Right now Ohma was inside a chamber of intense gravity. His body was being pushed to the limits from the gravitational pull. Even for high ranking warlocks that much gravity was nothing sort of suicidal but even with that Ohma was moving forward little by little. while his back was indeed hunched he was still stepping. Sometimes it felt like his internal organs will be squeezed out but the next instant that feeling would vanish like it never existed, this was because the gravity of the chamber was gradually increasing with time and every second Ohma's power was aslo increasing along with the pressure. This hellish training Ohma chose for himself considering his previous experience against shen where he powered up amidst the battle. while it was adventurous Ohma didn't wanted to go through that again so he started training his body to the limits. He figured out he didn't needed any kind of drug or support to get stronger unlike other warlocks, but how long this could keep up only his parents knew. Finally with a beep sound the timer ended and the gravity that was trying to smash Ohma to the ground vanished without a trace.
It has been a month since Ohma was allotted to section 7. He inquired it multiple times and finally got to know that it was due to the feedback provided by Mark and Cale, and since he was a trainee which already recieved support from governmental funds they weren't going to visit his hometown to inquire about his discipline and behaviour. Ohma was also glad that they didn't since the scene he made with Reddy gang would definately turn his evaluation from D to E.
After taking a shower Ohma was relaxing in his bed watching TV. He recalled all the incidents of the past month. The atmosphere of section 7 was a bit quiet and stern since only 22 people were enrolled in this section. Most of them came as mass murderers, thieves and potential villains. There were also some that weren't able to control their abilities and caused mayhem. Overall section 7 was a reformation facility for cadets.
Ohma's schedule was also same as other cadets of section 7. In the morning he was allowed to use training facilities after that at noon he had to serve either in mess or had to assist in maintenance of aircraft and training facilities. Everyday he was learning something new. He also learned how to fly aircraft. He also received lessons about how to fight and control your abilities but Ohma skipped them since fighting was instinctual to him. Since he awakened his powers his senses and observational abilities were heightened to another level. The one schedule he absolutely followed was meditation. His emotions were getting all over the place ever since his fight against Shen. So he placed great emphasis in controlling his rage and irritation.
Today at the start of the second month a new curriculum was added to his schedule and that was mixed training among the sections. Ohma as usual was right on time and arrived in stadium. It was quite large. Some free cadets also came to observe they were sitting in the seats while majority of seats were empty.
The purpose of this program was to let the cadets fight among them and get an actual feel of battle using their abilities.
Ohma's opponent was an individual with teleportation powers. That person could teleport in the entire area his sight encompass. It was a new experience for ohma fighting against such a agile opponent. While his opponent wasn't able to harm him, ohma as well couldn't get a hold of his opponent. So he started restricting his movement and baited his opponent into making contact with him. Just like that as soon as the opponent made contact with ohma, he was caught like a flea.
Ohma's opponent was atmost a rank 8 warlock while ohma was registered as a warlock of rank 9 who just recently advanced to rank 10. A normal rank 10 warlock would have definately suffereed against such an agile opponent ohma now was a rank 16 warlock. He sneakily tested it and was a bit surprised after using his full power. He feared he would break the device but it wasn't needed. This again reminded Ohma that there were still technology and strong warlocks out there that could subdue him in seconds so he had to be careful.
While ohma was nearing the end of second month and a new curriculum was going to be added in his schedule, a incident took place in MALAR related to Ohma which would break this facade of peace both in MALAR and its neighbour a giant among empires VERDANTO.
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Somewhere in the eastern parts of MALAR two strong auras were continuously colliding with each other. One was green in color while other was dark red. A big blast took place and the area around 3 km shook with a deep crater left, vibrations could still be felt after 3-4 seconds but the two individuals were nowhere to be seen. They were constantly moving maintaining that high speed, faster than the speed of sound. The one with the green aura was an individual covered in a metallic suit which was definitely one of the top fight suits prepared by elite scientists which could easily provide a normal human with a combat power of level 16 warlock but even with that he was clearly struggling against the women with dark red aura. She was a beautiful women with red hair dawned in a military uniform of VERDANTO empire one that could only be dawned by one of the highest generals of the Empire.
" RUN and run again, Clause how long do you think you can live after doing such heinous crimes?" while it sounded like a question yet it wasn't one, knowing that the person speaking was 'ALISA WAKE'Clause didn't even bothered to respond.
Clause one of elite scientists of VERDANTO empire and was involved in many shady experiments on the orders of government and one such experiment came into public. Clause wasn't worried in the least since he believed that Empire would suppress the incident as a plot by organisations run by dark warlocks but he was proven wrong. The empire wanted to keep the secrecy of the experiment to utmost and since some scientists involved in the project were in contact with other nations and organisations they decided to make an example out of him, also Clause was the biggest suspect in the leakage of information so they decided to butcher him. Infact they were right, Clause was the one who had leaked the information about the project and when he learned empire was after his neck he decided to run after burning all the data and clues. yet who would have thought as soon as he reached the border of the empire one of the elite generals of the empire was waiting for him. Though he managed to escape this far using his trump cards but now he was out of tricks. Considering the strength gap between them he knew that this bitch was now playing with him but he had no other choice. He just needed a chance 10 seconds would be enough to breach the security protocol of MALAR and he would be able to teleport but she was also aware of this.
Clause had thrown all his hope for negotiations behind the moment he saw her face since she was known for being absolutely uncompromising. Clause saw a bit far was a town that certainly contained many humans. Looking at the backward architecture he was sure no warlocks lived there, he hurried in that direction hoping maybe she might just relent on the face of all these lives but his thoughts were truly naive. If this was a supercity and contained high ranking warlocks than she might just relent and kill him in a more sophisticated manner but he wanted to escape using a few hundred humans as a leverage he was dreaming. Did he not know the worth of his life or had he gone retarded due to despair whatever the case, A highly concentrated beam of plasma pierced through his back and hit the town before him blowing both of them to smithereens.
" hmm, this won't be much problem just some lowly humans" she said without a care and vanished.
In a way she was right its been more that a century since the treatment of normal humans plummeted. One can't blame her since no high ranking warlock would not leave their family behind at such a place. Government itself ensures that no harm comes to their family at any cost and they are provided accommodation in high ranking supercities. Even after the warlock dies they ensure that their family lives well. So that uncaring attitude came from her confidence that Empire will be able to shut up MALAR council with little to no negotiations.
The name of this devastated town was LANE. The hometown of ohma now in ruins.
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The end of 2nd month came with a new curriculum in ohma's schedule. Now he could participate in ranking war of academy 7. Ranking wars were battles faught among cadets and according to their ranks they could get different types of privileges such as participate in the competition between academies, allowed to get access to different kinds of stimulation machines, access to newer versions of technology and one such privilege really excited Ohma and that was a pass to leave and enter academy at your own will. For that ohma had to be named among the top ten in the academy.
While ohma was watching TV and thinking about visiting his home and meet EMA and children at orphanage Fate had something else planned for him.
He stumbled on a news channel and saw something that gave him goosebumps. The news was about a small incident which was hardly shown for 10 seconds but Ohma recognized it, how could he not that was his Hometown.