Ch 16: Hero Association and Hero Heir

After winning the duel, according to the laws of the Octavia Kingdom, now Leyla had complete control over the baron's authority. So if baron wanted to still stay as a noble, he would have to obey Leyla'a every orders.

After the duel was over, Leyla did not stayed in the Baron's estate for long. She ordered the soldiers who came with the royal envoy to take control of the Baron's house and to relocated the Lapis family to a small estate. After giving that ordered, she bid farewell to the nobles and left.

Leyla was already very satisfied with what had happened today. Now that the baron was under her thumb, she could slowly make his life a real hell. But planning that could wait. As Alexis had also came to the city with her, Leyla wanted to tell him about the day as soon as she could.

She knew that Alexis was a worrywart and was definitely watching over her with his skills. So she wanted to ask him how she looked during the battle.

Getting praises from her son was the most enjoyable thing in Leyla life. So she was unable to wait anymore for that and quickly returned back to the inn where her son was waiting for her.

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Alexis had a skill called "Primal Eye of Truth". This was an extremely powerful ability which included most of the eye type abilities. He was able to mention the weaker "Arcane Eye" in his fake status panel because he had this skill.

With his Primal Eye of Truth, Rein had witnessed everything that happened in the Baron's mansion. At first he was enjoying the show of his fake father getting trashed. But as soon as his mother entered, she stole the show.

Just as Leyla was proud of Alexis being her son, Alexis was also proud of Leyla as his mother. She looked extremely valiant throughout the evening and even in the duel, she managed to get an overwhelming victory with her own strength.

Alexis did taught Leyla very powerful skills from the memories of the dragon he had absorbed. But powerful skills were even harder to learn. So for the last year, alongside Alexis, Leyla had to work extremely hard and Alexis was happy to see that her hard work had paid off.

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As soon as Leyla entered the room, Alexis greeted her with a big smile on his face and spread his hands wide for a hug. Leyla immediately dived into his arms and the mom and son pair hugged for some time.

Then both of them sat down and Leyla started to tell Alexis what had happened in the party. Even though he was already aware of everything, Alexis still listened to his mother with full concentration and did not forget to shower her with praises.

Just like this, the mother and son spent some very enjoyable time.

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After the whole incident with the baron was over, Alexis started to lead a very regular life. Now that he had a big mansion and had no worry about money, he was able to completely focus on training himself.

The result of that was clear and he started to grow stronger at a remarkable speed. Other than training, Alexis went out to visit various places. With his speed, Alexis was able to circle the whole nation in less than an hour. So going to different places was very easy for him.

But Alexis was not really visiting those places just to sightsee. His Primal Eye of Truth was very powerful and was able to see the power and potential of a person. Even though it was not able to see the status screen itself, he was able to guess how talented someone was just by taking a look at someone.

But the most important thing about this ability of his was the fact that Alexis was able to see the potential of a person even before someone has gone through the Divine Awakening ceremony.

That way, he was able to find talented people even before their talents were revealed for the world to see. Alexis met with these talented people, judged their charecter and if he was satisfied with it, recruited them.

Just like that two years passed and Alexis turned 12. In the last two years, he had definitely gotten stronger. But other than that, a few important things had also happened with his life.

Just a year ago, Alexis was visited by an official from the Hero Association. This was a very big deal and the whole nation of Octavia was shaken by this.

The Hero Association was the strongest organisation of this world. This association was also responsible for lebeling the heroes and to manage them.

This organisation was created many, many years ago at the time when the gods were still at war. Since that time, it had stayed at the top of the world for all those time.

As for the reason why someone from this esteemed organisation had visited Alexis, that was because even the Hero Association was aware of his great talent.

The association has a special divine item that was able to judged someone's power and potential, very similar to Alexis' own Primal Eye of Truth. This official of the Hero Association came to test Alexis' potential with this item.

The result was exactly what Alexis had expected. After checking him, he was immediately judged to be a Hero Heir. This again shook the nation and was celebrated by everyone.

To became an official hero acknowledged by the Hero Association, one needed to be an adult of at least 18. That was why the people whose age was under that could not immediately became a hero.

For those people, the association had various title. If according to the item someone had a slight chance of reaching the hero realm in the future then that person would be given the title of a "Hero Seed".

The same way, if someone had a high chance of becoming a Hero in the future, then that person would be given the title of "Hero Hopeful".

Finally if someone could definitely become a hero in the future or were already strong enough to be one but were just too young, then those people would be given the title of "Hero Heir". That was exactly the title that Alexis had gotten.

Other than the arrival of the Hero Association official, another important thing that happened to Alexis in the last two year was the great increase in his number of subordinates, reaching triple digits.

Alexis was diligently searched for many individuals who had high talent and potential. Anyone who had satisfied him, Alexis had taken under his wing. That was how, even before he had realised, the number of people working under him had skyrocketed.

Most of the people Alexis had recruited were also quite young now. But after growing up, they would definitely be able to become a big help for him. A few who had already turned 10 had really managed to awaken powerful talents proving Alexis that his eyes had not lied to him.

As for what his plans were for the future, a big change was coming to his life. After turning 12, now Alexis was eligible to attend school for 5 years, until he turned 18.

Many nobles taught their children various things with a private tutor but still attending the royal academy was a must for the childrens of nobility. Alexis could get himself out of this with his authority as an Archduke but he saw no need to that.

So from now on, Archduke Alexis Langesior, the hero heir was planning to attend the royal academy as a regular student.