After the fights are over, Viswa went to his room instead of directly going for training.
Recently, he noticed that a bunch of idiots are trying to check him out while he is training. His privacy was lost. But then he noticed something else, in the past week he was living in his room alone.
Erin who is his roommate never entered the room. After some observation he noticed that Erin is staying in Jiva's room.
He is sleeping on the floor there instead of using his bed here. Viswa doesn't know the actual reason, but he could guess. That guy is scared shitless.
If only Erin heard Viswa's thoughts, he would have nodded his head like a hen, pecking grains. He is indeed scared shitless of Viswa's cruelty. The only problem is Viswa didn't really want to hurt the guy. At most Erin is a bit obnoxious and annoying.
But Erin had a whole different thought process on their dispute.
Viswa went back to his room and stared at the system screen with a sigh.
[STATUS
NAME: VISWA
CULTIVATION LEVEL: ELEMENTARY LEVEL INITIAL STAGE (48%)
CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE: EARTH-STYLE ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUE
ATTRIBUTES
SKILLS
MISSIONS
ACHIEVEMENTS
SHOP
KARMA POINTS: 156
TICKETS: 0]
[ ATTRIBUTES
STRENGTH: 59
AGILITY: 41
STAMINA: 58
COMPREHENSION: 38
WILL: 49
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: 48/100]
This is the progress he made in the past week. The cultivation progress was great on the first day, but as the time progressed, it became a bit harder for him to increase his limit.
If that is not enough, his physical attributes have plateaued. Even though he didn't get to use his full strength as for now, he was still very glad that he could progress like that. But in the last two days, he plateaued.
He couldn't grow his attributes much. After two days of constant training and battles, he barely managed to gain one point in each of his attributes.
He asked Mr. Guide about it and the response is still fresh in his mind.
One day ago.
"Mr. Guide. What is up with my progress? It has stagnated a great deal. What is wrong? How do I improve it?"
Mr. Guide looked at Viswa and said in a calm manner.
[Do you know, whenever you ask something like this I want to take you to western hell and throw you into a specially designed fire pit. And in that pit, you would have burned for a 100 years at least]
Viswa frowned and looked at him with a confused expression. After all, what he asked was a genuine question and he felt like the snobby short guy is talking out of context.
Looking at Viswa's expression, Mr. Guide explained with a sigh, but as he spoke his expression changed.
[Because that pit is called Pit of Greed and I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE AS GREEDY AS YOU. YOU SNOTTY BRAT. HAVE YOU EVER LOOKED AT YOUR OWN FACE IN A MIRROR? WITH YOUR DUMB SKULL AND WEAK ASS BODY, IT IS ALREADY A BLESSING THAT YOU MANAGED TO REACH HERE.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? WITH YOUR SHITTY TALENT YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO ASCEND TO HEAVENS….]
Viswa didn't even know why this guy suddenly screamed, but he never knew that someone could hurt another one with just words without using any curse words.
Of course, at least he got some advice on how to improve his strength and what the reason for this condition is.
He has to go make an application with the Student Union for this happen.
That is the first thing he has to deal with now.
The second thing is the matter of his resources. He has abundant resources to say the least. But he noticed that the resources of the top ten are actually leagues above compared to the resoures of the remaining students.
For his progress to be faster, it is better for him to enter top ten as soon as possible. For that, he decided to challenge one of the top ten students in Circle 1. Of course, he needs to understand what kind of threat they posses and prepare accordingly.
Then there is the bigger problem.
His Slave brand.
In the past week, one of the things that Viswa passively tried to do is find out the presence of the demon. After Sir Warden's explanation, he believed that there should be a demon in the school and the slave brand is indeed reacting to that presence.
But Viswa couldn't find out who that person is no matter what.
Whenever the Slave brand stopped hurting he is always in the presence of a lot of people. Very rarely did it react when he is with a very small group.
All he could think of was that the presence definitely belonged to Circle 1.
Sir Warden has also been searching for this presence, but there are no results so far.
