Chapter 226: Tier 3 Achievement

Casidus POV

Spying wasn’t the most noble of things he had done in his life, but he was known for his curiosity, even as a young boy. Just ask his mother.

He knew that it wasn’t proper and that his parents would have disapproved of his actions. But he couldn’t help himself. The fact that the boy had been inside the chamber for a really long time made it even more tempting.

His friend was already done and officially Tier 3. She was currently impatient for Julius to be done as well. During her wait, she had been spending a lot of time with Cory to his young grandson’s delight. However, it also seemed like she wasn’t that surprised that Julius was taking so long. In fact, it appeared like she had been expecting something like this.

Speaking of Grace, he did not doubt that she was some daughter of some highly ranked noble or powerful family. Her demeanor was well-practiced and her knowledge about the Challenge Rift was a big indicator.

However, he didn’t feel like she or Julius would be a problem for them. His instincts were telling him that cultivating a relationship with these two would only bring his House benefits.

Old Man Han thought so as well, otherwise there wasn’t a reason why he would send them his way.

Casidus believed that he was supposed to help these two in some way.

This was the reason he had already made the executive decision to give them access to the rift.

While some of the elders might have problems with that, he was hoping that after some time they would come to understand his decision. Furthermore, he was able to do this because of one simple reason.

He was the Patriarch. Which meant his words held quite a lot of weight.

It was almost three weeks after Julius entered the chamber, which was already a very long time by anyone’s standards.

Although Casidus has personally seen an advancement from a friend reaching Tier 4, that had taken longer than a year to complete. However, their case was a bit of a special one. They had a Time Concept which made things much more complicated.

Julius’s was only to Tier 3, so anything over a week was an anomaly.

But he wanted to see the boy’s advancement with his own eyes. Well, not exactly with his eyes, but since he managed many of the enchantments of the estate, he was able to use them to get a good idea of what was happening inside the chamber.

At first, he was nervous because, around the two-week mark, the boy went silent. If he didn’t sense the tiniest sliver of life from the boy, he would have thought he had died.

But it was still worrisome when several days went by like that. Despite this, he made sure to keep an eye out for any new developments.

It wasn’t until around the three-week mark that he felt something change.

He had been in the middle of a meeting but had allocated some of his attention to paying attention to the chamber where the boy was just in case.

Casidus had felt a powerful surge of mana come from the boy’s previously innate body. Moments later a massive wave of flames flooded the room and turned the furniture to ash. Leaving only the boy in the center of the room, completely naked.

He had no idea what had happened and had never seen an advancement that explosive before. The one thing that really caught his eye was the wave of Concepts that were released in that explosion. He already knew the boy had more than one Concept, but he had no idea how strong each Concept was.

It wasn’t unusual to see people with many Concepts, but many times they weren’t that extraordinary.

His were.

Casidus was beginning to see why Old Han was interested.

He also made sure to remind himself that he needed to give Julius something a little extra for his indiscretion and for spying on his advancement. Maybe some personal training or some other type of reward would be enough to rectify his discretion.

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Julius POV

He awkwardly looked around at the destruction and put on a new set of clothes. His previous plain black clothes were gone, never to be seen or worn again.

However, he was a bit confused at the fact that he didn’t have any impurities around him. He had been expecting some sort of discharge of his built-up impurities since that was normal after advancing to Tier 3.

Of course, it was possible that he had and the explosion which had turned the furniture and comfortable chair to dust had also turned the impurities to dust.

The first thing he did was take out Drasil from his core.

Actually, I don’t have a core anymore. So where does Drasil go now? He realized something important.

Fortunately, he was able to follow the connection that was still there between them and found the little life spirit tucked away in his soul space.