"What is this?" Arthur's heart raced as he sensed something unusual through the mana channel within his heart.
Opening his eyes, Arthur stared in astonishment at the milky white space elemental core that swirled around his heart.
To his shock, he noticed an additional core of intense red color—a high-level fire elemental core!
Arthur couldn't believe what he was seeing. Two cores?
And one of them is a rare high-level fire element?
He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down as he began to ponder the implications of this discovery.
As he contemplated the possibility that the mysterious woman was somehow responsible for the appearance of the fire elemental core, Arthur couldn't help but feel a sense of unease.
"Could it really be her doing?" he muttered to himself.
"But how could she have helped me awaken another core in my body? It's beyond human ability!"
The woman's bright light had obscured her face, so Arthur couldn't identify her.
Despite this, he had a strange feeling that he was familiar with her somehow.
He shook his head, trying to clear his thoughts, but the questions persisted.
Soon, he focused on feeling the power of his two cores again, trying to understand them.
As he concentrated, he sensed that his space core had a black chain that made it appear transparent.
Suddenly, it dawned on him!
The purpose of this chain appeared to be to conceal the existence of the space core, making it undetectable to others like David, while the high-level fire core was meant to serve as a substitute and the only visible core.
Arthur's violet eyes widened with realization as he discovered the truth.
"Is the purpose of awakening the fire core in my body to hide the space core from people so that I can grow up peacefully, without any trouble?"
"And this fire core is such a good concealment that all of them outside this fire barrier don't know about the space core I evoked."
Arthur held his chin and began to think.
He was confident that his assumption was 99% correct, especially since the mysterious woman had claimed that he was the most important person to her.
Arthur smiled slightly, feeling relieved.
Surely, the woman wouldn't want anything bad to happen to him on his growth path.
He mused, "So, is this what it's like to eat soft rice?"
"Not bad, not bad."
But he also knew he had to figure out how to deal with David.
He was certain that if David found out about his awakened space element, he might try to exploit him.
Soon he snapped out of his thoughts and noticed the two girls looking at him strangely.
"What's wrong?" asked Arthur in confusion.
"The two girls looked at each other and chuckled, which made Arthur even more confused."
"Young master, we saw you frowning and then smiling and repeating yourself, which was quite funny!" Runa laughed while covering her small mouth.
Hearing this, Arthur smiled and pretended to be annoyed with Runa.
"Well, you've started to dare to tease your young master, haven't you?"
Arthur feigned anger, which made Runa immediately freeze.
"Young master, forgive me woooo~" Runa immediately hugged his arm and pretended to be sad, which caused Arthur to smile slightly.
"Okay, little one, you're getting better at acting in front of me," Arthur said with a grin, pinching Runa's cheeks playfully as she giggled in response.
"Hehehe~" Runa didn't resist, and a big smile appeared on her face.
Anna was also laughing at Arthur's expression but immediately felt annoyed when she saw Arthur spoiling Runa like that.
"I want to be spoiled too!" Runa said it silently and clenched her palms, but she didn't dare say it out loud.
Arthur glanced at her and smiled slightly. "This girl is very jealous."
Soon he remembered something and looked at Anna in front of him, then asked lightly, "young lady Anna, what is your core element?"
Anna's eyes immediately lit up at Arthur's question, but she immediately changed her expression to indifference.
"Young Master Arthur will have to guess," Anna said, looking to the side and not meeting Arthur's gaze directly.
On a normal day, she would not have dared to behave like this with Arthur, but out of annoyance and jealousy towards Runa, she felt a newfound courage.
Arthur smiled and pretended to think.
"Is that a high-level water element?" Arthur said it with a hint of doubt.
Hearing this, Anna, who was already feeling happy, suddenly felt her body freeze.
Then she stiffly turned her head towards Arthur.
"How did you know?!" Anna exclaimed.
Arthur smiled slightly and shrugged his shoulders as if to say, "Guess yourself," which only made Anna feel more annoyed.
"Hehehe, are you teasing me already, little girl? It's still a hundred years too early for that," Arthur thought to himself, amused by Runa's behavior.
As the other noble children began to open their eyes, it signaled the successful awakening of their cores.
Arthur looked around curiously but quickly returned his gaze to the two girls in front of him.
"Alright, get ready."
"This fire barrier will disappear, and the awakening is complete," Arthur said while staring at the blazing fire barrier that covered the entire area.
Runa nodded vigorously, and Anna, though annoyed, swallowed back her question and nodded in agreement.
And as expected, the moment Arthur spoke those words, all the barriers slowly blinked, and David's majestic voice echoed in everyone's minds: "Congratulations, everyone! You have successfully awakened your core!"
Upon hearing this, all the ordinary people who had been waiting anxiously burst into joyous cheers.
"Woahhhh!"
"My child successfully awakened their core!"
"Ha ha! My fortunes are about to turn!"
David's voice seemed like a heavenly trumpet to the commoners.
However, as parents, they all believed that their children would definitely awaken their cores, even though sometimes the truth was not what they wanted.
Core awakening was not always successful, and those who did awaken their cores did not necessarily have the qualifications to be classified into the four talent categories.
Some awakened cores were just empty shells that lacked the necessary qualifications to become elementals, and their owners were called ordinary people.
Arthur watched the barrier gradually break and smiled slightly.
Suddenly, he recalled the woman's whisper, and a big smile appeared on his face involuntarily.
"She's right."
Boom!
The barrier shattered into tiny flying particles, and soon the cheers of the people echoed throughout the square.
"Woahhhh!"
"Congratulations on your awakening!"
Arthur looked around, then turned to the two little girls behind him, saying, "Let's go back now!"
