The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 470: SAGE

After arranging for his siblings to wait for their turn, Mike slowly entered the tent, which had a huge slate in its center.

For every member of the family who had gone through the awakening, it was a very familiar slate. It was the one they used to appraise their class after the ceremony,

It had been transported here in total secrecy!

“Is everything ready outside?” Theodore, who sat alone beside the slate asked. Usually, two other elders should be present, but due to the secrecy of the ritual and the fact that all of the participants were his offspring, Ann made the decision to allow him to be alone here with Mike who was her current candidate to be the next patriarch.

“Yes!” Mike nodded. “George will let them in one by one!” he added as he felt a little sad. If Victor was not missing, he would have also been able to attend as he was determined to be trustworthy after donating the Artifact to the family.

“Then sit down and let’s start!” Theodore said. “George! SEND THEM IN!” he yelled to his butler who was waiting outside.

…

“Excuse me…” the first to come in was none other than Lara. No one dared to go in before her. This included Luke who for some reason wanted to escape and drill into some hole but was caught by George!

Following Lara was El who was in her casual maid dress, she was Lara’s servant, so it was ok for both of them to go together.

The moment she stepped in she began to look curiously around the tent, her eyes naturally drawn to the slate.

“George explained to you what to do right?” Theodore asked with a gentle smile.

“Yes! Esteemed Father!” she nodded affirmatively.

“Then step up and place your hand on the Slate!”

The slate shone with a pale light, and then on its surface, a few words appeared.

; ;

LEVEL 0 Dragon Princess, SSS Demon Princess, SSS AUTHORITY: 9 STRENGTH: 145 INTELLIGENCE: 124 AGILITY: 210 LUCK: 12 CHARM: 75 BLOODLINE: SSS RANK / 100% / AWAKENED / NO RECORD

“Holy shit…” Theodore cursed in a low voice. Two classes at the same time? Both SSS rank? He couldn’t help but pinch himself. Ouch… That hurt.

“...” Mike also was in shock. WTF? He wanted to shout out that loudly, but didn’t dare to. He was just in shock while wondering what those classes did. He naturally looked toward his father, he looked at him. Both of them had no idea!

“Ah! Is it wrong?” Lara asked as she clutched the sides of her simple white dress and bit her lip nervously,

“Ah! Ehm… No, no… It is great!” Theodore quickly replied. “As expected of my daughter!” he said, for some reason, he was a little afraid of her.

“Yes! You are great Lara!” Mike nodded. “It is just that your class is too strong and this will definitely attract problems!” he said.

“Problems?” she frowned.

“Strong people might want to come and challenge you all the time, while others will envy you and try to harm you!” Mike explained.

“Ah!” Lara nodded. It was just like in anime. Stupid people would always come and challenge the hero!

“So… Make sure not to tell anyone about this, and practice your skills only in a secure place and in secret!” Mike added. His little sister might not have realized it, but she was really too overpowered!

“Yes, don’t show them to anyone without my explicit permission!” Theodore quickly said as Mike reminded him of the crystal matter. This girl had become a real trump card!

“Um!” Lara nodded nervously.

“By the way, what kind of skills did you get?” Theodore asked. It was a little rude, but the girl was his fucking daughter, and like Mike, he was dying of curiosity.

“Ah… I have a lot…” Lara said. “Dragon roar, Dragon strike, Dragon Tame, Demonic curse, Subjugate, Disguise, Disappearing, Mana heart, Magic Resonance, Dragonic Eyes, Dragnify, Demonify, Flight…” Lara paused. “I can fly!?” she looked at her father and asked as if she realized something.

“AH!...” Theodore was speechless. After all those scary named skills, was flight really that important? “Yes, you should be able to… But you can only try it in private for now, and ask Alice about it, she can fly too… Just remember to not show or discuss your skills before we make sure how they can be used safely!” he warned. “As for your family ranking, I am not in a place to give you that, it would be issued in a couple of days!” he said. Lara was a perfect candidate to be an elite heir, but this needed Ann’s approval.

“Um!” she quickly nodded again, yet this time, she couldn’t hide her smile.

“Now, you, Elenor!” Theodore commanded El who was looking at Lara with some envy in her eyes.

