"Ahi, ahi, Cheon Wonry- I mean miss! You're chocking me!"
"Shut up already!"
...
"Sigh... miss... why did you have to bring me with you in the first row with the other young master..." Lee Hyun was quite frustrated by this. In his last life, he had begged Cheon Wonryou to bring him with her to the first row because he wanted to stand out in front of his father, the principal of the Demonic Academy, but that was the stupidest move he could ever make! Because his father instead ridiculized him in front of everyone, calling him an 'asslicker'! That was the start of all the relentless bullying he had suffered! He had just suffered a quite embarrassing situation by having just been dragged on the ground by Cheon Wonryou till there; if even that was to happen again, he wouldn't be able to stand it!
"Shut up!" Cheon Wonryou quickly shut him down with a hit on the head. "The other servants would have been grateful for this! You always complain about everything!"
"Yeah, bu-" Lee Hyun began, but, almost immediately, loud sounds of bugles echoing across the entirety of the Demonic Academy interrupted him. That could only mean one thing... the Lord was coming!
~Brrrrr~
~Brrrrr~
As soon as the doors of the main building opened, all of the academy's cadets exploded in excitement. "He's coming!"
"Quiet down!"
"It's him! It's the Lord!"
An overwhelming figure, the Lord, made its appearance, three other figures following him. The Right Guardian, the Dark King, and... sigh... that shit of Lee Hyun's father, the Left Guardian.
A throne was brought by some servants, and as soon as the great figure of the Lord sat down on it, an overwhelming aura spread across the Demonic Academy, pressing down on all of its cadets.
"His presence is overwhelming!"
"I can't even bring myself to look at him!"
"He's not the Lord without a reason after all-"
"Silence!" A man with a mask on his face, the Dark King, suddenly shouted, immediately shutting the cadets' commotion up.
"..."
"We are now ready, my Lord!" The Dark King, after ensecuring that there was absolute silence, said, bowing down to the Lord, who then slowly got up from the throne and, with solemn voice, immediately commenced the opening speech. "To all of the talented young ones to lead our cult's future..."
The sheer force of his voice made the cadets tremble.
"I welcome you to the academy!"
"At this academy you will hone your skill... and become the driving force behind our cult!"
"Whoooo!" The cadets immediately exploded once again in excitement. "Eternal glory to the Lord!"
"Eternal glory to the Lord!"
And just like this, having finished the welcome speech, the Lord then returned into the main building, the Dark King following him, leaving only the Right and Left Guardian behind.
"Ok, now that the Lord's welcome speech has concluded, it's really time to get down to business..." But as soon as the Left Guardian had started to talk, he noticed that, except for the young masters and a red-haired boy in the first row, everybody else had already begun chatting and wasn't paying attention to any of his words! How dare they?! How dared such little and insignificant scrubs ignore him?!
"Who said this was time for chit-chat?!" With his nerves already heavily buldging, the Left Guardian drawed the attention of the cadets with a shout. "I'm going to make this simple, so listen up, you little scrubs!"
"At the Demonic Academy, you will train through six tests over the course of four years! Each test will have its own examination to pass and advance to the next one! But you have only one try at each ot tests!"
"What?" His words caused another commtion amongst the cadets, this time not of excitement but of complain. "We only get one chance? So we're out if we fail even once?"
"Looks like you all get the gist of it." The Left Guardian continued. "That's right! Cadets who fail a test will be expelled from the Demonic Academy!"
"Sorry!" Immediately after he finished talking, one of the young masters in the first row, the young master of the Sword Clan, Cheon Kyung Woon, raised his hand. "I have a question!"
"And who said a bastard like you could ask questions?"
And just as he heard that, a shiver of rage passed through the Sword Clan's young master's entire body immediately. "What did you just call me?"
"Oh? Do you have a problem with me calling you a bastard? You should've heard that the moment you entered this academy, you'd lose all privileges you had from you clan!"
"Do you want to be expelled before the academy even starts?!"
"Pfft!" At the sight of such a scene, the other young masters could barely hold back from bursting out laughing, especially when Cheon Kyung Woon bowed his head down to the Left Guardian and apologized to him. It was so funny! Even Lee Hyun could barely keep himself from laughing despite having already seen the same scene in his last life!
"Well, but it's obvious what your question is..." the Left Guardian said, recalling all of the attention on him once again. "You may think that only one try for each test is a bit unfair but that's because great rewards will attend those who pass!"
"The first reward is the Black Dragon Pill!"
"The Black Dragon Pill?" The cadets once again exploded into a commotion as they heard what the Left Guardian just said.
"Is he talking about that pill that allows the consumer's Qi to increase of twenty years of training?"
"So if you pass through all the stages, you'll get six Black Dragon Pills?! That's about 120 years of Qi! Wouldn't that be similar to the level of an expert!"
"No, idiot! That's not how it works!"
"The more you consume them, the less effective they become..."
"..."
"The second reward is martial arts' manuals!" The Left Guardian returned to speak. "If you've all trained in martial arts, you know the importance of these books!"
"The Demonic Academy has a great library, the Great Demonic Library, which has five floors! Each time you pass a test, you will gain access to one floor!"
"Depending on the effort you put in, you may be given the opportunity to even learn the secrets of even the Six Clans!"
Just as the cadets were about to start a commotion again, the Left Guardian immediately continued. "But... most of you won't even make it to the 5th floor, even if you were resurrected! So don't even get your hopes up!"
...to be continued.
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Sorry guys if the chapter wasn't that good, but I was really on a rush today, well, like always.
Remember to check my other works "Uniqueness Emperor" and "Martial Peak: The Star Emperor"