William was not in such a hurry. He was almost certain that the princes would set off tomorrow. There was no reason for it, it was just instinct. Moreover, he was sure that Sora would block the princes somewhere up ahead.

He thought of the horse beneath him all the way. He had never read in any book that this horse had any elemental affinity. Now that he was able to use the system, he was curious about his bloodline strength.

While he was on the horse, he bent over her ear and spoke. “With your permission, I'll take a few drops of blood. It's for your good."

The ruby horse neighed slightly. William had his approval. He knew his horse was smart. Not nearly as much as the sneaky bastard, but still, William was able to get along with her.

He took out his small dagger from his dimensional bag and lightly cut one of the small veins he could feel. He was extremely careful. Having done these dozens of times before, he was getting used to it now.

He found something like glass in his dimensional bag and collected the blood. When he touched it, he was extremely surprised.

[Blood of the Ruby-Eyed Horse x1 10 ml. (Demon Horse's ancestry purity 0.000001%) (Hell Runner's ancestry Purity 0.000001%)]

“Damn, what is this? Your grandfather mated with a fiendish horse and a hell runner, and finally, you appeared. What an evolution!” William was extremely surprised by this situation. Neither lineage had ever been read in a book before. Even the stories told in Levenoth 's book did not cover these two genres.

Disappointed, William spilled the blood aside and put the glass back in his dimensional bag. He was certain that even if he wiped out all the ruby horses on this island, he would not be able to extract bloodline power from either of these two species. He could just forget.

He thought of Baldur at this moment, but he still hadn't left his villa. He was praying for success in advancing to the bronze level. On his next return, he felt that he needed to get high-purity Earthworm blood for him. After all, Baldur was a good person, and he wondered what power the worm could give him. This genealogy business had piqued his interest. He wanted to research all the time, but time wouldn't let him. Even now he was going to war when he needed to win the competition and relax.

When night fell, he finally came to the entrance to the strait. It was very quiet here, with the dry land, the calm wind blowing. Feeling no danger, he continued on his way. He guessed that Sora should wait at either the entrance or the exit of the strait. Since he wasn't here, he was probably on the way out.

When he reached the middle of the throat, he smelled a heavy smell of blood in the air. There was or was a war ahead. It was probably over because he couldn't hear any sound.

He proceeded carefully. Just in case, he took out the fire-bringer and held it in his hand.

After about five hundred meters, he encountered an astonishing sight. There were several tents set up in this normally slightly larger place. But these tents were full of corpses. Someone in a black robe was collecting these bodies in one place. He recognized it directly because his robe did not cover his head. This was Sora under their command.

Sora noticed William from afar. He immediately dropped the bodies and rushed to greet him.

“Welcome, young master.” He said with a smile, bowing slightly.

"Thank you. What is this sh*t," he asked. By the armor of the corpses, he knew that they belonged to the kingdom.

“Royal guards strayed. You know, the city is under siege, and they wanted to return with the princes. I didn't want to wait when I met him either." Said.

“Oh, fine then. Keep doing what you're doing." Said. Then he went to one of the small tents with a clear front. "I'm going to do some meditation, I think the princes will be on their way tomorrow." Said.

"As you wish, sir." He said and continued to do his job. After collecting the corpses, he stripped them of their armor. Apart from his ruby horse, there were also a few horses belonging to these guards. He wanted to collect these armors and return them as a contribution to the army. After separating the armors, he lit a fire. He wasn't the type to use the element on fire, so he took out firestone to light it.

These stones were simple stones that could be found everywhere. If you rubbed any metal or two of the same stone together quickly, it would spark. He quickly lit a large bonfire with a dagger. The only difference from the normal bonfire was that the meat cooked on this fire was human flesh.

Even from his tent, William could smell the nasty smell. The tent he entered was very simple. There was nothing but a dirty bed. He took out a blanket from his dimensional bag and laid it on that bed. Then he sat down for meditation. With the new meditation technique, the speed of qi gathering had also increased. He thought he could concentrate the eighth drop by tomorrow. He was eager to go all the way, as he felt his strength increase exponentially with each drop.

