Soon enough, the lecture had ended, making the students in the classroom rummage over the words that the teacher had said.They even started to put new or refreshed knowledge to use, trying to comprehend and master the art of barriers.I looked at their attempts with some interest as most of them failed to create a barrier like I and Shira did in the previous classroom.However, I could see that they added more runes in their pentagrams, which could be the reason for their constant failures.From what I could see, the runes were way more complicated and denser, and the energy they required to be drawn was way higher than the normal runes that you would learn in the basic class.I could see some of them being written on the blackboard with a few descriptions below them."Automatic Defense" "Energy absorption from the surroundings" "Teleportation"Automatic Defense was a rune that would add a backlash to those who attacked the barrier, being a level higher than deflection, energy absorp

While Lisar was quite bored, he wasn't so out of it that he wouldn't sense my gaze.After the beating I gave him, he seemed to have upped his training if the blisters on his hands and the fact that his aura had darkened even further meant anything.He wasn't sure why I was alone, and I was looking at him, but he seemed to have learned his lesson so he didn't antagonize me, he just waved weakly as he wasn't sure what I wanted.I waved back at him with a small polite smile as I got up from my desk and approached his desk.Lisar wasn't sure what to do as he saw me approach him, so he got up from his desk and asked warily:"What do you want?"His wary gaze made me look at him with a new light, even though his previous actions could be considered foolish at best, it looked like he learned his place rather quickly.I shook my head and put my hand forward as I said:"I'm sorry about what happened before, you just pushed my buttons a little wrong, I hope you can forgive me for my 'extreme' ac

The punk girl was quite frozen as she felt my aura batter against her body, her lackeys were in the same situation, and my question made them unable to comprehend what was happening around them. Their faces were blank as Lisar and Malaria were looking at what was happening with some interest in their gazes. I smiled briefly at the girl as I stopped projecting my aura and held a hand forward to her: "I don't like how you talk, but your strength isn't bad, and your type of behavior reminds me of my early days of traveling." After the aura disappeared, the girl remained rooted to the spot for a few seconds as her eyes turned to my outstretched hand, but she batted it away as she snorted and said: "While you may be strong, I'm not going to follow anyone just because of their strength! You might want to recruit our gang into your organization, but you will have to prove yourself to us, you can't coerce us into it! The academy has some unspoken rules when it comes to that type of thing

Now that I was putting 100% of my attention on Janas and her gang, I was able to identify the reason they were able to continuously rev up their strength and continue doing the missions, even though initially they had a tough time killing even the grunts on the 5* tasks. There was a slight flicker below their feet that connected them, I could see that the connection extended from the sole of their feet toward the center of their chest and their heads. With a little bit of soul-search, every part of their technique was revealed to me. They could support each other through the connection they made. The basics of the technique seemed like they were extracted from a barrier of some kind, but the barrier was applied to the body instead of a special medium. It was certainly a very interesting concept that I noted for later, unfortunately, it wouldn't be too useful if you weren't fighting with someone else by your side to share your burden. Useful thing, just not for me. I sighed and wa

We quickly moved through the Academy's hallways as we reached the Mission Simulation room.Unlike before, when there was no one in the room because Janas was scaring them away, the room had quite a lot of students now.However, when Janas appeared, most of them became distracted while they were fighting the opponents of their low-level 1* or 2* missions, some of them got injured and had the simulation end, while others were able to barely dodge and curse under their breath as they saw Janas return to 'torment them'.They all expected Janas to already make a move on them but she simply ignored all of their antics as she looked at my back before we created a team using the interactive light screen.The light screen flickered briefly as it told me that the limit of people per team was 10, which made me wonder how did Janas and her team work it out when they had 16 people previously, did they split into two teams of 8 that worked together? Hmm, the number of demons they fought was certain