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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"Angus, you're already awake. aren't you?" Asked Jacob.

Not getting any response from his sleeping son. Jacob creates a [Firebolt] on his finger before trying to launch it at his son.

However, at this moment Angus shouted, "Don't shoot.. Don't Shoot!! I'm already awake, okay. How the hell do you know that I am faking it?"

Looking at the awakened son, Jacob disperses his [Firebolt]. "Nah, I don't know I just have a feeling that you are already awake." Replied the duke carelessly.

"@$%%$#@ Tch.. forget it. So, I didn't kill anyone, right?" Asked Angus in a serious tone while still lying on the bed.

Before the duke replied, he told his shadow guard to guard the door. "It's okay no one dies, judging from your tone, you already know about that 'berserk' state."

"Well, you could say that I know some part of it." As Angus tries to think hard how to explain this situation to his father.

"What do you mean by that?" Inquire Jacob more.

"Ahh… It's just that... I feel there is... something in me." Angus tries hard to avoid giving his true answer.

"Hmph... " The duke looked at his son seriously.

After a few moments of silence, "Since when do you feel this strange thing?" Asked the duke more.

'Did he truly believe it. Well, technically I am not lying.' Thought Angus inwardly.

"I don't know. I'm just aware that there is something in me and I can't control it." as Angus answered vaguely.

Hearing this the duke immediately replied, "I see, I guess this is also one of the reasons why you never try hard, right? Are you afraid to hurt those around you?"

'How come he concluded something like that? Well, it's better this way.' Thought Angus silently while nodding his head to his father's conclusion.

"Alright, I get the gist of the problem. But, still that didn't answer about your knowledge to medicate my wound. So, care to explain to me, my dear son?!" As Jacob asked seriously.

"Err… Well, I read in a bo..." [Angus]

"Angus!!" Shout Jacob as he releases his aura to his son.

"B-but that's true I read the method in a book (in my past life) and developed it further." Anwer Angus hurriedly.

Sensing that his son is not lying, "So, you are truly developing this technique alone?"

"Y-Yeah (in my past life)." replied Angus.

"T-that's… great!! No, it's wonderful." Jacob is happy that his son is such a genius.

'Since Angus was always smarter than his peers he may truly have found this technique.' thought Jacob inwardly

Before he finally realized something, "Wait, that means I am your first patient?"

"Y-yeah… (in this world) well, is that something wrong??" Replied Angus.

'This kid!! He makes his father as his genuine pig' Thought Jacob inwardly.

Alright, don't tell anyone about this before my return, Okay?" As Jacob pat Angus's shoulder.

"Urrgh…" Angus's grimaced in pain from his father touch.

Noticing this, "How is your body?"

"Ahh… it's nothing major. I just got muscle pain all over my body. Probably need more a week before it goes back to normal." replied Angus.

"Good, just don't overtax yourself. Wait, you are not using this as an excuse to laze around, right? Asked Jacob in a stern tone.

"O-Of course not, father. I truly can't move my body now." Angus replied hurriedly

"Alright, then I will be leaving. Also don't create something unnecessary problem before I come back." As Jacob goes out from the room.

After Jacob leaves, Angus feels a huge relief.

'Haaa… luckily my father misinterpreted my vague answer. Well, none of it matters. Now, I need to check my body first.' Thought Angus as he scanned his own body.

Suddenly, Angus found a massive hidden energy located at his abdomen. The energy is similar to his previous inheritance massive chi.

It is very big but also hidden well so no one beside him could sense this massive energy. Unless some people try to examine his body in depth will know about it.

The energy is like a thick gas of misty ball, the deeper he tries to inquire the thicker the mist and make him unable to see through it. After looking at this familiar misty ball, he knows immediately what this is.

'This is the heritage chi that I got from my master in my previous life. How come I get it suddenly? Moreover, didn't I use this chi to self destruct myself in the past?' Thought Angus.

After trying to think for a few minutes, Angus gives up to find the answer. It is not because he didn't want the answer but because he himself never truly knew this misty ball chi.

Even after doing countless research for years in his past life, Angus never truly uncovered his heritage, true power, origin, or its capabilities.

One thing that he knows from his predecessor is to use this chip like a sort of external chi battery. It could give inexhaustible chi towards the user.

However, it needs to be refined first before could be used otherwise it will consume the mind of the user like in his previous berserk state when Angus fought his father.

Some people with weak constitutions could even burst into piles of meat immediately because they cannot endure the power of it.

'Huff… I guess I got lucky to survive despite using this chi.' Thought Angus inwardly

Other than this its usage as external chi power, he never managed to uncover this misty ball chi its other usage.

After that Angus put his mind aside and began to look at his system. It's because his system also somehow recognizes this energy. He hopes he finds his clue about this in his system.

'Let's see my status first.' Thought Angus as he summoned his status panel.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 8 Years Old

MP: 91/91

Foreign Energy: ???

Strength: 12

Dexterity: 12

Intelligence: 15

Vitality: 19

Soul Point: 108

'Ehh… The system really is not helping at all. Well, at least my body broke through some bottle neck. Let's think about this later. Now, I just want to go back to sleep.' Thought Angus before closing his eyes.

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While Angus lay in his bed peacefully without care of the world, Duke Victory back to the Grand Palace. There are still a few days before the meeting at the Roundel city.

However, the whereabouts of 7th grade beings are very sensitive. Because of this reason, the Heart king himself likes to leave without giving a prior notice to the others.

Whether it is because of his antics to see the others panic of his sudden disappearance or to cover his track, Duke Victory feels the need to be on standby beside the king himself in case he decides to go right away.

Knowing the behaviour of his friend, the duke himself felt the need to arrive at the Grand Palace early in the morning.

Arriving at the Grand Palace, one of the shadow guards suddenly appears in front of him and gives him a letter before disappearing into the shadow.

Noticing that the letter has the royal seal from the king himself, he immediately opens it after breaking the seal using his own mana.

Inside the letter there is only a single short sentence, "We depart now."

After reading the letter, the letter burns itself into ash. Then, Jacob continued his walk to the certain room inside the palace.

The room is heavily guarded be it from the royal guard or shadow guard that is hiding inside the shadow. The room itself is enchanted with dozens of enchantments with a circular platform as the center. This circular platform is known as a teleportation device.

Arriving at the room, he notices there are already few men in white clothes preparing the teleportation device platform.

The distance between Heart Kingdom and Roundel city is very far. Even for a monstrous powerhouse such as 7th grade people, it will take a few weeks to arrive there.

Unless they have someone that is proficient at space magic which is rarer than 7th grade people, they could only use this method for fast transportation.

Therefore to anticipate such a hassle in times of emergency like this, Roundel city is connected through this teleportation device to every important city, kingdom, tribe and many more important places all over Firuman.

Using this teleportation device, the civilization society could gather at the roundel city at the moment of notice or even help one of the others in times of emergency.

Still teleportation magic is very complex. It needs to be supervised and configured by many experts before it could be used.

Especially the one that will use it is 7th grade being like the king himself. The higher grade the person being teleported the more unstable for the device to safely work.

It is not wrong to say that this teleportation device has the same complex procedure as an international flying jet on earth.

Compared to the teleportation device that the duke has in his home is like a child's toy. Looking that the king himself still has not arrived, The duke only stands in the corner while looking at the expert to do their job.

He needs to make the expert to not send them into oblivion or unknown places. There are already many cases of the misuse or sabotage from the expert using the teleportation device to send people into oblivion or unknown places previously.

Because of this reason, no one in this world is underestimating a researcher, scholar or other similar occupation job. Some kingdoms even regard these kinds of jobs like a glorious job with high status.

Although the duke himself does not know the specific detail, as a magician combatant he still knows few things about the teleportation device.

After a moment, the king himself arrived at the room. Noticing that the Duke was already waiting in the teleportation room, "Hahaha, I thought I would be waiting for a while but it seems you already guessed my mind to depart early, my friend." [King Leon]

"Morning, my liege. I need to be always ready to escort you to the Roundel city." replied the duke respectfully.

"Relax Duke Victory, we still have some time before the device is ready." said King Leon.

"Pardon me, my liege. But, how about marquis Leroy?" asked the duke.

"Oh, him. Well, if he still didn't come after the device is ready, then we will leave him behind." stated the king himself.

After that they king and duke continue their chat into various kinds of subjects while they supervise the expert to work.

Both of them didn't pressure the expert as they know how complex it is to use a teleportation device for a long distance like going to Roundel city especially with both of them using it.

As for the experts themselves, they were already used to this and not feeling any pressure for being looked at by the king and duke themselves.

They keep checking and configure the device professionally according to the procedure that they have done countless times.

Few moments later, One of the team experts notified the king himself that the device was ready to use.

"Well, then let's get going. I guess it's unfortunate but we need to…" before the king finishes his sentence, the door abruptly opens.

A man in ragged breath came in, "Huff.. Huff.. P-Pardon me my liege for my lateness." Said the man with noble clothes.

Looking at the ragged marquis in front of him, the king could only smile playfully.

"Alright, let's not waste anymore time." As the king steps on the circular platform followed by both duke and the miserable marquis.

Soon, the device rune starts to glow brightly before the three people disappear from the room. *ZING* *BZZTTZ*

The three people arrive at the similar platform but with different scenery. The scenery is very peaceful with thick mist of mana in the air. They could look at many huge trees around them.

If not because of some expert in the nearby area, they thought they arrived in the middle of the forest. They notice that all the expert is elven race with slim figure and pointed ear as their signature

Soon, the three people step outside of the platform while the marquis in white pale and try not to puke from disorientation. The disoriented feeling from the teleportation device is many times bigger if used for a long distance.

Then, a group of elf approached them. "King Leon of Heart Kingdom, Welcome to Roundel City. My name is Sylva Windspear, your guide during your stay at the Roundel."

"Please drink these to alleviate the effect from the teleportation device." said the leader of the group while his men brought a few glasses of blue liquid drink on the tray.

"Oh.. Then, I will pardon myself." as King Leon takes one of the blue drinks.

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"Oh.. Then, I will pardon myself." as King Leon takes one of the blue drinks.

Following his king's decision, the two followers also pick the drinks by themselves. The moment, they drink the blue colored liquid, they immediately feel energized and have a more clear mind.

All the disoriented and uncomfortable feeling is gone. The marquis himself couldn't even hold his manner and empty the glass right away.

"Weeww… What a refreshing drink you got here." remark the king while ignoring his subordinate behaviour.

"It's a pleasure that it's come to your liking, King Leon. Do you need to rest here for a while, go towards your lodging, or perhaps visit the Roundel city around?" said the elf leader

"Well, we still have a few days before the meeting. Let's look around first." replied the king.

Before they get away from the place, suddenly the teleportation device releases a humming sound. *ZING* *BZZTZZ*

From the teleportation device there are people with different features. The one on the right has a thin size man and black color skin with animal features but has a pale expression and slump on the ground.

While the one on the left is a female with many red spots on her body. She looks at the scenery with great interest.

The one in the middle is a huge man with mane fur around his neck and features similar to a lion. His huge build even dwarfs the others like a child to adult. He is the warchief of Beastkin tribe, Chief Might Napollo.

Looking at the arrival of the new group, "Hoo… What a coincidence we meet here, Leon?" as the warchief walks away from the teleportation device.

He approaches slowly towards the King Leon group while his female subordinate helps his friend to walk away from the platform.

Looking at the approaching group, "Long time no see, Napollo."

As both of them release their aura and make the situation become more tense. During this time, one of the Napollo subordinate suddenly release a puke sound as he couldn't hold it anymore. *BLEURGHH* *BLLERRURGH*

"Well, it seems you need to tend your followers first, Napollo." said King Leon.

"Tch.. what a weakling." as the warchief rebuked his own follower.

Then, he continued. "Just like you… Leon." while giving a provocative smile.

"Hoo… Really??" replied King Leon as he released his mana a little bit.

The Warchief also releases his mana and makes a little crack on the surrounding ground. During this time, the Marquis Leroy feels a little bit suffocated while the Duke Victory ready his hand to battle.

After a few moments of staring between two 7th grade beings, both of them disappear and clash each other using their fist.

However, at this moment an elf figure arrives in the middle of them and holds both of their hands easily while releasing a shockwave towards nearby. *CLASH* *BOOM*

The shockwave is so great that disperse all the mist in the air and also make all the small creatures run away.

"Gentlemen please, you are right now in the Roundel city. Mind your behaviour, please." said Sylva calmly.

"Hoo.. as expected from the Roundel city to even hold the 7th grade people easily." remarked the warchief.

"Nah, If both of you didn't hold back your power in the last second, I probably would have broken my arms." replied Sylva while loosening both of the leaders hand.

"Well, then we will go first." as the king Leon walked away not wanting to interact with the warchief any further. He is immediately followed by the duke and marquis while Sylva guides them.

Feeling ignored by king Leon, he wants to stop them but suddenly another elf arrives in front of him. "Warchief Napollo welcome to Roundel City, sorry for my lateness. My name is Bisda Greenfield. I will be your guide during your stay at Roundel City."

Seeing this, "Tch… Then Lead the way. Noel brings that imbecile piece of shit." As the warchief ordering his followers.

After the clash with the warchief, The king Leon himself didn't have the mood to look around and choose to go towards their lodging.

Beside it is not the first time, King Leon himself has come to Roundel City. Every single being that reaches grade 7 definitely has visited the Roundel city before.

Although they don't want to look and tour the surrounding, they still see a little bit of the residence at the roundel city.

Rather than a city, it is more like a peaceful village where every single building is made of huge trees. The place itself is not crowded since there are only a few residents in this city.

Despite the few number of its residents, none of the group that came here has a thought to cause trouble in this city. It's because most of the residents have strength of at least 5th grade and above.

While King Leon himself could perceive that there are a dozen 6th grade people residing in this city. This is also the reason why Roundel city is called as the safest and peaceful place on Firuman.

The amount of high level grades that reside in this city is enormous that could easily overpower all the major forces in civilian society.

Arriving at their lodging which is a huge tree with a huge hole in it, Sylvan as the guide enters the hole without any hesitation while King Leon follows him without any further thought.

Entering the hole, the group found themself inside a huge space of simple but cozy rooms. They could see many luxurious furniture here and there with simple shapes but the group knew that it has high value.

The room has few rooms for the subordinate and a master room for the King himself. Despite the humbleness style that decorate the room, none of them feel the need to complain about it.

Because the value of this whole place may or could be the same with the Grand palace at the Heart Kingdom capital city. This is because they could see uncountable enchantment around the building and furniture.

It could be said that a single table in this place is more sturdy than full metal armor of the royal guard in the grand palace of Heart Kingdom.

Beside that, the concentration of mana in the air was also thick that could rejuvenate all of them just by breathing or being in there.

"Hmm… Not a bad place." said King Leon

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"Hmm… Not a bad place." said King Leon

"Is the place satisfied to your liking, King Leon?" asked Sylvan

"Yes, it's a great place." replied King Leon

"Then, I will excuse myself. If you have any need, I will be ready outside." as Sylvan excuses himself to go outside the room.

"Alright." as the king waved his hand.

After Sylvan goes outside leaving them inside the room, "Alright guys, I will rest first, you can go whatever you want in this place." as King Leon enters the master bedroom.

Hearing this, the duke Jacob immediately sat on the sofa and closed his eyes. As for the Marquis Leroy, he chose to rest in one of the rooms to recover his body and mind from the teleportation.

Few days passed without any disturbance. During this time, the King Leon group didn't get out from their lodging at all. It's because leaders from various kingdoms in Firuman starting to arrive at the Roundel city.

The residents of Roundel city could feel clashes between grade 7 people inside the city a few times during these few days.

Although nothing major is happening, King Leon decides it will be a hassle to meet other grade 7 people especially if they are battle maniac like Warchief Napollo.

Even at this moment, people could feel that Warchief Napollo mana signature in the surrounding as he sparred with someone.

Although they spar inside the enclosed space with strong enchantment but there is no enchantment, trap or other equipment that could truly confine the grade 7 power, the realm of legend.

Soon, the time for the meeting between the leader and grade 7 people from the civilization society comes.

They begin to move and gather at the one building that is not made of tree or wood. The building has the shape of a dome and is very big. It is made of unknown material that is very sturdy and looks ancient.

Each entrance is guarded by elfs with minimum strength of grade five. Entering the dome building, they arrive at the circular big room with a big circular table at the center.

Looking at this room, the leaders choose a seat while their subordinates stay behind them. While they know that they are being called for a serious situation, they didn't have any nervousness at all being here.

On the contrary, since they enter the building all of them begin to mind their business by themself. Some of them try to exchange greetings and information.

Some already confide about their problem in managing the country. Some of them are battle maniacs like Warchief Napollo and try to provoke others.

Some also keep quiet and wait like the King Leon group. The atmosphere is not like an emergency meeting that decides the future of Firuman but rather a reunion between old friends.

After a few moments, an elf leader stood up and said in a calm manner, "Ladies and Gentlemen, may I have your attention?"

Hearing this all of them immediately silent and focus on the elf.

"Thank you for your attention. Some of you already know me but I will still introduce myself. My name is Vandor Windspear, your leader during this meeting." [Vandor]

"Shall we begin the meeting pertaining to the new Monster Overlord." as the elf begins the meeting and gathers everyone attention.

"Judging from the monster wave behaviour that happened a few days ago, we all know that a new Monster Overlord is born."

"From our observation, we found that this time the Monster Overlord seems to have the ability to command a vast range of the other lower grade monsters below it." as Vandor show the hologram of various 5th grade monsters that lead monster wave few days ago.

"Fortunately, from our resources and calculation we know that the Monster Overlord is inside the Dark Forest. However, for specific locations we still don't know yet."

"We need to look and gather intelligence pertaining to Monster Overlord before we could plan our next move. I suggest we make a team from various kingdoms or is there anyone with a better idea?" as Vandor took a seat and waited for others's reaction.

Like Vandor expected, the moment he finished his sentence all the people inside the room burst and spoke at the same time like a huge dam broke.

"Ridiculous this is a suicide mission!!" said one of the leaders.

"A team?! I suggest those savage tribes do it." said another leader while looking at the others.

"Huh?! what do you mean by that?" rebuked another leader.

"Can we just ignore this Monster Overlord thing?" another leader said apathetically.

Some of the leaders even do not care and chat to themself. Some also keep their calm and not voice anything.

During this time, "Aren't we supposed to do something?" whisper marquis Leroy to the duke Jacob as he didn't expect the way leader meeting to transpire.

"Nope, this is pretty usual." answer the duke shortly.

'Although, all them are under a single banner of civilization society but there is no true leader among these people to lead them. Moreover, they always prioritize their own kingdom above all." Thought the duke silently.

'If only the elf race want to take place to lead them, they will be less chaotic. However, that's also impossible as it's not the nature of elf race.' Thought the duke while looking at the elf leaders that seems apathetic about the meeting situation.

Suddenly, every single one of them stopped talking. *BLAAM* All the leader guards immediately cast their respective spell/skill to protect their leader.

Warchief Napollo slam his hand into the table and break some part of it before saying, "Stop blabbering like a child!! Just send one of your men from each country to assemble the team and get done with this."

Hearing this from the Warchief Napollo some leader rebuked him, "Child? you are the one that is a child, muscle head!!"

"Yeah, why should I send my people…"

Before the other leader rebuked the warchief, "SHUT UP, WEAKLING!! If you are really afraid to fight monsters overlord then you have no place here." while the warchief releases his intimidating aura.

Feeling this, the other leaders also start to release their aura to counter his. During this moment, all of them abruptly stop and look above.

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During the serious situation, all of the leaders stop talking and look at the above seriously. Some of the leader guards are confused at the sudden change of their leader behaviour.

At this moment, "My… My, how bold of them." said one of the elf leaders while flare his mana.

While all of this happens, outside the meeting palace, "Guard sees something strange?" asked Sylvan towards the elf guard that was protecting the meeting palace.

"Nothing, Si…" before he finishes their sentence they feel something coming from the sky.

Looking at that something coming towards Roundel city from the sky at fast speed, "Sound the alarm!! Employ the Code Blue!!" command Sylvan to other guards. *TENG* *TENG*

Not long after that many alarms sounded around the city. All the guards immediately get into their position. While various blue colored magical cannons emergence from atop of all the treehouses.

Without waiting any further, "Open Fire!!" a series of commands sounded through the city. *ZUNG* *ZUNG* *ZUNG* As the magical cannon releases massive energy toward the thing that is approaching them from the sky.

Hit by the magical cannon, the things that look like a meteor crumble into pieces. However, there are a lot of these meteorites that keep approaching the city at fast speed.

While the cannon keeps firing without stopping, a black and dark red magic circle appears around the city ground. A second later a humming sound heard from it. *ZING* *BZZTZ*

From the magic circle appear various kinds of monsters. Noticing the intruder, "GUARD, PREPARE TO FIGHT!!" as Sylvan's voice heard through the city while he grabbed his spear.

A moment later, all the emerging monsters immediately fight with the residence and guard of the city. All the guards cast the spell simultaneously and create roots all over the city [3rd Circle - Combination Entroot].

The monster couldn't resist the root attack and got entangled or pierced by the roots. Although the situation looked chaotic, most of the monsters immediately killed the moment they appeared.

Most of the people that reside inside the Roundel city are at least grade 5 above people. As for the monster side the majority of them only consist of grade 3 and 4.

During this chaotic moment, A huge meteorite came above them. All the magical cannon cannot even make a dent on it or hold it back.

Noticing this, Sylvan who is slaughtering with the monster, "Change the cannon into laser mode!! Focus on that meteor!"

The cannon changes its style of fire and becomes a sort of laser towards the gigantic meteor. However, all of them only give a little damage to it.

At this moment, the dome of the meeting palace is open. A large hand made of mana appears and flies towards the meteor.

The hand becomes bigger in the air and grabs the gigantic meteor before crushing them like a sand castle. Because of the power, it creates a huge shockwave in the air and crushes the other smaller meteorite.

After a moment, the elf leader that controlled the hand noticed there was something inside the gigantic meteor that was already being crushed. Inside the meteorite, there is a small black globe that could withstand the power of the crushing power of the hand.

After it was exposed with the air, it suddenly exposed and released a thick miasma towards the surrounding. While this phenomenon happened, an ancient yet dreadful sound heard from it.

"KKRTT.. ARRF AOOO... ZTTTSS…." None of the leaders or the residents of Roundel city understand this dreadful voice that seems to echo all over the Firuman.

One of the quick witted elf leaders immediately took out a piece of crystal and recorded the dreadful sound. After the sound comes to an end, the elf leader that controls the hand flares his mana.

"HMPPH!!" the miasma in the sky immediately gathered back into one spot before bursting into nothingness.

After that the elf leader went back to sit as nothing major happened. The other leaders also calm themself and sit back. The meeting palace roof also closed off once again.

As for the resident and guard outside the meeting palace, they take care of the corpse and kill the remaining monster professionally.

Inside the meeting palace, one of the elf leaders that record the sound create a magic diagram in the middle of the table and throw the recorder into it.

After a few mana reactions, it shows the same dreadful sound as before. *BTZZ* After another few moments, the sound changed into common language with the same dreadful voice.

"CIVILIZATION OF FIRUMAN... BECOME SACRIFICE... FOR THE ELDER ONE!! COME... FIGHT FOR YOUR DOOM…. IN SIXTY MOON."

Hearing this, all the leaders become silent without anyone voice their opinion. After a few moments of silence, "The language that it used comes from the ancient era. We can assume that this comes from the new Monster Overlord."

Only intelligent monsters that used phrases such as moon to measure the time." said one of the elf leaders that took his recorder device.

"Ladies and Gentleman, I know that some don't like the idea to band together for this. However, judging from the Monster Overlord behaviour it seems like an intelligent type monster with certain wisdom."

"From our historical record, this type of Monster Overlord is the most cunning one and often causes more destruction than the others. It's better to plan a counter measure as soon as possible." added Vardon to the other leaders.

The Elven race has a long lifespan. Because of this reason, their record about historical events and monsters could be said to be the most complete one. They are also the most knowledgeable one about the monster overlord that keeps appearing through the past history.

Agreeing with the Vandor and the other elf leaders, the leaders decide to take this monster overlord more seriously. After that they begin to give a series of suggestions for the countermeasure of monster overlord.

Few hours later, they agree to make teams that consist of people from all of them. The leaders of these teams will be from the elf race as they have the most grade six people. To be fair the minimum requirement for power in this team is grade 5 people.

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After deciding to make an investigation team, the leaders continue to discuss and detail various kinds of stuff such as logistics, supply, equipment, etc for a few more days.

They make few rules to constraint any loopholes for some countries to exploit. After all if some few countries got too much profit from this incident, it will only create more chaos and war in the future.

