Chapter 9

Arthur remembered his past life looking at the same bottles. That day, just when he thought that he would awaken an element and finally say goodbye to his difficult life, fate played a cruel joke on him. He did not awaken a single element, and even his mana core has a problem, which made it difficult for him to become accepted as a full-fledged knight.After not even awakening an element and also having a problematic mana core, Arthur became an eyesore to Reynolds. Contrarily, William awakened a fire element with a violet-grade affinity, and this made Arthur even more worthless in Reynolds eyes.After a few days, Sabrina and William plotted against Arthur and made him a scapegoat for a theft. This was the time when Reynolds was considering the idea of disowning Arthur because of his uselessness.Damn, Reynolds is the epitome of 'how not to be a father'.So, when Arthur was framed by Sabrina and William, Reynolds took this chance to disown him and even expelled him from the house.Reynolds knows that there are many loopholes in the story, but without even doing a proper investigation, he pushed Arthur out of the house.At that point in time, Arthur was already depressed because he had not awakened any element, and when he was disowned by his own father, he only felt numb from the pain.Back to the awakening:At the moment, the bishop started calling the names of people. In a queue, everyone who went was given a bottle of mana elixir by the bishop himself.Arthur remembered that the last time, this same bishop was the one who gave him the poison.This time, it will not be the same.William and Arthur's names were called successively, and they joined the queue. Just when it was William's turn to take the elixir, Arthur suddenly stopped, and the person next in line to Arthur crashed into him.Using this crash, Arthur pushed onto William, who consequently fell to the side, and Arthur also crashed near the bishop's legs, who was shocked to see the two people who fell near him.Arthur executed all these actions in a very fluid way, such that nobody even suspected he had done everything deliberately.After the crash, Arthur acted as if he were the first to recover and immediately got up and took the mana elixir, which the bishop meant to give to William.These actions were all done so seamlessly that neither the bishop nor anyone else was able to react in time.Taking the elixir, Arthur went and joined the people who had already taken the elixir. All these people were waiting for their next instructions.The bishop, who was planning to give Arthur poison, was bewildered as to what to do next. He slowly turned to look at a middle-aged man standing in the noble's area, who was looking at them with a dark look on his face.By this time, William, who fell face first onto the floor, had recovered and looked at Arthur with a furious look on his face. Even though he wanted to beat him up right there, he knew acting up right now was a foolish thing to do. So he swallowed his anger and looked at the bishop, asking him for the elixir.The bishop realized that the plan had failed as he could not ask back the elixir from Arthur because every elixir is one and the same; technically, it does not matter which one somebody takes.The middle-aged man gestured to the bishop to continue the process, who promptly took another proper elixir and gave it to William. As for the poison that was supposed to go to Arthur, the bishop left it alone and continued to give other proper elixirs to the succeeding teenagers.Arthur relaxed upon seeing that no one raised a fuss.He then looked at the bottle in his hand. It is a four-inch silver bottle that was filled with a viscous liquid. He opened the lid slightly, and the smell from which it came was like a lavender flower.He immediately closed the lid, just stood among the other youngsters, and duly waited for the next process to start. Even though he knew the subsequent steps, he did not want to attract more attention to him, which is already on him because of the stunt he pulled off.Subsequently, after everyone took the elixir, the bishop went on to the stage and started speaking, "My dear children, everyone of you now space out among yourselves with a meter gap between your front and side ones and then sit in your place."After everyone settled themselves evenly, the bishop nodded. "Now what you need to do is open your bottle and drink the liquid inside. After drinking, you will feel a burning sensation in your Dantian region, which is caused by awakening your mana core, and afterwards, you will feel your whole body burning, which is caused by awakening your element. Don't worry, the pain will be tolerable, and even if anything happens, we have our priests here who will immediately help you."After saying that, he just waved his hands, signaling them to start the process.Arthur then opened his bottle and gulped the contents into his mouth. For the first few seconds, everything was normal, but slowly he felt an itchy sensation near his Dantian region, which slowly transformed into a burning sensation.The pain was tolerable, and then slowly he felt the pain subside, but before he even had the chance to check upon it, he suddenly felt his whole body burning.At first, he thought it would not be so bad, but the sensation just kept on increasing, and slowly it reached a nearly intolerable level. But Arthur, who was so used to pain in his previous life, just gritted his teeth and sat there without making any sound.Just when the pain reached its limit, it suddenly disappeared, and immediately Arthur felt relief like no other.

Arthur has successfully awakened his elements.