"First!"

The shout reverberated around the ground, gently transmitted by the psychic energy, instilling the emotions carried through the word in everyone, overwhelming their emotions. As the students saw his haggard appearance, lacking an arm and suffering from bone-deep injuries all over his body, many of them began to cry.

Of the students that accommodated the top ten rankings in their respective batches, most of them hung their heads in shame, finding their resolves lacking. In order to obtain such an impressive score, Rakh Veera had pitted himself against an uncountable number of Frenzy Beasts, fighting without rest despite suffering from grave injuries.

Despite leading the second-ranked student in his Batch by a wide margin, he never took it easy, diving headfirst into danger. Only by taking the necessary risks would one be rewarded appropriately. Rakh Veera rang the message across the hearts of everyone.

Madam Mary silently created a psychic arm, coursing it through Rakh's spine, heaving a sigh of relief a moment later.

'His Sync Rate hasn't dropped.'

Madam Mary then found blotches of black liquid settled in his injuries, seeping into his bloodstream, inching their way towards his heart. She shot a glance at Madam Mila, exchanging information through eye contact.

Immediately, Madam Mary carried Rakh Veera, flying towards the Head Office Building. Seeing her actions, three of the ground staff followed her, taking naught but a couple of seconds to traverse the distance of a kilometre.

Madam Mila smiled at the students, motioning for the ground staff to take charge of the things. She then disappeared from her spot, arriving before the Head Office Building in the fraction of a second, using her psychic energy to dissipate the vapour cones that trailed after her.

A large slab was erected before the Head Office Building, spanning 3 metres in length and 2 metres in breadth, raised a metre high. A roof appeared overhead, anchored to the ground by four pillars—rectangular in shape, aligning with the rectangular slab—shielding Rakh from the blinding sunlight.

Madam Mila changed the composition of the rectangular slab, turning it soft to comfort Rakh Veera's aching body. The moment he was laid down, he hissed in pain, his face scrunched up, the nerves on his neck throbbing out.

There was a spike in Madam Mary's aura, retracted into her body to prevent damaging Rakh. She created five psychic arms, turning two of them pale blue, having activated her Unranked Skill Regen.

The other three psychic arms entered his body, wrapping around the blotches of black, controlling their seepage into the bloodstream. Madam Mila hurriedly created many medical tools, yellow in colour, having activated her Unranked Skill.

She created another slab next to Rakh, arranging the tools in order. She then created a couple of medical apparatus, controlling their motion through her psychic arms. Anything material was capable for her, thanks to her Unranked Skill.

The three ground staff stood around the rectangular slab, creating four psychic arms each, sending them into Rakh's body when commanded by Madam Mary. They raced against time, trying their best to prevent the blotches of black mixed into the bloodstream from reaching his heart.

"Rizenne!" Madam Mary shouted, transmitting her voice across the military academy, dispersed through her psychic energy. Soon, an individual flew out from the Red Building, activating her domain.

Noticing Madam Mary, she appeared before her in an instant, taking a glance at Rakh Veera. Without saying anything else, she took the place of Madam Mary, creating five psychic arms.

The collective team operated on his body, manoeuvring the blotches of black towards the open would, trying to clear the out.

"Thankfully, the Essence of Frenzy hasn't reached his heart, brain, or spine," Madam Rizenne sighed, guiding the elements towards the open wounds while Madam Mary sought to stabilise his body.

Five minutes later, a black liquid seeped out through the wounds on his body, accumulated towards one spot thanks to the psychic energy of everyone operating on him. Madam Mila created a small vial, allowing the black liquid to collect within it.

The amount totalled to about two millilitres, slowly permeating through the yellow vial, looking unhindered despite it being equivalent to a Tier 5 Artifact. Seeing the situation, Madam Mila glanced at Madam Rizenne, throwing the vial towards her.

With a glance, a frown emerged on her face, one filled with seriousness. Without saying anything, Madam Rizenne stopped her treatment, flashing towards the Red Building.

The Red Building was situated next to the White Building, on both ends: one belonging to the Rhachis Block and the other belonging to the Psychic Block. Madam Rizenne entered the one on the Rhachis Block, arriving at a large hall.

The hall was well paved, the marble on the floors yellow, seemingly created from the Unranked Skill Marble Sonata, Nurtured to Tier 5 level. Opposite to the entrance, on the other side of the wall was a flight of steps, its breadth spanning the length of the wall.

The flight of steps led higher up, the roars of the Frenzy Beasts reverberated through it. The walls on other sides had a flight of stairs leading down, segmented into numerous parts, numbering from one to a hundred. The number was affixed above the entrance, inscribed on a number plate, red in colour.