Fortunately, they still have a few years to prepare and send some recon teams before the monster overlord launches a full attack according to its warning. Still the civilian society countries need to increase their guards against another monster wave.

Because of this, the stability of some countries will become unsteady and create some chaos everywhere. Some of the dark and hidden organizations may take this chance to get some profit.

Like any other civilization, there will always be dark and hidden organizations be it in small scale or large scale that deal with many unethical dealing.

This organization could be destroyed and dealt with easily by all the country leaders. The leaders who are already in grade seven weren't afraid of their growth but it will take a long time to completely eradicate them as they are not omnipresent.

Moreover, they will never be truly eradicated because some people will always take the positions to replace and create another dark organization. It could be said that this organization is the necessary evil to control the other organization.

Because of this reason, most of the leaders immediately went back to their country to manage and suppress these kinds of organizations after they concluded the meeting.

Meanwhile all of this chaos happens, Angus is still enjoying his comfy bed despite his body already fully recovered from yesterday. However, during his sleep he hears a dreadful echo voice in the air. "KKRTT.. ARRF AOOO... ZTTTSS…."

'Damn, just what was that?' Though Angus inwardly.

After a while, he decided to ignore it and go back to sleep. However the next day, he found some news and rumor about the dreadful voice that seems echo to all the Firuman.

The most exaggerating rumor is that the end is near or the apocalypse will come. However, this is just some baseless rumor or fraud that he often heard in his previous life.

'Tch.. to think I will once again hear this absurd kind of rumor once again.' Though Angus as he looked outside of his carriage where he could see some people keep shouting about this rumor.

'I guess no matter where the world, there will always be this kind of people. Sometimes I even wonder what's the purpose of these kinds of people by shouting this kind of rumor. Is it for fame? or just a fraud?'

'Didn't it just waste their time for not getting more sleep or laying around? Well, none of it matters for me anyway, I also will be busy again inside the academy. Haa… What a life..' Grumble Angus while enjoying the ride until it arrives at the royal academy.

Arriving at the royal academy, Angus immediately went towards his dorm. Since this is his last day 'vacation' before he is back to class, he will try to enjoy it to the fullest by lazing around not doing anything.

The moment he arrived at his dorm he heard some commotion from the dorm's yard. Hearing this Angus immediately use [Mana Echolocation]. After using it silently, he is back to his lazy expression.

'Why did they gang up on Ian? Well, it's not my problem anyway.' Thought Angus while going inside his dorm building. The moment he entered the dorm, he found a boy that wanted to go out.

"Huh… You are Angus, right? Why did you just come now?" Asked the boy that Angus could not remember curiously.

"Ahh… I just have some business these few days, You are…" As Angus still couldn't remember the boy's name.

"Err… My name is Axel, Axel Pomel. Make sure you remember that." said Axel awkwardly.

"Ah.. yeah that's the name. Alright, then I will go towards my room. see ya." said Angus while keep walking toward his room.

However, at this moment someone calls his name, "Angus?? How come you just arrived now?" said Millie who just got out from her room.

"Ahhh.. Millie, Nice to see you. Well, I just have some business this past day." Angus gave the same reason as he did with Millie.

While he replied Millie, 'Why did you remember Millie's name and not mine!!' Thought Axel inwardly.

Actually it is not Angus not because he remembers Millie's name. During his stay before the break, Angus often chats with Millie who likes to tend the Dorm's garden.

As someone that likes to pass his time by hanging around the garden, they often meet together. So, it's natural that Angus actually remembers her name.

After chatting with Millie for a while, Angus hears someone call his name again.

"Angus?! why did you just arrive now?" asked the Princess Jayna who just went outside her room.

'Damn, why do they keep coming while I just want a nice moment of silence and laze around.' Thought Angus while also giving the same excuse to Princess Jayna like the others.

Suddenly, the dorm entrance opened abruptly. *Bang* "Tch... What a waste of time, those imbeciles!!" said Ian grumpily while he looked like just having a fight.

"Hmph… as expected of a commoner. Lack of manners around." remarked the Princess Jayna.

"Huh?! What did you say, spoiled girl?" as Ian challenges Princess Jayna.

'Haa.. another kid fights.' Thought Angus while he sneaked around to his room and ignored the tense drama situation outside.

It is not Angus didn't care about his dorm mate. But, in his eyes these two are like fire and water that keep fighting each other over the time they stay in the dorm.

For him, this is nothing but an annoying kid fighting one with each other. As someone who is more mature than the other kids, he feels didn't need to meddle in this kind of situation.

Fortunately, the others are also preoccupied with the tense situation between the princess and Ian to notice that Angus has already got away and entered his room. Entering his room, he feels tired because of all the interaction he has done just now.

'Damn, I need to increase my 'ignoring' and stealth skill for others to not notice me. Well, for now I just miss my bed. Here I come, fluffy bed!" As Angus throws himself on the bed.

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The next few days, Angus having a class like usual. He also went back to his training secretly. His spar with his father is a reminder for him.

If his father could get hurt easily during his fight against high level monsters, Angus will never survive fighting them since he couldn't even land a hit on his father.

Although the wound is because of his father's carelessness. However, it also serves as a reminder that monsters could easily kill people from civilian society. Even in the past, grade seven people could be killed by a monster overlord.

After learning more about the monster from the book and course, Angus also found why the monster is stronger than other races. For him the monster is intriguing yet also gives a sense of dreadfulness.

This is the reason why he is more focused to learn more about monsters despite a busy schedule throughout the course. He feels the more he learns about it, the more he feels a sense of emergence from the monster.

The ungraded monster may be weaker than some ungraded people. However, starting from the third grade and occasionally second grade there is a huge change in monster strength.

First is their miasma (the corrupted mana) concentration. For third grade monsters and above with few monsters at grade second, their miasma attack already can't be healed or purged with normal healing spells.

If the wound left it alone, the miasma will soon corrode the person and could lead to death. Even a small wound that contains miasma is very deadly if left untreated for a long time.

Like Angus's father said there is no true way to heal this kind of wound before. Until now the only way to handle it is by purging the miasma using more purer mana.

However, after the 3rd grade monster above, the miasma became so thick that it could act like a poison by corrupting the mana in one person's body.

In this case there's no true way to heal this kind of wound except for Angus's method. The miasma will slowly attack and corrupting the mana inside the body.

Most people could only suppress the miasma using his own mana. But, if the wound is fatal or accumulates too much it will soon claim the owner's life.

Because of this, receiving a fatal wound from a high grade monster also means as sentenced to death. The high grade people may resist for a while but soon they too will die after sometime.

Learning this Angus feels like a headache and a more troublesome situation will be coming for him.

'Damn, I guess I will become a sort of doctor after this. Tch… I will be more busy because of my blunder. However, I don't regret it. My father's life is more important... or not.' Thought Angus inwardly while remembering his sparring against his ruthless father.

As for the other reason is because of the monster's growth in strength. From the record and books, it said that every time the monster evolves to higher grade their strength is at least doubled.

While for other races their strength will not always double after they evolve into higher grade. Moreover, the one that doubled not only strength but also its dexterity, vitality, skin toughness, etc.

Basically it could be said every time monsters evolve into higher grade they are twice more stronger than before.

Combined with the unique feature of each monster and its long life span, it is a miracle that the monster has not taken over the civilian society yet. Most of the reason is because high grade monsters rarely go outside its habitat.

While the monster overlord that seeks destruction like the one that recently reborn always gets hunted as soon as possible.

No matter what kind of price the society will pay, they always hunt this kind of monster, especially the intelligent one with more wisdom.

So, if they are really dangerous why not tame and build friendship with them. Some pacifist experts also try to do that. However, like a habit and instinct, a monster will always bear its fang towards civilization society.

Some experts theorized that the more concentrated miasma they have, the more aggressive their behaviour towards civilization people with mana.

Countless other experts also research the way to eliminate the monster without casualty by using mass destruction weapons or even bio-weapon. However, all of them fail for the same reason as these kinds of weapons are useless for high grade people.

High grade people's resilience is so high that they could withstand some small scale bombing unscated. Monster has better resilience, so it will be useless to launch such an attack towards the monster.

This kind of knowledge surprised Angus since he thought that technology in this world is not advanced like on Earth in his past life. But, the more he learned the more he found that this world may be more advanced or same with postmodern Earth in his past life.

Since Angus himself is not an expert in his past life, he couldn't compare which is more advanced.

The only difference is the technology in this world is invented with the main purpose to sustain their life and their world rather than for the war purpose except the elimination of monsters.

Because of constant monster invasion, the last thing people want is barren land that could not become habitat for the living. So, there is little development in mass destruction weapons that also destroy the land itself.

The technology in this world also mainly used mana as power rather than electricity. Although they also invent electricity, compared to sustainable energy such as mana in the air, it is more greater and environment friendly.

'Haaa… What a complicated and troublesome world. Why don't I be reborn in a more peaceful world? Not that I get a chance to choose.'

'Come to think of it, it is already a miracle that I am getting a second chance like this. Especially born into a high noble family like this.' Thought Angus while closing the book the monster.

He put the books back to their respective self. Then, he searches for another interesting book that may give him more knowledge. As he took a book, he found another kid approaching him.

"Erm… Sorry, if you don't mind, could I borrow that book?" Said the kid

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"Erm… Sorry, if you don't mind, could I borrow that book?" Said the kid

"Ahh.. you mean this book?" Asked Angus towards the kid.

The kid only nodded his head timidly. During this time, Angus found that the kid has weird behaviour. More than finding it weird, he found the kid is like having a unique feeling.

Usually Angus will only find this kind type of person at a genius people, a non-social person, an autism or an idiotic person. Angus guesses that this kid is some kind of non-sociable person from the way he presents himself.

During his time working as an assassin on Earth, Angus also learned manything about humans from its anatomy to psychology. Profiling and guessing kids' nature is a piece of cake for him just through his glance.

'Well, none of it is my problem anyway.' Thought Angus before he gave his reply.

"Sure, here's the book." as Angus gives the book to the kid.

"T-Thank you, my name is Johnny, Johnny Fester. By the way…" replied the kid.

"Well, my name is Angus Victory. Nice to meet you, Johnny." as Angus introduces himself.

"V-Victory?? I am sorry…" said Johnny.

"No need for that, you can take the book. I am not in an urgent need to read it. Just put the book back after you finish it." said Angus as he walked away.

Then, Angus went back to his dorm without any hassle. At this moment, he found a few people standing in front of the entrance of his dorm. As Angus approached them, they also began to notice him walk towards them.

"You there! did you stay in this dorm?" said one of the students.

"Yeah, is there a problem?" asked Angus nonchalantly.

"Could you call out the student name Ian? Said to him that Morris is waiting for him outside." said the other student.

'This kid seems familiar.' Thought the oldest kid from the group.

"Hmm… Why don't you call him by yourself?" asked Angus again.

"You… hey kid, don't you know who I am?" said one of the kids.

"Nope and I don't care who you are. So, could you please get away? I need to get inside the dorm." said Angus with a lazy expression.

"Y-You… Boys, it seems we could have some warm up first." said one of the kids with sneer.

Then, the other kid started surrounding Angus. "Hahaha… You should just stay quiet and be obedient, kid." said of the student.

'Haa… What a hassle situation I got here.' Thought Angus inwardly

"So…" replied Angus lazily.

"So, you should shut your goddamn mouth and…" said one of the big build students.

However, before he finishes his word, "and ALL OF YOU IS SO DEATH!!" shouted someone from far away.

Everyone immediately looks at the prepeator who is shouting at them. They see a teenager with big muscular size approaching him.

Looking at the approaching man, "Henry, I believe we don't have any business right?" said the oldest students.

But, Henry didn't reply, rather bow in front of Angus, "I am sorry. young master Victory. I will get rid of all of this imbecile right away."

Hearing this, all the surrounding students immediately turned pale. "V-Victory…."

Suddenly, all of them begin to remember that in front of him is the third son of Duke Victory who is creating quite a commotion during this year's entrance exam.

"I-I am sorry, young master Victory from lack of my manner. We will leave now." Said the oldest kid right away.

"Ehh.. But, brother, didn't you say you will beat Ian?" said one of the students with a similar face as the oldest student.

"Just shut up, Buck. We are leaving now!!" said the oldest student.

"Y-Yes, brother." As the kid agree with him reluctantly

Before all of them leave, "I am sorry once again Mr. Victory. I hope you could forgive my and my brother's lack of manners for this inconvenience."

"Yeah-yeah… Whatever. Just go away already." said Angus nonchalantly.

As soon as he said that the group immediately went away like a wind. Looking at this, 'Haaa.. What a bunch of kids…' thought Angus inwardly.

"What a troublesome kid.. Why didn't they just enter the dorm and get the business done?" remark Angus.

"It's because there is a 4th princess who also stays inside the dorm, young master. It's an unwritten rule to never create a commotion inside the first year Spring Dorm." answer Henry faithfully.

After the entrance exam accident, Henry becomes a sort of bodyguard for Angus. However, Henry hardly could keep track of Angus because of his lack of presence and skill.

Most of the time, he loses track of him and notices that the person itself is already back to his dorm. The only reason he could find Angus now is because he managed to know the schedule of Angus over the time.

At first Henry wanted to keep close to Angus so he didn't lose track of him. But, at that time Angus feels annoyed by it and gives a nonchalantly comment to tell his father about it.

Since then, Henry tried to stalk and protect Angus from far away. During this moment, he feels that Angus is truly enigma. Even after using his tracking skill and spell, Henry could hardly find him most of the time.

It feels like Angus himself didn't exist in this world. To be precise he feels like Angus is becoming one with nature itself. Because of this, Henry decides to respect and be fully dedicated towards Angus.

As for Angus himself, he also already knows about Henry's conviction. However, he also never cared about it.

Hearing Henry's response and his polite attitude, Angus look at Henry weirdly, "Really?? I don't know if there are such rules here. Well, none of it is my problem anyway." as Angus walks towards the dorm.

"I hope you have a nice rest, Young Master." said Henry while he bowed his head once again.

Angus only waved his hand without replying to him. Actually Angus notices that Henry is stalking him. But, since he didn't make any nuisance for him except for the first few weeks at the start of the term, he just left him alone.

Before he enters the dorm, the dorm's door opens abruptly. "Huh.. Where are those imbeciles?"

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"Huh.. Where are those imbeciles?" said Ian while looking around only to find Angus and Henry.

Looking at this, Angus only sighs before keep walking inside the dorm. But, as he was about to pass Ian, "Wait, did you know where Buck and his goon went?" asked Ian towards Angus.

Angus replied lazily while walking, "Don't know.. Not my problem."

Hearing Angus respond, Ian immediately touched Angus's shoulder to stop his walk. But, at this moment Angus backed away suddenly and Ian missed Angus's shoulder.

"Hmm… I think I forgot to water the garden." As Angus backs away and walks towards the dorm's garden.

Looking at Angus's sudden reaction, "Stop there, Angus!!" Shout Ian.

Suddenly, Ian feels a heavy pressure from his side. "Brat, I suggest you should not hinder young master Victory's way." said Henry while releasing his mana.

Henry is also ready to beat Ian at this moment, as for Ian he immediately feels the dreadfulness in front of the dangerous beast.

Although Henry is quite mouthful and sometimes stupid, he is also top ranking among his peers. Moreover, he already formed his own mana core and became a full fledged grade one combatant.

His mana is more concentrated and pure compared to people that still are not forming their own mana core.

During this tense moment, Angus looks at Ian nonchalantly before back to walk towards the garden. Looking at Angus already leaving, Henry punched Ian's stomach before he could react.

"Brat, If you don't want to die sooner, I suggest you should fix up your attitude," said Henry before he walked away.

As for Ian, he could only hold his pain silently and bear the pressure from Henry. After Henry was gone, "Damn… Damn all of you, noble! You are all the same!!" Before Ian slowly walked back inside the dorm.

Arriving at the garden, he found Millie watering the garden with her friend Mia like usual. After chatting for a moment, Angus sat at his favorite spot under the tree while waiting for the sun to set.

From the outside Angus looks like sleeping while sitting and leaning back on the tree. However, he actually refined his inexhaustible chi into mana silently.

After a few moments, Angus opens his eyes and looks at his hologram status panel.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 8 Years Old

MP: 100/100

Heritage chi: ???

Strength: 12

Dexterity: 12

Intelligence: 15

Vitality: 20

Soul Point: 124

'Hmm… Like I thought the mana couldn't grow any further. It's like my body couldn't hold it before the excess of mana escaped my body.

It seems I need to wait until my body grows more before refined more mana from the heritage chi any further. The vitality stat also greyed out and couldn't grow more after reaching 20.' Thought Angus silently.

'Well, that means I just need to wait until I grow up.' As Angus closes his eyes and begins to sleep for real.

Although Angus has a lot of Soul Points to improve, But, this soul point needs an emergency case. Moreover, the conversion rate is already ridiculously high. After passing the 10 mark, it needs 10 soul points to increase one stat.

Passing the 15 mark, the conversion rate doubled once again to 20. This is also one of the reasons Angus didn't increase his intelligence in reluctance to spend this many points at once.

Angus didn't feel sad that his power is stagnant despite wanting to keep growing stronger. It's because he knows that he is already many times stronger than other ungraded people.

From what he gathered, ungraded adult people have the power of 5-10 in every stats including mana. But, Angus's mana alone is already ten times theirs.

Just from this alone Angus could kill normal ungraded people without lifting his finger by suppressing them with his mana. Combined with mastery of his skill, he could beat even first grade people and a few weaker second grade people.

If the opportunity arises and using preemptive strike, he could even kill higher grade people like the assassin that he killed before.

All of this could happen, because Angus already reached the limit of a human child body capable of. Otherwise he will receive more backlash after entering a berserk state when sparring with his father.

It is noted that in his berserk state, he could leave a crack in his father's [Fire Shield] that even 5th grade monsters need to use its strongest attack to penetrate it.

Although Angus didn't seem to care towards his surroundings, he actually realized his own power level compared to others. At least he knows inside the academy only the top ranking student from the final year could pose a challenge towards him.

Still that doesn't mean he is completely complacent with his current power. In battle, especially the life and death one, many things could happen.

Like an old proverb said "Even the strongest general could be killed by a peasant." In life and death battle, a little bit of carelessness could be fatal.

However, this weakness will be gone as long as he reaches a higher grade. In Firuman, High grade mana core means better resilience body.

That's why the 7th grade is feared and respected by many people. They could be said to be impervious to almost anything.

In the ancient record, few of them even survive mass destruction with the scale of a small kingdom.

However, to reach this kind of level is also not easy. If just to reach grade six people need to risk their own life, then to reach grade seven they need a miracle.

Although, their body could not compare with strong high level monsters. But, they are still much stronger than ordinary ungraded or lower high grade people.

Because of this reason, the high grade people always have more standing and status than others. Not only do they live longer but they are also impervious to almost all poison and sneak attacks.

Another few days passed by without any hassle. During these past days, Ian didn't try to find any trouble with Angus. As for Angus himself, he didn't care about Ian at all. He even forgot about it.

Now, he is looking at the class combat practice in front of him. Today is the class for combat training. Fortunately for him, his father already sent a letter towards the principal to exempt him from any physical combat training.

Duke Jacob, speculate that his berserk state could emerge anytime like the [Possession] especially during the battle.

Because of this, Angus has free time during the combat training class. However, teacher Elis didn't buy the story and also knows Angus's lazy nature.

So, she makes Angus observe the others before giving her a report in exchange of being exempt from combat training exercise.

While looking lazily at the kid's figh... *cough* combat training, "Say Angus, how come you are also exempt from the combat training exercise?"

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"Say Angus, how come you are also exempt from the combat training exercise?" asked Princess Jayna that stood beside him curiously.

After the class competition accident, Princess Jayna is also exempted from any kind of combat and physical training in case her [Possession] state comes out.

Her [Possession] state is very dangerous and could destroy the whole academy at any moment. They took a huge precaution and forbid her to do any kind of training.

Normally, they will cage her inside the Grand Palace until she manages to control her [Possession] state.

However, after relentlessly pestering his father (the king) and his mother (the queen), she finally permitted to return to the royal academy but under heavy protection and monitoring.

Hearing her question, Angus gave a pose of thinking before replying, "I am not sure, maybe because I traumatized from the class competition incident."

"Ehh… Bu-But… You are…" as she feels being wronged at this moment.

"But what?? I have some trauma now and could not fall asleep for days because of that incident." added Angus.

"NOO.. You are lying!!" Said the Princess in distraught

"Pfftt… Hahaha…" Suddenly Angus laughing very hard.

Finally, Princess Jayna notices that she is being played by Angus. "Grr… Angus!!" As she tried to punch him.

However, none of Jayna's predictable punches could land at him. While Angus dodges all the punches easily, he also runs around while Princess Jayna keeps following him.

Later they stop because of being lectured by Teacher Elis to not play around and observe the others seriously. The princess wanted to rebuke that it was Angus's fault but looking at her teacher glare, she could only stay silent.

After staying silent and looking at the combat training for a while, "Hey, Angus…"

"Hmm?" [Angus]

"Why did you hide your strength? I am not a fool you know? the others could not dodge my punch easily. Even Ian has a hard time dodging my punch. But you..." She stops and looks at Angus.

But, she found that Angus was already 'sleeping' while in the sitting position. Looking at this, the princess immediately explodes in anger and punches Angus.

However, like always, Angus suddenly wakes up and easily dodge her by hair breath. Soon, both of them begin to run around like playing a tag between two kids.

Looking at this, "Both of you, stop playing around!!" Rebuked teacher Elis once again.

'Damn it, If you two have excessive energy to run around, why not just partake in the class as well. Huff… I need a raise.' Lament teacher Elis silently.

Soon, the practical combat training is done. Then, teacher Elis continued her lesson about the difference of skills and spells.

Both of them have their own advantages and disadvantages. Skills could be used immediately and easier to learn. Spells are harder to learn and used but more versatile.

In the case of the power aspect, both could be said almost the same. Skills could become stronger according to the users proficiency and mana purity. While spells may have a fixed range of damage but could still be improved if they are overcharged with mana.

Because of this reason, mana became a very important factor in the battle. So, Teacher Elis starts to teach many ways to conserve mana. One of them is by having a better control over their own mana.

There are several exercises to improve control over mana. One of them is by doing a set of movements or exercise while making the mana flowing inside the body.

Looking at the movement set, Angus immediately knows that his exercise is better than it by many times in terms of effect. However, he also intrigues since teacher Elis also said that high noble families also have their own set of mana control practices.

Because of this reason, teacher Elis didn't dwell in this lesson too much, only telling her student to remind students to keep practising their mana control to reduce their mana consumption.

Judging by the reaction of the others, Angus notices that all of them already have their own way to practice mana control since most of them come from high backgrounds.

Especially Wylda, the water spell user. During the first combat training lesson, she could use [Aqua Ball] a few times before being exhausted.

This kind of feat is only possible if she has great mana control since her mana capacity should not cover it.

It seems only him that didn't know about his own family mana control exercise. However, to be taught about mana control exercise, he needs to have at least a certain amount of mana first.

Since Angus never paid attention towards his tutor before and his mana capacity is small, he never got a time to be taught about mana control exercise.

Fortunately, Angus already has his own mana control exercise from his past life. Although it is actually a chi control exercise but it actually produces the same result since both energy is same yet also different.

Otherwise, it will be a hassle for him to ask for mana control exercise from his father. Everyone knows that Angus only has mana below 5 points at the start of terms.

Even if he could improve, he will never reach greater than 5 since only a few months have passed since the start of the term.

However, he guesses his father will personally teach him from now on since their last sparring. So, sooner or later his father will notice his absurd true strength that already reaches the limit of a human child.

'Haa.. I hope he will not freak out about my current strength. Besides I could just say that it is the fault of the heritage chi that my body and mana increase any further.' Thought Angus before he walks towards the canteen to get lunch.

Arriving at the canteen, he found the students already overcrowded the canteen at once. Although, the canteen itself was already big but it still could never beat the number of the hungry students at once.

It could be said during lunch, the canteen becomes a sort of war zone. Still there is an order in the middle of this chaos.

Because the majority of students inside the royal academy is from high background, the student still has their manner and queue orderly.

Looking at the long queue, Angus knew it would take some time before he could eat his lunch. After a few moments of waiting, he finally gets his food and searches for a place to eat.

But, all the sitting areas are already occupied. Suddenly, Angus found someone being bullied by a group of other kids.

Looking at this, 'Hm… Might as well do a good thing and secure my place to eat." Thought Angus before approaching the group.

"Hey, could you get out from my 'friend's' place?" asked Angus.

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"Hey, could you get out from my 'friend's' place?" asked Angus.

"Huh?! Just who do you think you are?" said of the bully student.

They found that Angus is rather familiar. Still they could not remember him yet.

