Born OP

Part Four

Chapter 122: Hardworking or Softworking?

It was a new day, Anthony woke up to the sound of the leaves dancing to the tunes of the wind.

The sun seemed too high up in the sky, so Anthony checked the time and it was already 2 PM.

'I really slept through the day, I guess moving through the forest felt like forever to me'

Anthony thought as he jumped down his bed and stretched his body.

He heard a knock on the door that requested permission before entry.

"Enter"

Anthony said in a low tone.

The door squeaked open as a maid entered the room and bowed while speaking with utmost respect in her voice.

"The patriarch and madam request your immediate presence in the dining hall"

The maid said as her head remained down without a change in expression.

Anthony looked at the maid who clearly stood at a rank above the King realm but seem too hidden to be noticed.

Anthony didn't reply for a few seconds and just looked at her.

The maid sensing Anthony's gaze on her didn't have any useless thoughts or feel disgusted, she remained unfazed like the gaze meant nothing to her, she remain unflustered as the seconds passed.

Of course Anthony wasn't looking at her with any weird harem thoughts or anything, he just admired the way she hid the mana that flowed in her mana.

The quantity and quality she possessed showed how much power and talent she held, but here she was acting as a simple maid.

After the few seconds went by, Anthony replied her with a single word.

"Sure"

The maid lifted her head this time as she was about to proceed and get ready for Anthony's bath and clothing and everything.

But after she took the first step, she suddenly stopped as mana moved calmly around Anthony's body and bent to his will as his groggy and wet eyes and face instantly disappeared and was replaced by a focused man.

His peejay instantly turned fluid like as it morphed into a suit with a knee length coat that hung on his shoulders while flapping gently, black hand gloves also morphed into existence as they covered Anthony's hands.

The maid didn't miss any of the scene that just happened and just took like it was nothing with a straight face.

Indeed it was nothing, when people get to certain level in mana control, they can use mana to wash their bodies instead of taking a bath making them stay fresh and clean 24 hours around the clock.

Many people just bathed or ate and slept out of hobby, not that they needed to most of the time.

As for the way Anthony switched clothes, that wasn't really normal, but with the amount of skills that exist in this world, the maid wasn't surprised if there was a skill for changing clothes as they were numerous skills and even more useless ones.

Normally Anthony would have taken a bath and freshened up as he liked the feeling of water flowing down his skin in the shower.

But since his family required his immediate presence, he couldn't just come later.

Anthony told Meek to make the mission complete announcement in three days because he wanted to spend time with his parents.

Ice element in the surrounding mixed with the mana under Anthony's control as a perfect ice mirror was formed in front of Anthony as he observed himself with all seriousness as his narcissistic personality kicked in and made him nearly forget the patriarch was waiting.

The ice suddenly disappeared like time was reversed and it was wiped out from existence.

"Lead the way"

Anthony's voice echoed in the room as he broke out of his narcissistic personality temporarily.

"Yes young master"

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The maid said as she walked to the dining hall and Anthony trailed behind her with a paced step that seem to hold the entire authority in the world itself.

Every maid, guard or any other personnel they met on the way to the dining hall all paused in their movements as they all bowed with utmost respect and trust.

Anthony didn't reply any of them, his presence alone was enough for them.

As they walked, they got to the dining hall that was closed by two doors that seemed to be made out of precious metals.

"You may enter young master"

The maid's voice sounded as she bowed yet again and gestured Anthony to step in.

Anthony walked to the door as he used his mana to push it open and met the presence of two familiar people.

Anthony walked to these familiar presence and sat down amongst them.

"Finally decided to wake up?"

Mitchelle asked with a smile as the maids laid the food on the table.

"I was really tired so I had to get some rest"

Anthony replied as he prepared to eat.

"Com'on baby monster, you rested at that hotel, besides, during the fight you never took anyone seriously, so what's the exhaustion about, besides you sleep way too much and often for someone of your rank and power"

Michael said as he looked at Anthony.

And its indeed true that Anthony sleeps way too much, this is because of his lazy side which he can't even use and is exclusive to the clones since they don't have to work.

Any other people with confidence and talent to advance to a higher mana rank spends their time cultivating and just get the minimum sleep required to bring them back to peak condition.

This also happens in the Academy which is why many of the students cultivation shot through the roof.

Due to their cultivation they hardly sleep and spend it all on studying and cultivating.... well it is majorly cause this generation is special.

So if they can stay a maximum of seven days without sleep due to mana.

They spend five to six days cultivating before they head to sleep, wake up and repeat.

But here Anthony was, once his body touches the bed, then he is immediately transported to the dream land.

