Long Day

Teacher Harold continued the Abyss realm class teaching the different races and their capabilites. Zane made sure to note them down and study them later. However with the hundreds of mutated races and beasts it would be hard remembering each.

With a relived sigh Zane finally left the classroom after listening attentively to Harold.

The next class would be Sparring and Zane wasn't scared. Ranking top 5 in combat capabilites before and his former combat experience alongside training experience with the saber it would be no problem.

Walking alone in the halls he saw a shortie in the distance.

"Armand.." he thought curiously looking at the student who was about 5'5 feet tall..

Closing in on him he finally saw what he was doing.

Bootlicking Jessica...

Zane gave him a disdainful look and averted his gaze after meeting Jessica's eyes for a few seconds walking to the sparring hall.

Armand following her gaze also saw Zane looking at him with disgust.

"Got a problem?" He said in anger clenching his fist seeing Zane so blatantly showing his disgust.

Zane simply ignored the shortie and kept on walking to the sparring hall in the distance.

"Y-You!" Armands face turned red in anger however Jessica held him back with her hand.

She knew it wasn't the time to act.

Using his Qi sense Zane saw everything that happened behind him and chuckled in amusement.

Eventually reaching the sparring hall he found that Veronica had already arrived alongside almost every other student apart from Jessica and Armand..

Veronica nodded at him before looking at the Vice Principal their new teacher.

The sparring hall was fairly large about 120 meters long and 80 meters wide.

On the walls stood several different weapons. Gauntlets, swords, sabers, knifes, daggers, axes, greatswords, whips, sickles, halberd there was everything on that wall.

A few seconds passed and Jessica alongside Armand finally arrived almost late.

"Welcome to your sparring class." The Vice Principal said in the middle of the hall before walking closer.

"This class was made to further enhance your combat capabilites alongside gaining experience. Now everyone is allowed to pick any weapon on that wall." He said explaining the class.

Zane continued looking at the seemingly endless weapons however only one did catch his eyes.

It was built exactly like a chinese saber it's metal shining from the lights.

Dashing towards it with immense speed before anyone could grab it he took it in his hand.

"Good balance check, sharpness check, comfortability check, size check." He murmured in his head inspecting the weapon like a proper blacksmith.

The saber had a tint of red in it's metal and the handle was dark red in color. Satisfied he grabbed the sheath close to it and put it close to his waist before sheathing it.

The other students still bewildered by his fast dash quickly snapped out of it and ran to their desired weapons.

Once everyone was done they gathered before the Vice Principal yet again. He inspected each weapon before stopping.

"Now that everyone has picked their desired weapon it is time to spar. Keep in mind this is a friendly spar to simply gain experience, it is not an all out fight." The Vice Principal reminded them before deciding the groups.

Veronica and Nellie,

Sara and Coby,

Emilia and Johnny,

Zane and Armand,

Jessica and Jacob,

Finally Nav will substitute for any tired student." He announced making up the groups on the spot.

"What a coincidence.." Zane eyed the Vice Principal questioning his choice.

Meanwhile Jessica gazed upon Armand a little bit worried however didn't show it on her face. She simply wished him good luck before proceeding to her sparring partner.

"You will pay!" Armand thought with anger feeling embarrassed about what had happened.

Zane walked towards him without any care in the world and distanced himself from the other sparring students.

Drawing his saber he asked..

"Are you ready, Bootlicker?" Zane questioned eying the short man.

"...B-Bootlicker??!! What is this slander! Jessica deserves every praise in the world!" He said glaring at Zane.

"Oh, a simp then!" He replied quickly towards Armand.

Yeah he was a simp but didn't like the word..

"No I'm not! I only admire her!" He shouted to Zane this time.

Jessica finally hearing the commotion looked at Armand strangely before glaring at Zane. He obviously noticed it but ignored her.

"Yeah yeah, let's start already." Zane said tired already of this shortie..

