My Muscle System in the Mage World

"Then we are done; no one could save us."

"Our ranking will be at the bottom. Sigh."

Aur's ears twitched as he heard whispers from around him, but he couldn't care less about others as he coldly waited.

"Brother Aur," Leo suddenly called out while scratching his head.

"Yes?" Aur looked at him with his crimson gaze.

Leo was with the brown-haired girl, Anne, who seemed to be looking at Aur with a strange smile on her face. His hands were right on Anne's shoulders.

"Brother Aur, were you able to imprint the spell in your mental space?" he said with a smile on his face.

Aur internally narrowed his eyes as he scrutinised them.

"Yes," he replied simply.

"Well, congrats, brother," Leo gave a thumbs up to Aur as he walked away with Anne, leaving a confused Aur behind.

Aur's eyes narrowed to a sliver as he watched Leo's departing figure in complete silence.

"These will be troublesome…" Aur muttered to himself. "Did I offend anyone before?" However, he soon shook his head. Aur couldn't recall offending anyone. "Is it trouble from my family?" This was also implausible; after all, they were just an ordinary family.

There were many tier one wizards like his father, Adam, in their neighbourhood. In fact, they could be said to be countless. But their wizard rank as tier one was just a joke, with barely any power.

They could, at most, suppress wizard apprentices and were used to the peaceful life inside the village making them have no combat strength or even any experience. Their wizard rank was like a show at most.

As Aur was racking his brain, everyone's turn passed quickly, and it was finally Aur's turn to show his cultivation.

He was awakened from his deep thoughts by the loud announcement from Adriana.

"Aur, come to the stage," Adriana said with a deadpan expression.

Aur looked up and made his way from the crowd to the stage.

"Yes, I am here," he simply said, and slowly closed his eyes. Opening his crimson eyes, a pattern with a big circle and four other smaller circles touching the surface of it in a symmetrical order revealed itself, glowing in a white light.

Swish!

The air around two metres of Aur made a whooshing sound as it gathered in his hands. After it formed enough in the shape of a spear, he casually threw it in a direction.

However, just as it was about to get out of his radius of two metres, Aur suddenly lifted his hand, and the wall formed itself, blocking the spear.

Shing!

As the wind spear and the wall met, the spear effortlessly pierced into the earth wall.

Adriana's eyes widened with astonishment.

"Mid rank in mage apprentice." she said with a little disbelief in her eyes.

Aur just nodded his head with a smile on his face as the chatters of everyone resounded throughout the cloud.

"Well done despite having an average talent compared to the other you have made such a progress in just a month of coming to the academy and the spell you imprinted is one from the five elemental magic as well." Adriana nodded her head with a smile.

"Thank you teacher Adriana." Aur bowed to her in thanks.

"Hmm," Adriana just smiled with a nod of her head. She didn't like the arrogant personality of William the most.

Even the other students who had shown such progress all had an arrogant personality.

For the first time, she had seen such a humble personality as Aur. Although he was cold, his eyes didn't reflect that he was above others or that everything revolved around him providing her with a fresh perspective.

The elders were also astonished by this fact as they looked at Aur in disbelief.

"These little brats was able to reach the mid-rank in mage apprentice?" the third elder questioned with a frown on his face.

The other elders were also in murmurs as they looked at Aur with brightened eyes.

Noah suddenly smiled as he looked at the hulking youth who was completely expressionless. "Not bad, a talented hard worker," he spoke, causing every elder's eyes to widen.

"The patriarch complimented him?" the third elder thought with a frown as he looked at the giant white-haired youth emitting a youthful vigour and glanced at his own son, who had a dark face with shame.

"Since he already offended William…" the third elder thought with narrowed gaze as he looked at Henry.

His eyes flashed with a ruthless glint completely.

He beckoned and instructed a servant of his.

As he whispered to the servant, the servant's eyes widened with disbelief as he looked at the third elder, as if confirming the thing with the third elder nodding his head.

The servant hurriedly left the place with panicked footsteps.

He wasn't the only one; the others started to instruct the servants as well, except for one old man who was grumpy all the time.

The eighth elder, whose face was already dark, didn't glance at Aur; instead, he looked at William quietly in a corner, giving everyone the cold shoulder.

"Soon," his eyes flashed with a killing intent that quickly hid itself.

While Noah just smiled as he looked at the show, "This Aur isn't bad. I might recruit him to my faction," he thought with a smile.

Not only them, but the crowd of students also erupted with clamour, although it wasn't as much as for William.

They still whispered to themselves. However, there was one particular guy who had a dark face as he watched this.

"This bastard is mid-rank in mage apprentice?" Leo thought with a frown on his face. He glanced at the eight elders who were sitting there emotionlessly and frowned.

"If I can't kill him…" his expression turned to despair as he tightened his grip on Anne.

Ouch!

"Leo, you are hurting me," she said with a pitiful expression.

"Oh, sorry, sorry," Leo laughed while carefully poking her shoulder.

He blew on her shoulder with a concerned expression. "I am sorry, I was really distracted by my thoughts."

"It's okay, Leo," Anne said with a small forced smile on her face.

"Are you really alright?" Leo asked.

"Yes, I am really fine, Leo," she said with a smile on her face.

"No, I will help you," Leo said with a serious expression as he took out some medicine and gave it to her.

"For now, drinking these will decrease your pain."

"Umm, thank you, Leo," Anne blushed as she accepted the medicine.

…

Aur returned to the crowd of students with an expressionless face, and the students seemed to avoid his path as he walked back to his place, some with fear in their eyes.

Although Aur might not be the only one to make such cultivation progress, as even Jack and some other students had also shown advancements, he was the only one who had taken only twenty-five steps—barely a middle-grade talent.

The result from the small spar they had at the tournament was still imprinted in their minds, where Aur beat William himself effortlessly, like a child's play, instilling a deep fear in them.