"I am just a guy who wants to eat with his friend." said Angus calmly.

Hearing this, "Hahaha… very funny." the others also laughing and mock Angus

Looking at the group bully mocked him, "I think you should leave before it's too late." said Angus expressionlessly.

"And what if I don't want to? What are you gonna do? Cry to your mom?! Hahaha..." Mocked one of the bullies.

At this moment, Henry appeared out of nowhere and grabbed the bully's head. "You truly have the nerve to mock young master Victory, huh?!"

Feeling the mana pressure that Henry releases the others immediately look at their location. Hearing about Victory's name, more students come to take a look.

Noticing that the situation became more troublesome, "Oi.. Henry." said Angus expressionlessly.

"Y-Yes, Young Master?" Replied Henry nervously.

"Could you do it somewhere else? You know I need to eat my lunch now." asked Angus nonchalantly.

Hearing this, "Certainly, young master." Replied Henry before smiling evilly towards the bully.

"Brats, follow me!!" said Henry towards the bullies group.

Feeling the mana pressure from Henry, the bullies could only nod their head and follow Henry. As for Angus himself, he didn't care about them and the surrounding before sitting and eating his lunch.

Looking at the event already over, the surroundings also start to disperse. While the bullied student was feeling nervous and didn't know what to do with how the situation proceeds.

Noticing the nervous bullied student, "Don't worry I will not chase you away. Just eat your lunch already." said Angus before he went back to eating his meal.

"Ahh.. yes.. I mean t-thank you, young master Victory." But rather than eat, the student kept staring at Angus.

Feeling weird from the stare while he is eating, "Is there something wrong?" asked Angus nonchalantly.

"Ah.. Sorry, I didn't mean to.. I mean.." the student becomes more nervous and keeps stuttering.

Hearing the nervous student, "Haaa… Just calm down first. I am not going to bite you." [Angus]

After taking a few deep breaths to calm himself, "T-Thank you for before. Also I have already finished the book." said the bullied student.

"Book??" asked Angus confusedly.

"Yes, the book you want to read before you give it to me first." as the bullied student sounds diminishing at the end of his sentence.

"Hmm… Ahh… you are him. What's your name again? James?" As Angus starts to remember the bullied student.

'Ehh… I thought he already recognized me before helping me. Haa…' Thought the kid.

"Err.. No, young master Victory. My name is Johnny Fester." introduce Johnny once again.

"Oh yeah, Johnny. Sorry about that, I am quite forgetful about person names. Anyway, quit with the young master thing, just call me Angus. We are the same age anyway." Said Angus before back to eating his lunch.

"Y-Yes.. Young mas.. I mean Angus." Before Johnny tries to eat his lunch.

After that they are eating in silence, Angus finally finished eating his meal. "Alright, I will go first, you can take your time to eat your lunch slowly. See ya, Johnny." Said Angus while leaving Johnny alone.

As Johnny left alone, 'What a remarkable person, He also has upperclassmen as bodyguards. As expected of the son of Duke Victory. He is really beyond me.' Thought Johnny alone.

Meanwhile, Angus didn't care about the small event that happened during his lunch and went towards one of his side courses.

Today he is going to have a Smithing side course. Before the break, all he ever learned is only pure theoretical about metallurgy and look how the senior year does the smithing.

However, since the monster overlord incident the workload for smithing seems to increase. Even the royal academy smithing course was also affected by this. Because of this, Angus got a chance to do some practical job.

Nothing too dangerous and complicated like making a real weapon but only doing some grinding and sharpening a few small practice daggers. Meanwhile the senior and professional teacher is busy by themself doing their own smithing.

Although Angus only did sharpening weapons, he could also see the work of senior making weapons. The more he observed, the more he found that smithing work is truly a hard complicated job.

Because of the presence of mana, there are few differences in the way of smithing compared to Earth's way of smithing. However, one thing important in smithing is the importance of controlling mana.

Smithing in Firuman also uses many equipment similar to earth. However, these equipment use mana as a power source. The better the user's mana control over the equipment, the better its performance.

Although it could be substituted with mana crystal or monster core, in terms of performance it's better to be directly controlled by the user's mana.

In Firuman, there are a lot of products and technology that is powered with mana. Some of them also could be substituted with mana crystal and monster core for the convenience.

Because of this, monsters's core could also be said to be a source of energy, money, and currency in some kingdom.

Angus also found that in this world, there is also a high tech weapon beside the cold weapon. However, the cold weapon is more popular than the high tech one.

It's because the cold weapon is easy to use and more durable to use for a graded person. Cold weapons could be imbued by mana and become stronger and durable according to its user's power.

As for high tech weapons such as guns, they have slow development since they seem like a lower version of spells in most cases.

Moreover, they are also very expensive to build. Although they are easy to use and faster than spells, they still lose in the case of its versatility.

Beside that high grade person also could instacast lower level spells that could produce a similar effect to machine gun rate of firing on earth.

Moreover, because of the increased strength of the monster. This kind of weapon is usually useless as it could never penetrate the graded monster's skin.

Still for lower grade people with high background such as noble, they often have few these kinds of weapons in case of emergency to overcome their grade weakness.

Though it's useless for monsters and high grade people, it's still useful for others lower grade people. The majority of civilians still consist of lower graded and ungraded persons.

The reason there are a lot of graded students here is because the royal academy is among the top academies within the human race. Most of the students that study here have a high background be it wealthy merchants or high noble from other allied kingdoms.

As for Angus himself, despite hiding his strength, he is still reluctant to use high tech weapons other than weapons that do not contact directly to his body or fist.

Although it seems kind of hypocritical since the cold weapon is the product of technology, he still doesn't really like to use guns and similar weapons to it.

Even though he disliked it, nobody ever belittled Angus mastery in gun fighting. In his past life, he even hailed as a prodigy in marksmanship using guns.

He even created a sort of close range gun fighting style. Normally, the gun's minimum effective range is around 3-5 meters. Bellow that guns could easily be counter attacked with hand to hand combat technique.

However, he could make a fighting style by combining martial arts with guns and erase the weakness of guns effective range.

Remembering all of his past fighting style, Angus only shook his head, 'I hope I never truly use those styles again.' Thought Angus before back to concentrate on sharpening a practice dagger.

Although it looks simple, sharpening is also kind of art itself. Some weapon artists even said that the art of sharpening is the art of emphasization.

If making weapons is akin to shaping the weapon, then sharpening is akin to emphasize and bringing out the true nature of the weapon itself.

Angus's marveolus concentration for each stroke of sharpening begins to be noticed by passerby and the dwarf teacher. Most of them only nodded at Angus's skill.

As for Angus himself, he didn't notice the stare and kept his concentration in sharpening the dagger. Angus entered some kind of trance state and forgot about the surrounding.

This kind of focus is rare and hard to find especially for young kids like Angus. The moment Angus is done with his work, a brute hand immediately takes the sharpening dagger from him.

"Hoo… it's perfectly balanced on both sides." said the old dwarf.

Suddenly, he threw the dagger towards the armor nearby. *Clang* The dagger managed to be embedded into the iron armor while some part of it penetrated it.

"Kahaha… Good work, Lad. Hmm… What the hell are you looking for?! Did you want me to smite your ass?! GET BACK TO WORK!!" Shout the old dwarf to disperse the others.

"Ah.. Yes, Bail, give this kid some real works!!" Before the old dwarf walked away inspecting others.

Then, another dwarf younger than the previous one approaches Angus, "Alright, Brat. Consider you are lucky to get noticed by the boss. Now, Follow me."

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"Now, Follow me." as the dwarf led the way into his forging stations.

'Haa… I hope it will not be another troublesome situation.' Thought Angus while he followed the dwarf name Bail.

Arriving at the station, "Alright, Lad. I don't care which noble you come from or who you are. As long as you want to keep working in this course you need to heed my word. Do I make myself clear?!"

"Yes, sir." replied Angus immediately after hearing the stern sound of the dwarf.

"Good. Now, since you are here. Sharpen and polish those piles of daggers." said the dwarf while pointing at the huge amount of pile iron daggers.

Although, it is higher quality than practice dagger but the amount is quite ridiculous that it may take a long time for it to be done.

"Err… But.. Sir, how about my assignment?" asked Angus nervously.

Every student that attends the side course needs to complete some assignment to be cleared for them to pass the course during one term. Then, the teacher will give a score based on the assignment.

Although the score will not influence the graduation from one term to the next but a bad score will leave a bad mark in their score. It will become sort of eye sore inside the report. This is why students usually didn't dare to try a lot of side courses at once like Angus did.

As for Angus, he just didn't want to get a bad mark in his assignment while being worked like a slave by the dwarf.

"Assignment?! Ohh, I forgot that you are also a student here. Don't worry about it. I'll take care of it. Just sharpen and polish those daggers now." Before the dwarf starts to manipulate the forge.

'Haa… I guess I didn't have any choice.' Thought Angus while picking the dagger and started to sharpen it at the nearby grinder.

"Oh yeah boy, be careful while you sharpen those or I will give you a bad mark at those so called reports." said the dwarf before he focused on his own work.

Hearing this, 'Damn… just my luck. Why do I get attention with this unreasonable dwarf of all people? Haa… I guess I will say goodbye to my nap time.' Curse Angus inwardly

Angus knows how bold and unreasonable the dwarf character can be. Because of that he couldn't back down or run away like usual. He knows that it will only create more hassle and will end his learning in smithing.

All he could do now is only preserve. Not wanting to be enslaved for a long time, Angus immediately did his work seriously.

During the sharpening process, Angus will enter a trance state everytime he works and is done much faster than before.

However, after hours passed by another bunch of new created daggers came and stacked up with the previous pile of daggers.

Looking at this, Angus knows that this is an impossible work to be done. But, the dwarf never said to sharpen all of them. But, only to sharpen the daggers.

At this moment, he begins to remember the unreasonable work from his previous master in the past life. He knows that this is not about the work but a test to see the persistence in my character.

Knowing that Angus is being tested, he immediately feels challenged. Although Angus wants to be a low key but in front of such a challenge, he will still man up and accept it.

'I will give you some surprise, dwarf.' Thought Angus.

Then, Angus suddenly brings two daggers at once in front of the grinder. Using his focus, perception, the flexibility of his hand, Angus manages to sharpen two daggers at once.

After he is done with the dagger, he immediately brings another dagger to be sharpened and puts away the sharpened ones. He keeps doing this impossible feat without stopping that attracts all the nearby students and workers inside the smithing.

Even Bail, the dwarf that gave the assignment, couldn't say anything after checking the quality of the boys' work. He couldn't believe such precise work could be done by the boy in such a manner.

Of course, because of this commotion. The old dwarf that everyone refers to as the boss also pays attention to this.

"What are you looking at?! Do you want me to cut you out with these daggers?! GET BACK TO WORK!!" Shout the old dwarf.

"Bail, send more daggers for the kid to be sharpened!" order the old dwarf

"A-Alright, Boss." Replied Bail while he got away to bring more dagger.

During this time, Angus notices this but rather than stop, he increases his work speed. As for the old dwarf, he also notices this but keeps silent while checking every dagger.

Soon the night falls, all the worker and student are already going back to their dorm beside Angus that keep sharpening the dagger without stopping. While the old dwarf, keep checking every single dagger that is being sharpened by Angus nearby.

After another few hours, "Huff… Finally it's done" Said Angus as he finally sharpened the last dagger.

Looking at that Angus only slightly tired, "Good Job, Brat. Tomorrow come with me…" During the middle sentence, the old dwarf suddenly throws the dagger at Angus.

Angus immediately caught it easily between his two fingers as a reflex. He also became more vigilant towards the old dwarf.

"Hahaha… As expected you could have caught it easily. Don't worry boy, it's just a test. Say boy did you ever hear the title of weapon master?" Say the old dwarf.

"Weapon master?" Asked Angus confusedly.

"Yes, weapon master. Among the dwarf and craftsmanship there is a title called weapon master. It's a title for people that could master any kind of weapon, especially the cold weapon."

"Those that bear with this title could be said to be near invincible in battle. They could even kill higher grade people just relying on their weapon mastery skill. Usually, this kind of person needs to experience many kinds of weapons before they could claim this title."

"However, sometimes among the smithers and crafter birth a natural weapon master that could use any kind of weapon the moment they touch it. This kind of talent is as rare as having affinity with the space element itself."

"And you boy, have that talent to become that the weapon master. A person that could wield any kind of weapon proficiently." Explain the old dwarf.

Hearing the old dwarf story, 'Hmm… I guess that explains why I could easily learn any kind of weapon in my previous life.' Thought Angus inwardly.

"Err… Okay. So, now what?" Asked Angus innocently.

"Now, what?!! Boy, did you realize you have a rare talent that every single combatant and crafter want?" Say the dwarf furiously.

"Yeah, I know that my talent is quite a bit special but… you can say it has nothing to do with my dream." Replied Angus.

"Dream?? Hahaha… What could possibly kid like you know about?" Berated the old dwarf.

"Well, at least I have a dream. Many people don't have it, you know. Some even lost it" said Angus nonchalantly.

Hearing this the old dwarf silent for a moment like reminiscing of his old memory before continuing, "Alright, kid. What's this dream of yours that is more important than becoming a weapon master?"

"I just want a peaceful life. That's my dream." said Angus resolutely.

Hearing this, the old dwarf silence for a moment that seems like his brain fried by Angus's answer.

Looking at the dwarf becomes kind of absent minded, "Err… Hello??" as Angus waves his hand in front of the old dwarf.

After a few moments, the old dwarf woke up from his thought, "Brat, say what is your dream once again?"

"Err.. I just want a peaceful life. Just laid back and enjoyed my life without worry…" said Angus.

Before Angus finished his sentence, "You.. You lazy brat without any backbone!!" As the old dwarf retrieves his big hammer from out of nowhere and slams it towards Angus. *BAM*

Being hit by the hammer suddenly, Angus flies away through the smithing area towards the entrance smithing area.

"Get over here, brat!! I will smack you until your mother can't recognize you!" as the old dwarf pursues Angus while being held by Bail.

But, the old dwarf strength is many times greater than Bail and immediately throws him away.

During this time, Henry who is stationed outside also notices this commotion and enters the smithing area. He found Angus coughing some blood while the old dwarf approached at fast speed.

Feeling the enraged and powerful old dwarf coming, "Sir, I don't know what happened but you are hurting the duke… "But before Henry could finish his sentence, he was slammed with the hammer from the old dwarf.

"Shut up!!" said the furious old dwarf.

Looking that a grade one student fell unconscious under his casual attack then looking at Angus who only has a little bit internal injury. The old dwarf knows how monstrous the boy is.

But, remembering his laid back answer and attitude, he once again became furious and attacked Angus. Using the moment Henry made, Angus finally could recover from the shock and get up.

At this moment, he notices another sledge hammer coming towards him. Looking that he could not dodge it. He gathered a tremendous mana in his fist and counter attacked the incoming attack [Iron Fist]. *BAAM*

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[Iron Fist] *BAAM*

The collision of old dwarf's hammer and Angus fist make both of them thrown a few meters back. Angus realizes that his knuckle is broken and his internal injury has worsened from the previous clash.

Meanwhile the old dwarf himself is still fine without any kind of injury. Looking at this, Angus knows that his chance to defeat this old dwarf is almost none.

'Damn it, why do I always have trouble with unreasonable old men? First father, now this old dwarf.' Curse Angus inwardly.

During this time, the old dwarf was still in shock because he didn't expect Angus to have such a kind of strength. Moreover, he knows that Angus is still a child without forming his own mana core.

As for himself, although he has already old and retired from the battle for a long time. But, he is still a full fledged high grade battle dwarf. This kind of revelation is quite a shock to him.

'T-this strength... Imposible!!' Thought the old dwarf

Using this moment, Angus managed to grab a spear nearby before readying himself. His lazy attitude changes immediately and becomes an embodiment of a predator that looks at his prey.

Although Angus didn't want to reveal his true strength, he was also not a person that could be bullied without any fight. Especially if the other person is quite crazy like the old dwarf in front of him.

Moreover, just from his counter attack before, Angus already shows his capabilities. It will hardly conceal his true strength anymore in front of this old dwarf. So, he feels to drop his act and begin to fight seriously.

Noticing Angus's change, the old dwarf wakes up from his stupor and also becomes serious. From his experience, he feels like in front of dangerous monsters waiting for any carelessness in their prey.

After a few moments of silence and staring at each other, Bail comes out from the inside and looks at the tense situation between his boss and the human child.

"What the…." before Bail finished his sentence.

Both of them move at the same time, Angus charging forward while creating dozens of illusionary spears around him [Spear Art - Thousand Needle].

The old dwarf raises his sledgehammer above his head and brings down with enormous might on it [Hammer Art - Hammerfall].

*Ting* *Ting* *Ting* *Crack* *BOOM* All the spears's attack clashed and met with the mighty hammer. They create a shockwave towards the surrounding. However, the spear quality is inferior to the sledgehammer and finally cracked into pieces.

Angus also notices this and uses strange footwork similar to beast to evade the incoming sledgehammer [Beast Walk]. Then he took out an axe from nearby and counter attacked the old dwarf [Axe Art - Mountain Cleaver].

Still the old dwarf managed to react quickly and break the axe using his hammer easily. Then, Angus took another weapon and launched another attack towards the old dwarf using various skills according to the weapon he wielded.

As Angus keeps changing his weapon to fends off the old dwarf, "Brat, stop taking the weapon and break it!!" said the old dwarf that already broke many of Angus's weapons. *Clang*

"Then, stop chasing me like a mad man, crazy old dwarf!!" replied Angus while he kept clashing with the old dwarf. *Clang*

"If you forget about your stupid dream and pursue the title of weapon master seriously, I will stop beating you. Just look at how many weapons you easily wield, It's a gift! A rare talent!!" Said the old dwarf. *Clang*

"No way! My dream is to have a peaceful life!!" shout Angus while attacking the old dwarf *Clang*

"Then, I will beat you until you forget those stupid dream!!" As the old dwarf flares up his own mana more.

Using faster speed and stronger attack, the old dwarf begins to seriously attack at Angus's body without care of the surrounding [Hammer Art - Stone Breaker]. *BOOM*

Angus got thrown away from the serious attack of the old dwarf. But, at the last moment he managed to mitigate some of the damage from his body [Yin-Yang Balancing].

Still the attack is far more he could handle and shock all his internal organs. He feels like being hit by a truck at fast speed or something worse.

*Cough* *Cough* "Crazy old man, *Cough* did you really want to kill me?! *Cough*" as Angus keep coughing more blood.

"Forget about your stupid dream!!" said the old dwarf.

"No!!" Shout Angus.

"Then, DIE!!" As the furious old dwarf raises his hammer.

Fortunately, at this time Bail managed to hold the old man. "Wait a minute, boss!!"

"Get away from me, Bail!!" as he tried to shake Bail around.

"Please, consider this. If you kill the kid, it will put us into a bad situation." As Bail tries to reason with the old dwarf.

"I don't care. I rather kill this imbecile brat now rather than let his talent rotting away." Replied the old dwarf

"H-How about this? this kid is still young, you could slowly shape and let him grow under your tutelage into a great weapon master?" Said Bail quickly.

Hearing this, the old dwarf thinks for a moment while Bail is nervous as he knows his boss is quite stubborn to handle.

'Please, I hope you consider this.' Thought Bail hopefully.

"Fine. Brat, I will give you a chance. From now on you will be my student, Balrug Goldstein. Now, tend your wound and tomorrow morning you will come over here to receive your training." As Balrug stares at Angus before walking away.

He feels if he looks or hears his new student comment at this moment, he will truly kill him without any hesitation. At first Angus wanted to say no, but Bail already shut off his mouth to not anger his old boss.

"Just shut up, brat. This is for your own good." Whispering Bail slowly towards Angus.

"Bail, take care of this mess. I will rest inside first. Beating the brat really makes me work this old bone." As Balrug walks towards the inside.

Looking at his boss finally entering inside, "Haaa… Kid, I don't know whether to call you lucky or not to become a student of the old boss." said Bail while he release the Angus's mouth

"*Cough* *Cough* Lucky my ass!! Who wants to be a student of that crazy old man." Replied Angus.

Hearing this Bail could only sigh inwardly, "Alright-Alright, if you want to live, you better comply with the boss for a while. Did you need some help to go towards the infirmary?" Asked Bail worriedly.

Bail knows that the last attack of Balrug is a powerful attack that could smash any grade one monster into pulp. So, he worried about Angus's condition, who is still not forming his own core.

Even though Bail is known that the kid in front of him is an anomaly, he is still worried. If something happens to the child himself, his future will also be doom.

"Don't worry it's just a small internal injury. I could still walk myself." Replied Angus in an assured tone before walking towards Henry.

Arriving at Henry's location, Angus stares at Henry silently before saying, "How much did you see?"

Hearing no answer, "I know you are already awake. So, stop pretending to sleep. Unless you want to sleep forever here." As Angus releases a little bit of chilling aura towards Henry.

"Hi-Hiiii… S-Sorry, young master. I am already awake now." Said Henry as soon as he felt the deadly chilling aura.

"Forget about it. So, How much did you see?" asked Angus once again.

"Err.. From the moment you clash with that old dwarf using various kinds of weapons nearby." Answered Henry.

Hearing this Angus immediately curse, "Tch… Damn it!!"

Before staring deadly at Henry, "I don't want any kind of soul to know about this incident. Even if my own father asked about it. Did you understand?! Otherwise, death is the only way you could think of." Said Angus while keeping releasing a dreadful chiling towards Henry.

"Y-Yes, Young master. Nobody knows about this matter." replied Henry rapidly.

"Good, now let's go back. How is your injury?" asked Angus while he is back to his lazy expression.

"Ahh.. Nothing major, young master. A good night rest is all I need to be back in full health." said Henry truthfully.

"Really?? Then, good. Go back to your own dorm to rest for now." Command Angus.

"Eh.. But, how about... your... injury?" while saying the latter sentence Henry feels another chill from Angus.

"Go back to your own dorm." said Angus expressionlessly.

"Y-Yes, young master." As Henry immediately departs from his spot to run away.

Looking at Henry's silhouette running towards his dorm. Angus finally feels to take a deep breath to calm his emotion.

Ever since Angus came into this world, he rarely shows his emotion, especially the rage emotion like now. All of this because Angus is master at controlling his own emotions.

However, like any other mortal being, Angus himself has his own reverse scale. His reverse scale is the hate of losing battle.

Although it is only a moment of battle and there is a big disparity in his strength with Balrug, this is also the first time Angus truly uses all his capability in fight.

Yet he was still overpowered easily by the old dwarf and even got mercy from him. This is a truly huge blow towards his pride as an expert martial artist.

Unlike the fight with his father, the fight he just had is more direct and relies on the skill and body strength. Because of this Angus now is between excitement and grief for losing against the old dwarf.

He is excited to have another battle with the old dwarf. But, he also hates himself for not being stronger than the old dwarf. This kind of chaotic emotion makes him become more moody than his calm self.

'Haa… Let's calm down for now and tend this wound first.' Thought Angus as he feels the stinging pain all over his body.

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After walking for a moment towards his dorm, Angus stops at a nearby bench. "Tch.. It seems my wound is more serious than I thought. Damn, that old dwarf really hit me hard."

Then, Angus looked for a secluded spot before sitting down. He undresses his upper clothes and examines carefully about his wound.

Fortunately, there are no ones around or people will realize his dense muscle body despite being a child body. During this time he also checked his status panel.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 8 Years Old

MP: 36/100

Heritage chi: ???

Strength: 12

Dexterity: 12

Intelligence: 15

Vitality: 20

Soul Point: 132

"Tch.. I spent a lot of mana during the battle. Need to recover it first." As Angus entered into meditation silently.

After a while, Angus feels his internal wound is slightly healed and his mana is fully recovered.

Normally, restoring mana could not be done very fast especially if you had a large mana reserve. However, Angus has an endless amount of Heritage chi that are ready to be refined into mana anytime.

So, recovering mana in a short time is a small matter for Angus. As long as he has time to meditate for a while, he could recover his mana instantly.

Then, he presses the pressure point on his body using his finger. After a few moments, he feels his inside hurting and spits out dark blood clots from his mouth.

He flicks his hands and creates a blue flame on both his hands [Healing art - Rejuvenation Flame]. The blue flame seems mystical and warm.

Controlling the blue flame, Angus pressed his flaming palm all over his body. He immediately feels a hot sensation inside his body. He feels like being roasted alive.

After a while, the burning sensation changes into a warm and soothing sensation. It's like he is soaked inside the warm water.

Soon, the sensation recedes and his body feels as good as new. If it is not because of his tiredness expression in his face, nobody will realize he has been through a hard fight.

