Chapter 45: The Gathering of Geniuses
After finishing his announcements, the owner of the booming voice, a fierce-looking man with a mane as a haircut, sprang up like a broken coil. The ground around him spiderwebbed for thousands of meters as he broke the sound barrier to reach one of the highest points of the gorge from the depths.
Jin, who was blending in with the swathes of youngsters, narrowed his eyes.
’Strong...’
Using enhanced |Spiritual Sight|, he observed the lion-maned man now standing alongside several high-ranking Academy Teachers.
A series of illusory words revealed themselves only to Jin—a feature that he had augmented into the Skill himself.
"Target’s Cultivation: Grandmaster Mage (2nd Circle)"
’Equivalent to the 3rd Rank, somewhere between the 3rd and 4th Levels,’ Jin stated, realizing that this lion-maned man was a league above the other Academy Staff here. He was even stronger than the top-tier bodyguards that his father had arranged for him for this trip.
Since the very day he came out of the womb, some distant relatives and those yearning for the throne had targeted Jin. As the sole legitimate heir to the throne, he was the only thing standing in their way of succeeding the Moonshire Family’s right to succession.
And though the King, his father, knew of this unavoidable danger to his life, there was only so much protection he could assign to him.
Many times, assassins slipped through the net of security around Jin. The snakes vying for the throne often went all out, even inviting Grandmaster Mages to snuff out his life. However, by then, their assassination attempts had already been thwarted dozens of times, with several years having passed.
If Jin was already equal in strength to an Early Rank 3 Evolver six and a half years ago when he initially restored his cultivation, just how powerful would he be now?
It was sufficient to say that those Grandmaster Mages never returned from their missions.