Millions Of New Sub Students

Millions of aspiring students, mentally hardened for the past few days seeing the same million faces for over a month, stood in front, in formation, and orderly before Heian Ciemnosc, who had Sub Students and Students behind him, ready to spar with all these aspiring students and return them to their homes. After knowing so many aspiring students would participate in the last test's part, all these Sub Students and Students grew excited, wanting to challenge these seemingly outside prodigies.

Heian Ciemnosc had his hands behind his back. Elena looked at the aspiring students indifferently, casually standing beside him with her left arm behind his right arm, looking quite attached to him. Heian Ciemnosc opened his mouth, his words reaching everywhere. “From this day onward, every single one of you will have 10 chances to fight someone of your level or higher. You only need 5 victories to become a Sub Student.”

“All those who were the best at the first, second part, and both of this year’s tests can choose to challenge 3 Sub Students or Students directly. If you win at least 2 in total or successively, you will become a Student in the Wrath Nihility Academy!” Heian Ciemnosc looked at everyone as he spoke. Those who knew their position during this year’s test started sweating. After this long under the Academy’s intense testing period, they felt apprehensive and lost their ‘100% confident’ mentality.

“I will!” - “Me too!” - “I wish to challenge 3 senior brothers and sisters, please!!” However, a few top aspiring students voiced their thoughts, heartening the other’s hearts and returning them to their previous confidence. After all, the Academy wanted and needed new, fresh blood. The war and the losses they suffered were for nothing, and everyone wanted to be in the transmission from a Second Step to a Third Step organization.

“Very well, come and walk forward. You will duel on this platform until the victor is decided. For every duel, you may choose a cultivation base to face you. Do not overextend yourselves and choose an impossible opponent. If you don’t almost fight to a draw, you will be banned for wasting the Academy’s time.” Although he didn’t speak loudly, Heian Ciemnosc’s words were severe, thundering in everybody’s ears and more in the top aspiring students.

“I challenge…” - “I choose…” - “I…” Slowly, those top aspiring students took their time, waiting for their turn as everyone chose to directly challenge 3 Sub Students or Students. As they watched their fellow top aspiring students fight it out, they became apprehensive of the Academy’s students. The first top aspiring student almost lost in his second battle, needing to recuperate for half an hour with a medicinal pill before his last duel.

In the end, the first one became a Student! Just like when Heian Ciemnosc took the test, the first person to challenge and duel the Academy’s students became not only part of it but a Student himself! This served to encourage the other top aspiring students. But the other aspiring students were still nervously looking on as the former proceeded to duel with the Academy’s students.

However, as time passed and all the top aspiring students became the Wrath Nihiltiy Academy’s Students, some even nearly perishing in the attempt, the other aspiring students were encouraged. They couldn’t wait to duel the Academy themselves!

Heian Ciemnosc watched all of this develop, from the top aspiring students dueling the Academy’s Sub Students and Students, becoming heavily injured or paralyzed after their third victory, some having it slightly better than that. To the aspiring students behind, watching as top-notch among them put their lives on the line. At that time, those who wanted to challenge Heian Ciemnosc, defeat him, and gain fame were immediately turned down, as he was never surprised by those ongoing duels.

At the end of the direct challenges, every top aspiring student was carried over to the nearby Fauna to be treated as the remaining aspiring students started challenging the Academy’s students. Heian Ciemnosc watched as many lost 6 battles in a row, and only a few won them consecutively. Naturally, their opponents weren’t as monstrous as the new Students’ opponents. They were ordinary Sub Students and Students in the Academy with a few years spent as a student.

However, their numbers were just too much. Weeks passed before the aspiring students’ number lessened until only a few tens of thousands remained in the 4 testing grounds sections. At one point, Heian Ciemnosc was playing and intertwining with Elena’s hands and fingers, appearing too lovey-dovey, wearing casual expressions as they were engrossed in looking at each other’s hands.

“Senior Heian Ciemnosc, I, Ruvalcaba, challenge you!” Suddenly, a childish, fatty voice sounded as Heian Ciemnosc casually, lazily, and slowly raised his chin to look at an aspiring student younger than 15 years old, just like Heian Ciemnosc was back then. He was a blond fatty and had clear brown eyes. As he stared towards Heian Ciemnosc and Elena, his eyes were set and sternly focused on the pale 17-year-old teenager.