As for his knuckle, it is still bleeding a little bit from clashing with the old dwarf's hammer directly. However, the broken bone has already healed and become stronger than before.

"I truly admire the one that created this healing technique. Beside the huge consumption energy, it is truly a miracle for internal wounds type." as Angus put on his clothes before going back to his dorm.

Walking below the moonlight and cold wind of night, Angus marvels at the surroundings that seem to be silent and calm despite the hard battle he just did a few hours before.

Thinking of this, he began to remember the fight from before and how powerless he is. After a while, he shook his head.

'Why am I getting moody just for losing one unreasonable fight? Is it what they called puberty time? Haa… Forget about it. I will just go with the flow.' Thought Angus inwardly.

Arriving at the dorm, he immediately went inside his room. It is already quite late and everyone is occupied in their own dorm to study or sleep. So, Angus could get into his room without any hassle.

Inside his room, he immediately takes a bath and tends his bleeding knuckle. Soon, he fell asleep on his bed because of exhaustion.

The next morning, he wakes up along with the sunrise. Angus feels refreshed and healthy. After doing some light exercise routine, he eats his breakfast before everyone shows up like usual.

Then, he goes to his class while enjoying the surroundings as his habit. Arriving early, Angus sits on his spot and immediately 'sleeps' like usual. It didn't feel like he was after having a rough fight the day before.

While he is sleeping, he feels like he has forgotten something. But, since he forgot about it, he thought that it was nothing important and continued his sleep.

Meanwhile inside the smithing area, Balrug is ready to explode in anger anytime. "Where is he?!! Bail, Get your ass over here!!"

"Y-Yes, Boss." as Bail approached the boss.

"Get that brat over here now!!" command Balrug.

"A-Alright." said Bail immediately.

Before Bail went away, 'Hold on a second. Who's the name of the kid once again?'

Looking at Bail still not going away, "Why are you still here? Did you want me to smack your ass?!" shouted Balrug angrily.

"N-No, Boss. I mean… Did you happen to know who is the name of the kid?" asked Bail nervously.

Hearing this Balrug is silent for a moment, "Who is the kid's name?" asked Balrug back.

"Ehh… I thought that boss already knew him." replied Bail.

"I-I… Forget about it. Just bring the damn kid right now!!" shouted Balrug towards Bail once again.

Hearing this, Bail could only get out quickly from Balrug's room before getting hit by his furious old boss.

As for Angus himself, he is listening to teacher Elis's lesson about History seriously. Many people like to underestimate history and think of it as a boring subject.

But, as someone who has already experienced life twice, Angus feels that history is quite important. For him he thought history is a kind of story about some incident to learn.

The important things in the history is not the story itself but the things that could be learned from the history itself so it will never be repeated again.

Normally, he needs a lot of effort to remember every detail about the history lesson. However, Angus has his intelligence boosted by the system and makes him remember it without any effort.

Although now it only covers the Heart Kingdom's history, it still has a lot of things to remember. Because of this reason, most of the students will find themself couldn't comprehend anything about the history course.

Some of them even fall asleep. Unfortunately for them, the royal academy emphasizes the quality over quantity that leads to having few students inside a class. None of them has a chance to sleep since they will get woken up by the teacher immediately.

Still that didn't mean they will listen to the teachers 'story' hearthfully. Most of the student often ignore the 'story' or just put a 'blank' expression thinking something else while pretending to hear about the 'story'

Even for Princess Jayna, hailed as a genius in academics and combat also could not escape this kind of predicament. In her case, she chooses to put on a mask facade to listen to the class seriously while actually she is thinking something else.

If not because someone disturb her about something, no one knows that she is actually not listening to the lesson. But, because of her status, no one is brave enough to disturb her during her daydreaming.

This seems a perfect plan for her until now. During the lesson, Angus suddenly drops his eraser and it falls below Princess Jayna.

The Princess herself is not noticing this and keeps her 'daydreaming'. But, Angus couldn't pick up the eraser on his own since he didn't want to peek at something he shouldn't see.

So, Angus tries to call the princess slowly to not disturb the class. But, the princess kept ignoring him and put on her masked facade pretending to listen to the class.

Left with no choice, Angus makes a small ball from a little piece of paper and throws it at the princess desk. Still being ignored, he threw more small paper balls towards her.

Until finally the princess notices something. She realizes that Angus is throwing some paper balls towards her and it is accumulating them at her desk.

Annoyed by this, "Angus!!" she shouted as reflex.

"Ms. Heart!! We are still in the class now." said teacher Elis.

"I-I am sorry teacher Elis." apologize to the princess before she is grumping silently.

At this moment. Angus called her silently once again. Because of the previous incident, the princess decided to ignore him.

Then, Angus once again threw small paper balls towards her once again. At first she decided to ignore it. But, later the small paper balls hit her head a few times and annoyed her.

"What!!" as she shouted towards Angus.

At this moment, teacher Elis glared at her chilingly, "Ms. Heart, If you didn't want to listen to the lecture you could go outside now."

"Eh.. B-But it's Angus's fault." said the princess frantically.

As for Angus himself, he just pretends to write something in his notebook before he looks to be surprised at his name being called.

Looking at this, "Ms. Heart, go outside now."

"Ehh… B-But…" as the princess tries to defend herself.

"Enough excuse, Ms. Heart. Go outside until the lecture is done." said the teacher Elis chillingly.

Hearing this, the princess could only obey the teacher while glaring at Angus. But, as soon as the princess walked towards the door, Angus stood up from his seat and attracted the others.

Before anyone could respond, he walked towards the princess's desk and picked up his eraser before walking back to his seat.

Looking at this, the princess realizes that Angus disturb her because of a single eraser and now she is being punished for it. But, what makes her more furious is Angus's laid back attitude and the act of not doing anything wrong.

'Angus!!! Just for a single eraser!! GRRR!!' Cursed the princess inwardly

The princess immediately gets out of the class grumpily while cursing Angus inside her heart. Although she is a royalty and a princess, she makes a promise to follow the academy rules and make sure to not cause unnecessary trouble inside the academy.

Because of this promise, she couldn't use her authority to fight against the teacher for something like this. In the end, she could only pay back at a later time towards Angus.

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As soon as the history class is done, Angus immediately goes outside towards the cafeteria afraid it will become too crowded.

However, in the middle of his way, Princess Jayna approached him. Without wasting any moment, the princess approached and launched an attack towards Angus.

Still calm like a water without ripple, Angus dodge the attack by a hair breath and make it look like he 'accidently' dodge the attack by luck.

Anticipating this, the princess gathers her mana and is ready to do some follow up attack. Before she could launch another attack, her hand was grabbed by someone. She stopped her attack while looking for the perpetrator.

"Ms. Heart, although the school didn't forbid students to fight one with each other, it didn't mean you could start a fight anytime you want. Besides, do you perhaps forget your promise to not involve in any kind of fight for the time being?" glare teacher Elis.

"Eh.. But.. It's Angus's fault. He is the one..." as Princess Jayna tries to justify her action.

During this time a loud shout hears through the crowded people, "Finally found you, Brat."

Hearing the familiar sound, Angus immediately has a bad premonition. Using the confusion of the others, Angus blends in with the student crowd and escapes. Then, a dwarf came out and searched for Angus only to find the person himself already gone.

"Tch… Where is that slippery brat?!!" As the dwarf frantically searches Angus without giving the others any explanation.

Meanwhile, the others who saw this incident finally also realize that Angus has already gone from his spot.

Looking at Angus already gone during the commotion, "Tch.. once again he is gone like that." said the princess that somehow already adapted to Angus's behaviour.

Before the break, Angus often dodge her approach and always 'disappear' like thin air before appearing when she gives up to search for him more.

After that she is being lectured by teacher Elis for a while before being let go. As for Angus himself, he has already managed to escape successfully from Bail and arrive at the canteen area.

While eating his lunch, He just realized and remembered that the crazy old dwarf ordered him to come to his smith early in the morning. But, Angus forgot about it and he also has a class in the morning.

'Since I am already late, there is no difference if I come or not. Besides, I also have an alchemy course in the afternoon.'

After his hearty meal, Angus goes towards his alchemy class ignoring his problem with the crazy old dwarf.

Like the smithing course, the alchemy course also receives a huge amount of demand on their product. But, the demand is on another scale. Alchemy is a job that needs a lot of research, knowledge, calculation, resources, etc.

Compared to smithing, the amount of resources and manpower quality is like earth and sky with Alchemy as sky and Smithing as earth.

Because of this, not many people could become alchemists. The only place that has a vast knowledge and resources usually is an institutional place like the Heart Royal Academy.

Since it is the top academy in the human race, the amount of order they receive is also many times higher than other academies.

Unfortunately, Angus is still a beginner in learning alchemy. During the beginner pace, the student is forbidden to create a product. They need to focus more on theoretical knowledge.

Alchemy in this world is almost the same as chemistry on earth. But, they use mana in their production technique rather than just combine elements under certain conditions.

The product of alchemy itself is variety but the most in demand is usually potions. A unique liquid with many kinds of use. It is often used as a sort of drug be it for healing purposes or enhancement for a certain period of time.

Before making a potion, Alchemists need to have a vast knowledge of its ingredients. Not only that, they also need to learn some calculation about the chemistry itself.

The production method of alchemy is a very complicated yet fragile process with almost zero tolerance of mistakes.

Although with the help of high tech machines and runes they could easily mass produce the potion, but to get a better product, it is still better to get crafted by personal hand.

Handmade potion and mass product potion are different depending on the one that creates it. It is almost the same as noodles made from the machine and noodles made from the master noodle chef.

The latter may have better quality but low in quantity while the prior could produce in more quantity with standard quality.

Using this same principle, unless it is a product from a master of alchemist, people usually choose to buy the mass product of potion.

Because of this, master alchemist in this world is regarded as a high status job with rich pay. Still not everyone could become a master alchemist, since the job itself requires a lot of resources and vast amounts of time to practice.

As for Angus he chose this particular course because he knows the importance of alchemy. Hell, even his dismissal in his previous life is because of poison which by product of alchemy itself.

Many people underestimate the poison in this world since people could cleanse it easily using their mana.

However, Angus believes if people in this world get the same poison like he did in the past life, he speculated that none of them could live for a second later.

Maybe the fifth grade or above people could survive but that's also uncertain. This shows how terrifying alchemy can be.

It will be a fool if he didn't use his time to try learning this subject after his hard lesson in his previous life. Moreover, he also has all the resources along with the time to study this subject carefully.

Along with the help of his enhanced intelligence, he could do all the complicated equations that the teacher gave.

Different from the smithing course, he didn't get a chance to do some practical things since everyone only thought him as a kid despite his high intelligence. But, they allowed me to borrow some books for my further studies from the alchemy course personal library.

This kind of habit is normal for others to see since Angus himself got a nickname as 'untouchable scholar'.

After the course hour is passed and returns the book he borrowed, Angus walks back to his dorm to end his day.

He noticed that in the entrance of his dorm there are two people standing waiting for him. One is the princess Jayna and the others is the dwarf named Bail.

Noticing two of them, Angus prepares to escape like usual. But, he underestimated the perception of the third grade dwarf himself.

Before he could move a single step, "Caught you!! Brat, did you know how much trouble I get just to find you?!!" said Bail while releasing his mana.

Being caught easily, Angus immediately surrendered his way to fight back.

'Haa… it's better to follow him and get done with it.' thought Angus while being dragged away with Bail's strong arm.

As for the princess who is being ignored, she could only grumble looking at this. Especially after she realizes that she is waiting all day for Angus like a good girl but in the end he is being snatched by someone else.

"Grr… Angus, just you wait!!" grumble the princess

Soon, Both of them are arriving into the empty smithing area. The worker and student that worked here during the day already leave at this time.

In the middle of the smithing area, Balrug was already waiting for both of them. Looking at Angus, Balrug immediately attacked Angus furiously.

Because of the distance, Angus managed to react quickly and dodge the incoming sledge hammer attack. The hammer soon clashes towards the ground and makes the ground crack.

Using the hammer momentum, he redirects the force and manipulates it [Yin - Yang Balancing]. Manipulating the force, Angus managed to grab the hammer and slapped Balrug's hand.

He also launched a counter attack by kicking the old dwarf that seems like a dozen of kicks at once [Dynamic Torrent]. Left with no choice, the old dwarf could only defend with his hand and release his hammer.

Then, Angus managed to seize Balrug's sledge hammer. "Fiuhh… What a good hammer you got here." said Angus causally.

"Brat, Give me back my hammer!!" as the dwarf launched towards Angus again.

But, during this time Angus suddenly lifted the hammer. He bash it towards the ground using all strength and create a shockwave towards the surrounding [Hammer Art - Thunderclap]. The smithing area was immediately damaged by it.

Balrug launched backward because of this sudden shockwave. He was surprised that Angus could lift up his heavy weighted hammer and use it to create a huge shockwave attack.

"So, Old man. Ready to talk or you want another round. Because I can do this all day." As Angus smiles evilly.

Looking at the surrounding destruction, the old dwarf finally gives up to beat up the kid. He knows that by using his own hammer, Angus could create more destruction towards the surrounding.

"Alright, kid you win this time. Now, follow me to the inner room." said the old dwarf, not wanting to waste any more time.

"Huh.. Why should I?" replied Angus nonchalantly.

"Why?!! Of course to start your training!" [Balrug]

"I see… But, no thank you. Besides, I never agreed to become your student in the first place." said Angus.

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"I see… But, no thank you. Besides, I never agreed to become your student in the first place." said Angus while readying to fight again.

Hearing this, the old dwarf became furious once again and ready to beat up the kid.

"Kid, you overestimate yourself." as he flares up his terrifying mana and releases a huge pressure towards Angus.

On the contrary, Angus didn't feel any pressure at all and replied casually, "Overestimate myself? Maybe? But, the important question here is what can you teach me about?"

Angus continued while looking at the dwarf that started to listen to him, "You said you train me to become a weapon master. But, are you a weapon master yourself? If not, what is your qualification for you to teach me who has this great talent to become a weapon master."

Hearing this, Balrug became silent for a while. Looking at his old boss silently, Bail wants to persuade Angus to apologize before being pummeled by him.

"K-Kid.. Hurry apollo…" said Bail.

Before Bail could finish his sentence, "Hahaha… That's right kid. I am no weapon master. But, I still could teach you the foundation to become a great weapon master." said Balrug with serious expression.

"Hoo… and what is that?" replied Angus.

"Bail, bring that table over here." ordered Balrug.

"Y-Yes, Boss." Bail immediately brings a sturdy wooden table.

"Bail, what grade are you?" asked Balrug.

"Third grade, boss." [Bail]

"Good, now you go arm wrestling with the kid." Order Balrug.

Then, he continued, "The third grade people's physics is almost no different with ordinary trained people. So, if you still have a chance to beat Bail."

Angus didn't know what this crazy old dwarf was thinking, but he knew that the dwarf race hated to use underhanded tactics even if they lost so he complied with him.

He is interested in what the old dwarf wants to achieve from this. Then, Bail and Angus ready themselves to have a match of arm wrestling.

The moment both of them are ready, "Begin!" [Balrug]

The two arms immediately try to overpower one with each other. At this moment, "A weapon master needs a... " *BAM*

As Angus defeated Bail easily before Balrug could finish his sentence.

"Sorry, what do you say once again?" asked Angus nonchalantly.

"Hahaha… Good, your next opponent is me." said Balrug excitedly.

"Nope, everyone could see you are much higher grade than Bail. So, what's the point of this useless match?" replied Angus.

"Don't worry I will not use any mana to strengthen myself. Moreover, you will be considered as the winner if you could move my arm back a little bit." said Balrug.

He added to entice Angus further, "If you win, I will never bother you again."

Although winning seems impossible to Angus but pushing a little bit backwards is still possible. Especially if Balrug didn't use any kind of mana to strengthen himself.

From sparring with his father, he noticed that the higher grade people are not very strong without mana. Moreover, Angus strength is almost more than two times than ordinary ungraded people combined with the mana to strengthen himself, he still has a chance to win.

"Haa… What choice do I have? Alright, let's get over it." replied Angus

As both of them ready themselves, "You ready to lose, kid?" [Balrug]

"Just make sure you keep your own word." [Angus]

As soon as both of them are ready, "Begin!" [Bail]

Angus immediately use his mana to strengthen his arm towards maximum and push Balrug arm. But, he feels like pushing a sturdy immovable wall.

Looking at this, Balrug only smiles and flexes his arm muscle a little bit. Angus feels a huge force overpowering him.

Using his fast relex, Angus immediately uses [Yin - Yang Balancing] to redirect the force from dislocating his arm. But, he still got thrown away from the recoil of the force. *BAM* Angus got thrown away into the nearby wall.

"Hahaha… kid, Did I still have the qualification to teach you?" as Balrug grinning over his win.

Angus is not replying to the old dwarf boasting at all. As an expert martial art, he also has an intensive knowledge about body strength and psych. What he experienced just now completely blows his mind.

Normally, the strength difference between two of them is supposed to be not this huge considering that his father's physical body is not too different from him except after being enhanced by mana.

Even if the dwarf race has superior physical strength than humans the differences should not be this huge. Afterall, he could defeat Bail, the third grade dwarf easily before.

However, Angus feels that the old dwarf physical strength is many times higher than himself. Moreover, judging by the old dwarf's reaction himself, he may not use all his full power when defeating Angus. This kind of realization really surprised him.

After calming down a little bit, Angus realizes it is not because of his grade that Balrug has crazy strength. It is because another factor that makes him have unbelievable strength.

After all besides the monster who evolved with miasma, the other civilian race could not raise their own physical strength easily like them. Otherwise, the feud between the monster and civilization society will already end a long time ago.

Noticing Angus thought, "So, did you still interested in studying under my tutelage?" said Balrug with his proud smile.

Looking at the proud smile of Balrug, Angus feels like want to beat the old man alive. But, he was also curious about the origin of his body strength.

Especially after he knew that in this world, people didn't really attach the importance of their own physical power since they could enhance their own with mana easily.

After thinking for a while, "Alright, I will study under you." replied Angus.

Hearing this the old dwarf feels like winning a lottery before Angus adds, "However, there are a few conditions if you want me to study under you."

"Condition?" [Balrug]

"Yes, first you must not reveal my power to other people. Second, I will only study under you when I am truly free. And lastly, I will not call you my teacher." said Angus seriously.

"Ehh… Well, I could agree about not revealing your true power as it is your own privacy and I don't really care what you call me. But, for the second condition, you are not thinking of lazing around right?"

Then, Angus gave the old dwarf a piece of paper that he already prepared before towards him without answering his question. Grabbing the paper, the old dwarf found a timetable.

"That's my schedule of my course and side course." explained Angus.

Both of the dwarves immediately read the timetable. They were surprised by how tight Angus's schedule was. Besides the weekend, Angus didn't have any free day.

"Brat, you must be joking. This can't be your schedule right?" [Balrug]

"Whether I lie or not. You can check it at the academy registry about this. Besides the weekend and Tuesday smithing course that is under your authority, I am kind of busy on another day."

"Brat, you are too gree…" suddenly Balrug stops his sentence as he realizes the main characteristic of the weapon master.

Over history, all the weapon masters have the same main characteristic. All of them are famous for their thirst for knowledge. Their curiosity over something is so great that they always want to learn everything.

Not only that, they are also a great learner that could sometimes invent something new out of nowhere. Because of this, they are not only famous for battle but also famous as inventors and craftsmen.

Realizing that Angus also has this kind of characteristic as a natural weapon master, "Alright, I accept on your condition. You will be training under me on the weekend and tuesday."

"Ehh…" as Angus didn't expect that the dwarf really agreed about his condition easily.

"However, you need to be serious to study under me. Otherwise, you could… Well… Let's not think about it for now." said Balrug mysteriously.

"Boss, you don't think to teach him that art right?" Bail suddenly asked his old boss.

But, rather than answering he only looked at Angus silently waiting for his answer. Hearing this Angus couldn't help but be curious about their conversation.

"As I said before, I will learn under you in my free time. I don't know what kind of training or art you will give me. But, I will not back down on my own words." replied Angus seriously.

"Alright, then it's a deal." as the dwarf sticks his hand for shaking hands.

"It's a deal." said Angus while shaking the robust old dwarf's hand.

After chatting for a few more about the specific time for his training, Angus excuses himself and goes back towards his dorm.

'Haa… Luckily, it went peacefully. Otherwise, this matter will be blown up and everyone will know my true strength. That's the last thing I want as it will become no different than in my past life.' Thought Angus inwardly.

While walking towards his dorm, he notices the big bright moon and clear starry sky above him.

'Huff… life is really unpredictable and could never be controlled.' Thought Angus silently.

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Angus arrived at his dorm without any obstruction. While he is entering the dorm, the other students inside the dorm still wake up and stay in the common room.

Fortunately, Princess Jayna is already resting in her own room. So, Angus could immediately enter the dorm without creating a commotion.

After having a hearty dinner meal by paying some points Angus immediately rests in his own room. During these few months of his stay inside the spring dorm, the others already notice Angus's antisocial behaviour. So, they didn't really pay a mind towards him.

They may not notice if Angus suddenly disappears from his room during the night. Entering inside his room, Angus took off his academy uniform change into his prepared training clothes.

While the other students usually use their evening time to study or rest, Angus always uses this time to train his body silently.

By using his manual battle system, he could train all kinds of destructive and dangerous moves without creating a commotion. As for his own study, his mind could understand all the courses easily.

He only needs to study a little bit before doing some tests. As for some homework could easily be done in the early morning.

At first he thought that re-learning again is easy but the royal academy course is much more complicated and harder than in his past life. Some of the courses like Word language, Monster Studies, and Magical Rune are new for him.

Normally, students of the first year may need to do a lot of review and study at night to follow up with the class. Fortunately, Angus's own intelligence is being enhanced by the system to cope up with all this new knowledge.

Angus intelligence point may only 15 but it is already more than twice normal human mind capability. This is also the reason why Angus didn't want to increase his intelligence more.

It is not that he didn't want to improve it, but rather it is already enough for his current situation. Beside that he really didn't like the sudden feeling of being enhanced by the system.

It feels unnatural and creates a sort of unbalance inside his body. If it is only one point, he needs a few days to adapt to it.

But more than that, he needs more time and as a person that is already on the boundary of being a control freak, Angus hates this kind feeling of uncontrollable body.

After doing his workout routine, he summons his own status panel.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 8 Years Old

MP: 100/100

Heritage chi: ???

Strength: 12

Dexterity: 12

Intelligence: 15

Vitality: 20

Soul Point: 135

During all his stay inside the academy while observing other students, Angus managed to optimize his soul point gain by 3 per day.

The automatic battle's enemy he chooses is an upperclassmen that he observes by chance through a duel between their peers.

He could beat an upperclassmen that still didn't form their mana core. As for the one that already forms it, he rarely sees them fight beside Henry.

He noticed the difference between students with mana core and not. The qualitative change is so huge that sometimes Angus marvels about it.

He didn't know if it is because Henry is actually really strong or the people with mana core are actually stronger by nature. After all, he only unlocked Henry's full capabilities in manual battle after he tried to stalk him for a long time.

As for the other upperclassmen, he needs to fully observe for a long time to unlock all their full capabilities which is a waste of time for Angus. He prefers to use this time to enjoy the scenery rather than stalking some stinky kids.

Still defeating Henry through the manual battle gave him a soul point of 0,0001. But, the best time he won the battle was more than five minutes. If Angus was careless, he may need 10 minutes to fully kill him.

Therefore, Angus set his automatic battle to fight students without mana core that he could defeat in second.

This way Angus would gain more soul points every second that lead into 3 points per day rather than only get 0,0001 points every five minutes which equals 1,7 points per day.

After checking his status panel, Angus selected his opponent list in manual battle selection. Along the manual battle, there are a lot of opponents selected.

However, most of them couldn't give a better reward because of lack of observation or they are too strong like his father, Balrug, and other strong teachers.

For this kind of opponent the percentage of winning was always less than 40% this with the premise he still didn't uncover their full capabilities.

The most frustrating thing about this is his winning percentage towards fighting the intruder that he kills before still not moving from 37%.

Although there is not a lot of time passed since then and his strength itself has stagnated, his skill is much better than before. But, the percentage of winning didn't increase at all.

This shows that higher grade people could easily kill him despite him mastering various kinds of skills. All kinds of skills and tricks will be useless in front of true power.

Angus realizes that higher grade people in this world are many times stronger than experts in his past life world.

After calming his mind, he chose Henry as the opponent for his manual battle and his mind entering the familiar white battle room.

In front of him there is a humanoid creature with Henry's body stature. Feeling at the familiar bloodlust, Angus readying himself to fight him.

Soon, the countdown ends and signifies the start of the battle. Like usual Angus always tries to end the battle as soon as possible with his overwhelming enhanced speed and skills.

