Training Breakthrough

Valerie's eyes widened, and looked at Xander accusingly, before a questioning look surfaced on her face, asking, "Are you really telling the truth?"

At this, Xander just smiled and mouthed, "You would feel it once you tried it." Valerie, although she had a bit of animosity with Xander about what happened to her grandparents, who were demigod magicians, she decided to trust him just this once and began to let go of controlling the 3 other elements and focus on the darkness element.

She had immersed herself into feeling, understanding the darkness element. That was an important step of allowing your life essence doll to establish a resonance with the elements. There is a form, of masking, of acting the element.

As soon as she had a stable control over a few darkness element particles, she practiced moving it to her will, focusing on refining her control. After a minute of practicing, she then attempted to control Fire, Water, and Poison elements.

Valerie was surprised. She could sense some sort of...subservience from the 3 other elements. It was as if she was a commander ordering the troops, a commander who knew the strengths, weaknesses of her troops, their names, their capabilities.

She could sense the 3 other elements! Valerie was giddy. She could understand the other 3 elements from a different perspective that she hadn't understood before. She continued to immerse herself in utilizing the darkness element to command and comprehend the other 3 elements, causing a stir in the environment around her.

As Valerie began to experience some sort of elemental enlightenment, it had caused the elements around her to be agitated, affecting even the other groups around her. Ms. Amelia had noticed the situation and was going to move to control the situation, but someone was a step faster.

Xander waved his hand, and the rampaging elements in the area surrounding Valerie calmed down, and she began to go into deep meditation, losing track of everything around her. Seeing that the situation calmed down, Xander smiled at the others and said,

"Everyone, the situation is resolved, you can now go and practice aga-" Before he finished his words, another strong fluctuation occurred, this time, it came from Maryann, who had a look of enlightenment as well. She had experienced some sort of breakthrough with her ice and fire elements.

"I... understand now. I finally get it!!" Maryann shouted crazily, her face showing relief, happiness, and a form of weariness. The temperature around her rapidly decreased, and tongues of fire were birthed as the temperature fell.

These tongues of fire, however, had different colors and intensities, so that even the surrounding people could feel the blazing, burning effect of the fire even without being close to it. Some who saw it were screaming, clutching their damaged eyes, which were severely burned.

At the same time, there was frost starting to radiate from their eyes, slowly covering their bodies. Everyone who saw the outcome was panicking, and even Ms. Amelia was a bit stumped about what to do. She wasn't proficient in healing elements, but she did know what had just happened.

She had, after all, reached Legendary Class. She knew what it meant to have an initial fusion of your primary elements even before you made your own magic spell circle. The tongues of flame that were manifested contained the traces of fire representations and ice representations; this meant that such a spell is already an example of a self-made magic spell.

But Maryann Dykes was only an Elite-6; although it wasn't rare for people to create Master class spells at the Elite class, especially for supreme geniuses, it generally happened when they were Elite-9, or had just broken through to Elite-9.

This was her first encounter with someone making a Master class spell at the Elite-6 stage. If Xander could hear her thoughts right now, he would have laughed. After all, he made his very first Advanced spell around Mundane-9 or Elite-1.

Seeing this, Xander sighed, and then slightly waved his other hand, causing the flames to stop and freeze in place, before dissipating, like it never existed, and fragments of it entered Maryann's forehead, causing her to fall into a trance. The temperature, which was closely approaching sub-zero values, was gradually returning to normal. The eyes of those who looked at the flames were also returned to their normal state, and the frost covering their heads were already melting, evaporating into the air.

Xander, after checking everything is normal, stopped his control over time and space immediately and resumed playing around with his phone, waiting for the two to come out of their respective enlightenments. At that moment, everyone including Ms. Amelia would feel calm and relaxed unlike earlier. He was actually bored.

Maryann had developed her first Master class spell circle, which was an AoE spell that targeted anyone who can see the fire manifestation. It didn't instantly kill the Elite students because the magic energy supplying it was low and was provided for by elemental energy, which focused on natural energy movement.

It was good that Maryann finally solved the issue of her 2 elements; amazingly, it only took her 4 hours to do so. She truly is a talented cookie. Now Valerie on the other hand, was smart enough to utilize this opportunity. With the influence of my control over Yin-yang and the other origin elements, I had stimulated the darkness element, allowing greater control over the elements under it.

What he found funny, however, was Valerie was actually talented in 5 elements, not 4. Darkness always comes as the absence of the other element, Light. Darkness-Light, or like its origin counterpart, Yin-yang, was basically the rulers of the 5-elemental series. Pity, she didn't have the resources for her to utilize both origin elements. If she could do it at such a young age as him, he would have a worthy competitor.

Given that the two elements were closer to the origin elements when compared to the other elements below the Yin-yang series, it was possible for her to sublimate her understanding to reach resonance with the actual Yin-yang origin elements, evolving her primary elements of darkness and light.

