As Damien and the rest of class 1 left the classroom they headed downstairs to a floor below the ground floor and once there, they went towards some big, heavy looking black doors.

As Mrs. Quila pushed them open with surprising ease she led the class through the doors. There were a few gasps of surprise and even Damien couldn't help but raise his eyebrows at what they saw. What was revealed as they walked through the doorway was a large, grey tiled room, that must have been 200m in length and width and about 50m in height.

'Wow, and here I thought the school grounds were too small for something like an arena~'

"Come on now, you can gawk at it later, get onto the platform" Mrs. Quila called out to her students with an impatient look on her face and motioned for them to walk with her onto a platform in front of the doors.

Hearing her reprimanding them, the students followed her orders and got on the platform with Mrs. Quila. Once they were all on, handrails came from under the platform and it slowly started to descend.

While it was descending, Mrs.Quila started explaining about the big gray room.

"This here, is the Training Ground, you may be wondering why it's so big, so let me answer your question, in your year there are 5 classes and every year there is a fight between all the classes and this, this is where that fight happens." Seeing the confusion on her student's faces', she elaborated.

"Don't let its appearance fool you. It may look just like a big grey room now but after we bring in the necessary materials the room will build an environment of our choice and then we stage the battles in that environment. It helps keep the students on their toes and striving to be better. Oh and before you think you can cheat by knowing the map, don't - We randomly pick the environment each time we make the classes fight. It helps show us teachers who has the best on-the-fly kind of thinking process which is quite important to a fighter, no matter their type, whether it's a Warrior or a Mage."

As she was speaking the platform had reached the ground of the training ground and the handrails went into the floor and presumably under the platform. After this happened Mrs. Quila walked off the platform and the students joined her. They followed her until Mrs. Quila stopped and a console came out of the ground, as she was messing around with the console she continued explaining.

"Now that we're here, I want people who consider themselves physical fighters on the right, while I want ranged/magic users on the left, you'll have different tests depending on which grouping you're in."

Damien and 2 others went to the right, while the other 3 went to the left.

In front of Damien and the others, metal dummies came out of the floor, there were 3 of them in total, while on the left, about 15 meters from where the ranged group were standing targets came out of the ground after this happened Mrs. Quila turned towards the physical fighters and told them to hit the dummies as hard as they could and they'll get their results through the console when she reads it out.

"Okay, we'll be doing it one at a time and you need to hit the dummies as hard, quick and precise as you possibly can, the objective is to at least try to dish out a killing blow, okay we'll start with you, Troy."

Mrs. Quila told them what to do, she pointed at Troy and told him to hit the dummy, as Troy walked past Damien he shot him a glare that seemed to say 'I'll show you that I'm stronger than you'. As Damien shook his head helplessly he could only think.

'I really don't care that you have it out for me, I'll let that pass, but please stop being so annoying...'

As Troy reached about 2 meters away from the dummy in front of him, his body was slowly covered in arcs of electricity which flickered around his body going in and out of it.

After he seemed to charge himself up like a battery he charged forward with considerable speed and hit the dummy right where its heart should be causing a dull thud to sound out when Troy's fist hit.

His fist lingered there for a short time as he channeled his electricity into the dummy.

When he finally pulled back his hand there was a 3-inch deep indentation of a fist on the dummy and the dummy looked slightly burned. He turned around expecting Damien to have a shocked expression on his face but was sorely disappointed as he saw Damien's impassive face. But even this did little to stop his happiness and joy as he saw that the rest of the students were looking at him in awe.

Mrs. Quila looked at the console and smiled.

"Good job Troy, you exerted a force of about 3500kg and easily pulled off a killing blow with the added Electricity. Well done." as she said this, Troy smiled even more and looked even more insufferable.

Now it was a short girl with blood red hair who stepped up for her turn, as Damien looked at her he recalled her name 'Scarlet Jaeger'.

She walked up to the dummy and closed her eyes, as if she was meditating and slowly a green and brown aura started to permeate out of her body, as soon as this happened she opened her eyes and threw an incredibly quick hand chop at the dummy's head, once it hit it, like what happened with Troy, a dull thud sounded out when it hit and the metal creaked as her knife shaped hand sunk in about 4 inches deep.

Troy looked stunned as someone beat him and was even more stunned after what he heard Mrs. Quila said next.

"Oh well done Scarlet, you exerted 6300kg and delivered a killing blow, for a little girl you're quite strong aren't you?~" Scarlet walked back to Damien and Troy, she showed an indifferent face to all the attention she was giving as if she didn't care about it.

Finally, it was Damien's turn, as everyone looked at the tall youth. Damien slowly walked forward while gathering physical energy and moving it to his arms and shoulders and strengthened them with the energy, even sending some to his feet.

When he was about 5 meters away he concentrated the strength of his body into his feet with the energy and pushed off, using the "Concentrated Step" Technique he'd made last week.

He shot forward leaving a few cracks on the grey tiles, seeing this Mrs. Quila slightly raised her eyebrows in surprise before smiling. Thinking that she had found a decent student that she could teach.

