TBATE: PRIMORDIAL ASCENSION

Chapter 10: Auction House

ARTHUR LEYWIN'S POV:

Days quickly passed by as multiple events happened, I explored Xyrus city together with Helstea's family, mom, and Ellie.

Xyrus was an amazing city. I couldn't help but stare at the different sights that came into view as we traveled down the main road. I could see magic shops, armories, spell books, and even beast core shops! There was everything a mage could ask for. Adults and children were all dressed extravagantly while luxurious carriages passed alongside ours. Some buildings were several stories high, making this city seem a lot bigger and denser than Ashber. I could also see children a couple of years older than me all wearing similar uniforms, some black while some grey and red. I could only assume by their pretentious demeanor that they were students of Xyrus Academy. While uniforms in my old world were meant to protect the financial backgrounds to lessen discrimination, here, it seemed that the uniforms themselves worked as a sort of gold medallion that they could show off to the rest of the world.

I was used as a mannequin for each of the girl's preferences in style. My mother wanted to dress me in simple clothes, while Tabitha wanted to transform me into some sort of prince. Even Lilia and Ellie made me try on some clothes.

Next, I ended up meeting the director of Xyrus academy-Cynthia Godsky, Our greeting was... never mind, let's not talk about it. After the greeting, we had a so-called 'demonstration' where the director made me realize that in this world there are people who I cannot touch, even if I go all out.

Everyone was quite shocked when I used earth and wind elements during the demonstration, probably shocked is a bit downgrading but you get the idea. Once everyone calmed down, the Director and I were able to come to an agreement regarding my enrollment at the Xyrus Academy. Because of the sudden appearance of the Director thanks to Vincent's courtesy, I ended up revealing my adventuring plans much sooner.

Somehow I was able to talk out my parents to go adventuring with a few conditions, them being:

A member of Twin Horns will accompany me during my time as an adventure.

Every once in a while (2 months) I have to come back home or at least write a letter to them.

My safety would be kept a priority, and so on and so forth.

Afterward, I asked Uncle Vincent to provide me with some equipment for my upcoming adventure. I requested a voice-altering mask, a sword that suits my size, and a cloak. As a way of thanking him for these items, I offered to train Lilia in awakening. This proposal drove Vincent crazy.

Later, I taught Lilia and Ellie the mana-gathering technique I used to awaken as a toddler. I injected my quadra elemental mana into their bodies to increase their mana concentration. While I am almost sure that Lilia will be able to awaken, I only told them there is a 70% chance for Lilia because there is still a small chance that she may not awaken.

We continued that process almost every day, while Lilia worked hard, Ellie on the other hand seemed to prefer playing with Sylv rather than meditating which I suppose is normal for kids her age.

During these past two months, it was evident that there had been progress in Lilia's and my sister's mana manipulation. It was no longer necessary to infuse my mana into them anymore, so they were able to train by themselves now. Of course, it would still take a few years for them to form a mana core-especially Ellie and her short attention span-but I did drill into both of them the importance of keeping their training a secret.

I didn't need to remind my parents and the Helstea family that keeping this a secret was important, but it was blatantly obvious that the four of them were excited for the day Lilia and Ellie would awaken.