“[Hawkeye]: A two-star magic aptitude soul, usually used with bows and crossbows, has only a few magic spells at high levels… tsk, compatibility is only 36%?? Even with a two-star magic aptitude, I can’t learn it? Trash among trash.

[Hercules]: A two-star magic aptitude soul, this one has a decent compatibility with me, 55%, but alas, I only have a one-star magic aptitude, can’t learn it, and I heard it has almost no magic spells, sigh, trash.”

[Assassin]: A one-star magic aptitude soul, this one I can learn and the compatibility is not bad, but… I look down on it? How can I, the young master, just be a backstabbing thief? Too lame.

[Magic Swordsman]: A three-star magic aptitude soul, this one is not bad, compatibility is passable, but alas… three stars, so close yet so far, I wonder why they display such a soul, how many people on the street can afford it? Even if they can afford it, it’s completely useless, right?”

“Please, is this the largest non-private soul collection room in the royal capital? The variety of souls is too few?? The highest is only three stars, too lame.”

“……..”

In the soul collection room, the boss sitting on the long bench listened to Winnie’s complaints and couldn’t hold back.

He naturally knew Winnie, after all, he is somewhat of a ‘celebrity’ in the royal capital, how could he not know him?

It was already surprising to him that this good-for-nothing playboy could appear here today, and his strange murmurs while browsing were even more baffling.

But it’s fine if he says those weird things, the boss could pretend not to hear, but he actually said that the variety of souls here is few, and the highest is only three stars??

No buddy?

Do you have any idea what your magic aptitude level is?

Still picking and choosing, thinking you’re some kind of undiscovered genius?

Looking at Winnie, the boss twitched his mouth.

If he really were some undiscovered genius, he shouldn’t be here.

This shop is mostly frequented by ordinary people with some magical talent or wealthy individuals.

If he truly had a four-star or even five-star magic aptitude, the nobility or royalty would have already noticed him and taken him to their private soul collection rooms to choose a soul.

Can the souls in the soul collection shops on the streets compare to the royal collection?

A three-star soul has to be a treasure of the store.

The private soul collections of the royalty and nobility are different, there you can find everything, three and four-star souls are abundant, too many to see.

If you really had the talent, why would you be here?

The boss thought to himself.

“Boring.”

With that, Winnie closed the panel and walked out of the collection room.

He didn’t come here to really pick a soul, just to see if the soul selection guide worked well.

Indeed, it’s not bad, the three virtues were not spent in vain, just aim at the soul and open the panel to see your compatibility with that soul, quite convenient.

Since it’s about choosing the best soul to use for a lifetime, it must be done in a larger and more complete collection.

For example, the royal family soul collection of the Camella Kingdom.

Generally, Winnie has no right to go there, but King Camella made an exception allowing Winnie to enter the royal family soul collection to choose, considering the Varelis family is a descendant of the goddess.

However, King Camella’s favoritism did not cause any dissatisfaction among the other nobles, on the contrary, the noble peers in the royal capital were all sneering.

Some even sarcastically remarked, “His Majesty the King is really putting people in a difficult position, placing a mountain of gold in front of a starving beggar, making him covetous but unable to take anything, how pitiful.”

The meaning is naturally to mock Winnie’s magic aptitude, implying there’s no need for him to go to the royal family collection to choose a soul, because he can’t take away any of the good stuff.

In response, if it were the old fool Winnie who heard this, he might have been furious, but the current Winnie is completely unperturbed.

Who cares about these?

Today he came to the royal capital naturally to do something important.

Clutching the royal family soul collection pass personally by the king, looking at the distant, almost endless majestic royal city walls.

It is said that every jade brick on it is engraved with magical patterns, and on the city walls, magical ballistae are set up everywhere, with golden dragon flags fluttering in the wind.

From time to time, fully armed golden-armored soldiers with red tassels can be seen patrolling the walls.

They wore dragon-like closed helmets, clad in golden armor, wielding enchanted dragon-tooth swords, well-equipped and majestic.

Those are the imperial guards dedicated to serving Camella, the [Wrathful Dragon Knights].

They are the most trusted and relied upon military force by King Camella.

