After Greyson finished speaking with Teacher Vivienne, he imdiately walked back to his dorm instead of his patient room. He didn't feel anything major wrong with his body as he was walking around so he did not want to feel confined inside his bed by going back. Once he opened the door to his room, he saw that Lyle was not in and though that his roommate must still be at the barracks training. A lot of the trainee soldiers would practice until late and Lyle would co back almost dragging his body back from exhaustion. A little disappointed, he walked over to the ditation room. He wanted advance as quickly as possible so he felt impatient to start practicing. Once he sat down and cald down, Greyson realized sothing was very wrong with the amount of mana he was absorbing. Looking inside himself, he saw his mana channels were larger and more mana was flowing inside them than before. Thinking of a possibility, Greyson's eyes lit up and he quickly summoned Zephyr to confirm. The silver dragon quickly filled the entire room with his humongous body. His eyes widening in disbelief, Greyson knew what was going on. He had broken through to the advanced level! But when had it happened? How could he have broken through? Was it in his sleep? However, he should have only been subconsciously absorbing enough mana to keep him alive and not enough to help him break the barrier twice from the interdiate level stage five to the advanced level stage one.
Zephyr who used to be only the size of maybe Greyson's arm after a little growing during the interdiate level was now half way to his full size with larger wings. Greyson felt excited looking at his beast's more corporeal body and his new size. This all ant that Greyson could fly on top of Zephyr now and travel much faster! He had not been able to fly since that ti he ca to the Academy City with Teacher Harrison.
However, after his initial excitent faded, Greyson finally starting to think harder about his breakthrough. He knew it had to be related to that night's occurrences. His mory was spotty about that night and all he could rember was that burning sensation that went throughout his body before he blacked out. What had Lucius said again? It looked like a beast had attacked the old man and his servants. Beast...
"Wait!..." Just like sothing clicking together, Greyson went back to the day he broke through to the interdiate level. Didn't his Teacher Elendil claim that he had another bloodline other than his elf bloodline? He said he must have a dragon bloodline as well because only then would he be able to have a dragon partner beast. Red flashes of mories started running before his eyes when silver scales and claws started growing on his hands before. Clutching his head in pain, Greyson started to faintly rember the scenes from the basent. What was happening to him? Now he knew he was too distracted to get into the right ntality for ditation, so he made up his mind to et with Teacher Elendil tomorrow and ask him if he knows what is occurring.
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Bursting with impatience, Greyson could barely fall asleep until his body's exhaustion won over his busy thoughts. He quickly awoke once morning hit and ran out of the dorms to the Water Departnt Hall first thing. Teacher Elendil was always one to get up exactly on ti and early so Greyson was not worried that he would not be at the office yet. Nearly running over, he made his way to the office in record ti and burst into the room forgetting to knock.
Elendil had gotten to the office early as usual and started organizing paperwork for the day only for his office door to burst open suddenly. Annoyance welled up as mostly everyone knew that he loved his peaceful morning. However, before he started reprimanding, he got a good look of the face of the little body standing before him. A rare change of expression occurred on his ice face as his eyes widened in surprise. A smile was a little too much for him, but his eyes still expressed his relief and happiness.
"Greyson, how unusual for you to be in such a hurry. What is the problem? When did you get up?" Recovering his usual calm, Elendil evenly asked his questions.
"Ah, I apologize for the lack of manners. I actually woke up two days ago, I just had to deal with so things before I got up to move around. I did have an issue bothering since I woke up so I wanted to co first thing today to ask you about it." Greyson suddenly realized he had just rudely barged in so he first apologized before answering the other questions. Elendil's eyebrows slightly furrowed hearing his student's answer, but since Greyson did not divulge to him first then he was not the type to dig for answers. It seed like Greyson had dealt with whatever was bothering him by himself anyway, so he just let it go without asking.
"What seems to be the issue?"
