A year had passed after Sebastian and his friends had been rescued by Jack Goldburn, and they've made very impressive progress during the year. Each child had awoken their aura, which were relative to their magical powers and they've achieved many breakthroughs.
Though Sebastian's friends made many breakthroughs and finally unlocked their auras. Sebastian made further progress and surpassed Jack's expectation of him. His strength was able to rival all the kids combined and win against them all. Though a problem had arisen within Sebastian.
The problem had arisen in Sebastian's personality, which made himself abusive towards his other friends because of their weaknesses including their feeble strength compared to his strength. Slowly over the course of the year, Sebastian developed a strong sense of superiority over his friends and mixed with his short temper, he always lashed out at them violently with the slightest provocation. This caused Sebastian to have a cruel, deeply brutal, sadistic, and prideful personality.
Even Jack found it hard to believe Sebastian's personality was changing suddenly and found it hard to be reasonable with him. When the clan leader visited, Sebastian tried to fight him but lost in the end, not surprising, and the clan leader was angered by it. Thus causing Jack and the clan leader to have a discussion about it until the clan leader was too angry to discuss further.
Finally, there was a fight between Sebastian and all of his friends. Jack allowed the fight to continue so it would show Sebastion wasn't superior to them but the fight ended with Sebastian winning, which surprised Jack because there were twenty of them against Sebastion.
This brings it to the end of year, when Jack accepted another student and changed the group of friends forever.
"Everyone, I want you to meet my new disciple! He's a part of the royal family and a prodigy like the rest of you! And Sebastian, don't you even think of attacking him." Jack spoke.
Sebastian smirked and released his aura on the newcomer. This action made him to giggle internally as he pictured the newcomer on his knees begging but that didn't happen. The newcomer surprised everyone by releasing his own aura, which was on par with Sebastian's aura.
Everyone knew the newcomer would be defeated as Sebastian had defeated all of them but found it interesting that someone's aura was on par with Sebastian. Jack, on the other hand, thought Sebastian found his match as the newcomer was similar to him but he was only weaker to him by a few
"I heard you're the strongest amongst everyone here. Let's hope that's true." The newcomer spoke.
Sebastian disappeared from his spot and appeared behind the newcomer, which surprised him. Within seconds, the newcomer was on the ground, coughing up blood and bleeding simultaneously.
'What just happened?!' The newcomer thought internally.
"Sebastian! Didn't I tell you not to do that!" Jack shouted in anger as he healed the newcomer.
'Damn it! I thought he would be able to beat Sebastian!'
"I've heard about you, prince. You possess a very rare magical power called 'Space magic' and you're able to manipulate space around you and slow attacks that are aimed at you. Though it uses a lot of mana so you rarely use it even with your innate ability to process mana very efficiently." Sebastian said, walking away
Upon further inspection, Jack realized multiple stab wounds on the newcomer's body, including a stab wound through their chest. Jack yelled for a healer and chased after Sebastian, who went into the colosseum of beasts.
"Sebastian! What were you thinking?! Using lethal force on royalty?! Even with my position, I wouldn't be able to save you from execution!"
Sebastian ignored Jack and rushed toward a magical beast that was surprised by his speed, and before the beast knew what happened, it died. Sebastian began to eat the corpse while Jack continued to berate him until he walked away.
"You know, you got to learn how to hold back otherwise people will know how to counter you." A boy walked in.
"With my strength? No one can stand up to me, even with magical powers." Sebastian replied, arrogantly.
"That newcomer, I think you gave him a fright for his life." The boy laughed.
"I'm surprised you even still associate yourself with me, Baron."
"I'll go through hell and back for you."
"Keep watch on his progression for me"
"Will do!" Baron saluted.
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Next Day
Everyone was lined up in the cafeteria and stood to the side as Sebastian made his way down the line until he arrived at someone, who stood in his path.
"It seems like we met on the wrong tone. My name is Lycaon Gevaudan of the royal family and I'm the youngest of the bunch." Lycaon put his hand out
Sebastian's response was an attempt to slam Lycaon's head into the wall but before his hand could reach Lycoan's head, it slowed down.
"You think I would allow you to do that?" Lycaon said with arrogance.
"Huh!?" Sebastian replied with anger.
Sebastian released his killing intent on Lycaon's body, which caused Lycaon's mind to shut off and pass out standing. Sebastian's hand went full force and slammed his head in the wall, and caused his head to bleed.
Before Sebastian could slam his head into the wall again, Jack appeared and slapped Sebastian into a different wall across from the cafeteria. Everyone was surprised as Jack had finally interfered with Sebastian's abuse.
"That's enough! Sebastian, I'm giving you to that man so you can finally change your attitude!" Jack shouted.
Before Sebastian could refute, he disappeared and reappeared in the middle of a forest. Looking around, Sebastian was able to sense an incoming beast and feeling its presence, he could tell it was a higher ranking than him.
Rushing away, he arrived at the cave and special writing could be seen on the cave's walls including special pictures. Looking closer, Sebastian found that the pictures and writings were instructions on new skills.
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Back at Jack's Mansion
"Sir Jack, did you really send him to a person that can change his personality?" Baron made worries known.
"Yes, but that man that resides there will gladly fix him ." Jack responded.
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Back to Sebastian
"Who the hell are you?!" A mysterious man asked.
"Who's asking?!" Sebastian replied.
"Oooh~ Someone has some spunk to talk back to me."
The man made the first move and charged forward with a crazed grin on his face. Sebastian, realizing the man had gone mad, reacted by releasing everything in his arsenal.
Soon, the man collapsed on the ground and struggled to stand, which made Sebastian think he had won but the man stood up with a grin. Baffled, Sebastian was impressed by the man's endurance and strength and when he felt his presence, he noticed that this man held a strong presence.
"You think that works against me?!"
Bang!
Before Sebastian could react, the man's fist connected with Sebastian's jaw and flung him back into a stone wall. To make matters worse, the man released his magical power and caused the forest behind to ignite into flames.
"You love the thrill of fighting?" Sebastian asked.
"Love it?! I live for it!" The man replied, excited.
"One-on-one! No magical powers!" Sebastian rushed forward while his fist was coated in a red aura.
"You got yourself a deal!"
The clash between two caused the ground and the surrounding area to shatter while magical beasts were watching. Obviously, Sebastian was losing in terms of strength but continued to fight and slowly realized that the man was holding back by a lot.
They continued until a magical beast made its approach to them and looking toward the beast, it was an Ice Ape. Smiling, Sebastian slammed his fist into the beast but the beast didn't budge.
"You call that a punch? This is a real punch!" The man slammed his fist into the beast, which sent the beast flying away.
Flash!
The strange flash of red aura intrigued Sebastian as it was the exact same move as the one on the wall in the cave.
"That cave you saw held secrets to many different techniques and powerful ones, including Aura Strike"
"Aura Strike?"
"The punch I did was an Aura Strike and you saw the damage it caused."
Sebastian replayed the man's punch in his head and realized he had an aura but his aura was weak and fragile. He kept replaying the memory over and over until he found out how to recreate the skill.
The man applied his aura within the smallest nanosecond and caused an explosive punch to release a blue flash but it changes colors based on the aura color.
Grinning, Sebastian attempted the skill on the man and successfully landed the skill on the man. With not enough time to dodge, the man was hit and found himself slamming through multiple trees.
"You're a prodigy!" The man said, excitedly.
"I am the best!" The arrogance oozed off of Sebastian.
"That arrogance… I see why he sent you here."