It took ten minutes for all the women to gather we all walked to the courtyard and I had them spar.
I sparred against any of the winners from the first city run that wanted to spar.
One girl about my age called Elise was deadly in a spar and hadn't lost once she was also a city run winner.
However she always fell to the back in the laps around the city so I gathered she was my opposite lots of skill and talent but absolutely no endurance.
I shivered thinking about what she would be like with a bloodline like mine so I did the reasonable thing and challenged her to a spar.
Her blood red shoulder length hair hardly swayed by the wind as she took a stance and looked at my soul with her pale blue eyes.
I charged towards her she was not someone you wanted gaining momentum in a fight she surprised me and threw one of her daggers at my head which I dodged but as soon as I looked back she had a dagger pointing at my neck winning her the spar.
I smiled and said only one word reverting to my old tricks.
"Again"
I didn't win once but just before sunrise she collapsed of exhaustion and I had learnt a lot I also had her weapons changed to two short swords.
I went and woke up the men and we started our laps I ran the extra lap with kyle and gave them the exact same challenge as the women with the city run.
About 1000 guys made it before time ran out and I repeated what I did last night once that was over we all went to the training grounds and sparred I started with kyle but moved on to some people I haven't fought with yet.
This continued to late afternoon so I had them either continue sparring or practice magic whilst I took some time off in the library.
I was mostly going to look for some clues regarding bloodline locations since the royal libary was so expansive it had to have something on bloodlines.
I gathered every book on bloodlines I could many books were just fairytale but I did find a few authentic but probably taken bloodlines.
I almost gave up when I read the cover of the next book "serothors royal bloodline list"
I hurriedly flipped through the pages the first half described the royal family bloodline but the second half listed each known bloodline in or around serothor.
In other words it was a register cross referencing this with family names, burial, and birth records I found three potential bloodlines in serothor's area which seemed like promising leads.
It wasn't night time yet so I decided to investigate one the person was single with no children and was buried near the city wall by the royal guard about 100 years ago the guard that buried them described the place quite well.
I walked to the suspected location the east side of the outer wall near a brick inscribed with the initials B and R it took quite a bit of examination but I managed to find a moss covered brick with faded B and R initials.
Now came the hard part I looked around for any clues regarding a inheritance trial but then as I turned around there was something coming towards me it was... a hammer?
oh fuck! a hammer!
It was too late to dodge so I did the only thing I could I shielded myself with my arms I felt my bones shatter and my body get pushed into the wall.
Then an old woman appeared her hair reaching her waist she started speaking.
Well well it has been 50 years since someone walked into my trial well this is where I give you some tips right?
Well first off what you just felt is similar to what this power could make you feel in other words don't use it all willy nilly my power is a shield it Is a petty thing though I will let you find that out yourself I hope it is more suitable for you than it was for me"
With that she disappeared it was a pretty strange trial a crushing feeling enveloped my body for a few seconds imprinting it's name in my soul.
It's name is 'soul shield' and I instantly understood how it worked it was a strong malleable barrier that would act as a shield at the cost of Stamina and life force.
It actually mixed quite well with the god heart but now I had two bloodlines the next one could kill me.
Though bloodlines seemed all powerful the most a human could naturally have was two if that number increased every new bloodline had a 50% chance of killing the holder.
It was now starting to get dark so I recollected myself and walked back to the training grounds I reached the women and commenced training it wasn't anything new except tonight I had them focus a little more on magic.
My progress on breeze was a bit slow but it wasn't too bad a spell at the level of breeze takes about a month to traditionally 'master'.
My staff fighting was leaps and bounds better but my only real strength is my near unlimited Stamina and passive healing.
But for only a few days things were looking up.
I got the guys up and took them for the laps and repeated yesterday except this time instead of the libary to study I went to bed and lost consciousness once my head hit the pillow.