2 days later, Morales woke up early in the morning again as he got set to go for his daily training. After these few days together, he already integrated completely with his other roommates.
And they already grasped each other’s personalities completely. Fortunately, they were all compatible. With the cheerful Chloe around, they could not fall out with each other even if they wanted.
Just the next day after their tour around the dojo, Chloe noticed that he and Rose were keeping a certain distance from each other.
She was puzzled at first but she quickly deduced that it was probably an old grudge. When she probed and they didn’t react as she liked, she pestered them for the whole day till they revealed everything to her.
Morales was like. “She bullies boys that are weaker than her only to cower before those stronger than her. I hate people with such personalities, they are evil seeds”.
While Rose was like. “I’ve tried to make up to him but he keeps refusing, he treats me like I’m an evil witch”.
“It’s not like he’s righteous either. He knew clearly that he was strong, but instead of directly taking the role as the leader, he instead kept a low profile to let us make fun of ourselves. He’s a hypocrite”.
At the end of their argument, Chloe just looked at them with an amused expression on her face. “You guys are really still kids”.
“You’re 18 too”. Morales was quick to retort.
He felt a little sour by that statement. What did she mean? He was a 26-year-old veteran soldier in his previous life.
“It doesn’t matter”. Chloe calmly replied.
“As you are now my roommates, it’s my obligation to make sure that you both must reconcile. Now, apologize to each other”. Her tone deepened.
“What the hell?” Rose was the one angered this time.
Chloe used her strength on them for the first time, reinforcing the notion in their thick heads that she was the strongest in the room and therefore the leader.
In the end, they could only sulk up and apologize.
Morales still felt it ridiculous. He knew that she wouldn’t have used her powers on them, but he still apologized.
“What came over me?” He asked again for the umpteenth time.
“Oh, you’re awake”. Chloe’s voice suddenly sounded out, disrupting his thoughts. “You’ve been the most punctual among all of us since you came”.
“Yeah, I told you that I’ll surpass you in a week, so how can I laze about?” Morales replied while subtly hiding his burning face.
“Ha, you’re still holding on to that impossible goal. Well, I like your spirit”. By this time, she was already up as she quickly slid her slippers on and started going to the bathroom.
“You’re going to the library or the simulation hall this time?” She asked.
“The virtual simulation hall”. Morales replied, already guessing what she wanted to say.
“Ok, wait for me so we can go together”. She quickly entered to have her bath.
Morales sighed in resignation, dragged his chair closer, and plopped down on it. He watched his other 2 sleeping roommates to spend his time away.
Like usual, Dave was snoring in his sleep, making an unpleasant sound like that of a noisy blender. The deep sleeper, Rose had her eyes shut tightly like none of the noise could disturb her.
Yesterday, the official report of their admission battle finally came out.
To his roommates’ surprise, he came out as the best performer of the admission tournament which granted him an additional 20 dojo points.
This performance immediately brought him to the limelight. Though not many students paid attention to the newbies, his name was now slightly well-known due to the achievement.
For the past 2 days, his only destination every morning was either the virtual simulation hall or the library.
Through these 2 places, he already elevated his power to a whole new level. He already learned dozens of Pugilist basic knowledge without anyone knowing.
Due to his frequent visit to the library, he decided to pay 10 dojo points to get some Pugilist books and basic knowledge so as not to arouse suspicion from the librarians.
Now he had a basic proficiency on how to use the abilities that his race awakening granted to him.
With his vastly superior knowledge and attributes now, he was confident in making waves when he would eventually go through the dojo dungeon, and he decided that it was today.
He would first go to the virtual simulation hall to test his abilities again before he would go to the dungeon.
After Rose entered the dojo dungeon the other day, she spent a full 8 hours there which was normal according to Chloe. In the end, she came back bloodied all over after only getting to the 3rd level.
After staying with each other for 2 days, they already had more in-depth knowledge about themselves.
