Chapter 29

Once I left the room, I went straight to the classes, it seems that I slept for many days that they commenced without me. The hospital was on the top floor of the school’s main building, descending one floor down I found the room where teachers, school staff, and administration staff were situated at. The floor below it was where the S classes are taken.

The main school building had a total of ten floors, starting from the underground lab, the entrance, and the classes. From F to S and two more floors, administration and the hospital.

Entering each floor requires one to swipe their card on a pad that will activate the elevator to take them to their classroom or where they wish. Low-class cards can only take one of their respective classes so that F students don’t end up entering S classes, however, any class can enter a lower level classroom. And S class can enter any classroom.

I was looking rather haggard, however, thankfully I found a new suit which I had worn before getting down. Still, I was feeling some lingering pain my muscles were hurting all over and I was barely able to properly walk

‘You need the body and Qi restoration pill as soon as possible Basara, you don’t really look like the person who defeated one of them at all’ said Nocturne with a hint of sarcasm.

‘Sigh. I would need to wait for the Headmaster to bring me the resources first. It is rather difficult to move now… though I can cultivate and repair some of the damage it will take a lot of time to fully restore my body.’ I replied

I swiped my card at the door to the S class and found a huge room with a lot of people already seated in luxurious looking chairs. It was an amphitheater of a great size where many people looked to be quite attentive looking at an old woman who was explaining something.

The room was vast, however, the attendants were not many, some of them, however, turned to look at me.

“Oh, it’s the servant boy, finally he arrived.” Said someone from the front seats.

“Silence!” said the woman who I think is this room’s teacher.

She was rather old, had white hair and looked a bit stern.

“Basara, I presume,” said the woman whose voice boomed throughout the class.

I nodded to her, yet she said

“I don’t really know what you have between you and the Headmaster, nor do I care. In this room, I am the one that has the first and last say. You seem to be lacking some manners, this class has already started and you arrived quite late, I don’t tolerate such behavior.” She said

“I was hospitalized my lady” I replied

“Here, you call me professor. Leave the titles to your master and those above your status. And frankly I don’t care, even if you were at death’s bed you should still enter this class in time. Now tell me, Basara, due to your absence I will need to ask you something before you enter this class.” She said

“How many assimilation layers can someone achieve throughout their lifetimes and what is the secret behind breaking through the realms of power?”

Many students smirked at me, probably thinking I will not know the answer

“What is it?” said the old woman “if you don’t know the answer to such an easy question how are you entitled to study here?” she said

‘What an absurd question, this is the most common facts. There are a total of fifteen layers, the first five are body tempering where the cultivator tries to get rid of the impurities within his body, the second is spirit tempering where the cultivator assimilates qi into their body unlocking the meridians and his Dantian and channels them between them, the last layer is the saint layer, where the cultivator channels the Qi outside their body forging weapons or armors at will and bending the world to his command’ said Nocturne

“I believe I can answer that question,” I said.

“Please do,” said the old woman.

Once I finished the explanation, some of the students began to laugh.

“He doesn’t even know that there are just ten levels of Assimilation, he even called it Cultivation, it seems that this servant is only speaking nonsense to fool us into thinking he knows many things, too bad we all learned about the ten layers of assimilation yesterday, and he can’t fool us.” A student said this while the others laughed at me.

‘Huh? What are they talking about? Nocturne is this true?’ I asked

‘No, they must have been misinformed’ Replied nocturne without a care

“Silence!” said the woman “You there, you have been interrupting order too many times, -100 points.” She said and it seems that due to the pale face of the student he must have lost some credit on his card.

“Hmm, You, child. Though I have mentioned only ten levels of assimilations, I indeed didn’t speak about a third layer. What you have said, is true and correct. I didn’t want to explain about the third layer due to how hard it is to reach or break through it right now. The technique to reach that realm has long since been lost and rare are those that could even manage to reach that realm. And none could now ever breakthrough. Qi condensing and unlocking the meridians, channeling the Qi to the body is all that we can do right now. Your knowledge about Qi is praiseworthy. +200 points” she said

The moment I looked at my card I saw that I gained 200 points.

So this is a way to get points, neat!

“You may be seated,” she said with a smile on her face.

A boy with golden hair raised his hand…

This is Lady Lissandra’s brother. Dior Visania.

“If I may speak,” he said and the professor nodded for him.