When Xander glimpsed a bit of Valerie's future where she had no interactions with him, to identify when she would realize this without his interference, he saw that it was going to be realized 25 years from now, from her exploring a ruin somewhere in Ete continent.

She was trapped in a small space pocket that contained pure darkness and pure light elements. She basically spends 10 years in there comprehending the darkness, and from there, she managed to reach its extreme. From the extreme, she saw the light, realizing her 5th primary element, which was light.

From then on, a rocket development appeared; 10 years after the incident, she broke through to Legendary; 9 years after, she reached Mythic with 95% elemental representation understanding with Fire, Water, and Poison, 90% on Darkness and Light representation. 30 years later, she steps into the Demigod class smoothly.

A 90-something-old Demigod seems passable in the wide universe, but in Eteria, you are considered heaven's blessed at this speed.

Those who were watching the trio, however, had a different feeling coursing in their bodies: regret. If they had chosen Xander as a sparring partner, they might have gained enlightenment as well!

Anyways, there's still next week, where they can choose Xander as their sparring partners, hehe. Everyone had this kind of thought pass through their minds. Sadly, a wrench would soon be thrown at their plans.

Even Ms. Amelia, who had witnessed what Xander had just done, shook her head in amazement and worry for Xander. As she witnessed the situation evolve to what it is now, she had stopped the recording inside the building, ensuring none of these things got out; and if it was spread out, no one would believe it as there was no evidence.

Little did she know someone was closely observing Xander from the shadows, one that was far more powerful than anyone in the building.

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Unknown place in Eteria.

In a large villa facing the sea. A man was casually smoking, overlooking the sea, the island, from his balcony. A knock could be heard coming from the door to the room.

"Enter."

A man in butler attire entered, his face dignified and honored to be in the presence of the man.

"Your majesty, we have information concerning Xander Cloverfield. Just 10 minutes ago, he had caused two of his sparring partners to gain enlightenment by saying a few sentences. He had also demonstrated a strong, coercive power over the elements around the two sparring partners to avoid causing damage to the other students nearby. Our spy assigned to Xander cannot identify what elements were used by Xander do cause the coercive effect, or if he used elemental suppression in the first place." The butler said politely, reporting the information to the man who was still sitting by the balcony.

"Hmm...have we managed to infiltrate his retinue of guards and servants?" The man asked, not looking back at the butler.

"Your majesty, we failed to do so. For one, the current group dispatched to his villa was done by the Eta government in partnership with the Cloverfield Clan. It's not easy to utilize our people in the clan due to them being in a low position. The same goes for the Eta government." The butler responded, his voice containing a sense of disappointment and sadness. He was not able to fulfill the task that his master had sent him to do!

"Hmm, never mind that, continue the surveillance. Absolutely do not approach Xander Cloverfield. If one of the agents is compromised, I would have to replace your job with your other brother."

"Y-yes, my lord." The butler said, relieved and happy that the master didn't shout at him or kill him outright. The butler left the man and closed the door, allowing the sound of the sea waves and cawing of birds to resound in the room.

"Hmm... Xander Cloverfield, if it is truly you, I wonder what you got as an ability from God, I wonder." The man murmured, his voice barely echoing in the empty room.

He returned to his room and sat at his soft, velvety chair, seemingly relaxed and without worry as he faced the other set of of French windows, where flying seagulls overhead and the sound of waves crashing into the beach echoed through.

"…It has been long since I was reborn here. I kinda miss the chicken nuggets my ma used to make." He drawled, revealing an accent that did not exist on this planet at all.

His eyes showed a moment of tiredness, a fatigue that seemed to have built up from the past.

However, this was quickly extinguished, replaced by an unwavering, calm, apathetic look, a look that disdained the world, the galaxy, the universe.

"…Hmph! A game, a game, all these 'gods' like to entertain themselves."

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Grand Hyatt University, Faculty room.

Brian smashed his hands on the table, feeling angry. Surrounding him were his fellow professors who had the same rank as him.

His initial request to gather the computing source of the university and focus on decrypting the code placed on Xander's papers and VR results were denied. Brian and his fellow professors had another identity on campus, which is the fighting force of the campus in times of distress, or war.

There are a total of 13 members, 2 of which were the Dean and the vice dean, and the remaining 11 are the most loyal and powerful professors in the university. Brian himself was a Mythic-3 magician, and he was 4th to the last in rank, or 10th in rank; this group was called Brightforce.

"Can you all honestly tell me, why you would unanimously vote 'no' on the decision? Did they pressure you guys? Or was it the Eta government?" Brian said, gritting his teeth. His other colleagues, who knew he would react this way, shook their heads in denial before one of them began to speak.

"Nope. It was the Dean's idea. You know how powerful the Dean is. He said that he knew you would react this way, so he wanted you to see something before you decide what to do." The woman spoke, handing Brian a crystal case containing a simple item: a photograph.