Surprisingly, Chloe had a special bloodline just like Morales. She was a hybrid of the well-known Water-Fairy race, which explained why her Pugilist energy had a blue color like water.
As Morales sat casually on the chair watching the ceiling, the door to the bathroom suddenly yanked open as a gorgeous fair figure wrapped in a white towel emerged.
Turning his eyes to look, he momentarily grew dazed for a moment.
“Hey, are you ready? I’ll be set in a moment”. Chloe quickly asked as she started dressing up.
“Umm, yeah, I’m ready”. Morales inclined his head to the side as he went poker-face mode immediately.
He didn’t know if she was doing this deliberately or not, but he already saw such a scene a few times since he started staying in this room.
This prompted him to bring his guard up a bit. Because they were roommates didn’t mean that he trusted them all completely, they had to undergo his test of time first.
After quickly slipping on a pair of blue tight jean trousers and a black combat vest, she hopped cheerfully to his side. “I’m set”.
“Ok, let’s go”. They both left their still sleeping roommates and left.
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Getting outside, the dojo was already awake as students walked randomly around, doing various things. Some already climbed the battle arena to start friendly spars.
Walking with a beauty would always draw trouble even though that beauty was his roommate. Morales didn’t care though; he ignored the hostile stares coming his way and navigated to the simulation hall.
Getting to the door of the hall, Morales retrieved his dojo card and pointed it at the door.
[Ding! Student Zero has been identified, you can proceed to training.]
[Usage cost per hour: 1 dojo point.]
As soon as Chloe did the same thing, they both entered the hall. It seemed that they were the first to come here as nobody was on sight before them.
They quickly located seats close to each other, sat down, placed the virtual simulation helmet over their heads as they were quickly sucked into the virtual arena.
As they didn’t go for a team network, both roommates appeared in different simulated environments. Chloe quickly got into the mood and forgot her surrounding, Morales took longer but he also quickly immersed himself.
Opening his eyes again, he found himself in the forbidden forest.
Chirping sounds from birds filled the background as the wavy sight of the forest leaves swaying to the wind quickly drew him into this world; the simulation was extremely life-like.
He raised his hands to the sky to savor the feeling of this simulated world, it was a feeling that he never got tired of.
With his hands still in the air, he calmed his mind as he quickly concentrated. His hands suddenly stiffened a bit like he was grabbing the sky.
Hum!
A soft dull sound suddenly reverberated as the air space above him trembled a bit. His eyes abruptly opened as his right hand swiped at the side while his left hand chopped down vertically.
Boom!!
A fierce shockwave erupted from his position as the air was visibly pushed aside, inducing loud air pressure sounds. The next moment, the trees that stood at his right were uprooted.
They levitated in the air a bit as another pressure-filled force chopped down vertically, dividing all of them into 2.
This was Morales’s race specialty, Space manipulation. He could control the air pressure to his will, manipulating them in ways that he wanted. Though it took energy from him, this was raw power.
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Space Manipulation has been utilized.
Current Progress rate: 3.4%
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Despite the power that was just displayed, his proficiency of the ability was still below 5%, which showed just how much potential it had.
As soon as the trees were chopped into fragments, he did not stop, he quickly changed his stance while bringing his hands down a bit.
The trees around that were still intact suddenly bent down as an enormous force pushed them down, the gravity surprisingly felt about 2 times heavier.
He played with the trees a bit as a warm-up, manipulating the air to either chop them to pieces or joggle them around.
After 5 minutes of doing this, he finally gave a mental command.
Roar!!
Dozens of animals started rushing from the forest, coming in his direction immediately. Despite this intimidating sight, he kept a cool face, calmly calculating the distance between them.
Through his passive ability- Eye of the Neonate, he felt like he had another invisible eye that could see everything. The tiniest movements of the beasts were clear to him.
When they were only a few meters from him, he finally acted. His arms separated, widening to the sides before forcefully slamming back together, the air reacted to his move immediately.
