The next couple of weeks at the academy passed in a blur for Leo and his group, as they settled into the relentless rhythm of academy life.
Each morning, Professor Marvin pushed their bodies to the brink of exhaustion, yet the difference between now and just a few weeks ago was becoming increasingly evident.
During his first training session, Leo had struggled to complete 100 laps of the training field while carrying a 40 kg vest.
But now, he could complete the sa distance with a 60 kg vest—and that too with relative ease, as the gap between him, Su Yang, Mu Shen, and the rest of the class was growing at an alarming rate, as their progress left the others struggling to keep up.
If before they could complete the 100 laps ahead of the class pack by 1.5-2 laps, they could now hold a commanding 5-7 lap lead over them, which was only increasing week over week, as the difference between higher and lower bloodline talents started to beco apparent.
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In the Basics of Perception class, the first evaluation was conducted by Professor Powell, where 15 students failed to grasp the perception technique he imparted, while Leo stood out as the only student to achieve Interdiate Mastery in [Absolute Vision], earning full marks in the first assessnt.
To be considerate, Professor Powell granted the failing students a one-week grace period to learn the technique—after which failure would result in expulsion from the Elite Class.
anwhile, he advanced the rest of the students to the next topic: practical application of perception skills in detecting hidden enemies.
As each day, he concealed 15 hidden assassins throughout the classroom and handed each student a sheet of paper to mark where they sensed the assassins lurking—turning the lesson into a hands-on training exercise that forced them to refine their newly acquired skills and learn how to spot decoys from originals, training them for actual life scenarios.
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anwhile, in the Basics of Magic Theory class, Professor David delved deeper into the core principles of magic, as he explained to the class how it could be used to create, alter, and influence life, and how various sentient species across the universe had evolved after coming into contact with mana, learning to harness its power over ti.
These lessons were highly informative, as they broke down the fundantals of magic, explaining what allowed humans and other sentient beings to wield its imnse strength.
However, with Professor David's bias against Leo and Su Yang remaining as strong as ever, Leo barely attended half the lectures, as he often found himself kicked out of the lecture within the first five minutes, with David always looking for even the smallest excuse to remove him from his presence.
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After being kicked out of David's class, Su Yang always insisted on sparring with Leo, as he was eager to test his improvents, but each ti, Leo politely declined.
Instead, he spent his ti at the university library, poring over ancient texts and historical records, searching for any ntion of 'Kaelith' and the 'ChakraVyuh'.
However, what he uncovered over the next two weeks was nothing short of shocking.
From his visions, Leo knew with certainty that Kaelith was a family man who had a father and a younger brother, yet none of the history books he read even ntioned his family background.
In every record, Kaelith the Eternal Sovereign was revered as one of the three core gods backing the Universal Governnt, a divine entity who stood as an unshakable pillar of the Righteous Alliance and one of the only major figures in history with no direct ties to the Six Great Clans.
The books depicted him as a warrior of justice, a defender of order, an unwavering force against chaos.
But not a single account ntioned his betrayal.
Not a single record spoke of him slaughtering his own father.
And as for the 'ChakraVyuh' formation—it simply did not exist.
Not in any written history at least.
As no matter how deep Leo dug, Kaelith's family ties were completely erased from public knowledge, and the very concept of the god-killing formation was nowhere to be found.
It was as if soone had ticulously erased all traces of these events from history—as if the truth itself had been deliberately suppressed, buried so deeply that even the ntion of such things had vanished from the universe's collective mory.
And when Leo had asked the librarian if Kaelith had a younger brother, the man had laughed outright.
"If the Eternal Sovereign had a younger brother— we would know! Hahaha!"
The dismissive response had been unsettling.
Because Leo did know.
He had seen it firsthand.
Yet in this era, no one else seed to know, which brought him to the next and most important problem that clouded his mind these days.
'Sothing about my bloodline feels off.'
Leo's thoughts churned as a deep unease settled in his chest.
'I don't like the fact that one of my core bloodline mories is from the night the Righteous Alliance united to execute a lone god.
Because this can only an one of two things—either my bloodline is the sa as Kaelith's, which would also make it the bloodline of the murdered god who was his father…
Or… my bloodline is directly that of the murdered god himself.'
A heavy silence filled his mind as realization struck.
'Which would an I might be on the wrong side of the Righteous Alliance.'
Leo concluded, as his mood considerably darkened at the thought.
Only people with dangerous, hidden pasts needed to erase their identities.
And the fact that he had to take such extre asures—wiping his own mory just to enter the academy—paired with the Ghost Dream he had witnessed, painted an unsettling picture.
It made Leo strongly suspect that he wasn't just so random stray caught in a political power struggle.
No—he was starting to believe that his very existence was a threat to the Righteous Alliance itself.
And if that were true…
Then he might be far more entangled with the Evil Cult than he ever wanted to believe.
'Ignorance is bliss might be the truest words ever spoken.'
The more pieces of the puzzle Leo pieced together, the more uneasy he felt—because he did not like the picture forming before him.
'I fear that if I keep digging down this rabbit hole… the answer waiting at the end won't be the one I'm hoping for.'
He exhaled slowly, a deep sigh escaping his lips.
As his academy life progressed and his strength grew, so did the creeping sense of unease settling in his bones.
He was starting to realize a terrifying truth—he was living on borrowed ti.
No matter how much stronger he beca, sooner or later, he was destined to be a fugitive, a man on the run with no place to call ho.
And just the thought of it made him want to sigh again.
That wasn't the future he wanted for himself.
But if his suspicions were correct…
It wasn't going to be his choice.
However, for now, for the sake of passing all future psychological evaluations, Leo consciously tried to steer clear of this topic, as if he was living on borrowed ti, he intended to make the most of it, for as long as he could.
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