Mana Eye]. Angus found a small ball inside the monster heart using this X-ray like vision.

'So, That's the one called mana core.' Thought Angus while also carefully examining the monster under his mana eye.

Mana core is an important thing for people to survive in this world. By having mana core, they could become stronger physically and have more purer mana.

However, not everyone could form mana core. They need tedious training of controlling mana and a large mana pool. The gathering mana inside their heart will form mana core naturally.

Most of the civilian people never form mana core in their life because they didn't have enough mana inside their body.

Forming mana core could still be handled by training controlling mana during the teenage age.

The researcher said that during the teenage age their body is more attuned with mana. Because this is where their body could easily gather mana.

With enough control of mana, they could form their mana core despite not having a large mana pool.

As For Angus, he didn't need to perform all of this tedious task since his own mana had already expanded at large capacity since last time.

Apparently, he underestimated his own breathing technique. If not because his body is still not mature, he may form his own mana core already.

While thinking of this, he checks his own stats.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 8 Years Old

MP: 87/87

Strength: 10

Dexterity: 10

Intelligence: 15

Vitality: 17

Soul Point: 88

The conversion rate doubles after the stats reach 10. Then, it once again doubled the cost after reaching 15. As for his mana, the conversion rate is still the same by 1:1.

He has also already reached a limit to be improved further in the physical part. Only after he grew further, he will improve more in his physical part.

His intelligence also could not be increased further because of his body limitation. He speculated that the strength and dexterity will be stagnant until he grows further.

During these three month times Angus never added any point towards strength and dexterity to keep his body in control.

But, their increase is also stagnant because of his age limitation even after using various secret training.

'Haa… Never know that I hope to grow up faster.' Thought Angus before checking the next monster after his system recorded the monster's strength.

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After studying the monster for a while, Mr. Kyle shows up to pick up Angus. "Learn anything. kid?" inquired Mr. Kyle.

"Just cross check some knowledge from the book." As Angus shows his note.

"How about you, Mr. Kyle? Find anything?" Asked Angus.

"Well, just the usual growling, howling, biting. But, nothing unusual. Still I thought the monster had become quite restless lately. But, I didn't find anything unusual. Probably they were just mad about being recapture after the tournament class." Rambling Mr. Kyle

"Ehh… Isn't that dangerous?" [Angus]

"Nah.. don't worry about it. They will probably calm down after a few more days. So, ready to get out from here or you need more time to look around?" Asked Mr. Kyle who seemed uncomfortable to stay any longer in this place.

'Well, a normal person will go insane being entrapped in this place. Guess it's time to go.' Thought Angus.

"Yeah, let's get out of here. I just happened to finish my observation." Answer Angus in a playful tone.

"Alright, then. Let's get out from this damned place." As both of them get out from the other door they arrive.

Meanwhile Angus having a peaceful life inside the academy, outside the kingdom near the west border lay a dark forest habitat of monsters.

Inside the gloomy forest that seems like painted in black gathered a few people with the same uniform.

"Albert, found anything?" asked one of the people that seemed like a leader of this group.

Before Albert could respond, *GRRRTTT* a strange noise creeping out from the ground.

Hearing the loud sound the leader immediately shouts, "Everyone, get out from here!!" while running the leader actively channels his mana towards his bracelet.

A second later, a transparent bird appeared from it. Without wasting any moment, he let loose the bird to the air.

Suddenly, a huge sharp tendril appeared from the ground and pierced all the soldiers before they could react. The movement of the tendrils is so fast that they don't know what things that kill them.

The transparent bird kept flying in the air at a fast speed without noticing its master already died. After flying for a moment, other birds similar to it also come from other directions.

Soon, they become a flock of birds and gather at the outpost in the middle of a fortress located outside of the black forest. The fortress looks a little bit of rusty but every single wall and rock is highly enchanted.

As soon as one of the guards in charge gets all the birds information, "Shit!! Sound the alarm! Call the general Borkins!!" Command the supervisor after receiving the info from the bird.

The guards nearby immediately sound the alarm, *TENG TENG TENG* The alarm kept ringing and notified all the residents inside the fortress.

A moment later, a loud creepy sound heard from inside the forest. *GGGRRTTT* After that creepy growling, hundreds of monsters appeared from the forest towards the fortress.

Seeing the endless tide of monsters, all the personnel become nervous. However, at this moment, "STAY IN YOUR BASE!! PREPARE TO FIGHT!" a loud shout emerged from inside the fortress.

Soon, a dwarf in full armor holding his mighty hammer appeared and raised the guard of the guard inside the fortress. General Borkins, the general that held the border of the Heart Kingdom.

He stood straight in front of the wall. Although, his height is only half of an adult man, he releases a dangerous vibe around him. Nobody dares to question his authority inside this fortress.

Looking at the monster horde approaching the fortress at fast speed, "Shoot them down! Artillery unit, FIRE!!

After getting the command, dozens of magic cannons release their might and bombard the monster horde. While every archer and magician also release their overcharge attack towards them.

The monster horde seems to have stopped for a moment before they continue their march while more of their kin dying under the bombardment of magic cannon.

During this moment, from inside the forest something is thrown towards the fortress at fast speed. Noticing the black boulder like projectiles, the general command, "Raise the magical barrier!"

A barrier immediately erected and covered the fortress. The black projectiles hit the barrier harshly. *Bang* *Bang* Then, the projectile seems like a life becoming a piece of wood that keeps growing and attacking the nearby.

"Evil Treants! Hans, get the fire mage and flamethrower" command general Borkins towards his subordinate.

"Y-yes, sir" As Hans relayed the general order towards others.

The evil treant is a third grade monster that is quite difficult to handle. They keep regenerating their own wood tendril until their mana is exhausted or their core is destroyed.

Moreover, they could suck the nutrient to regenerate themselves by absorbing the blood of its prey. The only way to get rid of them is by attacking them with fire to inhibit their regeneration.

One of these monsters is already quite a headache for a platoon army to handle, now there are dozens of them scattered along beside the fortress's wall.

As the guard and evil treant fight in close combat, the other monster horde soon approaches the fortress.

The magical barrier only holds against projectile attack but they still could bypass physically. Though they will get hurt in the process.

As the monster approaches the magical barrier, "Everyone, CHARGE!!" the general Borkins raises his own warhammer and charges towards the monster horde.

Few moments after the close battle begins, the human side becomes the winner as they specialize more in close combat.