However, with each drop, the rate of absorbing spiritual power was slowing down. There was nothing he could do about it because after the third drop the difficulty of compaction was increasing at the same rate. William believed this was the intended practice. Because otherwise a human would have to be able to deal with a creature of the same level.

From what he had seen in the academy, almost no one could challenge an opponent of the same level except Himself. William thought this was due to a lack of meditation techniques and a lack of practice.

He had attended several lectures on warriors, and all the teachers were saying almost the same thing. “Three drops is the peak. Then you have to combine them.” he was saying. William had already refuted this theory by accumulating seven drops.

There was one more thing he was sure of in this situation, and that was his bloodline. Without his bloodline power, he was certain that no matter how much he continued to practice this meditation technique, he would not be able to concentrate the fourth drop. Bloodline power had been William's gateway to the fourth and beyond.

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He continued his meditation into the night and after the night into the morning. During this time, he never spoke to Sora. He didn't care what he was doing. Just before sunrise, William succeeded in forming the eighth drop. This eighth drop seemed to unlock a new level of power in him. It was as if he had broken something but couldn't notice it. Now he wanted to try to attack one of the test pillars again, but it was just an academy thing.

He stood up and came to the entrance of the tent. He took dried meat out of his dimensional bag and came out while gnawing.

The stinking corpses of yesterday were already ashes. Sora, on the other hand, was playing with two daggers by a small fire. Noticing William's exit, he immediately stood up and invited him to the fire.

William sat by the fire, he turned to Sora and asked. “Did Dad like the presents?”

Sora replied with a smile. “They passed out. You should have seen it, young master. It suits the two of them very well.”

“Good,” William saw Sora not wearing a dimensional bag. He guessed that he gave it to his father along with the dimensional bag. He took out the dimensional bag he had emptied yesterday and placed ten soul stones in it. Then he handed it to Sora. "Here, you deserve it." Said.

Sora was not modest at all. After taking it from William's hand, he immediately put it around his waist. Then he thanked. “Thank you very much, sir. You're very generous." He said and bowed.

William waved his hand. "It doesn't matter, since you're loyal, you deserve it." Said. Then something seemed to come to mind. His dimensional bag still contained twenty first-level armor sets. He took out one of them and handed it to Sora. This armor set did not contain much metal mixture. It was the most ordinary of the twenty armors, but it was compatible with Sora. The other twenty armors were made of heavy metal alloy. This one was made from the skin of a powerful iron rank creature.

“Then take this too.” Said. He felt that no more words were needed. He had already seen the tattoo on Sora's chest. This was not a short-term contract. It was for life.

Sora had always been a relaxed person. He did not like being restricted in his movement. That's why he always wore light armor. William fell in love with this dark brown leather armor the moment he took it off.

Later, William also took it out a leather armor set for himself. There were only two sets of armor left for him. Since they were both level two, William felt safe. He didn't think it was necessary, but he was still worried that one of the princes might attack with the sword of judgment as a bronze level, as Leslie had done yesterday. After all, although his techniques were very powerful, they were only of iron level.

There was no need for any unnecessary risk.

Of the four princes, two were of little importance. One was at the top of the iron level and the other was in the middle. But the one who was the coldest with the prince who shouldered him was the real danger. The prince, who was especially cold, was himself at the pinnacle of bronze.

In the refectory encounter with the five princes, the strongest prince hadn't even noticed. He was, in his opinion, the crown prince, always with a slight smile on his face. If this revolt had not taken place, he was preparing to return to the capital and become the crown prince. This was perhaps a great chance from his perspective, but for William, it was one of the most difficult tests to pass.

Time passed slowly, the day came at the end of the day, but the sunlight had not yet reached here as they were in the throat. William could sense they could see them in a few hours. His only fear was that the princes would arrive with crowds of students. He hoped that students would stay at the academy in these turbulent times.

