"Alright, time for a taste"
A bored voice came from the screen as no. 169 entered the dungeon.
"He looks relaxed, it's as if he has done this hundreds of times" said Examiner 1
"Well, I have hopes for this one, let's see how he does, though his physique is really trash." said Examiner 2
A goblin came up to Sukuna on the screen
"Oh? You'll be a good test subject" said Sukuna as he punched the goblin
"What? Nothing happened" said Examiner 1
But, after 2 seconds . . .
*Boom*
*Splurt*
The goblin exploded.
The examiners looked at the screen with wide eyes as Sukuna said:
"You got blood on my clothes you blob, well divergent fist is really good, now for the second one . . ."
"Divergent fist, that is a fitting name for that move" said Examiner 3
A few monster charged at him at once, 2 of them were D-rank monsters.
"There are 2 D-Ranks, this might be hard for him, that move is also not suitable for these situations as it has a delay." Said Examiner 2
But that not what happened, at all
"Dismantle"
*Cut*
*Splat*
The monsters fell, each divided into cubes
The examiners had their eyes popping out,
"HAHA, I knew I could one shot D-Ranks, well, that's enough testing for now . . . Dismantle"
Sukuna ran around the dungeon slicing monsters left and right
After he walked out of the room . . .
"That's a new record isn't it?" said Examiner 2
"Yeah, he's first for sure" said Examiner 3
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'Killing monsters still gives me EXP, but according to the system, I can't level up, we'll have to see what this means'
[Quest Complete]
[Reward: +1% Cursed Energy Proficiency]
[Cursed Energy Proficiency: 22.37%]
'Well, that's stonks'
'I'll rest while I wait for the others to come, I think Ryogaku got 4 minutes 49 seconds, while the other three got 5 minutes something seconds'
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A Few Hours Later
Entrance Ceremony
I was dozing off at the corner of the room.
We all know how boring entrance ceremonies are, but for some reason everyone was listening attentively to the principal speaking about some determination and saving people crap, idek.
Well the speech ended and he started to call up the top scorers. Apparently he himself doesn't know who the top scorers are because he was dealing with stuff during the exams and wanted a surprise.
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--Principal POV--
'I can see many talents this time around, some of these will become the pillar of the fights between hunters, monsters and villains.'
"Please welcome the principal of ITAAS Hunter Academy to the stage"
As I went to the stage, I saw many people talking and dozing off, so I exuded a little pressure on them, which made a few people sweat, but everyone started to listen attentively. Well, except for one, a boy in the corner of the room was still dozing off and yawning.
He could be so relaxed under my pressure, I'm impressed, I hope he does well, but I can feel the laziness radiating off him, he'll have to work on that.
"Good morning everyone
blah
blah
blah
and now for the top scorers of this year . . ."
"Fifth place, Alexia Hadrian, 6 minutes 03 seconds, please come up on stage"
"Fourth place, Johan Charon, 5 minutes 55 seconds, please come up on the stage"
"Third place, Anny Leonheart, 5 minutes 35 seconds, please come up on stage"
"Second place, Ryogaku, 5 minutes 09 seconds, please come up on stage"
"and finally, first place . . ."
'What the hell is this time?'
"Ryomen Sukuna, 3 minutes 13 seconds, please come up on stage"
The eyes of the top 5 widened as their head snapped to the corner of the room.
'Is it him?'
There were gasps and 'Wow's from all of the audience, I mean I don't blame them, I had to double check the time to see if I was seeing wrongly.
'He beat the second place by almost 2 minutes, what a monster'
Sukuna lazily walked up to the staged and stood there with closed eyes.
"blah
blah
blah
Congratulations, now go to your respective classes"
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--Sukuna POV--
This academy is divided into sectors, well only the combat sector is important is the storyline so screw everything else I guess. There are 5 class 1A, 1B, . . . , 1E. 1A has ranks 1-20, 1B has 21-40 and so on. Ranks refresh every year.
There's not too much of a divide in classes as these are literally the top 100 of the world, there's also not much hate between nobles and commoners for the same reason.
Now I'm sitting in the corner of my class thinking how to act enigmatic when the teacher enters and tells us to introduce ourselves.
Nothing important happened so imma just skip to the next period with is combat training.
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In this period we get to choose the weapons.
As expected of the top academy, almost all weapons are at least C-Rank, with a few A-Rank and B-Rank. Our main characters all get A class weapons obviously.
I'm kinda unsure what weapon I should take though, can I even pick up a sword with my strength? Eh, who cares we'll cross the bridge when we get to it.
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--Combat Instructor POV--
'The students this year seem strong, well, the Rank 1 looks . . . fragile, honestly. I'm sure he has a talent in something.'
As I was thinking of all this I saw the Rank 2 . . . Ryogaku pick up a golden sword, which was A-Rank, the sword shone, which shows that it has accepted the boy as its owner.
There were cheers from students as well as looks of admiration and jealousy.
Same happened as the Ranks 3, 4, and 5 chose other A-Rank weapons and went to practice with them in the field.
Students slowly started going out of the room after choosing their weapons and started to test them.
My eyes caught a figure standing idle in the room.
'He's the Rank 1, Ryomen Sukuna, man, he looks even gloomier than the professor told me'
'Now what will he choose'
I thought as I walked to him, seeing him staring at something.
As I turned my head, I saw him staring at a rusted sword-like thing, no, it wasn't a sword, but more like a knife.
I frowned seeing him interested in such a thing
'That thing has been there for many years, and is expected to be an E-Rank item, why is he staring at it?'
After a few seconds, Sukuna smirked and going towards the knife, picked it up.
I was hella confused by this, but still followed him to the training ground. He stood in front of a dummy and casually swung the sword.
*CLANG*
'WHAT THE HELL HE CUT CLEAN THROUGH THE DUMMY AND THERE'S A SLICE MARK ON THE WALL'
The students looked at him in awe and fear as he grinned and started laughing maniacally.
'That laugh is scary af, what the hell'
He quieted down and exclaimed, "I didn't expect to find one like this here, I guess this will truly be interesting"
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--Sukuna POV--
'I think I acted almost perfectly, but did it sound too edgy? Eh, who cares'
'My composure was almost broken seeing a cursed tool here, but what even is this random knife, I don't think I saw this in canon. You put cursed energy into it and it amplifies it and uses it to slash, also the slash become weaker the longer distance it travels.'
'Slashing the wall was kinda unintentional, but now the students think that I'm even more OP, I hope I didn't scare them too much and I still get some challenges from arrogant Young Masters'
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"Alright everyone has chosen their weapons, so now let's start something interesting"
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"You All Will Spar With Each Other"