But before she could continue her train of thought, Damien appeared just in front of the dummy, he pressed his feet firmly into the ground and using his momentum he flung a strong punch at the dummies chest. The force from his feet pressing into the ground completely cracked the ground surrounding his feet. The even more stunning thing was the speed of the punch; it was a blur and it gave off the feeling of immeasurable and unending momentum.

And as soon as it hit the dummy, there was a boom and the sound of metal bending and twisting under something of great weight.

As everyone, including Mrs. Quila, looked at the dummy, they were shocked Damien's fist had rammed its way 7 inches deep and stretched the metal on the back of the dummy a small amount, all the metal around where Damien's fist had hit was stretched, cracked and twisted. Mrs. Quila was shocked not just because of the sight of the dummy but because she could see how much strength he had exerted in that punch, as she looked at it, she spoke out to Damien.

"W-well done Damien, you exerted 7200kg and you, um, definitely delivered a killing blow." as she said this the entire class was shocked even further than before.

Damien pulled his fist out of the dummy causing the metal to groan again, he wasn't very surprised with the result but was thankful for the information it gave him.

'Seems that when I charge my attacks with the amount I just did, it increases my strength and therefore the strength of my attack by 700kg, making it go from 6500kg to the score I just got. And I didn't even use 1% of the Power Pool from the ability. Interesting, I'll need to test it more when I'm here at the academy.'

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As he finished with his inner monologue, Damien walked back over to where the other physical fighters were standing. Ignoring the shocked looks of admiration from the students and especially trying his best to ignore the glare that Troy was throwing at him, Damien sat down on the floor before something caught his attention.

That certain thing that caught him off guard was the usually indifferent Scarlet looked at him with curiosity--no, it wasn't curiosity it was more like she was looking at a worthy opponent. So, to be 'polite' Damien returned the look, fighting intent filling his eyes.

As if sensing their intentions Mrs. Quila came over to them before intervening.

"Now now you two, save it for tomorrow where you'll all be sparring so I can see your battle prowess~" to which both Damien and Scarlet looked at each other and nodded while Damien started to think.

'Ahh~ at least there's one kid here that won't be annoying to put up with.'

After the two of them regained their composure, Mrs. Quila went onto the tests that the Ranged Attackers had to do. As she looked at the 3 ranged attackers, Mrs. Quila spoke and briefly went over what the ranged attackers had to do.

"Okay kids, your goal is to accurately hit the middle of that target and I'll be measuring if the blow caused by your attack is lethal or not, does everyone understand?" as everyone nodded, she pointed towards Beth, the quiet twin and told her to start, Beth softly nodded and walked to where she'd be aligned with a target.

When she was in front of a target, she lifted her hand and clicked her fingers, the sound from it collected into a small bullet shaped ball and shot towards the target and hit it right in the middle and even further than that it caused an indentation to appear and a few cracks. As Beth looked at this she nodded, as if proud and happy at her efforts, as she walking back to her sister's side, a voice spoke out.

"Well done Beth, you hit the middle but you were a little off to the left so I'm giving you a 97% hit accuracy but your blow was lethal so again, well done" it was Mrs.Quila who spoke with a smile on her face.

Next up was Helen, the loud twin and as she got in place, her shadow seemed to twist and turn and turned much darker than possible as the room was very well lit.

Her shadow was twisting and turning very aggressively by now like it was alive and as she lifted her hand the darkness from her shadow, seemingly to heed her call, gathered above her hand and soon it morphed into a spike. Quite quickly after it was made, it shot off towards the target and pieced into the target.

Sadly, however, it was in the second smallest circle. Despite this Helen didn't seem very affected by it as she just shrugged her shoulders and walked back over to her sister as Mrs. Quila spoke out again.

"Well done Helen, you got 90% hit accuracy and the blow was more than lethal." she said this with a slight bit of annoyance at how Helen shrugged off her failure earlier but soon Mrs. Quila did some shrugging herself thinking about how Helen's only a kid and probably doesn't care about her strength just yet.

Next was the short white haired boy who Damien knew as Michael. Damien watched Michael bring his hand up, he wondered how powerful Michael's [Cryokinesis] is, well he soon got his answer.

As soon as all of Michael's fingers were fully outstretched, the temperature of the room seemed to drop severely, everyone shivered at the sudden drop. Even Damien with his inhuman resistance to temperature felt that the sudden drop in temperature was slightly uncomfortable.

As he continued to watch, Damien saw a spike of ice forming in front of where Michael's hand was pointed. The spike formed quite quickly and was dark blue in color.

After the spike was fully formed Michael started to aim and soon after that, he flung the ice spike toward the target with a flick of his hand. Once it hit his target the spike went through the third smallest circle but as the 5 others felt a tad disappointed with his accuracy everyone was shocked to see that the target started freezing from where the spike had hit it.

Michael looked happy at the fact he'd even hit the target and was practically skipping back to where he was and when he got back Mrs. Quila's voice sounded out again

"Well done Michael, while you have 80% hit accuracy, the fact your spikes freeze whatever they touch makes any of your blows lethal, so once again, well done."

