Talking About Transformation

– On the development path of the Dragon races, it had been fated that gift played an irreplaceable role.

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Dinner time.

Angus felt the atmosphere of dinner today was a bit strange.

The canteen dining table was designed for six to eight people to sit together. At the beginning of the course, the freshmen did not know each other, so they sat in small groups of two or three people in a table. Later on, they gradually became acquainted and thus liked to crammed into one table.

It was the same to Angus' group.

At first Angus sat only with his roommates who were Neil, Iris, and Cody. Then Hudson and Gilmar actively asked to join. After that, Edelina also joined and took one seat. Finally, the noisy Dallton took the last position.

The other members of Class K did not sit far away. Picking Angus as the center, all were sitting in the tables around his.

Angus put the chopsticks in his hand down, cashed his eyes around the faces in the table.

"What's wrong? Why you guys keep looking at me?"

Every day they always talked about the situations happened during the team competition, or gossiped about the trivial things in the base. But today they just kept sneaking at him all the time. Why?

Edelina, who had never been afraid of sky falling down, asked: "Leader, Dallton said you transformed at twelve years old, is that true?"

Dallton nearly jumped up.

Big Sis Edelina! If you wanted to ask the Leader, just ask him in a simple way!!

You didn't need to mention my name, okay? Mentioned me for what? For what?? I still wanted to live some more hundred years!!!

Facing with Angus' glance, Dallton immediately lowered his head, focusing on his culinary expertise. However, he still shivered slightly.

Leader was so scary! Huhu...

"No." Angus glanced at Dallton and answered.

Phew! Now, he was alive! Dallton exhaled softly.

Wait – Leader said... No? No he did not?

So, it meant... Leader did not transform at the age of twelve?

Dallton quickly turned his eyes to Neil. So why this guy pretended to be such cool in the afternoon?

Not only Dallton, everyone also focused their gaze on Neil.

Basically, right after the match, choosing the time there was no Angus, the noisy Dallton did utilize his story-telling skill to tell others about the whole "power fight" between Angus and Hawley, and by the way, also included how cool Neil was when he scorned Hawley.

In front of the devouring gaze of everyone, Neil gulped, trying hard to explain: "I, I'm telling the truth! You guys all know I'm from the same province as Leader! When I was twelve years old, I had a trip to the outskirts and saw Leader sitting in a pavilion reading a book! He was in humanoid at the time!"

It did not look like Neil was lying. Everyone then turned their gaze to Angus, but their look was not as fierce as when they looked at Neil. All was quite cautious.

Then what all of them saw was Angus calmly took a piece of napkin, gently wiping his mouth and then said: "Not twelve years old."

Class K: ???

"It's ten years old."

...

Neil rolled his eyes.

Edelina gaped.

Iris, Hudson stopped chewing.

Gilmar, Cody gulped.

Dallton even had a more classical reaction – the spoon of artificial starch in his hand fell into the tray, making a big "clang" sound.

Boom!

The table exploded.

My mother! My God! My Heaven!

This time Dallton really jumped up and grabbed the one sitting next to him: "It's ten, right? Leader said he transformed at ten right? I didn't hear wrong, did I?"

Iris was the one sitting next to Dallton, suddenly felt his shoulders were grabbed and then shaken so hard that he nearly spit out the meat in his mouth. He quickly gave Dallton a punch so that this one could be calm down.

Cody whispered to Gilmar: "Hey! Hit me, to see if I am dreaming?"

Gilmar innocently replied, "It's better if you hit me. You are very weak, can't stand one punch of me!"

Cody: "..." Damn it! Was that the point? Was that the point?

Hudson let go the pair of chopsticks in his hand, laughing with Angus: "I still wonder why you are such that bull!... Why don't you say it earlier? If I had known it before, how dare I touch you!"

The-bull-Angus calmly replied: "You guys didn't ask."

Taking the first time of transformation topic as a starting point, all Class K members sitting around began to gossip noisily. After a while, they all realized that there was no one transformed before the age of fifteen, so they returned to talk about Angus again.

"How amazing our Leader! I wonder how many people could transform at ten years old?"

"I think... not so many. May be you can only count them on one hand. I heard a few people transformed at thirteen, fourteen years old, but no one at ten!"

"Hawley transformed at fifteen but he kept calling himself "genius" "genius" all the time! Ha ha ha, he deserved for what happened in the afternoon!!!"

"Hmph! If he a "genius", then our Leader would be "evil" ha ha ha."

Leader-Angus-evil: "I've finished eating. I'm going now."

***

"... I wonder how many people could transform at ten years old?"

"No one."

After Rinne's innocent question was Fred's cold voice.

He did not answer the student named Rinne on the observation monitor, but answered to the surprised face of the teaching assistant Leana who was sitting in front of the screen.

The kids were not old enough to know everything.

Their thinking were just simple enough: if there were people who successfully transformed two or three years before the age of fifteen, then it was normal to have a few people who could transform even sooner. Maybe just a little rarer!

But they were wrong.

