Chapter 71: They Don’t Believe Him

Edgar had a hand under his chin, “I still don’t get why Professor Keller would want to spar with you. Even if he knew that you had an aura skill, it wouldn’t make him that interested in you. No offense.”

Julius didn’t take any offense to that. It was true, an aura skill wouldn’t explain why Professor Keller wanted to spar with him.

“He said that he liked to fight strong people,” Julius said.

Aubrey straight-up laughed at that but she saw that Julius was being serious and quickly stopped. “Sorry, what do you mean by that?”

“Obviously, not tier-wise, but he said he liked to fight people who were strong for their tier,” Julius clarified.

“How strong exactly?” Kyle asked from behind Edgar. Julius was taken aback, this was the first time that Kyle had chosen to talk to him directly before.

Julius thought about how he wanted to answer. To be fair, he might have to start telling them the truth. It wasn’t like he was trying to hide everything about himself like his life depended on it, but he thought that the more he shared the higher the likelihood that someone from Duke Greyson’s camp or connected to the plan would take notice of Julius. He still didn’t know if his details were shared amongst themselves.

The only person who knew most of the truth was Declan. Everyone else only knew small parts of his story and secrets. He had originally wanted to hide so much because he was worried about attracting the wrong sort of attention, but it was already becoming a nuisance. The constant need to focus on holding himself back was frustrating.

He has a life spirit on the way as well, so even if he didn’t come out with a life affinity, he was sure that many people would just assume he had a life affinity. The only thing that he felt was the most important secret was about who he was, and what happened at the mansion.

Julius realized that after his spar with Gabriel. The feeling of being able to go all out, even though he got his ass kicked, was liberating. It made him understand how much he disliked having all of his secrets, he would much rather just be able to display his strength openly, but he wasn’t strong enough yet.

He wanted to share his secrets with these new friends of his. Julius wanted to get closer to these amazing people and didn’t think that keeping so many secrets was a good start to a healthy relationship.

He had even seriously considered asking them if they knew anything about the circumstances of House Hyperius. Derek was the grandson of Duke Zenith, Lily was the granddaughter of Count Violet, and Kyle was a Quincy. Between the three of them, the chances that they knew what happened to his family were pretty high.

Declan hadn’t heard about anything regarding House Hyperius in the time he had gotten to Heston and Julius was getting impatient. Not knowing what happened to his family was killing him.

“Hello? You still there?” Aubrey bumped Julius on the shoulder, bringing him out of his own thoughts.

He nodded at her and turned to Lily, “How good is your barrier at sealing in sounds?”

“Oh, you can sense it? It’s pretty good for my tier. I don’t think anyone under Tier 4 could get through, and if they did, I would be able to notice that the barrier had been compromised.”

Julius made up his mind. He would at least share some of his secrets.

So he did, he explained a lot, only leaving out the rift and his family. However, he told them about his real strength, that he was able to fight against weaker Tier 3’s and his life affinity.

His reveal about his affinity didn’t come as that much of a surprise, they were more confused about why he hid it and why he had chosen three affinities in the first place. Telling him that it would just split his attention too much, giving many of the same reasons that Edwin had told Julius after his affinity ritual. However, they had a much harder time accepting his claims of his strength.

They were kind about it and didn’t outright call him out, but Julius felt their skepticism. He didn’t blame them either, a Tier 1 fighting not just one tier up, but two was a bold claim. Fighting a Tier 3 was different than having firepower or defensive skills on par with a Tier 3.

Just like Gabriel had told Julius earlier, there were students in his own year who had unique talents when it came to pure firepower, rivaling his own. However, how many of those students also had the defensive skills, movement abilities, or general combat proficiency to hold up against a Tier 3? Probably not many, if any at all.

He didn’t try to convince them, the only way to show them would be to fight them. The only person who didn’t seem as skeptical was Lily. She appeared to have some sort of truthtelling ability and was able to tell that Julius was telling the truth. Or at least, she could see that Julius believed that he could fight a Tier 3.

Julius saw her look around at her group of friends, understanding that they wouldn’t believe Julius unless they saw it for themselves.

“Why don’t we see it for ourselves then?” She finally said loudly over the others who were talking amongst themselves. That got the attention of the others, interested that Lily was the one who recommended it.

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“That’s a great idea. I want to see it myself. I don’t doubt you are strong, but I admit I don’t quite believe you can fight Tier 3’s,” Aubrey said enthusiastically.

“Are you okay with that Julius?” Lily asked him.

“Yeah, I don’t blame you guys for being skeptical,” he told them.

He didn’t mind going for another spar even though he had just fought with Gabriel. However, Derek must’ve realized the same thing because he said, “Right now? Julius just sparred not that long ago. We can do it tomorrow or later tonight.”

Julius was quick to reassure Derek, “I am good as new, I healed myself after my spar with Gabriel so I am completely fresh.”

“You have a rejuvenation skill?” Edgar asked excitedly, looking right into Julius’s eyes.

“Yeah, why?” He asked a little wary.