Odyssey of the Blind God - Chapter 42

Chapter 42

While standing next to the cadets, Nial felt like a giant, which caused him to subconsciously sigh.

There was no standard age at which one had to awaken their Origin. As such, there were toddlers that became Originals only a few months after being born as well as old people whose prime-age had already passed in waiting for their awakening.

Nevertheless, the vast majority would awaken their origin between the age of 8 to 10 years.

Thus, the cadets next to him were around 12 years old at the 3rd Origin stage.

With that in mind, Nial knew that they would act rather childish, even if they had been trained for a few years already.

Military school was a place for families that were not poor, but also not wealthy enough to enter one of the influential schools that had connections everywhere around the nine shelters.

Nevertheless, owing to the fact that the military belonged to the government, it was always in need of more soldiers to clear as many dungeons as possible.

Traumatic incidents such as deaths or permanent disablement of soldiers who would enter such dungeons were fairly common.

Hence, it would allow enrollment of a large number of students as long as they showed some inclination to fight and train hard.

Because of that, military school might only be considered above average, but if one worked hard enough, it should be possible to be transferred to one of the greater military schools in the other shelters, or even to a prestigious university with the help of recommendation letters.

This was something most average families wished for their children, but Nial had already figured out that most younger Originals were too full of themselves.

At least that was the case if the other students of the military school were to be as idiotic as the small group of students around him.

He didn’t say anything but he felt their angered gazes on him which made no sense.

Nial hadn’t done anything to them so they shouldn’t have any bias or prejudice against him.

That was under the assumption that they didn’t label him a weakling already for being blind and a late bloomer!

However, in the end, it didn’t really matter because he would go his own way once they would enter the dungeon.

Fortunately, this didn’t take too long, and Nial used the time in which they had to wait to receive the government worker’s approval to scan the spatial ring that blacksmith Arnold had given him.

He had never really liked wearing any accessories, so he had half-expected the ring to be uncomfortable to wear, but luckily that was not the case.

It was rather comfortable and after inserting some of his mana into it, he felt as if an entire dimension had opened up and expanded in his mind, allowing him to visualize the various items stored inside the spatial ring, followed by an even larger empty space.

‘So that is how a spatial ring looks from the inside!’ He thought with a faint smile on his face before he began to investigate the items inside the spatial ring.

At that moment, the soldiers requested blacksmith Arnold to leave which he reluctantly did.

Meanwhile, Nial didn’t even notice anything. He was simply staring at the contents of the ring in fascination because none of them were of a low rank and grade.

The lowest ranked item he found were Mid rank Common quality vials because they were the most potent serums Nial was able to drink without damaging his body.

Additionally, there were various types of flash grenades, at least a hundred liters of water, preservable food for an entire month, and much more.

Other than that, the Fang spear, which was the prototype of the Viper spear, was also stored inside the spatial ring.

In fact, the Fang spear was exactly the same as the Viper spear, in terms of looks and ability to release and extract its blades.

The only thing it was lacking was the poison crystal but it was not much of a jarring difference for now.

He was not able to use the crystal either way. As such, the Fang spear was as good as the Viper spear, even if Nial felt that his connection was not as good with the Fang spear as it had been the case with the Viper spear.

However, that was negligible and nothing he would fuss about.

Satisfied with the inspection, Nial turned his attention to the government worker, whom he had just perceived walking towards them.

“Because this is the first mission of the Junior military unit