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"I hope you guys had a good two days rest, today's the day where real classes start or rather theoretical classes, if you look at your updated schedules each one of you now has a dedicated time to spend with the professors who have selected you, to some those that haven't been selected you'll be put in a general class until someone does or you stay there until you yourself choose a specific course in the second semester"

"Isn't that quite a disadvantage for those who'll be in a general class?"

"Not quite, while being taught by a professor does bring some advantages being in the general class does too, it gives you time to think and diversify your set of skills unlike some of those taught by a professor where they only focus on improving your current skills to the maximum and leave you high and dry in parts, is there any question?"

Lee Hyori asked as she looked around, she wanted to leave now as she wanted to finish the documents given to her by Park Ji-hyun yesterday.

"You forgot the most important announcement of all Professor Lee"

Lee Hyori rolled her eyes as Dean Cho Ji-won walked in unannounced with hands behind his back, he had a smile as he walked to where Lee Hyori was.

"I'll be the first to announce this and I'll make an official announcement later on, starting next semester aside from the professors, various guilds will be partnering with our academy to train the students, of course to be fair this will be open to all year level's so it's not the end if no professor has selected you as there will be guilds ready to welcome you with open arms if any"

Every student had started their discussions and some had recorded what Dean Cho Ji-won had said and sooner or later the new spread to the entire academy including the other academies in just a span of a minute, but some who were perceptive enough looked at Eun-woo and wondered if he had any hand in this they conflicted but glad at the same time since it would help them in the future.

"Before I leave, let me announce this too, Diamond will be the first guild to come here as opposed to the other guilds arriving on the second semester, Diamond will arrive on the first semester and train the students they have selected already for reasons I won't disclose, but don't try to impress Diamond Guild as they already are set on not accepting any other members as of now so it's better to set your sights on somewhere else."

Dean Cho Ji-won then looked at Eun-woo, he saw that his right eye had turned golden he rubbed his eyes as he took a closer look and saw that it was blue instead of the gold color.

"Any how do your best for the rest of the semester, the finals exam will be different this time around"

-

"How will you respond Eun-woo?"

Sowon asked as Eun-woo kept playing with a small violet ball.

"I won't, I recorded everything, I'll let Ji-hyun-noona handle this I'm sure she'll find a way to take offense to what Dean Cho said"

"Why did Dean Cho even disclose it today?"

"It was bound to be announced and I don't blame him one bit, if he's intention was to lessen the grip I have on the first years then he's sorely mistaken"

"I thought you wanted to live a hassle free life?"

"I do and the only way to do that is dominate here so no one would bother me there are things that I can't change or predict but what I do know is that I can make sure that my life would be on a trajectory of smooth sailing in the future."

"So you agreeing to Ono Hayami's?"

"Request? Of course I need an insider to know what the student council is thinking since some of them are not there just because they're popular but they're there because of their strength and power, the more connections and personnel I have in the future the less I have to move"

"I understand"

"What do you understand Sowon?"

Ling Shu butted in as she eavesdropped on their conversation.

"Just know you'll have some people working for you in the future Ling Shu"

"Really!? Being friends with you is great!"

Sowon sighed as she looked at Ling Shu who was now in a jubilant mood while Eun-woo kept playing with his ball.

-

It was noon time and Eun-woo went towards the arena as for the past two days he had thought and remembered something.

"What are you doing?"

Eun-woo entered the the closed door arena not minding Luxuria who was following him, Luxuria entered he saw how Eun-woo who was playing with his ball earlier bring out four more balls, she then sensed an ominous energy cover the balls on the ground Eun-woo had placed.

"Since when did you learn Dark Cosmic Energy to this level!"

Eun-woo didn't pay any mind to Luxuria, he then focused on covering the one ball with dark cosmic energy.

Luxuria instantly shut herself up after sensing what Eun-woo was doing, after a few minutes all five balls were now covered with Dark Cosmic energy and were floating around Eun-woo, Luxuria could sense that even with her ring and Eun-woo's current stats he wouldn't be able to last and would soon be exhausted but she didn't want to disturb him nor say it to him.

"I think Ling Shu should take my place at the vanguard along with Yu-na"

"I won't say anything as its up to you"

Eun-woo nodded and soon controlled the balls, he got a feel on how to control and move them around shortly he stopped doing what he was doing.

"I was expecting for you t-"

Eun-woo then formed a dark sphere from pure dark cosmic energy which had the same measurements with the ball earlier, he then formed three more, he now had four dark spheres made from dark cosmic energy.

Luxuria looked at Eun-woo with awe as she herself couldn't think he would achieve this level of control this early in his life, what happened next sent shivers to her spine.

