Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 51

Chapter 51: What!?
Meanwhile, even Diluc himself shows an odd expression on his face, not that of shock and surprise but rather of distress as there really isn’t any way for him to conceal some of this, as it is even stated by the Dragon Herding System.

[While you, as the Ruler of the Draconic Realm must also be a shrewd and smart individual who must learn to always have a hidden dagger on your pocket, there is a minimum amount of talent that you must show in order for you to be respected or at the very least, avoid being disrespected by just any insignificant creature]

Seeing the words on the floating gray screen in front of him, Diluc couldn’t help but wryly smile to himself despite the fact that he understands the Dragon Herding System’s take on this situation, in fact, he truly thinks of the same way as it, however;

‘You call this minimum amount of talent?’ he asks helplessly as this system and him appears to have a completely different concept of minimum talent, this grandiose show of the light of his sphere flooding the entire hall with its brightness something that never in his life until now thinks of as something ‘minimum’.

[You should get more and more used to this kind of attention, as it will only get worse the higher you climb, since you’re just going to get more and more absurd from the blessings of the dragons about to be born in the Draconic Realm]

‘Whatever, the die is already cast, now all I need to do is to deal with the consequences of this action’ Diluc surrendered as he thinks that there’s no way he’s about to win an argument with this seemingly omniscient system, who ever so often only say things that he needs to know.

After this, there’s no longer a reply from the floating gray screen that completely disappears from his vision already.

On the other hand, the beast kin lady that is still trying to get an accurate reading on his mana also has a mental battle happening in her own mind, one part of her screaming that she should strike a connection with this kind of talent, while another part of her reasoning that this kind of genius might be the kind of people who are way too unreachable even for her.

In the end, she decided to keep it professional by not introducing her name to him, yet still striking some conversations as if to calm his mind down just in case he is already panicking inside, an assumption that is somehow true, but not because of the reason she thinks of.

“Quite impressive, aren’t you? There seems to be no one who can match your mana yet, well, at the very least compared to the young men who goes before you” the beast kin lady said with a smile on her face as she finally gets a reading of the young man’s mana, something that made her astonished and doubtful as never in her life did she saw something like this, urging her to find a superior to report about this just in case other examiners from the succeeding trials not pay attention to this gem in the rough.

“Thanks for the compliment, how did I do?” as the light from the sphere starts to recede back into where it comes from, Diluc then smiles as he asks towards the beast kin examiner, despite already knowing what the outcome of this trial is for him.

“Do I even need to clarify?” the examiner said with a wry smile on her face as she points towards the exit of the hall specifically for the ones who passed this trial, urging the young man to move himself there and wait for everyone to finish their turn, turn that they need to repeat given that the light from his test completely drown theirs.

“Everyone except for number 1455 passed” the very same beast kin lady who stands as the examiner for Diluc announces across the crowd, making the one she mentioned feel a bit embarrassed as he is the only one who fails to pass among the group of people who takes this part of the entrance exam with him.

After being guided towards the exit of the hall, the other young men who takes this trial at the same time couldn’t help but feel curious at this emperor-like young man exuding the aura of a ruler around him, someone who seems so inapproachable for them given that they barely passed this part of the entrance exam.

Meanwhile, back on the examination site, the beast kin lady couldn’t help but walk around in circles as she waits for someone to arrive, finally stopping her circling around as she saw someone emerging from the shadows, someone with an appearance way to familiar with her.

“Aeonia, what took you so long?” looking at the face of the figure who just emerges from the shadow, a figure that bears extreme resemblance to hers, save for the fact that this figure’s cat-like features are black unlike her white ones, the beast kin examiner asked as she hands a paper towards this lady from the shadows.

“Aeolia, I was telling the others to keep closer eyes on him…” the lady cloaked in the shadows replied with a bit of a helpless voice seemingly more familial rather than the respectful one she uses when talking with the white-haired youthful beauty of a principal of this academy, smiling at the beast kin examiner as she asks another question all while taking a look at the paper handed to her.

“How’s the data?” asking while she starts reading about the basic information about this young man, the lady hidden in the shadows couldn’t help but feel shocked as she heard from this beast kin examiner, her close family, her twin sister, the level of mana measured from the emperor-like young man who just takes the exam previously.

“Five stars…” the beast kin examiner said with a shaking voice still filled with disbelief, as this is a fact that could quite possibly send the entire kingdom into shock, and the fact that she is one of the only few who are privy of it made her feel somehow vulnerable given how great of an information this is.

“That’s… absurd… did you check it properly?” listening to her twin sister’s words, the lady hiding in the shadow, Aeonia, asks with an expression with apparent disbelief from the incredulous fact that she just read from the report of her twin sister.

“Thrice, and the results are more consistent than even those geniuses who tries their best to exert themselves during this process…” the beast kin examiner, Aeolia, said with a wry smile on her face as she points this fact out, causing her twin sister to concede her disbelief as she knows how attentive this twin sister of hers is, someone who is more than just a reliable source of information given how any piece of news can be branded as either true or false just from her checking it once.

“I better report this to Miss Aria as soon as possible…” Aeonia said with an urgent expression on her face, merely patting her twin sister on the shoulders as a sign of thanks for this information, before she disappears from the shadows once again, making her twin sister shake her head.

“She really come and go with the wind” Aeolia mutters to herself as she comes out of this spot, taking over the staff she leaves to deal with her sphere on the examination stage, thanking the staff for watching over the examination for her before she starts recording the ones taking the trials once again.

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“Miss Aria, here are some information from the second trial…” Aeonia said as she appears on another shadow once again, this time she is situated in a room right a the very top of a tower connected to the main building of the academy, a tower made for the people who take seat as the principal of this school to observe its students directly, most likely as a way for them to comprehend or even just glean into how this entire academy’s students work or not work as a whole.

“I saw it, that was an impressive quality of mana, he should be around the four-star level, right?” with her hands behind her and her head looking down on the hall where the events centered on the young man with an emperor-like bearing occurs, the white-haired, horned beauty replies as she turns around to meet the gaze of this subordinate of hers, who is currently shaking her head as if to correct her claims.

“His mana level is five stars, Miss Aria” the figure said as she reveals herself in order to hand the information she received from her sister to the white-haired youthful beauty, said beauty’s eyes couldn’t help but widen as she reads through the information noted on this piece of paper.

“What!?”