"And the winner of group 9 is Jeff!!"

Ken welcomed Jeff back in front of the podium and they both congratulated each other, Jeff was a little surprised that Ken had won his match, well... can't blame him Ken didn't look much like a fighter to begin with. All the winners of each group had gathered over there when Jhin nix the supervisor entered the podium..

"All of you have done well to come this far.. ,now follow me..."

Everyone went behind Jhin to a big hall where a banquet was set up everyone was hungry after fighting, they all sat down and started eating like monkeys .

After the banquet they were all given some forms to fill out their personal details, after that Jhin showed them their respective rooms and told them they would be staying there for the rest of the year till their training is over luckily Jeff and Ken got their rooms next to each other and they had become good friends in just a short period of time.

Classes would begin from tomorrow, the schedule was for 1 hour of theory classes and the rest 5 hours they would do physical combat training ,then they were free to do whatever they wanted.

Ken and Jeff each went to their rooms, Ken started thinking about today's match how he had acquired a new ability he concentrated on his arms again and sure enough it became hard like a rock but his hands were the same weight as before so there was no compromise in his mobility.

after training a little he took a shower and wore a new set of cloths that they had provided and went to sleep awaiting the first day of his lessons.

"Today we will be learning about Beasts and their categories you should all be already familiar with this stuff"

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Ken wondered wait... there are beasts in this world...it seems Jeff could hear his thoughts "Looks like your learning about beasts for the first time..and probably you haven't even encountered them once"

Ken with an excited face "Yeah i haven't seen any till now but I'm sure interested in learning about them "

Jhin now their class teacher and the rest of the 20 people including Ken as the students in the class, their classroom was a square room with a blackboard in front of it and progressively elevating benches ,Jhin hushes Ken and Jeff and continues his explanation

"Beasts are divided into levels based on their physical capabilities and abilities ,it said in the history of our world that beasts used to rule this world until humanity gained the power of origin manifestation. The beasts leveled between lvl1 to lvl8 can be handled by you guys for lvl8 to 16 you need to be at least a martial disciple and from lvl16 to lvl25 can be handled by a martial master but after lvl25 the beasts become crazy strong so you need to be at least an origin adept and so on...The highest recorded level of a beast was a level 78 Black frost Dragon which took at least 2 origin Titans to kill ,well it's a legend so we never know for sure...Well these beasts are mostly hostile towards human beings and their skeleton can be used for making weapons some beasts can be used to make medicines and we haven't found any other uses for them.. "

And after some lessons of fighting styles and techniques they went out for physical exercises

As Jeff and Ken sat and saw the beautiful sunset, drinking orange juice they grabbed on the way to the hill "This is the usual place where i come to cool off you can see the whole city from here..., well all i want to do is become an origin adept so i can receive the salary the government gives for reaching that stage and hopefully pay for my sisters education and her medicines sigh.. "

"Don't worry bro we will go far beyond that if we work together ,we will help each other out i mean that's what friends do hehe.. "

"I'm glad i have someone i can depend on... "

almost a month had passed by following the same routine.

thunder rumbled down with heavy rain falling on the bloodied Ken, kneeling besides a big beast that had been dismembered and Kens face with blood all over his face ,gave a dark grin .

It had been 3 days since Jeff died!!!........