"Teacher, you had said when I broke through to the interdiate level that I should have a partial dragon bloodline, correct? That's the reason for the strange dragon mark on my face and the fact that Zephyr is a dragon." Greyson began.
"Hm? Well, yes, this should be the case."
"Then, could I sohow awaken this bloodline and cause changes to occur within ? I slightly rember what happened that night. I think I really was the one who...kill... killed... those n. I rember getting furious with what happened and my vision going red while my blood boiled. Then silver scales and claws grew on my hands. I even broke through to the advanced level stage one. I found this out yesterday when I tried ditating." Greyson couldn't help but still pause when he ntioned killing those people. As terrible as they were, it still shook him that he hand killed people so violently.
"Is this really what occurred? Release your mana for to see." Elendil looked surprised before making this request of Greyson. Nodding, Greyson released his mana for his teacher to analyze. The atmosphere of the room changed as mana surged out from Greyson.
"A seven-year-old advanced level?" Elendil blanked for a mont. Even his usual unflappable self couldn't quite easily accept the current situation. Struggling to retrieve his composure, he breathed in before continuing to answer his student.
"This definitely could occur. Your dragon bloodline must be much more concentrated than we previously believed. One of your grandparents or parents must have been a full dragon. As long as you inherited enough from them, then eventually you could transform more of your body to that dragon state. It's a good sign for your physical strength because dragons have unimaginably tough bodies so when your in that transformation state your strength and defense will probably increase exponentially. You breaking through to the advanced level would then not be surprising because you are awakening the talent within your bloodline. Dragons are rare and they have difficulties giving birth, but they are blessed with natural talent. Can you consciously transform your hands?"
"No, I tried a little last night after I rembered, but I couldn't transform again."
"Hm... Maybe you have not fully awakened then? That state was only released due to your emotional state at the ti. I will bring this up to the principal as well. He knows more about bloodlines than I do."
"The principal?"
"Yes. You would not be able to tell since he is always disguised, but he is slightly similar to you. He is half-elf. His life had not been easy because of this, so he normally does not show anyone his original looks. If I ask him about your situation, he will probably understand more than ." Elendil did not go into specifics, but Greyson could understand the gist of the situation. He knew that he got weird looks because of his hair color, too. Although he was not really the type to mind what others said about him, even he could not help but feel uncomfortable and bothered by their blatant stares and whispered insults. Listening to his teacher talk about the principal's disguise, Greyson was reminded of another thing he wanted to do.
"Teacher, is there a disguise spell you know of. Or maybe the principal knows?"
"Disguise? Are there people discriminating you, as well?" Elendil's expression suddenly sank and surprising anger could be seen in his eyes. Greyson blinked in surprise with his teacher's aggressive, but responded normally.
"Well to say no would be a lie... But that's not why... I don't really care about what others say about , I'm not socially adept enough to be concerned about how other perceive honestly." He was speaking the truth. It bothered him to about the equivalent of an annoying fly buzzing around him, but not enough to make him want to do sothing about it.
"If not, why would you want to disguise yourself?" Elendil, dense as always, felt very confused by Greyson's request.
"Well... it's..." Greyson tried grasping for the right words without sounding narcissistic. What was he supposed to say? That he's too good-looking so he wants to look normal so people stop flocking towards him?
"What?"
"I'm really not full of myself... but... people keep bothering because they are attracted to and I find it tireso and irritating. I thought if I disguised myself when I walked around that it would stop." Hesitating in the beginning, Greyson finally just explained his dilemma. Elendil paused a little before looking at his student a little closer before slightly nodding his head in understanding.
"Ah... I could see it being an issue. I will ask the principal for his disguise spell. It is fairly advanced and would be useful later on as well if you ever found yourself in danger and chased." Coughing a little, Elendil agreed to Greyson's request. Blushing in embarrassnt, Greyson quickly thanked his teacher before bolting out of the room to escape the situation. Earlier when he though of asking he had not thought his teacher would be so curious for his reason. Normally Teacher Elendil was the type to not dig too deeply into Greyson's actions.
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