"The Selection is a yearly event for choosing the best of your apprentices"A message had come in from the capital for an increase in every nation's quota. So, one hundred and fifty of them were seated in front of a small stage. The middle-aged trainer stood there explaining the points to take note of... Elder Friesian sat to the side watching quietly.The rest who had not been chosen would be trained in the city with the army. Every other city in the nation of Sur would also have participants chosen to attend The Selection.Aiden was present and he sat at the back, out of sight. Even so, he could hear everything the trainer said, loud and clear."The threshold is set at the third-order apprentice rank so the competition will be somewhat fair. Note that breaking through during the test is very common"This was information that most of them knew. They were impatient because of this and the trainer could feel it."The first test is the same as every year. You have to earn the qualificat
As soon as he opened the door..."Are you okay? I felt the spiritual energy go crazy in your room for a moment"Aiden nodded as he pulled the door all the way so that Mallory could enter."What happened?"Aiden closed the door and was just about to explain when he saw Mallory with wide eyes."What is it?", He askedHowever, Mallory was frozen in place as he kept looking at Aiden.Aiden turned around to see if there was anything behind him when he heard Zarek warn him.["Your astral projection seems to be under attack. I'm warning you so you can keep your consciousness. If you lose consciousness, you might never wake..."]Aiden had tensed up immediately after he heard that his astral projection was under attack.Before he heard everything Zarek wanted to say, he felt a tight pull in his mind. It was as if something was trying to rip his mind in half.With a groan he fell to his knees, head to the ground as the pain racked his body.Maybe it was the groan but Mallory snapped back to att
With a nod of the head amid a whole lot of waves, Aiden stood with the rest.King Robert stood with the nobles and had just finished addressing them. Queen Vivienne, Prince Dante, Princess Freya, and Prince Fitzgerald also stood with him.Princess Freya had looked Aiden straight in the eye which was why Aiden nodded.One after the other, they entered their assigned carriages. They were arranged in order of rank. He had been assigned the second rank, just after Princess Diane, so he sat in the first carriage.These carriages were not crafted from the best materials possible, but it was so big that they required six feral horses to pull them.With a foot stepping up to enter the carriage, Aiden turned to look at the crowd, picking out the few faces that meant anything to him.Mallory stood with Miss Riordan, Warden Bo, and Madam Rou. Last but not least was Princess Freya. After his devastating run-in with an astral attack, he understood Princess Freya's wishes a lot better.The moment
The door opened and one of her guards brought a small girl in.The girl had snow-white hair that fell past her shoulder. Her hair was dirty and messed up at the moment but it could only be an impressive sight once it was cleaned.She looked at the girl who had passed out at her feet for a few moments. Her eyes scrutinized the girl thoroughly. She was looking for what made her feel different about this girl, however, the girl looked ordinary.Was it something else and she'd associated it with the wrong person?She looked through the windows on both sides of the carriage to be sure but she felt nothing different."Take her to an infirmary and pay for her treatment. She is to visit when she gets better"The guard nodded and carried the girl out of the carriage to carry out her instructions.Her ride continued through the city till she got bored and returned to her house.***The was the sharp sound of a whistle. It came from the front of the carriage.There were a few more that followed
......Fighting techniques are divided into star ranks, from 1★ - 12★. Each star rank corresponds to the rank you're at.First to seventh order: 1 - 7Priest to Monarch: 8 -12Trying to learn a fighting technique before you get to the rank required to learn it can lead to fatal injuries.Just like sets in artifacts, there are fighting techniques with volumes corresponding to successive star ranks.Sets are rare and can give a bigger boost in fighting power compared to individual fighting techniques.......["Get up"]"It's time?"["Yes"]"Thanks"There was a moment of silence as Aiden tried to get his mind in order.["So what did you learn this time?"]"Fighting techniques"["Anything from the stele?"]"No"["Keep trying, that stele hides secrets that can cause empires each other if they find it"]Aiden's mind recalled the scene where he floated through space as he experienced chaos.He'd touched on something that day but he couldn't put his finger on what it was."I will", he answered
She opened the door to see a box sitting in front of the door. It was a pretty big box. She peeked out the door to see who had dropped it off but she saw no one. After a slight pause, she opened it and saw that it was divided into sections. Each section had a different thing in it. The biggest section was filled with clothes. The smaller ones either had jewelry or shoes.She dragged the box into the room and locked the door before she dragged the box into the empty dressing room.She opened the closet and hung the clothes one after the other. She put the shoes on the shelves and the jewelry on stands or in the glass cabinets.By the time she was done arranging everything, she had spent a few hours on it.Standing in front of the half-filled closet, she lost count of how many times she looked over all the fancy clothes.There was only one dress that was remotely simple enough to fit her tastes.It was a plain light blue dress. Not long after, she had put it on. Her hair was let down,
"Every person had a seed inside them but only a small percentage of people were able to awaken their seeds.The seeds awoken will always have a specific elemental inclination and the more compatible the seed is with the element it was inclined to, the more powerful the control over the element and the more powerful the arcana it belongs to will be"Deirdre nodded as Miss Seiran explained things. Some of these she already had an idea of."Since you have once been exposed to an incredibly pure source of aether during your first awakening and it did not work, we'll have to use a different method""How will we do that?""I'll have to stress your elemental seed to the point of breaking""Will that be painful?", she asked."Are you having second thoughts?", Aoife asked in response.Deirdre hardened her expression with some determination."Let's get started"They were currently standing in a cavern. The rocky walls had a glassy look to them, seemingly glowing in the greyness of the space.Dei
Seeing the world fall into chaos was not the worst part of this experience, the real problem was that she experienced everything that happened in this world.So when the lava spread across the ground, she was standing directly in its path.Her feet were eroded to the bone by the lava but she remained standing, even though she was screaming her head off.When the eruptions got out of hand, she was standing in the splash zone. When the chunks of rock struck her, she screamed for her life.When the splashes burnt through her clothes to her heart that continued beating, she felt crucified.When the air grew toxic, she was there to choke on the clouds of sulfur, as well as dust the eruptions spewed.When the world grew cold due to the nuclear winter caused by the gases rising into the atmosphere, she was there to freeze.Through the thousands to millions of years that the world spent in that frozen state, she was there, a popsicle.As a popsicle, she watched the world get terraformed. Afte