Suddenly, another loud growl sounds from inside the forest. *GGRRTTT* From it launched a black wooden spike like missile towards the fortress wall. *Bang* *Bang* *Blarr* *CRACK*

Unlike before, the black wooden spike managed to penetrate the magical barrier. The force of the wooden spike is so strong that it causes a huge shock around the fortress.

Some of the guards got thrown off the wall from the wooden spike attack. Dozens of them instantly die being pulverized by its force.

As for the general borkins, he managed to hold his ground receiving the full blunt force of the entire wooden spike by himself after activating his magical armor.

His magical armor gives a transparent armor surrounding his body. Still he got wounded internally because of the force behind the wooden spike.

After that from the forest, a gigantic wooden face with countless wooden tendril surrounding it.

Looking at the monster's appearance, "Haha.. Just my lucky day, Corrupted Mother Treant" said the general in his sarcastic tone.

Before he shouted to the subordinate, "Alright, brats. Tonight we dine in hell! For the Heart kingdom!!" As the general continued his onslaught towards the monster horde.

"WOOOW" Rallying themselves the soldiers also follow their general step.

A moment after that, the corrupted mother treant releases a huge suppression mana towards the surrounding. *Doom* Almost everyone getting paralyze in fear because of this.

"T-this is a fifth grade monster." said the soldier.

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"T-this is a fifth grade monster." said the soldier.

A fifth grade monster, a monster that managed to evolve their core five times. This kind of monster is entirely different level than below its grade.

Monsters have stronger and special abilities that make them superior to other races. Usually other races need one grade above the monster grade before finally could beat them.

Because of this, sometimes fifth grade monsters are hailed as walking disasters, a catastrophe, since the sixth grade being is very rare.

Moreover, fifth grade monsters could be hailed as king or queen that command a horde of monsters. Many ancient kingdoms were destroyed in the past because of being attacked by fifth grade monsters and its army.

Fear and hopelessness emerges inside the soldier's heart. The soldiers in the fortress already give up fighting knowing it is the fifth grade monster. Only the general Borkins that still try to fight the monster horde.

*RROOAARRR* During this moment, the soldier heard a beast's roar but not from the forest direction. The loud cry of the beast is from behind the fortress.

Then, ascended a huge fire dragon that burned all the evil treant and monster hordes that tried to scale the fortress wall.

Then, another huge mana aura is released from the sky. The aura disrupts the corrupted mother treant's suppression.

Looking at the source of the mana aura, the soldiers reignited their fighting spirit and morale.

"Duke Victory!!" a soldier shouts loudly towards the man that descended from the sky.

"Hahaha… Brat, You are late." Said the dwarf general while keeping smashing the monster around him.

The duke arrives near the dwarf general and flicks his finger. From his flick appears a wall made of fire [2nd circle - fire wall].

The fire wall burns and fends off all the monsters that are approaching general Borkins. The general felt relief after finally taking a breath since the fight began.

"Borkins, are you alright?" Asked the Duke.

"Ptuih… Yes, still alive and kicking." As the general spat mouthful of blood from his mouth. But, the general didn't mind it at all.

"Alright, what's the situation?" As the duke also keeps burning the approaching monster.

"Like you can see, it's the fifth grade of a corrupted mother treant. However, I found this monster horde is weird."

"The monster horde should be more than this if it is a true fifth grade. Not that I really complain if they are fewer." Said the dwarf general before charge towards the monster again.

"Alright, leave the mother treant to me. Make sure to hold the monster horde as long as you can." As the duke flies away approaching the fifth grade beast while burning all the monsters on the way.

Looking at a dangerous being approaching it, the corrupted mother treant released a few huge tendril towards the duke.

Anticipating such attack, Duke Jacob flick his finger rapidly and create a transparent red barrier around him [3rd Circle - Fire Shield]. *Blam* *Ssshhs* *Blam *Ssshhs*

All the wooden tendrils that meet with [Fire Shield] burned into ash. Then, the duke clasp his arm and creates a huge magic circle with complex runes all around it in front of him.

A second later, a huge burst of fire from it [4th Circle - Inferno]. The [Inferno] burns everything in its path towards the fifth grade monster.

Receiving such an attack, the mother treant could only hide behind its countless wooden tendrils. Smoke arises from the fire and begins to cover it. *GGRRTT*

As waiting for the smoke to clear a little bit, the duke once again gathers his mana while clasping his hand. At this moment, a few huge wooden tendrils appear below him and try piercing him.

However, they are stopped by the [Fire Shield] that surrounds the duke. Suddenly, the duke saw many black wooden spikes come out from the smoke towards him at fast speed.

His battle instinct is tingling and immediately throws his overcharge [Inferno] towards it. But, the wooden spike managed to penetrate it and the [Fire Shield] altogether. *Swish*

Luckily, the duke is quick witted and manages to avoid a fatal wound. Still the duke got pierced in his left shoulder.

'Shit, what the hell is this black wooden spike?' Thought the duke while trying to burn the black wooden spike.

However, the wooden spike still remains intact even after burning it for a while. Left with no choice he grabbed the wooden spike and pulled it from its shoulder. *GRRTT*

The mother treant didn't give him time to recover and kept attacking the duke using a combination of black spike and wooden tendrils.

The duke also not just sitting like a duck and moving away in a random pattern using [Fly].

Suddenly, he heard a femine voice beside the mother treant. then, from the wound in the duke's left shoulder grew a small black plantation.

The duke feels weak and decides to burn his entire shoulder while avoiding the attack from the mother treants.

But, even after he burned it. The plantation seems to keep growing and weakening him while he finally sees a female humanoid creature covered in black leaf keep singing and dancing around the mother treant.

'Shit.. it's Dryad.' Curse the duke inwardly.

During his worst moment, A loud warcry heard from behind the duke. "HIAAAA" As general Borkins flying towards the dryad using powerful [Leap].

Didn't expect sudden appearance of general borkins, the dwarf general hit the dryad using its mighty hammer [Thunderclap]. *Blaarrr*

The attack made a huge sound that reverberated towards the surrounding. The strong attack damaged part of the mother treant and instantly killed the dryad.

The moment the dryad died, the plantation in the duke shoulder stopped growing. After burning it for the last time, The duke said, "Borkins, get out of here. I will cast a huge spell."

