Someone on the ground, motionless, was the only thing the audience could see.
Merkwevi sneered at Alexander.
The Alexander stood without moving for a long time. And he started shaking his body as if he was feeling a torrential cold through his body.
"Get up and show what you did before, useless." Another kick made Alexander fly until he hit the wall leaving the area where the test was taking place.
The audience was appalled at the way Merkwevi treated Alexander. It was very brutal; as if it were torture of a dangerous prisoner, but he was just a student.
Alexander was opening his eyes and said with difficulty, "I... can't...."
***
The system that was in Alexander's body prepared to face Merkwevi who didn't have any resentment for waiting Alexander for 30 minutes.
"It's just going to test Alexander's abilities and I need to just do what Alexander did before." The system was anxious as this was the first time he was going to fight someone in his life.
The judge looked at the two participants and signaled the start of the test.
The system that didn't expect anything from this test, just felt the impact of the fist hitting its face. He failed to notice Merkwevi approaching.
-Steps. -Steps. -Steps.
The audience held the words and a single sound was heard in that place where there was silence.
Walked over to where the body was wracked by a punch, his face was contorted in pain. Merkwevi grabbed the system's hair and spoke in its ear, "I will make you suffer as much as Leon suffered."
The system wanted to know what connection Merkwevi Fugise had with Leon Zalit.
Merkwevi was a friend of Leon's father.
Was it some revenge for Alexander making his son lose his position as leader of 1-A? It is not known.
No curses were sent to Alexander, but the system was still irritating that Alexander had run away.
'Did he somehow manage to escape and make it back to land? He's going to leave it all behind… Even though he's lived here for over 15 years?'
The system did not accept this.
Alexander already knew he was in Recta since Alexander's birth, he didn't possess someone else's body. He was Alexander since his birth on Recta, but with his memories blocked until that day of 10/01/5027 that they were unlocked.
The system accompanied Alexander's life until that moment, he didn't want to believe that Alexander would abandon him, because he was born with Alexander Adrilia as his personal intelligent system.
"E-evil..."
"Me?" Merkwevi smiled at the words that weren't meant for him, but he didn't know and accepted them as if they were meant for him.
Pulling the system by the hair and throwing it into the testing area. The system just landed on its feet and looked at the Merkwevi who was again in front of it.
"Damn it!!!"
He quickly defended himself with his arms. Merkwevi looked at the system, he was irritating for defending his attack.
"Who says you can protect yourself? You have to put up with me punching you." Merkwevi again tried to hit the system which was confused.
"Ah?" The system looked confused at Merkwevi and didn't know what to do.
"Just let me fucking spank you!"
Merkwevi was being mean, however, neither the teacher nor the Judge interfered with the test.
The students who saw this were panicked and scared; first-year students.
The other sophomores and tenth graders took it for granted. This was their morning training routine and first-year students will still discover that White Academy was a place of exams and inhuman training.
Some of the inhuman exams and simulations were:
• Personality test.
A simulation with 100% equal to reality. It was where students were subjected to scenarios programmed by teachers, where they had their memories erased so they didn't know they were doing the simulation and had to survive in an unknown environment. This test tested the students' badness and kindness with programmed scenarios for them to decide whether to help the NPC in the simulation or do bad things to the NPC.
This simulation could last more than 2 to 3 years with several different scenarios to know what actions the student would take in certain situations. When the simulation ended, the student did not remember the simulation, as it was a protection system for the student not to go crazy and the personality tests are not revealed to the demons. There were many scenarios as to whether the student would make a pact with a demon.
• Protect the king and queen.
A competition of students with other classrooms. It was a protection game that the knights protected the king and queen. They had to prevent their king and queen from being kidnapped and they had to plan to kidnap the enemy classroom king and queen. The king and queen cannot resist the kidnapping. This happened in a large scale simulation of two countries and the students had to stay in the simulation for 6 months or 1 year.
• Student assessment.
It was a simple form where students wrote down their peers' strengths and weaknesses.
• Substitute.
A student was changed classrooms and disguised himself as another student and the other students had to find this student before he killed all the students. A White Academy simulation that lasted 2 weeks and the students didn't know they were in a simulation.
***
The first-year students immediately wanted to stop this; Class 1-A students, but were stopped by the White Academy's Disciplinary Council members.
Leon who watched Alexander get beaten up by his father's friend, he became impotent again.
'I'm going to kill that man!'
Leon couldn't stand his father controlling his life without permission any longer. He wasn't free to do anything.
"YES! just keep getting the attacks-"
-Bang!!!
Merkwevi was hurled away by an unknown force. Attention went in the wrong direction, towards Alexander who was the system that had the most distorted and unnatural smile.
The teachers were alerted, but no one dared to interrupt the test.
Merkwevi Fugise, The ninth-level swordsman.
He was the fifth strongest swordsman in Recta and he was two highly ranked swordsmen that existed in the country of Altalauis.
The other was someone who had the incredible feat of being the first best swordsman in all of Recta and the world. However, he was someone who didn't like the spotlight and stayed in his dukedom in peace and solitude.
