Lloyd quickly hid himself among the students, and while the instructor might have caught anyone else trying to do what Lloyd just did, he not only had his hands full with Luna, but due to Lloyd's passive abilities, control over his aura, and a little bit of shadow manipulation, the instructor had no idea Lloyd had entered the room.
Hell, if his parents couldn't tell, who was he compared to them?2
Lloyd watched as their instructor jumped several meters back and looked at Lune passively.
"Attack me with all you've got." He said, his hands going behind his back.
"Sure..." Luna gave him a grin that sent a shiver down even his spine.
That wasn't the grin of a child. That was the grin of a psychopath.
'He wants us to display our prowess and control over our darkness affinities, or all the affinities that link to darkness. Since I have a shadow affinity, not darkness, my attacks won't be as strong as Luna's or anyone else with a darkness affinity, but it should do for now.' Lloyd thought.
Luna quickly through a ball of dark energies toward their instructor, and once they reached a certain distance from him, they exploded.
A massive cloud of dust was kicked up, yet the instructor cleared it instantly with a single step forward, allowing everyone to see that not a single scorch mark or scratch was left on him.
"Is that all you've got?" He narrowed his eyes in an expression that no one decypher. On the other hand, his words were so clearly filled with contempt and mockery, yet Luna didn't react.
She had full control over her emotions, after all.
Stomping on the ground, she instantly created several shadow clones that looked exactly like her in every way, but the only difference with them was their power.
Feeling their mana flow, Lloyd could instantly tell which one was the real one amongst the several shadow clones, and he knew the instructor could too.
The shadow clones all ran toward the instructor with their scythes in hand and began to attack him with everything they had. They worked in a perfect symphony of attacks, all working together with one mind, protecting and attacking with one another in a way that made them have almost no weak spots in their attacks.
Seeing that all of them were clones, the instructor turned into a blur for a moment, before returning to how he was before, but this time, his feet had sunk half an inch into the ground, and all the clones around him had been shredded into pieces.
However, while everyone else saw nothing but their instructor turn into a blur for a millisecond, Lloyd's eyes had widened as he had just seen the instructor reach for his weapon and slash all the clones around him into hundreds of pieces.
Of course, Lloyd only saw the grabbing of his knife clearly, but the rest was beyond a blur. It was as if the entire thing had happened in the same instant.
"Alright, that will be all. Next." He said emotionlessly, causing Luna to grit her teeth and leave the hall.
"Oh? Are we allowed to leave right after our turn?" Lloyd asked the person in front of him, who jolted at his touch due to not expecting anyone behind her.
"O-Oh... Yeah. We can just leave once we're done. Apparently, he just wants to see how good we are before out next class."
'Well, I guess that makes sense.' Lloyd thought before thanking the girl.
This went on for a bit longer. Lloyd had to admit, though, everyone else's control over their element was pathetic at best.
There weren't many there, to begin with, either. Only around 10 individuals in the class who even had an affinity linked to darkness, and they all seemed like they didn't know what they were doing, or like Luna, didn't have enough time to show the instructor their full capabilities.
Until there were only two people left.
"State your name, class, and commandment. " The instructor ordered.
"Naomi Xandaer, Necromancer in the peak of the first commandment, sir!" She shouted. She had bright green hair and a pair of obsidian emerald eyes.
"A necromancer? There is no need to show me your prowess, then. You'll be given a personal tutor." He explained, causing Naomi to widen her eyes before cheering to herself while walking out of the class.
'Well... Just me now.' Lloyd sighed.
"Lloyd El-"
"Lloyd Elrod, Shadow assassin hybrid, and the initial first commandment who finished 7th place in your star system during the foundation entrance ceremony, a survivor of an interplanetary dungeon despite several second commandments dying, and has shown the prowess of someone with one to three topaz seals.
Furthermore, he declined several invitations to join the foundation years from the best academies, the son of Noah and Olivia Elrod, and is now, also, late for my class."
'Stalker...' Lloyd thought.
However, a smile broke out on his face as he got into a fighting position.
"Come at me with everything you've got. Only use your shadow affinity though." his smirk widened.
