Chapter 46: The Academy

Elisabeth and Aldrich stood there completely frozen for a while moment, their eyes locked tightly onto Aeon's transformed posture.

Elisabeth was the first to regain her composure, voicing out her confusion.

"Aeon? Is that... is that truly you, my sweet child?"

Aldrich held an identical, unanswerable question written across his face as he stared at his wife and then back to his son.

Aeon maintained his calm smile, immediately launching into his fabricated, pre-planned explanation to soothe their worries.

"It is really amazing, right? To be completely honest, I have absolutely no clear idea what happened to my body, but the exact second my core started its breakthrough into the D-rank stage..." He then smooth-talked his way through the exact same cover story he had delivered to Tera just moments prior, detailing his sudden loss of consciousness.