Hearing this Borkins immediately uses another leap to get away from the area. Duke Jacob, began his chanting, "Roses are red. Blood fire eternity…"

The duke keeps his chanting while avoiding all the mother treant attack and keeps flickering his finger. Every flick of his finger, he creates more magic circles in front of him.

After a while the duke finish his chant, "...Come forth my soulfire" [5th Circle - Fire Dragon Rampage]

From the magic circle, appear a huge fire dragon engulfing and burning the corrupted mother treant. Unlike before, the fire dragon keep attacking the mother treant and seems like alive

*GRRTTT* After making a huge sound, the monster horde retreat back to black forest while the corrupted mother treant manages to escape after using its countless tendrils as sacrifice to fend off the fire dragon.

Looking at the mother treant retreat, the fire duke finally relieved and collapsed to the ground exhaustedly after having a harsh battle.

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Year 1206, fifth moon, in the second week, The Heart kingdom got attacked on its border from a fifth grade monster horde, Corrupted Mother Treant.

Not only the Heart kingdom but also few other kingdoms that have borders closer to the monster habitat got attacked by various different fifth grade monsters.

During this week, countless people die defending against the attack of fifth grade monsters. Unlike the Heart kingdom that was lucky to have duke Victory near the border during the attack, the other kingdoms need to defend by themself until their six grade commander arrives.

Sixth grade beings are very rare since evolving into sixth grade is not only challenging but could cost their life if it is failed. Because of this, there are only a few of them.

If the fifth grade's rarity is like having limited edition items, the rarity for sixth grade beings is like winning a lottery.

Because of this all the sixth grade people are very busy and rarely appear on the border unless serious situations arise like this.

However, even after the arriving of sixth grade, the battle didn't end just like that. Unlike the usual monster hordes that keep attacking without regarding their life, all the monster hordes seem to fall back the moment they are overwhelmed by the sixth grade commanders.

From the history of ancient times, there is only one time that monsters show such behaviour. It's the sign of the birth of a sixth grade monster also known as monster overlord.

The monster overlord has the ability to command many other monsters below its grade. Although their intelligence cannot compare to civilian race, they are still pretty smart.

In the past history, the moment a monster overlord is born, more than half of civilization's race habitat could get destroyed. Even few of the seven grade people fall under its might.

Although there is a difference between the seven grade people and sixth grade monsters, the latter has more tenacity and power of destruction in battle.

Now, all the kingdom is aware and prepared to fight against this sixth grade monster. But, before that they need to know what kind of sixth grade monster they fight.

Like all the other kinds of monster, not all sixth grade monsters are war or battle oriented. Since ancient times, there are many records about sixth grade monsters.

Few of sixth grade monsters that are still alive until this day but never leave their territory such as kraken that could only live in the deepest sea.

Avalon, a gigantic monster that only wakes up for a while before sleeping for a hundred years.

Sin Crow, a large crow monster that only lives a few hundred kilometers above the air. and many other territorial sixth grade monsters.

All these sixth grade monsters are always accompanied by dozens of fifth grade monsters. The civilization race hopes that this newborn sixth grade monster is also a territorial monster that will settle down after sometime.

However, they still need to prepare for the worst and maybe kill the sixth grade monster. Because of this, they start to gather around and discuss their next action in the Roundel, the capital city of Elven Race.

The Elven race is famous for their neutrality against all the civilization races. As civilization grows, there is always dispute between one race to another.

Elven races always stay neutral without taking any side and often become intermediate to the dispute. If it is not because of their lack of worldly desire, they may already become the leader of all other races.

Because of this, they become the best place to hold meetings for all the various races. Heart kingdom is one of the strongest kingdoms from the human race and also needs to participate in this meeting.

Although the meeting will begin in a week, the nobles inside the kingdom are on alert. As all of them want to contribute by participating in this important meeting.

But, the spot for the people participating in this meeting is limited. Now, they gather around to plot against each other to convince who will accompany the king during the meeting.

All of these happen in days after the attack from the Corrupted mother treant. While the other noble inside the kingdom is plotting one with the others, Duke victory stands on the wall of the Black Forest Fortress.

His left shoulder is in full bandage from his previous fight. Because of the nature of chaotic mana called miasma, his wound is still not healing yet despite getting treatment from the 4th grade healer.

Miasma wounds will be difficult to heal and often leaves a huge scar for the rest of their life. Especially being wounded by high level monsters such as Corrupted Mother Treant.

Looking at the calm black forest in the far away, The duke could only sighing, "Haaa"

"You are too young to keep signing like that, Brat" Said the dwarf beside him casually.

Although, the general dwarf seems to not be polite with his word, but the duke himself didn't mind it and only laughed at it.

"Hahaha.. Only you could say something like that to me, Borkins." Replied the duke in chuckle.

"Kakaka… If I say you are brat means you are still brat. Just leave the complicated things to me, you are still too green to overthink this stuff." Laughing the Dwarf General.

"Well, that's true considering your age is twice more than me. Still I can't help worrying what if there is another attack. Moreover, my left shoulder is still not healed yet. There is also a call in the capital…." Ramble the Duke.

"Puff… Hahaha… That's so like you, Jacob. You are too kind." Said the general while smoking his pipe.

"Am I too kind?" Doubted the duke.

But, the general didn't answer him while saying, "Don't worry about this side. Rather you should hurry to finish your job in the capital, then back to here.

"Borkins…" [Duke Jacob]

"Shushhh… Leave this to me. While I stand here, I will not let any single one of them pass this fortress." Replied the general in a serious tone.

Looking at the serious headrock general, the duke could only sigh helplessly, "Haa.. Alright, then. I will leave the fortress to you."

"Yeah.. Yeah.. Just go away. Besides, I never like those spoiled brat in the capital. I rather smash these monsters than argue with them." Continue the dwarf general.

"Well, That's so like you. Alright I am off." As the duke summoned his fire dragon before riding it.

"Tch… Show off!! I hope you will fall later." curse the dwarf.

"See ya, Borkins." As the duke flies away.

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While the world falls into chaos because of the birth of the monster overlord, Angus improves himself slowly inside the royal academy.

'Haa… it seems I could improve more after I grow further' as Angus stops his training inside his room.

Then, he read some letters he received from his home. Some of the letters are about the current situation of the world. Although Angus is still a child, he still will get this kind of news as the son of duke and noble of the kingdom.

'Hm.. as expected this world is really more dangerous than earth. Tch… it seems father will go to the capital too.Well, I hope he is okay.' As Angus packs his things.

