Chapter 312

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After his test Leylin received great importance and attention from Eren who tried to firstly stop the spread of knowledge that now, Leylin a well recognized non-warrior old artifacts fanatic has become a Human Realm Level Warrior out of nowhere.

Leylin didn't care about either situation, he just dived straight into his training, experiment and modifications.

Time passed soon and in the past half a month, Leylin separated from any connection with anyone and used all his time to only training and experimentation.

He created a small room for his laboratory as he collected innumerable samples, books, pills,elixir, manuals, artifacts etc to study them. Although Eren was infuriated with Leylin 'wasting' his valuable talent and time, he couldn't do anything because everytime he set a goal for his growth Leylin not only met but surpassed them.

After a while, he gave up and allowed Leylin on his eccentric devices. He also separated a large number of funds for Leylin because of the different types of demands he was raising.

Leylin extensively used the much acclaimed Gravity Room. He never left the room except for his laboratory experiments.

Leylin Petrification Martial Spirit had reached the quality of third stage despite being just at second stage, and his non-stop training and refining further amplified his prowess.

With the training exercise passed down from Eren as a main focused training regime of Lenoir Family along with Leylin own modifications and accompanied by his Immortal Martial Spirit which can replenish and repair the constant damage to his body immediately.

This was to trigger the entire potential of his second stage Petrification Martial Spirit at the fastest speed, and to strengthen his body structure to the extent that it could bear the attacks from a warrior at and above Disaster Level warrior.

During the past half month, Eren, and other elders came to watch him now and then.

Everytime Leylin would feel a small yet observable growth, he found that his blood, flesh, cells and bones were all nourishing his body making him stronger.

His fatigued body from the constant training would soon recover from his extreme fatigue and gain more strength. Leylin would ingest ridiculous amount of nutrition and concocted various elixir, potions to induce his body constitution.

Leylin had a hard time creating various apparatus, tools and system for his laboratory having to work from the ground zero, he ordered various construction from alchemists, blacksmith and librarians. Thankfully Leylin is already considered a well recognized weirdo so no one found his different demands odd.

The only demand raised by his grandfather Eren for all this different demands by him, was for Leylin to participate in the Martial Competition.

Martial Competition that occurs every five years is going to happen in three months. In the last competition, The Lenoir family was surpassed by the Dunn and Delaney Families, and the family head roared for days after that.

This time he wants Leylin to enter the competition and win face for them as well as various bets which would determine their upper hand in the future dealings.

The Martial Competition was a big event co-held by the five biggest families in the Merchant Union which every warrior could attend.

The competitions happened according to five levels: Elementary Level, Nascent Level, Human Level, Disaster Level and Earth Level. Warriors of every level could compete for the first three places of their respective levels.

The five big families would offer a lot of training materials as rewards; such as medicine pills, treasures, Martial skills and so forth for the winners.

The five big families co-held the Martial Competition for two reasons. On one hand, they needed to pick expert warriors to strengthen their power. On the other hand, the competition would be motivation for warriors in this country to train hard to enhance the power of the country.

Those individual warriors who weren't attached to any big family longed for the medicine pills, treasures and Martial Skills. Some of them were also looking for an opportunity to attach themselves to a big family.

Therefore, every Martial Competition would attract thousands of warriors and would be very energetic.

Apart from those individual warriors, the five big families would send out their descendants to compete in the competition. That way, they were able to show their strength and attract outstanding warriors to choose them.

Therefore, the Martial Competition was not only an opportunity for the big families to attract warriors, but also a stage for them to secretly fight.

Thus, both the warriors and mercenaries in this country and the five big families attached great importance to the Martial Competition.

Sometimes, the ownership of controversial properties among the five families will be decided through the competition.

For example, in the last competition, the Lenoir Family and the Dunn Family staked the ownership of three mines.

Unfortunately, the Lenoir family lost badly.

Leylin knowing of the importance of the competition as well as the drama it would unfold as well the opportunity to analyze and study different Martial Skill and Spirits readily agreed.

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Inside a dark room,

Leylin was swirling a tube of blood as he pondered attentively.

