The royal teacher finished teaching the royal Princes and Princesses histroy of the world. All their bloods boiled as they knew there was so much to explore and so many heights to reach. The first prince was a warrior. He had mid psyon absorption rate and extremely low affinity to earth element. He has a mid tier art. With enough resource he was already a 3 star warrior. He was an 18 year old boy. He was in the third class in the academy of the Dragon Empire.
The second prince was an assassin with low psyon absorption rate but middle affinity to wind element. He was extremely hardworking and had caught up with his brother and was also a 3 star assassin. He was known as the "Future shadow of the royal family". He is the most reserved out of all the princes. He was 16 and was considered on par with geniuses. He joined the assassins union and went to the kingdom academy since he learns nothing from school. His art is given to him by the association and resources are from the family. He was in third class too as
The third prince who was usually referred to by his siblings as "almost great" was the first person in the kingdoms history to have superior affinity which was the best affinity out there. He was supposed to be the best and would even be tried to be poached by an empire. The surprising thing was that he had zero ability to absorb mana. He could not feel the mana in the air. This caused him to be striked out of the race to the throne as he would become extremely useless. Everyone showed him disdain and nobody wanted to be in his faction. The other main wives used this to surpress his mom's position in the royal harem. He was 10 years old
The fourth was walking the path of a swordsman. He always carries his sword wherever he goes and he has the highest talent among his siblings with high psyon absorption rate and extremely mid affinity to water element. This makes him the favorite of the king. He was 8 years old.
The fifth is an archer with mid psyon absorption rate and mid to fire element. He didn't want to walk the path of a mage as he was kind of cowardly. He prefers killing from afar and he was fairly good at it. He was 6 years old.
The other princes from the numerous concubines of the king didn't have the right to the throne. They could only join factions or stay neutral hoping to use hardwork to change their fates. Maybe they could conquer and rule a tier 4 kingdom.
Yesterday was the kings birthday and everyone was home from whichever academy they had gone to. As the lesson finished the first prince who was also known as crowned prince took a chance to jeer at the third prince hoping to deal a psychological blow making him lose the hope of ever getting the throne,
"Hey 'almost great'. I know you were listening to royal teacher but was it even worth it. You are forever going to stay in this castle or be given the chance to lead a tier 7 kingdom. Never having the chance to explore the great world. If i were you I'd shut myself in. At least I won't know how vast the world is".
His position was not secure and the people standing in his way were the third, fourth and fifth prince. He knew his second brother doesn't care about the throne and only wanted to be the shadow of whoever became king. Now the third is out. Hopefully he won't be a late bloomer and the others were too young. His father forbade him from doing anything to them till they became 3 star.
The second prince couldn't be bothered with their charade although he had a lot of disdain for his younger half brother. The fourth prince was arrogant about his talent and felt it was beneath him to use tricks. He held disdain for all his brothers except the Second prince whose hardwork was enough to make him a genius. He held the most disdain for the 3rd prince. Not being able to feel mana at all meant he was a born failure. He just walked out with his sword in his hand as he went to practice trying his best to enter 1 star by age 9 showing everyone he is a great talent.
The fifth prince was too young and only laughed in naivety before going out. He had to go meet his mom for lunch before archery practice.
The third prince in particular couldn't be bothered with his brother and was talking to an old man in his mind and trembling on excitement as this was a change to rise.
"Senior you said you were gonna help me fix my problem today right. You promised me and you can't go back on your word."
"Do you think I'm someone who doesn't keep my word. I told you it is a simple thing to fix and it's just that your body is special and you have the pure yang body. Your body has being creating yang energy since you are a child making it so you can't sense any other energy. All we need is to give you a better body and it will be fixed. Your first woman is going to be so lucky". A lazy voice answered in his mind.
The third prince, Noah was excited. Noah knew that his time to shine had come as any remedy this old man would give him would be better than even what the empire could give to him. He had been with this old man for a year and knew that he viewed the Xyras world's system with heavy contempt. He felt it was a waste of good resources as we waste a lot of resources for the barest minimum result. He looked down on alchemist the most as he felt like they were the biggest trash amongst all.
Noah had to step on the path of the sword to be accepted as a desciple of the old man. Since the old man lived the life of a swordsman he could tell who has a greater aptitude in the way of the sword. Noah wasn't too good so he had to make it up with hard work.
He had to practice slash, thrust and parry thousands of times till his sword started to slice the air. It had to be fluid and streamline with the environment not producing any friction. He also had to train his body to a bare minimum. The old man never told him he could just reconstruct his mortal structure but made him work hard for his glory. He wasn't going to babysit him. Tomorrow they will be entering a dungeon to travel to anther continent to get resourses.