Born OP

Part Two

Chapter 25: Anthony Vs Bryan

Bryan moved immediately the signal was given, slashing at Anthony's neck.

Anthony parried the attack with one hand and the other behind his back, Bryan moved again cleaving at his chest, Anthony once again parried like it was child's play, but this time he counter attacked and thrust at Bryan's heart.

Bryan turned by sidestepping using the momentum to cut vertically at Anthony's hand, which he blocked.

Anthony smiled at Bryan and they both immediately increased their speed and strength

*Clank***Clank***Clank***Boom***Boom***

The katana and sabre collided leaving explosion as they moved with pure physical strength, countering each other with new moves

Ravines were created as they moved, dust rose as they clashed, the entire arena was destroyed but it didn't stop them

Air seemed to be split apart with each attack, the already destroyed arena seemed to disintegrate under their sheer force.

They only left streaks of light as they moved at speeds that broke the sound barrier, they were too fast to even leave after images.

Anthony appeared behind Bryan and slashed hundred times in a second with speed that many students won't even match even if they enhance their body with mana, Bryan refusing to give up increased his speed and parried all attacks and countered by slashing at his waist.

Anthony simply jumped and landed on the tip of Bryan's sabre like he was weightless.

Bryan looked at him with a frown wondering how he did that without any movement technique but he didn't delay his actions

He withdrew his sabre to bring down Anthony, but before he could, Anthony already back flipped and landed a distance away.

He looked at Bryan who was sweating but had a steady breath and said

"I've matched you for five minutes now, if this is your best then you better end it here, I would be taking it up a notch from here, you might lose a limb or two"

"Don't look down on me human" Bryan replied while taking caution to what Anthony said

"Since I arrived at this Academy I have been called Human countless times like it is my name, although I'm proud to be human but that's not my name, but i guess at the end of the day, only power will imprint my name in your mind and soul"

Anthony blurred and appeared Infront of Bryan and swung his sword with pure force

Bryan reacted late but he still blocked but he was sent flying like a cannonball, tumbling on the ground, then he turned around and balanced himself skidding on the ground as he regained balance, he looked at Anthony

But the Anthony he saw was only an after image

The real Anthony already swung his katana a hundred times at Bryan creating hundred cuts on Bryan's body but his dragon body helped reduced damage but that didn't reduce the pain he felt.

Bryan immediately tried to counter by thrusting at Anthony's left eye, but Anthony ducked and slammed the sword hilt on Bryan's gut as he coughed blood and he was sent flying breaking wind barrier as he was sent flying backwards

The crowd watching could barely even follow their movements, only a selected few could barely see their movements with such speed

"Is this guy still human"

"Was he brought from a lab as a trump card"

"When did such a monster appear in the human race"

"Isn't the human race too fierce this time"

"Yeah they even have up to six people in the top twenty this time around"

Bryan stood up, he was dizzy, he has lost a lot of blood, his bones fractured with ribs broken from the intensity of Anthony's successive attacks but he refused to give up

Anthony just stood there looking and Bryan

'The Dragon's vitality is truly absurd, a human would be out cold by now if not dead' he thought as he shook his head

Then he took a step and appeared beside Bryan and cut off his right hand, then kicked him again on the chest with greater force this time and Bryan lost consciousness while he bled heavily.

Klaus who was viewing all of this from above only shook his head then he appeared in front of Bryan and told one of the students to take him to the healers clinic

He turned to Anthony and said

"What's your name student"

"Null Anthony" Anthony replied while looking at Klaus as he wondered how far Klaus has really gone while mastering all weapons.

"Ohhh.... So you are that monster's son" he replied while touching his chin

"Well, you don't need my class anymore, from the display I could tell you were holding back, your foundation is already solid, even I wasn't as good with any weapon when I was your age, even your father wasn't this good" he said with a deadly smile

"As the first to graduate, with such ridiculous display I would award you points, the Dean gave me three hundred thousand points to share as I see fit within the span of two years, how about I give you two hundred thousand"

The rest were shocked as he said he was giving over two hundred thousand points, this was giving everything to Anthony, this was impossible, they would only be left with scraps, but they couldn't complain as they are not brainless idiots.

