Aran met Barton and Adelina on the next day and all three of them went together and looked around the Academy. While they were looking around, aran used his vision to know all the secret places and the hidden rooms in the academy.
While they walking together Barton and Adelina talked a lot about their families and friends since both of them were from the capital city, but aran remained silent since he didn't have anything in particular to say. Even when they asked about Fenris he didn't have much to say.
**
After two days, aran woke up early and dressed up in time and went to attend his first class in the academy.
When aran entered his class, he saw that, out of all the sixty students, there were only thirteen students in the class including him, who had selected sword fighting as their primary subject. Since the sword fighting and the attribute study had different classrooms, everyone in his classroom was a stranger to him.
Usually, it was easy to learn elemental techniques although it takes a little more time because the elements techniques were just some different ways of controlling the elements. The cultivators only had to focus on connecting their mana with nature and manipulating the element that was already available in nature.
Compared to the elemental techniques, the sword techniques were extremely difficult because to perform a sword technique, the cultivators have to shift their mana through the exact mana points of their body and create a certain pattern.
Since there are thousands of different mana points in a cultivator's body, the sword fighters have to learn and remember all the hundreds of combinations of the mana points. Due to its difficulty, sword techniques were mostly practised by those with a single attribute, who can't do anything in the elemental field.
As aran got to his class and waited for the professor, soon Professor Fedric entered the class. Although most of the students in his class were surprised to see him, aran had already expected this.
" Hello students, my name is Fedric and I will be your sword-fighting professor! " Fedric started his class with the introduction.
Aran was happy to have Fedric as the professor because he knew that, since federic was the only professor in the academy to possess the lightning attribute, he will be the best swords-fighting professor he can ever get.
On the first day, Professor Fedric explained the basics and the history of sword techniques which aran had already learned when he was eight years old, so the class was pretty boring for him, but he knew that it will get better with time.
Usually, students in the academy had to attend four classes every day. The first class was the primary class that they can choose and they had three more classes, like Attributes study, basic array formations the basic alchemy.
Just like the sixty students in combat class, the other divisions like alchemy, array study and Mana-tech study had their own thirty students each, selected through exams related to it.
Those students only had to study the classes related to their division and the basic combat study was a secondary subject for them like those subject was to combat students.
**
When the sword-fighting class ended, Professor Fedric told everyone to buy new swords from the academy store. Since the usage of all the other swords was restricted in the academy, the students had to buy new swords that fit the rules.
After all of the other classes ended, when Aran met his friends in the diner, they sat down together and talked about their experience of the first classes. After talking for a while aran had to leave to buy the sword.
" Well then, I am leaving, I have to buy a new sword "
" We are also coming with you, we also have the sword fighting class as the secondary subject remember?" Barton asked.
Since they also needed new swords, all three of them left the diner and headed towards the academy store.
***
Although The academy store was inside the academy, they still had to walk for half a mile since the area of the academy covered almost a mile of the mountain peak.
When the three of them reached the academy store, many students from different classes already buying different things for their cultivation. The students were only allowed to buy things with the spirits stones which they earned in the academy. Since those spirit stones had the symbol of the academy it was easier to recognize them.
When it comes to buying new swords, while some of the students purchase swords that are already made, most of them preferred custom-made swords since they can select the sword's metal and the other parts which are ideal for their attributes.
When one of the first-year students, there asked the shopkeeper for a custom sword, he told the student to wait for a while for the manager to arrive.
After waiting for a few minutes, the manager of the Academy store arrived there with his assistant and asked the students about the details of their swords and told his assistant to take note of them.
" The first year's students can only get the weapons and devices which are under the third rank, so don't expect anything more than that!" He said.
His name was Terrowin, a man in his fifties. He was not only the manager of the academy store but also one of the professors in the academy. He used to teach the Mana-tech classes, which related to mana engineering.
As both Barton and Adelina went to the assistant to order their custom sword, aran headed towards Terrowin for some reason. As he got close he asked terrowin
" Do you have the metal Cestian?"
