Julius could understand why Edgar was considered one of the best fighters at Goldencrest. Strength, speed, skill, he had it all in spades. He had a perfect balance of offense and defense. His fire affinity did an amazing job of giving him the necessary explosiveness and intensity, while his earth...
2024-07-09 16:51:05 +0000 UTC View PostJulius was surprised. The skill didn’t feel necessarily bad, but it did feel different. He could sense that some of the life mana was taking a detour of a sort. It wasn’t like it was taking longer to heal or making it more inefficient, if anything this change was making the skill better overa...
2024-07-08 17:11:35 +0000 UTC View PostJulius and Aubrey were facing each other once more. This time, he wasn’t just going to allow her to hit him again.
Aubrey kicked off just like last time and headed right at him. Julius created several spikes in quick succession and threw them at Aubrey. He was happy to notice that t...
2024-07-06 18:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostJulius stood up from the mat, feeling a little off while doing so. He felt stronger, but not just in a physical sense either, he instinctually understood that his body could handle mana much better than before.
He could already feel his mana enforcing his body without activating any s...
2024-07-05 16:36:35 +0000 UTC View PostStephen Youma POV
Stephen Youma was old. He had been stuck at Tier 4 for most of his life, a debilitating injury to his soul when he was younger had left him bottlenecked. He wasn’t able to find a way forward, no matter how many expensive elixirs or healing services he pa...
2024-07-04 14:31:10 +0000 UTC View PostJulius was sitting on the bench next to Aubrey, both of them out of breath from their sparring. Aubrey had improved her clone technique very fast, it took Julius much more mental focus to decide which one was real and which one wasn’t now. Aubrey was still frustrated about how much mana and aur...
2024-07-03 17:10:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe four of them were on their way to the library, to meet up with Kyle and Derek. Professor Keller had shown up, but it was toward the end of class when it was almost already over.
Aubrey had kept prodding Julius about what he wanted to show them. He must have told her no a dozen tim...
2024-07-02 16:50:50 +0000 UTC View PostJulius’s classes went very similar to the day before. Physical Training just involved him pushing himself hard, using kinetic energy liberally to make it more difficult on himself. Julius, however, did notice that some of the nobles who were causing trouble the day before had not shown up. They...
2024-07-01 16:13:32 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Julius got back to his dorm, he saw his roommate, Henry there as well. Ever since their first conversation, they hadn’t said a word to each other. Not that Julius minded that. His first impression of Henry was not the best.
Henry was sitting at his desk, scribbling away on a piece of...
2024-06-29 15:28:14 +0000 UTC View PostJulius didn’t know why Professor Youma had asked him to stay behind. Did he do something wrong?
Professor Youma had assistants helping out with the class like the other professors. So he waited for everyone to leave before he paid attention to Julius. The older man stood up from his...
2024-06-28 19:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostJulius was walking toward the cafeteria. He didn’t know what he could do. He tried to remind himself that Kyle didn’t say they were dead for sure, he had just implied that it was very likely. With that being said, it was still difficult to keep believing that they were alive though.
... 2024-06-27 18:43:07 +0000 UTC View PostLily had a confused expression. “House Hyperius? The Marquis house?”
“Yeah, that same one. What do you guys know about it?” Julius asked them.
Derek was the one who answered. “My father told me that House Hyperius lost many of its powerful members in the last monster f...
2024-06-26 16:20:58 +0000 UTC View PostFor close to an hour, Julius and Aubrey took turns trying out their new techniques. Aubrey had made an interesting discovery herself. She found out that the same way she was able to infuse her clones with her aura could be used in another way as well. It took a lot more aura and concentration but...
2024-06-25 16:36:23 +0000 UTC View PostJulius honestly thought it wouldn’t work. However, much to his surprise, the life mana easily slipped into her and started to heal her fatigue. At the time, when he had acquired [Restoration], Julius didn’t get to check if the skill was a self-healing skill or if it was a healing skill that c...
2024-06-25 16:28:12 +0000 UTC View PostLily POV
Lily didn’t quite know what to make of Julius. When she first saw him sitting in the upperclassmen cafeteria she only saw a small first year with black hair alone far away from any other table.
He’s here awfully early. First years don’t show u...
