(Current Location -
Place: Avalor Academy
Time: Present)
(First Person View: KAZE)
My vision gets blurred as an extremely bright light strikes my eyes. I feel fuzzy as my entire body gets distorted across space, while all I can hear is a crackling noise similar to lightning. When I first open my eyes, it takes a few seconds for my sensitive green-eyes to adjust to the bright sunlight.
My whole body gets engulfed by a warm sensation as I experience the sunlight, but my bliss is short-lived as I hear a familiar disturbance break my tranquility, Yet Again...
Ding!
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<50 Xp rewarded>
[Level 2 (Xp 160/200)]
Well I never said I hated the system...
I happily read the messages and as I turn my eyes ahead, I am greeted with a slew of massive tower-like structures with conical domes atop their heads, reminiscent of the wizard towers in fantasy literature, and bordered by gigantic garrisoned walls that must be at least 15 metres tall.
Between all those wizardy towers is a massive palace-like opulent structure that I suppose is the living quarters for the children of nobility, and just ahead of it is a rally of 3-story structures erected in an organized form in rows of ten each that I assume are for the commoners.
The entire campus appears to be several kilometres long, with no end in sight, as if a small city has been erected within this school.
As I take in the grandeur of my soon-to-be school, I'm pushed ahead once more by some obnoxious students. I maintain my composure and proceed on to where two massive gates, even larger than the walls, stand open with golden boundaries and a giant emblem of a falcon with its wings extended, which I suppose is the academy's personal symbol, etched on them.
I'm trying to figure out what material the doors are made of when I get a pleasant surprise...
***
[Object: Gate]
[Material: Pine solidified with Fir]
***
"Hmm..", I start wondering how I could upgrade my skill as a notification pops up..
'Ahhhh.....', I scream in my mind at this selfish self-centered system. For every 9 out of 10 queries I ask, this greedy system demands an upgrade.
Even if I wanted to, how the hell am I supposed to get a freaking 1000 Xp when my max Xp cap is at 200?
I calmed my mind once again as I continued proceeding towards the academy...
As I passed past the massive gates, I scoured through my memories to look for my dormitory.
I was quite taken aback when I discovered that my dorm-room was located in the commoner's lodgings rather than the noble's.
I decided to first walk into my room before accessing more of my memories.
As I walked forward towards the commoner's lodgings, I noticed many students, both nobles and commoners staring in my direction like I am some disgusting filth but unbeknownst to them, their provocations were just like some ants shaking their mandibles in front of a lion.
With my experience as the emperor, they just didn't seem significant enough to my eyes as I completely ignored their gazes and proceeded ahead, entering one of the buildings at the far corner of the academy.
My dorm room was located on the highest (3rd) floor as I started ascending through the stairs.
While walking to my lodgings, I noticed that all of the first-year dorms and classes (which were held in the conical roofed towers) were near the fortified walls on the outskirts of the academy, whereas the second and third years were closer to the centre, and the fourth year's lodgings were right next to the large palace (the lodgings for nobles).
'Huff! this frail body,' I thought as I reached my room, which was at the very top of the building. 'It would have been much better if there had been an elevator.'
Wait!!!
What exactly is an elevator?
'Ahhhhhhhh!!!,' a throbbing ache began in my brain, as if blocking me from accessing a section of my mind.
I held my head with both of my hands as I pulled my hair, a worthless attempt to stop the pain.
The pain lasted for a few 2-3 seconds but I swear I felt like hours had passed.
Luckily there was no one on the stairs or I might have just found myself in a very awkward position.
I decided against searching those painful memories of the elevator and opened my room's door just to make an unexpected finding.
A maid, visibly 16 years old, with dirt-brown colored hair and brown eyes stood beside an open locker, clutching a few bronze coins in her right palm and a few more that she appeared to have recently put into a little pouch.
JACKPOT!!!
I just caught her red-handed stealing in broad daylight. Just how good was my luck and just as I was excitedly plotting my next move, a familiar sound rank in my ears...
Ding!