But, the tenacity of his opponent is quite strong despite being beaten by Angus. After five minutes or so, finally the humanoid creature makes its last breath.

"Haa.. Haa.. It's defence and vigor is really something else." said Angus while trying to calm his breath.

Facing such a strong 'punching bag' Angus became more excited. After taking a short break to calm his breath and restore his mana, this time he chose a multiple battle menu.

Then, he chose Henry and a few other students without mana core as an opponent. The multiple battle menu also calculates his percentage of winning.

For his safety he kept his percentage of winning more than 70%. It seems not a lot but the difficulty is increased by a lot of margin from his usual 90% winning chance.

Just a little bit of slight distraction, he could get himself killed. After all there is around a 30% chance of him dying or losing under this battle.

Up till now, Angus never lost in the manual battle. Because it means he died under battle. Although the battle only happened inside his mind, he noticed all the injuries he got always affected his actual body.

He didn't want to gamble his life and find out about this matter. There is a chance he may survive, but his gut tells him he will also die.

As an expert of martial art, Angus's danger sense is very reliable. So, he treats this manual battle system carefully. After all, the existence of the system itself is an anomaly and mysterious.

From Angus's past life experience, he believes there is no such thing as a free meal in this world. Since he got the system, the system must have wanted something from Angus.

But, Angus himself never truly cared about this. Because he himself never uncovered the true intent and origin of the inheritance chi in his past life.

Now, he got an addition to this mysterious idle system. For him, Angus only thought both of them as a tool for him to get stronger.

Soon, Angus self battle 'training' came to end after he almost exhausted all his mana and stamina. The moment he gets out from the manual battle room, it is already in the middle of night.

Even though Angus is still in a child body but his stamina is truly monstrous that could compare to some third grade people. It is only possible since his vitality stat reaches to 20 which is four times more than ordinary ungraded people.

After the heavy exercise, Angus takes a bath and soaks inside the warm water for a while before sleeping on his own bed.

Few days passed by as Angus continued his academy life in the day and secret training in the evening. Soon, the weekend comes and Angus needs to keep his word to come training under Balrug.

Arriving at the smithing area which is as busy and crowded as usual, he is immediately founded by the old dwarf.

"Good, it seems you really keep your word. Now, come with me." said Balrug.

Both of them go to the basement area and arrive at the huge room that is made of unknown dark colored material. Be it the floor, wall, and ceiling all of them made from the same material.

There is also no window since it is located underground. Only a small air duct and vent to be found for the air flow.

"This room is actually for a weapon testing area. It is made from special alloy material that is also reinforced with various kinds of runes. From now on, this will be your training area." explained the old dwarf.

"Good place. So, what are we gonna do?" asked Angus excitedly.

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"Good place. So, what are we gonna do?" asked Angus excitedly.

"What are we gonna do? Of course doing physical training. Like I said before, the foundation of a weapon master is by having good body strength." explain Balrug

"Okay, but could you not achieve it by simply enhancing it through mana?" asked Angus.

"True. Normally, you could easily enhance the body strength through mana. But, there are a few flaws to this technique. Did you know what it is?" asked Balrug as he tested Angus.

"Hmm… the enhancement will be reverted back after not being supplied with enough mana." Replied Angus immediately as he also realized this kind problem from the start.

Although mana is different, it is similar to chi and every person has a limited amount of it. Once they empty their mana pool, they will turn into slightly stronger than ordinary ungraded people.

They need to meditate or rest for a while before recovering their mana a little bit. This kind of problem always plagues many people be it from his past life and in this world. This is why mana control and conservation is very important.

"Good, you also realize this problem. There are a lot of ways to enhance body strength but few of them could really last for a long time."

"What I am going to teach you is a hidden secret technique from my clan to enhance your physical strength permanently." said Balrug in a serious tone.

Angus looks confused for a few seconds before asking, "Okay, but what do you get from this?"

Hearing this, "What's in me? Hahahaha… you are a really interesting kid. You are more mature than your peers and some those final year blockheads." Laugh Balrug heartfully

"Well, I just believe there is no free meal in this world. So, you must be getting something from this, right?" replied Angus

"In normal cases especially dealing with other dwarves you are right, however I am already old and fulfilled most of my dreams." [Balrug]

Now, I just want to pass my technique and smithing skill to good seedlings. What's a better candidate than a future weapon master such as yourself?" explain the old dwarf.

Hearing this, Angus feels of having a complicated feeling. It is because he never truly achieved his own dream in his past life and reached this state.

Although Angus has two lives, he is nowhere as old as the dwarf in front of him. From the books he read, he found that the dwarf race also has a long lifespan around 150 years.

Moreover, that's an approximate age of the ungraded people one. For the graded one, their life span also increases by many times.

If not for constant war with the monster, this world may be more crowded than on Earth in his past life due to many people having long longevity. For people like Balrug who is very old, he has all the time enough to achieve few of his dreams.

"Alright, kid. Enough for the introduction. Now, wear this bracelet." as Balrug gives him a bracelet.

"My technique to improve physical strength has a harsh requirement and you need to do it without the help of mana at all. This bracelet will seal your mana pool to help you train without mana." explained Balrug.

Angus didn't think much and wore the bracelet. He instantly feels his control over mana is being cut off, but he still has access over heritage chi energy.

Then, Balrug ordered Angus to put on a lot of weighted clothes. The clothes are almost the same like combat training clothes but it is enchanted to become more heavy than usual.

After that, Angus was ordered to do all kinds of exercise such as running around the room, push ups, sit ups, and others basic exercise.

Looking that Angus could do all the exercise without problem, Balrug finally is certain that Angus already possesses extraordinary strength compared to other people.

"Alright, you can stop running." Ordered Balrug.

"Huff… finally, I thought the training would be this kind of boring thing." replied Angus.

"Well, sorry to crush your hope but the training will be this kind of boring thing except the weight will increase more." saying Balrug while he took other heavy weighted clothes.

"Whaat?!!" [Angus]

"Well, what do you expect? Some secret movement training, perhaps? When you are training your physical body there is nothing better than doing direct continuous training." [Balrug]

"This… No, you are still hiding something. Just by doing exercise and wearing heavy weighted clothes may increase your strength but there is still a limit for this mundane exercise. There is no way your secret technique is this way." rebuked Angus.

"Hooo… as expected, you notice these things."

"Then, this training is useless. Now, show me the real training."

"Nope, it is not entirely useless. You need to reach your body limit first before you can use my secret technique."

'Ehh…. wait a minute. I am still a kid and my body is still in a growth period. This means it will take a long time or years before my body reaches its limit. This old dwarf cheated me!!' Thought Angus inwardly.

Meanwhile Angus doing his mundane training, Duke Victory keeps being busy to arrange many things especially for the investigation team matter.

After they come back from the Roundel city, Duke Victory becomes the delegation leader of Heart kingdom for the investigation team.

The investigation matter is important since it pertains to the safety of the heart of the kingdom that is located near the border of dark forest.

The king himself could not go since he needed to always be inside the kingdom in case of something emergency or being attacked by countless monster waves. He is the last defensive line for the Heart Kingdom.

Therefore, King Leon needs strong yet loyal people to handle this matter. That's why he chose Duke Victory as the delegation leader of Heart Kingdom.

Duke Victory will leave for a certain period of time. During his absence, he needs to make sure nothing is going wrong, especially the safety of his family.

Remembering his family, 'Urg… There is also Angus's matter. Damn, so many things to do and little time to achieve.' Grumble the duke silently.

After thinking for a while, the duke wrote a piece of letter before ringing a bell beside his desk. *Tring*

Immediately a butler came inside his study room, "Is there a problem, my liege?" said the butler.

"Yes, Pavon. Please send this letter like usual." commanded the duke.

"Certainly, Is there anything else?" asked Pavon.

"Yes, I will be absent for a certain period of time. My dear sister in law will come to stay during this period of time. Make sure there is… not too much trouble during this time."

"As you wish, my lord." before Pavon excused himself.

After the butler gets out from the room, the duke begins to contact the other allied noble he thrust to gather his team through his magical communication.

The technology in this world is based on mana and also quite advanced despite having a middle age european culture.

Communication technology has also already developed quite a lot. People only use letters for most of the important matters. Letters in this world hardly could be decoded and hacked rather than other communication methods.

Unfortunately, people in this world still could not conquer the sky that led to not developing a far away wireless communication technology.

However, they still could contact one of each other through magical communication tools as long as they are not too far away.

While having meetings about the investigation team, many other countries also begin their preparation for the incoming war with the monster especially the one that borders monster habitat such as Dark Forest, Deep Blue Ocean, Desert Saga, and many more.

Although the monster overlord resides in the Dark Forest, there is still a huge chance the other monster will also launch an attack.

All of this has happened countless times since the ancient times. Monster overlord has the power to command all the monsters from far away through unknown means especially the intelligent one like the current case.

Fortunately, only bellow fifth grade monsters that could be controlled otherwise if the other monster overlords attack together the civilian society will be doomed and extinct a long time ago.

However, this is also an opportunity for certain people. This situation benefits war merchants and adventurers. War Merchants always sell things related to the weapon and arms which will be profited a lot during this time.

As for Adventurers group, they are a group of brave mercenaries that hunt monsters to sell their carcass and monster core.

In this time period of monster overlord, there will be an abundance of low monsters lurking near the perimeter of the kingdoms. This will make a good source of income with less risk compared to the need of going inside the monsters habitat to hunt them.

This is also the reason why some strong kingdoms choose to live near the border monster habitat. This place may be risked for a monster wave, but also a source of resources and income for the kingdom itself.

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By hunting monsters inside the monster infested area like Dark Forest, adventurers and some people will get a lot of resources.

It could be said that this kind of resource is similar to gold mine but in many different forms. The monsters not only provide monster cores that are useful for energy supply and alchemy products, their corpses are also useful to many things.

Some parts of it could be useful for medicine, some could be used as a base for weapons and arms, some could become a very luxury of clothes, and many others purpose. The only limitation is people need to hunt this dangerous monster first.

Because of this, there are many adventure guilds that are flourishing in the Heart kingdom. The Guild in this world is almost the same as the company on Earth. Except in here guilds consist of strong people and rather than workers.

The adventurer guild also got more jobs and hired during this time of period. Like the Blue Feather adventurer guild that is being hired as additional manpower and guide for the investigation team.

Adventurers may not be as strong as the kingdom army since people who are high grade usually will be hired by the kingdom or open their own guild, however nobody will underestimate their expertise in hunting monsters.

Like the old saying before you go fishing, ask the advice of the local fisherman. It means to ask the local expert to guide you in a new environment. This way the team will get less trouble during their investigation.

'Alright, now it is time to go.' thought Duke Victory while looking at the clock.

Done with his work, Duke Victory immediately leaves the house manor in the capital and teleports to one of his residences in the countryside. From there he needs to get by himself towards the Dark Fortress that he saved last time.

The teleportation device may seem convenient, however it could also be sabotaged by others to launch a surprise attack. Because of this reason, people only put them in safe places with heavy fortification.

Unstable place like Black Fortress, cannot have the teleportation device since it is often attacked by monsters and leaves them vulnerable.

The duke didn't immediately depart to the Black Fortress, but rather waited in front of the teleportation device. After a while, the teleportation device hummed a little bit and teleported a few people in battle attire.

Looking at this, the Duke Victory gives a friendly smile towards the newcomers. As for the newcomers, after they adapt to the disorientation from the teleportation device one of them greets Duke Victory.

"Good day, I hope we are not late Duke Jacob." said of the man in the front.

"Hahaha, long time no see my friends, Maro, Fyi, and Gibbs. Nope, you arrive just at the right time." replied the duke.

After that they exchange some pleasantries and greetings with each other. Once again the teleportation device hummed. But the spatial fluctuation this time is many times stronger than before.

"Duke Victory, did you expect someone to come?" as all of them ready their battle.

It is not uncommon for the teleportation device to be sabotaged by someone after being used. Furthermore, the teleportation device usually only gives small spatial fluctuations unless they teleported someone from far away or it is being sabotaged.

Teleportation from far away is very rare. So, it's normal for them to think that the teleportation is being sabotaged.

"Hold your weapon, my friends." said the duke without giving further explanation.

They immediately lower their weapon but still put their guard in case something is wrong. Minutes later, an elves come out from the teleportation device.

Looking that the one that teleported is an elf, they immediately put their guard down. Although elves are hailed as the strongest race in civilian society, they rarely cause and hate conflict.

They are also famous for being a peace loving race unless they are being provoked by others. Some myths said that they are the descendants of dragons, since they are very strong but never care of the world unless being provoked first.

After adapting a little bit to the spatial disturbance, "Good day, I hope I am not too late."

"Don't worry master Sylva. You arrive just on time." replied the duke.

"Gentleman, this is master Sylva Windspear. He will be the leader during this mission." introduced the duke towards others.

After they greet each other, "Alright, shall we go now?" asked the duke.

Getting confirmation from the others, the duke summoned his [Fire Wyvern]. Soon, all of them hopped into it and departed towards the Black Fortress.

The investigation team is divided into many groups according to the alliance between kingdoms, each of these groups has their own rendezvous location. For the Heart kingdom alliance group their meeting point is Black Fortress.

It will take some time before the other kingdom delegation comes to this place, they will stay here for a while before departing into the deep of Black Forest.

The other kingdom delegation cannot come over via teleportation device to avoid any conflict between these kingdoms. Beside the elf kingdom, the other kingdoms never fully thrust each other despite them being allied.

So, to avoid unnecessary conflict they agree to send their delegation through the border rather than using a teleportation device. Although it will take more time, they also have a lot of time before the monster overlord launches its full attack.

Sixty months means around five years in this world. Five years time is not too short and also not too long for the world that consists of many long life people on it.

However, they need to gather intelligence of the new monster overlord before the five years time to create some sort of counter measure towards it.

Like an old proverb saying If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

Beings arrive early at the Black Fortress also to increase the fortification in case of monster attack. Three of Duke's victory friends are grade five while Sylvan and Duke Jacob themself are grade six.

This kind of power line up could easily overpower a small kingdom. Moreover, there is also a Blue Feather guild member that is being hired by the kingdom.

They not only became a guide in this investigation mission but also provided additional manpower to stay inside the Black Fortress in case the monster wave attacked.

Beside that, the king himself commanded one of the three dukes left to stay at the black fortress for the time being. Normally, the black fortress area is under Duke Victory jurisdiction.

However, he needs to go along the investigation team. So, the king ordered other dukes to stay at this place.

The duke's in Heart kingdom is the highest noble beside the royal family. For them to get into this position they need at least to have the power of grade five or above.

Considering there are only four dukes in the Heart kingdom, yet they sent two dukes to fortify the border of Dark Forest. This shows that the importance of monster overlord matters towards the Heart Kingdom.

Arriving at the Black Fortress, Duke Victory greets General Borkins before letting the others to rest inside the fortress.

"Borkins, how is the situation?" asked the Duke Victory.

"The situation is not too bad since there is no other attack besides the last time. However…"

Hearing the tone of his friend, the duke also became more serious.

"None of them who got inside the forest managed to get back. Even all of our magical spy eyes are being destroyed the moment it enters the forest a little bit." [Borkins]

"Moreover, there is also something inside there that jammed our detection device." Explain the dwarf general about the current situation.

"Hmm… It means we have lost our eyes and ear inside the forest. Since when did this happen?" asked the duke solemnly

"Since the last attack. I tried to hire some high grade adventurers to know what is going on inside the forest but none of them have come back since then." [Borkins]

"If this is not a forest invested with monster areas I believe that someone is trying to hide something from us." Explain Borkins

"Alright, I will ask the master Sylva if he knows something about this. You did a good job, Borkins." said the duke.

"Ahh.. there are other things." interrupt the dwarf before letting the duke got away.

"What is it?" asked the duke

"I hear you are part of the investigation team this time. I have a bad feeling about this new monster overlord, I could only hope you to be careful. This forest is nothing but the embodiment of evil especially in time like this."

Hearing the warning of his old friend, "I will keep in mind that." before the duke rested in his own room.

He knows that the dwarf general rarely gives warning towards him. As someone who has lived for more than hundred years, the general dwarf intuition is most likely to be true.

The duke needs to be ready in every situation. Although as a grade six, he has a better chance to escape even facing a monster overlord, but he still needs to be careful especially after the last lesson where he got injured and almost lost his life.

The duke is not gotten into his current position only with his power, he also has a good head to read any scheme that leads into his current position from the lower noble.

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Dark Forest, an endless sea of forest that bordered with many kingdoms. It is known that it has existed since ancient times even before civilization.

This endless humongous sea of trees is not ordinary forest. Not only is the place infested by monsters and thick fog miasma in the centre, this forest is also different from others.

Many stories and myths tell about this forest. Some myth says that it is the place where the Evil God fell. Some say this place is cursed land, but no one could ever prove it.

Since ancient times many people try to destroy and burn this cursed land, but after one night all the burned and destroyed trees grow back again. Moreover, they not only grow but also develop in other places to become bigger over time.

If its perimeter is not getting lumbered and destroyed periodically, they may already infest all over the world. Many people try to search for its source but until now no one could do it. It's because in the centre of the Dark Forest is infested by hordes of high grade monsters.

This is the huge hurdle for a lot of people to reach the centre. It's impossible to avoid all these high grade monsters with their keen senses. Once you fight one monster, it will attract the others and lead to being surrounded.

Now, all of the kingdom send their own team to investigate the newly born monster overlord that resides in this cursed place. The kingdoms sent many high grade people and divided them into many teams.

Searching the monster overlord in this Dark Forest is like searching a needle in the haystack. Moreover, there are also other older monster overlord that reside in this Dark Forest since the ancient times.

Some may die being eaten by others some may still survive and hibernate themself. Whatever the case, it will be a suicide to wake them or disturb them. Unless they want to fight more than one monster overlord at the same time.

Because of this, all these teams are led by an elf. Elf race has the longest lifespan among the other races in exchange for their fertility. Along with this long lifespan, they also have the most complete record about all the monsters overlord that being born through history.

Every time a monster overlord is born, there will be an unusual massive attack of monster horde like before. So, it's hard to miss the birth of the monster overlord.

From the record not all these monster overlord is hostile. One usually stays in their territory, Ones just goes back to sleep, Few search for better territory, and many others that didn't care to attack civilization society.

These elf leaders in the investigation team have a role to recognize and update the monster overlord record. They also need to make sure other monsters overlord not being disturbed or wake up to attack civilization society.

Few months have passed since the Heart kingdom alliance team departed from the Black Fortress. Being guided by members of Blue Feather guild, the teams could easily enter the inner area of the forest.

Still they got a lot of obstacles from various low grade monsters that seem more active in the outer area. Although none of them could threaten the team, they need to avoid any unnecessary battle and being surrounded by monsters from all sides.

Because of this, they need a few months just to get inside the inner area. The inner area is enclosed by misty miasma in the air. The deeper towards the inner area, the thicker the grey mist.

"Huff… Finally arrive at the inner area. I thought it would take more time than this." said the muscular man, Gibbs.

"Well, it's thanks to Master William for being a good guide." said the brown skinned woman.

"Ahh… it's nothing. Actually I am quite ashamed since it usually only takes a few weeks time to get into the inner area. However, there are more monsters than usual in the outer area." said William.

"Don't worry about it, Master William. During this time period, all things could happen. I just received information that the others also have difficulty entering the inner areas."

"It's already impressive we could enter this area in just a few months' time." said Sylvan while putting his communication device inside his storage bracelet.

Although there are no satellites in this world, they still could communicate one with each other through magical communication devices as long as they are not stray too far.

"From here, I will be the one that leads the team. Master William since you have great perception towards surrounding, please keep your vigilance in case you notice something. Alright, shall we continue?" [Sylvan]

"Yes, sir." [Everyone]

Then, they continue their journey. As a team that consists of high grade people, their body is more resilient than others. All of them have strong physiques and could run all day without having a rest.

Still the Dark Forest inner area itself is not small, although they never measure it but it could be compared to a small continent on Earth. This large area is infested with high grade and monster overlord.

The danger rate rises up a lot compared to the outer area. In the inner area, one carelessness could lead to the death of the team or worse they could wake up the other monster overlord.

Few moments of going through the miasma fog, Sylvan signaled the team to stop. All of them immediately raise their vigilance towards the surrounding.

"What is it, Sylvan?" asked Jacob.

"Quiet… It's too quiet." replied Sylvan.

Then, William suddenly seems to smell something. "This.. This smell."

"Did you notice something?" asked Maru.

"Master Sylvan, we need to hide or get out of this place now!!" said William in a hurried tone.

Hearing this, the elf leader immediately cast a spell towards the surrounding area. [4th Circle - Mimicry Zone]. After that a group of huge bees came out from the fog in front of him.

Looking at the group of bees, "It's a group of grade three bear bees. It seems this is a grade five Queen Bee territory. There are no records of the Queen Bee being a monster overlord before."

"However, infiltrating the bee nest itself is almost the same as fighting a horde of bear bees at once. As the leader, we need to at least check the queen if it is a monster overlord or not."

"But, the risk is much higher than if we infiltrate another monster territory. So, how is it guys? Should we retreat or get going?" Asked Sylvan towards others.

While they discussed their next action, thousands of bear bees kept pouring out in the sky and passed them. Looking at the number of bear bees, they knows this will be a suicide to attack the nest now.

However, during this time a low sound wave vibrates in the air constantly. *HUM* Hearing this, Sylvan immediately checks his pocket watch communication device and finds that it could not receive any signal.

"This sound wave jammed all kinds of device communication. It seems it came from the bear bee nest." said Sylvan solemnly.

Without the communication one with each other, the investigation team efficiency will drop a lot. The reason why they choose an elf race as the leader is so they could exchange information one with each other impartially without hiding anything.

But, because of this low sound wave it jammed all kinds of communication devices inside the inner area. because of this, they need to at least kill the preparator that jammed their communication device.

While the others are still thinking what to do, 'Barricade of low grade monsters in the outer area, now low sound waves that could jam our communication device.'

'Hmm.. this is not the work of an ordinary monster. This monster overlord may be more dangerous than we initially thought.' Thought Silvan silently.

After a while, they decide to attack the nest since it is likely the low sound wave came from the nest. Without communication, their survival rate will also drop. So, they need to get rid of whoever is jamming their communication.

Under the camouflage of the [Mimicry Zone, they walked slowly towards the sound origin. After a few kilometers walk, they found a weird shaped tall building with bear bees flying around it.

"Like our initial thought, the sound wave came from inside the nest. Possibly the Queen Bee herself. Everyone, prepare to fight. Jacob, could you do the honor?"

During these few months, their relationship becomes closer like friends since they are already through a lot of dangerous situations together. Moreover, Jacob always maintains his respect towards Sylvan which also makes him respect Jacob.

"Alright." Replied the duke shortly.

Then, Jacob begins to gather flare up all his mana and begin chanting, "Will of fire, Will of steel, red fire blaze of…."

Since now their job changes from covert mission to elimination, the duke also is not going hold back and starting to use high circle spells.

Noticing the sudden appearance of huge mana nearby, the bear bee also not just stayed idle either. They immediately attack the huge mana source.

Before they could approach, All of them immediately got shot down by soundless arrows from out of nowhere [Scatter Shot]. Looking at their comrade dying penetrated by arrows, the bear bees enraged and called reinforcement from the nest and the surrounding. *ROAAR*

At this moment, Jacob has already finished his chanting and created a large complex magic circle in front of him, "...Burn to eternity [5th Circle - Will-O-Wisp].

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[5th Circle - Will-O-Wisp] *BOM*

A huge fire explosion appears and burns everything on its path towards the bear bee nest that looks like a strange tall building. The flame is alive and keeps moving towards the nest.

The mystical flame is very hot and engulfed the nest along with each resident. After the nest has been burned for a while, the low sound wave is stopped and replaced with loud growling sound. *ROARR*

Because the majority of bear bees are out searching for food, there are only a few dozen bear bees inside the nest that come out and attack the preparator that burns their nest.

"Yosh.. Finally some real battle." said Gibbs enthusiastically and readying his axe.

"Everyone sticks together and covers each other's back. We need to kill the Queen bee before her army comes back." Command Sylvan while killing the incoming Bear Bees using his spear.

While fending off the bear bees, the nest is kept being burned and finally destroyed. From it appears the Queen Bee which is many times larger than ordinary bear bees. If the normal Bear Bees is around two meters height then this Queen is around five to six meters height.

Looking at the group of people in front of it, It becomes enraged and attacks them. During this time many small fireballs scattered in the air from Jacob [4th Circle - Vulcan Shots]. The scattered fireballs attack towards the Queen Bear Bee like it is being programmed.