King Camella may not fully trust his private butler, his courtiers, or even any outsiders, but he has absolute trust in the Wrathful Dragon Knights alone.

Even the appearance of the leader of the Wrathful Dragon Knights represents the personal presence of the king.

The reason is not because the Wrathful Dragon Knights are the royal guards, but because the king has bestowed upon them the status of a royal knight order, making it absolutely impossible for the Wrathful Dragon Knights to betray the royal family.

As a long-standing sage family, the Pavone family inherits its own [Root Soul].

The so-called [Root Soul] is a soul independently explored, researched, and created by a Saint.

The soul created by the Pavone ancestors is [Dragon’s Eye], requiring a four-star magic aptitude.

This is the soul with the highest compatibility with the Pavone family, and all past Pavone kings have used [Dragon’s Eye].

In addition, all members of the Wrathful Dragon Knights also use [Dragon’s Eye].

Without a doubt, each Wrathful Dragon Knight is an elite among elites, a genius among geniuses, and only such individuals are qualified to join the Wrathful Dragon Knights.

This is also why the king can unconditionally trust the Wrathful Dragon Knights.

Firstly, this is a knight order created by the royal family itself.

Secondly, all members of the knight order use [Dragon’s Eye], and the Pavone family, as the root family of the [Dragon’s Eye] soul, can, even if only when the family head is powerful enough, strip others of their [Dragon’s Eye] soul.

This is why the Wrathful Dragon Knights would never betray the royal family; the soul they use can be stripped by a sufficiently powerful member of the root family, making betrayal equivalent to seeking death.

In front of the royal city stands a church made of silver-white stone, with pink roses planted in its courtyard.

When passing by this church, Winnie hesitated for a moment and stopped.

This astonishingly large and luxurious building is a church of the Church of Radiance.

As the most widespread faith among humans, the Church of Radiance can be found throughout all human nations.

Below the church bell is adorned with a burning cross with six wings, which was the emblem of the Varelis family and also the symbol of the Church of Radiance.

In the past, Winnie would have avoided churches like a conditioned reflex, not daring to approach.

This is natural, as the events of his childhood are still vivid in his memory, causing Winnie to have an extreme aversion to the church.

He couldn’t understand why the church, which had cared for him and often gave him candy before his parents’ death, would act so harshly after their passing.

Speaking of candy, Winnie remembered that before his parents died, the archbishop of the church had always been very caring towards him, often privately giving him various kinds of candy.

However, after his parents’ death, they led a raid on his home and publicly conducted a magic aptitude test on him, revealing to everyone that his magic aptitude was only one star.

It was also after this that the rumor ‘Winnie is a fake descendant of the goddess’ began to spread.

Recalling these memories, each incident happened too coincidentally.

Winnie noticed a detail: when the cardinal conducted the magic aptitude test on him, his face bore a certainty, as if he knew from the beginning that Winnie’s magic aptitude would definitely be one star.

Wait, could it be??

Thinking of a certain possibility, Winnie’s expression changed dramatically.

…No, these are just his speculations; he has no evidence.

When he came to his senses, he had already walked into the church.

Directly opposite the church door stands a huge silver-white stone sculpture, depicting a holy and beautiful maiden.

Her hands are in a prayer position, her long hair reaching down to her thighs flows naturally behind her, dressed in a holy ceremonial gown, her eyes closed, bowing her head in devout prayer, with six huge white wings behind her as if calling for the rejuvenating seasonal wind.

The craftsmen’s extraordinary skills have made the maiden’s appearance lifelike, with the cross holy spear beside her purifying the filth of the world, her unparalleled beauty and flawless purity cleansing the darkness in people’s hearts.

Even the most stunning flowers would feel ashamed in front of her.

Even so, according to the records, the top craftsmen who sculpted the statue of the Goddess of Graceful Radiance were still ashamed, unable to replicate even half of the goddess’s beauty on the soulless stone.

Indeed, the statue placed in front of the church is that of the founder of the Church of Radiance, also Winnie’s ancestor, the Goddess of Graceful Radiance Varelis, whose faith spreads across all human nations.