Leon looked at the Emperor and nobles surrounding him. He was not emotionally attached to anyone here. Since transmigrating in this world, he was always confined in his room, for safety reasons.
Leon knew that the Emperor loved and cared for his son.
So what?
He was not his son, but an otherworldly soul. Acting like a filial son after possessing his child's body, it was not something Leon was interested in doing.
Living for himself and having fun, that was his way of life. He lived following that in his last life and he was going to do the same in this life as well.
Leon thought for a while about what to say, since he didn't plan to reveal his real power. Having a secret can save your life and revealing your secrets can make it easy for your enemies to kill you.
'Not that I'm afraid of death, but still... It's more fun this way.' Leon thought.
Everyone was silently waiting for the big reveal and finally, he opened his mouth, "Regeneration. This is my abilitie's name." he said plainly.
Hearing his ability name, many doubts emerged in people's mind.
"What? It doesn't even sound like an offensive ability." a young noble remarked with disdain.
Another young noble standing with him flinched and put him hand on him mouth, "Shhh! lower your voice. What if he heard you?" he whispered in that noble's ear.
Other nobles and important guests were also having similar thoughts, but they did not speak them aloud.
Leon once again looked at their expression and seeing the change in them, he could barely controlled his laughter.
But that was not the end of the show.
"Oh! From what i know, nobody has ever awakened an ability with that name. It might be an unique ability of high rank." emperor hurriedly said in an attempt to save his son's reputation.
"D-Rank." Leon blurted out as soon as emperor finished talking. For his plan to succeed, he needed to do this.
What plan?
To create some chaos in near future.
"Pfft.." the young nobles couldn't stop their laughter anymore.
Looking at the crowd once again, Leon could see the clear disdain, without any other emotions.
'As expected, leaving aside the emperor, everyone is already making their own plans to overthrow me in the future... Just like they did in the novel.' Leon thought.
In the original novel, crown prince had actually awakened the [ D-Rank Regeneration ] ability. After his Awakening ceremony, many assassination attempts were made by the four Dukes of Empire, all wanting to become the next emperor.
But their attempts failed, the secret imperial forces protecting him were too powerful. Leon became the emperor successfully and worked hard for the empire's development.
Then one day, the protagonist appeared in the capital with his harem. He defeated all imperial forces and became new Emperor, with the excuse 'Current emperor is too weak to safeguard the empire's borders '.
The truth? Nobody knows, because the story was finished after he became the emperor and made most of females his concubines.
Public opinion?
They preferred the protagonist as their Emperor, not only was he the strongest person in the empire, he also married minimum one woman from every house, becoming everyone's in-law.
Original Leon's fate was unknown after being expelled.
****
Remembering the novel's plot, Leon shook his head.
'Truly befitting a protagonist.' he amused.
Ceremony had ended peacefully, without any young master making a scene. It's not that they didn't want to make fun of Leon, but were self aware of the consequences of insulting a crown prince.
Leon was standing in front of his room's window, looking at the beautiful night sky, stars and moon shining with silver light.
Cold breeze flowing in the room, fragrance of flowers was mixed in it.
Taking a deep breath, Leon opened his mouth.
"Status." he said in almost inaudible voice.
It was not necessary to say it out loud, he could summon it by just thinking, but Leon just wanted to do it this way right now.
Blue holographic screen appeared in front of his eyes, hovering in the air.
[ Name: Leon Aegis
Age: 18
Race: Human
Ability:
1. Regeneration (Ex-Rank ) (+)
2. Chaos Fire ( ??? ) (+) ]
Seeing the (+) mark he tried to press it with his finger, and succeed.
New information appeared on the screen.
[ 1. Regeneration: ( Ex-Rank )
♦ Instant Regeneration
• All types of energies.
• Body, Soul, and Existence.
♦ Full Control
2. Chaos Fire: ( ???-Rank )
♦ Infinite Fire
♦ Return To Chaos
♦ Full Control ]
"Regeneration is Ex-Rank and Chaos fire is still ???, There was nothing like this in the Og novel." Leon muttered.
There were only six ranks of abilities in the novel—[S, A, B, C, D, and E ]. S being the highest and E the lowest. Original protagonist possessed two [ S-Rank ] abilities.
Leon knew that his abilities were not of lower rank than those ranks, but how much higher they were, he didn't know.
He walked towards his bed and pulled out a big sword from under his pillow.
The sword was inside a silver sheath, taking the blade out, he made a light cut on his left hands index finger.
*Sssss*
Removing the blade from his finger, Leon looked at his finger, but there was not even a scratch mark on that spot.
"Interesting, let's test that [ Full control ] effect."
Once again, Leon made a cut on his index finger with the sword, but this time a little deeper.
Looking at his finger, he could see blood dripping from the cut mark. It hadn't healed at all.
"I can choose the speed of regeneration." He was impressed.
Leon had now understood about how his regeneration power worked.
"Next is, Chaos fire."
He walked towards the window and lifted his right hand in the air, pointing his index finger towards the moon.
*Crackle*
A purple coloured small fire emerged from the tip of his finger. He hadn't even choosen the ability between [ Infinite Fire ] and [ Return To Chaos ] to activate yet.
The space around his finger started to break and cracks appeared in the air. Purple clouds emerged in the clear night sky and covered it all, purple lightening violently rumbling in those clouds.
Leon looked at the small purple flame flickering on his finger.
"I would have died just now, if i didn't have the [ Instant Regeneration ] ability!" Leon said with disbelief.
It was not observable from naked eyes, but Leon could feel it, his very existence was burning and regenerating right now. Just the act of wielding the Chaos fire was enough to destroy someone's entire existence.
Fortunately, Leon had the ability to regenerate.
"This is not something that i can use without thinking, otherwise, there will be no world left for me to have fun in." Leon shook his head lightly and the small fire disappeared from his finger.
"But wouldn't it be fun to make [ Infinite Fire ] of weak version? Let's apply the [ Total Control ] on it." Leon said with a mischievous smile.
He once again lifted his hand, this time pointing his entire palm towards the moon.