But, the Queen also not a pushover and parry all of them using its legs and arms. As the [Vulcan Shots] being parried spark of fire gathered around the Queen.

Using this opportunity, Jacob manipulates the fire element and mana in the air and casts another spell [Fire Manipulation - Fire Cast] [3rd Circle - Fire Wyrm]. The fire spark turns into bigger fire and becomes a huge fire snake that attacks the Queen.

During this moment, the brown woman on the team also finished her chanting spell [4th Circle - Hurricane]. The huge magic circle appears above the Queen and creates a gust of wind. Then, it ignited the [Fire Wyrm] to become bigger and stronger.

The Queen is immediately trapped by the stronger [Fire Wyrm]. It try to destroy the [Fire Wyrm] but it could easily regenerate itself from the Jacob mana supply and [Hurricane] spell.

Using this opportunity, Sylvan approaches the Queen while ignoring the other Bear Bees [Windwalk]. The other bees also notice their Queen's predicament and try to help her. But, they are being held by Maru, Gibbs, and others.

Arriving in front of gigantic size Bear Bees, Sylvan flares up his mana and imbues it on his spear [Spear Art - Piercing Hawk]. A powerful attack with the embodiment of Hawk penetrated the Queen's body and ended its life.

Looking at their Queens dead, the other Bear Bees becomes disarray. Using this opportunity, the group immediately retreat and back from the battle.

Although the battle seems simple and fast, they also spend a lot of their mana to create an opportunity for this victory. Being inside the inner area of Dark Forest with exhausted mana is the same things as suicide act.

Therefore to avoid this situation, they immediately retreat and recover their mana. Soon, the battle sound will attract other high grade monsters. Fortunately, there are no other monsters inside the Bear Bee territory because of the Bear Bee's nature.

After finding a hiding area and camouflage with the surrounding, they immediately rest to recuperate their mana.

Recovering mana is not easy, sometimes even after one whole night high grade people with big mana pools couldn't even recover half of it. Moreover, they are also inside the miasma fog where the mana is more scarce than outside the forest.

They still could use mana potions that they brought but it is supposed to be used in case of emergency since they only have a limited amount of mana potions.

Meanwhile the Heart kingdom team recuperated themself, the other teams also got many kind of problems with various different grade five monsters.

Some of them also have the power to jam the communication device like the Queen Bear Bee. But, most of them could be easily dealt with since all of the investigation teams consist of strong people from various kinds of race.

Humans may not be the weakest race in terms of combat but there are many other strong races in Firuman. All of them send at least a few people of fifth grade to do this mission.

This kind of force is also one of the reasons why monsters never conquer the Civilian Society despite their superior strength. Furthermore, monsters inside the Dark Forest or other areas are not very harmonious one with each other.

For example like the Bear Bees. Their gluttony nature and its appetite will make them eat everything from the plant to other monsters indiscriminately. This way, the Bear Bees have a lower chance of getting some relation with other monsters.

On the other hand, monsters like Corrupted Mother Treant could easily cooperate with other monsters since its nature is giving a place towards other monsters.

While the investigation teams have their own difficulty, Angus keeps his academy life 'peacefully'.

Inside the training room, under the smithing facility a booming sound along with quaking keeps being heard constantly despite the room is enchanted with various isolation runes. *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM*

Inside the training room, "Hahaha… Is that all you got, brat?" mocking Balrug towards his opponent.

Angus keeps his calm despite being provoked by Balrug continuously. Now, in his arm there are two different weapons. In his right hand is a one handed axe and in his left hand is a long poleaxe.

However, Angus could use both different lengths of weapon with maximum efficiency. If not because of the weight and mana restraining bracelet, he could already parry and even counter attack all the old dwarf attacks.

During this past month, Angus also gave some suggestions to increase his physical body further. The mana restraining exercise is really effective. It makes his body break his muscles more than training without it.

But, as an expert he feels that the training is too bori… *cough* crude. So, he also added some ideas and suggestions towards the old dwarf. One of the suggestions is by putting his body under the stress through sparring.

Although Angus has a manual battle system, the manual battle system is too dangerous to be used as training since one careless could lead him to his doom.

Compared to it, the old dwarf will give some break if Angus is too overwhelmed or holding back his attack to not instantly kill him.

This kind of training will temper his body in a safe way. Combined with his healing art technique, his physique will become stronger after the training.

Still after all these past months of training, his strength only increased by 2 points to become 14 and his dexterity only increased 1 point to become 13. This shows that his body already has a difficulty in increasing his physical strength.

After a few moments of parrying the old dwarf attack, Angus finally collapses on the ground exhausted.

"Haa.. Ha.. Let's take a break first." as Angus put off his mana restraining bracelet.

The moment he puts off, he feels his mana flare up and begins soothing his body under Angus control.

"No matter how many times I see it, I could never get used to it. To have this kind of enormous mana without forming a mana core is outrageous. Especially this technique you used to heal yourself."

Angus ignores the old dwarf comment and focus to tend his injuries using his [Rejuvenation Flame]. This kind of spartan practice may seem absurd but it also tempers his body more.

Not only in strength but also his flexibility and his battle instinct. Angus may still retain his absurd battle instinct. But, if he doesn't fight with different types of people, he feels like he will rust.

Beside the old dwarf is also very experienced and knows where to hit during the spar. This also made Angus choose him as his spar partner.

After Angus finished healing his wound, "Say kid, I hear you are getting exempted in your class tournament. I don't know why you want to hide your ridiculous strength. But, if you want to gain experience by fighting, they should be enough for you." asked Balrug curiously.

"It's just my personal reason, besides they are too weak to become my battle partner." as Angus put the weapon back in the rack.

"Too weak… Well, with your absurd strength and combat ability, I doubt even the fresh graduate could beat you now. But, you still need those… what is that called about… Ahh.. Points. Yes, I heard students need points to survive in this academy." [Balrug]

"Well, I don't really care about points and rank. Besides I could exchange them with money to not have trouble in my daily life every month." explained Angus

"Exchange?! Didn't it have an absurd rate of exchange?" said Balrug.

"Yeah.. But, I have some useless pocket money inside my storage anyway. So, it didn't really bother me." said Angus nonchalantly.

"Tch… what a spoiled rich kid. Say how many spare coins did you have right now?" Asked Balrug curiously.

"Hm.. If I am not wrong it is around twenty…twenty thousand gold coins. Why do you ask?" replied Angus

"Twenty thousand??!"

"Twenty thousand??! Why the hell do you have that much money as spare money?!" asked Balrug.

"Err… I just never really use my pocket money except to exchange it with Points. Besides that I never had any need to spend it since all my necessities were always fulfilled." Explain Angus.

"Hmm… Boy, what's your full name again?" asked Balrug after thinking about it a little bit.

"My full name is Angus Victory. What's wrong with that?" asked Angus.

"Hoo…Victory? I never thought that you are that brat's son. No wonder…." said the dwarf.

"You know my father?" asked Angus

"Well, he is just one of my interesting customers. I am the one that created his famous Sparkling Gloves." explain the dwarf with pride.

"Ahh… I see." responded Angus nonchalantly.

"Hey, that's one of my masterpieces. Haa… forget it. Anyway, did you have any plan to use that spare money?" [Balrug]

"Nah… probably I will just save it for later use." replied Angus

"If that's the case. Did you want to participate in the auction?" asked Balrug

"Auction?? I may have a lot of money. But, didn't they use points in the auction?" asked Angus back.

"Silly brat, not the auction inside the academy. It is the real auction using real money. During this time of period, a lot of rare material comes out."

"To get a better price, they usually auction it. The auction also happened to open during the break, so you didn't have to worry about missing it." explain Balrug.

"Well, I will think later." replied Angus casually.

"Tch.. Once again with that nonchalant attitude. Why the hell I chose you as my student." grumble the old dwarf.

Then, he gave Angus a golden card, "Here I happen to have one ticket to enter the auction. Use it when you want to come, otherwise just throw it away."

"Alright, I will keep it for now." as Angus keeps the golden card inside his pocket space storage.

Looking at the space pocket storage, "Haa… Despite having a lot of money, you still use that 'sack' storage. Tch… sometimes I suspect if you are one of those elf races who don't care about worldly stuff or just a buffoon." nagging the old dwarf again.

Before Angus could go away to avoid more nagging from the old dwarf, "Here's catch it." as Balrug throws a metallic wrist watch towards Angus.

"A wristwatch?" asked Angus confusedly.

"That's a space storage model wristwatch. I just have a spare product for it. As a teacher, I will feel humiliated if my student keeps using those lousy 'sack' storage."

"Okay, thanks old man. I quite like it. See ya old man." as Angus gets out from the training room.

Before exiting the smithing facility, Angus changes his training clothes to his normal ones. Although it is normal, it is also one of the heavy enchanted clothes. To make his body under the constant pressure, he requested the old man to enchanted his clothes.

Normally, this kind of enchantment cost a lot of money. Unbeknown to Angus, using the Balrug connection as a famous crafter, he could enchanted his usual clothes easily without any cost.

Not only is he wearing heavy enchantment clothes, he also uses his mana restriction bracelet. At first the dwarf against this practice since it could inhibit his own mana growth. But, after seeing how much mana that Angus has, the old dwarf reluctantly permits it.

Besides that Angus also knows that his mana will not grow more at least in a few years' time, Unless he forms his own mana core which is impossible for the current him. So, now Angus could keep training his physical strength during his daily life.

Exiting the smithing facility, he goes towards the spring dorm to pick up some of his stuff. Today is actually the start of a long holiday for students in the royal academy.

Unfortunately, his home is quite far from the capital, so he will stay in the manor house inside the capital city.

Although he could use a teleportation device to shorten the time and length, to use the teleportation device itself is very expensive.

Unless it is an urgent matter, people usually will not use teleportation devices. Still there will be some exceptions like high noblemen such as dukes and the royal family. Because of their busy schedule, they could use the teleportation device freely.

Since Angus didn't have any important matters at home, he chose to stay at the capital along with his brothers. Besides, the manor in the capital is not small and also quite big for them.

Although it is not as big as their own home, the manor in the capital is already ridiculously large for human standart.

Angus likes simplicity so he rarely appreciates buildings with monumental scale. Because of this, he didn't even feel comfortable inside his own house which is ridiculously big like a castle.

Arriving at the dorm, he sees princess Jayna also walking out from the dorm. Looking at Angus's nonchalant attitude, the princess has an urge to punch him.

But, she restrains herself as she promises to not cause any necessary trouble. Besides after all these months, she knows that catching Angus is literally impossible as he is very agile and slippery like an eel.

"Hmph…" as the princes try to ignore him.

As for Angus, he just ignored her like another passerby. Not able to stand being ignored by Angus, the princess wanted to call Angus but hold herself. Finally, she thought of an idea and smiled evilly at Angus before leaving him.

Angus also noticed this change of attitude, but he didn't think much of it and finally he enter his room without any other interference.

After taking shower, packing his stuff and putting everything inside his new wristwatch space storage, he goes towards the carriage parking lot to meet his brother Vergil. He just realize that his new wristwatch space storage is many times bigger than his pouch storage.

Arriving at the parking lot, "Sorry to make you wait, Brother." as Angus greets his brother.

"Ahh…Angus Don't worry about it. I also just arrived. Let's get inside." said Vergil who seemed absentminded before.

Inside the carriage, "What's wrong brother? You seem to be thinking something?" asked Angus as he noticed his brother's weird behaviour.

"D-Don't worry about it. I just worry about our father. He still didn't come home from the mission. I-I just..." as Vergil stops his sentence in the middle.

Because of the secrecy, Duke Jacob didn't tell his mission towards the family except his wife. Although Angus also doesn't know what kind of mission his father receives, he feels that it has the connection with the current recently born Monster Overlord.

"Don't worry brother. Just believe in our father. Besides, he is a full fledged grade six combatant. Let's trust in him."

"Y-Yeah… You are right. There is no way something bad could happen to him with his current strength." said Vergil.

After that they begin to chat about various things one with each other until they arrive at the manor.

From the Vergil story, the class tournament this year has a theme of battle royal. Since all the current monsters are too aggressive to be used inside the tournament, they change it into battle royal where students fight one with each other..

Since he and princess Jayna are exempted from the tournament, their class got the lowest position this year. According to the Vergil whose class is ranked first, the first rank gets a good weapon and equipment.

They also get a chance to fight the first rank of their upperclassmen. Normally no one would take this chance as it is the same as being beaten up by the upperclassmen, but during this time a team is challenged by upperclassmen.

This team is Ian class and he challenges the first rank of second year upperclassmen. The other thought that this would be a one sided tournament.

But at the last moment Ian's team managed to win against the upperclassmen and get additional prize from the headmaster Antonio.

Hearing this story, Angus begins to slightly interest a little bit towards Ian before back to his lazy absentminded attitude. Although what Ian does may seem impressive to others, but towards Angus, Ian is still too weak as ants.

As an expert in the martial art path, he only respects someone with strength. This is not arrogance but rather a pride. A pride as someone who already stands on the top.

Moreover, by using his manual battle system, he could fight dozens of Ian at once and still win without receiving any kind of wound.

Soon, both of the brothers arrive at the manor house. The moment they enter the manor house, Pavlon, the head butler of Victory manor house, gives Angus a letter.

Looking at the letter, "Ohhh… Brother, after entering the capital for a while. You already got a letter. You really something else." teasing Vergil.

"Shut up, it's not what you think." replied Angus.

But, during this time both of them notice the seal on the envelope. "Huhh… Isn't this royal family crest seal. Brother… Just what have you done to gather the attention of the royal family?" asked Vergil furiously.

Looking at the crest seal, 'Haa… This must be one of those spoiled girl's ideas. Why can't she just leave me alone for a while.' Thought Angus inwardly.

Then, without any hesitation Angus unseal the letter and read it together with Vergil. Since he was also curious about the letter itself.

After reading it, "T-This is.. an invitation?"

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"T-This is.. an invitation?" exclaimed the two brothers.

"Brother, this is awesome. You need to accept this invitation. It's an honor to get an invitation from the royal family to come to their tea party." said Vergil excitedly.

While Vergil kept chattering excitedly, 'Haa… she got me good. Damn, it seems I didn't have any choice this time. Hopefully, she didn't ask for troublesome things.' Thought Angus inwardly.

The next day, Angus wears a formal noble attire with a lot of embroideries and looks very presentable.

'Damn.. you, Vergil. Even when I attend the noble's gathering before the clothes are not as horrible as this.' thought Angus silently while feeling uncomfortable with his clothes.

Suddenly, Angus thought disturbed by his brother Vergil, "Angus… Did you hear what I said?"

"Yeah-yeah… keep speaking the formal language and playing with some noble's kid right?" replied Angus lazily

"No.. What I mean is… Haa… forget about it. Just make sure to not tarnish our house Victory name, okay? The other nobles sometimes could be a little bit harsh despite us being still young."

"Alright-alright… I will go first. See ya brother." as Angus goes inside the carriage.

After a few minutes of riding the carriage, Angus arrived at the majestic royal palace. Looking at the humongous building that is much bigger than Hagia Sophia on Earth, Angus mood immediately down.

'Why the hell do they build such a ridiculous building? Are all the residents' giants? Or do they just use giants as a scale model when they build it? Such a waste of resources. Well, not that it matters to me.' Grumble Angus inwardly.

Then, the carriage finally stopped inside the royal palace. The moment he walked out from the carriage, "Young master Victory, please follow me. The tea party has already started."

Hearing this, 'Started already? Didn't I still have half an hour before it began? Must be that spoiled princess idea.' Thought Angus inwardly while following the butler.

After walking for a few minutes, Angus arrived at the huge garden. In the middle of the garden, there are already few nobles gathering around Princess Jayna.

She didn't use her normal noble attire but a light blue long dress that matched her golden hair. Despite still being a kid, she extruded a unique charm towards the surrounding.

At this moment Angus thought, 'Like a jewel surrounded by mud.'

Suddenly his thought is disturbed, "Everyone, our special guest finally arrives. Please welcome him, the third son of Duke Victory, Angus Victory." Said the princess as everyone finally noticed Angus's arrival.

All the other noble kids, immediately whispering about Angus's lateness. Noble society sometimes could be very strict and cruel. Just because of one lateness, you will have gossiped around.

"To arrive this late…"

"Look at his attire, he must be using a lot of time to…"

"How dare he make the princess wait…"

"Victory… He seems, unlike the other two brothers…"

"Must be a concubine or bastard child…"

Using Angus's enhanced perception, Angus keeps hearing the other kid badmouthing him. Angus only looks nonchalantly towards the other's command and keeps looking at the blue dresses Princess who is smiling triumphantly.

After that, he looks at the surroundings and stops a few seconds later at the place where the guards are hiding.

After taking a deep breath, "Good day, everyone. Forgive me for my lateness. I hope I didn't interrupt your party." said Angus politely while giving a noble gesture.

After he said that, Angus walked toward the food table and served himself a cup of tea while ignoring the others, even the princess.

Looking at this, "Oi… Buffon!! Did you not understand a basic noble etiquette? How dare you, ignoring the 4th Princess as the party host?" said one of the kids in blue hair.

But Angus keeps ignoring him. "Tch.. What a Victory?? You must be whore's son that doesn't even know noble etiquette. why don't you…"

Before the kid finished his sentence, a short teaspoon passed near his head even before he could react. The teaspoon embedded deeply at the nearby tree. Everyone immediately stays silent and looks at the preparator Angus.

"Ahh… I am sorry. It slipped out of my hand. I hope everyone can forgive my blunder. Please continue with what you're doing. I may not do it again" said Angus with a smile that looks like a devil.

The surrounding atmosphere begins to tense and everyone stops talking to one another. After a while, "How dare you.." the blue-haired kid yelling at Angus again.

But before he could finish his sentence another teaspoon passed him again like before and make him have a cold sweat. Once again the teaspoon is embedded in the nearby tree like the previous one.

"My… My… It seems my hand is slippery." said Angus with a smile.

Hearing this the blue-haired boy wanted to reply, "You…"

"Owen!!" [Princess Jayna]

"Y-Yes, princess?" replied the blue-haired boy timidly.

"Forget about it." said the princess in a stern tone.

"B-But... " [Owen]

"I said forget about it!!" shouted the princess.

"A-Alright…" while he still glaring at Angus.

At this moment, "Ohh.. why to stop now? We still didn't hear what you said before. Please say it. Maybe this time, my hand will not 'slipped'" provoked Angus while he played the tablespoon in his hand.

"Y-You!!" [Owen]

Once again Angus throws the teaspoon near Owen's head and makes him quiet. Looking at the more tense atmosphere, the other hidden guard is even ready to come out from their hiding place.

"Ahh… why are all of you so serious? My hand is slippery now." As he throws a faster spoon without the other kid noticing towards the nearby hiding guard nearby.

This action makes all the hiding guards come out from their hiding place and arrive at the front of the Princess with vigilance towards the kid in front of them.

"Princess let's get out from here. That kid is dangerous." said one of the shadow guards.

"Eh.. Eh.. What??" said the princess.

The other guards keep looking at Angus's nonchalant attitude. As for the other kids, they are confused at the sudden appearance of the hidden guard.

At this moment a clapping sound is heard from the garden entrance, *Clap* "4th Princess, I think the time for the tea party is already over. May everyone goes back to their home." said the old butler.

Looking at this, Angus immediately the one that walked out slowly from the garden. Arriving at the near old butler, "Young Master Victory, allow me to lead the way."

"Please, by all means..." replied Angus lazily.

Soon, both of them get out of everyone's sight. "Everyone, I am sorry but the party is over." while the princess also gets out from the garden while being escorted by her maid.

'Angus… Just what happens to make all the hidden guards react? Even Darius needs to come out.' thought the princess confusedly.

Meanwhile, Angus and the head butler Darius keep walking silently. Looking at the silent old butler, "Stop pretending, old man. Just say what do you want exactly?" asked Angus while he stops walking.

"Pardon me, young master Victory. I don't understand what you mean?" asked the old butler back.

"*Sigh* We are not going towards where my carriage left me before right? So, just tell me what you want?" [Angus]

"Ohh.. as expected of the young master Victory to notice this. If it is not bothering you, Did you want to accompany this old man for a small talk?" [Darius]

"Haa… What choice did I have? But, before that. What will you do if your mother is being insulted in front of everyone?" asked Angus seriously.

"I see…. So that's the reason." [Darius]

"Yep, and you still haven't answered my question." [Angus]

"Well, as a butler my opinion is insignificant. But, if my mother was ever being insulted, I beat the insulter to death with my hand. Is my answer satisfied?" said Darius politely

"That's already enough. So, what do you want to talk about?" asked Angus.

"What do you think of the 4th princess?" asked Darius back.

"Jayna? Well, I just think she is a spoiled princess and quite… energetic one," replied Angus

"Really? Is that all?" [Darius]

"Yep, what else you want me to say. A lovely girl.. Pft.. that seems impossible character for Jayna. But, let's just say she is not a boring person but also quite troublesome. Oh yeah, is stalking others also the job of a butler?" Said Angus jokingly.

Surprised by Angus's question, "Young Master Victory is quite perceptive. But, no I am not a stalker. It is just my job to look after a mouse that could pass all the guard during the last noble's gathering.." replied the old butler with a smile and make the situation tense.

"Haa… Why I have some trouble with an old man? First father, the old dwarf now you old butler. Did I got curse?" grumble Angus jokingly.

Looking at Angus's lack of reaction, "I see… Young master Victory, it seems you are quite a special person."

"Yeah… And I hope you could keep silent about that."

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"Yeah… And I hope you could keep silent about that." said Angus nonchalantly.

"Well, it depends on your next move." replied the old butler with the same smile and both hands in the back.

"Alright, what do you want Mr. old butler?" asked Angus with a lazy expression.

"Please just call me Darius or uncle Darius. What I need are simple things. It seems that the 4th Princess is taking quite an attention to you. So, I just hope you could always take care of her." said Darius in a polite tone.

"Take care of Jayna?" replied Angus before silent for a while and looking in a certain direction.

Looking at Angus behavior, the old butler surprised for a moment before back to keep his smile

After looking at the direction for a moment, *sigh* "What a choice do I have? Well, it's not like I will babysit her, right? Then, I will do what I can but I can't promise something beyond my capabilities." said Angus seriously.

"That's already enough. Shall we go back now, Young Master Victory?" asked the old butler

"Sure, I didn't feel comfortable in this place." replied Angus

"Ohh… Is there something troubling you?" asked the old butler while leading the way.

"Nothing.. It's just my taste. I don't like inside a monumental building like this for a long time." replied Angus nonchalantly.

"I see. It seems that Young Master Victory has the unique taste like the elf race. The last time, I hear someone comment like that is from the elf race." said the old butler.

'Elf race again. It seems this particular race is quite interesting.' thought Angus silently.

After walking for a while, both of them arrive at the carriage parking lot.

"Thanks for leading the way, uncle Darius." said Angus while he enters his carriage.

"No problem. It's already my job to lead the guest such as yourself. May you have a safe trip back, Young Master Victory." said the old butler while bowing his head.

Then, the carriage is moving to leave the Royal Palace perimeter. After that, the old butler back to the room where Angus and Darius having their conversation. Inside the room, a person is holding a teaspoon.

Looking at his master, "My Lord…" while Darius bowing his hand.

After looking at the teaspoon for a while, "Hm… There is no trace of mana. It means it's being thrown only by pure physical power." said king Leon.

"Darius, If I am not wrong, he is the third son of Jacob, right?" asked King Leon.

"Yes, my liege. He is the third son of Duke Victory. He also happens to one of the classmates of 4th Princes." replied Darius politely.

"Hee… Jayna's classmate? Interesting… Is that the reason you tell him to take care of Jayna? [King Leon]

"Yes, my lord. the 4th Princess seems to also interesting at the boy." answer Darius truthfully.

"I see… Darius, make sure to keep an eye on the kid. I believe he will become a great man in the future." ordered King Leon.

"As you wish, my Lord." replied Darius but the king himself already vanish from the room leaving the teaspoon behind.

'Angus Victory, what an interesting person? To even caught up the eye of the king.' Thought Darius while picking the teaspoon on the floor.

Unbeknown to Angus, he already caught some attention from one of the main powerhouses in the world. As for the person himself, he just lay on the carriage and looks like sleeping.

'So, that's the strength of seven-grade people.' thought Angus while he remembers the feeling he got when he looks in King Leon's direction during his conversation with Darius.

He opens his eyes and leaks out a little bit of excitement while smiling. "I never know someone could be that strong just from by his present. It seems this world interesting."

Then, Angus shook his head, "Nonono…. I must not let my thought got clouded. it's already enough looking towards battle in the past life. Now, I just want to enjoy my peaceful life."

After a while, he finally arrives at his manor house and immediately goes inside his room while avoiding Vergil not getting lectured.

