However, domination had to take a step back in light of their inexplicable tardiness.
Duke Leander was crestfallen the moment he learned about the Mercenary Exam.
No one in the manor really cared about this popular qualifier after all the children had graduated. If anything, it just brought back memories for most of the staff who had taken it when they were students themselves.
It’s just that they suddenly discovered that their Young Lord was taking the same exam in his freshman year!
It was a disaster, as everyone could rightfully imagine.
Their Lord wanted to join a guild?!
Now, most nobles would find this great, but Luca was the heir to the Dukedom of Kyros, and if he entered any of those guilds, he’d be giving them too much of a service.
The Duke felt extremely incompetent after he decided to dissolve the duchy’s sponsored Academy guild.
For a while, they maintained the guild. They kept it running until the last associated child graduated.
After this, the people rarely heard anything about the House of Kyros and only heard about the son’s frivolous ways.
However, given their clear intentions to remain in seclusion, it would not be advisable to recruit these young people who could still progress their careers elsewhere.
We might as well dissolve it after the last members graduate, thought the Duke back then. freeωebnovēl.c૦m
Yeah.
Well, hell.
Now what?
Back when he was a student, he was the Captain and leader of the Golden Phoenix Guild. And it was something that he could’ve given to his son had he used a bit of his brain cells and held on a little longer.
Just a little longer.
But he didn’t. And now his son would have to beg these guilds for a membership?
Preposterous!
The Duke, who was supposed to be the model of finesse and nobility, was drooping all over his chair as he wallowed in this failure.
Not to mention being tardy!
They were late, extremely late!
When they found out about it, the exams were already about to begin, and they wouldn’t be able to make it to the entrance ceremony.
But what entrance ceremony? They were going to miss their Lord’s entire exam!
They didn’t expect him to finish that fast and in such a dominating manner.
When they rushed out to go to Planet Nova, everyone just gathered all the necessary equipment to watch a live broadcast on the battleship, but even then, it didn’t feel enough.
The people had to squeeze in to watch their Lord, and they felt like they were returning to ancient times when everyone suffered like this.
Clearly, anyone else who still had a sense of propriety would think that these people were going crazy, but with the people of the duchy all thinking this way, there wasn’t really anyone to tell them off.
Even now, they weren’t able to ascertain anything outside, and he was lucky to have something to do while waiting. Because unlike him, most applicants who made it in early were left to sleep in their waiting areas.
The instructors didn’t really consider this, and now they couldn’t take the students out even if they wanted to.
Who would’ve known that some of them would just outright demolish every opponent they encountered?
That would be Xavier, who had to wait the longest. But for someone who barely had the time to rest, this was his chance to get in a short nap.
Only for this nap to turn into a full night’s sleep.
The freshmen this year seemed to all be out for blood as they made each match very difficult.
No one wanted to lose, and in the face of defeat, would gather such strong will to fight that their matches ended up being prolonged.
Ollie couldn’t help himself and sighed as he realized the plight of his batchmates.
He was one of those people who suddenly had to muster every possible source of strength just to catch up with his buddies. But while he wanted to console all of them, he knew better than everyone that it would be for their own good.
Ollie thought this as he buried his past self, who lamented with tears and snot on his face as he thought of quitting every day.
But it was okay now; no one needed to know.
For now, Ollie had successfully brainwashed himself into forgetting the painful truths of the past.
His current memories now show him staying up late and seriously studying with his good brother as they became model students of the famed Academy.
There, he looked very cool and very studious, perfect for looking back once they were older.
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