Chapter 9: Practice (2)

[Finished, elapsed time: 10 minutes 2 seconds]

Now that the battle was over, Shiva had closed his eyes and then let out a sigh, took a handkerchief out of his pocket and wiped himself

Then he turned to me

-Excuse me-

Those eyes that seemed friendly, were not that, I felt a hidden anger I could describe as swords towards my neck, Mirai Shiva is a terrible girl, more than anything I think she hates that her body was covered by monster blood and that her clothes were all stained in addition to giving her a horrible smell

-You didn't have to be upset, I could have easily taken care of those wolves-

"Yes, yes, say whatever you want, little girl, you wouldn't have been able to react in time anyway"

Nameless was talking to Shiva making all kinds of faces while laughing at her face, while the girl didn't notice

«How I envy her advantage right now, besides I was the only one who could react and avoid an accident, this girl lacks "a lot" of humility»

-It's your fault my clothes got dirty-

At that moment my two companions approached me

-Wow that was very fast thanks to you, I saw it, you killed those three wolves with one cut-

-That was incredible!-

It was Miguel and Adrian who were covered in blood

Fearing that his clothes would get dirty, Shiva slowly walked away

***

[Team 6 - total time: 11 minutes 43 seconds 11/110]

Although she finished in the top half of the teams, Shiva's expression couldn't be said to be good

But since the grades were based on individual performance filmed through drones, she didn't care too much. Hajime and Damian's teams were ranked first and second respectively, but she was angry when she saw Hanami Sasaki's team ranked higher than her, coming in at seventh place

-The drones filmed everything, it will be sent to their video transmitters, to know why they were fast or slow to hunt their monster, the compatibility of their equipment with the monster and how they could improve for the next time, this will be part of their notes-

The professor made a very long statement, Shiva turned her head and looked back at a bored looking man yawning

At first she thought that he and his friend would be a burden, that she couldn't annihilate the boss without help and that she would have to take care of it alone

In the end it turned out to be the opposite, he single-handedly annihilated the boss with pure strategy and thanks to it, he managed to finish in 11th place almost unscathed, with his quick actions and judgments in eliminating the wolves in a few seconds, she could be said to have played a great role without the rest of the groups noticing.

Mirai Shiva felt the unreasonable feeling of jealousy and envy he felt towards Hanami Sasaki increasing, he looked forward and stared at her head, if she were not discovered and watched by Isaac, he would hit her on the back of the neck

Shiva's hands trembled, she approached Sasaki's head, she really wanted to hit her but Isaac was behind her, looking at her with a sharp, unfriendly look, his gaze said

"Dare to hurt her and you're dead"

The girl wasn't stupid, she didn't want the boy she liked to hate her so she followed the following strategy

-Hanami, how was it?-

-…Well I ended up in seventh place, it's a shame I wanted to beat Alice or Damian. What about you?-

-I am… I am in eleventh place-

-Really?! With those teammates you got?-

-Well, we got some C-rank wolves, we just had to exterminate them-

-And that's what you did?-

Shiva nodded with a bright smile

-Yes-

***

Late at night, after the end of regular classes, I was working out in the training room

I felt like I was going to die, I was training for almost 5 hours being close to death on several occasions

The leg extension machine weighs almost like 30 Kg

[You have acquired pain resistance (D)]

-Ugh, I feel like I'm going to die soon… I just acquired this when I needed it the most in the past!!-

"Stop complaining, brat."

Nameless, who was a fireball, created a kind of hand just to hit me, but since he is a ghost, he passed through me

After completing my training, I staggered back to the locker room like a zombie and collapsed into my seat. After regaining my seat after five minutes, I opened the status window and took out a fatigue recovery drink from my bag

This pain was so sharp in my body, I honestly felt like I wouldn't be able to get up tomorrow

But there was a solution

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[Fatigue Recovery Drink]

Type: [Item]

Rank: D

Contains a small amount of mana mixed with various high-quality fruits inside, restoring your energy a little.