Seeing as the tests were finished Mrs. Quila spoke to her 6 students.

"Okay everyone, follow me I'm going to take you to the dorms you'll be staying in, two of you will have to share a room with someone else, decide amongst yourselves who will have it."

As Damien was about to say he'll have the single room, he felt someone tap him on the arm. He turned around to see Michael who spoke to in a, what seemed like constant, nervous tone.

"Um...Damien, do you wanna be dormmates with me? It's okay if you don't want to but I don't really know anyone else...And Troy doesn't seem like such a nice guy..." As Damien heard this, he couldn't help but look at Troy.

Looking at the glaring, arrogant and seemingly constantly angry 10-year-old, Damien could see where Michael was coming from. So in the end, Damien let out a sigh and nodded his 'Yes' to the timid youth.

Michael seemed exceptionally happy at this and looked like he'd been injected with adrenaline. Looking at this sight, Damien couldn't help but smirk.

'Man, I think being on this world has made me a little soft~'

He let out a quiet chuckle as he walked with Michael towards the platform they came down to the training grounds on.

Once they were back in the school building Mrs. Quila took them out of the office-like building which housed the classes and took them to the outer part of the Academy Grounds where there were multiple big apartment blocks.

Mrs. Quila took them to an apartment block on the outer edges of the apartment cluster and entered it. Obviously, Damien and the others followed her in.

As they entered the building they saw that there were 6 bags there, each with a name on it.

Damien, not one to be timid about things like this, walked up to the one with his name on it and looked inside. Inside the bag, he found 3 white uniforms that were all the exact same and they seemed to be custom made for him from what seemed like a stretchy material. They were the perfect size for him with a pair of black formal shoes to go along with the uniforms.

Seeing the contents, Damien picked up his bag and Michael's bag before walking over to where Michael was standing and handing him his. Seeing this Mrs. Quila spoke to the two boys.

"You two seem to want to be dormmates so you can go to room 1, it's right there, but be back here in an hour so I can take you to the cafeteria." Saying this she pointed to a room that was the first room in the corridor in front of where they were standing.

Damien and Michael nodded and walked towards that room after they took two sets of keys for the door from Mrs. Quila.

Then they entered the room. What greeted them was two single beds with bedside tables next to them, next to them was their bathroom and they had two wardrobes opposite their beds.

As Michael looked about the room, Damien chose the bed closest to their window and put his bag beside it as he sat on the bed.

Thinking for a moment before shrugging, Damien called Michael over and he decided to chat with him to pass the time.

As Damien continued to chat with Michael he started to see him more and more as a friend as he saw a genuine determination in him to get stronger. In Michael's own words he was sick of being seen as weak by his family and his older siblings so he decided to join Divine Titan Academy so he could get stronger than his family to show them that if he was weak, what were they?

Damien felt genuine admiration for Michael as he revealed this as it takes a lot of courage for a 10-year-old to share their dreams with other people and all while showing a determination to get stronger that is well beyond a normal child's capacity.

As they came to the end of their chat, they decided to go to the lobby of the dorms to see if they could find the twins and because they had about 10 minutes until they had to go back to the lobby anyway they thought it was better to be early than late.

As they arrived they saw the twins sitting next to each other talking to Scarlet Jaeger, surprised Damien thought about how Helen could get anyone to talk no matter their usual quietness. As he and Michael walked over Helen saw them and enthusiastically waved at them and called them over, when they arrived they sat down on the sofa opposite where the girls were sitting and greeted them.

Damien spent the remaining minutes talking to the girls and Michael about all sorts of things when they just started talking about where Scarlet came from, Mrs. Quila came and took them to the cafeteria and they had food. Well, everyone had food but Damien had a buffet.

Due to being in the Body Remolding Realm, he needed an immense amount of nutrients and energy, so he decided to shamelessly make use of the free food they offered him and ordered a lot of food. Most shocking of all, he finished eating before the girls and Michael which caused them to feel shocked at how monstrous Damien could be, no matter what he did.

After eating they were free to do what they wanted as Mrs. Quila stated that they would be doing the majority of their school stuff in the coming days.

So they decided to go back to the lobby so they could speak for a while and in the end, they ended up looking around the Academy Grounds because they were curious. They spent most of their day like this and despite being a few hundred years old, mentally anyway, Damien enjoyed it, he enjoyed acting like his physical age and just letting go and having fun, it was very relaxing.

Once it hit about 7 pm or 8 pm, the girls decided to go to sleep because they knew they had to be up early, Damien and Michael decided to do the same thing, so they said goodbye to the girls and went back to their room.

As soon as they entered their room, Damien and Michael brushed their teeth and washed their faces and went to bed, well, Michael did anyway. Damien, however, decided to try and light up another Devil Node and he succeeded, making his Devil Node count go from 3 to 4 and making his overall body strength 7500kg.

After stabilizing his foundation he lay down on his bed, excited for the next day where he'd get to spar against people, especially Scarlet, she seemed like she could give him a good fight.

Excitedly thinking about finally fighting someone in this life, Damien finally fell asleep.