The information about the 'crushed' tea party must be already spread among the nobles. There is a chance his brother also hears about it through some communication device.

Moreover, Angus also not in the mood to listen to Vergil lecture while his mood still not truly calm after feeling the king's strength.

He needs to at least battle a few rounds inside his manual battle system to calm down. Lately, he seems to get harder to control his own emotion.

'Tch… Puberty… What a hormonal problem?' Thought Angus while he meditated to calm his mind before checking his status panel. He has a habit to look at his status first before doing any manual battle.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 8 Years Old

MP: 100/100

Heritage chi: ???

Strength: 14

Dexterity: 13

Intelligence: 17

Vitality: 20

Soul Point: 406

'Hm… I have too many points at this time. Not using this will be a waste. Guess it's time to use it again and leave some for later use.' thought Angus inwardly and add some point to his status.

Angus increase one point for Strength, Dexterity, and Intelligence. The moment he increasing his status, he feels uncomfortable inside his body. After a while, the uncomfortable feeling is gone.

'Urg… I will never get used to this feeling.' Thought Angus while looking at the status panel.

Host: Angus Victory

Age: 8 Years Old

MP: 100/100

Heritage chi: ???

Strength: 15

Dexterity: 14

Intelligence: 18

Vitality: 20

Soul Point: 366

Each Strength and Dexterity cost ten points to increase while the intelligence needed twenty points to increase. So, in total, he consumes forty soul points.

Angus limit himself to increase the status only by one for each attribute because he needs to adapt to his new power first.

Each time he increases his status with soul points, he feels like he is being enhanced by some mysterious force and makes him harder to control his body.

After the status passed ten marks, the more he put in more points, the harder he will control his body. It's not like he will lose control of his body and become a mindless berserk monster.

it's more like cannot control the body and make him fall on the stairs, breaking some stuff with a little touch, or even having a delayed reaction. The only good side effect comes from the vitality stat that only increases his metabolism and appetite for a certain period.

Although all of this may seem simple, in the battle of life and death this crucial little detail could determine the life of someone.

He experiences the delayed reaction in a harder way after increasing his intelligence point by two. He feels like his body and mind are not fully synchronize. Angus speculated that the more point he increases the more harder he regains his control over his body.

Just by increasing his intelligence with two points, he needs a month to synchronize his mind and body. During this period also one of the time, he feels of being vulnerable.

Moreover, like knowing that Angus is being weaker than before. The winning percentage inside the manual battle system is also lower than before.

But, after the one-month time' end, the winning percentage increase more than before Angus increasing his stat. Although Angus hates the feeling of being vulnerable it will take a long time to use the normal training to increase his power.

Now, he quite desperate to increase his strength after he felt the pinnacle king's strength. He feels insecure and weak before this kind of strength. This feeling makes him want to grow stronger more and challenge this power subconsciously.

Angus also realizes he will not get any stronger than in his past if he just follows the path of training to increase his combat power. Although he is limited himself to only increase his status by one, he feels like he is getting stronger at a steady pace.

Then, he did some light stretching to grasp the increase in his power.

'It seems just one-point increase, I could somehow still have better control over my body. Well, I never increase more than one point before so it might be the case.' thought Angus inwardly before entering the manual battle.

As usual, he wears his training clothes and fights one on one with the punching bag Henry for the warming up.

Soon, few days passed by uneventfully. In the morning when Angus wakes up early like usual he feels that something bad will happen.

His guts tell him to not come to the dining area this morning. The more he walks closer to the dining area, the more he feels like something bad will happen to him.

Cannot stand his tingling feeling, Angus immediately uses [Mana Echolocation] silently while inside his room.

'Shit!! Why she is here? I need to get out from here before she notices me. Damn… she has already come over here! [Beast Walk].' as Angus get out from his room through the window and escape from the townhouse manor as fast as he could.

A few seconds after Angus managed to run away, *Brakk* "Morning, Angus, my baby boy. Are you already awake?" said the woman who forces her way and open Angus's door room.

"Huh… I am sure that my baby boy inside the room just now. How come that he is not here. D-Don't tell me he is being kidnaped?" As the woman looking at one of the opened windows.

"No!! How dare you try to kidnap my Angus from me!!"

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"No!! How dare you try to kidnap my Angus from me!!" said the woman with black hair.

Hearing the shouting from the woman, the others resident also come out.

"Aunt Hersha, what happens?" asked Vergil who comes first as he happens to be nearby.

"Vergil, y-your brother is kidnapped. Look… the window opens just when I come in and your brother is gone." said Aunt Hersha.

Hearing this and looking at the window who is abruptly open from the inside, Vergil immediately knows that Angus is run away rather than being kidnapped as his aunt exclaimed.

Then, he immediately calms down his aunt before she doing something outrageous. Her aunt may look like an energetic middle-aged woman but she is a full-fledge-six-grade human with strong combat capability.

With her strength capability and personality, she will surely put upside down the whole capital city.

"Calm down Aunt Hersha, Angus is not being kidnapped. He just runs… I mean going outside for a while." said Vergil

"Really?? But, why his presence suddenly gone?? Still to come out without greeting his aunt is kind of rude. Pavlon, ready the carriage we will pick up Angus.

"Err… Why don't we wait for Angus until afternoon? Besides, didn't Aunt Hersha has a job to be done?" as Vergil tried to persuade his aunt.

"Hmm… Boohoo… I want my Angus now. But, you are right. I am quite busy taking care of your Daddy job. Alright, I will wait for him to come back for now."

'Fiuh… safe...' thought Vergil.

Before Vergil finishes his thought, "Vergil, I want you to search for Angus. Since I can't go by myself, as his brother you need to search and keep him safe. I want both of you back before this afternoon."

"Otherwise… let's think about that later. Now, Pavlon which way is the study room again?" as Aunt Hersha going out from the room leaving the surprised Vergil.

'Curse you, Angus!! Why I am the one that needs to search for him. Everyone in the family knows that if he wants to hide forever no one could found him but our father. Even teacher Andria, his tutor couldn't catch him much less me.' curse Vergil at his current situation.

Meanwhile, Vergil lamenting his fortune, the preparator himself already walking around the capital city leisurely.

The Heart kingdom capital city is also known as Ashdun city, the lifeful city even during the night time. This place is the center of the Heart kingdom, the strongest kingdom of the human race.

This place is also where merchant from various other nation gathers and trade. Sometimes people could say that besides the East Coast city, this is one of the best places to making money through trading or procuring a rare material.

Therefore, even it still early in the morning, many people already open their shop and trading with passerby. The environment is like a local market on Earth, with various people shouting to promote their product, haggling, or just looking around.

Inside this chaotic market, a boy with black hair strolling around while looking at each shop with enthusiasm.

'Hmm… come to think of it, this is the first time I go outside on my own and looking around the capital city. Well, let's enjoy myself. It's been a while since I meet this kind of environment' thought Agnus.

While walking around Angus notice a lot of pamphlets and advertisements through magic about Golden Trade's Auction. Some people even shouting to not miss this kind of event around.

Looking at all this hard worker person, 'This is the first time I feel grateful being born as a rich high noble.' Thought Angus while looking around the market.

Although Angus looks like a kid, no one bothers him since in this world there are also few kinds of small height races like dwarves, halflings, etc. So, people in this world never judge a person by their height or appearance.

After a while, he found a particular food stand that sells something similar to yakitori from Japan on Earth. Smelling the scent of meat stuck with the wooden stick being cooked, his stomach grumbles.

'I didn't have time to have breakfast this morning. Let's try to eat this food. I hoped it is as good as yakitori on Earth.' Thought Angus while approaching the stand.

Looking at Angus's approach, "Here… Here… try our roasted meat for 10 copper. Freshly roasted meat for 10 copper.

"Uncle, please give me one." as Angus pretend to hand 10 copper coin from his pocket that took from his wristwatch storage.

Although Angus didn't truly care about money, he still knows the value of money and the trouble that it could bring. After all in his previous life, he lives in a world where money governs everything.

So, he picks up a few tricks to camouflage his space storage. Angus knows that space storage is an expensive item especially if it is modeled like the wristwatch he had. Showing this in this place is the same as saying "I have treasure, please robbed me".

"Here's your meat, kid." as the uncle receives Angus's coin.

After getting the coins, the uncle immediately gives Angus a lump of meat that sticks with a wooden stick.

Without any moment, Angus takes a bite of the meat. The freshly juicy roasted meat immediately melts inside his mouth and gives a sense of euphoria to him.

"Damn.. this is delicious. Uncle, I will have five more." as Angus keeps eating his roasted meat.

"Five roasted meat coming up." replied the uncle with smiling while cooking another batch of roasted meat.

After a while, "Here, the five roasted meat." as the uncle gives the meat to Angus.

"Alright, thanks, uncle." Angus gives a silver coin to him while took the five sticks.

"Hey, kid. This is too much." said the uncle.

But, Angus already walks away while saying, "Keep the change, thanks for the delicious food."

While enjoying his food, he also found a lot of strange merchants that display some of his merchandise on the ground.

Some passersby looking at the merchandise before writing something on the merchandise tag before leaving. Unlike the others, at this location, the merchant didn't bother about it or trying to haggle. The merchant didn't even try to promote their products.

None of them seems to buy the merchandise from this merchant but the merchant himself didn't care as long as they didn't steal their merchandise. Looking at these particular merchants, Angus approaches one of them.

"Welcome, please look around." said the woman merchant.

After looking carefully, Angus found many different prices on the tags along with time. "Err.. excuse me, could you explain about this?"

"Ohh.. boy you are new here. This place is where merchant sells their product that is not got selected to be auction by the Golden Trader. So, they held some sort of auction by themself in this place."

"Just place your name and the bid price in the tag of item that interests you. If your price comes to be the highest, it will be sold to you during the specified time. "

"You could also buy the item directly by paying their buyout price." as the woman merchant explains and puffing her smoke pipe.

"I see… thanks for the explanation." replied Angus while looking at the merchandise.

He found almost all the merchandise is a strange scrap or sort of antique. Some tags explain that they are coming from the ancient ruins.

After looking for a while, he didn't found a strange material or things that he was attracted to. Even by using [Mana Eye, he still didn't found something interesting. But, he keeps looking around between one merchant and the others

Finally, he finds a strange bracelet with a swirl pattern on it. The bracelet is made of an unknown material with a black swirl pattern on it. He didn't know but his instinct is attracted towards this bracelet after looking at it once.

After checking the with [Mana Eye] and examined the bracelet, he found nothing about it.

'Interesting… Let's look at the price. This is…. Buyout 10 gold coins. This is a ripoff. Let's bid first. 1 silver coin.' Thought Angus while he writes on the tag.

Then, Angus walking around looking for something interesting while his roasted meat stick. There is still sometimes before the specified time ends.

Walking for a while, he notices someone advertising, "Come… Come, Please try our magical drink Fizzy Beer. A beer that will not make you drunk. Children and adult is permitted to drink our Fizzy Beer"

'Fizzy Beer… Children also could try it. Interesting…" As Angus approaches the shop.

The shop is modeled like an ordinary drinking tavern. However, you could see a few children here and there drinking something. Unlike the normal drinking tavern, none of the customers seems drunk and could enjoy the drinks to their heart content.

Looking at this, Angus approaches the bartender. "Excuse me, one Fizzy Beer please."

"Yes, right up. Here's the drink. It's 10 copper coins." said the bartender while giving the drink.

After Agnus pay for the drink, he looks at the green-colored carbonated drink in front of him.

"Besides the light green color, it looks similar towards those carbonated drinks from Earth." Thought Angus inwardly

Looking at the light green colored carbonated drink, he prepares himself before deciding to drink it.

In the past life, Angus is kind of a foodie. But, he also doesn't want to upset his stomach from drinking something that looks like poison especially in this fantasy world. He even thought how could this shop survive just by selling this weird-looking colored drink.

The moment he drinks it, "T-This is… refreshing."

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"T-This is… refreshing."

Angus feeling the carbonated sensation in his throat combine with the cold temperature of the drink, He feels a kind of Euphoria that he has forgotten before.

'This is worth more than being 10 copper coins. But, I guess 10 copper coins itself already expensive for a drink since it is around with the alcoholic beer.' Thought Angus while he enjoys the sweet cold drinks alone.

No one is bothering him and mind their own business. Fortunately, Angus wears his casual clothes and he looks like a normal commoner rather than looks like a noble.

After a while he hears a commotion outside, from what he picked up from nearby it seems a noble of the kingdom comes to this area.

'What kind of stupid noble trying to come here with their nobles clothes. Luckily I don't like to wear noble's clothes. So, I didn't get a hassle when coming to this place in a hurry. Wait… that's Vergil.' as Angus saw Vergil along with a few guards through the shop window.

'From all of the place at the capital, how could he guess me that I am here? Hmm… That man beside him is looking in this direction. I see so that man is the one that leads him.' as Angus understands how his brother found him.

Since Angus is already being discovered, Angus immediately goes outside and meets with his brother that seems to outplace in this location. While Angus goes out of the drinking tavern, Vergils seems to talk with the guy beside him.

"Are you sure he is near here?" asked Vergil.

Before the man answered Vergil's question, "Yo, brother Vergil." called Angus casually.

"Angus!! I finally found you!" exclaimed Vergil loudly that make the passerby focus on Angus.

"Geez… Brother, why you are here?" asked Angus lazily.

"It is me that should ask you why you are here? Also, did you just come out from the drinking tavern? Bla… Bla… Bla..." as Vergil keeps nagging towards Angus non-stop.

After few moments of clarification, Angus now understands the gist of Vergil's current situation. To looking for Angus who could be anywhere, he hired a man that specialized in looking for a person through the guild.

Guilds in Firuman is not only has a job to hunt and sell monster corpse but they also often doing some miscellaneous job such as searching people, pet, painting wall, etc. to the more dangerous job such as assassinating, bandit extermination, monster hunting, etc.

By using the man from the guild, Vergil finally could locate Angus despite him on the opposite part of the city with the townhouse manor.

"Since you are finally being found and safe, we should go back now." as Vergil signs the contract for the mission completion with the guild member.

"Ehh… back already. Come on brother, it's the first time I have been outside. Can we just touring the capital city for a bit?" asked Angus as he didn't want to back to his townhouse now.

'There's no way I will go back to that annoying clingy old woman now.' thought Angus silently.

Hearing Angus's plea, Vergil as caring natured brother didn't have the heart to say no especially since Angus rarely asked anything of him.

"Alright but let's get out from here first. This part of the town is quite... unsafe." As Vergil notice few people already eyeing them in the back alley.

"Nah… That's not true. It's probably your clothes that attracted the others." said Angus casually while walking away.

'And whose fault is that? If I know you are in this part of the city, I will not also bring a lot of guards and wearing noble's clothes.' grumble Vergil silently.

"Wait, Angus. Where are you going?" Vergil follow his brother and didn't want him to escape again.

"Ohh… I found interesting merchants near here. You should see it yourself." as Angus brings his brother towards the auction merchants's area.

During the way, both of them attracted the passerby because of the guard that follows them and Vergil's clothes. Because it is getting more annoying, Angus decides to buy some normal-looking robes for his brother to cover his noble's clothes.

Although it is quite useless, at least it will make Vergil less attractive. As for the guards, they couldn't do anything since dismissing them also could bring some unwanted problem since some people already know that they are noble.

Soon, they arrive at the auction merchant. Vergil immediately notices the weird behavior of these merchants that display their products.

Some city guards could be seen patrolling around this place more often. Looking at the confused Vergil, Angus explains about all these auction merchants.

"I see so to not go home empty-handed, they sell their product in this way. Interesting, I never thought there is such a way to sell a product. Brother, did you also try to bid?" [Vergil]

"Yes, I try to bid for that bracelet." pointing Angus towards the swirl patterned bracelet.

Looking at the normal accessories bracelet that could be found anywhere, "Why did you choose that bracelet?" asked Vergil as he found nothing after inspecting it with [Mana Eye].

Knowing that his brother is never doing anything without a reason, he tries to find out about the bracelet.

"Well… I am just attracted to it. Anyway, since you want to go back already I will just buy out for it rather than waste any more time." [Angus]

'Ehh… attracted? that's unusual…' Thought Vergil while looking around for something that may be interesting.

Angus approaches the merchant and buys out the bracelet for 10 gold coins.

The merchant only gives some sly smile before immediately took away the gold coins and gives the bracelet away.

After getting the bracelet, Angus walks back to Vergil who is looking around trying to find something interesting.

"Find something interesting?" asked Angus

"Nah… Let's get out from here." replied Vergil.

Then, the two brothers get out from this location towards another part of the city. The capital city of Heart kingdom, Ashdun, is divided into many sections.

Angus's townhouse manor is located in the high-class section where the majority of its residents are nobles, wealthy merchants, and someone with high authority.

As for the location of where Angus escaped is the semi-slum-commoner section. In this section, you could all kinds of people be it adventurers, beggars, or various kinds of merchants.

This is the only section with a high crime rate and has few city guards patrols around. However, like in any world, there are also corrupted guards that sometimes turn to blind eyes at some crimes after receiving some 'gift'.

Moreover, this is also often the area where hidden organization doing their stuff. If their headquarter lay in the slum area, their working area is in this semi-slum-commoner section.

This is also the reason why Vergil's appearance could create a commotion before. For its residence, noble's is kind of eyesore and source of jealously.

If it's not because Vergil's guards keep the passerby away, who knows what kind of chaos he will bring in this area.

Although a noble's such as Vergil didn't need to worry since all the hidden organization never touch people from the high nobles but he could still get some misfortune if come to this section alone.

Leaving the sections, the two brothers arrive at the commercial sections where the majority of people doing their trade. Unlike the previous section, here people are more orderly and you could see more guards patrol around the area.

The shop that opens in this section also looks more luxurious and elegant than the previous section.

Arriving at this section, Angus finally broke his calm and behave like a kid of his age. He is so excited to found a lot of strange products on the shop's displays.

His curiosity comes in and makes him always want to try every single product he found. Still after found its function in these products, he will immediately lose interest and not gullible enough to buy all these products.

After touring and having fun with his brother for a while, Angus decides to rest at the nearby restaurant.

The restaurant looks like a western bar style on earth but more neat and clean. It also serves high-quality monster meat which is very rare.

Monster meat is not only hard to be procured but they are also hard to be cooked. The monster meat, especially the high-grade one contains a certain degree of miasma which is poisonous to any living being.

Up till now, only grade three bellow monster meat that is edible to eat with a certain method of cooking. This certain method of cooking is a special kind and must be tested by the kingdom for safety reasons.

A legal restaurant such as this also gets checked by the kingdom every month. They also must have a certified chef to cook the monster meat safely to open this kind of business.

Despite the dangers of being poisoned by miasma, monster meat has a lot of benefits. One of them is to boost the physical strength and mana in one body by a certain amount. Although it is only a small boost, it still valuable.

Few very rich people have the luxury of eating this monster meat for every meal. As the sons of the Duke, they also have the luxury to eat this monster meat occasionally.

But, they only eat grade one monster meat and never higher than that. The reason is that to safely cook grade two above monster meat need a various kind of hard skill that not everyone could do.

At this bar-style restaurant, they surprise to found that they now sell a grade two monster meat food. After inquiring more to the waiter, they were surprised at the answer.

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In the capital city of Heart Kingdom, Ashdun, there is a fancy restaurant with bar-style. This restaurant is a branch famous restaurant named Mordon Tavern, a famous restaurant through the Firuman that sells monster meat delicacy.

During this time, the restaurant famous owner, Chef Mordon happens to visit this branch as he was in the nearby area.

Chef Mordon is quite famous for making various kinds of food from monster meat. Although he is not the number one chef in Firuman, he still has high prestige and famous among the other chef.

Fortunately for the two brothers, Chef Mordon just decided to cook a few dishes while staying at this branch restaurant. Judging from the few people in the restaurant it seems not many people know about this yet.

Otherwise, this restaurant will already overcrowded with the various kind of people. Although, it is quite early for lunchtime the opportunity to taste a dish from a chef Mordon is like once in a lifetime opportunity.

Especially, Chef Mordon himself is a mysterious guy that likes to travel around the world to create many more food recipes.

After waiting for a while, more people come to the restaurant. They immediately begin to invite to come over the moment they hear the news about Chef Mordon. Meanwhile, the two brothers already enjoying their full course meal.

"Unbelievable, I never know food could be this delicious and it's just appetizer." comment Vergil.

"You are right, brother. This food delicious, I couldn't even believe that all of this from the monster. I looking for the main dish." replied Angus.

Soon, the moment the restaurant is full while finally the main dish for the two brothers is come out.

"Excuse me, sir. This is the main dish called the Sparkling Island made from various kinds of different grade two monsters." the waiter gives them the dish.

It looks like a cube piece of brown cooked meat with a sauce around it. The brown meat and their sauce give a unique feeling and sparkle like a star in the sky. Overall, it looks like a tiny island that keeps sparkling.

At this moment, Angus notices the thickness of mana inside the meat. Eating this will surely increase the person's mana capacity a little bit.

Unfortunately, Angus still not forming his mana core and could not increase the mana inside his body any further. Otherwise, he didn't know how high his mana as he always practice his secret breathing technique to increase his mana bit by bit.

Without further ado, the two brothers immediately eat the food under the hungry glare of other customers.

"Woaahh… This is amazing. I feel my body is energized and stronger." comment Vergil

"Yeah, it is also very delicious. We got lucky to could eat these dishes." replied Angus while keep eating his food.

After that, they close their lunch with a parfait for dessert while the restaurant becomes too crowded with a long queue at this point. Done with the eating, the Vergil go to the bar counter to pay.

However, few customers try to cut off the long queue by using their name as noble or authority. This leads to a chaotic situation until one of them points their finger towards Angus.

"How could you let a kid like him enter and eat while I the noble could not enter?" said one of the noble.

Hearing this, Angus could only shake his head before ignoring him with a smug on his face and waiting for Vergil paying the food.

"Brat, how dare you ignore me, a noble?!! Guard, give that kid a lesson." Command the noble.

The noble guard immediately arrives and tries to beat Angus as he has already done many times before. This makes the other passerby disperse, afraid to get involved in this matter. Angus only looked at the incoming fist lazily, before someone grabs the guard's fist.

Looking at the grabbed fist, "Are you sure you want to involve in this?" said the noble's guard.

Before the other person could say anything, "How about you? Are you sure?" asked Angus back while looking at the noble.

"I don't which rich kid you come from. But I am the son of a viscount Foreman of the Heart kingdom. You should apologize for your previous behavior and let my guard beat you?" said the noble.

Suddenly another voice heard, "Ohhh… So, you want to beat my brother, huh?" as Vergil come over from the bar counter.

Looking at Vergil's noble clothes with the Victory emblem underneath the robe, the other party immediately sucks a cold breath.

"I-I am sorry, young master Victory. I didn't know that he is your brother." bowed the noble's fearfully.

"Tch… I am in a kind of good mood. Get out from here now!!" command Vergil.

At this moment, "Garot…" said Angus.

"Yes, third young master." replied the guard that protects Angus.

"Beat all of them before they get out from here." said Angus chillingly

The guard looks at Vergil before he nodded at Angus's command. Getting the permission, Garot immediately flares up his mana which shows he is a 4th grade combatant.

With a flash, he immediately beat up the guard and their master starting by breaking the hand of the guard that tries to beat Angus. Looking at this, the noble son could only frantically run away. Still, he could never be faster than a 4th grade combatant.

After taking out the 'trash', both of the brothers going out from the restaurant and back to touring the commercial section.

Along the way, "Brother, that's so unlike you that you want to beat someone." said Vergil

"I just notice that that scumbag and his guard may already do this kind of things many times before. So, I just give them their own medicine." said Angus while he looking at the various merchandise on the shop display.

"Really? How did you know about it?" replied Vergil

"The body of the guard move without hesitation the moment he got his command. No matter what kind of discipline training he had there is no way he didn't have any hesitation to beat a child like me. Unless he did it many times that makes him numb towards it."

"I may didn't care about what they did to me, but I will not forgive a scumbag that will even hit the innocent kid. Who knows how many people got beaten under their hand?" Replied Angus.

Hearing Angus answer, he begins to look at Angus in a different light. Vergil always thought that Angus is very apathetic person that didn't care about anyone. But, it seems he also has a bottom line despite being apathetic.

The time passed by as they keep touring the whole afternoon while having fun. As it becomes darker, Vergil remembers that they need to go back immediately as it is already passed the speculated time for them to come back.

Before Vergil could say anything, "Come.. Come… Participate and witness the great Golden Trade's auction." as people keep shouting to promoting about the auction.

Hearing this, Angus found another excuse to delay his return. "Vergil, let's participate in the auction. It should be interesting." said Angus

"Ehh… But, we need to go home now." replied Vergil.

