It seems this place has all the commendations as the church but instead of light cultivation this is dark cultivation. It's a huge manor dark and decrepit but that's what it needs to be to help with dark cultivation I guess. I went to a class about different abilities that people obtain through the dark arts, after the master showed me around. It looks like i can gain abilities where i can control my own shadow and even the dead, seems like this class is going to be over powered if i train it well enough.
With that in mind I might as well do some extra training in the training grounds, i can try and call for both darkness and light and train with my connection with both. Find a nice shady spot to sit in while i meditate, looks like there's a nice place under that big willow tree with its branches and leaves blowing in the nice breeze. I can sit and train until headmaster is ready to train, I wonder if I can focus and use the darkness the way I can use the light.
lets see focus the darkness into a single point in my hand build it up and strengthen it with more darkness. Its starting to form but I don't have a strong enough connection to the darkness to form a complete ball yet. As I can feel the connection getting stronger to both light and dark, I must train harder to protect my little sister.
The next day the dark lord took me to the graveyard, he smiled "Through the power of darkness you can summon up the dead as your own army, you can use curses and poison's, you can use pure darkness. Training in the dark arts is a never ending cycle for there is so much you can achieve and discover. I'm going to give you this book about how to start your training in the dark arts. Once you have finished it come back to me and we can start on more advanced training." he said as handing me a book, the cover was completely black. There was no title to be found and each chapter seemed to be a different technique.
After reading the first chapter about forming a dark bound, I meditated focusing on my dark and light energy, when I noticed I can absorb both at the same time. The room got brighter the faster I absorbed the shadowy essence in the room, and the room got darker as I absorbed the essence of light in the room creating a mirage effect of light and dark fluctuating. The more I absorbed the faster I could absorb it, after a few hours I stopped. As I got up my stomach made a big grow, so I went to the cafeteria to eat some food before I start training to make a ball of darkness.
They had the most extravagant food, I thought that they would have more run down food. but it was like a five star dinner. The cooks held their heads high as they
would try and make everyone's meal to be the best meal they have ever ate. It seemed that the cooks weren't apart of the dark arts guild but there to train in the
arts of cooking. I had a bowl of tomato soup perfectly garnished, as soon as the spoon hit my tong I could taste the perfect ratio of flavor and the texture was
so smooth I didn't realize when I looked down the bowl was already empty. Then came a bowl of salad now it was made with all fresh ingredients grown by the chefs
themselves, they even made the dressing by hand with all fresh ingredients that they derived. I never knew the taste of a salad could be enhanced to this degree
it's as if you could taste the incarnation of spring itself like walking throw a beautiful meadow with the slightest breeze making the day oh so perfect. Before I
knew it the salad was also gone leaving me wanting more. The main course came, it was a stake marinated for 24 hours garnished with crispy fried strings of onions.
the aroma enough was a sent of pure bliss, it had fried diced potatoes seasoned with a crisp golden tent. I took the first bight and the flavor took absolute control
of my body I couldn't stop myself from eating so fast to look back and decipher the flavors. Just like before it was gone, left wanting more and more. Then to top
it off a desert came out. A marble brownie with bits of cookie with a tower of wipe-cream, it was so warm and moist the flavor just teasing me, I had to have more
more and more I ate so delicious and radiant. after I finished I was completely full left with no room to eat more but still craved the flavors of the food I just ate.
After going back to the training ground and training for another 30min. I realized that my cultivation was significantly faster. I ended up training for 10 hours
straight when my cultivation slowed I thought I would go ahead and take a break for the day. I can now create a ball of darkness in my hand, it has a curse
ability which is very nice. I ended up staying up the entire night reading the training book for the dark arts. Once I get stronger I can control the dead and
some beginning de-buffs which will do very well. All the attacks seems pretty weak but its more dependent on raising an army and using de-buffs. Paired with the holy light
allowing me to heal myself and others it will be hard for me to be defeated alone if I trained in just these two classes but I'm going to the top I need to train in the
rest. I don't want to bite off more than I can chew so I will stay here for another day or two maybe find a skill to train in while I go to train another class.
While walking back to the resting quarters I heard some noise coming from the training yard so I decided to go check it out. To my surprise I found a lot of
people training at this time of night. There where several masters training their students. I went out and asked a guy standing on the side getting ready to
join in the training why they were training so late at night. "Oh you must be new here, It's easier and faster to train the dark element at night when the
surroundings are dark. There is a shroud for the training ground during the day to help with cultivation but night is significantly better." the guy said.
"My name is Cheng Lee, if you don't mind can I join in the training. I have read the basic training guide. " I asked as, when suddenly I hear. "Oh Cheng have
You finished your basic training book yet, if so we can start your training right now." It was the Dark lord walking towards us. "Looks like you will be training
with the master, maybe next time. My name is Qin li, it was nice to meat you." he turned and walked towards one of the dark masters in the training yard. I turned to
face the dark lord, "I have finished the book, and I am now able to summon a dark orb.", "That's great, we can start over here." he replied with a big grin. we walked
over to a open area where no one was. "You read the chapter on the dark cloak correct." he said as he summoned a dark orb in his hand. "I have that's were you shroud
yourself in the darkness correct?" I replied. "yes it is, it's a low level skill but its one of the ones that grows in strength the more you practice it and the stronger
you get." he took a step back and shrouded himself creating a cloak of darkness. "One trick to this is at night or in dark corners you can use this to hide your presence
and disappear from others." He was so excited to explain all of the details. After going through in more detail then the book he suggested I try to use it.
I took a step back, took a deep breath, closed my eyes and focused on the darkness around me feeling it absorbing it. I could feel the increases in speed as the Qin told
me earlier, I created a vortex and compressed the darkness, the vortex pulled all the darkness out of the area. So much so the others could feel the darkness leaving
slowing their cultivation. The small torches were enough to light the area after i pulled the darkness away. "Ding, level up darkness absorption. You can now absorb
the dark element twice as fast." the system called out and a great increase in absorption came, I compressed the darkness even more and the vortex speed increased.
I then took a fraction of what I absorbed and spread it over my body creating a shroud of darkness. "Ding, new skill acquired shroud of darkness" the system called
out again. after a little more absorption I stopped opened my eyes to see a dark shroud covering my head to my toe.
The dark lord looked at me in diss belief, "It took me 10 days to learn that skill to the most basic form yet you advanced it in a moment. You absorbed all of the dark
element resounding in the air and even reached a level that would take at least a year to accomplish." he kept praising me, but I felt as if I was lacking and needed
more training in this field.