Elite Mages’ Academy (Web Novel)

Chapter 455: Battle Training Class

Success!

Xiao Lin was panting, his heart thumping. He had already prepared for various problems. After all, the professor said that the first step was the hardest. The professor himself took numerous years before he could even make his theory a reality, so Xiao Lin did not expect to succeed in his first try.

The compression of the first energy orb was just the start, but he now essentially had one foot through the door. The next step was just repetition and training–from one orb to ten, a hundred, a thousand. The time taken to compress each orb needed to constantly shrink as well. Using this ability in true combat would require it to be done in the blink of an eye, or it would lose its meaning.

No matter what, it was a good start.

In the next week, Xiao Lin repeatedly trained and familiarized himself with the process. The professor had stopped teaching him much more after the first class because he believed that the process would take a very long time. Xiao Lin did not ask any more questions either because he believed that it was better to do it himself, which would make it easier when the professor taught him the next step.

The first half-month of the new semester passed just like that without any surprises. He had thrown all his effort into elemental sword aura training, even neglecting many of his other classes. However, his Basic Meditation had skyrocketed because of that, and he had reached LV9 without knowing, which was the highest basic level.

The next stage of Basic Meditation was Novice Meditation. That required the user to not only feel the elements, but also be able to tell the types, power, and amount apart. Xiao Lin had already managed to do that with his elemental sword aura training, which was why Xiao Lin was only at the MAX rank of Basic Meditation for three days before breaking into Novice Meditation LV1.

Xiao Lin’s Intelligence attribute had reached 30 points in the latest test. It meant that his abilities seemed to have quickly soared in the past few days.

Other than the cultural classes, Xiao Lin had basically spent the past half a month either in the sword aura training hall, the dormitory, or the cafeteria. When he appeared in Saturday’s shared class, a lot of them looked at him in surprise.

“You can’t do this. You won’t have enough credits.” The kind-hearted Cheng Ming worried about Xiao Lin as usual.

“We were even betting on whether or not you’d appear for this class. Why did you show up? You lost me three hundred redemption points.” Chen Dao looked depressed. Since Xiao Lin was the only one who enrolled in elemental sword aura, he did not see anyone most of the time.

“This time I won’t lose to you!”

Xiao Lin was just greeting Chen Dao and Cheng Ming when a woman suddenly interjected. He quickly noticed that the woman was Class Four’s monitor Han Manman, the last class monitor to be formalized. She was heavily mocked for not being able to become a formal class monitor last semester, and had lay low because of that. However, she was still a talent holder in the end, and had been officially promoted.

“Oh, Han Manman.” Xiao Lin’s relationship with her was not great, maybe even bad, so he just casually acknowledged her.

“Don’t be so full of yourself!” Xiao Lin’s lackadaisical attitude seemed to have caused Han Manman to feel looked down on, and she looked quite angry.

However, at that time, the class started. The extra class implemented during Saturdays was the battle training class. It was something that was only added this year.

There was no fixed teacher in charge of the class. According to the student union, each class would have a different person invited over, since the experience with combat that everyone had was different.

When the instructor for this class walked in, Xiao Lin was speechless. It was a familiar person: the captain of the Seventh Regiment, Yu Mei. He could not believe that she had rushed back from the New World to teach a class. He began to suspect that the woman might have just been bored because there was no one in the regiment.

Yu Mei did not hide her familiarity as she looked over to Xiao Lin, causing the other students to be dumbfounded. It was obvious the teacher was once again someone Xiao Lin knew, and every more or less had a bit of admiration and respect for Xiao Lin in their hearts.

However, Yu Mei did not greet Xiao Lin. She was dressed for battle that day, but it was simple armor, not even Bronze-ranked in quality.

She walked to the center of the arena. As the largest training hall available to the first-years, it could basically contain all the new students. Eyeing the crowd, Yu Mei looked around before clearing her throat and letting out a thunderous roar.

“Some of you might know who I am. I am a captain in the army. My job is to kill our enemies in war, and battle with any foreign races that threaten Dawn Academy! I did not come here to play with you. The student union had some requirements for this class, but I rejected them. Since I’m here, then we’ll follow my rules, and this class will commence with the requirements I put on my soldiers!”

‘Captain?’

Even these rookies knew how powerful a captain was in the New World. They then looked at Xiao Lin again. He actually knew that captain!

Only Xiao Lin smiled to himself in a corner. Soldiers? What a joke. When did that woman have soldiers? The Seventh Regiment only had him and Yu Mei!!

“The first thing that needs to be clear is that this is absolutely real combat. There are no simulations and no training swords.”

Yu Mei’s next words immediately caused everyone’s looks of admiration to turn into shock. A murmur shot through the crowd, and someone shouted a question. “You want us to fight each other for real? Quit joking! What if someone is injured!”

“Injuries just mean you’re not skilled enough!” Yu Mei mocked. “Why don’t we use simulated combat? That’s because you’ll all know it’s fake and think nothing will happen to you. What’s the point of fighting with that mentality?”

“What if someone dies?” someone asked.

“Then you’re just unlucky!”

Boom!

The hall once again exploded. Xiao Lin nodded as he looked at Yu Mei’s smiling face. The woman was obviously joking. Just as tempers started to flare, she laughed as she said, “You’re all so boring. Fine, fine, that was a joke. How could the student union allow you to waste your lifespans here?”

“So, we’re still using simulated combat?” someone asked.

“No, that was not a joke, you’ll be using real weapons.”

Everyone was rendered speechless.

“Quit giving me those looks. Let me finish speaking. The training hall has been equipped with a high-level recovery system. We’ll also be giving all of you protective armor, so you can just fight to your heart’s content. I’ve already gained the approval of the student union. All recoveries done in this class will be paid for by the academy!”