Eun-woo then launched the spheres on the wall destroying the entirety of it, he quickly dispersed the energy as soon as he saw the huge hole in the wall, one could say that even a Champion level hero would have a hard time breaking it and he just destroyed it instantly.

[ Emergency Attack Detected at Arena 4B! All Units Disperse! ]

Luxuria laughed as soon as she saw that Eun-woo was surrounded within a minute by various hero rankers.

"I can explain"

-

"I know you're calm most of the time but to vent your anger on a poor practice dummy"

Lee Hyori said as she walked along with Eun-woo after cleaning up his mess, the Park Conglomerate would agree to rebuild and pay for the costs Eun-woo had incurred and the incident was let go by the academy.

"I didn't expect I would lose control like that"

"Is it because of your sword?"

Eun-woo didn't say anything and smiled at Lee Hyori.

"You're not going to ask me how I broke the wall instead?"

"Bah! that's the least of my concern at the very least, instead I'll congratulate you"

"Why?"

"After the Old man announced and made waves among the community various guild representatives arrived an hour later and gave their applications to be partners with the academy, coincidentally the moment the alarm sounded and why you were surrounded almost instantly were those guild representatives, I'd say they they took their job seriously as they thought of protecting the students without hesitation"

"Again you're telling me this because?"

"I could sense the atmosphere that after they found out who you were they instantly took note of you and would try to offer you a guild slot instantly even if it's futile, basically they want to show their goodwill and hope you'll remember them instead in the future"

"I see, I guess his plan backfired instead huh?"

"You could say that, although Lee Jun-ho will get offers and what not there's no doubt most guilds would go to you instead or go directly to Ji-hyun to talk about cooperation in the future."

As Lee Hyori explained the situation they could see Ling Shu, Yu-na and Sowon with Snow in her arms coming towards them.

"You guys are missing one person?"

"Professor Lee! Ono Hayami is currently passing her application form for student council"

"I see, and you must be ugh, Jung Yu-na? I'm sorry I'm not good at memorizing European names"

"Ye-yes Professor Lee!"

Yu-na was nervous but soon felt a tight grip on her shoulder.

"Good job beating up student Lee Jun-ho! I guess Eun-woo eyes at finding talent is better than mine."

"Hey! What about me professor Lee?"

"Shut it Ling Shu you barely did anything!"

As the three were busy, Sowon went near Eun-woo who nodded at her and Snow jumped onto Eun-woo's head.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine"

"Where are your toy balls? can you give one to Snow?

"Of course I was planning to give everything to him"

Eun-woo then took out one ball and placed it on Snow's mouth who instantly bit it.

"The truth"

Eun-woo chuckled and showed created a small sphere of dark cosmic energy in front of Sowno who was shocked and nodded slowly, Sowon then took at deep breath and regained her compusre.

"Everyday you're getting stronger and learning new things, just wait for me to catch up to you"

"I'll always wait Sowon"

"Hey you two! hurry up Professor Lee is going to give us a free meal today!"

-

After class the whole day Eun-woo directly entered his room as Luxuria was nagging on him to explain things, Ling Shu was with Yu-na as they were called by Lee Hyori and Ono Hayami was still processing her application

"Now it's your turn to tell me the truth"

"I've been thinking about it for a few days ever since I learned about Dark Cosmic energy, I know I can coat materials with it and instead I wondered what would happen if I make something out of it and I got what I wanted"

"Playing with that kind of energy is dangerous Eun-woo, I won't say anything else as I have said earlier you have my full trust, I just hope you don't disappoint."

"So I'm guessing what would happen if i add"

"Don't even finish that train of thought, although I'm curious your body won't be able to handle it for now and you'll explode instead due to the sheer amount of force"

"It's partially your fault for blessing me and upgrading my body but I won't act like it's a bad thing so thank you"

Luxuria rolled her eyes as she disappeared once more leaving Eun-woo alone reading her old journal from centuries prior.

-

"I know you sense me child"

Luxuria manifested behind Jung Sowon who was alone at the kitchen preparing dinner, Sowon took a deep breath and stopped what she was doing, her [ Tear of the Beloved ] was glowing blue and so did her eyes, she turned around to see Luxuria smiling.

"So it really is you"

"Who are you?"

"Who I am is of no importance, what I need you to know is that you should continue your path, do what you think is best for yourself, looking at you reminds me of a distant memory."

"I see"

"Even the way you speak reminds me of her, now it makes me wonder what she did in her last moments."

Sowon didn't say anything as Luxuria had a tear in her eye, she smiled and nodded at Sowon as she also dissipated.

"Sowon? Did something happen?"

Eun-woo came out to see Sowon as e was carrying Snow, he saw that she had a small tear forming in her eyes, she wiped it off.

"Nothing, I'm just sleepy"

"Then take Snow and I'll cook"

"No, last time you did your burnt it"