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Chapter 252

The encounter with a floor boss had Ajax change his focus now that he had a few months all to himself while the academy let out for break. After seeing just how powerful a floor boss was he had first looked into traveling, the kingdom had two more dungeons and he didn’t want to waste the first floor stats by clearing it later. This turned out to not be that big of a challenge, both the other dungeons had their base floors cover level thirty-four to thirty-nine nad thirty-five to forty, this...

Chapter 251

Ajax and his team had made it past the security barrier that had appeared to surround the arch, isolating everyone but the team of five from the arch as they prepared to handle the upcoming floor boss.

It only took a minute more before the first jungle creatures started to pour out of the arch. To call what happened to them anything but a slaughter would not do it justice as waves of flames erupted and turned all of them to ash.

The arrival of the kitsune was memorable as the wave...

Chapter 250

Teams continued to exit the dungeon every couple of hours for the next two days. Depending on the skill of the team they would have more or less scratches covering the armor, some even sporting some partially healed wounds. The one constant Ajax had noticed however was that all teams had at least half their members with snakes bites on their ankles.

“Don’t worry, by the second half of next year we’ll start delving the second floor of the Goldmine, that should help with their lack ...

Chapter 249

Ajax could still make out the hushed whispers that the rest of his team were trying to slip by him as they headed towards the exit of the dungeon, his performance at the end seemed to have convinced at least one of the two healers that his house would be a good one to join, especially if they could get in before it grew. This would be the shortest delve Ajax had ever been on, lasting only a day and a half in total to clear out the first floor of the dungeon before leaving.

With a simple...

Chapter 248

Both groups swiftly merged as they started to make their way towards the dungeon. Ajax’s entire class had their eyes trained on Fluffy. An elemental attuned inferior version of a feline or a wolf is considered the peak as a starting companion.

While Fluffy is far too young to be considered optimal as well as surpassing being an inferior version, his current age does represent what a mature inferior version like his parents were. This added on to the playful personality he displayed to...

Chapter 247

AN : Sorry for the delay, had a small internet issue last night and I didn't realize the chapter didn't post.

“Welcome to the final exam, this also marks the end of your first year at the Academy.” Professor Silvertongue said as he entered the class. “Before we begin does anyone have any questions?”

“How are the grades going to be imparted since the teams aren’t equally balanced?” The question was asked without fail every year as not everyone was inf...

Chapter 246

Ajax had just finished his non-combat exams, all in all the subjects weren’t all that hard but he knew that Alchemy was the only subject he was getting a perfect score on. With these exams out of the way his class only had their final dungeon delve to go through before the Academy would take a three month break before the start of the new year.

“How come we are given such a long break?” Ajax asked as they moved through the city.

“The break is mainly for the third years and...

Chapter 245

The reaction from the arena to Ajax’s casual use of [Cursed Slash] was very different from what he had originally expected. While he knew that enough time had passed and that the stigma associated with cursed attacks should have gone down, he certainly didn’t expect the enthusiasm displayed by the crowd watching.

Ajax had failed to take into account that most of the population watching now was all part of the nobility, while a few of them might carry a grudge against curses that wou...

Chapter 244

Despite having beaten last years winner Ajax knew the final will end being a more difficult match, it wasn’t so much that the person he was fighting would in any way be at the same level that Ajax is, after all they were barely level forty and Ajax had been able to clear dungeon floors with monsters going all the way up to level sixty-five.

The difficulty came from a multitude of factors, first and foremost being that the mage he was going to be up against was a runic mage, his abilit...

Chapter 243

Ajax watched the result of the match with surprise, he had quickly managed to figure out that Anna had bet everything on this being a short match. Her armor basically ate chunks of itself in order to provide a shield. Not only was such craftsmanship not cheap but even the metal that it was created from was nothing to sneeze at, she probably spent at least two hundred gold just winning this single match.

But while Anna’s defense had made perfect sense her offense had not. Ajax couldn�...

