After living for a few days in the cultivation world, the earthling Lothur gradually felt changes in certain parts of himself that he had never experienced in his previous life.

It was nothing significant until then, but after he began to feel the pleasure of getting stronger, this young man began to feel excited about the idea of fights and the like.

It was as if, little by little, his blood was heating up while a desire for domination surged in the depths of his soul. And with that, his fighting intent was higher than ever.

But this was not only because of the previous beating. No, even after that, his will to fight was not so different from what he would feel if he were on earth.

The worst happened just after these three days of training when he, for hours, fought with a smile on his face against the previous puppet.

And thinking about the three people who had attacked him earlier, this young man could not help but wonder what it would feel like to leave his enemies in the same state they had left him…

Hell, he had even dreamed about it the night before!

But all this was not a pure coincidence or something hidden from the earthling Lothur’s personality. No, such a thing was part of spiritual cultivation, the path to power, something that went far beyond just longing to live longer.

Many began cultivating because they hoped to live longer and earn more money. However, spiritual energy was like an addictive drug; the stronger someone was, the more that person craved power.

And in such a competitive world, power was obtained through domination, which stimulated every cultivator’s competitive side.

This obviously influenced different people in different ways. But it remarkably affected those with a strong mentality and those aware of what power meant.

Lothur did not know it, but he was already beginning to experience these side effects!

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After saying goodbye to Annaliese, Lothur headed towards the amphitheater where he had his geopolitics class.

When he arrived there, he immediately looked in the direction of a beautiful redheaded woman, who did not seem to be in a good mood today.

But even though she was not in her best state, that beauty was still the most graceful of the dozens of women in that area.

“Why are you so serious, Elke? Maybe you missed me on Friday?” He asked with a smile on his face as he stopped facing her.

Hearing that tone of voice loaded with confidence, Elke took her eyes off the book in her left hand and looked at him with a slightly more satisfying look. “Lothur!”

“Why didn’t you come Friday?” Elke wanted to get up to hug him. Still, as she remembered where she was, she restrained herself before showing the whole class her relationship with Lothur.

Lothur smiled as he saw her meaningful look just before sitting down beside her. “That day, I had a little trouble and had to miss the academy.”

“But don’t worry, I will soon compensate you for my absence…” He brought his face closer to her left ear and said softly. “I know you must have been longing to see me.”

Gulp!

She looked at him in silence, realizing that he seemed to understand her desires very well. ‘Am I that obvious?’ 𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗹．𝐨𝗿𝗴

“In any case, we must be careful about where we do our things.” He winked at her as he smiled discreetly.

“That makes sense…” She once again thought about how to get a place in the academy dorm, something that could make things tremendously easier for them.

‘He said before that he couldn’t get a place in the dorm, but I definitely can!’

‘I’ll tell my family that I need a private place to rest while I’m here. So, I should be able to get that in a few days.’ She smiled but said nothing to Lothur so she could surprise him later.

But as the two stood there talking in low voices, with flirtatious looks on their faces, suddenly a group of half a dozen young people stopped in front of them.

All of these people appeared to be under the age of 15, brats in Lothur’s view.

However, as much as this young man did not give a damn about the children of this class, he soon noticed the black-haired young man who was his target leading this group.

The black-haired young man then looked at Lothur with an expression of disgust and anger on his face and said. “Lothur Ritter, I challenge you to a duel!”

After this was said, the voices in the surroundings quickly diminished, as Elke and Lothur finally lost their good humor from before to look at that person.

“And who are you?” Lothur asked calmly, looking at the black-haired young man as if he had never seen such a person.

“What?”

“He doesn’t know the young master?”

“That bastard can only be trying to piss us off!” That young man’s minions brandished in fury as they demonstrated their willingness to smash Lothur’s face.

But that person was determined to personally humiliate Lothur, preferably in front of Elke, just to get rid of the hatred in his heart.

“Tsk!”

“My name is Alric Baier.” The black-haired young man said this as he looked coldly at Lothur, confident that he could handle this jerk now that he had advanced to 2nd Transformation.

“I never thought that the good-for-nothing of the Frost family would join our academy. Furthermore, he would flirt with other women even though he is married to the First Miss Frost.” Alric said this with a smile, throwing the truth about Lothur in Elke’s face so that such a woman would wake up and stop her game with him.

Alric did not understand what was wrong with Elke for her to be attracted to trash like Lothur. But if she were so weak that she could not choose with whom she hung out, he would do it for her.

‘We will be engaged soon, so I have to take the reins of the relationship right away!’ He pondered this, thinking about the conversations that were occurring between his Baier family and House Becker.

With that in mind, he threw the truth about Lothur in that woman’s face, wanting to humiliate Lothur in a fight for the whole class to see how he would smash this poor fellow’s face.

And upon hearing Alric’s comment, Elke looked doubtfully at Lothur, in disbelief that this was the good-for-nothing son-in-law of the Frost family.

‘It can’t be!’

‘Lothur is such a confident and intelligent person!’

‘That is false!’ She bit her lower lip and rose from her chair.

“Alric, stop bothering us!”

“Lothur has just entered the academy, and you want to challenge him? What is your real purpose here?” She yelled at that person while Lothur remained in his chair, watching her with interest.

“Elke, this is between me and that incompetent.”

“Lothur, don’t tell me you’re going to chicken out and stand on a woman’s wings? Don’t tell me you’re such a pussy?” He said for the whole class to hear, mocking Lothur’s honor.

But upon hearing that, Lothur was not bothered at all. ‘Looks like it was truly you, huh?’ And noticing that young man’s casual glances at Elke, it was not hard for the silver-haired man to understand it all.

‘Hehe, looks like you’re a loser who saw the girl you like being dominated by another, huh?’

‘Pathetic!’

‘But I won’t fight you on your terms. That would only show my strength to the whole academy and create reasonable justification for your family to act against me openly.’ So he thought about it as he listened to Elke defending him.

‘I would rather take my revenge on you in my own way when I find it most convenient.’

“Lothur, fight me!”

“If you lose, you will swear that never come near Elke again.”

“I am not interested in your suggestion.” Then, Lothur commented something. “I have no interest in a pathetic little show from a desperate person.”

“I loathe people of your kind.”

Upon hearing Lothur’s calm words, each of those young men in Alric’s group looked at him with a desire to strangle him.

‘It seems there are only losers in this class.’ Lothur smiled at them as he stood.

But as they stood in that tense position for a few moments, Elke finally lost her patience and said. “If you want to fight someone, then I will do it in his place, Alric!”

“Lothur is my friend, and I will not let you threaten him so freely!”