Chapter 1627 Qualifications [6]

Chapter 1627 Qualifications [6]

Melania sort of faded into the background after that.

She was still there. She did the remaining two tests along with August, but her genius was overshadowed by his at every step.

August didn't mean to do it.

In the last two tests, he really couldn't control his results. He just had to pray that he didn't show anything too crazy.

Nevertheless, the next two tests measured mana and mind. They were categories that would become incredibly important when the heir wars started, so even before they entered, these geniuses needed to prove that they were worthy.

August was only 3rd class. Many of his competitors were 4th class. He was also a ten-year-old, the youngest of the young.

He'd lied about the latter when he registered, because they would probably lose their minds if he was honest, but the first part was already enough of a crutch.

That was why Rakon needed another reason to put his money on August.

For a 3rd class to stand a chance, they needed to be far beyond others of their same caliber.

The mana test was more about purity than capacity. Capacity would grow for anyone, and since they were dragons, they already had an unreasonable amount of space to house their energy. Dragons were inherently expected to have large mana capacities.

To them, purity mattered more. It told of how a genius treated mana, and what kind of work they'd done to maintain it.

August was particularly skilled in this facet.

He had been enamored with the energy since young, and it was the first thing he learned even when he didn't have any thoughts of training.

Mana purity was hard to achieve for commoners. Since they didn't have the necessary means to purify the mana on their own, they'd often end up with mana as rough as what their environment could provide them.

August had Damien.

Not only did he learn how to purify his mana, he was given an environment where the mana was already extremely pure.

Putting those two facts together with his love for mana, which caused him to constantly interact with it, August's mana purity didn't even have to be mentioned.

The testing device practically danced with spirituality when it received his energy. It was a reaction that only those of the Holy Clans could produce, which instantly put August's identity under question.

Though, nobody actually addressed the elephant in the room.

He could feel the sensations of war as he was enveloped by a battlefield. The sword in his hand was real. He couldn't control his actions, but he could feel the movement of his muscles as his arm chopped down to kill another enemy.

Blood was everywhere. Mayhem was everywhere. And, on the other side of it all was a treasure that everyone present wanted for themselves.

It was all or nothing in this place.

And August...

The light in his eyes immediately died.

His emotions numbed, and his perception of everything changed immensely.

This scene...it wasn't new to him. Qinglong had been in wars like this thousands of times at the very least. He was always fighting tooth and nail to gain a treasure that he had no business of getting his hands on.

For those rewards, he risked everything. He killed and killed until he was the only one left, and after attaining what he fought for, he'd go looking for the next battlefield.

It was a tiring life in August's opinion, but it was one he'd been forced to live every single night for the past three years.

This was how he dealt with it.

The instant he found himself in a life-or-death situation, he turned everything off and embraced his draconic instincts.

When it was necessary, he'd become the monster he feared when he was a child.

When he needed to, he could give an entirely new meaning to the name "August Void."

And that...that was the most bittersweet thing for Damien to watch happen, knowing that he couldn't do a thing to change it.

It was a mentality a child should never have.

But, when that child was a dragon, and the Azure Dragon's successor at that...

It was a mark of fate, the makings of a ruler.

It was already obvious that August would participate in the heir wars before he even entered the room.

But if this was any indication of how that event would go...

Surely, it would be far more significant than anything that had happened in Arulion in many, many years.