Lord Evolution: Starting With SS-rank Skills

Rowan got home pretty early after D'andre, Dragun, and Vishirk left the village.

As soon as he arrived, the first thing he did was hand Riela the spell scrolls he had purchased for her.

Riela's eyes widened when she saw the spell scrolls appear out of thin air—she had been dreaming of getting and learning a new spell but didn't expect to get one so soon.

"Rowan~" she exclaimed excitedly as she took the two scrolls from him.

She took a look at the title slips of both scrolls.

Water Walk

Dew Gather

She quickly unfolded the spells without wasting time and went on to read their descriptions, her eyes widening even more the more she read.

"You like them?" Rowan asked with a smile.

She didn't reply and hugged him instead.

"I love them. Especially the Dew Gather one. With this, during the rainy season, we won't have to worry about visiting the river or water supply to get drinking water. We can just use the Dew Gather to make pure, drinkable water out of the rain..." Riela explained with a really excited voice.

She went on to explain how cool Water Walk would be when she used it. One could really tell how genuinely excited she was from her voice.

Rowan was also pretty excited—the more spells Riela had in her possession, the more spells available for him to copy when he finally awakens his mana core.

Riela kissed Rowan on the cheek and left to the kitchen to bring their dinner.

Rowan sat down.

He could not help but pray inwardly that Dragun and Vishirk would be able to lay their hands on good awakening potion.

Also, Rowan had a little bit of worries.

"System, after awakening my mana core, would it be possible to copy spells of all elements? Or would it be just the element affinities I awaken?" he asked.

He didn't bother to ask this question in the past because he was not expecting to get gold coins to purchase awakening potion and awaken his mana core so soon. Also, he was really busy with other important stuff.

[Positive!]

Seeing the quick reply, Rowan was excited but his excitement washed off almost immediately.

**[WARNING: Copying and merging with spells of superior affinities might result in pain similar to evolving. The pain depends on the quality of the spell and the superiority of the spell's affinity.

Also, after copying and merging with the spell of a new affinity, it immediately becomes an awakened affinity. Copying and merging spells of the same affinity becomes painless.]**

"Fuck!" Rowan cussed, but he calmed down immediately and analyzed his situation.

"But it's all good, though. Most mages would definitely go through all means in order to get a chance like mine! It's like having the cheat code to use all the affinities in the world!"

For most mages, being able to use all the four elemental magic is already beyond blessed.

But Rowan would not only be able to wield the four elemental magic but also be able to wield all, including the complex celestial magic like light and dark magic!

With these thoughts, Rowan didn't mind going through the pain.

Riela arrived with food and both of them ate together.

After eating, they discussed about their day.

Riela informed Rowan of how far their tailoring journey was going, how creative the women had become, and how the sewing machine was making everything easier and faster for them.

"With our current pace, we will be able to sew everyone in the village at least one robe before the rainy season!" she revealed.

Rowan applauded her hard work and dedication.

He also had a strange idea—recreating the modern-day clothing style from Earth!

Rowan wasn't really a fan of wearing long robes all the time. He would love some coat and pant, or maybe hoodie too, as they are also very cool and more comfortable for him considering his world of origin.

"Riela, in the future, when our village has developed enough, there are some interesting clothing styles I would introduce. I am sure you'll be able to make wonderful art pieces from them."

Riela looked at Rowan, "Why wait? I can start working on them now."

Rowan only chuckled.

He quickly imagined a scene of his low-level village and villagers wearing modern-day branded designer hoodies. Rowan found it pretty difficult to hold back laughter after imagining this scene.

"The materials to sew those kinds of clothes would only be available when our village is well developed and established," he lied.

Luckily, Riela believed and didn't ask any further.

But a smile immediately appeared on her face and she became active again.

"Darling, what affinities do you think you can awaken?" she asked.

"Probably beast taming and some elements similar to yours," Rowan replied.

He already had beast taming without a mana core. He believed, naturally, it would be included in his list of awakened affinities while testing with the Aether Crystal.

Rowan also believed in this because he wasn't able to use the Divine Beast Summoning Card even with his SS-rank beast taming skill.

"You will be able to tame more cute beasts like Blaze, right?" Riela asked.

"Hopefully..." Rowan nodded.

Really strong beasts would not be cute looking like Blaze; they will be scarier and probably ugly but I don't mind, Rowan thought.

Rowan continued to discuss with Riela before both of them went out for what they prepared for the night.

Riela was going to practice magic while Rowan went to join the soldiers.

He summoned Blaze while leaving the house.

['Master, you heard that right? Cute! Even your wife believes I am cute!']

Blaze boasted to Rowan immediately after stepping out of the Divine Beast Plain.

"What do you want me to do about that? Cry? Laugh?" Rowan replied without even looking at Blaze who was walking behind him.

Blaze looked at Rowan and immediately knew that Rowan was still pondering about this morning's incident.

Blaze naturally understood even though he didn't grow around his own race to understand true closeness.

He hastened his pace and walked beside Rowan but Rowan's eyes were fixed ahead, observing everywhere keenly as though he was expecting an ambush.

Rowan first went to the south border.

"Lord Rowan..."

The soldiers rushed to meet him.

"How are you guys doing?..." Rowan inquired about their condition, asking if they felt any sort of pain or strange occurrence in the atmosphere.

The soldiers answered seriously.

While Rowan was inquiring, Blaze walked around the guardhouse, trying to sniff out the trace of any sort of threat to the soldiers' lives.

Sadly and luckily, there were none.

He walked back to meet Rowan.

"Good, good... Keep on guarding, I will come back in a few hours to check up on you guys after checking on the others," Rowan said.

"Lord Rowan, you should rest, you've already had a stressful day," Roland suggested.

"I am full of energy. Going sleepless for two nights has no effect on me," Rowan smiled at him.

"Hmm." Roland nodded solemnly.

This stupid incident is taking a toll on Lord Rowan and it's all my fault, if only I was a little bit more observant, Roland blamed himself secretly.

Rowan didn't wait and went to the other guardhouse to check on their conditions.

He also went to check on the farms.

There were no farmers watching them tonight as the farmers were still afraid and grieving the death of their colleague.

This night was about to be the most stressful Rowan had ever had since reincarnating but he was ready.

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Yellow River City

In the busy area of the city, not too far from the market, a large group of people were gathered around a big field.

They were gathered in circles around a small group of people sitting down.

A long queue of teenagers were lined up before them with nervous expressions on their faces.

Some adults in the crowd also had nervous and anticipating expressions as they observed the scene.

"Lucas Smoldic, Test Score—20%, Low-level water affinity. Admission Declined."
Enjoy new adventures at M V L

"Killian Mulubalu, Test Score—89%, Mid-level Wind affinity... Accepted."

The men seated announced, their announcements determining the reactions of the young ones standing in front of them.

Some fainted after hearing their results, others gave minimal reactions while a few jumped up in joy.

This scene continued until all of a sudden, a fast-moving flying artifact darted through the sky and hovered across the field.

Everyone on the field immediately transferred their attention to the cool-looking flying artifact, giving different reactions.

D'andre, Dragun, and Vishirk were on the Super Nut Breaker 999, looking down.

Before reaching Yellow River City, D'andre gifted both of them mask that alters their identity when equipped.

Vishirk recognized the activities going on. It's the annual recruitment for Wishiros 7th School of Magic

He wondered why D'andre suddenly halted in such a busy place.

If it wasn't for the mask, he would've left the flying artifact already, to prevent getting caught by his school.

"Wassup, suckers! Say welcome to Daddy!"