2024-06-24 18:02:58 +0000 UTC View PostEdgar had a hand under his chin, “I still don’t get why Professor Keller would want to spar with you. Even if he knew that you had an aura skill, it wouldn’t make him that interested in you. No offense.”
Julius didn’t take any offense to that. It was true, an aura skill w...
2024-06-22 18:56:56 +0000 UTC View PostRound two didn’t go so well either. Neither did rounds three, four, or five. No matter what Julius tried, he wasn’t able to penetrate Gabriel’s defenses with his constructs. [Extreme Mana Resistance] was according to Gabriel, an epic-ranked skill that almost completely protected one from ma...
2024-06-21 17:51:09 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t like Julius had much of a choice. Gabriel might have been teasing him, but he was right. Learning techniques and sparring while handicapped was good and all, but he would need to push himself and go all out if he wanted to see actual results.
Julius didn’t say anything to Gabr...
2024-06-20 19:04:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I just wanted to let you know that Tier 3 is finally 20 chapters ahead. Many of you have already upgraded, but I just wanted to give an official announcement. I plan to keep on expanding Tier 3 to more than 20 chapters, so we'll see how much I can write.
You guys are amazing ...
2024-06-19 19:42:12 +0000 UTC View PostLily was Tier 3, so her physical attributes were better than Julius's, but she made sure to limit herself the best she could. To be honest, Julius didn’t think it would have mattered if she did. Maybe Lily thought she was being helpful, but after a few minutes, it became obvious that Julius was...
2024-06-19 19:38:27 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Julius finished Professor Hashen’s class, he was tired. He hadn’t used [Pseudo-Phoenix Renewal] all day, he wanted to see how far he could push himself before he wore out. He was starting to feel the soreness from his Physical Training class and the last ten minutes of his sword-fightin...
2024-06-19 19:27:20 +0000 UTC View PostProfessor Rowe had stopped talking, his smile was wiped off of his face like it had never been there. His posture was no longer slouched and relaxed. His eyes were deadly still, as he observed the still-talking students. It was a dramatic change that caught the attention of many students who were...
2024-06-19 19:23:56 +0000 UTC View PostHe tried to keep an open mind, he really did, but he didn’t like the class at all. She taught the exact opposite of how he used mana. Where he was more intuitive with his use, she was structured and inflexible.
The best way he could describe it was by comparing it to throwing a base...
2024-06-18 17:21:24 +0000 UTC View PostJulius ran hard. A lot of the students were simply jogging at a pace they were comfortable with. But Julius was here to improve, and how would he improve his physique if he wasn’t pushing himself?
He wasn’t the only one with that mindset.
There were a dozen or more students ...
2024-06-18 17:20:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe entire group had told Julius to stay away from Liam. They didn’t like the guy and were always on guard against him. So when Julius saw the guys staring at Julius from afar, Julius pretended like he hadn’t seen him. He scanned his gaze right by Liam and continued on his way to the back of ...
2024-06-17 18:14:09 +0000 UTC View PostJulius left the cafeteria and wandered about campus, occasionally bumping into another student on accident. The idea of leaving Heston crossed Julius’s mind, but that seemed like an overreaction. He needed to calm down and think it through. Odds are that Tristan wouldn’t recognize him and eve...
2024-06-17 18:01:36 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the beach with the others, Julius went back to his room. He didn’t know if his roommate was still there but thought there was a good chance he was. Last night Julius had noticed a lot of bags and items that hadn’t been unpacked yet. So, there was a good chance the other boy was still mo...
2024-06-17 17:54:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, my father was a noble, but my mother was a commoner” Julius admitted to the group
Julius watched as the group all wore slightly uncomfortable faces, hearing the past tense he used to describe his parents. He didn’t mean to make them feel awkward and felt like he needed to put t...
2024-06-15 18:19:38 +0000 UTC View PostEdgar POV
Edgar and his friends were hanging out in Derek’s dorm together, just spending time with each other before the semester started. They wouldn’t have much time once it did. At the moment Lily was telling Kyle and Derek about their interaction with Liam earlier t...
2024-06-15 18:18:58 +0000 UTC View PostEdgar nudged Julius with his very large shoulder and asked, “How was your first night?”
Julius had to keep himself from being tossed off of the bench, and responded, “It was productive, I saw some of the facilities after we signed up for our classes. It’s impressive how much i...
2024-06-14 16:46:35 +0000 UTC View Post