Twenty minutes later
Suman explained the whole situation to Sir Warden.
"Is everything you said true?"
"Yes, Sir. I don't dare lie to you."
Sir Warden took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He then looked at the egg that was placed in a huge wooden box. He doesn't know how to react to this situation. The headmaster is the only one who was told about the suspicion of the Demonic presence.
He is also the highest authority within the Black Sand Village and the surrounding area.
But now, he is really pissed at the Headmaster. If whatever Suman said is true, he cannot even trust the headmaster fully. Who knows what he would do to protect this 'image'?
"Thank you for telling me this. I will handle the situation from the headmaster's side. You can proceed with the investigation. Please do let me know if you find anything else. As for the instructors involved, we will go by the book for now.
Viswa's situation though, is very tricky. Let me talk to him first."
"Thank you Sir Warden."
Sir Warden then carried the wooden box to the inn to meet with the kids first.
Erin is also there.
He met with all the kids. Some of them are still shaken, so he tried to comfort them and ease their minds.
"Don't worry, we will build our house back, better than before. Alright?" He told them with a smile. Then he went to the innkeeper.
"I want to rent the top floor. All of it."
The innkeeper was confused, but he didn't ask any questions and quietly agreed. Sir Warden carried the wooden box and placed it in one of the rooms.
After that, he went to the village guard quarters and met with a young man.
"I need a favor from you."
"What is it?"
"I need you to keep an eye on the inn. You might have already known about the situation that happened a few days ago. I want you to keep a close watch. Except for the kids and the known inn staff, no new person should enter it."
"Alright, you got it."
"Thank you. I owe you one."
Sir Warden then went to the academy once again. This time he directly went to the headmaster's office.
"I heard you came back at dawn, why were so late to come and meet me? I was awaiting your reports about the demonic presence."
"Before that, I want to ask about the orphanage incident."
"It is just some accident with the barrier and some old grudges between students. Unfortunately, the orphanage children were caught up in it and one of them died. I am looking in to it myself, so you don't need to concern yourself with it.
So, just focus on the demonic presence. What is the status now?"
"I already talked to the Student Union President. No matter what you say, I am not letting this go."
"Sir Warden, this matter is related to the image of the Black Sand Academy. We are a sacred ground, but the regional office treats us worse than the established academies. In such a situation, I cannot have the name our academy tarnished even more.
These new academies are trying to devour the Black Sand Academy for a long time, I am not letting have any chances for that."
"And you are willing to stake out the safety of my kids for it? Not only my watch."
"Sir Warden, you are speaking out of your authority here. Student Union might have some autonomy on this issue, but you as an instructor don't have that."
"Oh really? Then remember this, if this whole thing went by the book, then it is fine. I won't say a thing. But if you try to mess with this and try to hide with your little tricks, I will both of those instructors with my own hands right in the middle of the village streets.
I am not recruited by the academy here, I was assigned by the higher authorities to increase the level of your academy, so you don't have punishing authority over me.
I will drag the higher authorities here and let them open the whole fucking thing right in your face. I would like to see the dignity of the Black Sand Academy hold up in front of that mess."
Sir Warden stood up and continued.
"As for the Demonic presence, from this point on, your involvement is not unnecessary, I will be talking to the higher officials about this matter. Goodbye."
He got out and went to the inn, on his way he sent a message to the Student Union President to inform him whenever Viswa comes out of his cultivation.
While things are like this, Makar who was in the forest for a while came out, but the remaining four people from the hillside village didn't come back with him.
Suman immediately went to him and talked about the situation with Mathur and the rest. He also gave the information about their connection with the orphanage incident. The only thing he didn't say is that Viswa is most likely the person to kill them all.
While things are progressing rapidly outside, within the Second half of the circle 2 forest.
Viswa is sitting under a tree in a meditative state.
Spiritual energy gathered around him as it slowly pierced through his skin gently and accumulated his heart.
Mr. Guide is floating in front of him as he keenly observed the whole process.
[It is great that he managed to progress this far in a short time frame. This will make things easier for me.]
He then snapped his fingers and Viswa's status screen appeared in front of him.
[STATUS
NAME: VISWA
CULTIVATION LEVEL: ELEMENTARY LEVEL INITIAL STAGE (100%){Breaking through to Next stage}
CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE: EARTH STYLE ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUE
ATTRIBUTES
SKILLS
MISSIONS
ACHIEVEMENTS
SHOP
KARMA POINTS: 521
TICKETS: 0]
[ ATTRIBUTES
STRENGTH: 99
AGILITY: 98
STAMINA: 99
COMPREHENSION: 45
WILL: 54
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: 100/100]
[He hit the spiritual energy limit. Hmm..]
Mr. Guide thought for a moment and snapped his finger. A beam of light shot out of his hand and entered Viswa's head.
Viswa who was in a deep meditative state suddenly saw Mr. Guide's image in his mind along with his voice.
[Don't breakthrough. Don't let that energy flow through. I know you can feel that narrow passage that is opening up for your energy. Just suppress the energy going through it.]
As if his words were the command, Viswa gritted his teeth and tried suppress his energy.
But the next moment, the spiritual energy in the surroundings riled up. It is almost like it has a mind of his own and it is trying push through the passageway that opened to the next level of cultivation. And the more Viswa suppressed it, the more energy entered his body trying to push it forward.
Viswa started feeling a bit bloated.
He just tried his best to endure it. All the cells in his body screamed in pain. His internal organs started stressing. Blood came out of his nose, eyes and ears.
After a few minutes, Viswa felt a wave of relief as he kept on suppressing the energy. All of that spiritual almost seemed like it gave up and assimilated with his body.
Mr. Guide noticed the change and then checked the attribute window once again. The cultivation level didn't change, but his stats changed a bit.
[ ATTRIBUTES
STRENGTH: 102
AGILITY: 101
STAMINA: 102
COMPREHENSION: 45
WILL: 54
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: 110/100]
The spiritual energy stat in particular started glowing with golden light.
At this moment, Viswa once again felt a new wave of energy hit him. This wave is also trying its best to push forward the breakthrough.
[SUPPRESS]
Mr. Guide's voice was heard by Viswa, loud and clear and he proceeded to do as he was told.
The struggle continued for another twenty minutes before the spiritual energy increased by another ten points and the stats increased a bit more.
The problem is Viswa felt the pressure of the spiritual energy on his bones and muscles. The bleedling from his orificies increased by a lot.
[SUPPRESS]
Viswa continued. Another thirty minutes later, another ten points of spiritual energy entered his body.
He could feel his muscle fibers tearing apart and trying to heal back again.
[SUPPRESS!!!]
Viswa is on his last legs. He gritted his teeth as his skin tore apart. Blood came out from the cracks. He is bleeding from his gums.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...….."
He looked at the sky and screamed his lungs out. The whole forest reverberated with his screams, even the people in the first of the Circle 1 forest, heard those crazy screams of pain.
[RELEASE]
That is the last thing he heard before Viswa passed out from exhaustion.
The spiritual energy ran rampant as the breakthrough progressed further.
Before the breakthrough happened, Mr. Guide saw the Attribute screen one last time.
[ ATTRIBUTES
STRENGTH: 111
AGILITY: 105
STAMINA: 111
COMPREHENSION: 45
WILL: 56
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: 145/100]
Now that the breakthrough is being followed through, his stats will increase further more. Mr. Guide is looking forward to it.