Absolute Soul
29. Two Types of Genius

After the tournament lawyers announced the winner, the crowd reacted, most clapping in amazement at Haikal's ability, some discussing how strong Haikal really was, while others questioned Haikal's origin, not a few also vilify Haikal.

As strong as Haikal still can not summon his Soul Arc, of course this cannot be ruled out considering he is currently studying at the Blazer academy, he said, a specialized academy that educates future Blazer candidates. Without the Soul Arc then as powerful as Haikal, he still cannot be called as Blazer.

"You're hiding something like this behind our back?" Heru first commented when Haikal returned to their place, his smile looking wry a little disbelief towards the development of his best friend.

About a month ago Haikal was nobody other than the only disciple who had not been able to summon the Soul Arc in his class, but at this time his name is hailed by some spectators to defend himself because of his inhuman development.

"Of course, if not not a surprise, the name" said Haikal glanced at his best friend with a satirical smile, Heru realized this means Haikal challenges him who is better among them.

Heru's smile also couldn't stop watching Haikal, he knew for himself how low Haikal's talent as a Blazer was.

Unlike her who is quite normal among other High School Blazer candidates, from the beginning Haikal did not have enough strength and soul energy for even High School Blazer candidates. Even Heru had known Haikal was severely frustrated because he could not call his Soul Arc so far, making him a little pity and wanted to help Haikal but could not.

But who would have thought, his best friend who used to be far behind him immediately followed even surpassing him in this match even though his talent was not too good?

"Your secret training seems to be tough." Heru could not stop smiling, he clearly knew there was no way Haikal could gain this much strength without training given his low talent.

Haikal, on the other hand, only smiled faintly and closed his eyes, recalling inhumane exercises that might make even professional athletes frown if they saw him, "True, very heavy."

Salvia, who had been silent since then, secretly admired Haikal from the bottom of her heart, it was unexpected that a Blazer candidate without talent like Haikal could climb so high that he was dubbed a genius even after training hard all along.

"Could Haikal be one of those extremely rare hard-working geniuses?" Salvia remembered the words of her father in the past.

"Salvia, in this world there are two types of geniuses. First are people like you who are born with extraordinary talent, this has become quite commonplace in the world of per-Blazeran." Veindal stroked Salvia's young head, "But even a genius from birth can be defeated by a second-type genius, that is, a hard-working genius."

"The genius works hard?" Little Salvia did not understand Veindal's intentions, but Veindal remained patient and explained, "Yes, they are the most terrible people. Most people do look more at the first type of genius, but not many realize that actually everyone has the potential if they really struggle, like a second type genius."

Veindal said he lost to a Blazer who looked weak and easily defeated in a match in his youth even though he was one of the geniuses of the era, but he did not feel upset or something that other people used to feel when they lost. That day Veindal felt his eyes and mind were completely wide open.

"Diamonds are beautiful, but before they become beautiful diamonds are actually just any ordinary stone that goes through a hard and long process." Veindal closed his explanation by rubbing the head of the little Salvia.

Veindal's words and stories were very memorable. The word 'diamond' would generally translate as genius in humans, but 'diamond' what Veindal meant in his words was that they were people who worked hard and forged their lives in a hard and long process.

Now Salvia could see firsthand what her father meant by 'diamonds' at that time. 'Diamond' like this young man in front of him is the rarest 'diamond' in the world, not many can be like him.

"Eh? Whahuh? I made a mistake?" Haikal became astonished, as he remembered he had never done something that Salvia hated, then looked at Heru who somehow smiled widely while stroking his chin.

"What the fuck is your face?" Haikal obviously did not like the expression Heru put out, "No, just ignore me." Heru continued to smile broadly, staring at Haikal not giving his protest.

Unable to figure out the reason for Salvia's slightly strange attitude despite persuading the girl, Haikal finally sighed in surrender. He preferred to turn his gaze to the arena again, then found Salvia's name called to compete this time.

"Salvia, gili—" Hasn't had time to talk Salvia has passed it at a fast pace, making Haikal even more astonished by the girl's behavior, "Did I really make a mistake?" Haikal started scratching his non-itchy head, while Heru was still smiling broadly at the sight of it all.

Salvia's opponent was a Warrior-type Soul Arc girl who could increase her physical strength, at least that was known from her past matches.

It didn't take long until the lawyer gave the start marks to the two.

The girl against Salvia immediately took out her Soul Arc and strengthened her body, "Salvia Volksky, it's been a long time that I've wanted to see your ability?" The girl's eyes were wide open watching what Salvia was doing, everyone who saw her reacted similarly as well.

Salvia mustered a lot of soul energy to create a large amount of snow and formed a giant snowman five meters high, then jumped and entered the snowman's chest.

"He-hey.. Am I dreaming?"

"This isn't Blazer's candidate level anymore...."

"Sitting on a first-class seat alone can bring out power equivalent to an Advance-level Blazer, how about after graduating later?"

Not a few viewers who argue about saljut man made by Salvia which should only be made by Blazer Advance level up, and above, yet most of them were silent and holding their breath could not guess how powerful the geniuses of this generation really were.

The knee of the girl who was fighting Salvia suddenly lost energy, her entire body shook violently until she fell on the arena floor, not expecting the strength of Salvia to such an extent.

In fact, not a few Skymaze academy students who think that the news of Salvia's genius is only exaggerated considering that he is the descendant of Veindal, the headmaster, but they could see with their own heads now that the news was true.

Watching her opponent who looked so frightened that he had no strength to stand up or fighting spirit, Salvia sighed to remove all of her snow and landed on the arena floor, where she was unable to stand, then step out of the arena after the lawyer declares the winner.

"While it was quite unexpected, the winner was Salvia Volksky!" Exclaimed the lawyer forced himself, actually he was also a little afraid to see the powerful strength of Salvia who did not play games.