"A.I.Chip, stimulate the blood cells and recombine the effects organized order of genes structure.."

[Beep! Analyzing.... ]

Leylin looked around gazing at different tubes of blood samples, there are the blood samples from different warriors from different families including his own Lenoir Family. Leylin have even acquired the blood sample from the Paul, a Nirvana Level warrior!

Although Paul is an outsider not having the Lenoir Family Martial Spirit he is still not to be underestimated, Leylin had to showcase his Immortal Martial Spirit and put up a show to steal a bit of blood from him as well as from his father, Raymond.

Leylin gained a wealth of samples from so many sources and so many items that he was working on an overdrive, to a degree suppressed his cultivation gaining more knowledge about the cultivation path.

Leylin wanted to acquire as much knowledge as possible before trending more on his future development.

"Right about now, the different families have started to frequent the Misty Pavilion. The knowledge fragment picture of The Sky Gate should have been leaked by them. ..." Leylin thought as he remember the latest news delivered to him by one of the warriors who escorted him from Silent Town to Lenoir manor, Leylin has been able to cultivate a few underlings for himself, who aren't very useful or powerful but are good enough to keep an eye on the general situation especially when he already knows about the undercurrent waves.

"The Sky Gate is quite like a secret domain entrance created by Magus, it's a magical portal leading to the God Area, a mysterious space. The God Area may exist in the Grace Mailand, or may not. It was an independent space."

No one knew how the God Area was formed, or its structure, or where would it appear.

Only through the Sky Gate, could one one enter the God Area.

There were various versions of the legends about the God Area.

It was said that there were all sorts of mysterious things in different God Areas. Martial Skills of Spirit Level and even God Level, bizarre drugs, rare treasures...

Four months ago, the Medicine King Eren Katz disciple Kurt stole a fragment picture from his teacher. The two fragments come from the same picture and connects to form the Sky Gate.

The fragment that Kurt stole is in Leylin hands while the other fragment in the Misty Pavilion was the other part.

Leylin knows very well the seriousness of this matter and have naturally kept mum about this knowledge, trying to fish in troubled seas.

"To be honest, I can just keep the half part to myself and delay the search for the party from Endless Sea, which would allow time for the Shura Blood Guards from the Alaister Family to come here and then, I could dominate the whole Merchant Union." Leylin scratched his chin as he thought, the Shura Blood Guards are headed by a Sky Realm Expert who is capable of battling normal warriors at Third Sky of Sky Realm, in the whole Merchant Union, no one can match him.

Currently, The Crystal Family, the Dunn Family, the Delaney Family and the Ashdown Family had all contacted the Misty Pavilion to purchase the fragment after they got the news. But the Misty Pavilion won't put it up for auction before they authenticate it, so the four families merely showed their strong interest without taking any secret actions.

"*Sigh* The blood sample study and different specimen have yet to give me any substantial results because of lack of proper equipments, and the focus from Eren and other unable me to collect more, and even though I have gotten different samples from the different main and branch family members due to them pounding themselves silly in training rooms, it's still far from enough. I have also not been able to devour energy for faster growth either, damn..I really wish for the Shura Blood Guards to come soon and rain down death in the Merchant Union so that I would become stronger.... Well, that's for later. I guess I should go and read the left over Martial Skills from the Martial spirit palace." Leylin bitterly complained as he walked out of his study room and walked toward the Martial Spirit Palace.

There were five floors in the Martial Spirit Palace of the Lenoir Family.

Every floor was named after the cultivation levels and each floor held the Martial Skill books corresponding to that cultivation level.

On the first and the second floor were Martial Skills of the Mortal Level. Generally, Elementary Level warriors would choose from the Martial Skills on the first floor, while Nascent Level warriors would choose the books on the second floor.

On the third and fourth floor were the Martial Skills of the Profound Level. Human Level warriors would go to the third floor and Disaster Level warriors to the fourth floor.

The fifth floor of the Martial Spirit Palace held the sole Spirit Level Martial Skill of the Lenoir Family.

But this floor was exclusively for the family head, Eren, who occasionally went up there.