After the class tournament, the student will get a week-long holiday. During this time, some students will go back to their home or keep staying in their dorm.

Since Angus home is quite far from the royal academy, he will not go back to his home. However, a high noble like Angus usually has a townhouse inside the capital city.

Angus prefers to stay in his dorm rather than his townhouse. But, his father may come and visit him. So, he didn't have any choice but to settle down in the capital townhouse for this holiday.

'I guess I will treat this as a holiday since my body is also in the phase of bottleneck because of my own body.' Thought Angus inwardly

In the Firuman world, because of mana, people's bodies are more resilient and often train their body early since the age of five.

However, it didn't mean that they could train like adults. It is because their body is still in the growth period. Not only is their body far weaker than adults but their body also has more limits even with the help of mana.

Mana capacity, muscle density, reaction speed, and many others will limit the growth of a child in strength. The only way is to wait until the body matures by itself.

Still training at an early pace has more advantages when training at an older age. Because it could uncover the body potential and make them stronger.

For trained children, their body will be full matured the moment they form their mana core naturally. For the untrained child, it will be at the age of 13 to 15. It is also the age when trained children usually form their mana core.

After packing his things into the space pouch, he goes towards the academy entrance to meet with his two brothers before going to the townhouse together.

Arriving at the academy entrance that packs with many carriage, "Angus, here." As Vergil calls him.

"Vergil, I am coming." While Angus approached him.

"You are quite early, Vergil. Hmm.. Where is brother Jason?" Asked Angus.

"Ahh.. don't worry about him. He already went first with another carriage. Don't mind him, you know how he is. Let's go now before the exit is too crowded."

"Alright, after you brother." As both of them enter inside the carriage.

Inside the carriage, "Angus, did you read the letter from home?" Asked Vergil

"Yeah, Is it about the birth of the monster overlord, right?" Replied Angus seriously.

"True, Because of this incident many nobles will come to the capital. If my guess is not wrong there will be few noble gatherings during the holiday."

"You may get an invitation. So, be careful during this gathering especially…." Then, Vergil shared his experience about the noble gathering.

Children of the noble often did some gathering to make connections in the early age. Although Angus is still too young, he may also be called and need to attend together with his brother. Especially if the one that organizes it from the royalty.

Soon, the two brothers arrive at the townhouse. Although it is called townhouse it is actually a mansion with a big garden. Still the townhouse is not bigger than Angus's home that could house more than a hundred people and staff at once.

But, the townhouse is still big for only three people to reside. Fortunately, there are dozens of staff that maintain the townhouse.

Entering the townhouse, both of them are welcomed by dozens of butlers and employees inside the townhouse.

Then, the two brothers go towards their own room after chatting a little bit. During this moment, *Zrung* a sound heard from the front garden.

Inside the front garden, lay a circular platform with many runes. Along with the sound appears a middle aged man with bandages around his left shoulder, Duke Victory.

Noticing the arrival of the duke, the two brothers go towards the front garden. "Father, you are here." as Vergil ran towards the duke cheerfully.

Happy meeting the duke after a long time, Vergil immediately hugged his father. After a while Vergil noticed his father wounded, "Father, y-you are hurt."

Although Vergil is still a child, he is quite smart and knows the true strength of his father. Especially since he often follows his father to do some hunting in the small forest near their home.

In his mind, his father could be said to be the strongest and invincible person he knows. Seeing his father wounded for the first time, became quite a shock for Vergil.

"It's okay Vergil, this is only a small wound." as the duke tries to reassure his son.

During this time, the duke also notices his youngest son approach them slowly. But, he was confused at his youngest son's expression. At this moment, Angus's expression is really dreadful.

Anger, Sadness, Worry, Fear all of them show in his face and eyes. After taking a deep breath, Angus backed his expression back to his lazy one.

"Don't worry brother, It's only a small wound. It probably will heal up in a few days. Right, Father?" Reassure his brother more.

"Really??" Asked Vergil in a worried tone.

"Y-Yes. Of course." Replied the duke calmly.

"Okay, then let's go inside. I want to hear your fighting story." As Vergil grabs his father's arm.

As they walked inside, Angus could only follow both of them at his own pace. Soon, they arrive at the dining hall where his older brother Jason also join them to have a snack.

The duke then narrates his story of his fight against the corrupted mother ent. He still didn't give a full story towards his sons. But, Angus managed to uncover and deduct the true story just from the short story his father told.

"Alright, since the story ends. Let's go back to our room. Besides, fathers also need to rest, right?" As Angus unexpectedly gets up and walks out the room.

Although it seems normal, the duke could feel an anger tone behind Angus remarks. Still before he could call Angus, the boy himself was already gone.

"Then, we will pardon yourself. We hope you get well soon, Father." As Vergil and Jason leave the duke to rest.

Leaving alone, the duke went towards his own room. The moment he enters the room and closes his door, "You got careless, Isn't it?!"

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"You got careless, Isn't it?!" said Angus from the corner of the room.

"A-Angus.. How did you…" Before the duke finished his sentence, Angus approach his father and instantly appear in front of him [Beast Walk].

Then, without hesitation Angus grip strongly at his wounded shoulder. The duke immediately felt tremendous pain from it but was still holding it.

Surprised by the sudden grip the duke could only mutter, "A-Angus…"

But, Angus interrupted his father again. "Look at you, the mighty fire dragon can't even react properly towards an eight years old kid attack. What if.. What if… you got attacked by others? What if you died this time? And all of this because of your carelessness!!"

Angus loosened his grip with watery eyes. At this moment, the duke notices that his sons truly care about him and know how serious his wound is.

The father could only hug his sons lovingly. "Angus… I am sorry. I made you worry. Yes, I became more arrogant lately and got careless during my fight."

Then, the boy looked at his father, "P-promise me you will never get careless again!"

"Angus…" [Duke Jacob]

"Promise me!!" [Angus]

"Haa.. Yes, I promise I will never get careless in battle again." '[Duke Jacob]

"Okay, Now let's fix those disgusting wounds in your shoulder." As Angus breaks his hug from his father.

"Angus.. you already kno.."

"Open your clothes and sit here" As Angus told his father to sit in the round chair.

"Angus.. I know you worry about me. But..."

"Sit!!" As Angus glared at his own father.

"Haa… Alright-Alright" As the father reluctantly followed his son's demand while undressing his upper clothes.

