The moment he got off the train, most of the eyes around turned to him, the warriors' course students began to whisper as they commented on his achievements and his reputation.
Ethan couldn't help but snort when he heard their words 'Snakes, all of them, just like at my last school, bootlickers that only want benefits...'
He was about to walk when suddenly he shuddered, looking around the memories of what he just thought and did in the last few hours came back to him. He wanted to slap himself after knowing what he did. 'What the fuck is wrong with him! They are only kids! God damn, when will this end...' He went on his way to the academy while feeling like crying.
Ahh... the Forgraves, such an abnormal family...
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The military academy was like a technological super castle, there were 8 towers that surrounded the area around the school with a type of intelligent force field capable of identifying who was allowed to enter and who was not. The walls had a smooth texture and were all white, there were several creases in it where bright blue tubes passed through, they carried immense amounts of energy to each piece of the academy.
In several key points of the academy, it was possible to see a holographic assistant, they were artificial intelligence responsible for answering questions and guiding new and veteran students to any place they asked for as long as they were authorized to access the requested area.
But most impressive were the soldiers carrying all kinds of weapons that patrolled the school's surroundings. They carried from sniper rifles to light-weapons such as swords, axes, spears, or even bows or crossbows. They all wore white armor with creases similar to those on the wall where bright blue tubes circulated energy, but in this case, it was a different type of energy.
Warriors and wizards were people who had access to a special type of energy called Prana or vital energy, the difference between the two was basically how they used the energy, warriors used it to refine and enhance their bodies, which guaranteed them unmatched strength, but the sorcerers used this energy to improve their soul, which allowed them to use Prana in a very versatile way.
They were able to cast various types of spells, shields, buffs, curses, and even summon creatures from a spiritual plane to assist them in combat, while their bodies were much weaker than those of warriors, which made them vulnerable in melee combat.
In the school auditorium, the veteran students were sitting in the stands while a teacher was speaking at the podium. At first, he just talked about the usual bullshit about the duties of the military and how everyone should strive to achieve their dreams, but soon he started talking about a completely different subject
"Today, as some of you may already know, we will have special training, but before that, we will conduct the semiannual assessment. All students make one line per course."
Hearing this, the students quickly got up and organized. Soon 3 floating globes of light appeared in the air, and began to evaluate each of the students who were first in line, whenever it finished, the globe showed the result for all to see and the person left the line.
For the first students of each course, the result was "2nd stage of the outer circle." For most of them, the result was always the same, however, soon a boy from the wizard's course revealed that he was in the 3rd stage and won the praise of some teachers.
Soon Aidan's turn came, when the globe finished evaluating him he showed, "4th stage of the outer circle." Seeing this, everyone looked at him with an open mouth, a person who never stood out before showed such an incredible result this time! The teachers even had a smile on their face as they praised him.
In the turn of Gwen and Keira, the result was the same, this made the students of the warriors' course gulp, this year there were some people with a frightening talent in the wizard's course.
This only lasted until the moment that the boy who had shared the compartment with the trio started to be evaluated by the globe. At that moment Keira and the others could hear the murmurs of the students of the warrior course, theorizing what Ethan's result would be.
And to the surprise of many, he also managed to reach the 4th stage of the outer circle! At the end of the evaluation, only 10 students reached the 4th stage, 3 of them were from the warriors' course, 3 from the sorcerers' course and the last 4 were all from the technological course.
Seeing the results, the teacher who had spoken on the podium previously nodded in satisfaction, he stood up and spoke again, attracting everyone's attention.
"Okay, now that the assessment is over, I would like to ask students in the warriors and wizarding courses to follow me, we will now have a joint activity on the academy's training grounds."
Hearing this, the students got up and organized themselves in a uniform line and started to follow the teacher, after crossing the maze of corridors they ended up leaving the school and stopped in front of a big energy gate, behind it you could only see the sea of trees and above it was a sign saying, "Access only with authorization."
The teacher turned to the students and said. "In this activity, you are only allowed to use the standard equipment of the academy, whoever is caught cheating will be punished. Now if you look at your ultralink access device on your arm, you will see that you were divided into pairs, find your partner and enter the training field, your objective will be shown on the ultralink after you have entered it. Good luck to everyone and beware of blue-winged cats."
