Combat class 2

"I see" I muttered but didn't comment anymore.

"You know our smart bracelets have a dimensional storage right?" He said, a statement rather than a question while glancing at my sword. 'I... didn't know that' It was only now that I noticed nobody seemed to be holding a weapon.

"Thanks... I didn't know that, anyway it was nice meeting you too, but I have to go" I said standing up.

"See you in class tomorrow but I gotta say, you've really got to work on your voice and expression dude, if you at least want to get married one day" the idiot shouted as I walked towards the exit of the cafeteria. As soon as he said that, heads turned to me. 'Great, just f*cking great'.

'This bastard, You think I want my face to be stoic?' I cursed as I quickly made my way out of the cafeteria.

I headed straight for the building's exit and then to the portal station to get back to the dorms.Today was only the first day, so classes ended just before lunch.

"Ah dorm sweet dorm" I groaned as I slumped down on my couch. That bastard instructor Blake, he really did a number on me. Almost every part of my body is aching.

After a while,

"Hah, this is what I'm talking about, enjoying a nice relaxing hot bath is the best way to relieve stress" I mused.

After nearly one hour soaking I came out of the bathroom. It was still afternoon so I relaxed for a few hours and during that time I browsed my smart bracelet to check the dimensional storage. I also rechecked the academy handbook that I had skimmed through. This time though, I checked everything about the smart bracelet.

After I was done, I sat down in meditation and entered my bloodline plane. It was just as it was two years ago. A starry sky in one side and a pulsing red realm in the other. But what was different was that above, there were six twinkling stars instead of the initial one. And then there was a little over half of a star just beside them.

I sat down crosslegged in my bloodline plane, well....more like float, since there wasn't an actual ground in here. I went over the principle of the star cultivation method, which was to draw energy from your bloodline plane. The energy in the bloodline plane has been proven to be endless and one is to draw that energy, and condense stars, there by increasing their rank and power. Every three stars, there is a massive chasm in power when one condenses the fourth one, which is entering a new rank.

Right now I was 3/4 past condensing the seventh star. I realized I needed to get stronger and fast since the combat class earlier today. All the top ten were at the very least three starred rank 3. In fact, it was only rank 8, 9, and 10. The rest were all in rank 2 and Aurora, a fucking three starred rank 2.

I knew that currently I was weak, but that isn't a problem. Instead it is staying weak that is. So I strived to finish condensing my seventh star. It was around 3am that I woke up from my meditation. 'Damn this time difference' I cursed. To me not even four hours have passed in the bloodline plane, but outside here, almost ten hours had passed. But the benefits were spectacular, if I keep going like this, in at most two weeks, I would break through to rank 3.

'And damn, I need something to eat' I thought as my stomach rumbled. Thankfully bots work 24/7 so I ordered a simple noodles or as it's called in it's fancy name 'Ramen'. A short wait later, a drone arrived with my food, after eating the noodles that I could have sworn was the best I had ever had, I then decided for a quick shut eye before dawn.

'Fuck, fuck, fuck i am late' I cursed. You must be wondering why I'm cursing, well let me explain what happened. After I decided to get a little shut eye before dawn, I woke up only to realize that the time was ten minutes to 8am.

I hurried to the bathroom, freshened up, wore my uniform and bolted to the portal station.

'Damn, Instructor Cornwell already had a bad first impression of me. Not that I care about what people think of me, but it's better to leave a good impression' I thought as I neared the class/ auditorium, whatever it was.

I knocked on the door and entered the class and the first thing I saw in my vision was the furious face of the instructor who was glaring at me to the amusement of some students.

"You are late. Class starts by 8 am and this is 8:10" she said in a low but serious tone. "I apologize it won't happen again" I spoke.

"It better not, because the next time it happens, I'm sending you out of my class. Go take your seat". She warned before asking me to take my seat. 'It seems the apology worked' I mused'.

On my way to my seat, both Levi and Owen, the rank 7 guy nodded at me. I was planning to ignore it, but at the end I didn't. I nodded back at them.

Not long after I took my seat, the class continued. Today's class was Geography and Space Exploration. Explaining the known part of the universe explored by humans.

I was completely immersed in the class when the door was opened and in walked the silver haired guy who was rank 4. I think Damien was his name. I didn't even realize he wasn't in the class until he showed up. Not surprising in a class of two hundred.

He went pass the Instructor and took his seat without a glance at her or a single word.

I glanced the instructor waiting to see how she would react, but I was disappointed. She didn't even say a word to him and focused back on her topic of discussion.

'Blatant discrimination I say'. But welp, there was nothing I could do. 'Guess this is the difference between our backgrounds. Noble and commoner' I thought.

The class continued for about an hour and a half before it ended. After all it was a two hour class.

Now it's time for us to meet the devil who tortured us yesterday. As soon as I entered the combat grounds.

"Give me two hundred reps of each of the excercises we did yesterday.

Ah there it is the ominousness I've been feeling.

- "Ah men I've said it he wants to kill us"

- "That's it I'm not doing it"

- " My arms and thighs still hurt from yesterday's so called 'conditioning'".

Some of the students protested, but just like yesterday, a good motivation did wonders.

After the 'conditioning' my body still ached severely, but not as much as yesterday seeing as I could still stand unlike yesterday.

"The rest of you that can still stand, pick a sparring partner, spread out, and spar either till you drop or until I say otherwise" he bellowed.

"I pick you" I heard a familiar voice with a hand on my shoulder. It was Levi. "Fine, but I'm not really in the best of shapes right now" I replied as I turned to face him. "Don't worry, I'm also severely tired, but as you heard him, those who could still stand" he said. After that, we moved away from the rest of the cadets and to an empty space.

Just like I said before, the land area this building occupied was unfathomable. Even this 1-Alpha combat grounds alone was big enough that it could accommodate more than five hundred cadets at the same time. Not to talk of the combat grounds of the elite class and the normal class. And they were all in this building.

"Okay here I come" Levi said after taking a combat stance. From his stance, it looked like a boxing stance. He bolted towards me and attacked with a right hook. I blocked with my forearm and sent a kick to his side which connected well. Now I didn't know much about combat, the little I knew was from watching some tutorials in a cafe.

"Who knew you were hiding such skills?" he winced before he charged at me again but this time with different tactics. He threw a feint and I fell for it. I kinda costed me a blow to my liver.

'Fuck that hurt a ton' I inwardly cursed. But I didn't even get moment of respite as I had to block the next attack. I parried his lunging arm before I initiated a series of attacks from a clip I had watched. I started by punching at his right kidney, but it was a feint and as he shifted his arm to block, I changed directions and hit his solar plexus and before he could recover, I threw a round horse kick at his right jugular. The hit connected and he fell down.

"It's your win" he winced as he tried to get up from the ground. Honestly I didn't think it would work, after all only saw the tutorial for it, I had never even tried it before. Not long after that, the instructor dismissed us.

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