Chapter 1

"98...99....100." "I only have 2 months left till the End of Year assessments but with this pace I'll never get to my fullest potential and compete."

The End of Year assessments were tests that young warriors around the nation would attend to not only be acknowledge by the five royal families but will be hired by one of the families as a knight. This was no ordinary knight but a Gold Ranked Knight. A Gold Ranked Knight was the most noble knight of a specific royal family.

The five families were The Top family, The Crow family, The Robe family, The Bell family and finally The Filer family

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Even though Caspian is a martial artist but the only thing he can do for now is train his physique and build more muscles because his body is too weak to do real martial arts or go a step further and obtain godly arts. There are four types of arts: Miniature arts, Martial arts, Real martial arts, and Godly arts.

"I thought 6 months was enough time for me to cultivate real martial arts and open my 3rd gate of heaven but I'm still in the 1st gate of heaven and I have only cultivated The human stage of martial arts," the lad said as he stood up from his push up position. Luckily he lives alone so no one could distract him while he trains.

He walked out of the house while doing squats to buy groceries. To his surprise he saw a car outside. A Bugatti Chiron Super Sport was parked next to his yard and a beautiful lady stepped out of the car. She wore a dress that embraced her beautiful body exposing her perfect curves. Her hair ran down her back like a waterfall. Her lips were rose red and her teeth were as white as heaven.

Caspian was amused by this lady's beauty and her body. But like any gentleman Caspian kept his words to himself and sustained his urges. "Young man, get in the car," she said as the car's doors automatically opened.

Caspian didn't dare to ask any questions and got in the car immediately.

As the lady was driving, there was an awkward silence in the car. Caspian wanted to ask questions about who the lady was and where he is taking her but that would be too soon.

"You are so quiet Caspian, I didn't think this was how quiet you really are considering what happened yesterday," she said smiling. Caspian was confused.

"What happened yesterday?" He said with a serious face.

The lady was stunned by this question. Does he not remember.

"Oh you don't remember, you comforted me after me and my boyfriend broke up and bought me a bottle of wine. But I got drunk and woke up this morning thinking I should pay you back the offer and give you free dinner too," she said with another brighter smile.

Caspian didn't even remember who the lady was and was wondering how he got home last night. He must have drunk a lot of beer last night. But he did here the lady say she was going to offer him lunch so he already knew where they were going

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"Could I ask Caspian, why did you keep on shouting you had to be stronger?"

"Oh I said that, I must have been drunk,"

Caspian smiled showing that he had nothing to hide. He was actually lying. For 6 months he had been training for the End of Year assessments. He once even fought with two King sized Scorpions. Fighting one scorpion is one thing but fighting 2 King sized Scorpions was a death wish.

If there was no one in the desert, he would have died due to lung failure and scorpion venom. Caspian was not always weak, he was actually a very strong warrior and had cultivated Real Martial Arts without even opening the 3rd gate of heaven. Some would even call him a genius of this generation. Although cultivating Real Martial Arts without opening the third gate is a huge risk, it was not impossible.

There were two ways to do this, the first one is instead of using normal qi, use A graded Qi which is not only faster, but is also going to improve you muscle development. The second one is by eating three medicinal pills everyday. Caspian did the first one but unfortunately it cost his right harm a lot of damage so he had to stop using Martial Arts for a month.

Two months of progress came to waste and the more he rested, he became weaker. It's like having a six pack, you work really hard to get it but one wrong move or you rest for a day or two, it just disappears and you'll have to restart your progress.

"We are here,"

"So you're from the Crow family,"

"Yes, I already told you yesterday, I am of royal blood and the daughter of the Crow family, Pubby Crow"

Caspian was stunned by the enormous palace Infront of them. It was his first time seeing the Crow palace. It was truly a magnificent sight. "I have to change first so feel welcome to get into the palace," Pubby said as she walked near the entrance.

Just as Caspian was about to follow her, he reacted fast. "Oh you go on ahead I'll wait for you outside." The lady didn't bother asking why and just nodded.

"That was close if I hadn't said anything, my identity would have been found out," he said. It was true because the Crow palace was very big and there were many people so the chances of him being found out were high.

"Hey young man, you look lost, would you consider buying the Martial Way by Hank Filer?" a bookshop owner called out to Caspian.

Caspian just shook his head and looked forward. He wasn't interested in buying the book as it was a waste of money. He has read it once and was disappointed by the knowledge.

"You look like a strong warrior, why don't you come over here and read books. And since I believe you are very strong, you can get one book free,"

"Fine then if you insist," Caspian looked like he was not interested but actually he was. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Anyway the only money he had was grocery money so the bookshop owner had helped him alot.