Izana woke up with his whole body aching like he slept on stone throughout the night even after the healing he had at the nurse's office.
"Those nurses didn't fully heal me on purpose " Izana grumbled as he stood up from the bed and did a few stretches to relieve his body. His actions caused Sasaki to wake up.
"Yo. Get ready, the class is this morning. " Izana told him while entering the bathroom.
After thirty minutes both of them found themselves in front of the class.
A pair of hands grabbed both of them and pulled them inside. "It seems the two of you took your sweet time getting ready for today. " A cold voice jolted them fully awake.
"Aah S-Sensei didn't see you there. " Izana smiled while slowly backing away. Sasaki said nothing but you could tell he was scared as he was shivering non-stop.
"Join the rest, we leave in five minutes. " He said as he turned away from them.
'As expected of Sensei. ' Izana thought as he hurried to were the other students were.
"Izana what took you and Sasaki so long. " A familiar voice he was use too sounded close to his ear. He turned and saw Scarlett giving him a weird eye while smirking.
"Hmmmm I didn't know you swing that way. " She was holding her laughter back.
"Hey don't think I'm weird, I don't swing that way. " Izana replied when he finally understood what she said.
"I don't do that. " Sasaki replied as well.
'It seems even the quiet guy doesnt want to be misunderstood. '
"Puahahahaha look at both of your faces " Scarlett laughed again but this time it was more irritating to Izana.
"So noisy " He stuffed an apple into her mouth to shut her up.
Bryce checked his watch. "Time to go. " Before anyone could say anything his shadow expanded enveloping everyone. It swallowed everyone and disappeared from the class.
Izana and his classmates appeared in a pitch black dimension but could still strangely see.
"Where are we? "
"This is the Shadow realm, an infinite realm that connects to every realm in the multiverse. It can also be described as the Multiverse shadow.
As long as you have the Shadow ability you can access this realm from anywhere and also pull others in.
Stay close to me or risk getting lost and appearing in a different realm. " Bryce said in his usual calm tone as he started walking in a direction.
His students followed him closely not taking any risk, looking at this Bryce gave a rare smile.
The realm was quiet, too quiet no sound came from their footsteps instead it felt as if they were walking on air.
After a certain amount of time one student approached Bryce.
"Sensei how long is this journey. "
"Oh, I forgot to say time flows differently in this realm than ours. One year in here is equivalent to a day in our realm. So this is also a great place to train.
That is why shadow magic users are sought after by guilds and factions. " The boy who was also a shadow user smiled happily.
"But that does not mean they should be weak. It takes mana to enter the Shadow realm and to stay in it. If you pull others in, the Shadow user has to bear the cost.
After draining all your mana two things can happen, if you are lucky you will be kicked out if you aren't then the realm will drain your life force. " The boy who was just happy felt like he was thrown into a river.
"That is why you all have to grow stronger and unlock the next tier. " He continued forward "We have arrived. "
He touched the Shadow at his front and activated his magic, cracks appeared on the Shadow, it sucked everyone out of the Shadow Realm.
"Shit " Izana muttered as his mind and vision was disoriented. It took sometime for him to calm his mind.
"You'll get used to it. " Bryce looked at them with his cold expression but Izana could see amusement in his eyes.
'He is enjoying every second of this. ' Izana looked around and found out that they were in the middle of a forest.
"Sensei where are we? " Izana looked at him.
"Are you blind, we are in a forest. " He replied with his usual tone.
Izana felt his eye twitch. 'Such a shameless man.'
Izana coughed then looked away from the man and looked at Scarlett who had been strangely quiet.
Sniff sniff
Izana felt like slapping his face. "So you're a dog now. "
"Shuuu. I had to check whether there was any monster close. " She said with a rare serious voice.
"Oh sorry. "
Clap!!
Everyone looked at the source if the sound
"Now that you have all adjusted yourselves. " Bryce took out a stack of papers from his shadow [Isn't the Shadow element so convenient. Drop your favourite element in the comments]
"This is the goal of the exercise today. I want you all to gather all the materials on this lists. " His shadow distributed the papers to everyone.
He took out a single paper from his shadow and held it in his hand. "You can team up or you can go solo, I don't care but teaming reduces the difficulty so It's best to go with that. Now who ever can bring this special Item whether as a team or solo will be rewarded. " He turned the paper to his students an on it the words
A WHOLE DISRIC BOAR
Were boldly written.
"This beast can be mid to high D rank to low C rank so pick your targets well. Also take these. " His shadow handed each of them coins.
"If your life is truly in danger those coins will protect you and will notify me where you are so I can pick you up but if that happens then you are disqualified from the game.
You have till sundown to get all the items or the game is over, that's roughly ten hours. "
Bryce looked at them "Now then, let the game begin! "