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This was a fatigue recovery drink provided by Wellston

Thanks to this I am still in this world, I recover by barely giving myself energy for the next day

*Gulp

Now I have to sleep otherwise the drink won't do its job

«It hurts so much, someone save me from this demon»

I staggered forward like a zombie trying to get back to its grave called home

***

At the same time

Mirai Shiva analyzed the video of the day's combat training, with several drones filming each team she could see several angles of the battle

-…Mínimo is fast-

The more he watched, the more curious he became

The twin-horned wolf attacked him but before he even touched him, his neck and stomach were cut with precision by Alan who did not even hesitate to attack

Usually the wolf wrapped its body with lightning, and its skin and fur were very tough, so Mirai Shiva was ready for a long battle, but the fight only ended in 10 minutes

-I don't remember seeing it in the exam-

The more he thought about it, the stranger it became. How could someone who is supposed to have low talents be so powerful?

Also, his stamina wasn't that great, it was decent, but his greatest strength would be his almost perfect control of his magic power since he could tell that he didn't wear himself out as much from using some skills...

Shiva arrived there with his notes, when he received a sudden message

[What's going on?]

It was Isaac Arden, with a small smile, Shiva Mirai tapped the hologram keyboard

[Analyzing today's video]

[Why are you doing that now?]

[I'm the heir to a big guild in the future, so I have to look for promising talents]

[If everyone in your team is trash, there's no need for you to do that. Besides, don't you have to win the succession war against your older sister?]

Mirai Shiva started to laugh, the boy had a reason to be the successor, she had to beat her sister, normally she would get angry at that comment, but she didn't, the fact that he was Isaac Arden would make that little mockery be totally ignored

She would have found that behavior unpleasant, but the fact that he was Isaac Arden turned into elegance

It was not a logical explanation but the reason why Mirai Shiva liked Isaac Arden was far from logical, she still remembered the first time they met as if fate had wanted it on a summer trip to the USA

[What is that guy that the teacher called attention to?]

-Haha-

So I was at least a little curious, he also had a cute side

[Normal, he did a man's job, exactly as you would expect from rank 876]

4 seconds, in such a short period of time that man had killed all the enemies in one move. Was it possible for a student to have that kind of reflexes?

*Ding dong

In the middle of her thoughts the bell rang

[Ah my room request is here]

Shiva jumped towards the door

She opened the door, she saw a well-dressed maid waiting in front, she was happy to see the maid her father chose for her

-Thank you, Aoi-

The maid bowed respectfully, Shiva took her food and returned to her seat

[I'm back, were you expecting me?]

Shiva opened the dome-shaped lid on her elegant silver tray

[No]

There was normal food in it, a cheese pizza and a two-bread meal, on one side there were French fries and a bottle of coke, nobody knew it but she loved junk food

First she ate a French fry

[What did you order?]

Isaac asked a few seconds later, a few seconds later Shiva answered indifferently

[It's a secret]

***

Wednesday

Today is the first anti-personnel training class

This two hour long class simply had two cadets pair up and spar with each other, training weapons were used to make the fight less painful and easier to qualify, in this class Hajime Aikawa was paired with Damian Connors and Isaac Arden with Shinji Suzuki

-Aahh!-

-I finally beat you! Come on!!-

-I can't take it anymore~-

As for me, I was fighting Miguel in the anti-personnel combat

In the end I couldn't fully recover and that's why I'm weak, but at least Miguel was the one who beat me, that makes me a little happy

-Once again-

I can't take it anymore, Miguel, stop

We continued fighting, my legs were shaking so I used a legendary technique that they taught me… Biting the head

-Ah! What are you doing?! Oh no bro! ….Ahh! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me damn it!-

My attack made the surroundings fall silent, but I didn't have time to process it

-Brother! Stop! Don't you have any honor?!-

"The boy is right, now I give you the title of human scum"

«This hair, I will tear it off with my teeth, I swear I will tear it off, Revenge!!"

-¡¡Aaah!!-

Miguel grabbed me and then put me in a wrestling hold

After that I don't remember anything else

«Revenge completed»

"You're making me think"

**

The academy, as it is a university, obviously has clubs

The head teacher, Hasuichi Nishizono, told us that we could not enjoy our youth, although for me now it is normal to be covered in monsters' blood or kill Daemons from time to time, the academy encouraged us students to enjoy our hobbies for our mental health, being in a relationship is prohibited for the moment, but it was tacitly allowed to all teachers.

Wellston clubs are not that different from college circles, club promotions happened in the second week after the freshmen arrived

There was literally a club for almost any subject, well actually within the academy there are like 4000 or 6000 I don't remember, but it's understandable in any case, there were hobby clubs like bowling, swimming pool, virtual reality, while there were also academic clubs like studying, martial arts and training

I was planning to join more than one club, as I felt like I would go crazy at any moment from all the training

I decided to join the travel, reading and hunting club, but you might ask, why reading?

