Rio had just exited at the library, returning the scrolls and books he previously borrowedst night. He was on his way to club room.


    Indeed, he phrased that right. The club room. Surprisingly, the club got approved quickly without much of a trouble. He didn''t expect everything to go smoothly.


    If he had a guess, it was most likely due to Director Greg and the status of Eugene in the Pendragon name.


    Of course, while the club creation might''ve gone smoothly. Rio had not ever fantasize that his life would be fine after being a club leader, or mentor, for the four geniuses.


    As for the matter of mentoring them, It wasn''t even a problem to him. He nned to do so in the future if he had gotten the chance, but this club event drastically shortened the amount of time he needed and gave him the opportunities to do so.


    With advanced knowledge of magic, unusual ways of improvement and skills of different origins. He will teach them some of those step by step, as for their learning capabilities? Is there even a need to doubt?


    Arcuied, despite being an unknown enigma, was even more talented than Eugene. That was an amazing achievement, considering Eugene is the most talented kid in the whole Arthurian Empire right now.


    Amber, whilecking a little,pensates with her hard working mentality and knowledgeable mind.


    Xiao Long while entric and quirky, was a genius of alchemy and potion craft. A profession which has cruel and high requirements. That itself speaks of his talent.


    At the matter of talent, how does it get measured?


    It was really simple, It gets measured by two factors. Your natural umtion of magic, and your spiritual sense.


    Natural umtion of magic, as it implies, is how fast does a person''s Miracle Core umte magic in the surroundings.


    For others, it could take a decade, or even longer, just to fill in their Miracle Core with magic to advance in another Rank.


    The talented one''s like Eugene and Arcuied for example, have faster umtion. As teens they are already at the verge of breaking through Rank D.


    To exin more throughly, a survey inside the whole empire announced a result that most people reach Rank D in their 30''s.


    However, even if you were a case of the former, someone that has slow umtion of magic. It could be easily solved with items or products of Alchemy that gives you magic energy. While that was a viable solution, it was still a degraded rank up as most products of alchemy contains impurity in their magic.


    Next, is the spiritual sense. He had already exined the basics of it, but in essence, Spiritual sense, is a person''s ability to wield magic.


    In a more conscise exnation, Spiritual Sense is an imaginary will that allows a person to use magic, and use that magic to affect reality in the form of skills.


    A person''s spiritual sense differs from one another.


    A slow and useless one would take a decade to even wield the most basic skills.


    A mediocre one would easily wield basic skills, but struggle on intermediate one''s and above.


    Geniuses, like Arcuied and Eugene, could easily wield basic and intermediate skills. In fact, the skills they used in the arena could even qualify as a master level skill.


    That was how talent was measured. Samantha was most likely kicked out of her heiress position, because her spiritual strength is average.


    That aside, he had sensed there were atleast six people following him. They might be obsecure and good at hiding, but with his ?Auto Sense? he discovered them quickly.


    Rio decided to just ignore them and proceed on walking, not like he had anything to say if he did catch them red handed.


    While he was walking, a man obstructed him. Grey hair, shallow and young face. Rio didn''t know him, nor did he ever see him in the academy.


    "Please,e with me." The man ordered harshly, without room for objection.


    "Who are you?" Rio asked, raising his eyebrows in confusion.


    "Do not ask any questions, my liege wishes for you." The man replied coldly, as he approached Rio.


    "I asked you," Rio quietly said codly as he looked at the man. Just Rank D. Well, he might as well use the next skill he synchronized, "Who are you?"


    Bam!


    "Ugh!" The man screamed in shock as he fell down, kneeling as he looked at Rio, specifically behind Rio. His body was trembling in sheer fear. His instincts were screaming to back down.


    The only remaining thought on his head was to wish for forgiveness.


    "It worked suprisingly well..." Rio muttered as he looked at the kneeling man. He used a synchronized skill called ?Pressure? It''s ability, as it implied exerting amplified pressure to others.


    It worked well againts those below his rank, but would probably be useless when he encountered those above his rank.


    Rio continued walking down the hallways, the club was near. He had noted the suprised looks of those that were following him. They seemed to have distanced and only assionaly looked.<novelnext></novelnext>


    —


    "W-what was that..!?" The kneeling man muttered in shock. He felt fear, and extreme intimidation. Frankly he was scared of the illusionary shadow behind the professor.


    If it was just a Rank C pressure it wouldn''t be enough to destroy his will, he was a servant of a Rank B noble for a long time.


    But the pressure he felt was different. It materialized at the form of a shadow of the man. He only saw therge maw of the shadow, a gluttunios greed that can never be satiated.


    —


    Rio opened the door and entered the room. The room was the ce where their club took part. He observed the surroundings, he noted that it was unnessarilyrge.


    There was arge TV, a soft andfty couch and even a pool. This was more like a hotel than a club, Rio thought as he oddly looked at the ce.


    "Oh, it''s Professor Rio!" Eugene loudly called as he waved his hands, he was sitting in the couch with Amber.


    "Awe struck by the room?" Eugene said as he proudly smirked.


    "Ridiculous," Rio muttered.


    "I agree with you, professor." Ambermented as she heard the low mutter.


    "In any case, make your selffortable, Sir Rio." Eugene said as he stood up and gone to the other side of the room.


    Rio nodded as he looked at where Eugene was going. The other side of the room had ab and small training area at both of it''s corners.


    Xiao, understandably, was in theb area. Theb area was covered with hard ss. He was making something in there.


    Arcuied, on the other, hand was on the training area. He held a wooden sword as he struck it, directing the sword to a training dummy.


    "Well, It seemed that this wasn''t entirely nonsense." Riomented as he watched both of the students train their craft.


    He followed Eugene, as both of them approached Arcuied.


    Arcuied was too focused to notice that there were two people that was watching him. He only striked, thrusted and shed. Unaware of the surroundings.


    "Hey." A voice called out behind Arcuied as he instinctively shed his wooden sword in response.


    Tak!


    It was obstructed by a wooden spear. He looked at the one holding it, and as he expected it was Eugene. He also noticed that his professor was there too.


    "Sorry, I got a little ahead of myself." Arcuied said as he bowed apologetically.


    "No worries, that''s why I brought a spear with me." Eugene replied with a smile.


    "Good afternoon, professor." Arcuied greeted as he looked at Rio at the back.


    "Mhm." Rio nodded wordlessly as hemented, "Your swordsmanship is good, yet a littlecking."


    While he had close to none knowledge of the sword, instinctually he noticed that while it was good itcked some things. He didn''t even know he held instinctual knowledge to noticing things. Even though he knew it was wed, he couldn''t put his finger on what was wrong.


    "Do you know how to improve then?" Arcuied asked in a hopeful tone. He needed to improve his swordsmanship, he realized there was somethingcking. But he didn''t know what.


    Rio was about to answer, but Eugene intervened.


    "Do thatter. Now we have professor, let''s fight." Eugene said with a smile as he held his wooden spear tightly. Oh, how he was quite excited for this.


    "Fine." Arcuied surrendered in approval as he took a step back and held his sword.


    "What''s my part in this?" Rio asked unaware.


    "The referee, or the life-guard. I might identally kill Arcuied." Eugene said with a snigger as he mocked Arcuied.


    "Yeah, yeah, in your dreams." Arcuied merely sighed in response.


    "Oh, sure." Rio replied as he epted the offer. He was interested in the oue of this match. These were two key characters in the novel afterall.