Mixed Blessing System



The Transcendents from outside Linn Province, be they Dukes or envoys from the Leopoldine family, immediately identified this young man, even though they didn't know him by sight before.

They had all heard of Lothur's refined appearance, long silver hair, and absence of spiritual pressure coming from him. So upon seeing him next to Viktoria and Elke, it was not the least bit difficult for these men to identify him.

The same was true for the high-level Spiritual Warriors bodyguarding the six young prodigies from outside the province who were to enter this Secret Realm.

They were far away from their young masters, who were profiled near where Lothur had just stopped.

But still, they shouted out in surprise the name of young Ritter along with their young masters, overcoming even the noise of the crowd waiting for the Secret Realm to open.

'That refined appearance...' One of the three Transcendents from the empire's capital looked strangely at Lothur.

"Hey, doesn't this Lothur guy look much like that wretched Daemon?" Another of them asked just for their group to hear.

"Now that you mention it, he does look like the bastard!" The third of them clenched his fists, seeing many similarities in Lothur and Daemon's appearance.

The Dukes also realized that Lothur looked like someone famous in the empire, but they didn't connect the dots right away.

Lothur was young, and Daemon's appearance in his youth was not the one most remembered by people in this empire. After all, his greatest achievements were accomplished when he was already an expert.

Consequently, for those who were not as close to the case as those members of the imperial family, it was not so easy to associate young Ritter's appearance with that of Daemon in the first place.

Lothur ignored the people on the outskirts of that square watching him from afar and only noticed the youths who would participate in this event along with him.

Two of them had refined appearances, silver eyes like his own, with two hair colors, a mixture of white and silver.

He then asked. "Why are you looking at me like that? Don't come near me. I prefer women..."

"What?"

"Tsk!"

"How dare you say we are interested in you like that?"

The two felt outraged at Lothur's insinuation and humiliated, while some of the women who would be attending this event laughed at his comment.

Luis was standing there next to the Duke of the Province, preparing for the event to begin. Lothur's comment hadn't been loud enough for everyone in the square to hear. Still, the academy principal and Chris had heard it and couldn't help but bow their heads and cover their eyes with their hands.

Those were two members of the imperial family!

Even knowing young Ritter's past, which was by no means so simple that he had to fear those two, Lothur himself didn't know about his past. So he was teasing those two of great status even though he didn't know he was not a supported individual.

"You wretch, do you know who we are?" The stronger of the two asked.

"Who?" Lothur asked.

More laughter spread through the area until the Secret Realm finally began to show signs of its opening!

The Secret Realm was not a region of space controlled by local experts but something that opened and closed at roughly similar time intervals.

Sometimes it could vary a few days more or less than people expected the moment of its opening to be, but usually, it happened within the expected date.

In any case, as the Secret Realm gave signs that it was close to opening, even when it was early or late, the local leaders were able to prepare to send the 15 young people at the right time.

Just at that moment of shame for the two members of the Leopoldine family, a great glow appeared in the skies above that square.

Silence immediately formed in the surroundings, with each person looking at the phenomenon with interest, even those who had seen it several times before.

To them, the phenomenon might not be a big novelty, but it was always nice to see the remnants of a powerful 4th stage cultivator's power.

The creator of that Secret Realm was supposed to be someone of that range of strength, so the many 2nd stage individuals there, and the few 3rd stage ones, couldn't help but look at it with interest.

Even the Dukes who would have to wait to speak with Lothur couldn't help but admire it.

In the middle of the opening of it, the platform where the 15 youths with medals hanging from their necks stood suddenly began to form golden structures, coming from the ground and covering that place like a roof.

But it was semitransparent, and every observer in the surrounding area could see the 15 youths, who were surrounded by beams of energy and light at that moment.

It was as if they were being covered by cocoons, while the conditions inside that place became extreme amidst the intense brightness there.

At that moment, as two individuals had just appeared above that area, floating Peters City and looking in Lothur's direction, they sighed in disappointment.

"We've delayed a bit. It's too late for us to take him now." A person fully dressed in golden armor said to the one next to him, someone in red female armor, with the same symbol on it that was on his armor.

She said. "No problem. Either he will die in the Secret Realm, and we won't be needed here anymore, or he will survive, and we will arrest him in a week.

In any case, we will accomplish our mission against the delinquent Lothur Ritter."

As the two individuals, both level 17, looked in Lothur's direction, he and the other youths within that bright area disappeared while the place they were in returned to normal.

The other Transcendents in that square didn't notice the arrival of these two and just did the same as the mortals and other cultivators in that place, looking towards the formation screens on the medals of those youths.

Fifteen large screens containing the vital status, resources collected, battles, in short, containing all kinds of useful information of each of the youths now within the Secret Realm were spread out in that square.

In addition to the 15 screens, a large ranking was positioned on what looked like an obelisk, displaying their overall results.

The Secret Realm was not a competition. But those who stood outside watching saw the event this way, many even placing bets on the results.

The most common bets were on who would die and the position of each person participating in the Secret Realm in the overall ranking. But various other bets and disputes took place related to this event.

For example, some people bet on the day of death for each youth that entered the Secret Realm. Sometimes even the families of these youngsters would bet, and because of this, they would ask their youngsters in advance to kill some opponents within that dimension.

That could bring considerable results to these powers, something that moved not only the province but various parts of the empire.

So even without the possibility of directly watching the event, many of those people were still there to follow the numbers of the Secret Realm!

...

Meanwhile, the 15 youngsters were teleported to 15 different positions within the Secret Realm, which seemed to be just another empire forest.

However, it wouldn't be long before they realized this was no ordinary place!