“Ah… Yes!” she said, shaking her little head before she quickly stepped up and touched the slate.

It quickly shone with a bright light then a few words appeared.

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LEVEL 0 Class: SAGE, X AUTHORITY: 99 STRENGTH: 15 INTELLIGENCE: 250 AGILITY: 16 LUCK: 15 CHARM: 35 BLOODLINE: NONE

“Eh…” Theodore paused and squinted his eyes to look at the slate, and so did Mike.

99 points Authority? An X class? Did such a thing exist?

Victor who was watching through his eyes had the same thoughts. Lara’s results were overpowered but were expected. El’s were something he didn’t see coming…

“Is X a bad thing?” El frowned. What did a SAGE mean anyway? She knew of a sage herb that was used to heal erectile dysfunction by the local herbalist in her village. Could that be her power?

“No… Ehm….” Theodore cleared his throat, he didn’t want to appear ignorant. “It is a very rare and powerful class… Sadly, like Lara’s class, we don’t have info about it in the family archive so you should test it on your own privately!” he said.

“Yes… and make sure not to mention it to anyone or mention anything about an X rank or anything, this would invite too much trouble!” Mike added.

“I understand!” El who was smarter than Lara quickly realized that Theodore had no fucking idea what her class meant, so she could only nod as she decided to ask Victor… The real one when he came back!

“Now, can you tell me what kind of skills you have?” Theodore asked.

“Do I have to?” El asked.

“...”

“...”

“No…” Theodore replied. El was his daughter’s servant, he had no power to ask such a question. “But it might give us a hint about what kind of training we should provide for you!” he quickly added.

“Ah…” El paused. “I can tell you a few!” she said after considering a few things.

“Aha…”

“Eidetic Memory, Quick thinking… And Contract!” she replied after some thinking, clearly deciding to keep some hidden.

“Scholarly skills….” Theodore nodded. “Don’t you have any combat skills? Like some kind of an attack or flight at the very least?”

“I can’t fly…” El replied, pouting a bit. “And I don’t have any combat skills… Not direct combat anyway…”

Theodore raised one eyebrow, the girl was definitely not going to tell him everything. “How many skills do you have exactly?” he asked. Usually, people get 5 to 6 max on awakening, but there are always special cases like Lara.

“20 or so…….” El said dismissively.

“Or so?” Theodore paused in disbelief, it meant there might be more! “And you are only going to tell us about 3 of them?” Theodore asked, this loli was not getting intimidated by his glares at all!

“Um…” she nodded.

“...”

“...”

“Fine!” Theodore sighed, he would naturally figure out what the girl would do when they went into combat training. And she was definitely going to tell Lara, he had just had to tell Adele to ‘overhear’ it. “Do what you want! You may leave…” he said.

El nodded and bowed down politely following Lara before they both stepped out, skipping.

“I am growing old…” Theodore sighed.

“You are not the only one!” Mike nodded.

“Next!” Theodore declared.

“Excuse me!” Luke, who was looking around nervously walked in, for some reason, it was as if he didn’t want to be there.

“Luke!” Theodore smiled, hopefully, like Lara, he would also bring a pleasant surprise. “Put your hand on the slate!”

“Ah…” Luke hesitated. “Yes, Father…” he finally said as he stepped forward and put his hand on the slate. It shone a little then quickly a few words appeared.

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LEVEL 0 Class: MOTHER FUCKER, F AUTHORITY: 2 STRENGTH: 15 INTELLIGENCE: 15 AGILITY: 19 LUCK: 10 CHARM: 15 BLOODLINE: AAA RANK / 100% / NOT AWAKENED / VON WEISE

“Eh…” Theodore gasped as he saw all of his expectations break in front of his eyes.

“Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….” Mike also gasped.

“...” Luke quickly stepped down, blushing a bit out of shame as he clenched his fists. WHY? He had no idea.

Victor who was watching from the other world knew though. It was a kind of a bug in the system, one could argue that it was a feature too!

The main idea was that if someone were to spend most of his time doing something before the ceremony, the class he would get would have a very high percentage related to it. Especially if the player was somehow consumed by that ‘activity’. Now that he had read the books from the hidden library he could easily tell that it was related to the thing called, ‘CONCEPT’.

