The Golden Throne

Two months later

Liu Feng was in class. He was very dissatisfied with the pace of the class, but the teachers went extremely slow so that everyone in the class could understand the syllabus. He also reached a bottleneck in his mana collection. Previously, when he meditated, he could feel that his mana at least increased, but now, he could feel that no matter how much mana he tried to collect, his body had reached a limit.

Liu Feng knew that when he surpassed the fifth order and went into the sixth, his fighting power would increase exponentially, but he just couldn\'t fathom how. He was in the magical theory class now, and Cordelia knew better to disturb him in his thinking. After she called him out a few times, he answered all questions impeccably even though he wasn\'t paying attention to class.

She started letting him do whatever he wanted. The bell rang, and Liu Feng got up to go to the self defence class, when Cordelia stopped him.

"I have something to ask of you Liu Feng. Can you please stay back until everyone leaves?"

Liu Feng nodded, and the rest of the class left, leaving Liu Feng alone with Cordelia.

"Is it possible for you to repeat the answer that you have given when you first came to the class? I wanted to know what you said. It was interesting."

"Sorry professor, but I must refuse. It was as you said. I just put a few words together. If that is all, then I shall take my leave."

"No wait. This is about something else. As you know, there are more than just our four kingdoms on the continent. Next year, somee of our students will go to the Magic Academy of Derail, a kingdom north of Aegon, while a few of their students will attend our academy. We wish for this to be a way to strengthen our ties. So, all teachers have to recommend a person from the classes I teach. I have recommended you. Surprisingly, another teacher has recommended you, I am not sure on who, so you will be attending the Royal Magic Academy of the kingdom of Derail next year. Please prepare yourself."

Liu Feng just nodded and left.

"Another student in his shoes would have at least given an expression.", Cordelia thought to herself.

Liu Feng went to his self defence class. Today was the day when they changed their weapon again. Liu Feng went through quite a few weapons over this time, but he didn\'t particularly like a weapon. Today, he planned to take up the great sword. He took up the great sword. It was quite heavy, but because most of the mana that Liu Feng had was directed to his flesh and bones, they were sturdy and quite strong.

Liu Feng took it up and swung it a few times. He nodded towards Marcus, and chose this. The great sword was not to be confused with the heavy sword that Marcus taught. This was much bigger, and heavier. The great sword was a weapon for the battlefield, when one faced hundreds of opponents by himself.

Liu Feng feared that such a day would come, so he started preparing himself accordingly. In fact, his orphan training project in Dilhiem was going excellently in this regard. He had Sir Nicholas contact all the city lords to constantly send orphans their way, and they happily complied. What were dead weights to everyone else, Liu Feng saw solid gold in, because he could have them trained to become loyal soldiers who could get contracted by the spirits and become mages.