He rests way too much at the smallest inconvenience or anything that makes him move his body, so he is still very lazy but just not as lazy as his clone who does nothing at all.

Anthony is this lazy because of his Talent and cheats, if not.....

If others like Storm Rider finds out that Anthony actually sleeps a lot he might just faint out of anger.

But you can't truly say Anthony is lazy, cause on the other hand he could be the most hardworking as he spends years in the divine realm training continuously without stop.

Even now as he walks, talks, smiles, his thought compartments are always analysing the information presented by his Bloodline and Physique.

Of all thoughts compartment only ten are left free, the one responsible for the sign-in system, the remaining nine were left by Anthony for any regular thoughts....which is basically his overthinking and narcissistic session.

Chapter 123: Revealed  

"You won't understand the life of a genius like me Dad, if I don't sleep when will others have the time to catch up"

Anthony said in reply with a smirk on his lips.

"Hoo...you aren't even the patriarch yet and you are already challenging me for my position"

Michael said in reply as his battle intent started seeping out little by little.

Mitchelle's voice cut through the battle intent like a thin paper as she spoke.

"Don't scare our son"

The battle intent disappeared as the smile on Michael's returned to normal.

Then Mitchelle turned to Anthony and said.

"Now I understand why your father calls you baby monster"

Anthony's face instantly turned sour.

He could live with his father calling him a baby monster since that man had no hope.

But his mother was another matter.

He couldn't live with that.

As they ate and discussed like a normal family while laughing, the discussion suddenly reach a point Anthony saw coming.

"So my baby monster, what are you hiding so deep inside, the last time I asked you your mana rank you just showed me the mortal rank"

"But with what I saw these past few days, it sure wasn't the mortal rank, I wonder when my baby monster started lying and what more he is lying about "

Michael said as he looked his son dead in the eyes and locked in as he waited a reply, he waited to know if his son would lie again.

And if Anthony actually lies again, Michael would be disappointed.

Of course there are ways to know someone rank and abilities, but would they work on Anthony.

The best way to know someone's strength is to straight up attack them.

Mitchelle's eyes also turned to Anthony as she waited for a reply.

Although she wasn't there when Anthony revealed his rank, she had heard about it as Michael bragged about 'his' son to her like Anthony wasn't birthed by her. .

The atmosphere suddenly turned strange and icy as two pairs of eyes locked on Anthony.

Anthony seeing this kept an expressionless face, but his mind ran various thoughts.

He knew he kept a lot of things from his family as he couldn't just wake up one morning and be like

'Hey....I'm a reincarnator, I took over your baby's body, hope you don't mind, and you don't have to worry I'm not some old monster reincarnating'

If something like that happened he would be killed on the spot or imprisoned.

He had to tell his parents something, at least he couldn't lie about this particular situation anymore.

But he couldn't just tell them about everything, he might tell them any other thing, but his reincarnation and the system were out of the question.

This was an unspoken rule amongst the reincarnator clan, speaking on it was taboo.

So he could say talk about anything asides those two.

Besides, it wasn't like even Michael or Mitchelle didn't keep at least one thing from each other, even if they didn't keep anything from the other Anthony won't speak on his reincarnation or the system.

He wasn't ready to bet on their 'love' for him.

All these thoughts took less than half a second due to thought acceleration skill.

It is said that people's aura are based on their nature, so an aura was like how to describe someone without even knowing them.

Although some people can manipulate and fake their aura, this wasn't their true aura and would pale in front of their main aura, so people usually faked it to achieve their motives or whatever they were plotting.

But the strong and experienced could see through such a feeble facade.

As soon as Michael was done speaking, Anthony sighed as he decided to flare his own aura to the utmost for the first time.

An aura unbefitting of a fifteen years old kid instantly appeared.

*BOOM*

Space shook as an Anthony unrolled his aura.

The plates and utensils they used to eat instantly broke apart and shattered.

The table that held the plates were placed on not even lasting longer than the plates instantly followed as everything was reduced to pieces.

The air shook as it vibrated with high intensity and magnitude.

The walls, ceiling and ground caved in and cracked as Anthony's aura touched the floor.

The windows chattered and rattled as they vibrated before they burst apart.

The aura stood tall and could go head to head with a paragon ranker's but the show of a peak master rank was evident in the aura.

The aura showed immense force and control as it seemed to look down and everyone and everything with a detached look.

Carefree

Indifferent

Invincible

Aloof

The light element unintentionally moved as it mixed with mana and created an illusion together with the aura that made Anthony appear like he was sitting on a throne and gazed down on everything from the peak.

Michael and Mitchelle's gaze met Anthony's as they fell into the illusion for a split second before it shattered.

