2025-01-20 05:20:24Adrian looked around him with nerves on edge, gripping every part of his body.
Onexus was a place that seemed designed to break anyone who dared to enter it.
The undulating walls, the air charged with an energy that could almost be felt, and the constant sensation of being watched made him feel tiny and helpless.
Suddenly, the ground trembled beneath his feet.
In front of him, the walls began to open, giving way to a gigantic figure emerging from the gloom. It was a colossus of dark stone, with eyes that glowed like burning coals. His step echoed like thunder, and every movement shed fragments of his body, revealing flashes of light at specific points.
“The Shadow Colossus!” said Roxanne's voice, echoing through the air. Watch, Adrian. Every enemy has a weak spot. Find it before it finds you, that will be the key to its defeat.
The giant advanced, raising a huge arm that slammed into the ground, sending a shockwave that threw Adrian backwards. He struggled to his feet, his hands were shaking, and his mind was foggy. He knew he had to move and fast, that he had to look for those flashes of light on the giant's body, but his legs were unresponsive.
Fear had paralyzed him.
“Focus!” exclaimed Roxanne's voice, but her words seemed far away, as if coming from another world.
Adrian tried to calm himself.
He closed his eyes and tried to feel something, anything inside him, some hint of power.
But there was nothing.
His mind was blocked, as if an invisible wall prevented him from accessing what he knew he had inside and what he had to prove he had.
The Shadow Colossus was getting closer, and the sound of its footsteps echoed in Adrian's ears. Do something, he shouted to himself, but his body did not respond to his calls as he wanted it to.
Suddenly, the walls began to change shape, transforming into a maze that stretched as far as the eye could see to make the challenge that much more difficult.
Adrian found himself alone, surrounded by constantly moving corridors.
Before he could get his bearings, he heard a roar behind him.
An ethereal figure, a giant composed of shadows, was chasing him.
He ran through the corridors, dodging traps that activated with every step: energy arrows that shot out of the walls and dark pools that tried to trap him.
“Think, Adrian,” Roxanne's voice said, ”You can't win if you just run away.
But what could he do? His mind was still blank, unwilling to answer his true intentions.
The creature's roar urged him to keep running, aimlessly, getting more lost in the changing maze.
Finally, the maze disappeared, and Adrian found himself in a new arena.
In front of him, a chained giant was flailing furiously.
His shackles were covered with glowing runes that seemed to weaken them with each movement of the colossus.
Roxanne's voice echoed again.
“It is not always necessary to fight. Watch, think, find another solution.”
Adrian studied the giant and the chains. The runes flickered irregularly. Perhaps there was a way to reinforce the chains. He looked around, but found nothing that could help. His frustration grew, and his mind, instead of clearing, filled with doubt and fear.
“I can't do it,” the boy muttered painfully, feeling tears begin to gather in his eyes. ”I don't have powers. I'm not like them.
Even though that wasn't so, Adrian simply wanted to think that his powers were asleep, they had barely awakened, and they had already been very helpful and, perhaps, he wanted to keep in mind that maybe because of that misuse of his powers, these now at the moment he needed them most, had gone completely dormant.
The giant's chains broke, and the colossus advanced towards him, but before he could reach him, everything disappeared. Adrian fell to his knees, panting, his heart pounding.
Roxanne's office formed around him again, and the headmistress watched him from her desk with an expression that mixed curiosity and seriousness, and at the same time, anger.
“You blocked yourself,” she said, with no trace of mockery in her voice, ”But that doesn't mean you don't have potential. On the contrary, it's proof that your power is there, waiting for the right moment to awaken.
Adrian said nothing. He was still trembling, unable to look up. Roxanne stood up, walked over to him, and leaned down to look him in the eyes.
“This academy is not made for those who have it all figured out. It is made for those who have to face their fears and grow. You, Adrian, don't yet know your true power. But you will. And when that happens, you will change more than one world.”
Roxanne offered him a hand, helping him up. Adrian took a deep breath, trying to regain his composure. Maybe she was right. Maybe there was something inside him waiting to wake up. But at that moment, he knew only one thing: he couldn't give up. Despite the fear, despite the doubts, he would continue.
