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Chapter 3 - Entrance Ceremony

*The announcement of a new level of Talent being revealed which was mostly higher then or near legendary as his talent created a Silver Colored Glow. After the Awakening Ceremony was an Party organization by the Family head or Rowan's father, which went more or less awkwardly for the branched family members who were mostly plotting to drag down the young duke when he took his father's position later which now was seemingly impossible. The Magic Crystal was unable to tell what Talent he had in particular as Rowan's Cheat System was also considered his talent and that was otherworldly in nature thus except the mechanical silver light nothing was determined. As the party ended Rowan went straight to his room and emerged in his father's study the next day, requesting solitary training before leaving for the Royal Academy for the Entrance Ceremony. Oddly enough he received his solitary training in the Duke's training dungeon filled with trap triggers and many top class resources for training. Rowan wasn't here for solitary training, but an hidden piece that was discovered by a fan of the game when they were doing the "Duke's Alliance Quest". This hidden piece of the story was an ancient scroll with the family's secret sword art that was partly lost after the scroll was misplaced by the Duke's forefather during the construction of the dungeon. As only the head of the household and his successor were allowed to learn using the scroll, the understanding of the art was lost as well as it's last few techniques were lost when the previous Dukes of Evenfall were unable to learn them from their parents*.

Now that I found the hidden piece all I have to do is work hard, no need to get permission because I am the young Duke so I am allowed to use this technically and I don't really have much time so it Duke Evenfall, no father asks anything I will just say that I found it during my training. Well it's not like anyone comes down here anyway because this facility was practically abandoned after the Royal Academy was established and all the young Dukes including my father in his youth went there for training instead of here so it's not even odd that this scroll was not found in centuries.

*Rowan started his training with the blazing ambition to survive, have fun and save a simple life after. It took him a day to read through the whole scroll, then he practically train his swordsmanship for a whole week just enough to be able to properly use it and learned magic for the rest of the time. How was he able to do so? Because even if Rowan wasn't a genius, they soul in him was and the skill that he learned using his System Cheats helped him achieve his desired results effectively. Then after he left the training facility he gave the scroll to him father and make a request to use the Teleportation Station in the Dukedom to travel to the Royal Academy which was accepted instantly as Rowan had achieved something many of the previous heads of the Evenfall family were unable to achieve*.

Great, now I don't have to worry about getting ambushed by my assassins from traveling towards the Royal Academy or get attacked any monster on my way to the Royal Academy, but I still have one concern how would teleporting for the first time feel?

*Using the Teleportation Station was able cut quite of a bit of traveling time and possible dangers that were in the path leading to the Royal Academy. The Entrance Ceremony went quite smoothly, no one recognized Rowan because the young Duke of Evenfall was never really seen in public or at nobel gatherings. Only one person knew him in the whole hall, which was Rowan's cousin sister Serena Evenfall who was instructed by her father to get close to Rowan while in the academy and she was following him everywhere. Most knew Serena Evenfall before of her exceptional showcase of strength, she was tagged a genius by the instructors and ranked the top in swordsmanship was following around a kid her age. This made a nearly everyone in the academy interest into Rowan's background, they didn't remember seeing him in the Entrance test meaning either he was a young Duke, Royal or a hiding his strength to not stand out of place. No one found any information because the Royal Academy's policy was to keep every student's identity secret till they graduated because ranks and background doesn't help anyone on the battlefield and everyone in the Academy had to fight on the battle field after graduating except non combat students like magic engineers, high rank mages and talents with commanding abilities who were kept as aces against the army of the Demon Lord*.

Well, I don't really care about the Demon Lord because tracking back everything related to the Demon Lord's awakening and attacking the whole world at full force happened around the Hero as if targeting the Hero the whole time and If I remember correctly from the last words of the Demon Lord had something about his "Revenge". I am suspicious that the Hero committed something bad to trigger the Demon Lord's rage and was aiming to rule the world with an iron fist by taking over the Demon Lord's position after his death. Well, the more I think about this the more annoyingly complicated this gets because I can't really determine who is truly the higher evil.

*Rowan continued his pondering in a corner of the room, but still many eyes tracked his every movement. Ge remembered that the first event, the tutorial starts at the near end of the ceremony. Rowan had grown suspicious that something was wrong as the time ticked and the Hero character seemed missing from the crowd. He got up and left to wander as there was only an hour till the event timings. Wandering the area he observed mysterious tracks of "Black Blood" going towards the Hero's room that couldn't have been seen if Rowan wasn't holding his sword to activate his skill for enhancing his senses. His cousin sister had a terrible sense of directions which helped Rowan lose her and now he had climbed into Aither Bell, the Hero's room to investigate what was wrong. Soon the hero left from a secret room, his hands dripping Black Blood or a Demon's blood. Washing his hands Aither left for the party giving Rowan the best chance to slip in and check his concerns. Entering the secret room and looking at the situation here made Rowan's blood freeze with a few words repeating in his mind, "This is utter insanity"*.

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