I enter the classroom and it looks like a small lecture hall. As look around I see that most of the students have gotten there before me. I took a glance at my classmates, and I instantly felt like a fish out of water. Every person looked pristine, they all had nice clothes, beautiful faces, and perfect hair. Every person in the classroom looked like a princes and princesses, but there is this one girl at the front of the class that especially eye catching. She had long silver hair and had a beautiful but stern face, unfortunately I couldn’t afford to spend too much time ogling my classmates and moved to an open seat in the corner of the room.
After a few seconds of waiting Isaac enters the room and sits next to me. And in a low voice I ask
“dude why is everyone who goes to this school way hotter than they should be?”
“Whenever someone cultivates or trains in magic they remove their imperfections, the higher the level the more imperfections are removed”
“but people around our age should not be at a very high level?”
“they aren’t, but this is also the highest tier freshman class which means they are the best in the school and they have parents in the upper echelons of the hidden world. It might be best if you don’t even try talking to them, because if you were to offend any of them it would be very bad”
“I’m the best at not talking to people you won’t need to worry about me. But if you said everyone in here has parents in the higher echelons of the hidden world, doesn’t that include you?”
“I mean yeah, kinda. But compared to the people here my family is only a little better”
“I knew you were a rich boy”
Isaac looks like he wants to refute but is cut off by the teacher entering the classroom.
“Hello class. My name is Mr. Hoover I am going to be your teacher this semester, my job in this class is to assist you on your cultivation or helping you learn magic. We will also have occasional sparring between students to prepare you for future explorations and tournaments. To start off class let us all introduce ourselves, tell us your name and what stage of energy you’re on. lets starts in the front and work our way back”
He walked over to a guy in the front row
“Let’s start here”
The guy had weird green spiky hair, it was like he thought he was in an anime or something. He turned toward the rest of the class.
“I am the Ronan from the Blackheart family, and I am on stage five body refining”
Ronan gives his brief introduction and sits down back in his spot. The next person to stand was the stunning girl with the long platinum hair, she stands up gives a look throughout the classroom. I can feel pressure throughout my body, and chills running down my spine.
“ I am aurora of the dragonvein family, I am stage 4 of qi condensation realm. Just by extending my sense I can tell no one is my match, if any of you want to fight I will take any of you”
‘Damn, she’s hot but kind of a bitch’
Everyone's introductions didn't take long since there were only about 10 people in this class but surprisingly there weren’t any mages yet and the aurora was the only one in essence condensation. And after a little bit it was time for me and isaac to give our introductions.
“Hey I’m isaac and I’m from the pheonixheart family, and I’m an orange purity and a stage 2 body realm. Nice to meet you guys”
After he said his name the people were doing their own thing looked directly at him, their faces were confused and almost startled. ‘Yeah just a normal family huh. Sure.’
“I’m mason deluge, ah, good to meet yuh guys. I’m a red purity”
The previous looks turned to confusion then dismissal, it is like they were expecting me to be someone just as amazing as the person sitting next to me.
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I quickly took my seat and got ready to listen to whatever the teacher was going to tell us about.
“Let me start class by giving a brief explanation of the differences between mana and qi. Mana and qi are both fairly similar. Mana is an energy that draws power from the ambient mana in the air and reforms the soul, while qi draws from the world energy and reforms the body. For both of them, quantity and quality are vital. If you have high quantity but low quality then you can use a lot of techniques and spells but only the low ranking ones. If you have high quality but no quantity you might only be able to give off one or two high ranking techniques or spells. The main difference between the two is a cultivator can take world energy from certain plants and animals as well as the air, while mages can only take energy from pacts with higher beings or from the ambient energy. It also goes without saying that the better the technique the better the quality and quantity will be. Alright now that the brief introduction is done let us focus on how to channel our qi or mana outwardly, watch me then you try”
He lifted his hand and as he did there was a weird light coming from it, it looked like he was molding the air.
