Chapter 67 Accepting
Even if it seemed like a stupid idea to accept Kira's offer, Nial thought that it was the best option, so he readily agreed to become the strongest as long as he was recommended.
He had no idea how difficult it was to become the most powerful or talented youth in the Teradan military camp, but what choice did he have?
Instead of thinking too much about the possibilities he didn't have, which were many, Nial chose the only opportunity he perceived right in front of him.
Thus, he exchanged his contact details with Kira, before trying to make sense of her reasoning to help him.
According to him, the increase in her reputation owing to his performance in the camp wouldn't be too high, but that couldn't be said about the Organisations that might pick him up.
Getting recommended to the Teradan military camp seems to happen through the Military, the government's higher authorities, specific organizations, the Guild, and families with tremendous influence in the administration and proceedings of the nine shelters.
As such, Kira must be a member of one of them, but what he didn't know was that a select group of individuals had the right to recommend someone to the Teradan military camp.
By attempting to transform Nial into someone mighty and powerful, her already unique way to recommend Nial would attract enough attention for whatever she was planning to achieve. In him she saw an infinite potential to become a true prodigy or a monster.
Nial wasn't aware of her long-term goals, and Kira was not going to tell him either.
Thus, he had to accept the secretive behavior of Kira as he was desperate enough to ask a stranger for help.
Demanding more from her when she had already offered him a great opportunity would make him look unnecessarily greedy.
Because of that, he kept quiet and listened to everything she had to tell him.
The information she shared with him was extremely detailed and Nial tried to digest everything because he knew what kind of risk Kira was taking to recommend him.
It was nothing in comparison to the dangers he would be thrown in, but if he were to be untalented and someone without even the slightest bit of potential, Kira would never get another chance to recommend someone to the Teradan military camp.
With that in mind, he believed that she must have seen something extraordinary within him. Alas, he had no idea what it was and was clueless about his own potential.
At first, he assumed that she might have sensed the Odyssey seed, but if not even the examination devices of the Originals' association could sense it, how was Kira supposed to know?
Nial felt that it was illogical, and even after asking Kira why she trusted him to the extent that she would use her one and only chance of recommendation on him, she was unable to answer him properly.
"To be honest, I don't know. Hearing the rumors about the two-element dungeon and a blind, newly awakened youth at the 1st Origin rank, who had been sent out by blacksmith Arnold to rescue his daughter, whose rank is much higher, is already impressive.
I hoped to encounter you, but I had never expected to find you while you were searching for my sister, and talking about Junades.
Your presence is…mysterious, to put it simply, and my gut feeling tells me that you are going to live upto my expectations…maybe excel even beyond that."
The answer she had provided was not exactly helpful, but at least he found out that Kira knew a bit about him.
This made it easier for Nial to believe that Kira was not solely following her gut feeling but that she had comprehended something that was beyond his grasp for now.
With that in mind, he felt a little bit relieved as he accepted the fact that he would soon enter the Teradan military camp in order to become as strong as possible in the quickest time.
Simultaneously, he could gain some attention from various influential people while trying his best to become even stronger.
The only difficulty he had to face was his restricted mana core talent which was not high enough for what he wanted to achieve.
However, this was something the newly emerged dungeon seemed to be able to change.
The mana core limit enhancement crystals were a small stepping stone and the first of the many chances he would receive to change his fate.
Other than this crystal, there were also similar items mankind had found or created to allow the enhancement of one's mana core's limits.
This was great for everyone with enough wealth, connections, and strength. Unfortunately, Nial had none of that, which made it a bit more difficult for him to procure these items.
Yet, if he were to reach his limit, forcefully breaking through with specific preparations should also be possible.
At least, Nial felt as if it would be possible for him to achieve everything as long as his willpower was strong enough.
The Odyssey seed told him this, even if Nial was not really sure how he was able to comprehend what exactly the seed wanted to convey to him. Somehow he could sense it.
In the end, it was relatively simple because by being able to control the pulse of the Odyssey seed, he would be able to control mana to an almost perfect degree, which would allow him to enlarge his mana core with extreme precision.
Through this, the chance of failure would slowly decrease to the extent that it would be close to negligible.
However, even that was not important right now because he would need quite some time before he would come close to his potential limit, to begin with.