“Indeed, I agree with Mr. Basara, there are three layers of assimilation, yet this a secret safeguarded by the highest authorities, limiting this knowledge is a way for the people to not grow too powerful, though we have lost the technique to breakthrough, by chance some may manage to do it, or find the way. What I am interested in, is how did you, Mr. Basara come to know of such facts?” said the prince.

“Hmm, indeed, I would have asked the boy the same question, and now that it has been brought to the open. Please tell us, that is if you can.” Said the professor.

I should probably decline to answer but it might get me in more trouble.

“This is some knowledge I have been given by my Mentor. I will have to decline about giving you his identity. I am sorry”

“Fair enough,” said the Professor and then resumed the class.

“Now that we brought the subject, I will be telling you about the remaining layer. Yesterday we spoke about the first two layers, and I know many of you know about it, and some have even managed to make it to the second part. The saint realm is a Layer where the old text mentioned people able to fly in the air using Qi, able to live long without requiring food, nor sleep. The body will no longer need mortal sustenance but Qi, which will have fully refined their body and made it be something of a different nature altogether. Saint realm breakthrough-ers were said to have bodies that once they die they dissipate into Qi, not leaving a single piece of their body once they die. However, they gain a lengthy life, and almost reach immortality.”

“There were very few people that managed to reach this stage and the one that presides over all those that ever reached the realm. The strongest to have ever lived. The Conqueror.” She said with a sigh

“The objective of this school as you all know is to forge elite enforcers. Though our country has many of them, most of them are stationed at towns or cities safeguarding the people and preventing crime. Of the one thousand years that the Kingdom of the sun had gone through, the enforcer's era was the safest and most prosperous. Due to the help of the graduates from this country we kept the kingdom safe and sound. Many of the graduates don’t officially end up being enforcers, however. Some just use this chance to learn more about politics and know more about the world to implement this into their lives. Especially the nobles who take this chance to have a better chance to gain more power in the world.” Said the old woman explaining the general situation.

“The Elite enforcers, however, are a different thing. Every three years ten students get elected to this position. By the school board, though many of the spots are taken by the nobles” said the professor then looked at me “In some cases, many servants that manage to reach the high classes can also claim a position. Once a servant that manages to do so reaches this position, they are immediately elated from their servant class to a noble class. No matter the background”

“An elite enforcer is considered to be more valuable than several noble houses. Where they can serve the kingdom and the people in fighting against the defiled enemy. They are given financial and political support by the kingdom. It is no wonder that many nobles try to reach this position, the power it gives them enables their hose to grow in rank and reach a more prestigious position. We have several examples here in this class too.” Said the professor.

Then looked at the corner of the room.

“For example, the House Ling,” she said looking at Lady Akari who was seated at the far side of the class. I didn’t even notice her until the teacher spoke about it.

“The house Ling is considered one of the prominent houses of the kingdom. Its Lord, Lord Yo Ling is an elite enforcer and a close friend to his highness. His sword Brother Master Shen, who is a teacher in this academy is also an elite enforcer and they both serve the country to great lengths. Given the power, they wield the King himself gave the lord of the House Ling a city to rule. The city of flame Ariandel has prospered since, due to the financial and political aid of the king and the power of its current lord. This is an example that many of you should take into consideration. To become an Elite enforcer is a difficult and hard task, though all of you present here in the S class have a better chance at it, it doesn’t mean that those of lower class will just give up the fight for it. You must all reach out to become better than what you currently are. Class dismissed!” said the professor and she left.

The voices in the classroom then rose. Many people began discussing what the professor just spoke about and the rest were using the time to speak casually amongst themselves.

Looking at lady Akari our eyes met and she turned around and left the class.

Hmm…

The moment I decided to leave the class, someone smacked their hand at the table where I was seated.

“You!” he said

He was a tall looking boy, with short-cut blue hair, and azure eyes. He had a look of arrogance in his eyes, perfectly fitting a high noble. Looking at everyone beneath him with contempt, and all above him with either envy or reverence.

“I challenge you for your class position! Give your position back to lady Lissandra and go back to where you belong!”

“I refuse” I replied as I stood up

“What do you mean you refuse,” he said as two more guys showed up behind him. I didn’t have a good look at their appearance, but they looked like fodder characters that follow another fodder character.

“We know you have a black coin. But once you negate mine, these two will challenge you, let's not waste our coins, you can save yours to challenge someone later on.” He said with a smirk

“Give the position back.” Added one of the two other guys.

“You have no right to challenge me if you don’t give me anything of equal value if I lose I will give up my seat however what will happen once I win?”

