Mr. Black backstory

After everyone finished their test, we headed back to our dorms. Emilia was jumping around happily all the way, since she got so surprised by her results. She decided she would focus on training her celestial energy for now. However, this would result in her not being able to train with me, because I will be focusing on sword training. But I didn't want to spoil her mood, so I didn't bring it up.

It wasn't that late yet, so we had to wait a bit for dinner. I spend the time talking with Emilia about mostly her future plans and relaxing a bit. This would probably be one of the rare days, where we had time for stuff like this, as most day we would to train till the teachers decided we couldn't any longer. After training all day we would be too tired after dinner.

We headed for the dining area as soon as it opened and I once again ate twice as much as anyone else. Everybody seemed to have gotten used to that by now and Noelle even brought me the second plate before I even finished with the first one. I just hoped I wouldn't get fat living here but this was an unnecessary fear because I felt like I needed to eat so much to not fall over collapsing. The food was again as delicious and nutritious as the last couple times. The school obviously cared about what we were eating and the menus were clearly targeted to people who want to grow fast. Afterwards we went to our rooms and it didn't take too long for us to fall asleep soundly.

The next morning, we were woken up by the alarm again, this time however we didn't panic because of it. After showering and eating the usual breakfast, we walked to the school. It wasn't just Emilia and me this time, as the others suggested to wait up and all walk there together. On the way I wondered if Mr. Black would allow us to learn more about his strength. And just as I hoped, he actually decided to do so. Today's topic would be the reason why some humans are able to fight on par with celestial beings.

"Because some of you wanted to know more on the reason I could hold up against you kids, I will tell you a hidden secret today. Well, it's not really a secret since everyone in the military knows about it. We humans are usually weak and frail and can only hope to go up against celestial beings with our own techniques or by surprising them. This was the reason why the military started experimenting on humans to find different way to surpass our own limits. Many humans volunteered and a lot of them died in these experiments but the results were worth it. You see, if a human is injected with the blood of a hybrid, there is a chance that the body of the human is able to accept to blood and strengthen themselves with it. There is however a bigger chance, that the human may die from it. To improve the survival chances, one has to train themselves and strengthen their body beforehand. It still isn't a nice treatment, as the pain coming with it can be felt for a week after, because the body has to adjust to the new blood flowing through the veins. I also went through a similar experiment and that's why I'm able to overpower you kids easily. You may ask now why we even need to train hybrids to fight for us. The reasons is that a human can only go so far. Most of us bottleneck at a rating of D, some rare cases can surpass that. As for me, let me show you my ID, so you can get a clearer picture of what you were facing yesterday", he explained, proudly handing his ID to a student. Mr. Black has to have gone through a lot of stuff to get as strong as he is and he probably is one of these rare cases he talked about.

As soon as the first student took a look at Mr. Black ID, gasping sounds could be heard and I got even more curios just how strong he is. After five more minutes I got my hands on it and there stood the following:

Name: Michael Black

Age: 28

Race: human (celestial blood)

Subtype: swordsman

Fighting strength: A+

Celestial energy: D

Fighting technique: S-

Average rating: A

I couldn't hold myself back from gasping either. He was even stronger than Lisa by a fair bit. I wondered just how much pain he had to go through to become the monster he is. Now I also knew what he meant yesterday by not being an ordinary human anymore.

After the last student handed the ID back to Mr. Black, he starting explaining again: "Don't worry kids, I am a clear outlier from humans and that's why I can't consider myself one anymore. Well, the experiments I went through were also rather unique. To explain, I will tell you a bit of my own story. I wasn't born a member of the Black family, I got adopted by them just like Lisa did by the Violet family after showing them my worth. All of that started long ago. At the age of three years, a demon took me capture, after he destroyed the village I was born in and afterwards I got raised by said demon. I would rather say I got kept alive by him than raised. He basically kept me barely living and held me capture. Everybody assumed that the all the humans of the village died, so nobody searched for me anyways. Not that any human would dare to go to the demon nation, but that's another story. At the age of 12 the demon decided to start experimenting on me, seemingly out of pure curiosity. He had heard of human experimentation with hybrid blood and so he decided to do the same. However, he didn't use hybrid blood like the humans did, he instead used his own. Humans had tried using celestial blood before but that always turned into a big mess and never succeeded. The blood was also hard to come by, so it was seen as a waste of resources"

We were all left shocked by what he just told us and nobody dared to open their mouth and ask anything.

Mr. Black took a short break with his explaining, since the story seemed to weight heavy on his heart and after waiting for a minute in silence he continued: "The demon however had an idea how a human would be able to survive it and wanted to try his hypothesis on me. He injected me with his blood and used his celestial energy to keep my body from breaking apart. The pain still remained but I survived the treatment. After another week, he did the same thing again, up to the point, where my body clearly started to reject the blood, no matter how hard he tried. But he still continued trying and the pain wasn't getting any better either. At the age of 16, the demon had experimented enough with me and stopped, seeming unsatisfied with his results. He thought the experiment had failed, as I hadn't gotten much stronger than an ordinary human. I got locked up again in the cellar but I knew that I would be able to grow stronger very rapidly. I had mastered the flow of celestial energy in my body at this point, which made my body become stronger from day to day. After two more years of cultivating my body on my own, I was able to use this power forced upon me to strengthen myself enough and I managed to overpower the demon taking care of me. I killed every single demon in the mansion and fled back to the human nation."

"However, nobody remembered me nor knew who I was. So I joined the military and after a couple years of getting great achievements there, now I stand here before you. Some say I may be the strongest human to ever live, but I know that this isn't true. The demon liked to talk a lot with himself so I know of certain things that no human alive has ever heard of before. As of right now I'm even closer to a celestial being than a hybrid, something called an ascended human in ancient times. These human, however, got eradicated by the celestial beings and so I am a one of a kind. They were another race back then but because their strength rivalled both angels and demons, the two cooperated to get rid of them."

"I decided to get my revenge on both of the celestial races for what they have done with humans all these years by training you kids, the new hope for humanity to surpass the celestial races forever. So I hope you will try your best to make my time here spend worthwhile…" Mr. Black said, as he decided to end the class for today and left the room.

We were all left sitting awestruck in our seats, nobody expected that Mr. Black has such a tragic backstory.