Zane analyzed his opponent quickly before drawing his saber.

"Short and daggers, should be the agility type then." Zane concluded in his head holding the saber tightly remembering his previous Saber art the Seven Saber Strikes he stole from the Cloud Valley Sect...

At this moment the Vice Principal was eying the students making sure they don't break any rule however he was only truly curious about Zane. He was ranked top 5 in combat abilities and the other top 4 didn't awaken inner worlds unfortunately..

"Should have learned some art.." The Vice Principal concluded seeing his stance.

"Come." Zane muttered this word before the shortie suddenly vanished.

"To beat agility you just have to out agility them!... yeah that's make no sense.." Zane thought in his head before focusing on the fight.

Armand had dashed up in the air throwing a dagger down at Zane.

He swiftly dodged it before using his agility aswell. Zane jumped into the air meeting the shortie who now couldn't move...

Slashing the saber he stopped at Armands neck before descending onto the ground.

"Tsk tsk, Armand is that all you can do? How are you supposed to protect your princess in the future?" Zane said teasing him with disappointment.

"Y-You how.." Altough the short man didn't rank high in the combat rankings he still had outmatched agility. But this Zane guy just instantly teleported in front of him in the air!

The Vice Principal expecting some decent fight shaked his head in disappointment seeing Armand losing so quickly...

The spars continued with others exhausting themselves. At this point Nav had to substitute for Sara and fought Coby.

The most interesting match was probably Jessica and Jacob. Surprisingly they were evenly matched both of them using the sword.

Their clashes echoed through the room as they dashed around trying to find a gap. But nothing so far.

Meanwhile Zane was still stuck with this idiot Armand...

Veronica and Nellie was also another interesting match. Nellie armed herself with the bow while Veronica used the spear.

Veronica kept closing in with he spear using its long range to control the space. Nellie simply continued retreating unleashing arrow after arrow on her.

Emilia and Johnny's spar was very boring as Johnny simply dominated the fight using his fists to utterly dominate the poor girl who barely knew how to fight... Emilia picked the sword aswell but was sloppy and stiff in her movements..

Sara and Coby... their spar ended quickly as she was exhausted after sparring for a few rounds.

Nav substituted and dominated the fight wielding the sword too. Poor Coby tried his best with the greatsword but alas with no avail he simply couldn't keep up..

Honestly the class was boring for Zane the only maybe decent fights would be Jessica, Nav and Johnny no one else.

Armand the simp kept on dashing around using his agility foolishly. Zane simply predicted and stopped him in his tracks.

Eventually the spar ended after an hour and Zane felt nothing. He stayed behind to talk with the Vice Principal. Zane knew he had to train and push himself further and further each time and this would only slow down his progress.

"Vice Principal could you maybe get me a better sparring partner?" Zane asked bluntly towards the man standing in front of him.

The Vice Principal looked at him before agreeing.

"I shall do so.." He responded and Zane thanked him before walking out.

It was well-known that not many Inner World users were the best at combat but Zane didn't think much if this. Personal strength is true strength afterall.

Exiting the hall the top four students alongside Veronica stood waiting for him.

Upon meeting their gazes he raised an eyebrow before asking.

"Is something wrong?" Zane asked to the holding his hands in his pocket.

"We would like to apologize, we underestimated you." Jacob said taking charge.

"Hmm? Oh so you apologize alright." Zane nodded to him and shaked his hand.

The other three were obviously to prideful to apologize so he would only accept Jacob for now.

Ignoring the other three standing behind Jacob he walked away with Veronica running to catch up.

"See I told you we shouldn't have done this!" Armand said in anger to the other three.

"It doesn't matter he's strong." Jacob said a little bit excited.

Jessica and Nellie did not utter a single word before walking away.

"Arrogant fool, in the future we will see." Jessica thought with a frown on her face and.

Nellie didn't care at all she also thought of Zane as weak. Qi energy is the lowest afterall. Statistics proved to be right.