The drink fell down his head without any resistance, soaking his head. Not just stopping on his hair, it continued to drip down onto his clothes, also making them wet in the process.
However, Cylius's expression was the same as before, blank. This humiliation, he didn't care. Why should he?
To preserve his status and show others that he isn't to be trifled with?
He simply didn't care about this bullying thing at all. Rather, he even considered this as a seed where he could enjoy later. Later when he beats and cripples them before their own eyes.
The eyes that witnessed in disdain.
Thinking about this, Cylius's eyes shone with a bizarre red light as a rune showed up, resembling envy and wrath.
The two runes oddly combined with each other, wrath's upper piece on the up and sloth's lower piece down. The points twistingly connected with each other, making a strange rune.
The project for combining runes was progressing and now, he could already combine two of the runes into one.
However, there was a side effect which they would occasionally surface and take control of the body, making irrational decisions without the main personality's consent.
If the main didn't interfere and take control now, it was largely possible that some kind of accident would happen now that might result in the death of them. And the only way to interfere was to change the original decision he had made and resist the bullying that is taking place right now.
Otherwise, it might result in an emotional outbreak which was very disadvantageous.
.....
From some people's perspective, Cylius's eyes shined with a bizarre light in the split of a second which many people didn't notice.
Just as the drink had soaked his body, it started to float back up as the soaked cloth along with the hair turned dry.
As if reversing time, the drink went back to his cup as it slowly moved back to the leader's hands. The leader who was unable to move could only watch in horror as he couldn't control his body.
The whole group was unable to move as they could only shake as they watched the person they were going to pick on, move past them.
"If you choose me next time, I'll kill you" stating this right in the ears of the leader, Cylius went past them.
As the group watched Cylius leave, they could only look at his cold yet blank eyes that seemed to stare into one's soul from the abyss.
It seemed that almost all the foods were 1 credit each and only some special looking foods seemed to have the cost of 2 or 3 credits.
The thirty credits given to them for each month were just enough for them to eat every day.
However, it was insufficient for other things such as buying study materials or exchanging information.
.....
It had already been a month since that incident. The classes continued as usual and nothing was out of the ordinary.
Since others couldn't see the thing that happened that day because of the barrier Cylius put, he didn't attract much attention. The group didn't come to pick up on him either.
He can't stay high profile for now. Although he might be able to be considered among the top within the first stage students and even considered strong among the second stage students, for the third stage seniors, he was only average.
In the third stage, people would've already completed their cores and had at least reached half comprehension of a rune. Not only that, some may even have artifacts that could boost their fighting prowess greatly.
Even with his full strength, Cylius would barely be able to be considered average among them. If he was ganged up on or met a stronger one among the third stage students, he would have to flee immediately.
Leaving his room, he saw the person next door also leaving like him. After seeing him, both greeted each other as they went in the same direction.
The person had a white suit along with sickly pale skin that didn't seem to have sent the sun for a long time. Occasional fluctuations of energy could be seen radiating off from him, indicating that he wasn't much far from advancing to the second-tier.
This person was his neighbor so they got to know each other.
His name was Yurin and he was also a new student like him.
Just as Cylius got to the class, he was surprised by the sudden announcement made by the teacher. It seemed like they were having a test right now.
The goal was to hunt monsters within a place they will be transported into. The time span was a week and it said that all new students will be joining meaning that he would see Fanton, Garen and other elite geniuses.
After their teacher had notified them about the test, they headed out and arrived at the square outside the school. There, they could see a crowd standing, waiting for the others to arrive.
Not long after they had joined, the ground shifted as a huge hole was made. Its walls were steel that occasionally had a white light flash from time to time giving one the feeling of a futuristic world. After the huge hold was opened up, an airplane slowly came out from there. It didn't take long, after ten minutes, the airplane had fully appeared.
From the doors, the airstair descended as a teacher entered first before saying the students to come in.
Since the airstair was wide, there was no problem with a lot of people going in at the same time. The inside of the airplane was equally spacious as people were assigned rooms in a group of five.
Since the grouping was random, the people here didn't know each other which made the journey peaceful with no one talking to each other.
.....
"Attention students. The plan will be landing in an hour so please be prepared."
With the sound of this, all of the students had their attention taken. Cylius was no exception.
"Attention students. The plan will be landing in an hour so please be prepared."
"Attention students. The plan will be landing in an hour so please be prepared."
"Attention students. The plan will be landing in an hour so please be prepared."
The announcement continued three more times before coming to an end.
Probing with his spiritual perception, Cylius could see that far below them, a sea that stretched as far as the eye could see was there. It was constantly radiating a dangerous aura along with a dense amount of elements.
Judging from the direction they were going and the subtle changes of the plane, he was able to deduce that they were going towards an island to the east.
Within a place like this, monsters with terrifying strength were sure to appear.
An hour quickly passed as the group landed on the ground safely.
The instructions were clear. Within the time span of a week, each of them had to have hunted three peak limit-break stage monsters. Other than that, there was no rule indicating that they mustn't harm other students.
They could choose to get divided into groups or go solo, it was their choice.
After the requirement is completed, it said that they could also exchange the genes and carcasses of these monsters for credits.Peak first-tier monsters would sell for 10 credits each and second-tiers varied from 50-200 credits.
Right now, Cylius was contemplating whether he should team up with others or go solo. Thinking now, since he can't fully reveal his powers to others, teaming up was impossible.
He also wouldn't really like to lose credits because of it so in the end, he chose to go solo.
Just entering the island, he encountered the gigantic trees that radiated immense lifeforce.
Ever since spiritual energy had come in, the various plants and vegetations size and effects had increased tremendously and it wasn't much surprising to see a tree that is over a kilometer tall.
However, it wasn't just the plants that had improved. The animals and even humans were also affected by it, gaining immense strength in the process.
It was only due to the contribution of a few very special people who had awakened extraordinary powers that humanity was able to design a way to absorb cores.
Cylius's plan now was going to the edge of the island before hunting monsters. Although he was sure that there were terrifying monsters within this jungle, hunting monsters within the beach area would be more effective.
So, he left the student group decisively, heading towards the outer area.
Taking out the knife he had bought before, he continuously slashed at the plants blocking his path. With the material it was made from - Kryo meteor, its sharpness and hardness weren't to be judged.
Although there were occasional monsters that blocked his path, they were all weak which made them end up within Cylius's stomach.
Only after four hours did he encounter a powerful enough beast.
It was a second-tier creature that had a comprehension of 13%. From the data he took, the monster was in a crucial stage. It was sleeping as the aura it fluctuated told that it was on the verge of growing into a mature existence.
Cylius would of course not let the chance go so he immediately teleported above the creature before opening up a space hole that devoured it whole.
At the last moment, the monster opened its eyes, showing bewilderment. Poor soul. It hadn't even managed to comprehend the things that happened before it died and now it was going to receive intense torture within the spatial hole as well.