Looking at the device on his arm that looked more like a gauntlet a holographic screen appeared with a little information, such as his pair, after seeing who it was, he couldn't help but panic, 'Oh my god, what I'm gonna do now.' He turned to look at Keira who was a few meters away from him.
She turned at the same time and awkwardly smiled as she waved at him. She couldn't help but gulp seeing his eyes and expression, he looked like someone who was preparing to kill...
Sighing he went to her and looked at her for a few seconds. After thinking about what to say for a few moments, he gave up and directly said.
"Let's go."
Keira only nodded while trembling, she wondered if what she felt when he looked at her for some time was the famous killing intent...
The moment they passed through the energy gate their ultralink updated and they received a mission. [Hunt down 10 Ferocious wolfs]
After he read the mission, he only looked once at Keira's direction before walking into the forest. As they walked through it Ethan would some times bent down and look and the trails left by the wild beasts inside the forest and slowly track them.
It didn't take long for them to find their first prey, two wolves that were feasting on the body of a deer. Seeing how distracted they were, he turned to Keira and whispered, "When I give you the signal I want you to strike the wolf on the right if a firebolt, I'll take down the other."
She nodded silently and watched as he extended his hand and grabbed the void. There, light extended from his hand and slowly took the shape of a bow, he then pulled the bowstring backward and a light-arrow surged out of nowhere.
Seeing this she extended her hand as well and made a few symbols with it, slowly her hand started glowing in red and flames surrounded her hand.
"One... Two... Three, now!" Then both of them shot at the same time. Arrow and Firebolt side by side, soon the wolves were struck by their attacks and after whining for a few seconds they died.
They were about to keep going when suddenly they heard the roar of a wolf behind them when they turned to see their faces paled, there were 8 wolfs behind them.
Ethan recomposed very quickly, their current situation wasn't good, they wouldn't be able to escape and fighting would be a really difficult matter.
Looking at his side, he was surprised seeing that Keira had already recomposed as well, but before he could say anything she made a few hand signs and her hand started glowing white, she hit the ground below her and cast an energy shield around them.
The moment this happened the wolves jumped towards the shield but their attacks only managed to leave some thin cracks on it.
Seeing this he finally remembered, 'Right, she is a 4th stage wizard, how could I forget something like this, things will be much easier this way.' Opening his hands the bow disappeared, when he clenched them again, a shield and sword appeared on his left and right hand respectively.
Running his energy around his body, his skin suddenly started glowing red, with a shout he jumped forward and left the area around the shield, Keira wanted to stop him but keep a shield like this required a lot of concentration, wolves like those ones were all on the 3rd or 4th stage, it was difficult to keep a shield working against so many of them at the same time.
Using his sword, he impaled the head of the closest wolf, at that moment another one jumped in his direction trying to bite his arm. But he turned and spun hitting him with the shield with enough force to knock him back!
However, fighting against so many enemies at the same time isn't something easy, the being in the 4th stage of the outer circle for a warrior meant that he had 400 hundred more kilograms of strength and 4 times his usual capabilities such as reflex and reaction. But the same applies to beings like the wild beasts, and they had a natural advantage in this aspect since they were more powerful and faster than humans, to begin with.
So he couldn't react the moment one of the wolves managed to approach him and bit his left leg. Gritting his teeth he beheaded the wolf of managed to bite his leg using his sword. Noticing the other wolves approaching his jumped back and once again entered the region of the shield.
Seeing the blood leaking from his legs he cursed in his mind.
"For how much time can you keep the shield working?" He turned to Keira as he asked.
She made some calculations on her mind before replying. "No more than 5 minutes..."
"That's more than enough!" He then stopped focusing his energy around his body and concentrated it on his leg, exactly in the same place where he was bitten, the would on his leg then slowly stopped bleeding and started to heal in a speed visible to the naked eyes!
After a minute his leg was completely healed, "Hold on! I'll try to finish this as soon as I can!"
He then circulated his energy through all of his body once again as he left the shield she had cast.
He then kept doing the same thing, every time he went outside he would kill two wolves and go back to heal his wounds, and a few minutes later they finally managed to kill all of them.
If one looked at them would think that Ethan did all the job, but they would be wrong, without her help they would have already died or he wouldn't be capable of leaving unscathed, after all, something like facing lots of enemies at the same time, is something that only true experts can do, someone like him that is only beginning his journey could already be considered really good for being capable of facing 3 wolves at the same time.