Chapter 14: Four years

Four years have passed since the journey of Kraftvoll to the royal capital, Stolz City.

In these past years, Kraftvoll was trained by Stark alongside the children of Schild City. After years of training, Kraftvoll achieved the rank of a Seishin High Warrior and was only a step away before becoming a Seishin Captain.

Kraftvoll's peers were only able to reach up to the Seishin Entry Warrior stage. This was how enormous Kraftvoll's talent in comparison to his peers.

Since four years have passed after his journey to the capital, Kraftvoll had grown taller than before. He had reached 1.3 meters in height, the average height among his peers. He also started developing some muscles. People who train their inner seishin helps them to improve the physique of their body.

Kraftvoll's seishin beast, Ouryuu, had also achieved the level of Strong seishin beast. A Strong Seishin beasts' strength is comparable to the strength of Seishin High Warrior practitioner. This was considered normal because four years had passed since he hatched.

Ouryuu's height was now comparable to his owner, Kraftvoll. A dragon's real growth starts in their fifth year of existence, meaning that Ouryuu's growth is not yet starting for real. Ouryuu's future potential was great, making him a wonderful companion of Kraftvoll in the future.

As usual, the youths of Schild city had gathered on the Shield Hero's Plaza for their daily training. Stark had been shouting various instructions to his students.

All the youths are divided by age and elemental affinity. And all of them have different training routines from one another.

Before the training for the day finished, Stark asked the attention of the youths of Schild city. "It's that time of the year again everyone! Every nine-year-old must train to their utmost potential for the enrollment of the Advance academies. Only those who attained the Middle Warrior stage can have the chance to enter Advanced academies."

Children who reached the Middle Warrior stage before their 10th birthday were all considered geniuses. It's a great privilege to have been able to enter an advanced academy. Graduating from these academies is considered a great prestige in one's status.

This is why Kraftvoll potential was considered greater than geniuses themselves. Kraftvoll was considered a prodigy of practicing seishin cultivation.

Children who were not able to reach the threshold requirements of the advanced academies were still given a chance to enter Intermediate academies. But these intermediate academies were expensive so others choose to train in the town's free training.

All those who enter the advanced academies received assistance from the crown, meaning that the financial burdens lessened. But when children enter intermediate academies, there is no subsidy provided for them and the quality of education was considered lower than advanced academies.

Currently, Kraftvoll was in meditation training. When a seishin practitioner reached the late stage of every seishin level, one must enter meditation training to accumulate seishin for a better chance of a breakthrough.

A breakthrough can only be achieved after accumulating enough seishin and an elemental insight.

"Kraftvoll, if you broke through the stage of seishin captain before the advanced academies' enrollment, I will personally teach you a captain seishin rank spell of the element of fire," said Stark because he wanted to motivate the kid so that he will work harder in his training.

This offer made Kraftvoll's eyes glow a little bit. He happily replied, "Okay, that's a promise!"

Learning a spell of the element fire from stark was a big deal, not just for Kraftvoll, but for everyone. Although Stark's comprehension is not comparable to those of the Earl's and the King's, it is still of great value.

Until this time, Kraftvoll only learned all the basic spells of all the elements. He was still unable to learn specialized spells in any of the elements. Which was why he became motivated when Stark offered to teach him a spell.