"Hello Class, it is nice to meet you all, I may have given you all a bad impression hopefully however we can look past this and start anew." she was still staring at Samael as she said this, it seemed like a very forced and superficial apology but no one pointed it out.
"How about we all introduce ourselves, to get to know each other." Idalia proposed
"My name is Idalia Erus, I am human and I am from the slums." She announced proudly, looking around the classroom to see if anyone despised her background as she saw how indifferent Samael was she was quite disappointed as she wanted an excuse to beat him up.
"Em, teacher we did that yesterday...." Xiao Ying said.
"Huh, really?"
"Yh..... Um Alice thought of it and so we did it."
"Oh" Idalia said embarrassed, after all yesterday she didn't return to the students and they had like half a day to get to know each other.
"Well alright, since we all know each other let us begin today's class."
"As you all know, this is the combat class so what I teach you will be focused on fighting, I may not teach you spells or cultivation techniques but I will give you the knowledge on how to defeat your opponents, how to react to enemy techniques and so on and so forth." When Idalia started speaking her demeanour became deathly serious, she finally felt like a teacher.
"This is why the dean doesn't fire her, I guess she is a genius teacher." Sami thought.
"I need a volunteer to spar with after all bettering your fighting skills is easier with practical experience or at least watching someone else fight."
No one responded it looked like everyone couldn't trust the teacher after seeing what she had done yesterday. Even Bellona a fighting maniac doesn't want to fight an actual mad woman just because she likes fighting it doesn't mean that she is an idiot.
Idalia looked at her students expression and guessed there thoughts, she spotted Acala out of the corner of her vision and saw his rage filled eyes and decided he would be a good example.
"Since no one is volunteering I have to pick someone, how about you."
"Me?" Acala's gentle voice said.
"Yes, am I not clearly pointing at you."
"Oh, well can we use weapons."
"Of course, but no talismans or treasures that detonate with above Emperor level strength." and as she said this she glared at Samael, "As that does not show your true abilities, it is also a bullshit way to win."
"Ok."
Acala jumped from his seat landing gracefully in front of Idalia, grabbing the broken Tetsubō and Mala Beads from his storage space and stood in a fighting stance.
"As you're in tier 8, I will also restrict my cultivation to Tier 8."
"3,2,1 Begin!" Idalia shouted commencing their spar.
Acala took the initiative swinging the 24 inch long (it would be 48 Inches but it is obviously broken.) Tetsubō at the toned body of Ms Erus flame and heat engulfing the surroundings, the rapid flurry of attacks created a beautiful afterimage, it was like a dance.
Idalia was dodging the blue glow of water aura contrasting the fierce red, her appearance right now was a big contrast to her savage behaviour yesterday. She was as elegant as swam she looked like a fish in water bobbing and weaving throughout the encirclement of flames.
"As you can see here, Acala likes to take the initiative to attack, he uses very powerful and quick strikes as a way to put pressure on their opponent. However I like to dodge wait, for a chance," while she was explaining to the class she quickly got in closer and blasted a water ray at Acala sending him flying, "and attack!"
Due to them both having Tier 8 strength Acala was able to get up, instead of attacking again instantly he used the barrier from the Mala beads and then rushed back into action, using reckless tactics as he believed the barrier would block his attacks.
Idalia continued to comment, "As you can see, Acala has a wealth of experience, since he is prepared to change his fighting style in the middle of a battle, the way he adapts is vital to winning fights. However he seemed to have forgot I can adapt too."
Idalia jumped backwards and began to charge an attack, golden metal aura formed a huge corporeal spear the aura constantly condensing increasing the density of the spear to insane amounts, at the same time she did this she was dodging all of Acala's attacks.
After the while the spear was done condensing leaving a 3 foot long golden spear, no aura radiated off of it as it was all tightly packed leaving no energy to glow.
ZIP! BOOM!
The spear dashed through the class, the air screamed as the spear pierced through it disregarding air resistance. It reached Acala's barrier absolutely shattering it, just as it was going to hit his body it stopped in the air.