Except for the small entrance, the rest of the place only had stairs, each stair leading towards a separate path. The Labyrinth of Frenzy was a winding maze, with numerous entrances.

Madam Rizenne glanced at the flight of stairs numbered '21', the path spanning from level one, all the way down to level 5. No two paths intersected, except for level 5 where the paths vanished, joined into a singular maze.

She flew through the path numbered '21', proceeding down, her actions swift. She spread out her domain, encompassing the entire Labyrinth of Frenzy, taking note of all the Frenzy Beasts roaming around.

She first neared a Tier 1 Frenzy beast, looking at its curled self, shivering from fear after sensing her approach.

Madam Rizenne created a psychic arm, sending it into the Tier 1 Frenzy Beast's body, inspecting its brain and spinal cord, retracting after a moment's notice. She then flew forward, ignoring its curled self.

Even after she had passed by, the Tier 1 Frenzy Beast never stood up, looking scared beyond wits.

Madam Rizenne flew forward, spotting one dismembered carcass after another, each of them killed under a single blow, the Heart or Brain crystal within them having been fished out.

Having arrived at the end of the path, Madam Rizenne proceeded downward, heading towards level two.

Each path spanned 50 metres in breadth and trailed a bit more than 400 kilometres in length, dividing the space below the military academy into 200 paths, a hundred for Warriors, and a hundred for Espers. When all the paths in the Warrior section were occupied, the Warriors who wanted to explore the Labyrinth of Frenzy were sent to the Esper's section.

After all, Espers were incredibly weak at Tier 1 and refrained from exploring the Labyrinth of Frenzy where danger lurked at every corner. Moreover, each batch had at most 3-4 Tier 2 Espers, considering they were three months prior to graduation. So, most of the paths in the Esper's section remained empty.

Arriving at level 2, Madam Rizenne noticed the scene of carnage. All Tier 1 Frenzy Beasts had been finished in one blow, leaving their carcasses scattered everywhere. She continued downward, approaching level 3, looking at the mashed remains of the peak Tier 1 Frenzy Beasts and early Tier 2 Frenzy Beasts.

A couple of Frenzy Beasts had climbed up from below, beginning to feast the carcasses. Madam Rizenne created a psychic arm, sending them into the bodies of each Frenzy beast she encountered, retracting them after a moment.

Finally, she arrived at level 4, feeling slightly surprised at discovering a Tier 1 Frenzy Beast munching the carcass of a Tier 2 Frenzy Beast, relishing it. The Tier 1 Frenzy Beast was a lizard, its skin a shade of grey, covered in acid that sought to corrode any living being that touched it.

It was a metre in length, its eyes deformed due to a lack of light, the eyeball bulging, more than three-fourths of it peeking out, trying to capture the traces of ambient light. Its tongue flickered out, similar to a snake, trying to smell the traces of living beings approaching it.

Noticing her approach, it turned tail, beginning to sprint towards level 5. A psychic arm flashed towards it, seeping into its body, pausing its movements, inspecting its brain, and spine.

Madam Rizenne felt shocked, the traces of the Wisdom Parasite fusing into both the brain and the spinal cord of the Tier 1 Frenzy Beast being apparent. Most of the fusion was concentrated towards its spine, shaping its powers.

Its entire body was filled with black fluid, mixed into its bloodstream, turning it black. Madam Rizenne noticed the floor, magenta in colour, looking pristine. The walls on the side were magenta in colour, situated one per every hundred metres, acting like a pillar—a cylinder with a metre in diameter.

The rest of the walls were yellow, created by Madam Mila, shaping the maze that was changed every month. On one of the yellow walls, there existed a splash of the black fluid, coagulated on it sometime before.

The blackness was slowly seeping into the yellow wall, permeating through it, corroding its surface. The places that had been corroded had turned into yellow sludge, looking like jelly that was about to be separated from the wall.

Madam Rizenne opened a gash on the stomach of the Tier 1 Frenzy Beast, fishing out a millilitre of the black fluid, splashing it on the yellow wall. There was no change after contact, looking no different from coloured water being spilt.

But, as she sent her psychic arm into the wall, inspecting the region where the black liquid had been spilt, she noticed faint traces of the wall being corroded, the corrosion minute to the extent only Ground Controllers and above being able to spot the changes.

She then carried the body of the Tier 1 Frenzy Beast with her, proceeding towards level 5, intending to find more of it.

"A Child of Frenzy," She muttered, her expression solemn. The Tier 1 Frenzy beast in her hold tried to struggle, feeling its body turn yellow, soon becoming a marble.