When I reached the combat grounds, instructor Blake was there as usual. "You're here, good, from today we'll kick things up a notch, I'll be fighting you at peak silver and then after you've adjusted for sometime, I'll adjust to early gold rank.
"Wait what?"
"You heard me right, even though you're progressing rather decently, it's still not fast enough for my liking" he said and deep down I agree with him, only through pressure can a gem shine, not that I consider myself a gem of course.
"Okay, fine, let's get started" I said getting into a combat stance. "Yes we'll start but first we need to change location, our sparring is getting a bit unbearable for this combat ground, even though it's designed to withstand gold rank power, the stuffs inside are not" he explained.
"Then where will we be going?" I asked and he just smirked and said "you'll see". After that he came towards me and kept a firm hand on my shoulder.
"What are y..." I started to talk but I was interrupted by a myriad of sensations. It lasted all but a split second and I found myself in a completely different surroundings. "What? how did we get here?" I asked the knowingly smirking instructor Blake, I had a guess of how we got here but it's so absurd to me that I simply threw it out the window.
"Why of course I brought us here" he said still with the annoying smirk on his face. "So your bloodline is related to space right?" I asked and my mind was desperately hoping I was right. "Nope" he said and my heart sank. "That was just pure speed" he said cheekily. "How far away are we from the combat grounds?" I asked again as I really wanted to know. "Nothing much just a little over two hundred miles" he said as if it was nothing. 'Are you kidding me? Two hundred miles in a split second is nothing much?'
And also the way he was behaving, if you told me on the first day of the academy that this man would act like this, no matter what I would never believe it unless you were willing to torture or maim me of course.
"Leave your thoughts aside and let's start, you'll also be that fast and even faster if you manage to reach diamond rank before dying" he said breaking me out of my thoughts.
After that we started my training which consisted of him correcting my stance, giving me pointers and last but not least whooping my ass. Even though I still haven't managed to beat him at the same rank, I was getting there, but now it's like we've gone back to square one where I get my ass whooped.
After two hours of torture *ahem* training he said I was done for today. "I won't be around during the combat class today so let me help you out a little" he said before grasping on to my shoulder again. "No.." I started to protest but before I knew it, I once again saw myself in another place, no this place was familiar, it was the dorms.
"I turned towards the instructor who still had his annoying smirk, but all he said was goodbye kid and disappeared leaving a visible human shaped vaccum that got filled out with thundering shockwaves. "Damn, one day I'll also get as fast and even faster than this" I murmured with determination glinting in my eyes. Who am I kidding? eyes don't glint with determination, they only narrow or sharpen.
I flew into my dorm and decided to just freshen up but changed my mind, the time was still about twenty minutes to six and my body was sore so I decided to take a hot bath. "Trinnnnn, Trinnnnn". "Hmmm what?" I murmured waking up from my sleep. "Oh God my sleep" I almost shouted.
I slept off again in the tub, how is it even possible silver ranks are supposed to be able to go a week without sleep but then it came to me, it was simple, I did not prepare for that and wasn't actively acting on it, plus sleep really hits the right spots. I checked my smartwatch which continued ringing.
"Hey dude, you're gonna be late if you don't hurry to class" Owen's voice came through as soon as I answered the call. "I'm on my way" I simply said before cutting it off. It was already five minutes to eight, it will be a miracle if I managed to make it in time. I washed myself again and came out of the bathroom with my hair still dripping with water. I quickly wore my uniform and flew out the balcony to the portal station.
Once I entered there, I quickly paid the points and teleported to the academic site. I entered the building and headed for the auditorium. I took in a deep breath before pushing one of the double doors and entering inside. 'Oh God, it just had to be her' I thought as I saw Ms Evelyn glaring at me.
I felt the gaze of the rest of the class too, I glanced at the cadets, three were expressionless namely Quinn, Damien and Aurora, most were amused waiting for the drama that'll follow and some dljust didn't care. Oh I also saw a particular group of four glaring at me with hate. It was the clown I beat yesterday and his lackeys, his face was back to normal and wasn't swollen anymore, maybe the work of healing potions.
Meanwhile Owen was shaking his head at me with his index finger on his lips as if asking me not to talk.
"You are late" said Ms Evelyn in a tone that suggested she was barely keeping her anger cap. "I can see that" I replied in an even tone. And she blew it, her anger fuse I mean, "get out" she shouted. For a diamond rank she sure gets angry easily, what did she expect me to say?, she said 'i' was late, she didn't ask me why I was late. I didn't want to sit down in a boring history class for two hours but what I didn't want to do even more was stand outside for that same amount of time.