Then, Angus began looking at the wound carefully after removing the bandage slowly. The wound has already turned black colored and all the veins near it also begin to turn black. It's like the wound becoming like a parasite eating the duke's body slowly.

After looking for a while, "It's truly a disgusting wound" Said Angus after looking at the wound before closing his eyes.

"See… There's nothing you could do about..." The duke stops his sentence as he feels the fluctuation of mana in Angus's body.

Getting a deep breath, Angus opened his eyes and it changed its color to golden [Searing Eyes]. At this moment, Angus could see every single detail of the wound until it's cell.

The duke startled looking at his son's eye. He knows this is not ordinary enhanced eyes skill. He could feel that the eyes could see everything about him.

After a while, Angus's eyes turn to normal. "You got lucky that it's not at the vital part. Otherwise you are already long gone." Said Angus harshly.

"Now, don't move." As Angus took a bunch of silver thin needles from his space pouch.

"Angus, what's…" before the duke finished his sentence, Angus already used [Searing Eye] and stabbed the shoulder using the needle. *Arrghh*

"What the… That hurt!!" But, Angus only shove a clean fabric towards his father's mouth.

"Bite it. We don't want to make a commotion here, Aren't you?" Before Angus once again pierce the shoulder with another thin needle.

Usually, this thin needle will not give him any pain since his body is in the sixth grade. But, his wound seems to amplify the pain to unbelievable pain.

The duke's feels like every single nerve he has in his body is in pain. However, looking at the serious golden eyes, his son made. He held this pain and bit the cloth.

After dozens of needles punctured the wounded shoulder like a hedgehog, Angus took a sigh while having a sweat around his face.

He removed his father's cloth in his mouth, "I already contain all the miasma so it will not spread and eat in your body. Now, this is the harder part. I want you to..." Angus gives various instructions towards his pained father.

Soon, Angus finished treating his father. He collects all the black colored silver needles and destroys them using his flame spell. Then, he went outside the room while his father already fell asleep in his bed.

The next morning, the duke woke up energetically. He feels his body is full of vigor. Then, he looks at his shoulder where a huge scar is located.

Jacob didn't feel any discomfort or pain that he felt before. Moreover, he feels that his mana is more purer than before.

'All of this is because of one treatment from Angus. Haa.. That boy is really a mystery.' Thought the duke inwardly before taking a bath.

Later the duke went to the dining hall for breakfast and already found his sons waiting for him.

"Morning, father. Are you feeling well, now? you even skip yesterday's dinner." Asked Vergil worriedly.

"Yes, Vergil. In fact, I feel stronger than before." As duke Jacob flexes his arm.

"Really? I am glad that you are okay." [Vergil]

"Alright, let's start eating. I bet my father is also hungry since not eating anything from yesterday afternoon." Urges Angus with his lazy expression.

After a few more pleasantries, they begin to eat their breakfast. During their meal, they also talk about various things about the current capital situation.

Apparently, there will be a noble gathering which will be held by the crown prince like they expected. Since it is unusual for many nobles to gather around at once.

This is a good opportunity for nobles to interact one with another. By interacting it means flaunting their glory or sometimes successor to others.

Every noble that resides in the capital is invited. That includes Angus and others kids with noble backgrounds.

This will be Angus's first time to attend an official gathering like this. Although Angus didn't like this kind of gathering, he didn't have any choice since he was born as noble and needed to follow some etiquette and norm from the noble society.

'Haa.. I guess when you are in Rome you need to do like the romans. What another troublesome event.' Thought Angus inwardly.

After breakfast, the duke Jacob immediately goes away to do his job as a duke in the capital. While the three brothers are doing their own things.

As for Angus himself, he excused himself to his bedroom before lazily sleeping like a log since he can't do any training or doing anything he likes without notifying the others.

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Few days after Angus medicated his father, he wore a troublesome noble attire and on the way towards the nobles gathering with Vergil.

As for his older brother Jason, he already went first since he didn't want to interact with Angus. Angus himself didn't mind this kind of behaviour and prefer it this way since he could avoid many troublesome incidents.

Opposite of Jason, Vergil truly cares about his younger brother that sometimes quite annoys Angus himself even now.

"Angus, this will be your first time to participate in the official gathering like this. You need to… " As Vergil kept lecturing Angus.

While Angus himself only listens to it with a lazy response like, "Ehem.. Yeah.. That's right."

For Angus this kind of gathering is just a waste of time. From someone that experiences living in a fast paced modern world like earth, this kind of gathering is a waste of a lot of time.

Especially knowing that there is already hidden danger from the monster horde and the recent birth of monster overlord. Rather than flaunting one glory to others, it will be better to use the time for training or doing something more productive.

In Angus's case he prefers to just sleep around than attend this gathering. If not because his brother's nagging, he will already excuse himself by faking sickness or something.

Later, they arrive at the royal palace where the noble's gathering will be held. The royal palace itself is very huge and grand.

Looking from inside the carriage, 'Why are the doors so uselessly huge? Are those doors being used by giants or something? Well, none of that is my problem anyway.' Thought Angus inwardly while looking at the huge main entrance door.

Soon, The two brothers queue to be checked up before entering the royal palace. After the long queue that seems like forever, they managed to enter without hassle.

During the queue some people already notice the two brothers, especially Vergil. Although he is still in teenage age, he is quite famous in the noble's circle for being the son of Duke Victory.

Vergil is quite a smart kid that tends to kind with the others. Moreover, he is also quite prodigy in combat as a magician and fighter.

Then, we enter a grand hall that is not only vast but also ridiculously big.

Looking at the interior of the hall, 'This reminds me of some churches on Earth. But, this is way too big for the human.' Thought Agnus inwardly

Entering the hall, some kids approach Vergil, Agnus decides to excuse himself by taking some food and drink nearby.

The gathering is divided into two sections. One is for adults and the other is for kids and teenagers to interact.

Unlike Vergil, noble children in this world could be quite annoying and spoiled. Especially, the one that knows your weakness. They could bully you like some kind of mindless animal that will try to always bully or hound you using everything he got.

The only reason nobody touches Angus until now is because Angus is the son of Duke Victory. But, that didn't mean they could not do anything to Angus.

Using his enhanced perception, Angus knows that many people already talk behind his back. Some even bold enough to not cover their voice when talking about him in this gathering.

Rather than pay attention to these brats, he decided to just hide presence until the gathering was done. Unfortunately, he could not leave early as he needed to greet the crown prince as it is part of noble etiquette.

