Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better!-Chapter 92: Confidence

"I was planning on holding back a bit but it doesn't seem to be a good idea now" as he mutters these words to himself, the smile on his face starts changing from the excited to a manic one, a tinge of malice glowing from the depth of his eyes as he recalls the match he had with that young man who seems to be too eager to brag about his father, wondering if he will meet more kinds of people like him within the entrance exams for the Primaria Class.

"No matters, we will cross the bridge when we get there…" he comforts himself as he gets up from his position, planning on cleaning himself up and donning his uniform before going to the academy's cafeteria to get himself a good breakfast, his plans being interrupted as the frail-looking young man sleeping on a bed just a few meters away from him starts mumbling, almost as if he is speaking on his sleep.

This speculation of Diluc was proven to be wrong though as the frail-looking Michael is already awake, and rather than mumbling on his sleep, he is talking to him, appearing to be greeting him a fair morning the moment that he saw him already up and preparing himself.

"You're up quite early" the young man said as he rubs his eyes all while yawning and stretching, the sloppy manner he is currently acting causing his roommate, Diluc, to wonder just how is it possible that this very same young man is the one always so uptight when it comes to being well mannered and overall being always presentable no matter the situation.

"You're just up late" Diluc replies with a smile on his face as he waves his hands away, already moving towards the bathroom to clean himself and also get some time to think about some things that he needs to do, starting to establish both short-term and long-term plans.

'That receptionist from before is a huge problem…' as the cold morning water starts splashing on his skin, Diluc thought first as he clicks his tongue in annoyance, what he is worried the most coming into reality as he confirms the female receptionist's relation to people who are out to get him, the fact that he just let it slip under his radar causing him to feel like a fool.

'This should never happen again…' he reminded himself as he starts thinking of ways to obscure his true ability somehow within the academy grounds, as he knows full well that this receptionist is not the only person who has ties to his enemies outside the academy, and those other enemies are more dangerous than her given how they has yet to reveal themselves to him despite the news surrounding him.

While all sorts of ideas about dealing with that problem come and go through his mind, the mission from the Dragon Herding System enters his mind once again, causing him to shake his head as he thought that his ideas of somehow concealing more of his strength will be useless due to the new mission that the system has issued to him.

'Come to think of it, just what is the system's standard when it said 'overwhelming'?' as he recalls the words on the new mission's information, Diluc couldn't help but ask not to himself but rather to the system, his question prompting the floating gray screen to appear right in front of him, bearing the answer to his question.

[The system will consider your victory as overwhelming when not even a single attack from your opponents can graze even just your clothes, anything else worse than that shall be considered a failure of the mission]

With the system's response, the young man starts wondering what will happen if the mission fail, the question in his mind causing the Dragon Herding System to prop up a new floating screen to answer his query.

[For this mission, the system will only remove it on failure, and you will not get any consolation reward no matter how close you are to completing the task, however, some missions in the future will issue a more dangerous punishments should you not manage to complete the mission no matter what the cause, of course, you are still given the right to accept or reject these sort of missions before it is made an official mission that you need to complete, and there will be no repercussion to rejecting said missions.]

As he reads the supplementary notes, Diluc then nods as he thinks that this is just a fair way of doing things, after all, the Dragon Herding System is guiding him to the path of strength by issuing missions like that to him, and the fact that he still has his free will to either accept or reject the more dangerous missions something that just made him feel more than just a host of the system.

Of course, should he encounter those kinds of missions, he thinks that he will more likely lean on the side of accepting those missions given how generous the Dragon Herding System is with unique rewards, the only thing that this system is stingy with is with the Realm Gold that he feels like he is not really lacking all that much right now.

Thinking of acquiring a new dragon egg completely for free if he manages to complete this mission, Diluc smiles and clenches his fist as he decides to put in some extra effort into winning the first place for the Primaria Class entrance exams, his intent to battle soaring at an all-time high as he wonders just what sort of geniuses are there within the academy.

"Excluding Alea and Alfia, I think there's hardly anyone on my level, especially since the strongest students of the freshmen are just on the peak of the first level of either the martial or magic path" the emperor-like young man mutters to himself in contemplation while trying to recall all the freshmen he had sensed during both the orientation and the sanctioned 'duel' he previously has, recalling not a single student of a higher level than him.

'Of course, I couldn't rule out the possibility of some of them being more monstrous than my cross level fighting ability, but given the reason why I have that sort of ability, there's only a miniscule chance of that…' while he still gets really cautious as he knows that anything can happen, especially when he is within possibly the greatest academy of magic and martial arts within the nearby lands, Diluc is still fairly confident of this not being the case since the source of this absurd combat power of his is something that he just knows the other geniuses here cannot have.

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Hence the confidence, rather than arrogance, developing inside him due to him still being cautious enough while knowing his true strength, an authoritative, near divine kind of confidence that will make him a subject of different kind of attentions in the future, a confidence that has yet to completely bloom for now, however already starting to sprout out of the shells of its seed, like a plant just waiting for that first drop of rain to come.