Master young was having a huge headache right now, something deep down was telling him that this kid was trouble but he couldn't bring himself to disqualify the kid and luckily there were few witnesses to what happened else the palace master would have had to take action on what he did. Although noone died, if he hadn't stepped in then Shawn would have been decapitated in a test for newbies.
He had already sent a message to the palace master through the communication stone , he only got a reply that said "handle it properly and be responsible for once in your life", he rubbed his brows for sometime as Ryu quietly stood without interrupting him.
"Hey kid, you know what you've done right"
"Yes"
"What do you have to say about it?"
"Nothing"
"Have the both of you ever had any issues?"
"No"
"Then why go for his head"
"It was a battle"
"It was a test you....!!!". Master young held himself back from cursing at Ryu, the kid couldn't even give a proper explanation, what had he been through to make him take even a common test as a death battle? He wondered , little did he know that Ryu never really saw it as a genuine battle too, he just saw it as a hunter looking for prey, and after that little bout his hunger had grown.
"So am I disqualified?". He asked as gentle as always. Master young took a deep breath and looked at Ryu
"Why are you blindfolded? I know you're not blind."
Ryu didn't answer , he just stood quietly. Master young shook his head, he also didn't expect to get an answer but he still asked.
"You can go, just stay out of trouble, you're now an inner disciple since you already defeated one, but mind you, you can't repeat that in every fight ,this is a genuine warning and you wouldn't like the outcome". Master young released a pressure upon Ryu that made his body trembled and he felt like he was going to explode into bits. But before he would crumble, master young retreated and left him standing there.
"So this is genuine power, this is how it feels to be strong, I'll be there soon" just with the thought of that the death energy that rotated around his spiritual core seemed to churn and rotate fiercely making his hair grow shades darker . He wasn't furious, he just had a reality check and that was all .
He made his way back to the outer region of the academy and there he found Finral and the twins with the shy looking loli waiting together. He didn't think much about it and continued walking towards them or more like moving forward. Finral had already guessed that if he stood to the side Ryu will likely ignore him so they stood in the middle of the pathway so he could walk straight into their midst. As Ryu got into range, Finral threw a hand around his shoulder and drew him closer , he had a big smile on his swollen face which made him look like a clown.
Ryu didn't react to all this at all, it could be said that he wasn't really feeling anything, he felt attachment to his mother and the little bell in which his sister's soul lays, as for outsiders, he felt nothing at all. As long as you didn't have any ill intention towards him it was like he found it even too stressful to bother with you.
While walking away together with the four, Finral had already explained his quest to Ryu which the latter only responded with a nod.
They walked into a large hall that seemed like a reception, it was here all newbies came to receive their uniforms and badges then they'll receive a set of outlines that held information of what to do and not do in the academy, their training schedule and all.
Right now was just a little bit pass noon when Ryu and the squad came into the hall. There was a girl and a boy in white academy uniform which meant they were second year students.
The five of them went straight and received their badges , uniforms and outlines and they were shown to their respective dorms.
Since they were admitted at the same time, they were all given rooms on the same floor. Ryu had his room opposite Ginna's while Finral had his opposite the twins who insisted on sharing the same room.
Ryu stepped into his room but was stunned on the spot, it was like he had stepped into another world.
" So this is the privilege of an inner disciple" he thought in amazement.
The room was nothing special from the outside and given the gaps between each door the one could conclude they were just small rooms but on the inside it was even larger than the hall they stepped into.
There was nothing inside the room except for the crystal that floated in the centre. Ryu walked towards it and observed for a bit before touching it, but he still felt nothing. Then he recalled what Shawn had done during the test and master young had done the same just in a different way.
Then he followed how he observed in his memory and sent his spiritual sense forward and that moment he could see it. Immediately his spiritual sense came in contact he felt a brand appear on the back of his arm, it glowed for some seconds before vanishing.
The room was flowing with spiritual energy but to the current Ryu it was totally useless. He was getting frustrated from the lack of death energy in the air and he took a step out of his dorm. He made his way to the sect library, since the academy was just a mini version of the sect the library wasn't so large.