Klaus knew why he gave away such points, for him who was a genius in his own class with mastery over all weapon, where even people who call themselves masters of a particular weapon dare not call themselves masters in his presence, people hardly impress him.

Which is the reason the Dean only gave him only three hundred thousand points because the Dean knew that Klaus won't even give anyone points at all or would give the bare minimum that anyone could get from a mission, but if Klaus sees someone that impressed him, he would give away all points immediately.

If not for these facts, the Dean would have given more points to Klaus to give as a reward in class.

Which is why the Dean gave such small points to a class holding such number of students for a duration of two years.

"Thank you instructor Klaus" Anthony replied

Klaus nodded and said "Off you go".

Anthony left as everyone stared at him as he left the place without hesitation.

Tiara looked at him with a stern face, she clenched her fish until her nails punctured her palm and she bled which healed back immediately due to traits of a vampire

(All vampires have great physical strength and regeneration, the higher the purity of their bloodline and higher their mana rank the faster their regeneration and higher their strength, that is why people aim for their head or heart, as any other injury would simply regenerate with enough time depending on the severity of the injury and the regeneration doesn't cost mana it's part of their innate trait)

She was in turmoil cause she knew that if she faced Anthony, she would lose, she thought she already saw the gap she needs to close during the third round of the exam but it seems he was holding back and the instructor also said he was holding back even till now.

Even though she has a good foundation in her sword training, she could also tell Bryan has just as good of a foundation as her but the Physique of a dragon was no joke as the physical differences could make her lose

Though her physical strength could match some dragon but not people like Bryan who were at the higher rank in the dragon clan

But she didn't believe she would lose against Bryan in an all out battle

'I have a lot of weakness right now, I have to increase my training again, I hope i can cover all these during the training with master' Tiara thought as she steeled her resolve to never be left behind again

This spar has truly shown her a lot, right now the only thing needed was to get to work as soon as possible.

Chapter 26: Overthinking

The rest of the one week resting time quickly flew by as all Anthony did was go for classes, sleep or waste his time on phones and laptops and playing games, he wanted to invents apps here that were popular back on earth but after some thought he forgot about it, though social media could be used to control the information masses received and can be used to manipulate the masses and make money but he saw no need for that since he was already too rich, his family was rich and they could also control information, he would simply be wasting his time and creating more work for himself for such thankless task

Within the days people started flocking Tiara and were bootlicking since they found out the Vice president took her as a disciple so everyone wanted to make friends and form connections but she simply ignored everyone as usual

She had no time for any of it as she spent time on only classes, library and training, and cultivation, she simply had no time to make fake friends or interact too much or a certain white haired human would increase the gap

As for Bryan he became quiet as usual after his loss, but his brother Keron kept glaring at Anthony whenever he saw him as if he wanted to put a lead through his skull but Anthony simply ignored him

Until now children from other five families hasn't struck up any kind of conversation with Anthony which surprised him, but he guessed their pride must run too deep, even after consecutive display of his strength they still refused to think of themselves lower.

Of course Anthony didn't see a wrong at any of this, it's not like he wants someone to gravel at his feet because he is rank 1, he always reminded himself of his past life in other not to get arrogant because of a small power which the being can just decide to take away at any moment if it so decides and Anthony would just revert back to zero

As Anthony had the thought of the being taking away his power he became restless

Though he convinced himself that the being won't do that to him or stoop that low, Anthony didn't want to make any bets on that, he remembered the being played with him for a little while and compensated him, but what if this time the being took away his power or seals it away and he becomes trash, then the being comes back years later and compensates him.

This wasn't any different than other novels he read in his first life where they would suffer for almost twenty years then ascend the heavens in one step, or they were already ascending the heavens, then they become crippled for some years, then they come back cured and reascend again, he was already ascending, there was no need to reascend again.

