Chapter 16

And so a year had passed.....Railan learned to control 2/100 of the power of the crimson blade and it was already overwhelmingly powerful.

He also gained control of many many axels and had passed the final exam of the first year with relative ease despite him barely paying attention in the geography and history classes, why? an axel

This axel lets him absorb the knowledge from anything that has it, for example, his textbook, in fact, Railan got a perfect score in geography and history and there was no need to mention the combat classes as he had exceeded the combat potential of an A rank swordsman.

He had become a popular figure at school and had numerous duels every week. many knew they'd lose but still challenged him as he advised them on how to better use their axel.

he stopped relying on attack axels and started focusing more on training with the support or enhancement or other types of Axels while avion taught him the lost art of magic.

magic was a lost art in this world, magic was once a part of the world but general magic gradually took over and magic was lost forever.

magic put a lot of strain on the user while general magic was just using spell cards to put an imprint on a person's soul. the card would then disappear and the person would be able to use that certain spell.

magic was controlling and channelling of the Mana in the body.

although it would burn up a lot of energy, Railan learned to use an axel called 'vitalize' which let him draw energy from the surrounding area to fuel him.

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A person dashed forward strengthening his legs leaving a crack in the floor.

Railan's figure blurred and appeared somewhere else, among all the axels that Avion or rather the person. that took control of him plundered, none of them was a teleportation axel...he did get a godspeed axel to move as though he was Teleporting and that was what he was using.

"bend forward and enhance your legs to around ten times, this way it won't completely destroy the ground and mess up your trajectory but would greatly increase the speed of your dash," said Railan before his figure blurred and he flicked his fingers toward his opponent's head using a body strengthening axel which caused a high-pressure wind to blow as Louis Teleported Railan's opponent out..... Louis had extra work due to the many duels that would take place.

several waves of earth fixed the stadium immediately as Railan waved his hand.

"I never get tired of seeing you win with those extraordinary powers," said Louis smirking

"sorry for the work instructor Louis," said Railan apologetically

"no sweat," said Louis before he walks away.

Rez came up to Railan and said "so.....you coming with me to try out the new devilchicken meat from the tavern?"

"Nah, I'm taking the usual"

"dude..will you live the rest of your life eating honey bread and apple juice," said Gem who also came

Gem had learned about Railan's Pocket dimension and some of his secrets but the majority was kept a secret. She even started training with him in the pocket dimension while Rez learned how to make and enter his own pocket dimension.

Eterna had also learned the truth about avion but was still not willing to forgive him but she did allow Avion to teach Railan as he had experience and was possibly a better candidate for teaching him that Eterna herself.

"well maybe I like home bread and apple juice"

"so...I think you should try something else" said Rez

"Nah, and also I'm going to the demon lands again, so cya"

"ugh.....okay"

Railan used another axel 'dragon body manifestation'....the same axel as Valarie's but from her ancestor.....it was something that Avion had taken.

Dark red wings appeared on his back as he flapped before flying using the godspeed axel.

the students who were spectating the duel watched in awe as Railan took off.

they even had given him the title 'the demon king of axel academy' due to his invincibility.

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Railan appeared in a land where the ground was red, there was nothing but demons and beasts for as long as you look. The rivers of lava flowed around as the heat assaulted Railan's skin but he only felt a little uncomfortable

He looked around and found an S rank demon

It had deep red horns that protruded from its head, red-tinted skin with slit-like eyes and snake-like pupils. Its body was extremely bulky and muscular with an intimidating aura emitting from it.

"Perfect," said Railan grinning

The moment the demon detected a human's presence it looked at it with its fierce eyes, it then leapt forward with its claws out.

A glint of red was seen before the sound of a hard material hitting metal was heard. Railan had blocked the attack with his crimson blade!

A ferocious wind blew all around the crimson blade, the demon looked at the human that dared challenge it with an amused expression

"Keep on underestimating me and you'll die a horrible death before you even know it....wait you'll die even if you take me seriously," Said Railan chuckling

The demon seemed to have understood his mockery because it roared loudly

'Yikes, you hit a nerve Railan' said a voice in his head

"Of course I did, now just time to prove my point eh, Avion"

'sure, show 'em the power of the crimson blade'

The demon glared at Railan before his flames surrounded him reading from the pores in his horns. The flames then blew toward with its high temperature heating up the already hot air

"Whoa, you flames are so weak id like to bathe in its lukewarm temperature," said Railan

by this, the demon grew even more agitated but what Railan said was right, the temperature indeed did not bother him, in fact, it looked more like he was enjoying it. It was an axel that made him immune to high and low temperature

"My turn" Said Railan as he raised the katana shaped crimson blade the Demon understood that he had actually fought an opponent who was too hard for it to handle, yet it still tried to block the attack with its hardened claws.

The crimson blade glowed as Railan brought it down, it cleanly sliced through the demon's caws and cut the demon's body in half, both the halves fell to the ground.

Railan placed his hand on both the corpse pieces and drained it from all the mana that was lingering in its dead body revitalizing him.

Railan stayed there for a few minutes and slew a few B and C ranked demons around the area as he couldn't find any stronger ones.

Railan also cleaned up all the dead bodies of the demons and other beasts and burned them into nothingness before he turned to leave

As he was going to activate his wings he heard a slight humming, he turned to go t=check on it and as he got closer to the voice the humming got louder.

When he reached there he found a girl around his age sitting down on the floor, on the barren red soil humming a tune.