Training Completed, Start of college exams

Training Completed, Start of college exams

After training in this world for more than two and a half years after my elemental awakening, I battle with the last shadow am going to fight before going out.

[Opponent selected],

[Current battle rank: Rank 8 [level 18 Evolved Mortal],

[Sending consciousness to the battle arena],

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After opening my eyes and seeing the familiar forest battle arena, where I and a shadow first battled immediately after my elemental awakening, I take it as the ancient world wishing me good luck in my college exams.

Returning my focus to my opponent and the 10 seconds count hovering above us, I prepared and released mana, forming an aura around me, black in color with traces of purple in it. And yes, it's the aura, an Epic grade affinity on the same level with sword ki and the rest, but is more flexible, making it one of the best affinities in Epic Grade. But the difference between the people of my age range and me that unlocked Epic Grade affinity is that they naturally awakened theirs, and I trained mine. This was when I found out that, there were some affinities people could train and unlock without awakening them.

The difference between the people that trained and awakened the affinity and those that were born with it is that, while you were training the affinity you're trying to unlock, they were born with it and knew how to use it basically immediately after awakening. By the time you've unlocked the affinity, they have already reached a great height in their affinities.

Of course, this disadvantage doesn't apply to me because, while I've stayed in this world for more than three years, am still 15. The same age I came into this world for the first time. To the outside world, I am a 15 years old boy who just awakened his elements and unlocked the aura affinity, but that's not the point, the point is that, while the ones who trained wasted years to unlock the affinity and allowed the others to surpass them. Compared to them, I can almost never be surpassed by those of the same age group because of the ancient world and the real world time difference. So, if there is an affinity I can train in, I just have to stay in the ancient world for some years and train, while the total amount of time passed in the real world is just a few days.

While I was thinking of these things, the timer was just a second away from reaching 10. Realizing that am still in a battle, I quickly regain focus and made my aura denser, the same thing my opponent was doing.

Immediately after the timer reached 10, the shadow and I disappeared from our spot and attacked each other when we were close. With our legs raised, we hit each other stopping in the middle of our charge, and creating a pit that is a little more than 5 meters with us in it, and in a radius of more than 25 meters destroyed. Jumping backward, the shadow and I created a distance between us. Immediately after landing on my feet, I gathered more aura in my hands, forming a sword shape, and slashed, creating a deep pit in front of me. But there was no sign that the shadow was hit by it, so I was on alert, not a second had passed before I sensed something coming at me from behind in mid-air. So I quickly turned around and saw a shadow in mid-air with a sword-shaped aura gathered around his hands, just like the one in my hands before.

I immediately sensed danger and knew what the shadow was up to. Trying to pay back medicine with medicine. Without thinking, I gathered more aura in my legs and dashed, avoiding the slash that came right after.

Without wasting a second more, I dashed back to where I came from, the shadow's location. After outputting something like that, the aura surrounding the shadow should be lighter now. Not like mine is any better, in fact, it's worst, because I gathered more aura in a part of my body two times, and am not skilled to the point where I can recover faster and use less aura, but when there is an opportunity, especially when it's fighting these guys, the faster you take it and perform well the closer you are to winning. But life won't always give you what you want.

Before I reached his destination, I sensed a huge amount of sword-shaped aura coming at me. I could totally dodge it, but that will give this guy more advantage and put me on the losing side. "Tsk", annoyed, I clicked my tongue.

"Shadow Blink",

With no other choice, I had to use magic. After saying the word, I disappeared from my location and appeared from the shadow of a tree. 'Shadow Blink', is a spell that allows you to travel from one place to another as long as you can sense it or see the shadow. But, everything comes at a cost. Am not talking about the spell but this guy. After months of training, I found out that the best opponent is the one that grows with you. So I changed the settings to a much better one. At the start of the match, we can only fight with pure body strength but if I were to use aura, the shadow would be able to use it, and if I don't use it, he won't use it too. So after using magic in this fight, the shadow was able to use it too. And true, before I could relax, the shadow used shadow blink to appear behind me.

What happened after that was the destruction of the forest.

'Sorry, Mr forest'.

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The battle later ended as a draw. In fact, this is the first time I've heard a draw from the VR system. You must know, I have never won a fight against the shadows before, I only broke through the battle rank. Of course, if I were to fight a shadow ranked lower than me, I would win, but a battle like that, for me has no purpose.

Removing the VR helmet from my head, I looked at the ceiling of the room. I must say, This hall really helped me grow and I am grateful. Without saying anything more, I made my way to the basement of the building. According to the control orb, this is the storage room of the hall. I want to see if I can find anything useful, just in case.

As I made my way down, I opened the door to the storage room and My God.

Hahahaha,

Looks like the start of the college exams today is the time the people of this world will know my name.

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