Chapter 5

I woke up to Eterna screaming at me to wake up since it would be the first day at the axel academy. I reluctantly got up feeling sluggish and took a bath and put in some clothes I had bought. Fully covered from head to toe in black.

I was wearing a black leather jacket with a spandex suit and black pants all of which were light and wouldn't restrict my movements too much.

I went down and checked out of the inn paying for it using money I created in the Pocket dimention - Ha I just absolutely destroyed the currency system and now I'm rich, Eterna honestly didn't care about the misuse but what she did care about is me training my body to limits that would burn down all my muscles and cells,

I didn't particularly feel pain from the training, I was just really tired.

Getting back to the present I then walked to the academy which was about a ten minute walking distance from the inn I was staying at.

After getting there I navigated my way through the bustling hall ways with tons of students, huh and I thought there would be only a few people here because the entrance exam was so hard. Either everyone here was super talented or some other examiner had examined them.

After getting to class I chose to sit in the most secluded section of the class which was - you guessed it the corner. I sat down and then Rez came and looked around until he spotted me, I tried to look away but it was futile. He found me and came straight over and said "Hey Railan it's me Rez"

"Yea I noticed"

"Mind if I sit with you?"

"Yes I mind"

He ignored my comment and sat down next to me, Oh god this was not going to be easy, I mean what kind of person asks if someone minds them sitting down and when they say yes they mind he still sits down?!

A few minutes later the Instructor who had given the orientation for us entered.

Her name was Lila Maron. Who was a former S ranked axel user and swordswoman

She said that she would be taking combat classes for us and would train us in using weapons.

The students were addressed to be in combat gear every day during the orientation but I didn't pay attention but as a former assassin I was always prepared.

We entered the training hall in which we took the entrance exam.

"Attention students! so today we will be learning to use your weapons better.

They will help you to learn how to use your weapons better. I will teach anyone who uses a sword, dagger, short sword or knife." she said as she gestured to 6 other adults in the room. I don't know their name so we'll just number them

1- he taught to use axes and clubs

2- he taught to use Scythes and sickles

3- She taught to use chained weapons like chain sickles and mace

4- He taught the use of lighter weapons like whips

5- She taught to use ranged weapons like needles and kunai

6- she taught the use of bows and crossbows

I personally preferred to use swords but occasionally did use Poison coated needles. Anyhow, I did choose to stick with instructor Maron who taught the sword.

She was teaching everyone basic moves as almost every here had never used a weapon and mostly every in the class depended on their axles to pass the entrance test. Thought that there were a few who had the grasp of basics but only Rez and I could actually use weapons properly.

3 people chose to use swords including me Rez and one insignificant person.

5 people wanted to use Scythes as you know they seem cool

2 people wanted to learn to use axes

1 person wanted to learn ranged weapons like needles

2 people who wanted to use bows

and 2 people who wanted to use maces

I feel sad for the dude who taught the use of whips because no one wanted to learn that.

Well that session was 2 hours long with everyone learning basics and me just practicing my sword with Rez as the Instructor allowed use, I mean why learn the basics again.

Axel classes wouldn't start until the second year at the academy and it was taken by instructor lyzef - The one who took our entrance exam. There were a lot of axels that were common like

- Earth manipulation

- Flying

- Hardened defense. ect

There were theory classes like history and geography and economics but I was really bored on most of them so didn't pay attention to most of it.

I rented another Inn to stay at which was closer to the academy and then a week flew past which was mostly uneventful except for the fact that Eterna started creating Monsters like ogres and goblins and imps with increasing difficulty every day. I should also mention that while in the pocket dimension we were suspended in an empty space and time stopped on the outside so we could spend as much time there as we want. getting back to the point, I did manage to dispatch the Monsters easily.

Things were so boring now with nothing to do like watch anime but not saying this world is bad I mean it is kinda enjoyable I guess.

Class today had gotten over but before I left Rez asked me to come to meet him in the forest outside the town.

I agreed as I had nothing better to do.

While looking around in the forest I say something moving in the bushes. I quickly threw my dagger toward it and a boar stumbled out hurt and I quickly put it out of its misery but slicing its head clean off.

A few minutes had passed and Rez came.

"Finally you came, so what did you want me here for?"

"Oh well thing is your axel, is it an Original?"

"you came here to talk about my axel? and what does original mean?"

"Well yes, I came here because you see almost all axels have already been in public with people having them like my instinct but I have never heard of Bloodfallen and it seems it is an axel that has never been known before so I wanted to warn you to keep your ability a secret. The thing is Original axels are Super super rare and so people would kill you for it" he said in a serious voice which was unusual as he was always cheerful

"Wait but a person can only have one axel and why would killing me help?"

after asking him this his expression became more serious

"My brother had an original axel, people killed him and the place near the heart has a crystal for those who developed their axles. they stole the crystal and most probably the people who killed him were hired to get some shitty rich kid a powerful axel and it worked because my brother's axel was Space rift which allowed him to teleport anywhere he wanted and teleport anything anywhere he wanted" he said as tears rolled down his face, It must have been a sad experience for him

Hearing this I felt sad for him and said "I'm really sorry to hear that"

"yea Nez wouldn't want me to cry over him," He said as he wiped tears from his eyes "Just saying try to keep your ability a secret"

With that, we left the forest. there was an awkward silence between them as we walked back to the town and we departed near the restaurant district.

After I got home I immediately asked Eterna

"Hey Eterna since there is a lady of pain and time and a lord of light is there a lord or lady of death?"

"Yea there is but why do you want to know that?"

"well go through my memories for that but right now I want to know who he or she is"

"Well her name is Iriel...and oh I see you want to know what happened to Nez, aww look you got a friend," she said like an overprotective mom "well I'll see if I can call Iriel, we get along easily so she probably will"

A few moments later there was a light voice inside my head, not something you would expect from the lady of death.

"Hi so you must be Railan I'm Iriel"

I entered the pocket dimension to find a woman who looked in her 20s wearing a black gown that covered her entire body and she had jet Black hair that drooped over her shoulders. She was holding a Black staff with a skull etched on top.

She said "so you wanted to know about Nez huh?...let's see.....

and then a boy a little older than Rez appeared who looked super confused

"huh, where am I," said the boy who looked a lot like his brother just that he was a little taller and had a pointed nose.

"Oh well, do you remember about Rez?" I asked