“Such arrogance! You think a servant can defeat me?” said the blue-haired man

“Then you are claiming that you are stronger than Lady Lissandra, are you?” I said with a smirk.

These nobles are easy to deal with. Hit their pride and they will stagger.

“You!” said the man with gritted teeth

Of course, he can’t say it. it is clear that his objective is to win favor for the Royal family however, he cannot claim to be stronger than Lady Lissandra, even on the off chance he truly is.

“Please, I don’t have time to waste here. And more so,” I said as I brought my card forward

“I am immune to challenges for a month. Stop bothering me” I said as I left.

There was no need to waste time with these people, I have better things to do.

Once I was out, I wanted to go back up to the administrative building to speak with the headmaster. However thankfully he was right next to the classroom, apparently, he was waiting for me.

“Here,” said the headmaster as he threw me a ring.

“What is this?” I asked

“That is a storage ring, I placed all the ingredients for a Qi and body restoration pill there. You can keep the ring, it is of lesser quality, it can store items, you can use your Qi to sweep through it with your sense and also retrieve what is in and also place items within it.”

‘Oh a spatial storage ring, though it is weak and has barely enough space it is more than enough for you right now, I will teach you later how to refine it to become of better quality’ said Nocturne

“Thank you, I will start by crafting the pill,” I said as I thanked the headmaster.

“Once I obtain all the ingredients to make the phoenix seed I will come to you. Also, I would like to see you concocting the pill, would that be all right?” said the Headmaster

‘there is no problem in him watching, understanding how to make it is the secret.’ Said Nocturne

“There will be no problem,” I said

“Then very well. There is a small house near the forest entrance where I spend my time, you can go there and start your pill concoction. I still have many matters to deal with.”

“Ah before you go, there is something I need to tell you,” I said.

Looking around I saw many people that were walking around

“But I think we will need a more of a private place.”

The headmaster then placed his hand on mine and spoke directly into my head, startling me.

‘This is called sending, if you wish to speak you can concentrate on words and use your Qi to say them, not your voice.’

After few seconds I managed to do it

‘is this working?’ I said

‘Quite amazing! I thought it would take some tries for you to do it. however, you really are talented. Anyway, you should always use this to speak private things, there is also distance sending but it requires more technique. What did you wish to tell me?” said the Headmaster

‘Within the classroom, the third row from the left, the boy wearing the black outfit with a swan on the back. He is one of them.”

‘Are you certain about this? We will need to make sure before we act.’ Said the headmaster.

‘I just presented you with one, how you deal with that is your job, I don’t think I have the strength to defeat any of them especially after what happened that day.” I said to the old man

‘Indeed, that is not your job, actually helping us locate them is more than praiseworthy. For each one, we correctly apprehend I will be willing to give you a set of points for it. Also, you should go where you were attacked that day, your weapon is buried under the same spot where you threw it, I believe you can find the way.” said the headmaster

“don’t worry about that and thank you, I appreciate everything.’ I said with a smirk then left after giving the headmaster a nod.

Using my Qi to sweep through the ring, I managed to somehow look into it, there were actually all the ingredients needed to create a body and Qi restoration pill also, I managed to understand the total size of it. it was a cube of 2 meters. Normally it would be a cramped place to store anything, even more, a wing of the moonlight butterfly, but it seems that this one is already refined.

The next class will start tomorrow morning, I should be done by then… I still need to retrieve the scythe…

Once I was near the gate I saw the small shack that the headmaster spoke about.

Using my card to open the door I entered and closed it behind me. It was a simple dwelling with nothing but basic needs, a bed, a desk and some books.

Willing the ingredients to pour out from the ring I began refining them.

After having already made the first pill, it didn’t take much effort to make another. With the help of Nocturne, I managed to create another one of the same quality.

‘Eat it and start consuming the energy of the ingredients, it will mend your wounds, restore your body and its Qi will purify yours.’ Said Nocturne.

Once I did that, I sat in the meditative pose and began looking within me.

A small orb of powerful energy floated within, as it swirled around sending energy waves that rebounded throughout my body. Fixing the damage and reinforcing flesh.

The damaged meridian was almost instantly repaired as the flow of Qi hastened. My body burned to a high degree then stabilized itself.

“Hmm, why is it not melting all the way?” I asked Nocturne

‘The pill still needs some time to be fully integrated, you must keep cultivating so that it fully fuses with you. Now enter your sea of consciousness, its time to teach you more about how to use your newfound abilities.’