He walked in to see a grumpy looking old lady sitting across the counter. He was about to ignore her when his spiritual core churned again and he looked at the old lady again. This time he could see the dense black energy oozing from her in large quantities. Nobody told him but he already knew what the energy was, this was negative energy, a mixture of depression, anger, frustration and a hint of despair.
"What are you staring at punk?" The lady snapped after Ryu kept staring all over her body and swallowing huge gulps of saliva, goosebumps spread all over her body and she felt like a meal prepared just for him, although he was blindfolded she could still feel his burning gaze all over her body.
"Sorry ma, but can I give you a hug??" He asked with his usual gentle tone stunning the old lady, she was about to snap but the next moment a little hand had already wrapped around her and she began to feel light, her anger vanished, depression was lost and she could only freeze, she thought this little kid had a weird fetish when he asked her for a hug but she didn't know he will be that bold and she didn't understand why she felt his hug was so nice.
Ryu just greedily drew in all the negative emotions, a satisfied smile on his face, atleast now he knew he didn't only need death energy however there was the issue of absorption, he couldn't go around hugging everyone, but the satisfaction didn't allow him think straight and he pushed the thought to the back of his mind.
He freed the old lady and began walking into the depths of the library leaving the frozen old lady behind. He was satisfied for now but he wasn't worried for later, negative energy was everywhere, he could just provoke someone and absorbed their anger, he felt a very novel feeling just from the thought alone.
After spending about 4 hours within the Library he left back to his dorm and by the time it was already dark, on the way back he decided to take a detour, since he grew in the slums, he knew the power that the night held, and since he was now a creature of darkness he felt like he was now in his mother's bossom. He vanished into smoke and drifted round the dorms of the inner disciples.
He moved from room to room absorbing the negative energy around the disciples, it was a miniscule amount because 97% of the disciples where in deep cultivation, shutting off the world so he gained nothing from this group. And as for the three percents, not all were in a bad mood. But he continued.
After another round trip down the last floor of the dorms he drifted back towards his dorm, but right at that moment something caught his attention.
Off in the distance, he could see a faint pink smoke flaring upwards. His senses tingled, this was the first time he was seeing this type of energy, he could feel it was negative, neither was it positive but he knew for sure that it was benefitial, he slowly drifted towards it and the closer he got the more his senses tingled.
"Smells so good...". He said in a growl, he was drooling already as he increased his speed. Finally he got to the origin of the energy and what he saw left him speechless.
How could he not know what was going on? Although he was very young, he had still heard about it countless times and could only imagine it in his head but at this moment he was seeing it first hand and didn't know how to react.
His spiritual core churned and he burst out with speed as he mixed up with the energy that radiated from the bodies of this two disciples. As though his action had became a trigger, the pink energy grew larger and the female disciple couldn't hold down her screams anymore.
" Yes ... brother...ah...yes...more...yeah...there...yes...deeper brother....dee...MMM....!!!!"
Ryu dragged on the pleasure and lust that this disciple's were exuding but strangely the more he dragged the more came out and usually when he absorbed any energy it was absorbed and it would leave the individual he had absorbed from, but strangely this two were flowing with endless lust.
The female disciple's cries grew hoarse, how many times had she reached climax? She wanted to sleep but the pleasure was so much, she couldn't help but wander how the male disciple became so good because obviously this wasn't the first time they were doing this. He usually don't last this long. She opened her drowsy eyes only to see a shriveled man thrusting deep into her, her eyes widened into saucers and it all registered, he had been drained too much but the pleasure was so much he didn't want to stop. It took her a lot of will power to concentrate and when she looked at herself, she shivered, but that shiver made her already dried muscle clench the bony rod that was inside her and they both reached another climax making her loss the little clarity she just had .
In minutes what was left were two mummified corpses on each other, his rod still deep inside her, her mouth opened wide and eyes rolled in pleasure but the couldn't be more deader than dead.
At this moment Ryu felt the change in energy and his eyes snapped open as he appeared in his human form.
" Oh shit !!!!!"