Not bothering to clean up my hair and unwrinkle my collared shirt, I stretched out my arms above my head, interlocking my hands, and walked toward the door.
It felt as if my days were either extrely busy or boring, with no middle ground.
One day, I was fighting the old hero and his army of over a hundred people, and in the next mont, I was watching a fireworks show with the new hero.
Similar to a high school, Glaive held classes or practical training sessions from eight in the morning to three in the afternoon, with lunch breaks and passing periods scattered in between.
It was nice to return to an ordered life after all I had been through.
Peeking my head out of my cracked-open door, I glanced around the empty second floor for a mont before descending down the cylinder-shaped staircase.
As I reached the halfway step between the second and first floor, I spotted a male figure resting on one of the leather couches below, his eyes closed.
Could he really not make it to his room?
Obviously, though, I didn’t dare to say anything.
After all, he was the infamous first son of the grand duke of the North, also known as the "Zekrom’s Heir."
Zekrom was the first known human to possess the lightning elent and used it for good, defending humans against the decades of purple thunderstorms that plagued the world during the new age.
The new age referred to tis when the number of the enlightened was less than a thousand, and natural phenona were common, occurring almost every day.
There weren’t any normal tornadoes or tsunamis, but disasters that were boosted to their maximum.
Tsunamis the size of continents, thunderstorms that lasted months and contained purple bolts that could alone kill millions in a single strike, and tornadoes that could instantly kill a human on contact.
Humans were not fighting against demons, but nature itself.
Because if they didn’t, nature would destroy them.
While your gift is supposed to assign you a certain weapon like a crossbow or broadsword, it doesn’t always, like in my and Evangel’s case.
However, there is one thing that it always assigns.
An elent.
Their power can be classified into five categories based on their rarity and visibility in our world.
Foundational (~90%):
These are the obvious four elents of fire, water, earth, and air, which make up the world and are visible everywhere.
Since these elents are extrely common, users have access to their elent at all tis, allowing them to constantly throw out high-power attacks without high mana usage.
Derivation (~5%):
These are the more specific material ones like tal, stone, ice, and lava, which all derive from the four common elents.
By having control of a specific and tangible substance, users can be creative and make a variety of unpredictable attacks, allowing for a more personalized fighting style.
Known (~1%):
These are elents we know exist, but we can’t or can barely see them with the eye, like sound, electricity, shadow, magnetism, and temperature.
Though these elents are extrely difficult to master, they are different from other elents in that they are nearly impossible to counter without imnse preparation.
How does one block a sound wave? They must cover their ears, but how can they fight without their hands?
Conceptual (~0.01%):
These are completely intangible elents that directly influence our world, such as light, darkness, mory, emotion, lightning, and decay.
Little to nothing is known about them...though all of them can be created by humans.
For example, Humans created the lightbulb for light.
Forces of Nature (~0%):
Gravity, Space, Ti, Wind, Void, and Entropy.
These are forces that only nature should be able to command.
They control other elents, such as how ti causes decay.
They cannot be created or destroyed. They are eternal.
Although these elents are supposed to be assigned by complete chance, certain families hold control over the pathways for these elents.
For example, the lightning elent has been sohow preserved and passed through the grand duke of the North’s bloodline for centuries.
As long as one mber of the family possesses the elent, they can pass it on to their children through an extrely secretive thod, known by only one person.
Even I do not know this thod.
The book simply ntioned that the grand duke of the North knew of a way to pass the lightning elent to his children.
Although I know how to pass the elent of fire down through a family, the thod of inheritance varies for each elent.
Looking at the young and influential lightning elent prodigy in front of , I stepped onto the ground floor and walked toward the wall I had entered from.
What would happen the day I was forced to reveal my elent?
While it would most likely cause a lot of commotion and attract a lot of attention, it would also be a good thing.
No one would even suspect of being a demon in the slightest, as it is widely known that only humans possess the ability to have gifts and beco awakened or enlightened.
The fact that non-humans could beco enlightened would only be discovered in a couple of years from now.
Stepping onto the middle of the mana circle in the lobby, I watched as my surroundings imdiately shifted, without delay, and an empty stone path ca into sight.
In the distance, far above the large oak trees, I could see a massive building with all the lights on and countless figures inside.
It shone like a star and contrasted greatly with the depressing and dark night sky.
The dining hall and academic building for the Worldly class.
Ignoring it, I walked onto the path that went deeper into the island before eventually reaching the main street of the academy.
Without a single tree in sight, countless buildings towered in front of , most of them with lights off.
And, right in front of , stood a building double the size of the Imperial dormitory, with only the lights on the ground floor on.
Pushing through the glass doors of the building, I was imdiately t with a staircase that led downward into the square-shaped flat area.
Before the staircase and above the flat area, there were two halls on my right and left that led around the building, eventually eting each other and connecting.
On the squared-shaped sunken floor, countless tables, with around four chairs around each, stood, utensils and tissues already laid out.
Pausing before descending the staircase, I relied on my strong nose and eventually found a savory scent, following it.
Turning to my right, I walked down the hall before being t with two walls and being forced to turn left.
And as I turned the corner, countless open steel containers, full of vibrant and different types of food, appeared.
At the very front stood a stack of plates, and a sign that read, "Imperial Class Welcoming Buffet."
Placing my hand on the hall’s railing, which was preventing from falling down into the sitting area, I walked over and grabbed a plate.
After filling my plate with different assortnts of at like chicken and ground beef, I added so sides and sauces.
As I stared down at my full plate, I slowly realized that...it really wasn’t much different than what I usually ate.
Since this was a world with magic, I was expecting so crazy and special foods, but it was nearly identical to Earth.
However, at that mont, I suddenly slt sothing sweet and turned around, facing the wall opposite.
And, there, on the other side of the building, lay countless dessert stations with crepes, cotton candy, and even hot chocolate.
Alternating gazes between my plate and the dessert bar, I reluctantly turned my head and looked downward.
Seeing the empty sitting area, I walked back to the glass doors and headed down to the staircase, choosing a random seat.
Although I wasn’t mad that the dining hall was empty...where was everyone?
Surely, they wouldn’t be just sitting in their rooms and lazily lounging around, right...?
These influential talents and important figures had been controlled and forced to train their entire life, without a second of free ti, so that they could live up to their families’ expectations.
However, now, they were the academy.
No parents were here to tell them what to do or force them into sothing.
They were free.
Thus, I expected them to be curious and excited...yet all of them were lying around in the dorm.
Or, perhaps, there was so welco party going on that I just wasn’t invited to.
Either way, I wasn’t bothered, so I picked up and dug into he plate in front of .
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Feeling extrely bloated, I glanced at the two empty plates in front of before standing up.
Initially, I had planned to eat as much as possible, to satisfy my stomach, and then imdiately leave, so that no important figures would see .
Yet, now that the dining hall was empty, I didn’t have to worry about the other Imperial class students, allowing to enjoy the delicious food before .
After stacking my two empty plates on the table, I ascended these stairs and headed outside, imdiately feeling a breeze rush against my face.
The night was now colored a complete pitch-black, with only a half-crescent moon and a couple of stars visible.
All around were streetlamps that had been automatically turned on by the academy, highlighting the main academy street.
Although the streets weren’t full, they weren’t empty, as many Worldly class students had already ford groups and walked past the building, eager to explore the academy.
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