It felt like the atmosphere was being twisted.
Boom!!
All the beasts closer to him at the front burst into blood as the air visibly squeezed all of a sudden, rolling fiercely like a grinding machine crushing beans to powder.
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Space bomb- contraction has been activated.
Current progress rate: 6%
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As the beasts roared helplessly under this grinding machine, Morales changed his stance again. His hands separated again, he inclined his fingers like claws and pulled at the air.
It felt like space was just sliced through and ripped apart.
The air that was originally rolling together suddenly stopped, before rapidly expanding outwards to form a wave of fierce air pressure heralding death.
Before the beasts could react, they felt something tearing through their bodies tyrannically. Blood, dust, pieces of severed trees became the background decoration.
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Space bomb- detonation has been activated.
Current progress rate: 10.2%
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All the animals died immediately but Morales also fell down in exhaustion.
His energy was depleted completely but he didn’t mind this shortcoming at all, his eyes gleamed sharply.
Despite its fierce energy consumption, the abilities granted to him by his race were all tyrannical beyond measure.
“It’s time to raid the dungeon”. He muttered, grinning.
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Morales’s final preparation was complete, so he had no need of staying in the simulated forest any longer. He gave a mental order which the hall’s A. I acknowledged as the world before him quickly disappeared. It took him a few seconds before his sight finally recovered completely but darkness was what stared back at him. He blinked a few times in the darkness before he understood. After removing the simulation helmet from his head, his sight finally returned before the familiar hall again. Despite the intense movements he performed just a moment ago, he didn’t feel anything, rather he felt light and relaxed as the special couch gently massaged his back. The only defect was that he felt mentally drained. He could only rest back on the couch and wait it out till his energy recovered. He slightly inclined his head to the side, where Chloe’s beautiful face presented itself before him. Her eyelids twitched a bit, indicating that she was do
“He’s crossed into the 4th level already! Which monster exactly is scaling the dojo dungeon?” A student dressed in red tight-fitting combat clothes exclaimed exaggeratedly. “And I heard that he’s among the newbies that were admitted just a few days ago. What a monster!”. Another one quickly chimed in excitedly. When a student is scaling the dungeon levels, there is an indicator outside that shows the number of levels that he/she has crossed and the current level he/she was in. This was Morales’s 4th hour inside the dungeon, and he was now in the 4th level. He spent only about an hour for the first 2 levels, but he spent about 3 hours just to clear the 3rd level. Despite this, his speed was still record-breaking and already attracted the attention of the whole dojo. Hundreds of students stood outside the entrance of the dojo, attentively watching the orange light that represented the 4th level. This crowd started from a student that als
Outside the dojo dungeon, silence reigned like the lord supreme as the atmosphere became tranquil like that of a graveyard. The sound of a pin dropping could even be heard in such an atmosphere. “What am I seeing?” The hundreds of students standing and waiting outside rubbed their eyes in disbelief, the notification currently flashing on top of the dungeon entrance’s wall was too eye-catching to be ignored. “F*ck, the kid broke the newbie record”. One of the more mature students finally broke the silence with a curse. This seemed to be the fuse switch as the other students immediately started discussing excitedly. “I can’t believe that he did it. I really want to see this genius kid; does he have a face like us?” One of the students asked excitedly. “No, he has your anus as his face”. Another one retorted immediately but the other did not care, he still reveled in the joy brought by this historic moment in the history of the Border tow
