Bloodline warrior? Gavin Brooks's eyebrows quickly drew together at the center and then separated again, his fingers lightly tapping the armrest of the chair. How familiar that title once was. Unfortunately, after the primary awakening test, that name suddenly became unimaginably distant, a thousand times farther away than his own hometown.

  “Gavin Brooks, believe me! You are the best warrior I have ever seen at our academy.” The fervor in Rodney Brooks's eyes did not diminish as he raised two fingers high. “Two years! You only need two years! When you enter your third year at the academy, just before advancing to the Advanced Warrior School, you will become the main force of that year's Auckland Warriors and Magic Academy, participate in the Four Seas Heroes Tournament, and attract the attention of prestigious schools. That will be of infinite help to your future! For the warriors there, if their grades are good enough, they can even use the Douling Array alone to break through their Dou Qi rank. You know! The success rate for breakthroughs is much higher that way…”

  Douling Array? Gavin Brooks mulled over Rodney Brooks's words, a faint bitterness rising in his mouth. To some extent, the Douling Array almost has the power to determine a warrior's future. The greatest advantage of a prestigious school is not only the variety of Douling Arrays and the abundance of Douling Stones, but also that the advanced techniques for warriors far surpass those of ordinary academies.

  For many, entering a prestigious school represents limitless possibilities. There are scholars dedicated to researching Douling Arrays, substantial commercial sponsorships, access to expensive Douling Stones that ordinary people can hardly afford, advanced techniques created and summarized by predecessors, as well as high-level techniques purchased from all over by the top schools.

  Gavin Brooks let out a gentle sigh. Advanced warrior techniques! Once, they had been so close to him, but now they were so distant as to be out of sight. If he hadn't occasionally found a strange map in a dust-covered book on the family bookshelf, with a special annotation reading 【天下无双风云斗气】, who knows if he would even be here now.

  “Gavin Brooks, although this trial isn't directly related to you entering the Douling Grand Array at the academy, it is indirectly connected.” Rodney Brooks leaned in half an inch closer to Gavin Brooks. “If you can't get into a prestigious school, how will you use better Douling Arrays to help you break through in the future? Without advanced techniques, how can you become the greatest warrior?”

  “So.” Rodney Brooks fixed Gavin Brooks with an unwavering gaze and concluded, “You can't take this trial lightly. If you can secure a substitute spot this time, you'll be able to observe up close what makes the best warriors. Three years from now, as long as our luck doesn't run out, if we're in the same group as the Qian family—the bloodline warriors of the Elf King—then we'll have a chance to win a qualifying spot for the Four Treasures Continent and enter the finals of the Eight Continents and Four Seas. At that point, the top schools will notice you.”

  “That's right…” Rodney Brooks seemed to be psyching himself up, nodding repeatedly and muttering, “As long as we don't run into the Qian family, the bloodline warriors of the Elf King… Who knows if one of the three ultimate bloodline warrior families, the Qian family, has produced another awakened one.”

  Awakening? A barely perceptible bitter smile tugged at the corner of Gavin Brooks's lips. An ultimate awakened bloodline warrior from the Qian family only appears once every few centuries, but if the entire Qian family had only one ultimate awakened bloodline warrior, they would have been wiped out by the Empire long ago!

  Aside from the so-called ultimate Elf King bloodline awakening, which is said to be the strongest among all bloodline warriors on the continent, every generation of the Qian family has someone who undergoes primary awakening. Last year, the Qian family had the most bloodline warriors awaken at once—over thirty people entered primary awakening in one go.

  According to the Qian family's records on the ultimate awakening of the Elf King bloodline warriors, this time the ultimate awakened Elf King bloodline warrior is very likely to be among these thirty-some people. That's why the Qian family pays special attention to the descendants of these primary awakened bloodline warriors. Among them, someone might enable the Qian family to stand at the very pinnacle of the world again, surpassing the other two great bloodline warrior families!

  That's right. Judging by the awakening times of bloodline warriors, the three ultimate bloodlines have never awakened together. Whenever one family's ultimate bloodline awakens, they become the temporary strongest! According to the Qian family's records, the ultimate awakening of the Elf King bloodline warrior should be among this youngest generation.

  “No.” Rodney Brooks shook his head vigorously. “As long as you're willing to work hard, and with my help, even if you face the Qian family's Elf King bloodline warriors—even if they are dual-trained in magic and combat—you still have a chance to win.”

  Gavin Brooks could only smile more bitterly. The Elf King bloodline warriors can dominate the continent and are one of the three ultimate powers among human bloodline warriors, naturally possessing strengths outsiders can't fathom. Even a primary awakened Elf King bloodline warrior grows at a staggering rate, especially with their dual cultivation of magic and combat, which is a nightmare for both warriors and mages.

Chapter 14: Itching for a Beating?

  Defeating a bloodline warrior is already an almost impossible task, let alone defeating a primary awakened bloodline warrior of the Elf King—one of the three strongest human bloodlines. This teacher Rodney Brooks really dares to dream.