As top-level powerhouses, each of them could already se, but when Aiden firmed it, they all felt as though their worlds had been turned on their heads. Even Wukong, who had been cultivating the shortest time among them, had been cultivating nearly three times as long as Ace.

  But the person with the most violeion was, without a doubt, Cesar. Aside from Arianna, he was the oldest expert among them, having lived for over 6000 years already, a he had only reached his current level a few hundred years ago, and he hadn’t made any progress sihen.

  For the st few turies, he’d been a siep away from pletely prehending his first profound mystery; it could be imagined how he was feeling finding that a child that was barely a fra of his age had already aplished what he couldn’t.

  “I’m going!” Cesar snorted, uo remain in Ace’s preseny longer.

  “Before you go,” Arianna said softly as she flicked her wrist, summoning a rge tome from her ste ring. “Here, this is for you.”

  “Mmh,” Cesar grunted as he casually put it away, too depressed to care about anything else. “Have my granddaughter e get me when it’s time to go.”

  “Haha, that’s the same face the rest of the brats used to pull after challenging Ace,” Wukong ughed, deriving no small amount of pleasure from Cesar’s misery. “Serves that old fart right.”

  “I uand how he feels,” Lauriel sighed helplessly, looking up yearningly at the crimson fiery gives in the sky.

  “There’s no point paring ourselves to Ace,” Mathias said in an attempt to fort his wife. “We always k was just a matter of time before he caught up aually surpassed us.”

  “I’m going too,” Kimika suddenly announced. “I have a sudden urge to go and break through to the saint realm.”

  Her words should’ve e as a shock, but everyone already khat Kimika had long since been able to break through to the saint realm; the only thing holding her back was that she wao spend a little longer prehending the ws of nature as a mortal where it was slightly easier.

  But after being stimuted by Ace’s dispy, she just wao break through so she could stay substantially strohan Ace for as long as possible.

  “I’m going too,” Lazerim said as he flew towards his private abode. “I’ll meet you back here when it’s time to go.”

  Lazerim was the st of the instructors to break through to the saint realm, having done so not long after Ad Killiaed for the Rohault Empire, meaning that with the addition of Cesar, the Yin-Yang Pavilion now officially had five human saint-level experts, and that didn’t include the peak mortals who had the strength of a saint or the saint level magical beasts.

  After Lazerim, Lauriel also took her leave, also wanting to tinue her training. Even though she was nowhere closer to making another breakthrough, she couldn’t stand the thought of standing around doing nothing when one of her students was making strides to catch up with her every day.

  “You not going to go bad train as well?” Arianna asked, looking back at her former you disciple.

  “Nah,” Wukong shrugged. “The state of mind of this king isn’t sile that it be shaken by that snot-nosed brat; plus, there’s nothing this king do to make any improvements in the short term.”

  “You could break through to the saint realm now as well,” Mathias said, knowing full well that the prehension of this junior brother of his had long since reached the requirements their master had set for him.

  “This king’s not ready yet,” Wukong replied, his ape-like eyes nding ba Ace. “This king won’t break through till his prehension reaches that of a prime saint.”

  Although not as bad as the others, Wukong would be lying if he said he wasn’t stimuted by Ace’s lightning-fast improvements.

  “Who knows how long that will be,” Mathias replied. “You sure you want to wait till then?”

  “If this king keeps improving at the same rate, it should only be another year,” Wukong casually replied as he zily stretched his body. “Two at most.”

  The st time Wukong had personally made a move was over a year ago against Kenyon wheempted to grab Arianna, and even then, he had been holding back a fair bit just in case Haydson decided to intervene as well.

  As a result, everyone knew Wukong had been training seriously, but no one had any idea how much progress he had made.

  It was only when Mathias heard that did he remember that Ace wasn’t the only true freak of nature in the Pavilion.

  “Aren’t you going to annouhe winner?” Ace asked as he casually dispersed his fming spears, his voice waking Mathias from his thoughts.

  “Ahh, that’s right,” Mathias said as his body flickered, appearing on stage just behind Ad Amira. “As the winner, Ace retains his position as the number one core disciple.

  Okay, now that the ranking petition is over, I’ll be inf you of your final ranks as well as the school you will be challenging as part of your missions:

  Ih pce is Yuna. You will be taken by master’s magical beast Jax to challehe students of the Knights Way Warrior Academy.

  In ninth pce is Kannal. You will be taken by your master, Kimika, to challehe students of the Saltier Magus Academy.

  Ih pce is Faye. You will be taken by your master, Lazerim, to challehe students of the Waning Moon Foundation fes.

  Ih pce is Osiris. I will be the oo take you to challehe students of the Knights of the Night ierritory of the Dark Alliance.”

  ‘And here I thought I was the only oh a problem with the Cult of Darkness.’ Ace thought to himself as he looked over at the dark-haired stoic archer.

  Although he had done a good job at hiding it, both Ad Alissa, who were both extremely sensitive to killing i, had felt a trace amount seep out of the young archer. Unfortunately, now was her the time nor the pce to ask their cssmate about it.

  “Joel, as you finished sixth, you will be going with Wukong to the Magus Dao Institute.

  Finishing in fifth pce, Alissa, you will be heading to the Rhire of Excellence along with Cesar to challeheir young warriors.

  In fourth pce, Julius, although you won’t be fighting directly, you will go with Yuna as an emissary for the Pavilion. This is so that you start getting used to your new role as substitute teacher for when you break through to the eighth rank.

  Killian, as you fihird, you will be going with Lauriel to challenge Syer Institute for Warriors. But as you fihird, you are being tasked with challenging not only the students but the teachers as well.”

  When they heard that, the others were all surprised. It had to be uood that the Syer Institute was regarded as the sed-best institute for warriors on the ti. As a result, one could imagihe calibre of their instructors. Still, if there was anyone who could do it was their top three core students.

  “Amira, as you are our sed-ranked core disciple, you will be going with martial uncle Aiden to the Ernst instate fes, and just like Killian, you will be challenging the students and teachers there,” Mathias announced, causing Amira to turo face Ace with a teasing aed smile.

  “Looks like I’m going to be the first to get to fight Linley since he awoke his bloodline,” Amira said gloatingly.

  “Whatever!” Ace smirked. “Just try not to lose!”

  “Lose?” Amira snorted disdainfully. “Until I catch up with you, I won’t lose to anyone from eion!”

  “I believe you,” Ace replied sincerely after hearing the vi in her voice, and if he was being ho, he didn’t believe that she was wroher. As far as tale, Amira was literally only sed to him.

  “And that just leaves our top-ranked core student,” Mathias said, recapturing Ace’s attention. “Ace, you will be heading to the O’Brien Empire with Master, your mother, Leo, Lance, and Carter, but your mission isn’t as simple as the others.

  You must first challenge a the disciples and instructors of the War God Academy before challenging aing all the mortals in the War God’s College.”

  Ace had already heard from Arianna about his mission, but it was a first for the others.

  It ubliowledge that the War God’s College was the home of the most talented and powerful young warriors on the ti. Many of the students were even strohan the instructors of the War God’s Academy; after all, it was from there that O’Brien would choose his disciple.

  Still, rememberily how much of a freak Ace was and his grudge against O’Brien, Alissa and the others only felt sympathy for the students of the college.

  “It’ll be my pleasure!” Ace replied directly as the blood c through his body boiled with excitement.

  Mathias could only sigh, uanding full well that things definitely wouldn’t end so simply.

  “Okay, that cludes today’s festivities,” Mathias announced. “You’re all dismissed. Be back here in two days so that we set off.”

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