Caesar found himself in a mountain region, he himself was standing on a cliff, which allowed him to be able to view everything from the top.
He could hear the sounds battle raging far away and the growls of exceed beasts or the dying cries of prospective students.
He looked at his status.
[Exceed Record]
ID:456081
Name: Caesar Hydrae
Age: 18 years old
Race: Human
Rank: Adept
Kai: Infernal Eldritch
HP: 100/100 MP:5000/5000
SP: 0
Attributes>>
Skills>>
Equipment>>>
A second virtual screen appeared in front of him.
[An equipment as been found on the host, do you wish to equip?]
Seeing this prompt, Caesar looked away from it and looked at his hand, within his grasp was a sword.
[Mithril Sword]
Rank: mortal(low)
increase attack power by 50%.
Caesar decided to equip it since it was better than nothing. As soon as he equipped it, he felt a bestial gaze on himself, which sent a chill down his spine, turning around to an exceed beast crawling towards him, its eyes were on him.
It was huge black snake, which almost looked like a dragon, it had a crown mark on his forehead, its eyes glimmered as it stared at Caesar.
A prompt appeared above the snake and it was in orange.
[Crown Python]
Caesar was puzzled seeing the colour because crown python were exceed beasts of the purple rank and higher, for it to be orange, either it was weakened or it was dying.
"Its injured..." Caesar noticed a long claw mark running along the body of the crown python, which gave him the idea that the beast had been rushing over from a fight with another beast. A beast which could injure the crown python could either be of purple rank and above.
"That means I'm in the region of purple ranked exceed beasts-" Caesar muttered to himself before he jumped forward, as his previous position was bombarded by fiery arcs.
"If I was just a second late, I would have been toast..." He gulped before turning to the python who had slithered to the side and looked at him with glittering eyes.
Caesar clenched his grip around the hilt of the sword, unknown to him, a red black aura began to condense around him before it stretched towards the sword. Though he did not notice, those teachers outside the secret realm saw it.
"What do you all think?" A bespectacled woman, wearing a cheongsam said as she glanced at the other teachers by her side.
Reigan stood in front of them, a hand behind while he sipped his smoke pipe, he ignored the teachers behind while he focused on the cloudy screen which was floating in front, revealing the proceedings of what was happening inside the secret realm.
"I have no opinion, I just know that from just the beginning, this year's batch is better than the previous, they are like my time..." A middle aged man wearing a kimono said as he caressed his beards with a sly smile.
"Zed, what do you think??" someone asked and all the teachers turned to look at a slim man, dressed in black shirt, black trousers and boots, he had dark circle under his sleepy eyes. He yawned and paused as he noticed the teacher looking at him.
"I already have my eyes on someone I would teach, so that is who I am focusing on..." Zed said as he looked back at the cloud screen.
"hmm...Zed you have your eyes on someone?" Reigan said as he turned around. Zed shrugged which made Reigan to giggle like a child.
The other teachers looked at each other as they were thinking about what kind of person Zed had his eyes on, they shook their heads while they thought of how to find out who the person was. Whether he had a nice kai or not, they would approach him, because whenever Zed picked up students, they always graduated as cream of the top.
"Who is going to guide the third daughter of Lancelot?" Another teacher asked, it was a male merfolk with a scar across his left eye.
"Whoever she selects as her private tutor would be, no matter who it is" Reigan said as he spared a glance at the teacher.
Back in the secret realm....
In a forest area, the trees where made up of yellow leaves instead of the usual green, Xenovia was walking as behind her were burning corpses of exceed beasts, her gaze still apathetic like she just did a trifling thing. A prompt appeared in front of her.
[Rank]
1. Oliver Nightshade (180 points)
2. Leon Wilder (150 points)
3. Xenovia Lancelot (120 points)
4. Nyx Runecroft (100 points)
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10. Aiden Sinclaire (40 points)
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99. Caesar Hydrae (2 points)
When Xenovia saw Caesar's name, her brows furrowed. "Why is he so slow??"
Where are confidence came from no one knows, but she believes that the one who could not trigger her ability is not someone ordinary.
Somewhere else in the secret realm, a group of people stood facing a single person, despite being in a group, just standing in front of the latter made them fear.
The person was the guy who had been analysing everyone during the gathering, the guy who had noble aura.
He was Oliver Nightshade.
His lips were curved into a sly smirk as he stared at the people before him. Their expressions were varied, some were slightly defiant, others were frowning while some were afraid.
"Blame your families for not being a part of nobility... now y'all transfer your cores to me and you can leave with your life, or..." Oliver said and there was a growl followed by the sound of a crunch which made everyone to turn their heads.
A black wolf with a long white stripe across its back was eating someone, seeing this made the surrounding people pale in fright.
"Y'all meet my very first contracted beast, Fenrir" Oliver said as he approached the wolf and stroke its beast.
Oliver's kai was Druid.
[Druid: The one with nature, you can be the tender of beasts or be the beasts yourself.]
Even though his kai was being a druid, he took the path of beast taming and mutation.
Oliver grinned as he looked at the fear on the faces of the people in front of him.
"Tch, as expected from a lowborn of the Nightshade family, a very big disgrace..." a voice said which caused everyone two look.
Coming towards their area, was a lion beast man whose eyes glinted with mockery as he stared at Oliver.
[3. Leon Wilder]
Chapter concluded.
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