Being the closest to Morales, the 4 beast leaders were also the first that felt the change in his aura. They immediately adopted wary attitudes, but this could not still suppress their bestial instincts. The mutated Black panther, being the fastest rushed out in the front at Morales who gladly welcomed it with opened hands. Ptui!! Breeze swiftly blew past first, then the heavy sword cut down tyrannically the next moment. An unpleasant glaring sound of metal cutting through flesh reverberated, followed by a painful whimper, which formed a stark contrast to the originally chaotic noise from the battle. The Black panther dodged after detecting the danger, but Morales’s sword still cut a deep injury across its back. The flesh underneath that was exposed heaved up and down as the mutated beast cried out in pain. It was bloody. ------------------------------------------------- Critical hit -340 You have inflicted your
Morales’s vision spun a bit, rendering his perception temporarily distorted and disoriented. When he finally opened his eyes, he was not outside the dojo dungeon’s entrance like he expected. He was surprisingly in a room. The room had a sci-fi look to it, its grey metallic walls that were gleaming under the light illumination stole his breath away. “Where is this? Why was I transported here?” He frowned. As he did a 360-degree turn to check out the room and to confirm that he was not in any danger, he saw something horrifying. A pair of eyeballs hovered at a corner of the room, focused and looking at him so intently like they wanted to peer through him. The sight was eerie-looking and could induce goosebumps in anyone. Seeing this, Morales shuddered immediately. “Oh, great eyeball, forgive my travesty for I have sinned. It was not my intention to barge into your humble abode”. He improvised on the spot, spilling a bunch of nonsense imm
“How did you do it?” Chloe asked curiously as soon as they got back to their room to meet their genius teammate. “Zero, you’re so awesome. I’m completely blown away, now I can brag of having a genius as my roommate”. Dave didn’t care about Chloe’s question; he expressed his excitement without restraints. “Congratulations”. Rose simply said. She hid her complicated emotions to herself and located her chair to sit down. “Zero, tell me, I’m really curious. How did you do it?” Chloe did not relent despite the interruption from her other roommates. Morales shrugged. “I did it the exact way that it’s done by others. I hacked left and right with my sword, that’s all. Oh…, and I also used my race abilities to kill most of them”. “Dammit, you didn’t use any special strateg
When the sun started peeping through the veil of the night, Morales finally stopped his cultivation. After a whole night of cultivation, he discovered a few more surprises. Though he did not level up, he detected a visible increase in proficiency of his main and sub-class skills like basic body control and basic energy control. As he slowly pulled himself out of the fuzzy feeling brought by cultivating, he heard a knock on the door. He didn’t even have to think, he knew that his wayward roommates were back. “You guys finally decided to come back”. He said flatly after opening the door. “Hey, how did it feel staying alone without us? Did you miss us? Oh, I almost forgot, thank you for the dojo points. The night was a blast, we really enjoyed ourselves”. Chloe quickly pushed Morales aside and entered after he opened the door, with her mouth already shooting off words at the pace of a machine gun. “Good morning”. Rose and Dave finally gre
“Hey, remember our duel tomorrow. I hope you don’t cower in fear when the time comes”. Chloe said with a yawn as she stretched, exposing her perky cleavages before climbing her bed to retire for the night. Morales was careful not to show any obvious reactions to the sight. “Don’t worry, I won’t forfeit the duel”. “When the time comes…, it’ll be hard to know who’ll decide to forfeit”. He grinned. “Goodnight”. Chloe waved at the others before closing her eyes to sleep. Dave and Rose practically spent the whole day couped inside the room. Due to the loose manner in which the
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“Who is this?” Morales was confused at first on seeing his ringing communication device, but as soon as he picked up the call, his confusion cleared and was quickly replaced by surprise and speculations. “Morales, right?” On hearing the dignified voice that reverberated from the other side of the virtual projection screen, Morales snapped out of his daze. “Esteemed Pirate Admiral!” Morales quickly expressed his respect by standing up. Being contacted so suddenly by the well-known Frenzy Psychic, Morales experienced a rapid rush of emotions. It did not take him long before he connected this call to the achievements of his fleet in the just-concluded campaign. Though he really wanted to know the reason why this Pirate Admiral called, he did not dare keep him waiting. He put on the most polite smile that he could before asking the universal question. “To what honor am I receiving this unexpected call?” On hearing t