A moment of silence fell as the crowd and elders stared blankly. Then Rysten could no longer contain himself.
"He's done it… he really did it!" The young lord had finally broken through to D-rank! A hearty laugh escaped his lips.
The elders of the assimilated clans stood silently, struggling to process the magnitude of what had just unfolded.
Unlike the cheering crowd below, most of them were D-rank beings and knew exactly what it took to break through. More importantly, they recognized the signs that revealed one's talent and potential.
The larger and more potent the heavenly phenomenon during a D-rank breakthrough, the stronger the formed art would be.
D-rank beings drew the majority of their strength from their awakened arts. Which was why their lips twitched violently as they witnessed a phenomenon hundreds of times larger and more potent than anything they had produced during their own breakthroughs.