Idalia walked to the middle of the stage, "As you can see even though Acala was sending a flurry of attacks or his defence seemed impenetrable, I still won. The main reason, the true key to this victory was multitasking as I was dodging the attacks, I also charged up my own allowing me to retaliate with brutal strength."
"Furthermore, Acala could have done many things to defeat that attack, for example dodging since he decided to just try and block it, confidence is great but the barrier mainly came from a treasure and excessive reliance on treasures is really bad. Another way to beat that last strike was to run into me as I can't attack myself can I and so on and so forth."
Idalia then proceeded to fight everyone else in the class, giving the students some pointers on how to improve and a slight guideline of the path they could take. Everyone loss even Samael.
"As you can see student Samael has also lost, even though yesterday I was in the advantage with the fact that my cultivation was unrestricted I still lost and that is due to my overconfidence and lack of calm and control. Yesterday my mind was not peaceful causing me to make mistakes, very stupid mistakes."
"After all I am in the True Immortal realm, I could have just tore a hole in space effectively dodging the Talisman. Bur my overconfidence, arrogance and the thought than no student would dare to do that led to my downfall."
"I will let you guys digest what I've said and I shall se you all tomorrow." she said, commencing the end of the lesson. She simply stepped through space leaving the students in class.
Samael looked around and saw that many people looked down and were quite disheartened as they are geniuses and most of them have never lost so badly before, Ms Erus left the classroom pretty much untouched no one could truly injure her and that has harmed their confidence.
Alice also noticed this as the great leader she is, she spiritually communicated with Samael and asked him to cook as it will let him practice, strength the bonds between classmates and improve everyone's mood.
"Everybody as you know I am part of the Forte family and my family is known for their cooking so I decided to cook for you all, I hope you enjoy."
"FOOD!" the two dragons said both their voices were filled with eagerness.
The two glanced at each other and then aggressively glanced away annoyed that they liked the same things.
Samael brought out his portable kitchen (yes he always carries that around after all you never know when you may need to cook). He brought out gluttony and started crafting an assortment of dishes, the other four helped him with prep and soon the others did too all of them working together to cook.
The classmates soon became very familiar with each other even the most indifferent Zi Tian got involved. The mouth watering aroma of food and the hearty laughter of the 25 soon filled the surroundings. Everyone was eating and having a good time, the depressed aura from earlier having completely disappeared.
A familiar blue haired woman was floating above them gritting her teeth, "Damn it, I wanted them to be low spirited so that they would have a higher motivation later on increasing there work ethic." She mumbled, "It's always these noble bastards that ruin everything!"
"Can I have more food." two voices said, it was Long Ke Ai and Eos speaking it became quite apparent that the two were foodies.
Samael got back to work, he always enjoyed cooking and seeing his classmates satisfied expression filled him with joy. As soon as a dish was cooked the two dragons completely devoured them.
"More!"
"MORE"
"MOREEEEE!"
The two dragons began to treat this as a competition to see who could eat more neither of them giving up. They occasionally looked at each other to scowl then went straight back to devouring food.
3 Hours later, two 13-14 year old children were rubbing there bloated bellies with a satisfied expression on their faces, countless stacks of plates and bowls stood next to them all looking clean. If you didn't witness the dragons licking their dishes clean you would think they weren't used at all.
"I won." Eos said.
"No I did!"
"Nope I definitely ate more than you."
"No I ate more, you ugly lying western dragon."
This continued until the sun went down and the other 23 went back to their residences not ready to deal with the 10,000 year long rivalry between the dragons.
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Info of the day - The Slums
The slums is an area around the same size as a royal city, however there is much more people living underground. It is a poverty filled area and even the people that control don't live there.
The underground part of the slums is filled with countless illegal items and a slave trade that is carried out down there. Humans selling humans, elves selling dragons, the worst of the worst live down there and the even worse control the place.
Many self righteous people have tried to dismantle the slums but always fail as there will always be poverty no matter what you do. This has caused the Slums to rebuild each time it's been destroyed.
The people at the top of the pyramid, the peak of the food chain are powerhouses in their own right allowing the slums to become their own private playground.
You can find almost anything in the black markets but beware of robbers as you might become a new addition to their inventory.
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