When he felt those darkest eyes set on him, his whole body shuddered, feeling entirely violated… Exposed to a monster. The aspiring student trembled as if having just caught a cold, but he kept pointing at Heian Ciemnosc and looking at him. He just avoided those darkest eyes from hereon.

“Are you sure?” Heian Ciemnosc lazily spoke, grabbing Elena by the ribs as if she were a puppy, delicately getting her off his lap, leaning her back before his crotch on the ground. Standing up, he patted his bum and the front of his clothes before gazing at the aspiring student. Elena remained seated with her legs crossed and meditated, not wasting a second to train when Heian Ciemnosc wasn’t paying attention to her.

“Y- yeah, yes!” The aspiring student tremblingly decided. He looked determined. Heian Ciemnosc didn’t question any further and nodded, taking 2 steps that were accompanied by floating as he moved onto the platform as rapidly as he could. When he arrived, he ignored the millions of pairs of eyes on him and said while arranging his uniform’s sleeves. Ever since he gave his dark coat to cover Elena’s beauty from ugly eyes— everyone’s eyes but his and his wives were ugly—she refused to take it off.

“You’re at the peak of the Spirit Formation realm, very talented and young, quite promising. Even the Wrath Nihility Academy would spend the effort to recruit you if you were in another part of the world, like others.” Heian Ciemnosc spoke lightly, but the surrounding aspiring and new Academy students looked on with interest and intrigue. Heian Ciemnosc continued, “Your cultivation is a whole realm above mine, but even when I was in the Ashes Soul realm, people like you weren’t a problem for me.”

“Hear this right, I’m not a participant in the test, but your examiner. If I am to act, I will do it without the intention to put you under stress and will go all-out. I don’t duel or spar unless one is my equal. I only kill. Are you still willing?” Heian Ciemnosc placed his hands behind his back and slightly leaned forward. The aspiring student was stunned and unmoving for a while. After a minute, he finally responded as Heian Ciemnosc was patiently waiting.

“I… I- I do!” Tremblingly, with fear in his eyes but determined and stubborn, the aspiring student answered. Heian Ciemnosc felt he was stupid but didn’t shake his head, nod, or exclaim in response. He merely walked 2 steps and looked at an Assistant Teacher as she helplessly flew towards them to act as their referee. Momentarily, all other duels stopped and looked this way. Elena continued to calmly meditate.

“Step up!” The referee called, her voice thundered. She knew everyone was watching. There was no need for apparent humbleness. As she finished attracting everyone’s eyes, the aspiring student and Heian Ciemnosc walked towards each other until they made a distance of 20 meters from each other. The referee shouted, “You may duel!”

“Haaaghh!” The aspiring student didn’t hesitate, immediately sending translucent Power Energy tentacles from his back to the skies with a hook at each end, flying in curves and taking speed and momentum before aiming at Heian Ciemnosc.

Step, step, ste- swweeeeesshhh~~... On the other hand, Heian Ciemnosc didn’t move a step and watched as the fatty suddenly rushed towards him, intending to 2 prong attack him with his body and that pseudo-Art. With a simple raise of his right hand, his fingertips aimed at his northwest up to his head level before casually swinging it to the right. A cluster of pure energy traveled with dark Power Energy covering it as if to form a balloon.

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Unlike Heian Ciemnosc, this 14-year-old was still very childish-looking without any maturing features in his aesthetics. As he ran towards Heian Ciemnosc, the pure energy cluster covered by Heian Ciemnosc’s dark Power Energy engulfed him, immediately dissipating his body as if it was turning into pixels and becoming part of the background. To a Spirit Rebirth realm cultivator at the peak or higher, this move was okay, nimble, but avoidable with one’s speed at maximum. Yet, to someone way below Heian Ciemnosc’s standard… it was virtually instantaneous.

“Gaaaaaaaaaasp!” Everyone in the crowd reacted as Heian Ciemnosc disintegrated a person’s body just like that. The referee didn’t even bother announcing the outcome and turned around, returned to her spot, and shouted at the aspiring students to continue dueling. After a couple minutes, everything went back to normal, with the former becoming more cautious and no longer cared about their opponent’s mistake or beauty.