This ‘hidden feature’ was the same one used by Yulian’s uncle to utterly destroy him before. As he made him visit all kinds of brothels right before his ceremony, this led to the poor guy getting an Escort class and getting demoted by his family! Well, at least that gave him the free time he needed to go search for Lily's trace.

Victor was planning for Luke to get the same. That day in the mines, he told the manager there to arrange different women for Luke every night, and to make sure they have ample tits to make his poor brother lose all sanity. This was the first step of his revenge… He planned to make Luke experience the same thing he forced him to endure in his past life!

And it really worked. Looking at the class he got, the guy must have developed something for Milfs!

After ten minutes of awkwardness, Theodore who kept glaring at Luke finally asked in a cold voice. “What kind of skills do you have?” How the hell did his son get this Class? Could it be something in his bloodline?

“Ah…” Luke hesitated.

“Speak!” Theodore spat. Mike to the side kept a straight face, but he was struggling to stomp himself from laughing. He never liked this brat half-brother of his! He was also wondering what Max would think if he were to learn about his brother’s class!

“Seduce, Infuriate, Push down, threaten and Impregnate…” Luke replied in a faint voice.

“Only those?”

“Ah… I also have Hardness Extreme…”

“Ehm… I see…” At this point, even the angry Theodore was having a hard time keeping his act up. “You should focus on a tanking build!” His son was only good for angering people and collecting agro.

“Yes, Father!” Luke replied as he looked at his feet in shame.

“According to the family rules, I will grant you an inner heir status, find two of your step brothers who haven’t chosen an allegiance yet to be your followers, and you will attend their appraisal with them!” Theodore said after some thinking. Although his class was disgusting and useless, Luke was still a direct heir and he had the right to create his own team! “You may leave!”

“Yes, Father!”

“They can only be males!” Theodore wanted him as he walked out. He was not going to allow incest in his family!

“Ah! Yes….” Luke walked out.

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA………….” Mike began laughing like crazy almost immediately. “So he is a real motherf…”

“Shut up!” Theodor scolded. “He is your brother!”

“Yeah, that’s the point! Father, you should never let him back to the island… You don’t want him to…”

SMACK!

“SHUT UP! It is rude!” Theodore scolded again. “Your suggestion will be considered though…” he added in a low voice. Mike was right! He should send Luke somewhere far away just in case. “NEXT!” he called out, making John slowly walk in, he seemed a little disoriented. Luke had shoved him aside as he walked away.

“John, come here and touch the slate!” Theodore sighed. John was one year younger than Luke, so he didn’t want to be hard on him.

“Yes, Esteemed Father!” John said, stepping forward and putting his hand on the Slate.

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LEVEL 0 Class: Gunslinger, C AUTHORITY: 5 STRENGTH: 17 INTELLIGENCE: 15 AGILITY: 22 LUCK: 10 CHARM: 16n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om BLOODLINE: AAA RANK / 100% / NOT AWAKENED / VON WEISE

Theodore sighed in relief, although it was not great, it was not bad either. He could tell now that Lara's result might have been because of her awakened bloodline.

He really wanted to give those pills Victor made to both John and Luke, but Ann refused, especially after the multiple tries to reproduce them failed. It was determined that the ancestor’s bloodline was a vital ingredient, and until another good source for bloodline was discovered, the pills should be saved for the real prospective heirs in the future or should be exchanged for great merit!

Both Luke and John were barely passable according to the family standards and Theodore, who had enough Merits to exchange one pill had already done so and used it on his newly born youngest child without telling anyone! This ensured that Luna would be recognized as his legitimate wife!

“Not bad!” Theodore finally said as he nodded in approval. He already knew about this class so he didn’t plan to ask any further. “You are an Inner Heir from today, find four of your step brothers and sisters who are willing to follow you and create your own team!”

“Yes, Father!” John nodded with determination.

“You may leave!”

“Understood!” John bowed down and then quickly left.

“At least he is not bad!” Mike, who could read his father’s thoughts, said.

“Yeah…” Theodore said. “George, send Iris and the guys she chose, we will begin with them!” he called out to George who was outside.