Hearing that Terrowin felt a little strange because he knew, Cestian is one of the strongest metals and it's tough to break the swords that are made out of that metal. He looked at aran's cultivation to see his attributes.
" A single wind attribute! I am really surprised that you know about Cestian. It's a good one but don't you know that the Cestian metal reduces the attribute's powers? You can use sword techniques but you won't be able to use your attribute to its full extent."
" I know that but I am a swordsman, I don't use my attributes a lot. So it's fine! " Aran replied.
" Well, of course, we have Cestian, give the order and it will be done soon !" Terrowin replied.
" Great! " Aran said as he turned around and headed towards the assistant. After placing his order, he left with his friends.
When aran left, Terrowin asked one of his subordinates
" What family is he from? "
Because Terrowin felt a little familiarity with aran.
" He is from the Wilford family sir. He is the brother of Fenris! " The subordinate replied.
Hearing that everything got clear for Terrowin. He realized why he was feeling that familiarity and decided to have a good relationship with him, while he is in that academy.
***
Aran continued to attend his classes for three days and after three days the class seemed to be getting interesting.
He also saw the Wilford siblings many times in the diner but they always ignored him, whenever they saw him. Since aran was also not interested in them, he also ignored them.
After three days, it was finally the day of the library session. After getting prepared, he went to the library, twenty minutes before his scheduled time. It was already evening, but he was only allowed to enter at his exact scheduled time and leave the library in one hour. Since there were still ten minutes left, aran has to wait outside.
The library was at the exact centre of the academy. Since it needed the most protection in the academy, the library was created at a spot where the defence formation is the most powerful.
The library building had four floors. The first floor of the library had more than twenty rooms and it had books that are related to all kinds of martial techniques under the fourth rank.
The second floor only had fifth-ranked techniques and the third and fourth floors had sixth and seventh-ranked techniques.
Since the eighth and ninth-ranked techniques were the strongest among all the techniques, most of them were in the higher realms and some of the strongest families of the continent also had one or two of these high-ranked techniques that were passed on by their ancestors.
The library of the Pheonix academy was protected so excellently that Aran couldn't see what was inside the library even with his divine vision!
Ten minutes later, when aran went to enter the library, before entering, he had to leave most of his items behind, including his storage rings. He wasn't allowed to take anything which he can use to copy down the techniques.
So the only way for the students to learn the techniques was by reading them inside the library in less than an hour and it was almost impossible. That was why the students used to learn different parts of the same technique every week.
Although aran thought, it will be difficult, he was confident that he can find a way to copy down all the books in the library.
As Aran took his first step into the library, the pressure in there made him feel like he is in a different realm because that place had massive soul energy. Since it was protected by the strongest soul-sealing formations using the true soul crystals the should energy in there was out of the world.
As aran walked through the library, the first thing he looked for was the monitoring devices. But as he looked around he saw, there weren't any monitoring devices inside, since it was completely protected from the outside. The academy had nothing to worry about what happens inside since no one can ever take anything inside or outside.
After looking around for a while, as aran took a seat at the table, he realized, with the amount of soul energy there, he can cultivate his soul dozens of times faster than usual.
Most of the students used to ignore the soul energy since they can't use it in a fight and they didn't want to waste their time cultivating their soul when they can read new books and learn new techniques. but for aran, it was the best thing that can happen. He realized that he can at least get to the advanced stage of soul cultivation in less than three years.
At first, Aran was thinking about making a plan to copy all the books that were in there. He knew, hundreds of students would have tried and failed to do that, so he had to find a unique way that no one can suspect. But after knowing about the soul energy he had to find a way to copy the books and cultivate his soul at the same time.
Since aran wanted to cultivate his soul he decided to think about that later and sat down straight on the table in a meditating position and started to absorb the soul energy.
Looking at him, Every other student who was reading the books started to wonder why he is wasting his time cultivating his soul.
After his one hour was complete, he went back to his room and continued to think about what to do about the library.