On the other hand, Elena shook her head disapprovingly as Heian Ciemnosc returned to her side. As she hurriedly hustled back into his lap, this time leaning on top of him over his left on the ground, she pressed her right cheek on his left shoulder and collarbone. Heian Ciemnosc took her on his body, and as he placed his left hand on her lower back, he asked her. “What is it?”

“The world outside the Blackotia Kingdom thinks our war is one-sided, but we’ve had 2 Frigates needing many repairs every few weeks. They simply don’t take us seriously enough most of the time. Only those other old Second Step organizations or higher know what these changes in the Academy entail. Yet, there are still people like them, with or without background, belittling us.”

“Mn, don’t worry about this. You’re going to worry too much in the future. Just see it as their side. Your side is what matters,” Heian Ciemnosc said, holding her head with his right hand and placing his chin on the top back of her head. Elena murmured, softly mumbling without saying a word before whispering a few words into his ear. “You say the best things, mn. I won’t worry, keep holding me.”

“Mn, of course. Besides, you still haven’t asked your foster father to give you to me for half a month.” Heian Ciemnosc smugly smiled as he said these words that would only make fatherless beings feel secure. Elena softly rolled her eyes behind her closed eyelids before saying, “Are you kidding? We are spending 2 months together here. If I tell him that, won’t he get mad? He hasn’t checked my cultivation in a while-”

“Oh, come on. Once your master sees how I trained you, he will instead be glad. You won’t suffer any side effects other than not wanting to separate from m- ouch.” Heian Ciemnosc was speaking when Elena’s underside of her fist met his left chest, stopping him from speaking. However, as her eyes narrowed and turned lusty, she complied. “Okay. Alright, I’ll ask him… later. We’ll have intense secluded cultivation for 2 weeks. Not like now, where you have to oversee these new students.”

Sounding so bothered about him not attending to her appropriately after so long, Heian Ciemnosc smirked and continued embracing her. At some point,. Elena seemingly remembered something as she lifted her head and faced him directly, “By the way, Master asked if you would… be willing… to… be adopted? Not as a nephew… but as his adopted son…?”

“...” Heian Ciemnosc’s eyes went round looking at his future wifey. He then teasingly smiled. Elena knew what was to come, as he then said. “Oh. Wow, is your foster father into that? He wants to form an incest couple?”

“Nooo!” Elena charmingly shut her eyes, punching Heian Ciemnosc’s slightly growing muscles on his shoulders as she protected her father’s intentions to true. “He said you are a decent, diligent kid and your Master’s disciple. Hence, he wants to tie you with me so you’ll help me as much as possible before leaving the Academy! Besides, it’s not like we live in a-... a f- fff- fff… feu-daahl era… or something.”

“Oh…” Heian Ciemnosc’s smile slowly receded and became silent after his exclamation/response. He looked at Elena as she calmly recomposed and looked at him, the tips of their noses already kissing. A long pause later, he raised his right hand to her left cheek, his fingertips behind her ear as she held it, her eyes wetting a little.

“I’m starting to think you are both fools,” Heian Ciemnosc softly said, his quiet to the point she could barely hear them. In fact, she had the sensation that the only reason she could listen to them was because of her relationship with him. That’s how strange things could get when entangling with Heian Ciemnosc. He continued in the same manner, “When I chose you as my woman, I was ready to shoulder responsibilities and help you soar. When you accepted me, I was already starting to think of many things.”

“Oh, in my list, there’s still a lot to do to help you before I dare leave the Academy. This territorial and past history war is only one of them,” Heian Ciemnosc said. Elena slowly lifted her eyes to stare into his, willingly losing herself in him. Her lips trembled as she said, her eyes widening further, “But… that was before I accepted you.”

“Oh? You thought I wouldn’t kidnap you and force you into liking me if I was wrong?” Heian Ciemnosc smiled from the left corner of his mouth and honestly spoke the truth. Elena reacted in a slightly girly way with her round eyes and her fingers covering her mouth. But then, knowing him well now, she asked skeptically. “You were afraid of being wrong about my desire, emotions, and greed for you?”