But that split second made them feel like Anthony looked down on everyone and everything, Anthony seemed simply detached and prideful to speak to anyone lower than him and even above him.

But this was just their misunderstanding.

Anthony never looked down or even looked up to anyone.

He simply has no thoughts about anyone's opinion on or about anything.

Anthony just simply didn't care about anything, this made people always jump to the conclusion that he was prideful.

But Anthony didn't bother to correct this, because he didn't care.

Michael and Mitchelle stared at Anthony's aura as they picked his peak Master rank cultivation rank.

'What a monster'

They both thought as their eyes flashed with various lights but same thoughts.

Deep down, they knew that if Anthony was another person's child from one of the five families, they won't hesitate to nip the child in the bud.

Such talent was too much to be left alive.

They now understood why Anthony kept his strength and everything under wraps.

They thanked the stars Anthony wasn't a show off or arrogant.

This amount of talent has never existed or rather....the history records.

'We have to protect him, we can't let him out of our sight, the other families won't let him live if they find out'

Michael thought as he looked at Anthony, but a smile appeared on his face at same time as two sides of him battled for dominance.

The battle crazy side wanted to leak Anthony's true mana rank and cause war and use then it as an excuse to wipe out everyone.

The other side wanted to hide this fact and protect Anthony in order not to put him in danger due to the other sides recklessness.

'Anyone that sets their eyes on my son better be ready for hell'

Mitchelle thought.

One thing was certain, anyone who touched Anthony better be prepared.

Chapter 124: Want to know

As various thoughts flashed their minds, the aura suddenly vanished as everywhere returned to normal.

Well at least the atmosphere, but not the surrounding as the destruction caused by Anthony still remained.

Michael and Mitchelle didn't say anything after Anthony's reveal.

They just kept quiet and a loud silence descended upon the dining hall.

The word 'Baby Monster' couldn't cut it anymore at this point.

The silence stiffening as it swallowed any sound that made a move here.

After a while, a voice released a sound that silence dared not approach.

"HAHAHAHAHAH I expected nothing less from my son, you need to be at least strong to take over as patriarch"

Michael said as he laughed in joy as he clung his stomach.

"Who knew my baby would hide so deeply, such talent would soon make you a world powerhouse, like the butler said, we might have to seek protection from you soon"

Mitchelle's voice sounded as she smiled genuinely happy for her son.

"So, who do you want to battle first, your father or your mother"

As soon as the sentence was dropped, two thick battle intent instantly dropped on Anthony and tried to threaten him into selecting one of them.

With such amount of battle intent even someone who doesn't want to fight would be at least stimulated to take action.

But how could Anthony's Emperor demeanor skill allow him to be manipulated like this.

The skill that has always been active but automatically deactivates when Anthony is with his family instantly activated and burst forth with a higher momentum.

The raging battle intent was deflected to the side by the Emperor demeanor skill.

Anthony sat unfazed as his presence shifted from his usual child demeanor to that of a cosmic ruler as he looked at Michael and Mitchelle and stated.

"None"

One word.

One statement.

One declaration.

One utterance.

The sudden change in demeanor made Anthony revert to when he looked down on everything and everyone.

The aerosphere turned eerie and silent as the unknown hung in the air.

None of them stepped back, none relented, none acquiesced as the air trembled and melted as none backed down.

The battle intents were nothing more than mere breeze brushing past Anthony's face.

The battle intents kept increasing as they saw Anthony resisting without any trouble.

The grin on Michael's face getting wider and wider as he really wanted to test his son's limits on everything.

He wanted to see where Anthony's battle prowess really stood.

The fight during the mission was something Anthony could take care of with a wave of his hands so Michael didn't really see anything there, but with the little he saw, he knew his son still had cards up his sleeves.

He wanted to see him swing the sword, he wanted to see him moved around, he wanted to see him jump, parry, attack, he wanted to see him adapt to unfavourable situations and battles, he wanted to see everything through his own eyes and senses.

He wanted to see the amount of experience Anthony had gained through fighting.

But Anthony didn't need to fight to acquire battle experience since his skill already closed this gap.

Michelle while not a battle maniac like her husband was a different breed when it comes to magic.

To make the ever so prideful Dragons and Phoenix to recognize you, you must make even the best genius look no different than the untalented ones.

She also wanted to see how her son combined the elements with mana.

She wanted to see how good his mana control is, she wanted to see him cast his best spell, she wanted to know how many elements Anthony could use, she wanted to know how many spells Anthony could cast at the same time, she wanted to know how many elements Anthony could manipulate at the same time.

As all these feelings flowed and coursed through Mitchelle and Michael's body their battle intent burned brighter.

They all stood at an impasse.