Seeing the smirk on Ace’s face, the recruiter almost felt as though his dignity was being challenged. “Is something funny, brat?”

  “A grown man has resorted to bullying an i child in an attempt to curry favour with an rown baby lizard…

  Even you have to admit it’s pretty funny?” Ace zily replied casually as he looked at the representative from the War God’s Academy.

  As soon as Ace said that, the whole room became deathly silent. Even the children around him began to edge away.

  Ace the a suffog pressure envelop him. Looking up, he could see the fiery eyes of the giant warrior, but instead of bag down like most his age would in that sario, Ace ighe terrifying pressure and maintained eye tact.

  “That’s enough, Brutus. Bullying children is no way frown man in his 60s who’s here representing one of the most prestigious academies in the tio behave.” Peter, the Ernst Institute’s representative, said indifferently.

  ’60? He looks no older than 40 at most!’ Ace thought as he raised his brows, taken aback by that revetion.

  Brutus coldly g Peter, then back at Ace. “Wharton, when you crush this brat iure, I only ask that you allow me to watch.”

  “Yes, sir. You have my word.” Wharton said before turning to face Peter with a slight bow. “Thank you for your offer, but I believe the War-God’s academy would be the best pe.”

  Peter smiled warmly, not seeming to mind. “I uand. Both you and your brother are destined freatness. I wish you all the best in your future endeavours.”

  As he walked off the stage, Ace remained indifferent as Whartantly mouthed, “Dead meat.”

  “You really have a knack fering people, don’t you?” The young girl in front of him asked rhetorically.

  “They’re the ones who went out of their way to provoke me.” Ace said zily.

  The silver-haired girl couldn’t help but look twice at Aot knowing how to reply, as that genuinely seemed to be the case.

  Over the hour, things seemed to settle as the exam tinued. Over a hundred kids went up on stage, some of which even passed, but none mao grab the attention of any recruiters in the same way as Wharton, but that was about to ge as Killian .

  “Killian, age 8, peak rank one warrior.” The invigitor announced with a hint of admiration

  Ace smiled when he heard that, as he knew Killian was bound to impress everyoh his talent.

  Oher hand, Killian wasn’t paying any attention to his only friend. Instead, he was gring daggers at Wharton.

  “Anyone who reach the sed rank at ten or younger be sidered ae talent. As long as nothing unforeseen happens, this Killian will definitely reach the sed rank long before then.”

  “The warrior academies will go wild trying to recruit him.”

  “But why’s he gring at Young Master Wharton like that?”

  “ht, you weren’t there when that dark-haired kid defeated Wharton, were you? He and this Killian boy appear to be good friends. I imagine he feels a fair bit of animosity towards him after what just happened.”

  Killian looked like he wao jump off the stage and pummel Wharton where he stood. It wasn’t until he saw Ace shaking his head that he forced himself to calm down.

  “Killian, was it?” The white-robed official asked, jolting Killian from his thoughts. “, I need you to step on the Overawe formation. Remember, the longer you st, the better your results.”

  With a nod, Killian walked to the tre of the sed formation. ‘e on, Killian. You do this, don’t let Ace down after everything he’s done for you.’

  When the lights came on, Killian found the pressure easier to bear than he initially thought, but as time went on, it gradually became harder and harder to stand, but he refused to give in.

  The longer he spent withstanding the pressure, the more shocked the crowd became.

  “This kid… his spiritual essence has already surpassed Young Master Wharton’s.”

  “It’s starting to approach Young Master Linley’s now.”

  “Even if he only has an average affinity to one of the elements, I suspect the Ernst Institute will reach out as well.”

  “I just realised something. Linley, Wharton, and now Killian. They all came from Wushan Town.”

  “Don’t fet that Ace kid? Regardless of his talent as a mage, or his attitude problems, the fact remains that he mao bee a rank-two warrior at the age of eight. His talent as a warrior is sed only to those with the bloodlines of the four supreme warriors.”

  “What exactly are they feeding them over there at Wushan?”

  Even Ace couldn’t help but grin, watg Killian’s performance. ‘If trauma’s a way of training, then no one beat Kil. Every day for the st two years, he’s put his body through a near inhumane level of torture trying to keep up with me and thes up and does it again the day.’

  Just in front of him, the silver-haired girl stared wide-eyed at Killian’s performance, refusing to even blink. What was going through her head, only she knew.

  At some point, everyone fot the time as they watched Killian persevere. He was sweating buckets, and his body was trembling, but he grit his teeth and persevered.

  ‘Just a bit more… Just a bit longer…’ Killian thought to himself as he desperately resisted the urge to colpse.

  Eventually, the pressure got too much for him to handle, and he fell to his knees. Everyone immediately turo the invigitor as if to tell him to hurry up ahe results.

  The invigitor couldn’t hide his grin at this point, even if he wao. “Rare Spiritual Essence 41x times his peers!”

  “Rare? Killian’s spiritual esseually reached the levels of rare?”

  “Incredible!”

  “I wonder what his Affinities will be…”

  “At this point, I’m pretty sure most academies will want him even if he only has a low-grade affinity.”

  “Don’t fet his talent as a Warrior as well.”

  Killian ighe crowd’s rea as he forced himself to his feet. When he finally shook off the spell’s effects, he looked to the back of the queue, where he saw Ace smiling with his thumbs up, bringing him no small amount of joy.