“I’m sure you all can feel the energy inside of you, to make your energy move outside your body all you need to do is ... move it. Imagine gathering it all together and feel it moving throughout your body, then you guide it to your fingertips. Once it’s there, force it out of you and make it take form in the air. you try now, and show each of your creations to the class”
I’m guessing people have already done this before, when it was each person’s turn they were all able to form something. Most of them made blobs but the platinum girl formed a what seemed to be a dagger, I saw her glance around the room and her face formed a smug grin.
After everyone finished, it was my turn. I began moving my energy within me. Imagining the energy condensing in my chest I slowly moved to my fingertips, but as I was going to move it outside my body it felt like something shocked me. The energy I was moving came rushing back into me.
“You cant even move your energy? How did you even make it into this class”
‘It’s my first time give me a break. I’ll make something that wipe that smile off her face’.
I started thinking what could I do to show that girl up, and gave it another try. I tried once again to move my mana, this time I said the chant implanted in my mind and the energy flowed throughout me. I felt in complete control of everything in my body, I forced the energy out and guided it to form a well defined dagger. The dagger was a copy of aurora’s except if my sword was made by a normal smith, hers was made by a blind fool. I gave her a quick glance then looked away. In the brief moment I looked over at her, I saw anger. she looked like she was going to rush up to me and beat down right here and now.
“Alright class, everyone showed splendid control over their energy. At the front of the class you can pick up a piece of paper that will tell you when and where the rest of you classes are, class is over for today so good luck for the rest of the night.”
After everyone grabbed the sheets and left, I went over to pick up the class schedule sheet. I don't know how they planned these classes or how many teachers there are but all of my classes were back to back and all finished by midnight. That’s real convenient for me.
The rest of my classes were much easier than my first one, it seemed like as soon as the teacher gave us instruction I could instantly figure out how to do it. This school’s primary focus was on using whatever mana we had efficiently, so in both my magic classes we were focused on having proper control of our mana. At the end of both classes, the instructors gave us a number of control exercises and expected us to practise out of class.
Honestly the most interesting class was the history of the hidden realm. Turns out mages were once the leaders in every corner of the hidden realm. The reason they fell from grace is due to their shrewdish nature, they refused to pass their legacy on to anyone else. Only a few great mage legacies remain, thankfully they were as cocky as they were shrewd because they left behind plenty of high level spells. The only problem is that apparently very few people can ever reach the amount of purity and quantity it takes to use the spells. Also there were plenty of low level and unimportant spells but only a few hundred mid leveled spells.
Another reason why mostly everyone uses cultivation is because large clans were formed and they passed all their techniques to the next generation. cultivation can be more useful faster, and because all you need is a lot of money to do well. Cultivation uses world energy, which can be in the air but it also can form into rare herbs in different corners of the hidden world.
Another thing I found out just by listening to my classmates. The hidden world is fucking huge. Earth may serve as the main world but each clan has their own training dimension, and there are thousands of dimensions that are unclaimed wildlands. There may be even more for dimensions that unknown powerhouses keep to themselves.
The last class of the night is my intro to body refinement, and it was a little different from what I expected. They went over the different types of body cultivation techniques, some were actually made for mages. Every type of body cultivation strengthened the body but if you went for the qi energy system it would drastically strengthen your body and if you went for the mage system is was allow energy to flow through you body better, and allow for better control of your mana. Although this class wouldn’t hand out body cultivation techniques it would teach us how to use our strengthened bodies to the fullest potential. By teaching us how to fight.
Even though most of the classes were going over the most basic of the basics, I felt like I learned so much and was excited for when I get to go back. I walked back to my dorm room and found Isaac getting ready to settle down for the night.
“Hey Isaac how were your first day of classes”
“They were pretty interesting how were yours”
“It was amazing. I never knew any of this stuff could ever be real” I said probably a little louder than I should have
“Good to hear, but you need to be careful. You really poked the bear when you showed aurora up, she’s going to be gunning for you now”
“Woah, woah, woah, I didn't want to stir up trouble. I just wanted to show that I could make something and her dagger was the only thing I could think of”
“Whatever you say dude, just be ready”
With that he fell into a state between sleep and meditation. I also got ready for bed and relaxed in my bed for a few hours before using the meditation technique and finally drifting off to sleep.