"I don't really have a weapon right now..." Lloyd scratched the back of his neck.
"Then I wont use mine either." The instructor shrugged.
"Alright, you asked for it." Lloyd lowered his posture and got ready to attack.
[Shadow expansion]
Lloyd's shadow expanded out for 20 meters.
[Shadow wings]
Using the shadows on the floor, Lloyd quickly created a pair of wings and expanded them out, causing a gust of wind to shoot past his instructor.
[Shadow arrows]
Several arrows shot out of Lloyd's wings before locking onto the instructor and shooting toward him at maximum speed.
[Shadow Claws]
[Shadow enhancement]
With a flap of his wings, Lloyd was already in front of his instructor, yet despite having lowered his power to someone on their third topaz seal, the instructor had a very easy time dodging the attacks despite their speed.
This battle went on for another half an hour, yet by the end of it, it was Lloyd on the floor with his instructor's foot on his chest.
"You're pretty strong. Honestly, I think your talent could take you to the B group if your tried to make a case for yourself... I but I suggest you don't."
"Why is that?" Lloyd grunted.
"You're not very good at using your weapons. While the classes in the B group might have more resources than the classes in the C group, I truly think you're going to learn more in your class than anywhere else. Plus, C-group people like you are pretty much invisible to anyone in the B group or higher. And from what I've seen, you don't want to expose your strength." He shrugged.
"Thank you for the advice instructor black hair." Lloyd thanked.
"..."
"What?"
"It's instructor Black..."
"Oh. I didn't know what to call you so I just went for your most defining feature."
*sigh*
Lloyd quickly went to his fire affinities class, his next class, and then to his lightning affinities class right after, yet they weren't as interesting as his darkness affinities class. Nothing notable happened in them.
Everyone introduced one another, and by the end of it all, the instructor had practically explained how everything would go for the next term.
The last class was tactical taekwondo, but Lloyd was far too bored to pay any attention to it...
Or at least that was before he was who the instructors were going to be.
Yes... Instructors.
"Oh, crap." Lloyd cried out when he saw instructor Kim. However, a smile appeared on he turned around when he saw instructor Yung standing right behind him despite previously being standing right next to instructor Kim a moment ago.
"Where you do you think you are going, young Lloyd." He asked.
"Why are there two of you teaching this class?" Lloyd avoided his question.
"Over a two hundred students decided to take this class. We will be splitting you into two groups and going on from there." He smiled before grabbing Lloyd by the back of his collar and dragging him to the crowd before disappearing.
Once instructor yung returned to the front, he finally spoke.
"Me and Kim here will be taking charge of your classes. You will be split into two groups, half of you with me, and half of you with here. However, we will be swapping between us every week so you can try out both teaching methods."
The rest was like a boot camp. Lloyd was unlucky enough to end up in instructor Kim's class for the week, and despite being much better than everyone else in the class, he suffered just as much as everyone else.
After tactical taekwondo, he went to the library and stayed there until midnight, where he tried and failed to cultivate his body with the shadow, fire, and lightning elements, and failed to cultivate his core.
The days passed by quite quickly. The classes were hitting his psyche a little hard since they were 8 hours of nothing but learning and training, but after a while, he had gotten the hang of it.
And then the weekend came, and after a week's worth of frustrations, a dangerous and possibly life-threatening idea came to mind.
'Since I'm a void walker... and my body has evolved to that of a void walker after i broke through to the first commandment, what if the reason for my stagnant growth isn't because I suck, but instead a product of my void walker body rejecting normal mana?' Lloyd thought.
'To cultivate my body, I theorize that simply activating the void rune in my core to turn my mana into void-tainted mana might be enough to do the trick, but at the same time, if I want to cultivate my body faster or even cultivate my core, I have to do what I've been doing since day one, and that was to kill monsters and absorb their energies...' Lloyd thought.
While he had no idea how he was supposed to do such a thing while he was stuck in the military academy, he knew that it would most likely be the only way for him to cultivate again...
For now, though...
'Let's see how well my body can hide the fact that I'm cultivating with void mana...'