Viswa heaved a sigh before he closed his eyes and started cultivating. After staying like that for half an hour, he stood up and went to the student union.
When the president saw his application, he was stunned.
"You want to go to the second half of the Circle 1?"
"Yes."
"Viswa, I don't know if you know this. But a beast in an Elementary level Initial Stage is much more different than a human in an Elementary level Initial stage.
Because, when humans started cultivating, they immediately won't gain abnormal strength, only in the later half of the initial stage will there be any significant change?
But beasts gain a significant gain in strength as soon as they started evolving. The strength difference is way too big and rumors are that you don't even have any spiritual energy at this moment.
So, it is better for you to not enter.
Even the students under the best instructors of the academy will only enter the second half of circle 1 after three to four months."
Viswa heard the long winding explanation and only has one reply.
"According to the rules, are there any obstructions for my application to be processed?"
Five minutes later.
Viswa is already on his way toward the forest.
Circle 1 is divided into these two halves to ensure the safety of the students. And since the academy encourages fighting, as long as a student consents, they can enter the forest as they liked.
The news of Viswa entering the forest was spread along with the rumors. Everyone is dumbfounded and people who didn't like Viswa all sneered.
"That bastard is just looking for death."
"Cocky bastard. He will die for sure."
"Fucking hell, serves him right."
There are all kinds of jeers. They all just sentenced Viswa to death.
While these rumors are spreading, within the dormitory. In Jiva's room.
Jiva is sharing the room with one of the orphanage members. So, Erin didn't have any problem with just occupying some space there.
Right now, he is trying to take a nap on one of the empty beds alone.
He had a deep frown on his face. He is sweating profusely as he had a nightmare.
In his dreams, Viswa is bashing his head against the ground just like how he did with his first opponent as Erin begged him.
"Viswa, please. Forgive me. I was just being a bit greedy. I know I am wrong. Leave me alone."
He muttered in his sleep, but Viswa didn't stop.
*BAM*
He suddenly woke up and panted heavily to calm down.
"He is going to kill me. He will kill me."
He huddled up into the fetal position and muttered.
This has been his situation since the last seven days. More than anyone else, he is most affected from Viswa's retaliation. He felt like he could die at any moment and he didn't have a second of restful sleep ever since.
At this moment, Jiva came into the room.
"Erin, did you have the nightmare again?"
Erin looked at him and asked.
"Did you get it?"
Jiva sighed and shook his head.
"I asked the instructors, but they said it is impossible to give you any more medicine for sleep. My own instructor said that you are already over the limit of medicine and you are just a bit away from getting addicted to it."
Erin panicked immediately.
"Its just some medicine to get some sleep. Why are they denying that to me?"
"Come on Erin, even though your body is resting, your brain is not exactly doing the same. You are still having cold sweats throughout the night.
The only solution is for you to face the fear head-on."
"No. I can't face him. I can't face that devil."
Erin curled up once again.
Jiva shook his head and said.
"Try to get your act together. Viswa is currently in the Second half of Circle 1 forest. He might have gone there for some extensive training. I will go and talk to him after he comes back. I will ask forgiveness on your behalf and once he agrees, you can meet him.
You cannot just stay like this forever."
Jiva left after those words.
Erin looked into the void as he thought one thing and one thing only. 'Hope he never comes back
…
Meanwhile, back in the forest.
Viswa could feel the energy in the second half of circle 1 is much more denser compared to the energy in the first half. It is a good place to train.
He is here to train through combat.
That is the solution that Mr. Guide gave.
The reason why he reached a plateau in physical attributes is that his potential is not being simulated enough. The battles with the students didn't help. So, he decided to just come here and fight the beasts here.
Currently, the second half of Circle 1 is empty, because there are no Circle 1 members who are strong enough to be here at the moment.
He took in a deep breath before he walked deeper inside. In the darkness of the forest, his eyes finally landed on a beast that appeared. It is a Boar. It was digging up something under the tree when Viswa arrived there.
It didn't hesitate to shift its focus on to him.