The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Rein and the head master both were a bit surprised and then with a doting smile on his face, the headmaster asked the girl named Lopastis why was not sulking. In answer she puffed up her chicks even more and said that the headmaster was a liar and she would not talk with him again.

Hearing this the headmaster was devastated and pitifully started to coax the little girl to forgive him. This was quite a pathetic sight and all the dignity that the headmaster had was gone with this incident.

But still Rein felt a little bad after seeing the headmaster almost on his knees so he decided to help him out a little bit. Rein started to talk with the little girl in order to learn more about the situation. At first she tried to ignore Rein but Rein was able to quickly understand her personality so after just a few minutes, he was able to open Lopastis' heart and made her a good friend.

After becoming friends, Lopastis told Rein that today she also awakened as a mage and had her talents appraised just a little bit before Rein. Lopastis had actually hoped to have a legendary talent but that turned out to not be the case. She did have two Affinities and both were rare ones. And the talent that she had was also strong. But even then Lopas was dissatisfied with it as they were not as strong as any abilities mentioned in the legends.
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Hearing this Rein asked her about her abilities and Lopas did not hide anything from her new friend. She told him that she had the Affinities of "Sky" and "Gold" while her talent was called "Embrace" that allowed her to easily analyse even the most complex magic formulas.

After hearing about her abilities Rein first asked him if anyone from the legends even had those abilities. After hearing a disappointed no, Rein told her that then Lopas could create her own legend with these abilities for hers. If she already had the abilities from the legends then her own story would just be a knock off.

This line of thinking resonated with Lopas and she immediately became happy. She also became determined to create a legend of her own. Then she apologised to Rein for envying his powerful and legendary talent.

Actually Duke Leonance and the head master were good friends so Lopas was like a granddaughter to even the head master. So when he saw that his cute little grandchild was feeling sad, he told her to observe the other children's Appraisal Ceremony to make her mood better that was why she was sitting in the room.

At first after seeing all people who came after her have worse affinities than her own, Lopas' mood was getting a bit better. But then Rein appeared with his monstrous talent and completely shattered the little girl's ego. That was the reason why Lopas was sulking.

But now that they had become good friends and Lopas had also managed to get a new goal for her life, everything was fine. She even invited Rein to her household to apologise to him formally for her inadequate behaviour. Rein agreed to her invitation and left the academy with his family.

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The news of Rein's talents spread throughout the whole nation in a very short amount of time. Then many people started to approach him with the intention of taking him in. Quite a lot of counts and even a few marquises showed their interest in adopting Rein and were ready to even make him their heir. But Rein had no interest in that and rejected all of them.

Normally a few people would try some high handed methods but the news of Rein being friends with the sweetheart of the Leonance family soon spread and that made many of the unscrupulous people to hold their hands.

But this situation was not all positive for Rein. Leonance family was a powerful ducal family who had been a part of this nation for thousands of years. So in this long long time, they had made quite a few enemies. And Rein joining and strengthening the Leonance family was a very bad thing for these families. So they decided to do the obvious thing and tried to assassinate Rein.

Just like that, even when he was only five years old, Rein already had to start killing people. So most about a month after the appraisal ceremony of Rein, quite a few people of the underworld disappeared from the world out of nowhere.

Rein's Markarm family was also able to gain a massive boost to their reputation with Rein's fame. Even the king was interested in him and decided to give the Viscount a few more villages to show his support. He did not outright increase his rank because at the end of the day Asher Markarm was not really a powerhouse and would not be able to maintain his status if he was made a count.

But the king was definitely planning to give Rein a powerful rank after he had grown up. To show his intent even more clearly, he actually decided to engage one of her daughters with Rein. The engagement ceremony would be performed after Rein was 10 years old but the documentation about it was already done. Rein was not very satisfied with this development but for the time being rejecting the king's goodwill was not a good idea. So he decided to accept it and thought that he would think of a way to get out of this in the five years that he had in his hands.

After all the tasks in the capital were done, Rein decided to return back to his home territory. His father had already returned as he had some important tasks to do so Rein returned back with his mother and the maid. After returning he decided to focus on developing his magic and to understand his Affinities better. He had three years to do this as after turning eight he needed to join the magic academy as a student. For the upcoming three years, Rein was planning to develop himself as much as he could.

That was how the final trial of Rein began.