Chapter 242

Ajax battered his way through to the semifinals with a quick application on overwhelming power. Much like his previous matches there simply wasn’t anything that his opponent was able to do against the monstrous stats Ajax was sporting. It also didn’t help that he had won his previous match with a quick arrow shot before switching to a close combat strategy for this one.

“You’re making quite the name for yourself, kid.” an old man said as he took a seat in the stands next to Aj...

Chapter 241

Annabeth P.O.V

“I’m so proud of you. Sorry I couldn’t make it in time for your other matches.” Dad said with excitement that dropped off because of the implications.

Dad had been gone from the capital for almost two months. In fact he left about a week after Ajax’s discovery was made public. But I knew just how important this auction was. I tried hard to keep the guilt I was feeling off my face, hopefully I had gotten a better handle on it with my social skill leveling.<...

Chapter 240

As Ajax was working on getting a handle on his anger, something that came much easier to him as he thought about the quality of the first retainer he gained, he was unaware of the issues that the bookies he was angry at were going through.

All of the gambling leaders had been in the arena to watch that match, despite all they had heard about the child prodigy who had been named a noble at the age of sixteen very little was leaked of his actual power outside the academy. To say that thei...

Chapter 239

Ajax was lookie out at the sand in the arena. All of the other years had already started their tournaments and now it would be time for him to start his as well. His breathing was quick, his hands grasped his sword and axe tightly as he prepared himself for the first round.

Ajax wasn’t at all nervous, he had no doubts that he could beat every single person that was taking part in the tournament. Ajax was angry at what he had found out this morning but there wasn’t anything he could ...

Chapter 238

Despite being ready for their most likely tactic Tom had still taken a solid blow to the shoulder and that alone had left Ajax feeling furious. The referees had inspected what was left from the crossbow after the match and had found that it technically didn’t violate any of the duel rules.

The way they achieved this is by creating the crossbow to be a specifically single shot use, none of the runes were meant to do anything but give more power to the shot resulting in the crossbow bre...

Chapter 237

Tom P.O.V.

I woke up much earlier than normal and I couldn’t help but be a bit anxious. Today was the day of the duel and no matter how many other matches I may have seen with the commoner tournaments that started I was still a little antsy about my own match.

Unlike me Fluffy seemed to not care at all as he was sleeping without a care in the world laid up next to our bed. I took extra care not to wake Kate up as I got out of bed, flicked Fluffys ear and headed downstairs.

Chapter 236

Ajax’s whole family was taking the day off to relax following the party as all of them had been mentally exhausted by the end of it. Ajax had been the least pressured seeing as all he had to do was basically greet people and socialize as any of the hard questions were taken by his grandmother who never left his side. Despite all of this he still hadn’t managed to get through the event without a challenge being issued but everybody had accepted that it simply wasn’t something feasible an...

Chapter 235

Judy P.O.V.

I had to admit that the way nobles lived was starting to get to me at this point a little bit and I had only been a noble for less than a month. The access we had going into any section of the city, the interconnected network helping each other profit, but what really pushed it over the top was how Duke Manashaper had just decided for the rain cloud to go around the plot where we were hosting the party. I knew that that was more of a power status then a noble one but having ...

Chapter 234

Training and alchemy weren’t the only places where Ajax was pushing himself as much as he could in order to advance, delving had also been taken one step further as he pushed heavily into the 4th floor of the Highlands, but his limits were starting to show.

Much as Ajax might not like it, fighting groups of level sixty monsters was not something he could do safely just yet. It wasn’t so much that he didn’t have the necessary level of power as he could very much hold his own in com...

Chapter 233

Increasing amounts of pressure started to be applied to all the students of the Academy. The end of the year exams and tournament were quickly approaching and it was starting to show. The students in the first year who managed to bond had it the worst as they needed to not only focus on getting in sync with their bond but also not become too reliant on it as it was not something they could bring with them for the tournament.

Ajax was initially surprised that the bond couldn’t take par...

