Chapter 71: Mysterious Genes


    Hong!


    The pressure rose significantly as Keith entered the marquisyer. It didn’t bother him as much as it did before because of the protection of the energyyer. It used the residue power of the bloodstone and temporarily created an aura that blocked the outside pressure.


    It could’vested longer if he stayed in the countyer, but now he was in the marquisyer, it was depleting faster because of the resistance. The system gave him a ten-second window to cross the rest of theyers.


    Clenching his teeth, he moved faster than he ever did. His blood-qi was perfectly distributed across the body and both the blood core and the warrior frame worked at their full capacity. Theyplemented each other and boosted the output of his body to a whole new level.


    When he reached the end of the marquisyer, only eight seconds remained. It felt way longer but he actually managed to cross the marquisyer in two seconds.


    As he entered the dukeyer, his movement slowed down a little due to the overwhelming pressure difference. It was many times higher than the marquisyer. If he didn’t have the energyyer to protect him, he would’ve dropped on the floor like a ma pulling a metal.


    Thankfully, he was not experiencing most of the pressure and could think clearly. His focus was on the path ahead that led to the kingyer.


    He increased his speed while pushing his warrior frame’s output even more. He swept past the dukeyer in a split second and moved halfway inside theyer within a second. His blood core was glowing red as his output soared with the continuous flow of blood-qi.


    ‘Just a little more, and we will be in the King’syer.’ His eyes were fixed on the darkyer that was barely visible in front of him.


    At the same time, Valencia was watching him with a stupefied face and biting her lips unconsciously. What he showed to the entire hall was nothing short of a miracle. What happened before her eyes were supposed to be impossible but Keith was doing it with not a single care in the world.


    The higheryers of the test produced the emted aura of the peak-level vampires of the respective stages. That meant the viscount levelyer produced the equivalent aura to a peak level vampire at the viscount stage. The same applied for the nextyers as they emted count, marquis, and dukeyer pressures respectively.


    To break them without any resistance and move like that was not something even she could do. Sure, it would be a different story if she used her artifacts, but this test prohibited the use of any artifact. So he couldn’t have entered the testyer while being equipped.


    That showed what he used for crossing all thoseyers was his own ability and not with the help of any artifacts, which was baffling. She couldn’t believe that he was using no artifacts to boost his power. And still was able to move past the countyer.


    The same reactions could be seen from the other two student council members. Their faces were even more contorted and filled with disbelief. When he reached the end of the dukeyer their eyes went wide.


    They couldn’t imagine Keith breaking the Archdukeyer so easily like taking a walk in the park. Their eyes squinted as to see what would happen once he crossed the Archdukeyer.


    To their surprise, he not only crossed the Archdukeyer but he did it with minimum resistance. His speed was slower than before but his speed was regaining as a desperate expression appeared on Keith’s face.


    Inside the Archdukeyer, Keith was now struggling to maintain his blood core at the maximum output. The increased temperature was making his body numb as the blood core was at the risk of failing. If not for his warrior frame supporting the blood core, it would’ve imploded long ago.


    ‘Thisyer is way more powerful than before. I can barely breathe.’ Keith was visibly tired from maintaining the blood core and the warrior frame at the same time.


    [ The pressure from the Archdukeyer is several times higher than the Dukeyer, so some of it is going through the energyyer. We only have two seconds, so try to reach the kingyer before then.]


    The system went back to its idle state after saying this.


    Keith also looked at the timer which showed two seconds in the status window before the energyyer breaks apart. He closed his eyes and put all of his blood-qi inside which were flowing outside his body. It was more tiring to gather all the blood-qi while maintaining two cores. But he didn’t have any other options so he endured the pain inside his head.


    ‘Endure a little bit longer, Endure a little bit longer, I’m almost there.’ Keith repeated this sentence multiple times inside his head.


    Boom!


    With a loud noise, he crossed the Kingyer with only a second remaining in the clock. He opened his eyes and a beautiful scene appeared in front of his face. Theyer wasid with golden red particles flying all across theyer in abstract patterns.


    [ The energyyer is shutting down, you need to go back. I will stay hidden and won’t respond for some time, hopefully, you refrain yourself from doing something stupid.]


    Saying this the system went silent.


    Keith stayed in the King’syer for a split second but it felt like an eternity. He didn’t know it was the runes that slowed the perception or the pir of judgement. He felt the aura brushing past his energy barrier which was flickering.


    When half a second was left in the timer, he turned around and left the king’syer. But before he left, he felt a subtle presence at the end of the King’syer.


    Swoosh!


    Moving with tremendous speed, he crossed almost half of the archdukeyer within half a second. His face was showing signs of fatigue after running both the blood core and warrior frame at their peak for an extended period of time. If it was one of the two, he could have endured several hours, but both of them together used so much mental power that he was having hallucinations.


    ‘Fuck! I want to sleep.’ A soft groan escaped his lips.


    The full force of the Archduke pressure reigned down on him as he reached halfway into theyer. His movements slowed considerably and he had to put great effort to leave the Archdukeyer.


    “HAH!”


    As he left the Archdukeyer, his nose started bleeding. He wiped the blood and moved slowly to the marquisyer. With the pressure within bearable conditions, he could at least pass without falling t on the floor.


    Within ten seconds, he reached the marquisyer. He eased up a little and slowed down his blood core. The warrior frame was running at full capacity so he could afford to lower the output of the blood core.


    Leaving the marquisyer he took a deep breath and sat down on the floor cross-legged. He looked at the blood core which was slowly recuperating from the overwork and getting to its normal state.


    Strangely his muscles didn’t seem to suffer from the extended use of rapid blood-qi cirction. Only his brain was somewhat affected by the mental pressure to keep the system running.


    He silently slowed down his cirction and looked at the judgment pir in anticipation, Now that the system was not there to block the pir’s senses, he would get the results of the gene test anytime now.


    As he predicted, the runes inside the pir started moving and ten circles appeared on the pir. All of them were the same size, except the one that was facing Keith. It was significantly smaller than the rest of the circles.


    “What?” Keith couldn’t believe what he was seeing.


    The runes inside the circle werepletely empty. There was not a single rune inside that space. Keith turned his head around and nced at Valencia, who was also looking at the same rune circle with a frown.


    She looked back towards Kieth with a strange expression, trying toprehend what was happening. Today so much had happened that it was not easy to wrap someone’s head around.


    Heaving a sigh, she turned her head towards the high stage. She didn’t know what the rune circle meant. An empty circle was never seen in the time she was in the academy. So she wanted the help of the higher-ups to understand the judgement pir’s decision.


    Theyer of fog dissipated in the high stage and dean Jesper floated towards the test area. He hovered above the tform where Valceia was standing and slowly descended.


    “Dean Jesper, can you discern the meaning of the judgement pir?” Valencia asked with an intrigued face


    She knew all the other runes and it was clear that they didn’t hold a candle to Keith’s performance, so it was natural that the others were not in the mind of the dean. With Keith’s performance, no one spared an eye to the other results.


    Even Annica, who was supposed to be second in the batch, was looking at Keith’s rune circle with a strange expression. It was really weird and not to get a normal result.


    The dean stood there while looking at the rune circle with a frown on his face. HE opened his mouth and looked at Keith with interest.


    “His genes can not be determined by the judgment pir.”


    The entire central hall was in an uproar after hearing that statement.