Chapter 1: The Awakening of the Young Man! Thaumaturge...

  Little Book Teacher Houston was in a daze all day during class after suffering another heavy blow.

  "Giants' Rations" are indeed very rare, and one piece is enough for a squad of mages to not worry about food for a week while on a mission.

  To know that in some dangerous outdoor missions, especially when fighting with other mages, many edible things outdoors can be the opponent's ambush traps.

  He squandered the precious "Giant's Rations" just to make Eren fail the assessment, and then subjected him to physical punishment, exhausting him half to death. But what he didn't expect was that Eren, who had passed the assessment, actually volunteered for physical punishment, and during the punishment run, he kept sprinting at full speed, exhausting himself more than all the other new recruits.

  This made Houston feel like he couldn't understand it at all.

  So at sunset, when the class was dismissed, Houston felt that he had to go back and sort out his thoughts, otherwise he would doubt his own brain.

  "Teacher Houston!"

  Suddenly Ailin's voice rang out again.

  Houston turned his head and saw a cute baby-like Ailing standing not far from his side.

  "Anything else?"

  "I'd like to ask Teacher Houston, how can we condense the yuan particles more quickly."

  "What?!?" Houston almost fell over.

  "Because I heard that Teacher Huston, although not a particularly powerful elite teacher, is not bad at fighting, but when it comes to the technique of condensing elemental particles, you have your own set of methods. You were also one of the first few people to successfully condense elemental particles back then." Ailin said with a serious face: "So, Teacher Huston, can you tell me some techniques and training methods that will allow me to quickly condense elemental particles?"

  "Is it really just a coincidence? It's at this point that I start considering this question."

  "Even if you want to ask questions, don't say that Teacher Huston isn't a particularly powerful elite teacher and isn't much of a threat in a fight. For someone like Teacher Huston, who values face above all else, isn't this equivalent to directly slapping him in the face?"

  "This is a slap in the face."

  "You can't even hit someone in the face."

  "Houston teacher is definitely going crazy now."

  The newborns were all in an uproar.

  "You...". Houston felt an urge to cry. He only felt that his face was trampled by countless feet at this moment.

  It wasn't until several minutes later that he regained his composure.

  "If you don't give me face and speak like this, then don't blame me for being ruthless!"

  He roared in his heart, but on the surface, he showed a gentle expression again. "The Condensation Technique's Yuan particle can be divided into two stages. The first stage is to cultivate one's body and spiritual power to the critical point where they can condense Yuan particles. When the intensity of the body and spiritual power has reached that point, then comes the second stage, which is to highly concentrate one's spiritual power to condense Yuan particles. Now, given your situation, you don't need to consider the second stage yet. What you need to think about is how to bring your body and spiritual power to that critical point."

  "Ah!" Elin nodded in agreement, feeling that Houston's explanation made more sense this way.

  "To complete the first stage, the only way is to constantly surpass one's own limits through bitter training. Let your body constantly break through." Houston narrowed his eyes, "But if you want to go faster...if you really want to transcend your own limits, there's only one way - to break through in the things that are most difficult for you to endure!"

  "What's the hardest thing to bear?" Ailin asked with some puzzlement.

  Houston glanced at his belly and reminded him, "For example, are you most afraid of hunger? Do you think the taste of an empty stomach is the hardest to bear and the hardest to get through?"

  Ailing nodded vigorously: "Yes."

  "If you can hold out for two hours without eating, then hold out for three! If you can hold out for half a day without eating, then hold out for a whole day!" Houston clenched his fist and punched it towards Ailin: "Being able to withstand extreme hunger, training and fighting in such conditions, that's how you constantly surpass your limits and squeeze out the last bit of potential from your body!"

  "Was it Mr. Huston who used to challenge himself with the most unbearable things, just like that?" Ailin looked at Huston with great admiration.

  "Of course! To quickly condense the magical particles and become a true magician, one must squeeze out every last bit of power from their body, just like a sponge - the drier it is squeezed, the more water it will absorb next time!" Houston said with his mouth, but in his heart he was thinking, even if I can't beat you, starving you half to death would be fine too.

  "Thank you teacher, I will definitely work hard!"

  ……

  In the night, Liszt sat on a branch at the top of a giant tree in a forest of giant trees.

  This branch was only as thick as a thumb, Liszt sat on it, constantly swaying in the night wind, and this slender branch seemed to break at any moment, or Liszt might fall from this branch at any time.

