Chapter 14: First Day
Powerful burst of wind kept blowing making the dust cloud clears up, their eye's landed on 3 figures on the distant. Arteus, Jakecove, and Instructor Winch.
Winch hand is outstretched, shebhad caught Arteus diving drop kick. She didn't even seems to be struggling, while Arteus is flapping his wings with all his might. But her strength is too strong.. and just how heavy is this woman??!
"Oh my.. you don't have to fly away mr. Arteus, the match is over.. You have won! Please get down now and go to your instructor." Winch spoke, while let go of his feet.
She began talking to Jakecove about something, but Arteus didn't pay much attention to them as he had already began walking towards instructor king.
Arriving in front of the man and straining his neck to look up. He saw him smiling at him.
"Good job kid, you got me some good stuff for winning that.. In return I'll give you something good"
He said smiling even wider. "I'll assume you dont have a weapon with you since you didn't bring anything... So I'll give you this"
He then held out his palm Arteus saw the familiar 3 dots on his wrist. And while looking at it. He saw the dots producing a faint dust of light..
And it started converging in Kings palm until it formed a cube..then it solidify.
Arteus looked at the man and back to the cube. Before hesitantly reached for it and grabbing it for himself.
"Good.. now think back to the fight and imagine.. what would have been a perfect tools in that time? Something that could give you even more lethality.. something like a perfect weapon."
'A tool huh?....' Arteus recalled the match.. and the pain he would feel everytime he does a dive attack..
And before he could even react the cube began melting, morphing and shaping. At first Arteus panicked thinking he did something wrong. But then he saw King's face and realized it's normal.
"I wonder what weapon you thought of.. something interesting? something lame? Overrated? Or something unique??!?"
King began mumbling.. he even began hyperventilating.. Arteus even had a suspicion that King would orgasm when his the cube finally showed his weapon.
And soon, the cube stopped writhing around and began taking shape.
Its a .... Pair of graves?
"Ah! A talon! I see!! Yes that's perfect! Ahh I can't wait to make a fighting style for it" King began laughing maniacally.
Arteus almost felt disgusted...almost..
Arteus gave the tools a better look. It seemed to be a leg armor that reached up to his knees. It has a strange looking boots that had a talon like blade on its hill and two on its toe. Making it resembles a birds feet. Whats more the knee caps also had a blade like spike that curve upward. That would make any knee attack even more deadlier.
"Anyway, from now on you'll be sparring with me.. not only is your way of attacks a bit too deadly for the current ability of those fuckers.. your weapon is also a bit different than everyone else.. I'll have to know how you attack and how you move to teach you a better way to use them" he spoke before starting to turn.
"anyway you did good kid.. go to your spot and sit." He spoke and turning around.
"NOW THAT THE MATCH IS OVER LETS MOVE ON!" He yelled and he began choosing another pair to match up.
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On the field a woman wielding two pair of dagger sprints forward in an incredible speed.
Ahead of her is a guy in a fighting stance. He no tops and only a white pants.
When the girl was near enough she whipped her left arm forward and threw one of the knife. The guy simply dodge it and dashed forward and at the same time punched towards the girl.
When suddenly the girl vanished from her place replaced by a knife.. while the knife that the guy dodge earlier is replaced by the girl.
Groaning, she twisted midair and delivery a powerful stab towards the guys back.
"URAAGHH" Only for him to strike a Lat Spread pose. His muscle tensing up to the extreme.
And with a metallic chink. The womans dagger bounced off the man's back muscle. And in her surprised she couldn't react to the punch the guy unleashed.
"POWER!!!" With a thunderous battle cry the man sent the girl flying across the field.
"Yeey! You did it Mr. Blanca!! That was wonderful!" Winch cheered and clapped on the sidelines.
"ARGHH YOU IDIOT! DON'T LET YOUR WORTHLESS SELF GET SURPRISED IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGHT! THAT'S A DEATH SENTENCE! YOU DIPSHIT!" King meanwhile gave his advice while hiding it in a sea of insults.
The sparring lesson continues on with another pair. They fought and the instructor adviced them after a match.
