When I woke up, it was already lunch. So I quickly cleaned myself in the hotsprings and brought some breakfast lunch.
After I was done eating, I went to the Evania Academy again for my test scores. When I walked through the crowd, I heard some people crying and others laughing and hugging each other. I guess passing or getting accepted to the academy is something to celebrate for or get drunk at if you fail.
I entered the same room as yesterday and was greeted by the same receptionist, Lucy. When she saw me, she was already wearing her usual enthusiastic smile.
" Congratulations, you passed with flying colors. " She said. Well, I kinda expected it.
" Sir, now that you passed, you are required to fight with other contests from the second grade that wish to enter the third grade like you. If you perform well and have a high score on the ranking board, then you will be able to enter the third grade. "
This is the reason why not many people skip grades as written tests aren't that hard to pass, but the fights are. Most first grade students have a hard time with beating second grade students who compete for the third grade.
Not to mention me, a newbie that didn't even pass the first grade wants to enter the second grade. That's why the receptionist was so shocked.
After explaining to me about the ranking system, she told me to come by tomorrow as not only do I need to compete with other students, but I also need to fight in an arena agents and chaos beast.
When we finished, I was already looking through the papers that were filled with information about the students that I would compete with.
I found out that Princess Isabella from the Frost Empire of Ice and Sea or at last her students' identity as ' Flake ' she had a simple white mask with the lines around the holes for eyes being light blue.
Now, thinking about it, I am currently Auroras' youngest royalty as I am only 16 and others are 18, like Isabella and Astra or above.
Continuing to read and flip through the pages, I finally came across Astras profile. Now, thinking about the announcer at tye hot springs, I felt like slapping him. Nobody else, then my family has ever seen my naked body !
Yes, that's right ! I'm a virgin ! It's not like I never wanted to try it, but I prefer men over women, and with my small and slim body, I'm a bottom. My pride hurts thinking about it. The only dudes that let me ride them would be those desperate ones, and I don't like those.
Well, it's not like I'm going to participate in classes much. I read tough the documents and studied the participants. After I was done, I looked at the scheduled fights, and mine was four days later.
' Well, what now..... this is going to take a while. ' Having nothing to do, I decided to look through the academy and try to remember what it was like walking down these halls back then.
I was in the main building. This building is the biggest. It has five floors. The first four floors hold all the necessary classes for all grades and the last fifth floor has a meeting room for the teachers as well as their offices.
On the right side from the main building is the campus. There are single dorms they aren't very big but they're not small eather.
On the left side of the campus is a big library with other classes that serve as hobbies like painting the infirmary or the greenhouse. There is also the pool and other stuff....
Behind the main building, there is a huge arena it also has a lot of seats for the spectators and enough fighting ground to fit in a chaos beast.
After I was done taking my stroll, I went to the marketplace and brought some food to eat while pickpocketing here and there.
In the end, I decided to ease my boredom with hunting a few chaos beasts. And I can find those only in the chaos world since they rarely show up here.
To get to the chaos world, I need to pass through a gate. Gates are something like portals that connect our world to the world of chaos.
Chaos beast are dangerous since they use chaos energy that's like a polar opposite to our mana. That's why they are more dangerous than normal beast here that use mana.
That's why not everyone can enter a gate. Trough as a student, I can go there. But I will get my student ID in four days. So, right now, I'm still not officially a student.
Well, I'll try to come up with something thogether with that Lucy tomorrow as I don't feel like going back there.
With this, I decided to take a bath in the hot springs. Halfway there, I picked up mana fluctuations. It wouldn't hurt to take a look after three minutes, I found the thing that was causing the mana in the eria to fluctuate.
It was a gate that was leaking chaos energy and disrupting the mana flow in the eria. What a stroke of luck. In that second, I forgot about the bath I was about to take, and without hesitation, I entered the gate.
What greeted me on the other side of the gate was a sight of red soil that was almost as hard as a rock. The reefs and crags were also made out of it. I kinda felt like I was in a desert, but instead of sand, there was only the red soil with some other rocks laying around instead of sea shells.
Not ong after I entered chaos, beasts found their way to me. They probably felt the fluctuations of chaos energy when my mana disrupted it natural flow, just like me with the gate.
The Chaos beast looked like an overgrown rhinoceros, not to mention its horn that was pointing at me as he was charging towards me.
I evaded him with my shadow technique and covered my dagger in my mana that was now white as I still had the gloves that hid my mana color.
After my daggers were covered in my mana, it gave off a dangerous and eerie feeling. Without hesitation, I counterattack from the left side with no hesitation.
The wound on the chaos beast wasn't deep, but it was quite long, and a lot of blood was seeping out of it.
The chaos beast seemed to be abgred as it stranded up on his back limbs and smashed down with his front limbs at full force, making the ground shake as some metal spikes came out of it. I was evading left and right as the rhinoceros continued with his attacks.
When he saw it wasn't working, he also used his horn to release a concentrated beam made by chaos energy. And this is exactly what I was waiting for as he couldn't summon his shield right after firing such a highly concentrated energy beam.
I blinked, and I was immediately transported to the side of the rhinoceroses neck and slashed it with a highly concentrated mana slash. that appeared like a waning crescent moon and killed it in one shot.
After two days, my mental energy and my mana were almost all drained since there is only chaos energy in the surroundings, so even if I naturally absorb the mana around me or meditate, it won't help me at all.
Not to mention, I had to hide my presence when I was taking short breaks to drink and eat the food I had stored in my space ring. And if I wasn't taking breaks or eating, then u would hunt nonstop. I even cleared a nest that was near it was swarming by chaos monsters all over.
After horrible two days, I went back to the gate and crossed it. I looked up and saw a starry sky that didn't look much different from the one I the chaos world.
I was dead tired, but I knew I wouldn't be getting any sleep unless I washed up. I was sticky all over from the sweat, not to mention I reeked from it too.
After 5 mins of moving in the shadows, I finally arrived at the hot springs it felt like an eternity.
I didn't waste any more time and hurriedly took my clothes off, leaving my mask out like always and jumping into the hot springs.