Why Is Everyone Ending Up Above Me?

Dus slowly stepped forward. He could feel the scorching gazes of the many wizards and wizard apprentices in the great hall.

He had encountered such gazes many times before.

Back in his homeland, when he had been the third son of a count, the servants in the household had looked at him that way.

On the sea vessel, when he had just barely become a second-class wizard apprentice before the final deadline.

The other wizard apprentices had also looked at him that way.

After arriving at Isata and having his talent tested, those wizards and apprentices had looked at him the same way.

Yet those gazes from before were completely different from the ones now. There was a vast difference.

At the count's estate, the servants had looked at his elder brother with even greater reverence.

On the sea vessel, the other apprentices had looked toward those who had only recently boarded and would soon become second-class wizard apprentices.

After arriving at Isata, quite a few people had still held a trace of doubt in their gazes toward him.

Only now were everyone's gazes naked, scorching with envy.

Because at this moment, everyone could confirm that there was a bloodline connection between Dus Augustus and the powerful fifth-ring wizard sage, Charles Augustus!

Thus, Dus walked forward step by step, drawing ever closer.

Charles also examined this nephew of his, acquired out of nowhere.

From Dus, he could sense that his bloodline was slowly changing, as though it had been awakened.

Perhaps in his future cultivation, Dus's bloodline would continuously manifest, granting him the bloodline of a demon.

No! Not merely the bloodline of a demon, but the bloodline of a demon lord!

The bloodline of an Abyssal Grand Lord!

Though it was a collateral branch, it could still gradually reveal