Chapter 232

Ajax was a bit disappointed in not being able to form a bond. Not only that he knew that in order to find any creature that would be of an acceptable level he would need to head out towards the edge of humanoid lands as creatures strong enough to bond with him would have been culled already.

This disappointment was quickly suppressed by the dedicated training and research he was conducting with Balnazar as well as Evelyn. Finding out about Evelyn’s official promotion was a cause of ce...

Chapter 231

Today had started much the same for Ajax as all the other days but that all changed once he got to the Academy. The changes started from their meeting place which was on the training grounds instead of inside the classroom.

“Today is the day you will all be given a chance to form a bond.” Professor Silvertongue stated. “Your usual classes have been canceled and you will all be dismissed once all of you have gone through the process.”

Ajax couldn’t help but notice that th...

Chapter 230

Ajax’s whole body was sore. He had spent the last few days sparring with instructor Gatecrasher as the man pushed him with the very skills Ajax was hoping to pick up for a rogue styled combat. The only issue there was that rogues focused more on shallow cuts meant to push their advantage as well as killing blows with not much in between. Furthermore his instructor had the skills and knew how to use them but wasn’t good enough to do so without having some of the blows land on Ajax.

H...

Chapter 229

As Ajax woke up the following morning he felt more refreshed than he had been in months. With the tournament looming in the future like a black cloud he finally had a goal to charge towards and a good reason for getting stronger in the near future. Before he got to that however he still needed to settle a few matters.

That morning Ajax had spread out most of the duties that came from being the head of the household. He had left his sister in charge of the money, the bee hives should be ...

Chapter 228

Ajax was surprised to find that his grandparents were also there, less surprising was the tense atmosphere that he could cut with a knife from the moment he walked in the door. It was also pretty clear that everybody wanted a new topic of conversation, not only that but all were also interested in finding out how the meeting had gone.

“We’re officially nobles.” Ajax said.

The announcement was met with sighs of relief from Judy, Alana, Silvia and Sebastian who had been taking...

Chapter 227

“You’ll find that plot is empty, as such you can begin building your estate on it, a Viscount plot neighboring it has also recently been vacated due to all that curse plague business earlier in the year.” Evelyn told Ajax. “I suggest you take into consideration that plot being added to yours in ten years when laying down any plans.”

“I will, thanks Evelyn.” Ajax said. “Also congratulations on the win.”

“What gave it away?” the other fighter asked Ajax, seeing...

Chapter 226

The following wait was a little nerve racking, a mix of anticipation of how Evelyn’s fight had gone mixed with the fact that he was waiting to meet the king. While the wait itself hadn’t been longer than another twenty minutes it felt much longer to Ajax who ended up pacing for the last five minutes of it.

“The king will see you now.” A different guard, one with much fancier armor entered the waiting area and invited Ajax inside.

As Ajax was led into a small throne room he...

Chapter 225

Ajax was oddly surprised at the interaction he had with the two princesses. While he had known that the royal family had chosen to try and have a group of children around the same decade as a way to keep them connected as siblings he hadn’t known their exact birthdays. The young princess should thank his grandparents a lot more than they did him as that was the push that made him reveal his trick.

Once he finally arrived back home Ajax was treated with a number of different sigils tha...

Chapter 224

Evelyn of the Fourth P.O.V.

Today I will finally get my chance again. After all the effort I had put in these last few months I will finally have a chance to advance and claim the name of Evelyn of the Third. The man standing opposite me in the ring has the same black mask covering his face as his tight leather armor is covered by the loose cloak. Today I will put everything I picked up about curse mana in the last few months into practice.

As the signal was given he charged in sa...

Chapter 223

“That element is basically useless to all other mages or hybrids I have met.” Ajax was quick to point out. “My style of casting uses more mana for a lower effect but doesn’t rely on chanting. Not only that but much like rune casters the style actively competes with chanting. If anyone wants to try this element it can’t be a chant caster.”

“Why not a chant caster?” Lexi was quick to ask as she was also interested in the new element, though this was more for novelty sake t...