4 Faceless (part 2)

I was already late when I found my way to the first classroom.

An obese middle aged man with a receding hairline was standing on the podium.

"Mr. Barclay, I believe you will have a good excuse for being late to my class." He asked.

"I was lost and couldn't find the classroom."

"With such incompetents it's no wonder why you couldn't survive in the wilderness. See me after class."

The whole class started laughing at his remark.

I ignored the monkey and found an empty seat. The whole class took my silence as compliance and laughed even harder.

I skimmed through the text book and learned a lot more about this world.

This world has four continents, each ruled by a different kingdom of organisms.( Biological classification "kingdom")

The Aries continent ruled by organisms of animal kingdom.

The Dionysus continent ruled by sentient plants of the plant kingdom.

The Caelus continent ruled by spirit kingdom.

The chaos continent ruled by demon kingdom.

The Barclays are a dukedom of a small country in the Aries continent. This country lacked resources and could only depend on a neighboring monarchy for survival.

"There will be no more classes today. Everyone will go to the assembly hall now to participate in the heroic trial. If you are chosen as a hero, the country will use huge amount of resources to nurture you. So remember to do your best." The teacher looked towards a handsome young man seated in the front row with an admiring face.

" Barclay, you should come with me." He looked at me with disgust.

I followed behind the teacher until we came to an broken down hall a distance away from the campus.

"This is an abandoned training hall, completely sound proof and away from those monkeys." The teacher said in an emotionless voice.

"Monkeys...." I realised that I was seeing humans as monkeys up to this point as well. Could it be because I am a combatant. I suddenly came to a horrifying realisation. As soon as that thought appeared in my body. I started walking towards the teacher at a brisk pace.

"Combatant #934678, you have not communicated the accomplishment of your primary objectives. Surrender now and you will be transported for reprocessing."

The teachers face lost all its features and a smooth violet globe replaced it. The heat emitted from it started melting the clothes and the skin in his body.

I inched closer, " My FAIS has had some hardware issues. I will come with you peacefully. Glory to the empire."

"Glory to the empire." The faceless combatant relaxed and sighed in relief.

I stopped around 6 meters away from him. My eyes looking around his now transparent body.

[FAIS processing unit of combatant #%*^%%]

I found what what I was looking for in near his heart.

"It'll be a bother to find a new body, wouldn't it." I asked bidding time to search for other variables.

"I have another set in my ship. It's the older version so it'll take about two hours to make a new one. The problem is sneaking you out to get to the ship." The faceless combatant said, letting his guard down.

I used the interface to aim at his heart. Suddenly my arm moved and a phantom blade attack was sent towards him.

The faceless combatant reacted suddenly formed a violet tentacle and smashed it towards the blade. The blade attack simply ignored the counter attack and cut through the FAIS processing unit.

One of the major weaknesses of the phantom blade was that it was sh*t at defence. It would simply face through and ignore an attack. That was the main reason for higher mortality rates in phantom blade users.

The tentacle that missed the phantom blade changed trajectory towards me.

I pointed my hands towards he floor and started blasting plasma bullets. A shield suddenly appeared in front of me to protecting me from the shock wave. The shockwave and the recoil threw me back a great distance.

Barely balancing myself with my back against the wall, I started firing plasma blasts continuously.

With all its human body destroyed, the orb hard dozens of tentacles blocking the plasma bullets. But each attack was destroying parts of its body and it was growing smaller. "A combatant cannot have this much energy. Who are you? To use such cheap methods, have you no honour?"

"Your mom has no honour, Spamming is a dignified strategy. I will spam till you die, Camp here till you resurrect and spam this attack again."

Under the barrage of attacks the combatant finally disappeared without even leaving a corpse.