As such, there was still more than enough time for him to become stronger, and to learn more about the world, dungeons, the anatomy of the human body, how to exceed his limit without permanently injuring himself, and much more.
The more he thought about it, the more his decision seemed to be correct.
The Teradan military camp seemed to be the best, and Nial had gauged this since Kira had begun to speak about it.
He had only wanted to ensure that the gamble was worth the risk hence for the next few hours he bombarded her with numerous questions. Nial knew that he had to figure out everything about the Teradan military camp, otherwise, he would be flinging himself into an unknown place with unknown dangers.
With that in mind, other than the exact location and time of his entry to the camp, he wanted to know the average strength of the Originals that would enter the camp with him.
Other than that, it was also important to steer clear of some prodigies and not accidentally get into an argument with anyone, which was something that might happen.
It was not like he was confident in himself and believed that he would topple the strongest person there in a matter of minutes. Though, his doubt made Kira presume that he was getting a bit overconfident. Her assumption was noticeable when she stared at him with a scheming smile the moment he asked this.
But, he was no fool and simply wanted to know what would happen under the possibility that he was to defeat someone of higher authority with a bad temper.
He didn't plan to be tortured or to die just because a petty person would seek solace in revenge after Nial had defeated him.
While Kira had no idea where exactly the camp was located owing to its highly secretive position that only a few individuals were allowed to get to know, the meeting point would be a month from now, in a specific location everyone would receive the details of merely a few hours before departure.
This was apparently everything about the time and place Kira knew, which told Nial that the Teradan military camp was even more intriguing and dangerous than he previously assumed.
After all, it was not normal to prevent the general public from finding out the location of the camp, if it was not something extremely important, or also very dangerous.
Taking this into consideration, Nial should have felt scared, but that was not the case, at all.
Instead, he thought that the opportunities he could receive in the Teradan military camp were even higher than he initially presumed.
His day seemed to have turned from a futile search to a fruitful discovery and he was relieved that he now had a rough path to walk on in order to achieve his goal.
Trusting his own gut feeling more than anything else, he listened to the answers to the other questions he had in mind before leaving Kira's side in order to return to his small flat.
There he made numerous notes on the Originals bracelet, with which he wanted to clear his mind and jot down every single thing so that he wouldn't forget it later.
To his fortune, the majority of things he thought about were truly becoming clearer, but the information he comprehended was not really great, to put it simply.
Rather, it was worrisome because the strength of Originals seemed to differentiate a lot.
First, there were those who had awoken their origin relatively early, which allowed them to reach a higher rank even if they didn't use origin crystals.
Second, there were some individuals who had awoken both their origin and an innate ability early. Those originals were, in most cases, from influential families that were known for having talented descendants.
Meanwhile, there were also a few dark horses that were similar to these powerful highborn humans, which was what they liked to call themselves.
As for the third type of Originals inside the Teradan military camp, they were late bloomers, amongst whom the majority had an innate ability.
Apparently, the longer one required to awake one's Origin naturally, the higher was the chance to awaken an Innate ability.
Because of that, Kira was curious about Nial, believing that he might have an Innate ability as well.
However, he didn't tell her about it because the devices of the Originals' association were unable to perceive it either.
In the end, the average strength of the Originals inside the military camp was between the 5th and 7th Origin rank, and they were around Nial's age.
Around half of them were said to have unique traits, Innate abilities, or other unique factors that made them eligible to be recommended for the Teradan military camp.
According to Kira, he was also eligible because he had cleared the two-element dungeon, which not even the stronger junior military units were able to clear.
This was something Nial had been oblivious about, but it didn't really change a lot, except the fact that he was allowed to enter the Teradan military camp.
That could either be considered as a small or a big change, but instead of thinking too much about it, Nial was devising a plan to become strong enough to compete with others from the Teradan military camp…in just a single month.
In order to achieve this, he had to reach the peak of his mana core talent in a single month, or be on par with them in terms of combat prowess, and widen his knowledge in order to not be lost in whatever they wanted to teach them at the camp.
Following that, he was required to increase his combat experience, combat awareness, and if possible, learn martial art techniques that would allow him to possess a decent level of combat prowess with which he was able to fight others at the same rank, or preferably at a higher rank without an issue.
And in order to achieve all of this, he had to acquire his first ability, and bind it to his mana core!
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