On the next day when aran woke up, he slowly regained the memory of the last day. He was wearing the clothes of the patients and he also had some injuries but he didn't seem to worry about that. When he looked at his finger, his ring was missing. As he turned left there was an assistant medic standing there.
"Where is my storage ring?"
" Oh, it's here!"
The medic said pointing to a box that was on the table next to him and he immediately took the ring from it and passed it to aran.
As aran put on his ring, he took out a high-ranked healing potion that he got from the professor and drank it. After sitting straight in a meditational pose and closing his eyes, he started to summon mana.
Aran continued this for almost two hours as the assistant medic stood there and watched him. He might have wanted to get close to the Wilford family's young master.
After two hours, when he opened his eyes most of his wounds had gotten healed due to the potion's effect. After telling the assistant to wait outside, he took out some new clothes from his ring and put them on and left back to his dorm room.
As aran got out of there he handed some spirit stones to the assistant medic and said " Thank You " and headed straight to his room.
When aran was heading back to his room, everyone outside was standing there and looking at him. As aran looked back at them he saw a kind of acknowledgement in their faces that he always wanted to see. He was pleased to see that but he ignored everyone and continued to walk.
***
When aran got back and entered his room he saw that arrax was sitting in his bed waiting for him. As aran saw him the first thing he remembered was food!
" Sorry about the dinner, I couldn't get it for you. Are you hungry?
Aran asked since he had gotten unconscious after the fight, he couldn't fetch food for arrax, so he thought that arrax might be angry about that.
" No. That's alright. The kid next door and the girl brought me food yesterday. "
Aran was pleased to know about his friends helping him when he needed them. But the other thing he noticed was that arrax's tone felt a little different than usual when he said that, and he continued what he was saying.
" I saw you fight yesterday. At first, I thought that you were being stupid and overconfident by not using the sword. It took some time for me to realise that you were doing that for your breakthrough! "
Since Arrax was also doing his best for his breakthrough he kind of felt a little connection towards him. Aran realised it immediately as he heard that.
" That's so unexpected to hear from you "
Aran said as he let out a smile. It felt a little different for him to see something like that coming from arrax but he suddenly realised it was still too early for him to judge Arrax's character. Arrax understood what aran meant but he didn't have a reply.
Since aran was feeling tired he sat down on a chair in front of arrax. After thinking about all the things that happened in the last two months, he realised that he has done more than his body's limit.
Since Aran had broken through a whole major stage in only three months, he thought that he can't cultivate his heavenly cultivations, for at least six months.
Since the heavenly cultivators can only increase their cultivation by physically training and using pills and potions, It was difficult for them to continuously cultivate without damaging their bodies. So aran decided to temporarily stop strengthening his heavenly cultivation for a while and focus on other things.
As Aran was sitting on the chair with his eyes closed and thinking about many things, he suddenly remembered the most important thing.
Before planning anything else, he had and particular objective for his rapid cultivating by risking his body. It was because he wanted to join the swordsmen's club before the Tournament of heavenly swordsmanship.
The tournament of heavenly swordsmanship was the biggest swordsmanship tournament in the heavenly continent.
The tournament of this year was about to start in forty days. Since only the members of swordsmen's clubs from different academies were allowed to participate in this tournament, he had to get to the profound stage and earn five hundred points to join the club.
The objective of aran joining the club wasn't to win the tournament. He knew he is nowhere near even qualifying for the second round. So he had some other things planned.
Since Aran had reached the requirements to join the swordsmen's club, he didn't want to wait anymore and wanted to join the club as soon as possible.
After sitting down for a while, thinking, aran got up and went to take a bath. After that, he took some rest for the day.
On the next day, after getting ready, Aran went straight to the hall of the academy's clubs and found the room of the swordsmen's club.
After thinking for a while one last time he finally knocked on the door and waited for someone to open it.
****
Aran was waiting outside the club room of the swordsmen's club and after a while when he knocked again someone opened the door. As aran looked at him, he saw that he was very strong.