As the host of the gathering, it is also normal for him to be the one that last arrived. So, Angus had plenty of time before he could go back home.

'Guess I will hide presence first. This way some people may not notice me.' As Angus slowly blends with the crowd while thinning his presence.

In his past life, where fighting, killing, and destroying is prohibited by law, it is quite hard for martial experts to continue. So, they adapted to the new line of work. '

The majority of them become a high paid bodyguard. But, the most productive job is to become an assassin. Martial artists didn't need any kind of weapon to kill someone and could get away safely using their skill.

Because of this, Angus also learned many skills to hide his presence like an assassin especially in this kind of crowd. Although, high level people still could detect him but his skill is enough to trick the kids that may annoy him.

Although Angus could ignore them, As the ex-strongest person on Earth, he never could ignore when his pride is being humiliated.

Especially if his pride is truly humiliated in front of a lot of people. For angus, a man without pride and mind is the same as a mindless beast.

Since childhood of his past life he has been lectured by his previous master, 'the way of martial artist fight is almost the same like a beast. Because of this, never lose the pride you have as a human.'

A perfectly sane mind will never try to kill and fight among each other. They will negotiate with each other rather than talk using their fists. So, The only one that distinguishes martial artists and beast itself is the pride of being human.

Taking this pride from the martial artist means he is no longer being a human but a beast. Although, there are many loopholes and illogical thinking in this principal but Angus also agrees to this way of thinking.

It's not because he completely agrees with this teaching. But, because whenever he fights, his demeanor changes into a wild beast.

The only way to restraint this act is by having a clear sense of pride of being human. That's one of the reasons why martial artists on earth are famous for being arrogant.

Of course, he has some tolerance and will not always fight anyone that humiliated his pride but he still has limits. Remembering all of this, he couldn't help letting out a crazy smile.

'Haa.. Did I just imagine butchering all these people using my skills? Guess this place really could wake up my inner beast.' Thought Angus silently

Ever since he returned to practice and his martial art, his lust for battle has increased. Although, it is not to the point to cloud his judgement but it is still quite annoying as it is also part of him.

Then, he decided to get some fresh air to calm his mind and go towards an empty garden. Inside the garden, "Fiuhh… This is why I always like garden. It really calms my mind."

At this moment, he somehow could feel a weak presence in the garden, "Who's there? y-you are Angus. Why are you here?"

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"Why are you here?" Said the petite girl in front of him.

"Princess Jayna?! it's nothing. I just want to take some fresh air." Replied Angus.

"Really? How come you could enter this garden? If I am not wrong this is a prohibited area from the guest." Asked the 4th Princess.

"Huh?! I just walk here. Anyway, since I am bothering you then I will leave you. See ya." Replied Angus in a lazy tone.

"Wait… y-you are not bothering me. You can stay here." Replied Jayna hurriedly.

"Nah.. I will just go back to the party." Replied Angus casually.

"Y-You… Is it because I am weak right? Now, I am weak that you can ignore me like the others. All of this because of.. Because of my wound." As the princess tearing up.

Hearing this, Angus stops his track and looks at the crying princess. "You know what? You are really a troublesome girl."

"Y-You... " Before the princess could finish her sentence.

"Didn't I always ignore you? Why should I pay attention to troublesome girls like you suddenly? It's better if I just sleep around." As Angus shows his yawn.

Looking at this, the princess begins to remember Angus's laid back attitude that keeps ignoring her until now.

"L-Liar… you just pretend like others." [Princess Jayna]

"Why should I lie? Lying is a very burdensome task especially towards a troublesome girl like you. Besides I don't care if you are strong or weak, it has nothing to do with me."

Hearing this, "Is it true? Ever since I got hurt, everyone just..." [Angus]

Before Jayna completes her sentence, "Bla.. Bla.. Bla… keep the bedtime story to another person. I am not a shoulder you could cry on a troublesome girl."

"Y-You.. Insolent!! I am also not a troublesome girl." Grumbling the princess.

After that both of them stay silent awkwardly. Before the princess remembers her experience during the last confrontation with Angus.

Although at that time, she could not control her body, she was still conscious a little bit about the surroundings.

"Hey.. Angus, you don't happen to be… " However she stopped her sentence after seeing Angus sleeping while standing.

Looking at this, she once again has a high blood pressure and wants to kill the boy in front of her.

Before that happened, Angus woke up, "Ahh.. Sorry the ambience is so nice that I just feel asleep right away. Did you happen to say something?"

"Grr.. You really…" Once again before she could finish her sentence, Angus suddenly approached her without stopping.

"What.. What do you want?" As the princess was startled by Angus's sudden approach.

"As expected you really are a troublesome girl." Said Angus in front of her face.

"I am not…" [Jayna]

"Close your eyes!!" Interrupt Angus with a stern tone.

"What.." [Jayna]

"I said close your eyes. Quick.. I need to go back to the hall." Said Angus.

At first she is hesitant but knowing that Angus is more than he looks from her last encounter. She closed her eyes while grumbling, " I'll kill you if you do anything weird to me."

"Take a deep breath… then exhale. Deep breath.. Exhale.." Angus keeps saying that while Jayna follows his instruction.

After a while the princess started to get annoyed, "Imagine a place where you can relax, comfortable but still could focus." Instruct Angus.

"Then, try to focus on your mind and clear your mind. The thought that makes you uncomfortable. Clear all of them."

Few moments later, " Now, open your eyes." Instruct Angus.

As the princess opened her eyes, she could calmly see and feel relaxed. Especially when he looks at Angus. She feels safe, calm, and relaxed.

Ever since kid, she has always had a moody personality and always finds a lot of things annoying. However, this is the first time she could appreciate the surroundings and calm her mind.

"Alright then, I'll be back to the hall." As Angus walks towards inside, waking up the princess from her trance.

Before she could react, Angus himself had already gone from her.

"Angus, What a strange person?" As she went back to appreciate her surroundings.

Back at the hall, Vergil immediately found Angus leisurely eating some food.

"There you are, the crown prince already arrived. We need to greet him now." as Vergil drags his brother around to greet the crown prince.

The crown prince is a young man in blonde hair that always goes around with a happy smile. Soon, Jason also joins us and we greet the crown together.

"Ahh.. The Victory brothers. I hear about your news. You must be Jason… " As the crown prince praised Jason more.