"Oh come one, Vergil. From what I know there will be various kinds of interesting items that will be auctioned." persuaded Angus.

"*Sigh* Alright-Alright… We are already late anyway. Might just take a look." replied Vergil as he couldn't say no to his excited little brother.

Arriving at the Golden Trade's auction house, they see a very long queue.

Looking at this, "Angus, I don't think we will get a ticket this way." [Vergil]

"Oh don't worry about it. As Angus brings out his golden ticket from his wristwatch." as Angus shows the golden ticket.

"That's VVIP golden trade ticket! How come you have that? Also, did you took it out from the wristwatch?" asked Vergil who is found that his brother keeps getting more mysterious.

"Hahaha… Well, I just get it from the acquaintance. Let's not waste any more time and enter it" as Angus tries to change the topic.

"Hey, wait…" as Vergil helplessly follows Angus's lead.

After showing the golden ticket to the staff, they enter the auction without any hindrance. Then, they being lead by other staff to the VVIP room.

"I can't believe we could enter it easily." muttering Vergil that still didn't believe their current situation.

Finally, the staff guide them to the front of the room and scan the golden ticket to the door. The moment it open, there are already two dwarfs inside the room that keep chatting with each other.

Noticing the newcomer, "Ohh… Brat, I didn't know you will be coming. Hahaha" as the old dwarf slightly drunk.

"Err... I just happen to be nearby and want to look at the real auction since I don't have anything to do. Oh yeah, this is my brother Vergil Victory." said Angus while introducing his brother.

Meanwhile, Vergil finally recognizes the old dwarf, "Y-You are Balrug Goldstein."

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"Y-You are Balrug Goldstein. One of the renowned craftsman in Firuman" exclaimed Vergil

"Hahaha… It seems your brother understands my greatness, unlike you brat." replied Balrug happily

"Shut up, old man. You are too loud and drunk." rebuked Angus

"Brat, you should have some respect towards your teacher."

"Like hell, I will respect petty old dwarf like you."

Both of them begin to bickering as they have already done it many times before. Meanwhile Vergil surprise at such relevance that Angus is Balrug's student.

"Hello, my name is Bail Rock." Introduced Bail to Vergil while the master-student keep bickering one with the other.

"Ahh.. yes, My name is Vergil." Vergil shook Bail's hand.

Soon, the master-student stop bickering as the auction start.

"Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Golden Trade Hall. Without wasting more time, let the auction begin!!" said the announcer.

"Woowww…" [The Audience]

After a series of clapping from the audience, they begin auction items one by one starting from the various miscellaneous item such as pouch space storage to the rare monster corpses.

The majority of the audience in the normal seat already try to bidding price. But, none of the VIP class above try to bid for these current items as if it is just an appetizer for them.

"The next is a very special item, a monster egg of Fire Ostrich." said the announcer while the staff took out an adult size of fist egg.

"Monster egg?!" [The Audience]

"From the Fire Ostrich" [The Audience]

"Although this is only monster egg, our client needs to pay a high price to procure it from the grade 4 Fire Ostrich. The start of the bid price is 100 gold with 10 gold coins every increment.

The audience was surprised at hearing such a huge price for the start bidding price. Moreover, every increment is 10 gold coins.

After a while, no one dares to try bidding price. It is not because the price is too high for the current people. However, the is almost no usage of the monster egg to the public besides for few people.

The monster eggs are usually used for research as they will bear their fang towards ordinary people after they grow into adults.

They may have a chance to be tamed during their cub period. After they enter adult and forming their core, they will immediately seek nothing but destruction, especially towards ordinary people.

After a few minutes of silence, "100 gold" someone from the VIP area starts bidding.

"110"

"150"

"200"

Then, more people start bidding especially from the VIP area. Although, its usage may be useless for the public but for certain people it's a rare resource with unknown potential.

From making it as a temporary pet or as research material, all of this could only be achieved in the hand of people with resources and authority. Especially if the monster egg in such pristine condition as this one.

"320"

"340"

The price increase becomes to slow down as the bidding price higher. Although it is a rare material, its usage is still limited with the current knowledge. Not many people want to spend a lot of money on this egg.

"350"

After a while, nobody is try bid the price higher, "500 gold coin" as a deep grunt voice heard from one of the VVIP rooms.

All the people immediately look at the source of the deep voice heard. Not only the price of the people in the VVIP room is high but it also unusual.

"This voice… an orc" said Balrug as he noticed the deep sound they produce.

"An orc?" asked Angus curiously.

"Yes, the only race with those deep grunt voices is from the orc. However, it's quite rare to see an orc in this human kingdom where it is far away from Orchsium" explained Balrug.

"If I am not wrong, Orc is a race with a huge build body and long protruded fang from its lower mouth." replied Vergil.

"You are right, lad. That race may have quite a bizarre appearance. But, they also have strong natural physical power that could match second-grade monster when reach adult. Some of them also quite a fearsome warriors." explained the Balrug more.

"If not because of their barbarian and war-seeking nature, they may become the strongest race after the elf. Unfortunately, their homeland is too chaotic with various factions living there." explained the Balrug more.

"Hmmm… Interesting race." said Angus as he looked back at the stage.

After the orc inside the VVIP room bid, nobody tries to bid higher than him. After a few calls from the announcer, the monster egg finally sold to the orc inside the VVIP room.

A staff bringing the egg backstage, "The next item is a very special potion from the famous alchemist Rondo." said the Announcer as the staff brings a mysterious deep blue-colored potion.

Getting everyone's attention, "This is the famous mana regeneration potion created personally by Alchemist Rondo." revealed the announcer.

"Woaahh… Mana regeneration potion?" [The Audience]

"I-Is that the legendary mana regeneration potion?" [The Audience]

"Hurry, call the others that the mana regeneration potion appear." [The Audience]

Unlike the normal mana potion, a mana regeneration potion will help people that consume it to regenerate their mana faster. Although it may seem simple, its effect could make people combat longer by regenerate their mana.

Unlike Angus who could regenerate mana easily, people in this world could not regenerate mana easily just through rest or meditation. The higher mana regeneration means someone could fight longer.

It could be said high-grade mana regeneration potion could make people have unlimited mana as their mana will keep regenerating for a certain period.

However, to create this mana regeneration potion needs various kinds of rare ingredients and a long hard meticulous alchemy process without any single error.

That's why this kind of potion is always in demand and rare on the market. Especially a high-grade one that was personally crafted by famous alchemist Rondo.

Inside the Angus room, "Woow… So, that's mana regeneration potion." exclaimed Vergil.

"Hoo… that's kind of rare to see this kind of things here." said Balrug.

As for Angus, he only looks at it once before losing interest in it. For Angus who has the cheat of inheritance chi, he could regenerate his mana easily by refining it. Moreover, his breathing technique is also top-notch and increases his mana regeneration.

"The starting bidding price is 500 gold coin with each increment is 50 gold."

"500"

"600"

"700"

"750"

People from both VIP and VVIP areas immediately bidding their prices. They start their own war. Soon, the potion price reaches the 2000 gold coin mark and still increasing.

Even at this point, Vergil also tries to bid on the price but he didn't buy too much money and finally reluctantly passed it. Although the high-grade regeneration mana potion is rare but using his family connection, he still could procure a few low-grade ones.

After few dozen minutes, it finally sold at the 3250 gold coin which many times more than the start bidding price. This shows how important and rare the mana regeneration potion.

"The next item is a weapon. But, this is no ordinary weapon it a mana-enhanced weapon." As a staff brings out a huge long spear with a sharp blade at the end.

"Everyone… This weapon is called Full Spark created by famous crafter Balrug." as the announcer shows the weapon to the audience.

"Ehh… The old man isn't that my practice spear. Why did you sell it?!" rebuked Angus towards the old dwarf.

"Shut up, ungrateful brat!! It's technically mine. So, what I do to it is up to me. I will create another spear for your training later on." replied the old dwarf.

"No way.. I quite like that spear. You can't sell it without my opinion." counter Angus

As the two master-student bickers each other, the announcer test weapon by penetrated strong armor easily while also create a little spark of electricity.

Looking at the spark is created, the audience once again surprised. This kind of enhanced-mana weapon is very deadly as it could produce spark on its end. Moreover, it will be more formidable in the hand of electric-based combatants.

The combination of the electric current and electric attribute mana from the user will make it more deadly towards any opponent.

Soon, another price war start and the price keep going higher even after reach 3000 gold coins. While hearing this, Angus could only lament his situation to lost his favorite practice spear.

Looking at his grumble student, "Brat, if you want to keep the spear, why don't you just bidding it yourself." teased Balrug.

"Shut up stinky old man, just create me another better spear for me after this." replied Angus.

"Another spear!? Ungrateful Brat, Did you think those kinds of things could easily be made?!"

Soon, they start to bickering one another again while Vergil could only look at them.

"Err… Is this situation normally happen?" asked Angus towards Bail.

"Yeah, don't worry about it. As long as they didn't start killing each other everything is fine." replied Bail while ignoring the two master-student as it is a normal occurrence.

Meanwhile, Vergil didn't know what to say looking at the new side of his little brother.

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"5300 once... 5300 twice… Sold" said the announcer.

"Oh Yeah… 5300 gold coins for a spear. Hahaha….Bail, Bring more drink we need to celebrate this." exclaimed Balrug happily inside the VVIP room.

"Tch… That's my spear." grumble Angus nearby

"Hahaha… Don't worry brother. Later on, I will ask Father to procure a new spear for you." as Vergil tries to comfort his little brother.

"*Sigh* Forget it, brother. I will just make the senile old dwarf create a new one for me. Also, don't tell anyone I am this senile old dwarf's student." said Angus

"Senile!! Who's a senile, ungrateful brat!?" rebuked Balrug.

Soon, both of them begin bickering again by throwing some insult like before. Looking at this, Vergil once again didn't know what to do.

"Just leave them alone. Those two are quite hard-headed and always like that since the start." said Bail as he orders more drinks.

"Anyway, your brother is right. You should keep silent about your brother being a student of the old boss."

"The old boss may be a renowned crafter throughout the land but he also has a battle dwarf with many enemies in the past. It will be better for your brother if people know less about this matter." suggest Bail to Vergil.

Hearing this, Vergil could only nod silently. As for Angus, he didn't care about it. The old dwarf may have some enemies but he is also not weak and could be easily assassinated.

Although he prefers fewer people to know about his true power if it becomes too much hassle, he may just blow his cover and release his true might.

"The next item is a very mysterious item that even our appraisal could not guess what it is. This item is found in one of the ancient ruins that is located at Morvo Wasteland." As the announcer shows the people a box made of unknown material.

The box has a swirl black pattern all around it and releasing mana aura surrounds it. All the trained people could feel the aura even without using skills such as [Mana Eye].

Looking at the box, it gathered the audience's attention, "As you can see, this mysterious box has mana aura surrounding it. It may be said that this box contains an artifact from the ancient civilization of Morvo Kingdom." entice the announcer.

"Artifact!!" [The Audience]

"Holy molly… that box may contain the legendary artifact!!" [The Audience]

"This is going to be another bidding war among the VIP." [The Audience]

Artifact is a very rare item made by the ancient civilization using lost knowledge. Some of it may be junk or toys but a few of them could become a mighty weapon. Most of the leaders with seven grade strength have one or two artifacts as weapons or armors.

"Now let's start the auction, the starting price is 2000 gold with each increment of 100 gold coins." the announcer starts the bid.

But none of the people start the bidding immediately. Although artifacts are precious and could be sold for a high price, there are already similar cases like this one.

After opening the box, most of them usually are scrap or junk. So, it's also sorts of a gamble to buy this box.

Meanwhile, the moment Angus looked at the box, he found it had a similar swirl pattern to the bracelet he bought before.

'Hmm… it has a similar pattern. Does it relate one after another?' Thought Angus while looking at the bracelet in his left hand.

After thinking for a few moments, 'Tch.. let's hope the inside is not junk.' [Angus]

"Two thousand gold coins." as Angus starts bidding for the first time.

This gathers the other attention from the others inside the room.

"Brother, did you find anything about the box?" asked Vergil

"Nah.. I just like the box." replied Angus casually.

"Hahaha… you just like the box." said Balrug in a sarcastic tone.

"Shut up, old man. Nobody will think you are a mute if you are not saying anything." rebuked Angus before ignoring the old man and focusing on the stage.

After Angus first bid, many people also start to try their luck and bid.

"2200… 2400… 2700…" [The Audience]

"3000" said the orc inside the VVIP room.

Then, few people also join the bidding as the silent orc also participate until it stops at the 4000 gold coin mark. At this time, only Angus and the orc are bidding for the mysterious box.

"4500" [Orc]

"4600" [Angus]

"5000" [Orc]

"5100" [Angus]

Because of a lack of experience in bidding, Angus thought that bidding with the minimum increment is saving more money. But, at the auction when there are only two bidders it could be said as a provocation.

"GRR… 6000" said the orc.

"6100" said Angus calmly.

"Urgg… ten thousand gold coins last bid." shouts the orc.

Hearing this the audience was surprised as the price suddenly became 10000 gold coins, the highest bidding price from tonight's auction. While the announcer also surprises at the sudden increase.

Like calm water in the lake, Angus replied, "Ten thousand and one hundred gold coins."

"Grr… Fine, you win this dumb box, brat." grumble the orc as he knows from Angus's voice that the other party is still a kid.

"Woah… brother, are you sure you want to spend that much money to gamble with the mysterious box?" asked Vergil.

"Of course, besides my gut told me that this box is kind of special." replied Angus.

After that, no one dares to bid higher than Angus.

"Does anybody want to bid higher? 10100 once, 10100 twice, then it is sold." said the announcer.

After that, the box was brought back backstage to be delivered to Angus's room for the transaction. During this time waiting for the box, a few miscellaneous items were auctioned. But, none of them amuse Angus to join the bidding.

Soon, the box is delivered and Angus gives the coins to the staff. After that everyone in the room looks at the mysterious box in Angus's hand. The box is quite big around 30 cm all around.

Looking at the mysterious box in Angus's hand, "Brat, hurry open the box. Or do you need help to open it?" commented Balrug.

But, Angus ignores Balrug's comment and feels that his bracelet gives some reaction when it touches the box aura. Before anything happens, Angus put the box inside his wristwatch storage.

"Ehh… why did you store it?" asked Balrug.

"Stupid, old man. There is no way I will open it in here. what if it is truly an artifact?" rebuked Angus.

Although Angus is also interested in knowing what is inside the box, he still not stupid enough to open the box in this place.

"Hahaha.. don't worry, brat. As long as I am here, no one will dare to touch you." said Balrug pridefully.

"Yeah-Yeah said the old man that almost lost to eight years old." replied Angus.

"What do you say, brat?!" replied Balrug.

"Ehh… Angus what do you mean by him almost lose to you?" asked Vergil

"Ahh.. That's…" as Angus forgets that his brother still didn't know his true strength.

During this moment, "The next item is a high Manatium Ore." said the announcer.

"MANATIUM!!" shout Balrug that gathers everyone's attention.

Fortunately, the room is soundproof unless you want to touch a certain button to bid. Otherwise, everyone in the auction hall will hear Balrug shout.

"Bail, how much money do we have now? We need to buy this Manatium no matter what." said Balrug excitedly.

"Manatium? what is that?" asked Angus innocently.

"Manatium is a rare metal with the highest mana conductivity. However, it is very rare. Just a few hundred grams of it already cost more than 1000 gold coins in the market. Manatium such as big as that ore will be priceless." explained Vergil.

"I see.. So, it's only rare ore with high mana conductivity." comment Angus.

"*Sigh* it's not only rare ore. Any weapon that is made from it could be said one of the strongest weapons or armor according to its user strength." explained Vergil more.

"Still it doesn't change the fact that it is only a rare ore." comment Angus.

Fortunately, Balrug didn't hear Angus comment. Otherwise, he may smack Angus's face from commenting on such a rare metal. For dwarf races, Manatium could be said to be more precious than gold or diamond.

"7300"

"7500"

"8000"

"9100"

"9500"

"10000"

"11000"

"Damn it… 13000" shouts Balrug as he bid.

"Wooaahh… 13000" [The Audience]

"Is there anyone who wants to bid higher? 13000 once…"

Before I finished saying, "fifteen thousand gold coins" exclaimed one of the people inside the VVIP room.

"Urggg… Bail, did you not have more money?" asked Balrug.

"Err… nope boss." replied Bail.

"Shit… It's only a little more." grumble Balrug.

Suddenly, he remembers the two brothers inside the room.

"Brat, lend me your money. I will pay you back later." asked Balrug.

However, Angus gives an evil smile, "No way, this is my saving money."

"Y-You ungrateful brat!! Just lend me your money, I will give it back later!!" the old dwarf shouts furiously.

"N-O W-A-Y!!" said Angus at a slow pace.

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"N-O W-A-Y!!" said Angus at a slow pace in mocking expression.

"You ungrateful brat!!" as Balrug took his hammer and was ready to smack Angus.

"Wait… Boss." while Bail hold Balrug

"Don't hold me back, Bail. I need to teach this ungrateful brat a lesson." said Balrug furiously.

Looking at the situation, "Brother, stop being stubborn and lend master Balrug some money." as Vergil tried to persuade Angus's mind before the situation escalated.

"Tch… fine. But, on one condition." said Angus like he was losing in this matter.

"What is it?" asked Balrug grumpily.

"Simple, just build me a new weapon from this Manatium ore." said Angus calmly

"Haa.. In your dream." replied Balrug immediately.

"Then, I will not lend you any money." counter Angus.

During this time the announcer kept the auction continuing, "15000 gold coins once… "

"Damn… Fine, you win this time, brat." said Balrug before pushing the bid button.

"Eighteen thousand gold coins." bid Balrug.

"Oi.. Old man, I can only lend you ten thousand gold coins. Don't go overboard." said Angus.

"Yeah-Yeah… I know it. Just shut up." grumble Balrug.

"Eighteen thousand gold coins. Is there anyone who wants to bid higher than this?" entice the announcer.

"Tch… twenty thousand gold coins." said the from one of the VVIP rooms.

"Twenty-one thousand gold coins." replied Balrug immediately as trying to provoke the other party.

Meanwhile at the other room VVIP room, "Tch… Twenty…"

However before the man could push the bid button, "Hold on.. Brother. We still need the money for buying that item." said the girl beside him.

After thinking for a while, "Tch.. Fine." as he released his hand from the bidding button.

Looking at this the girl beside him released a sigh. Then, she looks at the VVIP room direction that just won the Manatium.

'That's the same room as the kid that bought the mysterious box before. I don't know why but the kid's voice sounds familiar.' thought the girl.

While the man beside him, "Darius, are you sure that an artifact will be auctioned here?" asked the man towards the old butler behind him.

"Yes, I am certain of it, the third prince. an item such as an artifact will become the last item to be auctioned. This is also the reason why not a lot of people fight over this huge Manatium ore." said the old butler politely.

"Since that is the case, I will just let them win over this Manatium ore." said the man.

"Twenty-one thousand once… Twice… Sold." said the announcer.

Although he is kind of regretful since usually Manatium such as this sold over twenty thousand gold coins or even reached thirty thousand gold coins but nobody bid for it anymore.

So, he could only concede and close the bidding time this time. Besides, the next item is the main event where everyone is waiting for.

"Alright, everyone. Now, is the final item. It is last but not least. This item is found in the Olven Mountain ancient ruin." as a staff member, bring a tray with a blanket over it.

Everyone immediately looked at the tray that was covered with a blanket.

After gathering everyone's attention, "Everyone looks at the one and only. The newly found artifact." as the announcer took the blanket and showed a short spear on it.

The moment the spear is uncovered by the blanket, it releases a powerful majestic aura towards the surroundings. Feeling the aura, everyone feels like being suppressed by it.

"Woahh… what an aura." [The Audience]

"A-A real artifact!!" [The Audience]

"Such a strong aura. So, this is the artifact" said the third prince inside the VVIP room.

'This artifact… is not ordinary.' thought Darius silently.

"Woaahh… Brother, this artifact you must get it." exclaimed the girl.

"Don't worry my little sister, I will get it with all the money I brought."

On the other hand, at Angus's VVIP room. Everyone was also surprised by the artifact's appearance.

"Woahh.. Brother, look that's an artifact. *Sigh* Unfortunately, we didn't bring a lot of money this time." said Vergil

"What an aura… So, this is an untamed artifact's aura." commented Balrug after finishing his transaction.

"What do you mean by untamed artifact?" asked Angus curiously.

"Most of the artifact has a sentient spirit on it. Because of this reason, you need to tame it first before you can use all of its capability. This is also one of the reasons why all of the people that have artifacts are strong people with high grades." explained Balrug.

"But, this is the first time I feel such a strong aura from an artifact. Moreover, it is also in a sealed state. Who knows what kind of aura it produces if it's unsealed." added Balrug.

"Huhh… It's in a sealed state? what a strong artifact?!" exclaimed Vergil.

Meanwhile, Angus only looks silently at the artifact, 'This spear… is thirsty like a desert. It will dry everything. No.. It will consume everything. What a troublesome spear.' Thought Angus silently.

As a natural weapon master, Angus could somewhat guess the nature of the weapon just from one look. Now, he feels that the artifact is drying like a desert that will dry everything.

"Alright everyone, let's not waste any more time and start the auction. The starting bid price is ten thousand gold coins with each increment 1000." as the announcer starts the auction.

"10000… 11000… 15000… 20000… 25000... " as the price keeps increasing at a fast rate.

"50000 gold coins." as the third prince bidding the price.

"Woaahh.. it's 50000. How much money is that?" [The Audience]

"It's probably all the money that I will gather for my entire life." [The Audience]

"60000 gold coins." bid the orc in the VVIP room.

"70000 gold coins." counter the third prince immediately.

"Urgg… 80000 gold coins." Bidded the orc.

"Tch… One hundred thousand gold coins." Counter the prince.

"Arrgg… *Blam*" a ruckus heard from the orc room.

"120000… Gold coins." said another person from the VVIP box.

"Woahh… It's over 1000000" [The Audience]

"Tch… Sister, how much money do you bring now? lend me your money." asked the third prince towards his sister.

"I only bring around 30000 gold coins now." said the princess.

"Good, lend me all of them. 130000 gold coins." as the third prince pressed the bid button immediately.

"Does anyone want to bid higher than 130000?" said the announcer while the third prince looks at the stage anxiously.

But, after a while. None of them try to bid for it. "130000 once… Second… Sold." as the announcer closes the auction.

"Fiuuhh… Luckily, I didn't bid for Manatium ore before. Otherwise, I don't have any money to buy this artifact." said the third prince

"Yeah… You need to treat me later for it, Brother." comment the princess.

"Alright, my little sister. Later, I will treat you. Now, let's go and retrieve the artifact." as the prince went outside the room towards the backstage area.

"Hey, we could just wait here." said the princess but her brother was already gone.

Meanwhile in Angus's VVIP room, "130000 gold coins. That's an enormous amount of money even for our family. To think of an artifact sold for that kind of price" comment Vergil.

"Yeah… But, I don't think it is worth it. That spear is… Well, forget it. It's not our matter anymore. Let's go home Vergil." said Angus while back to his usual apathetic attitude.

"Ahh.. Yes.. Let's go." said Vergil as he followed his brother.

"Alright, old man. Don't forget your promise and debt. see ya at the academy." said Angus while walking out the room without waiting for Balrug reply.

"Damn brat…" shout Balrug but Angus is already outside the room.

After exiting the Golden Trade's Auction hall, they found that it's already evening. Many magical lamps in the street already lit up and brighten the street. They also found their carriage already in front of them waiting for them.

Fortunately for the two brothers, one of their guards brings the carriage over so they don't need to walk towards the carriage location.

Inside the carriage, "Today is really fun. We should tour around the capital more often." said Vergil.

"Yeah, you are right." replied Angus absent-minded.

Looking at his brother's short reply, "Is something wrong, Brother?"

"Nahh… I just feel that the artifact buyer is truly unlucky." said Angus.

"Ehh.. what do you mean by that?" asked Vergil.

During this time, the carriage stops at the Victory townhouse manor. Since the distance between the townhouse and the auction hall is not too far, they could arrive quickly.

Moreover, the carriage they use is a special carriage that is powered by a magical engine. This way the carriage is moved faster and could carry more load than an ordinary horse carriage.

"It's nothing important. Ahh.. we have already arrived. Let's get inside. I am quite hungry and tired." said Angus

"Yeah… me too." replied Vergil.

During his way, Vergil finally remembers something, "Wait, brother…" said Vergil.

Suddenly, Vergil feels an ominous aura behind him. Angus also noticed this but he pretended to not notice it and keep walking to the inside manor.

"Vergil, I think you need to explain something" said the person behind Vergil.

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