The one who opened the door looked like an adult in his twenties with very short hair. He was half-naked without a shirt. Although he looked handsome with his tan skin and perfectly muscular body covered with many sword-cut scars, He had an angry expression on his face. As Aran saw him standing in front of him with his body full of sweat, he realised that he was training.
" What do you want ?" He asked.
It seemed like that person was annoyed by aran disturbing his training.
" I am here to join the club !"
" Join the club? "
That person said and looked at aran's cultivation and let out a smile in disdain.
" Yes, what's wrong with that? "
" Are you sure you want to join the swordsmen's club? Why don't you take some time to think and return after completing the mid-term mission?" The person replied to Aran's serious question. Aran realized that the person isn't liking him.
" No! I want to join this club, today and I would like to talk to the club's captain?" Aran was confident with his words.
" Ohh really? Well, then you can't meet him. If you want to meet him, then you have to go through me! "
That person replied arrogantly. Aran started to get furious, hearing that but he wasn't stupid enough to think that he can fight that person.
As Aran was wondering about what to do; Suddenly he saw a girl who was heading toward him from inside. She was also very strong and looked gorgeous with her long black hair. She looked like she is the same age as that guy at the door. But Aran started to wonder if she is also going to act the same as him.
" What are you waiting for? Fight or get lost!"
When that guy said and about to start a mess. Suddenly the girl reached close to them and started to shout at that guy.
" Rollo, you muscle-headed bastard! Are you on it again? Don't you have anything better to do? "
As Aran heard her shouting he realised that she is talking to the one in front of him and that his name is Rollo. As Rollo heard her, he started to bite his teeth hard. It seemed like he didn't like that.
" Shut the f**k up! What I do is none of your business. So get lost! "
As Rollo shouted at her without even turning around, she was about to say something but remained silent as she saw Aran. That was the first time Aran heard someone cussing like that in the academy.
As the girl saw Aran, she walked towards him and said
" I am sorry about him! He acts like that with everyone. Can I know the reason why you are here?"
Aran was pleased to know that at least she is nice to him.
" I am here to join the club !"
" Well, most students join the club after the mid-term mission. That's why he is acting like that. Don't mind him. Have you earned enough points? "
As she asked it Aran immediately took out his student card and showed her. After confirming that he has met the requirements she invited him inside. But Rollo got furious about that and started to yell at her. But she just ignored him and took aran inside.
***
As both Aran and the girl was walking inside, aran realised that the room is just a doorway to an enormous office. As they went inside, the girl took him to the hallway of the club and she knocked on one of the many doors that were there.
" Come it!"
After hearing someone permitting them to enter, the girl entered the room as aran followed her.
When aran entered the room, he saw that many strong swordsmen were sitting around a table and it seemed like they were having a team meeting.
" What is it? and who is he ?"
One of the swordsmen asked and that person was the strongest among all of them in that room. He was sitting in front of all the others. It was usual that he is the captain of the club.
" He is a first-year student. He is here to join the club and I have checked his badge. He has earned the required points! "
As the captain of the club heard her, he turned towards aran.
" So, what's your name ?"
He was confident and his tone was exactly fitting of a captain.
" Aran Wilford! "
Hearing that everyone changed their attention towards aran.
" A Wilford? Are you the one everyone was talking about? The brother of Fenris?" The captain asked.
Since Fenris was a famous character in the academy and he was once the captain of the swordsmen's club, they were surprised and looking forward see aran's skills. Out of all the others, the girl who brought him there seemed more surprised and she was looking at aran with a more amazed look.
" Yes. That's me!" Aran replied.
" You have been accepted into the club but you will become a core member of the club only after earning a thousand points. I am a little busy with the meeting so Alexia will explain everything to you. So I will see you later. And of course, Welcome to the Swordsmen's club! "
As the captain said that, Alexia, the girl standing beside him asked aran to follow him. After aran thanked the captain, both of them left from there.