Jacob and Vergil are happy that their family is respected and their achievement mentioned. While the crown prince uses his glib tongue to praise both of three of us. I just stand silently and hope that this event ends soon.

'This crown prince really has a good glib tongue. Well, none of that is my concern anyway.' Thought Angus while keeping a facade of smiling to not be rude in front of the crown prince.

Soon, they managed to get away and Angus finally could excuse himself to go back home. As a good brother, Vergil also follows her younger brother to go home early.

Meanwhile, at the other gathering where the adult noble gather, an important meeting is being held.

In the head of the meeting table, sat a bearded man with a robust physic and dangerous aura around him with a crown on his head, The King of Heart Kingdom, King Leon Heart.

The meeting is already going for an hour, however they still have not concluded who will accompany the king during the meeting at the Roundel city.

All the big players like the four dukes are still silent until now since all of them have a job to stay in the kingdom while the king is absent.

'This meeting is really pointless.' Thought Duke Victory.

During this time, Duke Victory cannot help but remember the secret meeting between him and the king himself.

"Jacob, how is your wound?" [King Leon]

"Don't worry, you majesty. it is fully healed already." [Duke Jacob]

"Really, I heard that wounds from high level monsters are difficult to heal." As the king releases his mana aura towards Jacob.

"Don't worry about it. It is already healed completely." As Jacob counters it with his own aura.

Few tense moments later, both of them are laughing together. "Hahahaha…"

"Jacob, how many times have I said don't use such a title when we are alone." [King Leon]

"Well, I can't help it since it is you who has the crown, isn't it?" Replied Duke Jacob playfully.

"Haa… You never change Jacob. Anyway, Jacob joined me during the meeting at the Roundel." [King Leon]

"I-Is it an order?." [Duke Jacob]

"No, I asked this as a friend. Rather than surrounded by those snakes, I prefer you by my side." said King Leon earnestly.

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Few hours have passed since the noble's meeting began. After a while of heated discussion, the king that had been silent since the start of the meeting finally stood up.

"Alright, it seems it's getting late. Let's end this meeting." Said the King Leon.

After that one of the nobility asked politely, "Pardon me, My liege. You still have not chosen your companion to go towards Roundel."

"Did I? Then, I will choose Duke Victory and Marquish Leroy to accompany me to go towards Roundel." replied casually.

Both the duke and marquish immediately respond, "As you wish, My liege."

"Alright, since it's decided let's end this meeting. Good night everyone." Said King Leon casually while leaving the room.

'Then, for what we get heat discussion all this time.' As this thought appeared in everyone's mind except the dukes.

Still the nobles could only swallow this silently before leaving the room dejectedly at their king's antics.

The Hearth king has very eccentric behaviour. Sometimes he likes to be playful like this but a moment later he could execute a random noble just because they speak a little bit too loud.

However, everyone respects him, even the corrupt noble will say that he is worthy as king. All of this because he is a legendary figure of a 7th grade king that is more rare than finding a legendary unicorn.

Especially his deed where he obliterated a small kingdom by himself in one day. Because of this, the heart kingdom rose to become the strongest kingdom among the human race.

7th grade is the pinnacle power in this world and among the 7th grade being King Leon himself is among the strong one.

As for the other noble that want to plot against him is basically non-existent. In front of absolute power, no matter how many tricks the others have, it is useless.

Therefore there is almost no turmoil or rebelion inside the kingdom that has 7th grade as leader. The strength of these powerful beings is akin like a god that is walking among mortals.

The only reason why King Leon carefully picked the trustful aide during this trip is because the only one that could kill and beat a 7th grade being is the other 7th grade being.

So, although this gathering is happening in the most strongest and peaceful city. It is also at the same time the most dangerous place gathering for him.

After the end of the meeting, Duke Victory also went back to his manor. He needed to prepare for many things before leaving with the king to Roundel city.

Arriving at his manor, he immediately went towards the underground room while asking the staff to call Angus.

The underground room is a huge room that is enchanted with various strong enchantments. It could be said the room is one of the safest places beside the grand palace in the capital city.

Entering the room, the duke began to think again about Angus's behaviour. No matter how much he thought about his son, he always felt that his son was an enigma.

Even after his strength increased to 6th grade, he still cannot see the truth about his son. With the situation where he will go to dangerous meetings at the roundel city, he becomes more restless.

While thinking this, Angus arrived at the room, "Ehh.. I don't know we have this stupidly huge room under the manor." As Angus rudely commented to show his disasstification being called this late.

After Angus medicates his father, he becomes more casual to his father than before. Moreover, Angus hated the noble stature and thought of it as nothing but troublesome etiquette.

Living a few years as a high noble, Angus understands that noble ethics is nothing but a false facade. This teaching is contradictory with his principle as a martial artist where he needs to become true to himself.

Hearing Angus rude comment, "Haa.. forget it, Angus do you know why called you here?" asked the Duke.

'How would I know? you are the one that is calling me here for god sake!! That's it I am leaving!' Grumble Angus as he thought a way to silently go away from this room.

Suddenly, the duke commanded, "Shadow Guard, protect this room and don't let anyone bother us until further notice."

The duke's shadow immediately moved and closed the entrance door. Looking at this, Angus could only sigh silently.

"Now, there are only two of us. Angus, how did you know about how to treat my wound?" asked the duke seriously.

"I read it in the book." Angus lies blatantly.

Hearing about Angus lie, 'Damn brat, If it is that easy then there is no way the casualty from high level monster is still high.' Curse Angus inwardly.

"Haa… Forget it. Angus, the king asked me to accompany him to Roundel city." [Jacob]

"Okay… So?" replied Angus expressionlessly.

"Actually, I don't know until when I will be going. It could be only a few weeks or a long time. But, before leaving I want to know more about my own son." as the duke said seriously.

"O-Okay.. then what…" Before he finishes his sentence he feels a blunt force hit him. *Bam*

Angus immediately flew towards the wall.

"That's why I decided we have a little sparring. The rules are simple, all you need to do is land one hit to me. Until then we will continue our little spar. So, what do you say Angus?" As the duke instacast five [Firebolt] towards Angus at fast speed. *Bam* *Bam* *Bam*

[Beast Walk] Angus instantly avoided the firebolt. "Damn old man, Did you want to kill your own son?!"

