Chapter 35 Rank Assessment

It's been two weeks since the incident happened, and in these days, the students started coming to this hotel to stay. A week ago, we got a message from the academy saying there would be a rank assessment test, and they decided to enroll new students in the academy.

They did the same when the dungeon incident occurred. Since it's only been half a year, they decided to take students, and the only requirement for joining the academy was to pass their ranking assessment.

And the old students have to take the same test and decide their ranking. So this time my class E10 won't be hiding their strength; because of what happened in the incident, I'm sure they will thrive and get stronger, and this time Ms. Elisa will also go with this. After all, the more you jump the classes, the more advanced the classes will become.

But something was bugging in my mind—an absurdity in the status, or more precisely, the technique mastery. I only checked my status points and didn't check my mastery of the technique because it only had a few points to complete the technique. But after learning and practicing my new technique, 'Master of Weapons', I noticed that my dagger art, 'Dark Slash', far surpassed its mastery. An absurd thing.

===] Techniques [===

Dagger art: Dark Slash:- ‹★›

Proficiency: 123.9%

(Dark Slash is a technique that unleashes condensed mana slash to erode skin)

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Mastery can only reach a hundred percent; no matter how hard you train, it won't go above 100%. And as far as I know, every main cast member only reached their mastery over their techniques is hundred percent.

Getting out of the VR capsule, I stared at the status screen.

"Is this some kind of bug? Does the system even have a bug?" I thought about it for a long time but couldn't form a possible theory. After the training, it even increased by 0.1%.

"Sigh—what the fuck is happening?" scratching my head, I started to walk to my room. There was already a training ground in this hotel, but the instructors modified it to be similar to the one in the academy, even though it's small.

"Ywan." I couldn't sleep these days because my heart kept thumping from excitement. "Fuck! Why the hell did they give her the room next door to me?!" Because of this body's feelings and teenage hormones, I'm having weird thoughts, and I start feeling disgusted, and my stomach churns up because my feelings and thoughts clash with Jadel's feelings and thoughts.

The worst thing is that I can feel water moving around her room, more specifically her bathroom. If I close my eyes, I can feel their body. It's like a sixth sense, like if someone were staying in the rain, because of the water hitting and moving around his or her body, I could clearly picture it. I can feel this around 50 meters in radius around me. It's all thanks to my innate skill, 'Emperor Of The Ocean'

Slap!

"Fuck you, Jadel" slapping my cheeks, I concentrated myself.

"Let's get ready to take the rank assessment."

After taking a shower, I got changed and walked to the testing center. It only took 5 minutes to reach that place because the hotel was in the middle of the city, where most of the important buildings were. It will only take a few minutes to reach these places.

Upon entering the testing center, I saw lots of students from the academy. Some had slightly gloomy faces as they couldn't completely overcome what happened in the academy. 108 students died in the academy; not only that, 75,982 people died in the incident, and more than 198,913 people were gravely injured. Some of them being their family members, friends, or relatives.

I walked to the staff members sitting there, and as I reached them, I showed my smart watch to them. They didn't say anything, just scanned my watch and looked at my details.

"Cadet Jadel Wayner. Class: 10E. Rank: 2500. Disability: Damaged mana veins. Correct?"

'Why the fuck does he have to read out loud?' I nodded my head. "correct."

"Sit there; a staff member will come and call your name for the rank assessment."

"Okay." I nodded my head and walked to the empty place. Sitting there, I closed my eyes and impressed myself with my thoughts. There is a hidden dungeon in a city, a C+ rank dungeon. The specialty of the dungeon is that there are a variety of mana stones. But that doesn't concern me. My goal of going there is to increase my status points so I can enter another dungeon called 'World of Lost Souls' and obtain the skill.

But the problem is that I will die if I enter it alone, and I don't want to enter it with others, so I have to be careful when I enter it. One mishap could lead to my death.

"What are you thinking, Jadel?" A shiver went down my spine as I felt something was looking at me, causing me to hallucinate the cold and sinister golden eyes of some powerful entity looking at me.

