A handsome man with long red hair took a sip of black tea, savoring its aroma.
He was wearing black leather gloves with strange patterns engraved on them.
Moreover, unlike ordinary knights, he was dressed in a black uniform and leather coat, and carried a sword, but it symbolized only one thing.
A full knight of the Draker family.
Among them, the most noble class is the pureblood dragon slayer.
Abel Draker, the second of five direct descendants of the Draker family, put down his cup of tea with a satisfied expression.
"The black tea smells good."
He was a knight nicknamed 'Lion Sword' who roamed the battlefield with his long red hair that looked like a mane.
At Abel Drake's relaxed appearance, his cousin William Siemens, sitting across from him, let out a small sigh.
"Abel, are you enjoying some tea now?"
He looked serious as he read the news his brother Owen had delivered from the cradle.
"Zeke, are you not bothered by the news that that guy beat Rayna Tourn?"
Abel put down his tea and smiled.
"William, you are always so serious."
Abel, who had said so, asked William with a leisurely expression.
"Isn't there much time left until this year's blessing ceremony?"
William nodded.
"Yeah. A month later."
Abel got up from his seat with a snicker.
He stood by the window and looked down at the scenery outside.
The scenery outside the window was completely different from that inside the spacious room.
The whole place was on fire and people were screaming.
Meanwhile, the knights took prisoners, beheaded them, and threw their bodies into a pit.
Even as he watched the scene of the Abigail incident, Abel's face remained calm.
He opened his mouth slowly.
"I guess I should go to my parents' house for the first time in a while."
Abel continued.
"I wonder what kind of awakening our youngest will have."
* * *
Swish! Swish!
Zeke was swinging a claymore in his individual training room.
Horizontally and vertically.
After the end-of-year evaluation, Zeke spent a month focusing only on the basics, to the point of boredom.
After defeating Reina and causing a huge shock to the entire cradle, he himself went into the training room and devoted himself solely to swordsmanship training.
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"Phew… … ."
After the ten thousand swings, Zeke wiped the sweat off with a towel.
Over the course of a month, Zeke's body had grown beyond recognition.
He was also more than five centimeters taller, and had pebble-like muscles all over his body.
It was the result of repeated hellish training that tormented the body and then restored it through healing.
"Phew."
"Zeke said, exhaling.
"Open status window"
Active Skills: Stab Vital Points [E-Class (Expert)] / Consecutive Slashes [D-Class (Beginner)] / One-Hit Kill [D-Class (Expert)] / Breaking News [D-Class (Expert)]
"Hmm… … ."
While practicing swordsmanship, when the slashing skill surpassed the expert level, it changed to continuous slashing.
Consecutive strikes were a higher level skill with higher accuracy than slashing.
'I still don't know why I'm the only one seeing this.'
Zig shook his head as a thought occurred to him while looking at the status window. For now, he could only guess that it had something to do with the ancient artifact he had found in his past life.
In order to get to the Ice Mountains where the ancient relics were hidden, you had to be at least Blue Knight level, so there was no information at all about this status window at the moment.
Zik focused on karma points.
I wondered if defeating monsters with magical powers and earning points would help me learn more about the system.
'First of all, it's important to find your original skills.'
dripping!
Someone knocked on the door of the private training room.
"Come in."
Decker came in.
"Your Majesty, we are leaving in two hours."
Zick nodded and said.
"Okay. I'll be out soon, so get ready."
* * *
Doo doo doo doo!
The carriages carrying the Cradle's trainees began to move, escorted by the knights of House Draker.
The carriage had the family crest engraved on it.
The cradle was located within the realm of the Dragon's Nest, where the Draker family's main home was located.
The Dragon's Nest had great symbolic significance as it was where the Draker family began.
However, since the Duchy of Troy, where the main family was located, was located to the west of the continent, the actual center of the family, the Four Seasons Castle, was located in Midland, the center of the continent.
