"…?"
Despite being startled, Neo maintained a neutral expression.
"Is that even possible?"
"I think it could be possible with your bloodline."
Neo did not say anything.
"Sigh, Neo, death isn't a punishnt.
"I'm sad too that my friends died, but trying to resurrect them isn't the answer.
"You need to accept Death.
"How long will you continued this? Everyone you know will die soday, will you keep reviving them?"
"…"
"Neo, if you don't learn to accept Death, your mastery will…"
Jack sighed.
"If I tell you about it, it will lose its aning. You need to understand it yourself."
He patted Neo's back.
"I'll keep the corpses with myself until as long as you want.
"Still, please think about what I told you."
Jack stepped out of the room, leaving Neo behind.
Neo thought about Jack's words.
He shook his head after a few monts
"I'm getting late for the classes."
Neo left the Seraphim Hall.
He t Arthur, Felix and Mars on the way.
"The others?"
"They went to their class."
Neo noticed quite a few people were staring at him.
It reminded him of the day when he was going to give the speech as the Ruler.
Back then, the gazes had been filled with mockery.
Now, they were staring at him with awe and admiration.
The four reached the class.
The teacher entered a few minutes later.
She picked the chalk and wrote 'Elental Clash aka Elental Overriding' on the board.
"Good morning, students.
"Since a few of you are seeing for the first ti, I'll reintroduce myself.
"I'm Evelyn Valtara. Your Elental Theory class professor."
Her gaze was fixed on Neo.
"Today, we are going to cover the topic 'Elental Clash'.
"Anyone know what it is?"
Arthur raised his hand.
"Yes, please answer, Arthur."
"Elental Clash refers to the clash between two elents."
"Very good, Arthur. As expected of a Rank 2 student. It was the perfect answer."
Professor Evelyn continued.
"But how does Elental Clashes work?
"What will happen if Water and Fire strikes against each other?
"Will water douse the fire, or will the fire evaporate the water."
An orb of water materialized above Professor Evelyn's right palm and a orb of flas above her left palm.
"What factors will affect the result?"
"The total amount of Divine Energy imbued in the attack."
A student answered.
"Yes, good answer. Anything else?"
She looked around.
"Think, students. This is sothing you all must've experienced during your past three months practical classes at the academy."
"Elental Superiority."
"Correct.
"You can't expect a lightning elent user to win against a ti elent user.
"The ti elent user will snap his finger and that's it. Ti has been stopped. Lightning user can't do anything."
Evelyn continued.
"You need to be careful about the compatibility between your opponent and you, and use a superior elent.
"Of course, that's not always the case. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?"
Arthur, again, raised his hand.
"Yes, Arthur?"
"Elental Mastery.
"We can overpower our opponent's elent as long as out mastery is high enough. This can cancel even elental superiority."
"Perfect!"
Professor Evelyn smiled.
"There are countless examples of what Arthur said in the history.
"The battle of GodKing, Zeus, the War God, Ares, against the Father of Ti, Kronos, is one such example.
"They overpowered the Father of Ti with their high elental masteries.
"The Godking Zeus used his lightning affinity to out speed Ti and War God Ares burned Ti itself."
Professor Evelyn could see not everyone believed her.
It was to be expected.
The Age of Gods happened long in the past, and her words sounded too absurd to be true.
The students believed the myths of the past were often exaggerated. content-source-MVLeMpYr
"I'll give you a live example."
Professor Evelyn conjured a fla in front of her.
"This is Apprentice-mastery level fire."
She raised her head and looked Neo in the eye.
"Neo Hargraves, please attack this fla with your Death affinity
He nodded.
"Die."
He spoke to help make it easier for him to conjure the image of the attack and increase its accuracy.
A single condensed red bolt struck the fla.
The fla suddenly died.
"Marvellous. That was a perfect demonstration of Elental Overriding."
She looked around the class.
"Neo Hargraves' mastery of Death has reached Adept-level.
"He was able to impose the concept of Death over my flas and kill them.
"This happened because Adept-mastery represents a higher form of understanding than Apprentice-mastery."
She continued.
"Now who is going to tell the weakness of Elental overriding?"
Arthur raised his hand to no one's surprise.
"Yes, please answer, Arthur."
"Mainly, the two weakness of elental overriding are Divine Energy pool and Elental Superiority.
"Even a high mastery is useless if an Awakened Demigod is fighting a Mythic Demigod.
"The Mythic Demigod can just overpower the opponent with his denser and larger Divine Energy pool."
Arthur added,
"Elental Superiority is similar.
"Just because they have a higher mastery does not an an earth elent user can defeat a lightning elent user in a race. Elental overriding is useless here."
"Correct again…."
The class continued.
Professor Evelyn let them go after an hour.
"I feel like I'm dying," Felix groaned.
Her head slumped onto the desk.
"Soone kill . I can't study anymore."
"Why are you complaining, Felix? It was an interesting class."
"It wasn't, you nerd."
Felix glared at Arthur.
"I've told you multiple tis. If you are going to keep raising your hand, go sit sowhere else."
"Why?"
"You draw attention to yourself! One out of seven professors asks a question from since I'm sitting next to you.
"I'm not smart like you. I beg you, spare , you lunatic!"
She was on the verge of tears.
Neo stood up.
"Where are you going?" Arthur questioned.
"I have sothing to do. I'll return before our next class starts."
The next class was after two hours.
Neo had plenty of ti to et Professor Daniel.
He moved through the academy grounds.
The ditation hall was only half-hour distance away.
It was as deserted as ever.
Neo stood outside Professor Daniel's office and knocked.
"Professor Daniel, it is Neo Hargraves.
"I ca to et you three months ago and asked for help in awakening my ti elent."
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