17 The Academy

The rest of the journey was quite smooth, with a few bumps that were solvable by the emissary.

Raikou used the time to completely understand all the power ups from that battle.

Both him and Ghost went through big changes with the system's evolution and the killing of the fox.

Name: Raikou | Age: 15

Cultivation: Rank 2 Soldier - 1st level (0/10,000)

(Godly Meridians)

Strength: 70

Agility: 93

Toughness: 94

Intelligence: 10

Wisdom: 10

Charm: 10

Skills: Fiendgod Body Refining Method (Absolution). Observation (Great Perfection) Berserk (Initial)

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His body stats increased tremendously when he broke through to rank 2, which was further suplemented by his breakthrough in the fiendgod body refining method. It seemed to have broken through after he got hit by the fox, but the circumstances distracted him from realising.

His observation skill had a breakthrough allowing him to see his target's weakpoints for extra damage.

If he fought the fox again, he would defeat it within a 100 moves. They got lucky in fighting the fox, as it underestimated the situation and casually attacked Raikou assuming it would be a one hit kill. Ghost used a sneak attack to bite it's tail off, stopping it from launching any skills.

As for Ghost.

Name: Ghost

Cultivation: Rank 2 5th level

Strength: 50

Agility: 70

Toughness: 55

Intelligence: 25

Wisdom: 20

Charm: 10

Skills: Bite (Absolution). Scratch (Absolution). Ice spear (Small Perfection) Wind Walker (Initial)

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Ghost had broke straight through to the 5th level when the system evolved. This was due it being at rank 2 previously and the accumulated energy while being stuck at rank 1 forcefully.

The system's evolution was probably the biggest boon from that fight. New features include:

- Pet's can exceed your rank by one.

- Skills received from the system are now capped from D->B rank.

- Host now has an eidetic memory.

These new features made Raikou leap in joy, as it gave him the ability to increase in power significantly.

-- Back to the journey...

They had finally arrived at the Birminfram Royal Academy.

There were tens of other emissary's with 25 new students accompanying them, making their group the last to arrive. The grouped up with the others and waited for the gates to open, so that they could enter.

The gates opened within five minutes of their group arriving, they assumed they were last but another team popped up making the gates open. All the other groups glared at the new arrivals with anger at making them wait for so long. The emissary for the new group was a woman with long blonde hair and playful smile as she walked towards the gate.

She laughed "Sorry about the wait everyone, we had some hiccups along the way."

Surprisingly, only the students were annoyed while the emissaries all had docile expressions on their face.

Raikou inspected the woman

Name: Lilia Marsgrove

Cultivation: Rank 4 3rd Level

"Fuck! She's the strongest person I have seen ever. In both lives!" He thought to himself.

There's a dividing gap between each 3 ranks, making the 4th and 7th rank new footholds for a cultivators future. Meeting a rank 4 expert was a milestone of sorts for Raikou.

"Why was she escorting the last group, what's special about them?" He thought.

He inspected the group and to his surprise, out of 25 people, 5 of them were at the soldier level while the rest were at the peak of the apprentice level.

"Where did these fuckers... I mean students come from?" He asked Petits (A/N: Going to call him by his name, as there loads of emissaries about)

"They are geniuses from the highest ranking city under Birminfram's rule, Gilberstone. The strongest expert of their city is a peak general level expert, making it much stronger compared to the shitty city you lot came from." He joked, although Victor didn't seem to take that joke too well. (A/N: He's irrelevant now, probably one of the last mentions of him.)

He continued "They're the reason why I was so excited to find you two. Their talents will probably range from D to B, so I can come as close as possible to standing out bringing two talents similar to that."

Raikou smiled. After that incident, Petits started calling him by his name instead of 'boy', it showed that he had garnered some respect from him. Not that it mattered.

"There are alot of girls in that group of 'geniuses', maybe I can find myself a girlfriend after all these years of chosen celibacy."

Ghost laughed "Definitely. Your celibacy was definitely by choice."

"Hmph, what do you know. Someone as sexy as me can get anyone!" He stood tall and proclaimed with his hands on his hips.

One of the girls from the genius group overheard him and remarked "Disappointing, even trash is able to proclaim his own worth in these parts."

"... What the fuck, I was hoping they had personalities. Hey you! Is it possible for you to not be two-dimensional? The readers don't like that." He shouted

"..."

Once again, no one understood what he was saying and ignored him. Even the girl that insulted him turned away, as if her eyes were on the top of her head.

Raikou didn't mind it. The more people that ignored him, the more people there were to shock and amaze in the future.

Everyone began walking in through the gates and were greeted with the sight of tall buildings completely white in colour.

As they continued walking, Raikou noticed that some buildings had blue stripes on them. "What a peculiar design, feels like I am entering a mental asylum." He thought.

"Yo Petits, why are all the buildings white? Couldn't they find some more colours to paint with? What about the stripes, what do they represent?"

Faced with the barrage of questions, Petits was taken aback. He cleared his throat and explained "The white represents purity, the aesthetic of the whole place gives people the feeling of the academy being pure."

"No such thing. I guarantee there's some impurity lurking about. The headmaster is probably fornicating as we speak!" Raikou remarked.

Petits ignored him and continued "Each stripe corresponds to a class rank. Stripeless buildings are for other uses, while classrooms have stripes. 1 stripe being the lowest ranked classroom for beginners and 5 stripes for the highest."

"Interesting. They might as well put me straight into a 5 stripes classroom, I am too sexy for weaker people to stand. I feel bad for all the women who will gush, just by looking at my face."

"..." Everyone around him was flabbergasted by his arrogance.

And that is how Raikou dispersed yet another group of people.