"What?! Is that a type of Wind blade?!" The student exclaimed with astonishment written all over his face.
This student was wind elemental spell caster. Earlier when the other students were trying to bully Shenyan, he was also there, but when he realized the identity of fellow student being bullied, even he got curious about this fellow. After all, he was the one that caused that weird light to appear during their examination.
He too, was surprised when he saw that and was even jealous when he heard the test result from the dean saying he had twelfth-grade talent. But who would have thought that after a while, the dean would change his mind and say the results were inaccurate? When this student heard this, he was greatly relieved, but the subsequent events shocked him greatly.
The fellow student who received such a result in the examination and was even unable to awaken his elemental affinity in the end, was not the least upset about it and he even wanted to leave the examination venue under the eyes of all the students, just to eat? Who in their right mind would say something like that? He did not know what this fellow student was thinking at all.
So, today when that Qu Feng was going to picked on him, he purposely did not intervene and only watched the whole confrontation, but what happened afterwards left him dumbfounded.
This fellow was actually that strong or was he seeing things? Everyone could tell that he was not even a cultivator before attending the academy and plus there were rumors about him unable to even practice cultivation technique, which spread among the new students.
So how could he dodge an attack from Qu Feng who was a fifth-level Spirit Apprentice? Something is strange about this fellow student. With that thought, the student decided to follow Shenyan and see what 'training' he would be doing, but all he saw was him swinging his sword around.
There was nothing special about it at all, and so the student lost his interest in him and thought maybe the rumors were indeed true, about him unable to cultivate and also, him dodging Qu Feng earlier was probably only a fluke but what happened next left him speechless with wide eyes.
He realized that as Shenyan swung his sword, the wind current kept moving around— almost as if he was using a wind elemental technique with his sword? The student was also practicing his wind elemental techniques at this moment, so he was really surprised by what he had just witnessed. Could it be that this student was also a wind element technique user? That means he had a wind elemental affinity? No, that is not right.
According to the test, he did not have any elemental affinity. But what if the test was wrong? That means this student purposely did not say anything about him awakening his element afterwards. Does that mean he was hiding his true strength from everyone until now? Many thoughts kept going through the student's mind and before he noticed it, he was staring intently at Shenyan who kept practicing his Quick-Draw Sword Technique.
'Hm? Why do I feel like someone is watching me?' Shenyan thought as he stopped swinging his sword and proceeded to turn around, only to meet the eyes of the student who was watching him with the look that says, 'I want to see through you.'
'W-What is wrong with this guy? Why does he keep staring at me? Don't tell me… he came to give me weird nicknames like the other guy from before?' When Shenyan thought about this, his face suddenly became pale. He did not appreciate those nicknames. Does that mean he would have to suffer from these fellow students constantly? Why can't they just leave him alone? Shenyan was perplexed as he thought.
Shenyan could not take it anymore and he proceeded to ask, "Uh… This fellow student, what do you want from me?"
However, the student kept his silence as he proceeded to look at Shenyan more intently. This instantly sent a chill down Shenyan's spine. Shenyan was really uncomfortable with the way the student kept staring at him. Why does he keep staring?
Seeing the other party was not responding to him, Shenyan was about to leave this section of the training ground and find another place to practice but a sudden voice halted his steps.
"Haha… Don't worry… Don't worry, I mean no harm. I was just amazed by your sword technique. No need to be afraid. You were just amazing with the sword that I couldn't help but stare." The student said in a somewhat awkward tone and proceeded to give Shenyan a serious look before saying, "Especially that wind moving technique…"
"…"
The student said intending to rouse some attention from the other party, but Shenyan kept staring at him with a nonchalant expression on his face, like he was some idiot.
"Ahem… Anyway, my name is Lin Hao, a Wind Element User." The student suddenly cleared his throat before hurriedly speaking in a friendly tone contrast to his cold appearance from before.
"Oh, my name is Shen—" Before Shenyan could finish introducing himself he was interrupted by the other party.
"I know. You are Shenyan right? Almost all the new students know about you." Lin Hao said before continuing, "I didn't think we were both wind elemental users. It was nice to meet a fellow Wind Element User. See you around." Lin Hao said without waiting for Shenyan to respond before waving his hand and proceeded to walk away in long strides.
'Fellow Wind Element User? What does he mean? This person was really strange.' Shenyan shook his head unable to understand this strange student who said whatever he wanted and then left on his own.
After the student left, Shenyan resumed his training. This time, he intended to use his spirit energy since he got the hang of the basic sword techniques. The technique he wanted to try was the Quick-Draw Sword Technique. This technique emphasized on the building of strength and then releasing it to cause a powerful attack. Shenyan took a stance as he channeled his spirit energy into steel sword that is in the sheathe position next to his waist.
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After counting for 60 breaths, Shenyan decided to unsheathe his sword with a speed faster than the wind and aimed his sword at a practicing puppet for practicing elemental offensive techniques; This kind of puppets are made up of special materials so they can resist many elemental attacks. Shenyan did not believe that his attack could cause any significant damage to it at all, after all, he was not an element user, but what happened next shocked him greatly.
"BOOM!!"
The moment the puppet was hit by his accumulated strength in his sword, it exploded from the impact due to the force from the attack. Debris flew everywhere with the head of the puppet rolling next to his legs. Shenyan's eyes widen upon seeing the scene in front of him. He then turned around and luckily there was no one around.
All the other students stopped practicing their techniques since a while ago as it was already dark outside and some needs to cultivate during the nighttime, so they left in a hurry to take care of some matters before proceeded to head to their dorms. So, in the end, nobody ended up seeing this debacle of his. Shenyan felt relieved at first, but when he saw the destroyed puppet, a sudden thought came to him.
'Would I have to compensate the academy for this broken-down puppet?"
Shenyan currently had no money so he could not even afford just one of the materials required to make the puppet let alone the whole materials and the process it takes in making it. Shenyan fell in thought as he pondered for a while. He thought about leaving this mess for the academy to deal with, thereby escaping the blame, but what if they find him out? There was even that strange student from earlier, he clearly saw him practicing his technique at this location.
'Haah…' Shenyan inwardly sighed as he made his way to report the mess he had caused. In the end, he gave up and decided to take the blame and report his wrong doings. As for what happens next, he would deal with it when the time comes.