He got up and the debris that fell on his head covered him with dust and sand. Merkwevi felt a strange feeling in his chest again.
It was a feeling he had felt before.
Humiliation.
That was when the first best swordsman had humiliated him in a duel. No one knew about this duel, but Merkwevi still hadn't covered the distance from fifth to first.
Distance was 4 but that was not the case.
Merkwevi knew, he knew that it didn't matter if he trained a hundred, five hundred or a thousand years. He could never overcome that person with effort.
He was in a world where humans couldn't get there by building a stone tower and hoping he could touch the stars.
Irrational.
Nothing else applied to that person who kept lamenting his loneliness, he had everything, but he was such a pitiful person in Merkwevi's eyes. He had to stay in his mansion for 30 days until that man accepted a duel with Merkwevi.
"Weak."
"!"
Merkwevi was startled by the boy Alexander's words.
He didn't believe it.
It was like it was repeating itself again in his eyes.
'That man! That man!'
Hekie Jo Hrove, Duke of one of the 5 main families.
It was like Hekie himself was in front of him. Markwevi remembered that man who humiliated him and it had been 5 years since he dueled with Hekie, but it was like yesterday that duel for Markwevi.
Trying to contain his nervousness, Markwevi eyed Alexander's every move warily.
He bristled at his fighting spirit being shaken by a boy who bore a resemblance to Hekie.
'It's not him! It's not him! It's not him!' Merkwevi made a mantra in her mind to calm down.
Looking at Alexander, Markwevi still couldn't get over her fear.
"You."
"Y-YES!" Merkwevi spoke aloud and was embarrassed that a child who didn't have hair on his ass had put him on edge.
The system, on the other hand, was very pleased to discover something; not related to Merkwevi.
It was about Alexander's body that was now indestructible.
It seems that the event of having a bullet pierce his heart made Alexander angry and he made this body indestructible to a certain extent.
The system ran his hand over Alexander's face and belly and had no injuries or bruises.
Everything clean and intact. However, the pain was much intense.
All the senses of this body that the system sensed were much more intense than normal.
"That pervert."
The system just assumed that Alexander had this body sensitive to the senses was to feel the pleasure more intensely. The system felt disgust and indignation at Alexander.
However, it was something much more fundamental and simple.
Alexander's soul had these parameters and was the same as any other human with their normal senses. It was very difficult for the system to support the amount of information from the 5 senses.
"…"
"…"
Silence fell between the two and Markwevi said, "You passed the endurance test."
"Was that a test? Not an attempt at murder or revenge?"
"Where does this dem- Shit!" Merkwevi was going to say demon, but that would be racism against demons.
The demons said that they attacked Recta in the past because their home planet was in ruins and Recta was a great place to live.
Over the years their numbers were diminished and they decided to make a peace agreement and the dumb humans that they are, gladly accepted.
It was all a plan and no one knew the truth, that demons were not the real enemy, but the demon god who controlled demons to conquer worlds.
There was racism against demons which was a crime. Merkwevi didn't want to get in trouble for badmouthing these guys.
"Just imagining things?"
"Yes!"
"So, I have to take another test with you?"
"Now it's fencing and aura control. If you don't mind, let's get started."
The place where Merkwevi leaves fixed itself automatically, this place was part of the White Academy which was an artifact made by the Great White, he was a mage but he hated that someone would put that word in his name. Great White Mage? As he was crazy, he made a magical combination in his name and no one could put the word "Mage" when referring to the man who made White Academy.
And the great white wasn't the only one who made magical combinations. Many words in Recta had magical combinations that many used as they had different effects. For example, "Night" was a word with a magic combination. That made the individual who used that name more inconspicuous and impossible to arrest or kill the person who used that combination as a name. Its effect was greater at night.
The system held a sword and didn't know how to use it. He swung to know the weight and speed Alexander's arms could exert.
"I don't know how to use this..." The system was disappointed to be useless at the moment.
However, Merkwevi was impressed.
'This is exactly like Hekie!'
Something wasn't right about that boy. A memory came to Merkwevi's mind that made him remember something that happened 5 years ago.
***
Lying down in his room, Markwevi woke up and looked into the man's eyes that stared at him with contempt. Those gray eyes and black hair scared Merkwevi.
"Get out of my house and stop sleeping with my maids."
"Don't be mean, she was just serving me."
The man did not express any irritation on his face, only his words were full of contempt.
"Leave and go take care of her chores."
The maid was afraid of being fired and ran out leaving the two men in the room.
"What's wrong? You don't want to duel me and I hope you find a time you're in the mood. You said that, don't you remember."
"That…" The man looked away from Merkwevi who got up and went to drink water.
"You still don't want to duel me? I'm here for 30 days for nothing?"
-Sigh…
"Okay, I'll do it. I don't want to see you here anymore. Put on some clothes and we'll go somewhere farther away."
"…"
"What? Hurry! I don't have unlimited time."
"You keep looking at my sword and a little weird."
