Chapter 40 – Selection (Part 1)

At a place 100 miles away from Armada Academy

River Academy

A Man with a high hairline was sitting on a high chair with other teachers around him.

A man rushed with panic written on his Face.

"Sir there is someone to come to look for you."

James looked at the person and humped "What's the need for panic? Which academy is it, Golden Bull or Silky Swords?"

"Sir that's not the main problem the one that came is a Martial King."

It was as if the pause button were pressed the whole room quieted down.

James asked, "Are you sure."

"Yes, Sir he came flying through the sky riding on Fire."

James rushed out as he felt an aura 10 times stronger than he arrive in front of the Main hall.

It was Max and Reiner the second elder who now had reached Grade 4 Peak, or the Martial King Stage.

James looked at two of them and then focused on Reiner's Face and frowned and then respectfully said "Sir what brings you to our humble academy."

Reiner smiled "Nothing it's just I want to get a student of your academy."

James took a sigh of relief.

"Yes, Sir you could, and would you like to have a cup of tea." James invited him in.

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By the time James and Reiner were talking news spread to all of the Armada empires about the Formation of the Academy, which shook the Empire to the core as the old Armada family was beaten down to its core by killing all its higher-ups and geniuses, Soon many powers send their people to investigate.

But they all came to a shocking truth that the Armada Academy stood up only in a matter of a week.

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Demacia

After both of them received the news Leo laughed, "You were wrong they didn't follow the Gou route, and even they made friends with the river academy."

"I am not an A.I. who can picture thousands of outcomes and come to the best one and it is good that they acted like that, means why should you hide if you are one of the strongest and Orion is also stationed there, and it also shows Max has affection for his previous academy."

"You say you are not an A.I. but you thought all about this."

"Your head is made of potato didn't you used to write novels, how did you live on it."

" I used to copy good reads, change the names, and make a story of that."

"Okay, your brain is not made of potatoes but tomatoes."

"What's the difference"

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Armada Academy.

After a week of investigation, the other powers found out information about the academy and were shocked as its strength had already surpassed all the other power if left out its members and it was suspected that there was more behind it as only Reiner was confirmed as the Martial King but he was only the Vice principal.

Today Riley decided to hold an opening ceremony and invited all the major powers of the Armada Empire.

But the most surprising thing was that Max had reached Grade 3 after practicing in the training ground for one week.

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At the Gate, one could find a Dark Burly Man standing with his eyes closed. There was only one thing surprising about this man anyone near him could feel a heavy atmosphere so he was avoided by everyone who was visiting the Academy. If anyone from the old continent saw him they would surely rush at him for a selfie as he was the 23rd ranked Iron Monger Zulu Kaya, Grade 5 superhuman. But sadly he was dying and even Leo could delay his death as he had damaged his cerebellum during a fight against the space beast in Oort Cloud and he had his moments being uncoordinated and he even needed to focus to make his heart beat, leave the rest of the organs, he didn't have a successor and he didn't even look at the people who came for it, his other chance was to participate in the research where he only had 5% chance of getting better, he accepted it but he is waiting for a successor to appear and that was the reason he came to Armada, or else even if he was volunteer Riley wouldn't even dare to ask something to him.

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In the main hall

All the 5 powers and 37 intermediate powers sat around with the 5 being on the center table.

They were all entertained by the Armada family members.

All the powers were amazed by the Armada family even just revealing the 2 Martial Kings was the highest power in the rest, but there was still Riley yet to appear.

Soon Riley entered with Max and sat in his place without any arrogance.

Riley looked at everyone and smiled "Hello Everyone I am Riley Armada, Principal of the Academy."

Rinker Evernight Vice principal of Evernight Academy looked at him and spoke "Kid Riley you have grown up, You surpassed me in a blink of an eye."

Riley smiled bitterly "Yes Grandpa but I am still not the real master here."

Rinker nodded and looked at the rest of them and they nodded to him "We had an idea of it, but it is still surprising you told this to us."

Riley "Well at first that was the plan but then all my arrogance wore off, I will narrate it from the start."

Charlotte family was the nemesis of the Armada, its representative humped at Riley and spoke: "Tell it fast we don't have enough time to deal with you, Wolf clan is already starting to aggress."

Riley had hatred in his eyes when he looked at him but his reason prevailed "Wolf clan is a little matter, they don't even have a half - Martial Emperor, well where should II start, two weeks ago I was thinking how should I escape form a Martial Grandmaster and two weeks later I am at half Martial Emperor stage, Wait let me continue."

Riley stopped others who stood in shock.

"My daughter met 2 People, both of them at least at the Martial God stage. At first, they asked me about the history of our nation then, the Icy guy healed me from the damage our exercise do to us."

Pietro Charlotte was the one to ask the question "Means, our martial exercises are wrong, even the one by the first emperor."

"Yes, They call the internal strength Chakra, and it is divided into 5 stages 1 the Merging stage, heart stage, lung stage, liver stage, and finally brain stage, and this whole together is called terrestrial Grade."

"How they correspond to our practice." the Wright academy principal spoke

"Our two stages are their one."

Rinker "I think I know where we are wrong, the base, what is the merging stage."

Riley "Merging stage signifies the connection between body and soul, forming the energy called chakra. Yes you are right, we only did the body part and forgot the soul, and that's why we are weaker than beasts, and I was most embarrassed when he said the power created by humans was used by a beast more perfectly than humans."

Everyone nodded.

"Then he taught me the correct method and created some orbs that elevated all of us and said this is your limit in your lifetime. Don't get excited I don't have any more orbs and the training method is free I will give it to all of you soon."

Rinker "Riley this is too weird, seriously are you going to give it away."

"Yes, well I haven't told you who they are, Our continent is called as Noxus continent, and there are six more, and this power comes from the Old continent which existed for more than 4 million years. They call themselves Human Federation."

The scene quieted down.

Pietro "The name is not too powerful."

"Yes, really but they are, Edith, open the ceiling please."

A mechanical voice sounded "Yes Sir."

The ceiling divided into two and the sky above was shone clearly.

Riley "This is just one of their creations, Orion II"

"Deactivating Stealth."

The Sun which was shining in the sky started to cover up and a huge behemoth appeared.

"This is their weapon which could causally use Grade 5 attacks and by charging Planetary Grade 1 attacks. And this is not it we also have some Teachers from the first academy on Earth and some volunteers too."

The crowd took a few minutes to calm down."

Rinker asked, "You said the first academy then what your academy rank."

"That's the thing that made me take this decision Armada Academy ranks 106th on that list."

Riley didn't wait for them to continue "Okay I think you all have brought your geniuses here, take them all to the Training Grounds, Edith will guide you."

"Why?"

"They have a chance to be selected to go to Old continent, and you can get credits to purchase items from the federation like the orbs, and if you are lucky you also can get a chance to go there."

Everyone's eyes shined.

"The age limit is 30 to participate and the last and most importantly you know the Dark Burly man at the gate."

Everyone nodded.

"He is the ranked 23rd Iron Monger a Grade 5 being, and he is here to accept a disciple. Okay then I will meet you at the Training grounds."