Of course Arteus kept listening to them, taking the advices and tips the is appropriate to him.
Some students approach him saying how envious they were that Arteus got the Morphing Cube.. because apparently it's a good quality metal, and tools or weapon made from them would fetch quite a lot of credits.
He even started talking to them too. Although only to a fellow commoner as the nobles still avoid them like the plague.
From what he heard. The two instructor actually does this every start of the semester to gouge the ability of their students and their habits, style and attitude in a fight.. and would make a basic martial arts for each of them.
As for the how? They don't know it's either those two are a monstrous genius that prints martial art like nothing.. or they own a vast amount of collection and give them away.
Anyway, Arteus saw a lot and learned alot as well. There we're so many people with different abilities.. and he also realized there were many desperados like himself.
Because some of them approached him, because it was easy to tell that he's a desperados as there's no normal first year in the first few days in class already manifesting their Dreams. And they had a chat to each other.. With Arteus getting taught about what he was.
The Desperados are the classification given to people who awakened their dreams in desperate moments. Like for example.. one of the Desperados earlier.. Blanca.. he said to have awakened his dream when a boulder fell on him when he was young.
And to survive, he had to tense his entire body for a day and endured the boulder. A single moment of him relax would have caused him to die. He was desperately trying to be as hard as rock — no.. as hard as a boulder to survive.
And that's when he awakened his dream.
And that's one of the example of a desperados..
'So the reason why I awakened my wings was because of my desire to fly?' Arteus spoke.
'But where did it came from though? Who gives us these power?'
He had been wondering about that. He even asked around about it because he wanted to know if so bad. Because one.. he doesn't think he inherited it.. since Blanca was also from a normal family.. he had no family who ever had awakened a dream.
So how can a normal human manifest something like wing out of thin air? Even after asking around he didn't get a solid answer.. most of them couldn't even provide one.
Everyone was saying that they should just wait for the subject about Dream to arrive because apparently the previous lesson was the introduction to the Process of Dreaming.
And also this is where Arteus found out that he was a late enrollee.. the good thing was enrolled when everything was just starting.
'That's why everyone already had an idea about what's going on in here!' he wanted to punch one of the school staff from not at all telling him something.
And as the matches continue on in the field, the sun slowly started to set.
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On his room, drying himself Arteus mumbled.
"I can't believe that that thing was adjustable. WHY CANT THEY JUST LEAVE AN INSTRUCTION?!?" He grumbled, he couldn't believe he suffered so much for nothing yesterday night.
As for how he knew that it was adjustable... Well.. Marcus told him after coincidentally meeting him in the street.. apparently, his 'dorm' room. Is on building 1.. just across the street from him.
'whats a dorm room anyway? This room?' he shrugged before putting on a clothes. Then he checked his ID
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Arteus Credit: 5
1st year - class 2B
Room - B2F4R16
•Desperados•
Course/s
•Weapon Based Combat
•Rune Scribe
•Wilderness Survival Training
Minor Subjects:
-Mana and Core Training
-Process of Dreaming
-History of the World
-Beastiary Records
-Teamfight Tactics
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He looked at the new addition in it before heading to the dining table. When the class ended he found that he had received a credit.. apparently attending a class will reward you with 2 points. And in the Combat training, winning that spar will reward you with 1 point.
And at the end of the school day the point you get will be converted into a Credit.
Sitting down on the dining chair he looked down on the table's edge and saw the 3 dots. "Following Marcus words.. I should just place my wrist over here and say Basic Daily food pack right?"
Placing his wrist over the symbol on the table he opened his mouth. He recalled one of his words.. 'Dont fall for the trap bro.. Deluxe Daily food pack is 3 credits! That shirs expensive!'
Opening his eyes he smiled
"Nah bro, in the slum.. there's no expensive food.. every food is priceless"
"Deluxe Daily Food Pack ,please" And with a soft hum his credit is deducted and with a smoky and explosive puff. Trays upon trays of food appeared in his table.. its the same food he ate when he first got here.
"Thank you for the food"
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