“And then... What will happen to me, director?” he asked, stopping his tears from continuing with the intention of spilling over in a sea of uncontrollable weeping.
Principal Roxanne sighed, looking at him with eyes of guilt and pity.
“I'm sorry, kiddo. But as I told you before, rules are rules, and unfortunately, there are no exceptions for anyone. I have to abide by them with you, and for now, while your powers awaken, you will have to work at the academy as a janitor, you have no other choice, here you have no one to take care of you while you manage to reveal the identity of your powers with agility when a dangerous situation faces towards you,” she replied without pity.
Adrian sighed, and held back the urge to duck his gaze to the floor resignedly.
“Yes, ma'am. I understand. I promise you that while I'm on that job, I will manage to get my powers awakened and enter as a student at the academy. Not only that, but I won't let you down,” he said, looked at the headmistress decisively.
Far from smiling, the director looked at him with pride, for a moment, she felt a maternal weakness for the boy, one she had never felt for any of her other students in all the time she had been director of the Darkside Academy of Specialists. She didn't know what that feeling was, since she had no children, but neither could she show it in front of the boy until she was sure that between the two of them they would earn his trust necessary to be as such.
“All right, that being so. Come on, come with me. I'm going to take you to your room, and I'll give you the uniform and your janitorial belongings, your work start time is at 5:00 in the morning and your departure time will be for when you have finished all your duties. At 12:00 noon, you will have your lunch break with the teachers and the rest of the staff, and with me. Then you will have a 10-minute break in the morning and a 10-minute break in the afternoon. Please try not to cause any trouble with the students, some of them can be very cruel, and I don't want any complaints from you,” said Principal Roxanne.
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“What? You're kidding, right? What do you mean you're not magical? What do you mean you don't have powers? Who told you that vile lie?”, Ally caught her breath after coughing for a moment as she nearly choked. Adrian didn't seem surprised by her friend's reaction. He set the sandwich down on the half-finished tray, tossed the tray to the side of the bed and stood up, began to walk in circles for the short space he had to do so. Her gaze was lost on the floor.“Ally, did you know that the academy does an entrance test for students to define in which academic program they will be enrolled?”, he asked the girl with interest to know that what she experienced was not some kind of trap on the part of the director Roxanne, he wanted to know if that had been true. Ally nodded. “Yes, I knew that. I forgot to mention it, sorry. We've all been through that test, I nearly failed, I was sent to fight a horde of flying angry piranhas from another world. Yes, it may sound stupid, but with that t
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The battlefield was similar to that Adrián had entered when the director Roxanne told her that she should do to enter the academy as evidence.But this field was different, now, the sky was black, there was no space where a single flash of light could enter. Around it, the students had all organized themselves sitting on stone benches that appeared magically at the same time as the battlefield.Under his feet, kilometers of sand extended.A battle has begun.The teachers joined the students to be spectators.Adrián looked around, looking for Ally everywhere, until, finally, he found her sitting in the front row from the highest point of the steps. Adrián calmed down to see her, because in the midst of so many people, it was impossible to stay calmly and surely what he was doing. Adrián came from a world in which magic did not exist, and now, he had reincarnated in soul in a world where magic was real, and the survival pillar is the fight.On the other hand, Adrián also saw Ryan's two
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Adrián left the director of the director Roxanne with a lot of papers he signed and that he promised himself that he would read as soon as he came home. Home. It was a word that, at this time and after having been admitted to the hospital of his last life for a long time waiting for death to take him, he was not yet updated in his vocabulary. But Adrian infinitely appreciated that director Roxanne has behaved very good with him and that he has now decided to give him a home without even having known him. Upon leaving his office, Adrián met several of his new classmates, going out with his backs loaded on his back. The vast majority greeted him, some girls smiled to see him. Being the new sensation was incredible, because before, it was just a marginalized. Quickly, he met Ally.“Hello, Ally. Look, I already have everything I need for my first day of class, I am already a student of the Academy”, he said when he approached to greet the girl, who at that time had been distracted
