Talent Swallowing Hero

Soon, Leo found a group of basic heroes in the distance who were training in an open field.

‘Huh? They train in martial arts?’

Leo was surprised because once humans awakened their talents, the cities in his world would not focus on physical training much.

However, they seemed to be training in some powerful-looking martial arts here.

“You must have a strong body to start learning our ‘Starlight Cultivation Techniques’ to become a ‘Starlight Warrior’.”

“You should be able to circle this training field 100 times and have to lift those three boulders. Only then will you be given one of the Starlight Cultivation Techniques.”

The 100 young basic class heroes were doing extreme physical exercises as their instructor motivated them with his words.

“Yes, Sir.”

Even though the instructor’s words were good to motivate the young trainees, they lacked emotions. It was like he was reading some lines from a book.

And it was the same with the young trainees who blandly replied to their instructor.

‘Huh? Starlight Cultivation Techniques? Starlight Warrior?’

Leo frowned when he heard those words and muttered, ‘It looks like that girl didn’t give the full information about this tribe.’

Before entering the Human Territory, Leo asked Aurora to tell him every important thing regarding her tribe and its people.

However, she didn’t mention anything about ‘Starlight Cultivation’ or ‘Starlight Warriors’, making Leo wonder why she skipped it.

‘Also, I wonder whether this kind of training is effective.’

Leo also thought about the effectiveness of such training, making him slightly curious._-.

‘Nevertheless, let’s finish the mission first and think about it later.’

Coming out of his thoughts, Leo once again focused on his mission.

‘Let’s see how good the additional effect of the [Seal Swallowing Ability] is.’

Since he could swallow the seals even if he was 100 meters away from the target, Leo decided to test it out.

Currently, there are no powerful heroes around him. The group of young trainees was only basic heroes, and their instructor was a rank 5 elite hero.

Therefore, Leo felt there wouldn’t be a problem in testing the new effect of his level 5 [Seal Swallowing Ability].

‘Activate the additional effect of the [Seal Swallowing Ability].’

Without wasting any time, Leo activated his ability.

[A level 5 slave seal]

[A level 5 slave seal]

[A level 5 slave seal]

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[A level 6 slave seal]

As soon as he activated his ability, Leo saw words appear on the heads of the young trainees and their instructor.

‘It’s cool

Leo felt it was cool to see the levels of the seals in the air as he could easily choose his target.

‘Except for that young instructor, everyone has level 5 seals. I wonder whether my [Seal Swallowing Ability] upgrades after I devour a hundred level 5 slave seals?’

There were nearly 100 young trainees in the training ground, making Leo wonder about his ability’s upgradation.

Previously, Leo consumed 100 level 1 slave seals and upgraded the [Seal Swallowing Ability] to level 2.

Therefore, he wondered if he swallowed 100 level 5 slave seals and whether his ability would upgrade to the next level 1 or not?

‘Let’s find out.’

Soon, Leo stopped thinking and selected a target from the young trainees to swallow his slave seal.

‘Ding,

The time required for the level 5 slave seal extraction from the selected target is ten seconds. Do you want to use the additional effect?

‘Only ten seconds? Use it.’

Leo was expecting the time required for extracting the slave seal would be at least one minute; however, he was surprised to see it was only ten seconds.

Hence, without thinking much, he used the additional effect.

‘Ding,

The extraction of the level 5 soul-suppressing slave seal has started.

‘Ten…nine…eight….one.’

‘Ding,

The level 5 slave seal has been successfully extracted. The host can now swallow it.

‘Swoosh’

‘Gulp’

Ten seconds passed in a flash as Leo received the system notification, followed by some mysterious energy entering Leo’s mouth.

The mysterious energy was none other than the slave seal that Leo had extracted using the additional effect of the [Seal Swallowing Ability].

‘Now is not the time to think about it.’

Leo was satisfied with this so-called addition effect of the [Seal Swallowing Ability]; however, he didn’t have the time to praise it because the young trainee who got freed fell into confusion as he looked at his surroundings.

‘Where am I? What am I doing here?’

The young trainee anxiously looked at his surroundings as he questioned himself.

‘Aargh’

The young trainee clutched his head and groaned in pain the next second.

‘…’

Seeing that, the rest of the young trainees paused their training for a moment before resuming it, leaving the young trainee to continue to groan in pain.

“Take a five-minute break and join the training session; otherwise, you will not get your dinner.”

The instructor asked the young trainee to take a five-minute break in the same emotionless tone.

‘When I was six years old, someone wrote something on my chest. It is Slave Seal.’

The young man started getting all the memories from when he became a slave at the age of six to what he had done until recently.

Even though he became enslaved at the age of six, he still remembers everything he did and learned while living as a slave.

Of course, all these memories returned with the pain he was suffering earlier.

‘How did my slave seal broke?’

After a few minutes, the young trainee got a rough understanding of his situation and wondered how he became free.

‘I have to find my parents; however, I can’t leave the training ground until the training session is completed.’

Even though he didn’t have any clue about how his slave seal broke, he wanted to meet his parents with whom he had been living for the past 10 years; however, at the same time, he felt it’d been an eternity since he has actually seen them.

However, the problem was that he could not leave the training session as they had strict rules.

‘Also, I should not let anyone know that my slave seal is broken; otherwise, they will enslave me again.’

That young man decided to hide it from everyone because everyone followed the orders of the Slaver Marker, whom he had seen a couple of times in the past.

‘Young man, how does it feel to become free?’

Suddenly, the young trainee heard a voice in his head, shocking him as he hurriedly asked, ‘Who?’

‘I am the one who helped you become free.’

The voice resounded again, and before he could say something, the voice continued speaking, ‘For now, continue to act like an enslaved person. I will free more and more young trainees.’

‘What?’

The young trainee was shocked as soon he saw one after another young man fall to the ground.

Just like him, they clutched their heads and groaned in pain.

‘Who are you? Where are you?

However, the voice in his head no longer replied to his questions.

…..

After twenty minutes,

All the young trainees in the training grounds still looked emotionless; however, if one looked closely, they could tell they were only putting on an act.

They continued to follow the instructor’s instructions and continued training like robots.

‘Ding,

The host’s [Seal Swallowing Ability] has been upgraded to level 6. The host can now swallow the level 6 seals.

In his [Secret Dimensional Space], Leo received a system notification that made him reveal a slight smile on his face.

‘Finally, I can swallow the slave seal on my body.’

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Magic Castle = 7 Bonus Chapters (1 Bonus Chapter per day).