Hekie who was looking at that small thing said, "And that your worm is very small. How did you manage to pleasure my maid with that atom?"
Merkwevi who didn't expect those words coming from Hekie was stunned.
"That's rude! And if you're curious, you can find out if-"
Merkwevi stopped short of saying something that would offend a Duke who was a very important member of the 5 main families.
His head would be cut off quickly if that happened.
"?"
Hekie was curious about Merkwevi's words.
Merkwevi got ready and the two headed towards a forest away from anyone who could get hurt.
The clouds were dark and a little rain left them both trapped in a cave waiting for the rain to go away.
Merkwevi looked at Hekie who was looking at the sparks from the wood in the fire.
"Is the maids' rumors about her brother's accident true?" Merkwevi who disliked silence wanted to talk to the man who was in his natural state of undisturbed silence.
The two of them didn't say a word after Hekie kicked the maid out of the room Merkwevi was staying in.
"Be quiet." Adding more wood to the fire, Hekie was startled by thunder.
The rain had started to get more stormy.
"Haa!" Merkwevi sighed and looked at the rain that had no time to end.
Merkwevi just tried to sleep on the cold ground waiting for the rain to go away when he woke up.
.
.
.
.
.
.
"It was not me!"
Waking up from her sleep, Merkwevi saw Hekie roasting a snake and eating it.
"What is that?" Hekie looked at Merkwevi in fright.
"I had a nightmare..."
"…"
"Don't you want to know?"
"No."
"I dreamed that I got one of your maids pregnant and I was sentenced to hang…"
"I hope it happens."
"?"
Merkwevi really wanted to insult Hekie, but he couldn't die young. He was only 322 years old.
"How old are you Hekie? Mr. Hekie..." Markwevi quickly added "Mr" so as not to offend him. They weren't close enough to mention each other's names so casually.
"28 years."
"Too young! I mean, you're still young and that's a good thing…"
And the conversation they had was just that.
Hekie and Merkwevi's duel ended in just one blow that Hekie landed with his sword. Merkwevi felt humiliated at being defeated by someone so young.
He felt useless and angry at Hekie. Merkwevi just wanted to piss that man off and make him pissed off too.
Merkwevi barked like a rabid dog, "YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED IN THAT ACCIDENT IN PLACE OF YOUR BROTHER-"
Hekie who didn't show any hint of hostility towards Merkwevi, he totally lost his reason.
Hekie who didn't like to be pissed off by losing control of his actions. For that reason he stayed in his mansion avoiding getting into situations that would make him irritable and take him out of his conscious state.
Merkwevi just stood there as it started to rain.
Hekie didn't let Merkwevi's apologies stop her punching his face.
"Ah! AGR!!! GRR! S-orr…y."
Hekie had vented his anger and still wasn't satisfied. Looking at Merkwevi's legs, he began to undress him.
"Not that please! Not that!"
Merkwevi couldn't do anything and Hekie castrated him in that place.
Lying on the ground shaking with fear, Markwevi looked at Hekie who was eating another wild animal.
He didn't feel pain from having his sword ripped off, it was as if Hekie was an excellent surgeon.
However, the trauma was still there, seeing Hekie ripped off with a mana blade his sword, was terrifying.
"You're lucky... I could have killed you... Don't ever come to my house and mess with my servants again."
Hekie walked away leaving Merkwevi humiliated and a useless male.
It was trauma Merkwevi never got over and seeing Alexander was enough to make her legs tremble.
He managed to retrieve his sword again from a good healer, but his sex drive went away with his first sword.
***
Merkwevi looked at Alexander and his mind was confused by the resemblance Alexander had to Hekie.
'They are so similar that they seem to be related.'
"I-impossible..."
A 5 year old memory was unlocked from Merkwevi's mind.
The rumor about Hekie's brother.
He was his older brother who died with his wife and child.
The bodies of the two were found torn apart by monsters and the son of his older brother was not known whereabouts.
Many of the maids said that Hekie wanted the Duke's position for himself and his brother's son would be a hindrance to his usurpation plan.
Some maids even claimed that it was Hekie who planned to kill her brother and sister-in-law.
Hekie was the son of his father's maid and his brother was the son of his father's first wife. Hekie had no chance of being Duke if his brother's son was alive, but Merkwevi knew that wasn't true, and Hekie was still searching for his nephew's whereabouts. He heard this from a colleague who was on the search for the missing child.
It had been 16 years since his brother died in that accident and his son was still missing.
"So this is how you use a sword?" The system said quietly.
No one listened to the words of the system that slashed in all directions.
Merkwevi looked at that boy who was 15 years old, he was an orphan and the most curious thing was that his parents and brother had golden hair color and Alexander was the only one who had black hair in that family. It was a slim chance, but maybe he was Hekie's missing nephew. A thought came to Merkwevi's mind.
'Kill.'
Markwevi was smiling happily at his plan. He will kill Alexander and send a hand in a bag to Hekie who will immediately know that hand has the same blood as him.
Merkwevi was totally alienated by revenge that previously did not exist in his heart. Something evil had influenced his mind to do that.