One of the reasons the Draker family's main house had such important symbolism was none other than the 'blessing ceremony'.
And for the 'blessing ceremony', the carriage carrying the trainees quickly headed to the home of the dragon slayers.
thud!
The trainees who got off the carriage were all wearing black robes bearing the Draker family crest.
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Zeke also got out of the carriage.
'It's been a while.'
Zeke toured the central building of the main house, commonly known as the 'Lair', which had been preserved for a thousand years.
The legend of the Dragon Slayer began here, where the progenitor Terracan was said to have been born and raised.
The trainees moved to the hall where the blessing ceremony was to take place.
Kookookookook!
The door opened and a huge hall appeared.
On the central wall of the hall was a painting of the founder Terracan Draker, chaining the neck of the evil dragon Bahamut and striking it down with his sword.
Inside the hall, the knights and vassals of the family were already waiting for the trainees in their uniforms.
They were the parents or family members of practitioners who came to see the blessing ceremony.
Zeke looked around at everyone in the back of the hall.
'There are more unfamiliar faces than familiar ones.'
In fact, in my previous life, I had never seen the Drake Knights in person because I was kicked out of my family when I was fifteen.
Rather, I found myself more often encountering issues regarding the Draker family through newsletters while wandering the continent.
Perhaps among them were those who served as informants for the direct Drakes who were competing for the next position.
'Well, if they find out I can't wake up, they'll fall off right away.'
At that time, there was one person who caught Zeke's eye.
A red-haired man wearing a uniform of a different type from the others and wearing leather gloves on his hands.
When he saw the man, Zeke's heart sank and pounded.
'Why is that guy here… …?'
Abel Draker was the second of Draker's direct blood relatives.
Abel felt Zeke's gaze on him, turned his gaze to look at him, and smiled.
A genius among geniuses who was promoted to the youngest Blue Knight at the age of 10 years ago.
The supernova that was shaking the continent under the alias of Lion Sword had come here in person.
Zeke swallowed as he looked at Abel.
'The Lion's Sword. No, the Knight of Slaughter... ... .'
The Abel Draker I saw in my previous life was a person who brought great chaos to not only the Draker family but also the continent.
Zeke looked at Abel and became nervous.
'Abel definitely didn't come here in his previous life. So... ... it means that the future changed because of me.'
It was a small change, but something was definitely different from my previous life.
Then Van Mark appeared, dressed in his family's livery.
"The blessing ceremony will begin soon!"
At Pan's shout, everyone in the hall retreated towards the wall.
Then the servants behind them brought something to the center of the hall.
Ddddddd!
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Something huge, covered in cloth, was placed in the center.
At Pan's beckoning, the attendants removed the cloth.
Even though Zeke knew what it was, his eyes shook when he actually saw it.
'I can't believe I'm seeing that damn thing again.'
In the center of the hall was a huge bronze statue of a man in armor holding a sword.
It was a sword used in the blessing ceremony of the Draker family.
Pan called out the names in front of the swordsman.
"Aaron. Come forward."
The tall boy at the front of the children stood in front of the sword statue.
Aaron looked up at the sword statue nervously.
Then he slowly knelt down on one knee and put his hand into the bowl of water placed under the sword.
The sharp needle under the water bowl touched my palm.
Wooooow!
The surface of the water shook as the blood flowing from the needle spread thinly.
At the same time, light began to shine from the bowl and the sword statue began to shake violently.
Kurrururur!
Within a moment, a bluish light rose from the sword.
Aaron's body was also enveloped in blue energy.
It was a sign that the blessing ceremony had been successful and that Aura had awakened.
The bloodline of the Draker family awakens as an Auror at the age of twelve with the blessing of the Auror.
Considering that knights of ordinary families would have to wait a year or so to awaken their Auras, this was incredibly fast.
So with this Auror blessing, the Draker family was able to produce strong knights faster than any other family on the continent.
Starting with Aaron, the other trainees also received Aura's blessing in front of the sword statue.