Well obviously because I am a man of culture and I have to learn more to be more cultured

As students we can join several clubs, so my plan was to join these three to free myself from all this accumulated stress

I was sitting on a bench in the park of the academy, I looked around, as the classes ended the park was full of people, but where no one could see them

I could see a couple behind the bushes secretly kissing!!

Seeing that scene, I started to complain internally as I raised my eyebrows with a frown

«I envy you!! Why don't I have a partner at this age?!»

"Maybe because you're ugly."

After those words from my partner, I went around everywhere, collecting club application forms in the park, three forms, I didn't get any favorable looks when I received them but I was successful in the end

-Okay, I'll join the travel club-

"Why are you joining that club? From what I see, it's not very popular, it seems it only has 14 members."

«Well it's true, it's not very popular, but one of my goals is to visit new places, I was always in Madrid and I hardly went out unless it was school or work, my goal is not only to become stronger and be a millionaire, but I also want to know more about the world around me that's all»

"I didn't know you thought like that"

«Well sometimes I act like an idiot, but I don't show this side of me that often»

After thinking about it for a while I will leave the reading club for the moment and concentrate more on the travel and hunting club

From what they told me the clubs would start after all the classes, the hunting club starts on Thursdays and the travel club on Saturdays or Sundays

The truth of joining the hunting club is to feel like a millionaire and in the process I will be able to acquire money by hunting the different magical animals or monsters in the process

-Let's go-

*Hit

After hitting the papers with my fingers, I got up determined, now was the time to receive glances dark of the club leaders

***

Capital of the United States, Washington D.C.

Within that capital was filled with guilds vying for the top national position, almost all of them were located in the guild district collectively established in Washington D.C. making it the center of Daemon requests and monster subjugation, technological advancements, and business

-The guild visit is scheduled for Friday, two weeks later-

The guild district of Washington D.C. was filled with skyscrapers. But one especially shiny building wouldn't be this tall. The geometric design of this building caught the attention of any passerby. It was the building belonging to the "Sacred" guild

With cutting-edge magic engineering technology, the interior of the building was twice as large as it appeared from the outside, while its mana density strengthened structures above D rank

-Understood-

In this optimal environment even for hunters, Vice Leader Ciel McGrath took the report from her secretary

She was currently solely dedicated to finding "promising talents"

It was a fact that the first-year students were exceptional, it was said that the boys' talents could upset the guilds' ratings, if she were to let her competitors steal them, the first place position she worked so hard for would be jeopardized

As a result, Ciel's eyes were glued to the guild's intranet database, which contained videos of Wellston's first combat training

-That Hajime Aikawa has something…-

Currently on his screen was the first place finalist of combat training Hajime Aikawa

Fighting against a monster, his stance with the sword remained upright, aggressive and passive movements were something not seen in a young man of his age unless they have the same potential as rank 2, Shiro Kanzaki

-It seems that no guild contacted him, he is our first priority-

-I want to bring him no matter what happens… Oh?, but what do we have here-

Hajime's video ended, another video was played which caught his attention

-What's so special about that boy? To me he seems normal-

-I see that you are not very expert yet-

After saying those words Ciel played the video

[Team 6] [Alan Harwey, Adrian, Miguel Hidalgo, Mirai Shiva]

Although the unexpected video didn't surprise him, the 10-minute video certainly caught his attention

-I don't understand Ciel, what's so strange about it?-

-His reaction-

It was physically impossible to react quickly without having experience so his battle instinct was excellent

Also his speed was good enough to fight with opponents stronger than him and I also noticed that he used several skills but his control over his magic power was very good to the point that he did not overspend too much

-Surely he must have several skills to compensate for his weaknesses, in simple terms he is a glass cannon-

-A deep, fast and precise cut is something you can't do without combat experience, that's the reality-

-He is someone who deserves to be watched. Is there a free recruiter? -

-No Ciel, as exceptional as this year's students are, they are all at their limit, plus Deckard is preventing all kinds of applications, and remember that we can't do anything without the guild master finding out-

Ciel began to sweat when they said the name "Deckard" she still remembered what that crazy old man did to her, he hit her for being very lazy, he scolded her multiple times in addition to traumatizing her for being his direct student

-...Leave that boy alone, if he really is "special" I'm sure he will stand out again-

Upon making that decision her secretary nodded without objection