A few more hours passed. The sunlight was now shining down the throat from directly overhead. A strange smell came into William's nose. It smelled like the cheap men's perfume he remembered from his old world. He finally realized that they were coming. He had smelled this perfume before at the entrance of the cafeteria. It was definitely the smell of one of the princes.

He stood up and called out to Sora, who was resting with his eyes closed. "Get ready, they're coming."

This sense of smell developed after he acquired bloodline power. He could even sense their approximate location somewhere in his mind. It was a very different feeling. Of course, he did not smell such smells in his normal life, for this, he needed to focus a little. Otherwise, he would have had a really troubled life.

“Oh, finally,” Sora stood up too. But despite waiting for half an hour, the princes were still not in sight. “Sir, are you sure? Are they coming?" she asked. His curiosity was piqued.

At that moment, hooves were heard, as if trying to refute his words. William already knew from their voices that he had four horsemen. He felt that he needed to thoroughly research the uses of this bloodline power. Especially his sense of smell gave him the feeling that there was something like a map in his mind. It was a really large area, as he could sense their location half an hour earlier. It was a distance of about two to three kilometers. Of course, he had taken into account the slow speed of the horses here.

Gradually the Princes appeared from the corner. They were all fully armored and their weapons slung over their backs. With his mighty eyes, William saw that they were just single-enhanced iron-grade armors. This eased his anxiety a little more.

A hundred meters away, the princes stopped. Prince Chad, the coldest of them all, shouted. “Servant and grandson of the traitor, get out of our way or die.” Said.

William did not like his grandfather being called a traitor. It was too early to call it a traitor because Thedo had not lost. It was not yet clear whether he would become king or traitor at the end of the day.

William felt that he should be insulting too. “The arrogant and ignorant children of a father who only knows how to grow an ass. Today I will take your head for my King grandfather.” Said. Then he took the firebringer from his sheath on his waist. He grabbed his sword with both hands and leaned forward.

All the princes were lined up. On the far (William's)left is the strongest prince, shouldering beside him, and then the other two. Its purpose was to prevent unnecessary crowding as soon as possible. His eyes were fixed on the prince who shouldered him, but his body said otherwise.

Prince Chad couldn't take it anymore except for William's disrespectful words and shouted while looking at his brothers. "Kick your horse and we'll break through." Before the prince could utter these words and kick his horse, he woke up with blood splashing on his face. His eyes widened in shock, staring in disbelief at the scene next to him.

“PSSSHHH!!”

William was already on the move as soon as Prince Chad returned to his brothers. Using his bloodline strength and his foot technique at the same time, he had reached the two princes in a blink of an eye.

William had beheaded two princes at once. He himself was extremely surprised at his speed. If he had known it would be this fast, he would have targeted Prince Chad first. Now that he had been seen, he thought Prince Chad would be prepared.

A few meters behind, William swung his sword and wiped the bloodstains off him. The two princes still couldn't get over their puzzled expressions, but a moment later they both frowned and made the stupid gesture that showed anger. They dismounted and drew their swords to face William.

Both wielded long, two-handed swords, just like Leslie. With the noon sun, they put their technique into action. In the middle of the little throat, the two shone like a second sun.

Meanwhile, Sora had taken his place behind the princes. Prince Chad wanted to attack William, but Sora would not allow it. He immediately drew his daggers and lunged at him. A few seconds later, their distance from William and the other prince had increased. Their fight was getting farther and farther away.

William knew that he had to defeat the enemy before him as soon as possible. Because Sora was not yet as strong as Prince Chad. It was only medium bronze. William needed to quickly kill the prince here and launch a surprise attack on Chad.

Looking at the two of them apart for a second, William turned back to the prince before him.

“Stop using that perfume, your treacherous smell can be heard(smell) from thousands of meters away. Ah, though this was your last ride.” He grinned and rushed to the Prince.