Devoured Eccentric - 40 Natural Selection VIII

Nero had come out as the winner while Felicia suffered a loss.

But it wasn’t the end for Felicia.

Her battle talent had clearly been displayed to the crowd, her performance had gained acknowledgement from the referee as well as the surrounding Aristocrats.

If two talented candidates are put head to head, even if one loses, they could gain the acknowledgement from one of the referees and continue in the tournament.

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Similarly, if two candidates with low battle talent are put together, if not good enough, the winner could also be removed from the tournament.

The whole tournament’s goal was to pick out those with enough talent to become mages and fighters.

In the case of Nero’s duel, his opponent was evidently skilled and talented enough to continue further into the selections.

As for Nero, he had gained enough acknowledgement to directly advance into the battle royale.

This was done to keep the tournament more even, him participating any longer would result in people talented enough to suffer a loss.

Or in other words, it was a waste of time.

His performance had left everybody in awe and inquisition.

‘Who is the master of this kid? How could so agilely jump over that swing? And, he even has to strength rivalling young mistress!’ These were the thoughts of Felicia’s training master.

He knew of great strength Felicia had for a child, and somehow, this mysterious Royal who supposedly came out of nowhere, and is only 7 not to mention, could contest and even beat his greatest disciple.

With a body like Nero’s, there was only one way he had such power…

‘It has to be… Beast Absorption!’

Felicia’s training master was extremely knowledgeable about ways to gain physical strength. He knew that the only suitable way for someone like Nero to gain power was Beast Absorption.

Beast Absorption was the name for the process of absorbing and constitutionally changing one’s body with Beast Mana to gain greater physical power.

Beast Absorption was also thought to be like a talent.

Every person could absorb a certain amount of Beast mana from consuming magical beasts, the amount differing between every person.

‘But even with A grade Beast Absorption, it’s almost impossible to achieve such great strength at such a young age.’ The Training master racked his brain, trying to figure out how Nero displayed the strength that he did.

Nero had only shown the strength of an average Adult, not because he wanted to go easy on his opponent but because his overwhelming strength would attract all kinds of questions and potential dangers.

‘Unless… that’s right! His master must have somehow helped him with a rare Beast mana Absorption manual!’

To the training Master, that was the only viable possibility that could explain the physical strength Nero displayed.

In a way, he was correct. Nova did improve all of Nero’s bodily functions, achieving the effect of a manual’s in a more natural way.

Felicia was also a rare A-grade talent in Beast mana absorption, but to reach the strength that she had, It had taken a full four years more than Nero. Humans could only successfully start being able to absorb Beast mana after the age of 5.

Nero had only begun Beast mana absorption one and a half years ago whereas, Felicia had been absorbing for the last five years.

And even then, her physical strength was only half of Nero’s, when he had advanced into the slayer realm, he had received a massive boost in strength.

All in all, the deciding factor still came down to skill. Clearly, Nero’s strength had been undermined leading into a slope of downfall to Felicia’s loss.

Now, Nero had nothing left for the day. The next round of selections would happen the next day, so Nero spent his time watching the tournament.

He had nothing left to do, he had, to stop any chance of his identity leaking out, stopped training completely for the moment and realised that he was left with nothing but time was on his hands.

He was surprised when he saw Felicia completely wipe the floor and dominate her opponents, they simply lost balance the moment they tried to defend because of Felicia’s strength.

It was quite fun, to say the least.

In the end, of the 48 candidates, only 18 were qualified to proceed to the next round. Felicia and Nero were a part of this.

The first cut off was having Slayer level potential while the second focused on Battle potential.

In the small Island of Plumon, waging wars was thought to be an everyday thing between nomadic tribes and small villages. Nero had extrapolated that physical power was a status of its own, along with fame and wealth but on a much grander scale.

Here, physical power ascertained hierarchy. A community’s strength put together couldn’t hold a candle to a Demon, this world worked on a completely different system.

It was Power-based hierarchy up in here.

‘If a man could, then he would.’

The simple phrase explained exactly why the world was as such, unlike Earth, a single man could actually control the lives of hundreds of people alone without fear of being taken down.

Mana made it all possible.

‘What a world!’ Nero was really enjoying his time here. It was a blessing for sure in his mind, there nothing that interesting left for him in his old universe anyway. Did he really want to hole himself up into a lab to live forever and find every single truth of a boring universe?

Nah, he would definitely rather be here.

‘Man, whoever let the 4th dimension route me here is probably a god.’

In truth, the creator was yet to find the cause of the reality’s distortion. He was just silently observing the numerous hidden things he’d added to create such an extraordinary build. A few new features had already been discovered, he was surprised at the compatibility of mana, the new pillar of reality he’d come up with.

Thinking of an entity with that much power, Nero couldn’t help but feel even more ambitious to reach his final goal.

Apotheosis – Godhood.