Chapter 10: Section 10: Everyone Has to Pay the Price for Their Choices
Karlmo, the new apprentice instructor of the Church of the Goddess of Harvest.
Recently, I've had a bit of trouble because of the apprentice who just arrived a month ago; reports about him have piled up all over my desk.
Malin Gaiate.
Not because he's mischievous, but because he's a good student, sensible, obedient, eager to learn—precisely the type of student all instructors favor. And most importantly, he possesses sufficient talent.
That's the problem, he's too exceptional.
He really is too exceptional. In the first week, he completed all the tasks I assigned him every day without any slacking off. While his peers were looking for ways to slack off, he finished each swing with high quality. The heritage of a half-blood granted him not only talent and strength but seemingly also 'stubbornness' and an 'inflexibility' to adapt.
By the second week, when he began training in the Sydney military swordsmanship, the aura of a prodigy appeared over his head—on the third day of learning swordsmanship, he had already swept aside apprentices of his own age. Besides the difference in strength, this child displayed a talent far surpassing his peers in adaptability; even many senior students did not possess the capabilities he showed.
In the third week, when this child faced off against a second-year apprentice for the first time and deflected his opponent's weapon in his first training fight, the Grand Instructor openly praised him with the descriptor 'a natural-born warrior.'
Meanwhile, his ever-growing power made Karlmo and his colleagues realize a fact—that this half-blood had been in the grips of hunger before Lord Gaiate picked him up. So much so that when he had enough food, his strength began to increase rapidly; his power rating of 5 quickly reached 6 by the fourth week, a figure only mature Wild Elves could achieve.
And according to the Spell Formation check, this child was, at most, eleven years old.
Regardless of his human or Frost Giant heritage, this was a perfectly standard child. And the mysterious bloodline that could suppress his Frost Giant heritage... was definitely not a lower existence. According to human knowledge, the more advanced a bloodline, the most obvious characteristic it displays is a longer life and growth cycle.