The teacher takes a deep look at him.
"How bold of you to assume I'd train you until you have the ability to kill me." The teacher chuckles lightly.
"Even if you don't I'll be strong enough to tear you and every other adult in this hellscape apart." Greg huffs his dagger like eyes gazing back at the teacher.
"My how ferocious, okay, I'll agree to a duel you to the death if you don't die before my training is over."
"Alright then in two hours I will train with you." Greg says wanting to continue on absorbing energy.
"Who says you get to choose when to train? We start now." The teacher questions with a malicious aura right before shooting a bolt of darkness at his eyes.
Suddenly, Greg who could see in the dark clearly is blind.
"Let's begin, you are only allowed to use [darkness sense] to dodge the attacks." Teacher orders and begins to shoot black orbs at Greg.
Greg didn't know how to use dark sense but he doesn't want to say anything but threats to this women so he doesn't say anything.
He starts moving hoping left to right, hoping to catch her off guard.
Bam*
A black orb hits him right in the stomach. It feels like getting hit with a heavy rock.
He starts moving again and.
Bam*
A second one.
Bam*
A third.
Bam*
Fourth.
Before the teacher shoots another she asks. "Do you not know how to use [darkness sense]?"
Greg doesn't answer instead gazing at where he thought the teacher is. He was looking at a wall.
"So stubborn. Alright just focus on the darkness around you. Connect with it and sense it." The teacher explains.
"They really need to train competency more." She says with a soft sigh.
Greg does as she explained but before he could fully focus another black orb hit him on the leg.
"Why'd you do that!?!" Greg asks angrily.
"Was I supposed to wait for you? Is your enemy supposed to wait for you?"
Greg lost his focus and tries again, however as soon as he started another orb hits him in the chest. Then another hit him on the back of the head. He starts to get frustrated, and he couldn't maintain focus.
'Why aren't you helping me!' Greg shouts in his mind.
'Why would I help you I'm not getting attacked?' Gareth responds sarcastically.
Another orb hits Greg in the leg after he said that. He grew angrier and angrier after every hit.
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Two hours have passed.
Greg is sweating profusely while trying to dodge the orbs. The orbs are silent, so he couldn't hear where they came from, nor did they activate any of his other senses.
He could vaguely feel when the orbs were about to touch him, but he was too late to dodge them.
'Are you really so weak you still can't sense it?' Gareth taunts him.
"Hmm two hours have passed I guess your ready to start training right?" The teacher taunts him as well.
"AAARRGH SHUT UP!" Greg roared out in rage directed at the both of them.
Dark energy begins to pour out of him into the environment. The shadows start to become ecstatic, dancing around the cell.
"Good." The teacher sees this and begins to fire more orbs.
Similar to waves the shadows jump high into the air. One black orb that passed through his jumping shadows could be felt.
It's weird sense but it gives him a tingle on his body where the orb is about to hit.
He instinctively moves his body and dodges it narrowly.
The teacher sees this and begins to fire orbs rapidly with increased speed.
He controls the darkness to surround him like a large cocoon.
Each orb that passed through it he could feel and dodge. He is still a second too slow getting hit again and again.
His anger gets the better of him, as he unconsciously makes the cocoon begin to spin like a tornado.
This time the orbs that touched it are flung away.
Seeing this the teacher moves at high speed through the tornado.
Greg couldn't even register this before she punches him square in the face, sending him flying into the wall.
He sits against the wall with pain coursing through his face.
"I told you to use darkness sense, not go out of control!" The teacher says while glaring at Greg.
He didn't say anything as he rubs his nose, shooting a hateful glare back at her. She seemingly teleports in front of him and kicks him hard in the stomach.
He coughs out a mixture of blood and spit.
"I told you to dodge, not block. UTTERLY PATHETIC!" The teacher yells with even more anger.
She then launches a barrage of kicks at him which were so fast he couldn't dodge and could only block. However he can't even move fast enough to block them.
He could only sit there and take the flurry of kicks with his body.
She finally stopped after three minutes and left. Not before leaving him with a few words.
"To the strong you are nothing. Remember that next time you choose to disobey me." The teacher says as the darkness leaves his eyes.
All he could see is her figure disappear before slumping over unconscious.
'Wake up you have to refill your mana and increase my power.' Gareth quickly wakes him without care for what happened.
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Two weeks have passed.
The training has been constant everyday is the same thing except he is in a much larger room that the teacher reserved for him.
It also has a comfier bed, which is just a pile of hay with a sheet on top.
On the second day, Gareth broke through to [rank-E]{Basic stage}. When that happened his appearance changed.
He grew 2ft taller and 3ft longer. Tiny horns appeared on his head along with a small set of wings on his back. Tiny nubs also went down the middle of his back.
Gareth also gained two new abilities called [Corrosive black spit] and [Shadow step].
[Corrosive black spit]{ allows user to spit black venom which slowly eats away at target}
[Shadow step]{ allows user to use the shadows to boost their speed}
Greg on the other hand was becoming better at using the darkness sense.
He could sense the black orbs when they were within a foot of him giving him a slightly better chance at dodging them. He used it constantly to the point it developed into an official skill.
The teacher continues to beat on him after every training session, leaving him sore everywhere. However he can take the attacks better each time and he could sense where they would land which helps prepare him for the pain.
During the cultivation time, Gareth talks about his life as the Demon God of the abyss. He also teaches Greg many things about the outside world and things he should know in general.
This inspires Greg to train even harder to reach that level one day.
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Four months have passed and the training has proven fruitful.
Greg ca now dodge all of the black orbs even the ones that come at him with 10x the speed. He could also block some of the teachers attacks and take the ones that he couldn't.
The continuous cultivation also allowed him to break through to [rank-D]{advanced stage} which was amazing for a 10 year old kid. However for Greg it is too slow.
Gareth reached the [rank-E]{master stage} and he was close to breaking through to the next rank.
Greg got into the habit of checking his stats at the end of each day.
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Greg Gareth {Rank-D, advanced stage}
Element: Darkness
Class: Shadow Summoner- 3/4 summon links left
Skills: [ Summon fusion ] [ Dark-world travel ] [ Darkness control ] [ Dark absorption ] [ Dark sense ]
Summons: abyssal lizard {Rank-E, master stage}
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Greg has been using [ Darkness control ] to draw in more power for his training along with his [Dark absorption], since being in a room he could only absorb so much.
As Greg closes his menu the teacher walks through the door.
"Congratulations your first lesson is over. Now it is time to see how strong you are against beasts." The teacher says sinisterly.