"Next, Reina. Come forward."
It was Reina's turn, and she too stepped forward to the swordsman and put her hand into the bowl of water.
Kurrururur!
As expected, a blue light rose from the sword of the swordsman.
It was a natural result, since Reina had already awakened her aura and opened up her lower abdomen.
That was when.
Wooooow!
The blue light burned more intensely.
Then soon the light turned red.
At the same time, exclamations erupted from the onlookers.
"Red light! Pureblood awakening!"
Reina's body was enveloped in red light.
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The pureblood awakening that only a few of the Draker bloodlines had was like a guarantee check that they could grow to be a Blue Knight or higher.
Additionally, pureblood awakeners were granted special abilities.
Support support support!
With Reina's awakening, the magic lights in the hall blinked.
It was due to the influence of 'magic interference', a characteristic of the pureblood dragon slayer bloodline.
"Bring me gloves!"
At the order of the board, the attendants brought temporary gloves to Reina.
The flickering disappeared when Reina put on her gloves.
All the observers and trainees in the hall looked at Reina in awe.
Reyna Turn can now go by the name Reyna Drake.
Because he had proven himself to be a pureblood Draker.
As Reina finished awakening and stepped back from the sword statue, Pan shouted.
"Next! Zeke!"
Finally, it was Zeke's turn.
Everyone in the hall focused their attention on Zeke.
The youngest son of Arthur Draker, the current head of the family and one of the strongest men on the continent.
Statistically, pureblood awakenings are more likely to come from direct lineage heads of houses that use the Draker name.
All the onlookers focused their attention on Zig, who was standing in front of the sword statue.
'I never thought I'd be standing here again.'
The terrible memories from before the regression kept creeping up.
Zeke knelt down and slowly put his hand into the bowl of water.
A sharp needle pricked his palm.
Blood spread out into the water bowl.
'Phew... ... '
Everyone in the hall looked tense and focused on the swordsman.
Ddddddd!
Soon, a vibration rang out from the swordsman.
If the blessing ritual was successful, a blue light would come out of the sword.
But then something unbelievable happened.
thud!
The light did not come out of the sword and the vibration just stopped.
'shit....'
Anyone who is a member of the Draker bloodline will receive the blessing of the Auror. The onlookers were puzzled by the strange phenomenon that occurred for the first time, where the vibrations stopped without any reaction, and they just watched the swordsman's reaction.
But Zeke had been in this situation in a previous life.
I changed my palm and did the ritual again, but again, the blue light did not come out.
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'Is this life the same?'
There was a glimmer of anticipation that it might be different from my previous life.
But this time, as expected, the swordsman did not accept him.
'Fuck. Well, it doesn't matter. There are plenty of ways to get stronger without having to awaken your Aura or anything.'
It was when Zeke tried to pull his hand out of the bowl, pushing away the bitterness.
Wooooow!
Suddenly, the swordsman started to vibrate in a different way than usual.
At the same time, letters appeared in Zeke's eyes.
[The information required for class identification has been found to be missing from the identification terminal.] [Enter class information into the terminal with the authority of the system.]
'what's this?'
The management system that was visible only to the eyes of the swordsman and Zeke was linked.
Wooooow!
The entire swordsmanship statue began to vibrate even more violently.
[Entering class identification information has been completed.]
Suddenly, light came into the swordsman's eyes.
The onlookers who were watching this once again looked puzzled at the unprecedented phenomenon that had unfolded.
[The terminal has identified the user's talent as 'Healer'.] [It has been confirmed that the class has already been opened.] [The acquired class has been identified as a rare class.]
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A red light shone from the sword on the swordsman's sword.
'Red?'
The red glow on the Draker's sword signified the awakening of a pureblood.
Usually it comes out blue and changes to red, but this was the first time it came out red from the beginning.
The onlookers were in an uproar at the sight of the red glow of the sword.
And at that moment, new letters appeared before Zeke's eyes.