Opening my eyes, I saw a pair of golden eyes peering at me. In front of them, I felt naked, as I felt she could see through everything.

She elegantly walked to my side and sat beside me. Crossing her legs, she looked into my eyes while balancing her head with her hands.

'Why is she here? Did she find– of course, you idiot.'

"Hehe, I like that expression of yours." A small smile bloomed on her face, slowly turning into a foxy smile as she had found her prey.

"So tell me honestly ar–"

"Can you stop using the skill on me?" I asked while suppressing the pressure I'm feeling.

She observed for me for a few seconds, "What skill?" and asked as if she knew nothing.

"Did you take me for an idiot?"

"Yes." She answered without hesitating a bit. But I felt she was focusing intensely on me.

"…Is that so?" I extended my hands and touched her cheeks. She didn't even flinch when I touched her cheeks, as if she's looking at me like I'm an infant to her.

"What do you think you're doing? Take your filthy hand from my face."

I was growing irritated by her, so I only smiled at her.

"Why are you smiling?" I asked, Take your filthy hand from my face."

I looked straight into her eyes, even though the pressure on me increased, but I didn't care about that. I hid my intention from her. I don't know if she could read my thoughts, but I tried my best not to show it.

I looked straight into her eyes and said. "Bad kids need to be punished." Realization instantly stuck her, but before she could dodge, I grabbed her earring and pulled it to one side, and she moved to another side. The reaction it caused was more powerful than what I imagined.

Spurt!

Blood spurted out of her ears. Seeing it, I felt satisfied. I didn't care if I was in a testing center or she was from a big family; all that mattered was... The blood was so beautiful.

"Stop" Lucy shouted.

Spurt! Spurt! Spurt!

Before realizing why she shouted, I saw blood gush out of my body.

"Huh?!" I didn't realize what happened, but I felt sudden, intense pain course through my body.

"Kurgh!" I was on the verge of passing out when I saw a clad in black figure holding a knife looking at me with a cold look.

Burst!

Suddenly The figure's head burst into multiple pieces. Seeing blood rain down my face, I felt intense pleasure from it. 'beautifull, it's so beautiful.

A red haired woman and a few instructors stood where the clad in black figure stood. Rushing to my side, she poured potions into my mouth and body.

"Guhh!" I felt like my head was split apart, and I felt my breathing stop for a second as blood dripped from my nose.

Seeing my condition, she took out more potion from her spatial storage and showered with me.

"Give him a mind calming potion." I heard Lucy's sound from the side. "I can see abnormalities in his brain and the nerves."

After her words died down, I was forcefully fed the mind calming potion. Drinking it, I felt my mind calm down, and the pain slowly lessened.

"Sigh—The woman in front of me sighed in relief"

Tap! Tap! Tap! Tap!

A middle aged man arrived in front of me and looked at Lucy. It was vice principal Sebastian. "Remind your family again; don't touch the academy students next time. The things that happen in the academy will stay within the academy, and we will give appropriate punishment for what they did. You hear"

"Yes sir"

"And you, why did you hurt her?" he stared at me with a fierce look.

"I"I… don't know. I can't remember why I attacked her…I can't even remember if I attacked. All I know is that she was the one who started it," I said honestly. Observing me and confirming I'm not lying, he looked at her again and looked at me.

"After the assessment come to me, you hear it"

""Yes sir""

Then he looked at the headless body and the red haired woman, Juvylenor Aira, his expression telling 'why did you kill him?'.

"He is my disciple." She said.

'The fuck, I only know her for almost 50 minutes, so why the fuck did she kill him for me?'

"Disciple, huh. Anyway, clean up the mess."

"Yes"

After the vice principal, Sebastian, walked away, she looked at me and smiled.

"Hehe," scratching my head, I smiled embarrassingly and apologetically.

"Hehehe!" her laughing sound faintly resonated.

Flick! Bam!

"Gah!"

'crazy bitch'