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'Hmm..., so she really was stealing, I guess she just never expected the expedition to end so abruptly, but I, the embodiment of justice...'
'Okay!, you caught me, free Xp, here I come!'
But as cautious as I was, I squinted my eyes, focusing them on the maid and...
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[Name: Mary]
[Race: Human]
[Level 0]
[Hp: 5/5]
***
'Ha, so non-fighters have even less HP than combatants.' But wait, what's that expression on her face?'
"Young master, you best keep your lips shut," the maid said, a sneer on her face.
'Did she just threaten me?'
'Hahahahaha, this rush, this excitement, this sensation, I want more of it. Threaten me more, anger me more, so I may repay you a thousand-fold without any remorse,'
I approached her with the same emotionless, icy expression on my face, which had been there ever since I entered through the gates.
Mary suddenly backed away a little, and when she looked downwards towards her palm, she noticed her hands were trembling.
'Why' she thought, 'Why am I shivering in front of this slave, yes!, he is nothing but a slave, he can't do anything to me.'
She spoke, gaining some confidence from her self-created assumptions, "You!, stay where you are. I am the 5th young master, lord Gasper's personal maid. You can't do anything to me. You don't even have an ounce of mana in that frail body of yours."
I closed the distance between us, and subconsciously, without me noticing, the fingers on my right hand started to move in a wave-like pattern, like I was flipping a coin across my knuckles and a small vicious grin started to appear on my expressionless face.
Though Mary was continuously giving out threats, her legs were shivering even faster than they had been previously. That slave who was expected to be terrified and start begging her for forgiveness was instead smiling and coming straight towards her.
And what occurred next perplexed her, she was making the customary threats when...
SLAP!!!
I slapped her across her face, causing her right cheek to flush.
Mary was startled, never in a thousand years had she expected that cowardly slave to slap her. Now extremely furious, she spoke, "YouuuuU!, you dare strike ..."
But before she could even finish her sentence...
SLAP!!!
Another red mark appeared on her left cheek. "wh.." she tried speaking but...
SLAP!!!
Once again I slapped her on the same location as blood began to flow from her cheeks.
I said, as gently as I could, "Who am I?"
Mary, now trembling all over, her attitude had long since shifted from anger to fear by the third slap but her pride was preventing her from kneeling to a lowly slave, so she raised her head but before she could even begin to speak...
SLAP!!!
This time, the impact was much stronger than before as Mary was pushed back towards the ground.
"Who am I?", I asked once again, a little less gently but still maintaining my composure.
Mary was so terrified this time that she didn't even notice she had dropped her money pouch. She didn't dare to glance up as she murmured in a shaking voice, her gaze fixed on the ground, "You are the son of that elf..." but she was cut off before she could finish...
THUD!!!
I kicked her directly in the stomach, with enough force to send her sliding through the ground. I once again came up to her and asked, "WHO am I?" in a much more menacing tone this time.
Mary had started coughing blood as tears started dropping from her eyes, she was trembling immensely and didn't dare to look at the towering image above her. She could hardly pronounce her words, as she gathered the energy to speak once more, "You... you are the bastard master of the tiberius dutc..." but alas.., that wasn't the answer I was looking for...
SLAM!!!
I kicked her across the waist on the same spot again, as a cracking sound was heard, most likely her ribs shattering owing to the force. Blood was streaming uncontrollably over her face, lips, and stomach as she was tossed across the floor.
I crouched down besides her this time before roaring in a loud voice, "I AM KAZE VON TIBERIUS!".
The loud sound echoed throughout the room and being on the highest floor, I wasn't much concerned about the sound escaping.
The maid was lying on the ground half-dead, trembling on the floor, her eyes bulging out due to being swelled up by the uncontrollable amount of tears flowing through them.
I caressed my hands across her face and...
CRACK!
You shouldn't have revealed to me that you were the maid of that bastard who killed me.
<5 Xp rewarded>
Ding!
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<10 Xp rewarded>
LEVEL UP!
[Level 3 (Xp 5/300)]