“You…” The director started off as he seemed to be detecting something that was coming from Aiden.

It was the first time since Aiden had gotten here that he had stopped to analyze someone, every single time before there wouldn’t have been the slightest word exchanged.

However, it seemed that right now, David had found something worth noting about Aiden.

“Where is my mana going?” David asked as he simply couldn’t understand what was happening.

No matter how much mana he was trying to summon, all of it would disappear inside of Aiden’s body. It seemed that the system was truly doing wonders yet again.

In fact, Aiden couldn’t help but thank the system. He knew that it was because of it that he hadn’t been revealed by David’s spell.

He also knew that if he were to get revealed then he would have been either captured or dead and it would have been the end of this trial with no hope for Aiden.

Being right in front of the director, Aiden had to admit that he was emitting even more pressure than when they had been training.

“Answer me!” The director said as he looked into the eyes of the young man that was right in front of him.

Aiden acted like he was scared, showing that he had some difficulty answering or talking in general. David noticed that and smiled as he was happy that his pressure was still useful.

“I-I don’t know where it’s going, sir.”

With all the time that he had spent with Aiden at the top of the mountain, he thought that his senses had dulled over time. Hell, he hadn’t noticed anything of what Aiden had tried to do.

David knew that Aiden was skilled, way more skilled than normal people his age. However, he had to admit that it was quite scary that such a young man was able to become so strong without using the slightest magic in his life.

‘I do wonder, where he came from…’ The director thought as he was forgetting that he was still in the middle of all those students.

Still, his mind couldn’t help but wander back to Aiden and what he had done. The director could still remember it, the head on the ground slowly rolling down the slope.

David blamed himself for it, he knew that Aiden wasn’t in the right mind when he had left him, and the more he thought about it, the more he knew that it was a mistake to have left Garestsa with him.

‘However, still, I understand why he killed her… he knew that the moment I came back everything would be over. That’s why he had such a reaction when I asked to go see Anna. He knew what would happen if such a thing were to open,’ the director thought.

Nonetheless, there was still one thing that was on Aiden’s mind… the reason why he would do such a thing.

It didn’t matter how much time David spent thinking about it, he simply couldn’t think of anything that would cause Aiden to go ahead and try to remove access to his mana.

‘Whatever, let’s stop thinking about this. This boy is special,’ the director thought as he had never someone able to absorb mana or discard it.

It was really impressive.

“What’s your name?” The director asked as he noticed he wouldn’t get many answers from that young man.

He had noticed how scared he was which is why David would be the one leading the conversation from now on.

“A-Alek Hayes, sir.”

“Stop calling me sir, I don’t like it,” David answered as he made him remember Aiden. That was what Aiden had called him when he had started losing his mind, it wasn’t memories that he wanted to remember.

“Alek, you have talent. You’re special, I’ve never seen someone able to absorb mana… follow me. I’ll talk to you after this.”

Aiden who heard that was shocked as his eyes opened as wide as physically possible.

“F-Follow you? Why… did I do something wrong?”

Aiden was panicking, he thought that there was a chance that the director had noticed that he wasn’t the real Alek Hayes. However, from what he had said, that didn’t seem to be the case.

It just looked like the director was truly impressed with him.

‘Don’t tell me that I’ll become his disciple for a second time…’ Aiden thought as he truly didn’t mind it since it would give him opportunities to kill the director.

Still, he knew that the chances of becoming a disciple again were extremely slim as David would probably scared of taking another one.

“You did nothing wrong, don’t worry about it. Just follow me, I’ll talk to you later.”

There was one thing that Aiden was worried about and it was the fact that he didn’t know if the system might stop blocking the mana that the director would be sending in his body.

Because if it did, then Aiden would be fucked, especially since he would be in a room alone with the director. Still, Aiden didn’t have much of a choice as he closed his mouth swiftly and started looking in front of him, following the director.

‘Let’s hope that nothing bad happens.’

As Aiden followed the director around for the rest of the test, some students started talking because of how surprising his whole situation was.

It was the second time in a couple of weeks that the director had taken some interest in a student when it had never happened in the past.

Just what was happening right now?

“Do you guys think he’s trying to find a replacement?” A student muttered as he noticed that Aiden’s real body was nowhere to be seen.

“Right, his disciple isn’t even here right now.”

Evelynn who heard this immediately came to the defense of Aiden, “The director probably asked him to stay away from here. He’s not like the rest of you guys… he’s special.”

That last sentence was said in such a quiet tone that no one had been able to comprehend it. Evelynn’s face was also slowly becoming red.

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