"Hooo… But, you're still alive, aren't it?" as duke Jacob keeps summoning more and more [Firebolt] towards Angus. *Bam* *Bam* *Bam*

Angus didn't have any choice but keep dodging the incoming [Firebolt]. Still the incoming attack becomes harder to avoid as it comes endlessly.

"Come on Angus, we can do this all day unless you land a hit on me." Said the duke

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"Come on Angus, we can do this all day unless you land a hit on me." Said the duke

"Shut up, old man. This is a child abuse." replied Angus while becoming desperate as more [Firebolt] kept coming at him.

"Really??! but you still won't hurt so let's increase the pace." as the duke summoned dozens of [Firebolt] at once.

"Shiitt!!" Angus looked at the incoming [Firebolt] that did not leave him any room to dodge. *BOMM*

"Hmm.. Did I hit too hard?" asked the duke.

"Damn it, old man!! that hurt." As Angus covers his body with mana.

"Ohh.. you are still alive. Let's con…" Suddenly, Angus arrived in front of the duke and attacked him at fast speed.

However, the duke could dodge all the attacks easily while occasionally countering with greater speed.

Soon, both of them already exchange hundreds of blows without any of them getting hit. Because of Angus's high perception and body control he could easily dodge his father's moves.

As for the duke Jacob himself, although he is limiting his own strength but as a grade 6 person his perception and body strength is already many times higher than Angus. He could see all the Angus move like a slow film.

However, during this time the duke noticed that Angus somehow managed to become better at his attack.

It seems that all his attacks always follow where Jacob will dodge. Still because of the different strength, Jacob just moves faster to avoid his attack.

'This is.. he is predicting my movement. No, he is learning my pattern. What a monstrous kid!!' as Jacob becomes harder to counterattack.

"You are still too early to challenge me in hand to hand combat, brat!!" As suddenly Jacob punched Angus stomach before he could dodge or react.

Angus flew backwards like a ragdoll and hit the wall hard. Even the enchanted walls receive a crack before they start to repair themself.

"Damn, I guess it's hard to control my strength at this level. Well, he will pass out for…" Jacob stops his sentence as he feels a dangerous aura from Angus direction.

At this moment Angus got notification, "Warning!! Foreign Energy detected inside the host"

"Warning!! Foreign Energy detected inside the host"

Suddenly, Angus feels a similar sensation from his inside. "T-this is… Damn it!! Don't die, Father." Before Angus fell into consciousness.

"Huh??!" as Jacob didn't understand any of this.

But, suddenly Angus released a beastly roar "RRRAAAAAARRGGGG…"

Before releasing a huge amount of concentrated mana towards the surrounding. Then, Angus disappeared and appeared in front of Jacob to punch at him using ten times speed than before.

However, using his reflex Jacob flick his finger and created [3rd Circle - Fire Shield] around him. Looking at his attack being blocked, Angus began to attack the [Fire shield] madly from various directions. *Bam* *Bam* *Bam*

Looking at this, "This is [Possession]. No, it's different. It feels like a burst of mana inside him but there is no trace of soul on it." As Jacob analyzes his son's situation.

At this moment, the attack becomes stronger and a crack starts to appear at the Jacob [Fire Shield].

"Tch… What an absurd strength. [2nd Circle - Bind]" as Jacob cast a mana chain to catch Angus.

However, Angus is too fast and easily dodges all the chain while trying to hit Jacob. After casting [Bind] several times Jacob notices Angus's power become greater but also becomes more reckless.

"This mana feeling is much more violent almost like those miasma but also different. But, the amount is really ridiculous. Better stop him first before it damages his body more." Jacob notice that Angus didn't care about his wound in his fist during attacking his [Fire Shield]

"You leave no choice, brat! [3rd Circle - Fire Wyrm]" Soon, a gigantic fire creature appears in front of Jacob and starts chasing Angus. Still Angus's speed is faster than the [Fire Wyrm] itself.

However, using this moment Jacob gathered a huge mana and cast another spell [4th Circle - Vulcan Shots]. Jacob raises his hand and creates a huge fireball on it. Then, the ball suddenly scatters into a tiny fireball before following Angus along with [Fire Wyrm].

Left with no area to dodge, Angus could only defend using his incredible mana. Using this chance, [Fire Wyrm] immediately wrapped around him.

Looking that Angus stopped, Jacob instacast spells to bind Angus. [Bind] [Entangle] [Mana Prison]. Angus immediately gets binded from this variety of spell.

However, Angus is still growling like a mad beast and trying to destroy the binding one by one. Before it could be released from its binding, Jacob arrived in front of him and touched Angus's head [3rd Circle - Deep Sleep].

Being hit by this spell, Angus immediately falls asleep like a log leaving only destruction in the room.

Looking at Angus falling into deep sleep and his mana starting to calm down, Jacob finally felt relieved.

"Haa… what a troublesome child. I thought only Leon needed to deal with this, now I also got this." As the duke brings Angus out of the training room.

The next morning, the duke family had breakfast together normally without the presence of Angus.

"Angus got a backlash when he tried to cast a spell?!" Asked Vergil to his father.

"Yeah, However. It's nothing to worry about. He will be okay in a week. I already check that there is nothing dangerous. Still you should let him rest and I will call a doctor to check him up." Reassure the Duke.

"Hmph… serve him right to try to show off when he is weak." said Jason coldly.

"Brother!!" Shout Vergil

"What?? it's his fault that he is lazy and weak." Counter Jason.

"Alright, That's enough!!" Reprimand the duke while leaking a little bit of his mana.

"Sorry, Father." said Jason and Vergil before both of them sit back.

"*Sigh* Anyway, I will go out for days or weeks. I suggest you mind your behaviour." as the duke finishes his breakfast and stands up.

Before he left his two sons, "Oh yeah one more thing. Don't let Angus fight anyone until I come back."

"Huh?! Why??"

"I said don't let Angus fight anyone. Did I make myself clear?!" As the duke speaks in a more stern tone.

"Y-Yes, Father." Both Vergil and Jason immediately replied.

Then, the duke leaves the dining room and goes towards Angus's room to check his condition.

During the way, 'Huft.. Luckily no one saw yesterday's event and the strain in Angus's body is minimal. Still what is that kind of mana.' Thought the duke Jacob before arriving at Angus's room.

Entering the room, the duke only saw his son sleep peacefully on the bed. Looking at his mysterious son, he felt a complicated feeling.

Before finally walking away to leave the room. But, he suddenly stopped. "Angus, you're already awake. aren't you?"

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