  But neither of these two situations happened.

  A strange gust of wind flowed out from the giant forest like a transparent giant python, falling on Liszt's opposite side, and Kate's figure appeared on a small branch in front of him.

  Kate stood firmly on the small branch, as stable as a heavy stone, but strangely, the small branches below her also seemed to have turned into stone, motionless and fixed.

  "Don't you think that's a waste of magical particles?" Looking at Kate who appeared in front of him, List stretched his waist and said lazily.

  "I'm not like you, a monster always ready to fight in top condition. Wasting some technique particles here at Saint Dawn Academy doesn't matter." Kate smiled and then became serious again: "Today Houston had the new students do the wall run assessment, and Ailin ran sixteen steps on the stone we used for our assessments before."

  "Is it that fierce?" Liszt clapped his hands and burst out laughing. "It's truly an unexpectedly good score."

  "What's even more surprising is his progress speed and recovery speed." Kate looked at List, who seemed to be taking it lightly, and said seriously: "A few days ago when I saw him, his strength and speed were not enough to let him run more than ten steps, and you should have also noticed that his body recovers much faster than ordinary people. This means he can practice for a longer time than others, or in other words, he has more practice time than others."

  "Even someone like Lian Minglu seems to be no match for him." Liszt stroked his chin and smiled, "According to reason, only those with pure Barbarian blood should have such recovery abilities, but he clearly isn't of Barbarian blood, so I don't understand this point either."

  "It's not just his recovery ability, but also his learning ability is particularly strong." Kate took a deep breath and looked at List, saying: "I just taught him 'Bakusen' (Explosive Wave), and the result was that I only guided him a few times, and he already mastered it, with only minor issues of power control left to work on."

  "Are you implying that he's a Dragon Bloodline?" Lister shook his head: "If it were the Dragon Bloodline, our library's Mei predecessor would have noticed it long ago. Although his astonishing physical strength and learning ability are indeed like those of a high-ranking Dragon Bloodline, you should also see that the magical power he uses doesn't seem as powerful as that of a Dragon Bloodline. Even if a high-ranking Dragon Bloodline is only in its awakening phase, the magical techniques cast by summoning magic will be significantly more powerful than those of ordinary bloodlines."

  "Not bad, the strongest part of the Dragon Clan's bloodline is indeed their magical power and mana particles. The same secret technique will have a much stronger effect than others." Kate agreed with Lister's statement, but her expression became even more surprised: "Then what kind of mysterious bloodline does he have?"

  "If I were you, I wouldn't waste my brain thinking about this problem. The answer will come naturally later." Liszt smiled: "Anyway, it's already certain that he's special enough, just like Chris, one of the rare talents in our Sacred Dawn Academy."

  "That's what they say, but seeing this guy's performance, I couldn't help but think of this question." Kate shook her head in distress and looked at List again. "One last question, originally Master Mei had already taken a liking to Chris and passed on his secret technique to her. You also clearly admired Chris before, she also has the courage to risk her life for victory, should be very suitable for practicing your Saint's Gate secret technique. Why didn't you try teaching her and see if she can learn it?"

  "It's very simple," Liszt said. "I taught her, and if she learned it well, she would certainly dare to use it, but her body wouldn't be able to withstand it, and she would die."

  …….

  "Boom!"

  In a clearing in the giant forest, Ailin, who was already drenched in sweat all over his body, suddenly swung his left hand horizontally and punched with his right hand.

  In a low and powerful chant, his hands moved so fast that they brought out a string of afterimages.

  A loud explosion.

  His body was at the end of his fist, and his fist suddenly exerted force again, as if it had burst out a substantial thing, and his whole body was also shocked by the recoil.

  A visible whirlwind burst out in front of his fist like a shockwave, slamming into the trunk of the large tree in front of him.

  A white hole appeared on the hard tree trunk and dozens of pieces of bark flew out!

  "That's amazing!"

  Looking at the bursting tree bark, Ailin's eyes were all little stars.

  "I'm so hungry."

  In the next second, he was holding his belly again, with a worried and bitter face.

  He still hasn't satisfied the hunger pangs in every tiny cell of his body, and that one "giant ration" was already digested after just one day. He's starting to feel empty again, a little dizzy from hunger.

  "Really?"

  Just then, he suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the giant forest, faintly and vaguely, as if there was Berro's voice.