Chapter 251: Worries

He looked at all of them with a worried glance.

“What’s wrong?” He asked nervously, almost afraid to hear the answer.

Richard, who also had a slightly anxious look must have saw his facial expression and quickly came over to Julius with a swift teleport. The man laid an arm on his shoulder and said to Julius with a serious look.

“Don’t be alarmed, try to remain calm.”

Seeing the man’s unusual seriousness, Julius was even more confused.

“Can you tell me what is going on? Why are you all looking at me weirdly and why is Grace looking like I am going to hurt her?”

“You can’t sense it?” Rebecca asked perplexed.

“Sense what?”

“Your aura,” she said like it was obvious.

My aura? What does she mean?

Julius quickly focused inward and tried to get a feeling of his own aura which was harder than it sounded. While he had gotten very good at controlling his aura, there were things he wasn’t able to control. And being able to see his aura exactly how others did, was quite difficult.

It was like facial expressions in a way. Just because he knew he was smiling, doesn’t mean he knew exactly what he looked like. He needed a mirror to do that.

However, when he concentrated and looked inward on his aura, he felt something off. It wasn’t totally under his control anymore. His previously proud control was not to be seen. And there was some sort of fluctuating reverberations pulsing outward.

How did he not notice this earlier? Sure it was subtle but he should be able to control it.

Also, how did this happen? It obviously hasn’t happened before, otherwise one of them would have told him. So it must be something because of his new skill.

“Is my aura acting like this because of my skill?” He asked Richard, worry coloring his tone.

“I don’t know, but you are going to have to learn how to control it that’s for sure,” the man replied with a firm shake of his head.

“It almost feels like that undead knight,” Reinera commented from where she was standing, her face no longer as pale and not looking as scared, to his relief.

“Really? Like my aura is corrupting you?” He asked her.

“No, there isn’t that same sickly feeling that the monster had, but instead it seems more aggressive. Almost as if your aura is trying to burn and destroy anything in its way,” she said to him with a meaningful stare.

Almost like ruin huh?

Richard gave him another encouraging pat on the back. “It’s probably because of your [Aura Burn] skill as well as the pinnacle grade token. That token might have given you a really powerful skill, one that might be too much for you to control at the moment.

“What should I do then?” He asked.

“I can help keep it in check for now, but if you go around the estate like that, you are going to hurt some of the servants,” Richard said to him with an awkward smile.

“Do you have any ideas about what I can do to control it?”

“Practice. Once you start learning how it works you should be able to get good control over the aura aspect pretty soon afterward. But I wouldn’t worry too much about it now. If there’s anything I don’t worry about you, it is your dedication to training. You are going to be just fine.”

Julius gave the older man a grateful smile and went to work right away trying to control this new skill. He didn’t want to accidentally hurt someone when he walked down the streets of the city.

If Reinera was right, then his aura was now like the undead knights, whose aura almost killed her just by being exposed to it. That wasn’t something he wanted to expose his friends to.

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His enemies on the other hand… well that seemed like a very nice tool to have.

However, no matter what he tried, he wasn’t able to stop the ruinous aura from wafting off of him like a badly scented candle.

It wasn’t like normal aura control and it felt like a brand new limb he needed to train.

In the end, Richard was forced to use his domain to temporarily suppress his aura so that he could walk around the estate without hurting anyone within reach of its presence. It wasn’t comfortable for him, but it was necessary.

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Richard POV