Bloodline of Gods: The Genius at Olympus Academy!

Chapter 32 32. True Dawn

Aiden took one last look at the painting and closed his eyes. He started breathing deeply, his chest rising and falling like ocean waves. As Aiden did this, he visualized the dazzling scene he had just experienced.

The man rising from the stone with the glorious sun at his back, bursting forth with radiant light like a god descending into the mortal world!

At the same time, as this was happening, light in the room began gathering and forming a stream, flowing into his mouth. Aiden could feel the energy scatter throughout his body, and when he looked down, his body was surrounded by a golden glow!

Aiden saw this and smiled. His body hadn't truly been transformed into a semi-light state, so he couldn't be said to have even started with the Sunlight Shuttle technique, but Aiden was satisfied.

He had gotten the direction correct; perfecting the art was only a matter of time.

Satisfied, Aiden left the room and walked a small distance until he came before a new room and read the title:

Apollo's Archery—True Dawn.

Seeing this, Aiden brought out his token and opened the door.

As soon as the door opened, Aiden noticed a large difference between this room and the last. There were people, and not just a few. Aiden could see a large group of people, each sitting on a cushion, looking at the visualization scroll at the front of the room, completely immersed in a trance.

Aiden was a little shocked, but when he thought about it, it made sense. Unlike [Sunlight Shuttle], [True Dawn] was a staple technique for Divine Descendants of Apollo. Since everyone wanted to learn it, it was only natural for the room containing the visualization scroll to be full and busy.

Aiden sighed and looked around for a place to sit. He found an out-of-the-way spot in the second row, sat down, and looked at the visualization scroll: a man holding a bow in front of a dark sky.

As Aiden looked at the scroll, he felt a familiar feeling calling to him, drawing him in. This time, Aiden didn't resist.

Aiden felt his world swirl as the world around him vanished, engulfed in darkness. When Aiden opened his eyes, he was already in a completely different realm.

Unlike the sunny scene from the last visualization, it was now night, but Aiden could tell that the darkness was nearing its end.

Aiden saw a man, their face obscured, but he could sense a dazzling smile on their lips. The man stood at the edge of a cliff, the night sky pitch black above them. The wind brushed against their back as they gazed out toward the endless dark horizon from the high peak.

The man didn't speak but instead slowly raised his bow and drew his arrow.

Aiden could feel the terrifying amount of divinity flowing through the man's veins like raging magma. Mesmerizing golden strands of divinity leaked out, wrapping around the man's body before slowly tracing along the man's arm and concentrating in the arrowhead.

As the man pulled back the arrow further and further, the air and the ground around him started to tremble violently!

It continued until the effect reached near-cataclysmic levels, and just when Aiden thought the floor was about to shatter—it happened.

A dazzling blast of golden light erupted, blinding Aiden's world for a few seconds!

When he looked again, the night had faded, and the entire world seemed to have brightened as if touched by Lord Apollo himself.

Aiden gazed upward and saw a streak of light arcing gracefully into the sky before bursting into a dazzling explosion that burned with an intensity reminiscent of the sun itself.

Though it was merely an appearance rather than a literal celestial event, the sight was still utterly breathtaking. To shoot something as radiant as the sun into the sky—how magnificent! How awe-inspiring!

This was the power of the gods! This was what he desired!

Aiden's mind opened as he realized something. His innate talent for archery, his personal understanding, and even the blood of the god Apollo—it was all reacting and coming together.

Aiden understood it all:

An arrow that pierces through the darkness. An arrow that cuts a path across the horizon. An arrow that heralds the arrival of… Dawn.

Boom!

Suddenly, Aiden's body began to shake as divinity stirred within him. His mind was racing, visualizing every second of the magnificent scene he had just seen in exquisite detail.

Aiden raised his arms and looked for a bow. He was certain that as long as he drew a bow at this moment, his archery would be able to display a dazzling brilliance not too dissimilar to the sight he had just witnessed.

But just as Aiden thought this, he felt the world spin, and his vision went black.

The next moment, Aiden opened his eyes and found himself back in the room with the other trainees sitting on their cushions as if nothing had happened this whole time.

Only the memory of his transcendent experience was there to remind him that this was not, in fact, a hallucination.

Aiden stretched forth his hand in a drawing motion, and he could already feel his divinity starting to bubble violently within him.

Although Aiden couldn't wait to unleash this new, profound archery, he quickly suppressed the phenomenon. Only the gods knew how much destruction he could cause with this new skill. If he somehow ended up damaging the visualization scroll, the academy would never let him off, even if he cried until his tears ran out.

Not wanting to endure such an uncomfortable feeling any longer, Aiden calmly made his way out of the room, and once he was back in the hallway, he rapidly made his way to the training grounds.

The power of the gods—it was now in his grasp!

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A short while later, Aiden was walking toward the training grounds with a bow on his back and a large set of arrows.