“Of course not, but if you suddenly had an epiphany or something, I was ready to force you back to my Master’s abode. I would have spent every day forcing you to cuddle… and copulate with me.” Heian Ciemnosc laid it all out. Elena’s eyebrows rose, but as she thought of that outcome, she didn’t care. “I see, hmph. Embrace me some more. I deserve it.”

Rustle, rustle… … …

After saying that, Elena turned around and laid her upper body on him. Heian Ciemnosc softly smiled and started massaging the back of her pale blonde hair with his dark claws, only for his women, included in sexual activities, and no harm guaranteed. Right then, Heian Ciemnosc felt the world had turned silent. He raised his head to look at millions of eyes looking at them. Then…

“Woooooooo~~!!” Everyone cheered on with teasing faces, gloating at embarrassing Heian Ciemnosc, who never blushed. However, Elena’s skin reddened slightly but kept quiet and still as she gave her back to these motherfuckers…

… Time passed, and in the end, 2 months passed since the start of the test. From the tens of millions of participants before it began, only around 4 million became aspiring students. After the second test, only 3 million aspiring students remained, placing the Academy’s staff at hard work. At last, 1.5 million aspiring students became Sub Students, with less than 200 becoming Students. There were a few ordinary aspiring students few who became Students due to their insanely great Craftsmaking potential, still worse than Heian Ciemnosc’s. Or combat capabilities, capable of fighting those at the same level more than 10 times in a row.

Although none of them could fight a stage above their own, at least they would be beaten back and forth without even being capable of defending themselves. They had great potential. Heian Ciemnosc named the top-notch new students before ordering everyone to enter the Academy’s precincts for the first time by hopping on those beasts. Heian Ciemnosc left in his Ornament, showing off as he helped his lady into the Fighter. Once again, they zoomed into the distance as it faced the ground. They quickly returned to the Academy’s specific organizational territory, where they saw its towering walls in less than a couple minutes. The Ornament was this fast.

After 2 months outside the Academy’s territory, Heian Ciemnosc missed his Master. But knowing Milyy was in her most crucial step into becoming, he calmed down his thoughts as he took the southern wall’s gate of the Academy’s organizational territory to take the job of becoming an attendant to help the incoming new students in their integration. Elena had to leave to speak to her Master about adopting Heian Ciemnosc… And to train and cultivate more.

Thus, Heian Ciemnosc spent the last day doing these menial missions in the registration buildings, which were 100 times more in number than before. Even though the Academy lacked proper administration 2 months ago, they realized quickly and amended a few things. For example, there was enough building around each gate to integrate the new students in one day.

Around 1.5 million new students were enrolled from the southern and western gates. Lastly, from the northern gate, 2 million students were enrolled. And from the eastern gate, 3 million new students passed through. In total, 8 million new students enrolled in the Wrath Nihility Academy, showcasing to the world the Academy’s influence yet again. Heian Ciemnosc, however, didn’t care as he watched the enormous difference from when he enrolled to nowadays.

If anything, besides becoming apprehensive, he also felt glad his decision had created this much change in the Academy’s limelight. Whenever he looked around the Academy, far into the distance. He felt complex. However, there were many things to do, and his still-running hesitation wasn’t worth mentioning. Changes came and went.

After the day was over, and as some new students were amazed to find the unbelievable sight of the Academy’s little black monster attending the newcomers like any other older Sub Student and Student. Heian Ciemnosc left the southern gate and drove his Ornament on the streets until he reached the first portal. He passed through the familiar bar and watched how a few were drinking from a big boot-shaped glass and immediately lost it as he passed by.

After reminiscing a little and remembering someone’s taste, Heian Ciemnosc headed to meet this possible foster father of his. He didn’t know how to feel. It was Elena’s foster father for over a decade. They were clearly a family, but he was unsure he could feel the same. Either way, if there was nothing that forcefully crashed between them in this meeting, he didn’t think it would be impossible to accept such a status. Besides, one more backer didn’t come wrongly.

As for the dark, starry sky… There was no need to keep looking at it. Everything, at some point, is no longer as unreachable as it once was in the past.

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