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“What? You're kidding, right? What do you mean you're not magical? What do you mean you don't have powers? Who told you that vile lie?”, Ally caught her breath after coughing for a moment as she nearly choked. Adrian didn't seem surprised by her friend's reaction. He set the sandwich down on the half-finished tray, tossed the tray to the side of the bed and stood up, began to walk in circles for the short space he had to do so. Her gaze was lost on the floor.“Ally, did you know that the academy does an entrance test for students to define in which academic program they will be enrolled?”, he asked the girl with interest to know that what she experienced was not some kind of trap on the part of the director Roxanne, he wanted to know if that had been true. Ally nodded. “Yes, I knew that. I forgot to mention it, sorry. We've all been through that test, I nearly failed, I was sent to fight a horde of flying angry piranhas from another world. Yes, it may sound stupid, but with that t
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Headmistress Roxanne and Adrian leave the academy's management office, and as they walk towards what would be Adrian's new temporary home, the boy couldn't help but look towards the classrooms where he could see that, in some classes, the injuries of the day were great; in one of them, they were learning the art of dark herbology, they were taking out a frog's heart without using surgical elements, yes, that would look disgusting to anyone's eyes, even disgusting, maybe someone was already vomiting from not being able to stand it, but in the classroom, there was no one vomiting.All the boys were concentrating on how they would manage to rip out the frog's heart without it daring to bite their fingers. Not even the girls were showing any signs of wanting to run out of the room, they all wanted to earn the points the teacher would give them for meeting the challenge.In another classroom, they were learning the art of tarot card reading. It was a less interesting class than the previou
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Adrian looked around him with nerves on edge, gripping every part of his body. Onexus was a place that seemed designed to break anyone who dared to enter it. The undulating walls, the air charged with an energy that could almost be felt, and the constant sensation of being watched made him feel tiny and helpless.Suddenly, the ground trembled beneath his feet.In front of him, the walls began to open, giving way to a gigantic figure emerging from the gloom. It was a colossus of dark stone, with eyes that glowed like burning coals. His step echoed like thunder, and every movement shed fragments of his body, revealing flashes of light at specific points.“The Shadow Colossus!” said Roxanne's voice, echoing through the air. Watch, Adrian. Every enemy has a weak spot. Find it before it finds you, that will be the key to its defeat.The giant advanced, raising a huge arm that slammed into the ground, sending a shockwave that threw Adrian backwards. He struggled to his feet, his hands wer
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They strolled through all the halls of the academy, Adrian kept looking in awe at what made it up; students with extraordinary abilities, superb teachers and teaching classes that didn't look at all boring like the ones he once took in his other life for when his terminal illness hadn't been detected yet.Headmistress Roxanne analyzed every step, every glance and every movement of the boy who accompanied her, wondering to herself from which of all the worlds she knew was the one that might have been Adrian's former home.There were different existing magical worlds that were annexed to the earth, for when people died, God decided if he wanted to take their soul to heaven, or if they deserved a chance to reincarnate in one of the other worlds, it all depended on their aura, their mentality, and their personality and heart. These worlds were seven in total, and the director, Roxanne, knew them perfectly well to the letter because both she and her graduate students from the academy, stoo
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The students were entering the academy, all in orderly fashion, wearing the same uniform Ally had been wearing that morning, and the same one she had worn the day she and Adrian met. The group of the three boys who had confronted and stolen Ally's giant's head trophy were nowhere to be seen yet, Adrian remembered them, and thought that maybe the boys had already arrived at the academy and were at this moment showing off their prize to the teacher Ally had mentioned to him that she didn't want to be late for class that day.Ally looked nervous about approaching to pass attendance along with the woman stationed at the door, an antique notebook hovered in the air beside her, and a feather moved on top of it each time she called out a name of the student who was entering in line order.“You're nervous, aren't you?”, Adrian noticed.Although he didn't want to say it, he was. Ally was afraid to enter the academy, to attend class, because on that previous challenge depended on her future at