The transformation stage of a young dragon usually took place from fifteen to nineteen years old. For more detail, about thirty percent of young dragon had their first transformation in fifteen to sixteen years old, and the remaining seventy percent had their first transformation in between seventeen and nineteen years old. That was the reason why the children who could transform from fifteen years old and earlier were called "genius".

But no matter they transformed sooner or later, at the age of twenty, all young dragons would begin to develop the ability to use internal power which was related to three natural elements: Fire, Water, and Lightning. This was the reason why Pacific Education Law stipulated that the age of admission was twenty years old.

In the first Dragon generation who laid the foundation for the process of unifying Pacific, the earliest transformation recorded in history was Emperor Arthur Nolan's case. He transformed at thirteen years old.

The next "record breaking" case appeared in the 7th academic year at Military Academy –

He transformed for the first time at the age of twelve. He clearly showed the characteristics of a "genius" from a very young age. He not only mastered the Lightning techniques, but also was able to absorb the skills of the Fire and Water races. He had been the most excellent one among students at the same age, also the youngest Lieutenant General in the Army's history with countless glorious feats.

He was "Lightning Shadow" – The name that once mentioned would make anyone of the previous generation to abstain, and the enemy immediately turn pale.

Later on, there was no one transforming sooner than him, but people could all saw that most ones transformed before the age of fifteen had been holding important positions in the Army and Government.

They all shared a common trait: In their youth, they all have better achievements compared to their peers. Although it looked like "a little bit more", just like the ten point compared to the nine and a half point, but the longer the way to go, the greater distance you would find between you and them.

On the development path of the Dragon races, it had been fated that gift played an irreplaceable role.

The sooner one transformed, the higher mental power, physical strength, and elemental power he or she could possess.

"So if that kid is telling the truth..." Leana was still in her shock.

"Then he was the first and only one, until now." Fred answered firmly.

Fred suddenly felt a bit funny.

Before he once said that may be Brian would find a good seed at Base Three this year, but seeing how that kid performed in this two months, now it turned out that Eugene was the one who could get a disciple!

Although that kid did not look like Eugene that much!

He was not so famous as the young Eugene, but he had better leadership, better coordination with teammates, therefore he won more friends and followers.

For the classes at the other bases, including Class I at this base, all of them had the Leader position changed many times. No one could hold the Leader position for more than three rounds in a row. Because they were at odds with some members, because they could not see far enough, or because they were in a fear that the others could take their place, they always made emotional decisions –

Well, after all, they were still teenage kids who would go into any fight for any reason~~~

That's why they needed to go to school to be well educated~~~

However, only Class K, since the kid named Angus had taken over the position of Leader up to now, he had never failed, never once demoted.

That kid got great observation and listening skills, and he utilized those skills excellently for allocating human resources into right positions, with a flexible fighting strategy, making the best plan to beat his opponent. Most importantly – he did care about the development for individuals of his team through clear explanations when giving out the plan, and he often changed positions so that each member could learn both attacking and defense skills.

Now that Fred understood why that night Eugene suddenly came to the training ground to "interact" with Class K!

At first he thought it was because of the Lightning dragon boy named Iris, but it turned out to be because of the Leader boy!

Contrary to Fred who seemed to be excited in the transformation topic of those students, the teaching assistant Leana looked confused.

"Impossible! How could that be? His hair is so pale..."

"Leana, have you heard the name Lightning Shadow?"

Oh? Why suddenly he changed the topic?

Leana had not caught up to Fred's turn yet, she was stopped slightly, then her eyes glowed: "Yes! For sure! He's my idol! Oh my god it's a pity that I haven't had any chance to meet him..." Then she turned to Fred, "Hey! Bro Fred, do you know Lightning Shadow?"

Fred nodded: "Yes. Guess what he looks like?"

"It is said that the fastest race of the Lightning is Silver, so... he must get platinum hair and platinum eyes right? Oh, just by imagining I could see how cool he is..."

"Nope." Fred shook his head, cut off Leana's imagination. "His hair is yellow. His eyes are yellow too."

"Eh? Really? So he's a Gold? But how could this be... Hey, Bro Fred! Please tell me who he is!!!..."

The practice of evaluating strength and power via appearance as hair color, eye color, or via races was soon outdated.

Not to mention the medical research were waiting for the right time to be published, as long as being an experienced warrior, all would know that they should not easily assess opponents through appearance.

His generation, including himself, Eugene, Brian, and Valeria, who were born in the wartime, not only suffered greatly from the war, but also learned such lots of survival experiences.

However, for Leana, Nyomi, Fenwick of the Nineteenth academic year or even Glynis, Ralph, and Gerardo of the Sixteenth academic year, the only thing related to war that they ever encountered were the short stories from books. Although they were often on duty, they still needed a lot more practice.

Living in wartime was not entirely a disadvantage, and being born in peacetime was not entirely an advantage...

At this moment, a sound cut off Fred's mushy thoughts.

The teaching assistant Fenwick opened the door of the observation room: "Bro Fred, Class I asked for the permission to meet you."

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[2nd short spin-off]

Fred found himself so idle that he had to log in Facebook to post a new status.

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