Anthony didn't want to go through any of this at all no matter the compensation he would be given, he can't endure the humiliation he would receive after sitting at the first rank, the disgrace to his father, grandparents, especially his mother whom he loved too well, and was ready to burn down the world for her.

This gave Anthony sleepless nights, even sometimes when he manages to sleep, he woke up due to nightmare of becoming a cripple and falling from grace.

His dream alternated between the Demon king and Dragon king swooping down to capture him for his handsome face and the other five families smiling at his demise of being a cripple, he also saw Bryan coming for revenge and him being expelled from the Academy due to his crippleness.

(He is overthinking things again please don't mind him, leave him to his delusion)

This past few days were hectic for him due to his wild imagination, Anthony regretted resting, if he didn't rest he won't have time to think of all of these nonsense, he would be toiling through his bloodline and physique knowledge or cultivating.

He banned things like vacation or rest from his life due to this

(He is just overreacting, he won't ban anything in his life, leave him to overthinking)

If not for having a thought compartment passively sign-in he might forget.

But after some days he returned to normal from his overthinking behaviour and slept like a baby through out the day and woke up with a smile on his face

******In a hidden location******

A man was sitting in darkness that reeked pure Chaos, any living being that entered here would immediately be corrupted due to the environment, another man wearing a mask on his face appeared out of the shadows and kneeled in front of the man.

"Have you arranged a list of the prodigies" the man sitting asked

"Yes leader, I have made a list, I would send out assassins after them" the man with a mask replied, while passing a file to the leader

The man without a mask read it but didn't reply, he tapped his finger on his arm rest of the chair he sat on while deep in thought

"Send Peak Master ranks after the rest immediately they step out of the Academy, send five Peak Grandmaster rank on the boy from the Null family, the talent of this generation is too great, mistakes can't be made at all"

The man on a mask was shocked by his words, it has be known that these students were barely at the A rank at most, and when they step out of the academy they are without security, so even SS rank members would be able to complete the mission.

But to send Peak master rankers and Grandmaster rank after students who were just barely first week in the academy, this was no different than using an elephant to stomp a cockroach, but the man didn't dare voice his thoughts, he simply followed orders that were given to him to the T like he always does

"Yes leader, it would be done immediately they step out of the Academy" he replied and left how he came

Anthony was sitting in his balcony drinking a juice, he didn't know what was going on since the information wasn't gathered, the information the cult had on him was through the ones their spies sent from what they saw during the exam.

If the cult did extra diging, he would have known through the skill 'The Perfect one', but they didn't and just acted on the information as their source never failed.

So he remained clueless, but if he did know, it won't really change anything but just make him excited that a bounty was finally placed on his head.

After sitting for some time he stood up and went back to his room and sat down and sighed as his resting period was over already and it was time to get back to work.

He created a clone and gave his clone a mission to complete, then he vanished from his place as he thought 'Its time to get back on my grind'

Chapter 27: Cheating

Anthony appeared in his divine realm again, he inhaled as he felt the mana that vibrated like they were too happy to see him.

He simply teleported into the house he bought from the system and started getting ready for his seclusion.

In real world time, he would be gone for six months, if he sets the time at 1:5 as usual then he would be here for thirty months, Which was two and half years

That wasn't even enough to digest all knowledge, so he decided to increase the time range since he doesn't have much time

Then he increased it by twenty times, thereby having one hundred and twenty months of time, which is equivalent to ten years

Anthony guesses he might be able to digest all information within this time range but he wasn't sure, but first of all he would have to increase his cultivation rank and enter the Master rank, then pour his energy into the knowledge he recieved.

Then he came out of this house and walked to another side of the realm, and sat between the trees that were lush and breezy.

He sat down in a lotus position, inhaled deeply, then started cultivation as he didn't have much time to waste here.

After cultivating for six months, he opended his eyes and smiled, enjoying the absurdness of his physique and bloodline, he got to the peak of SSS rank and was ready to step into the Master rank, he opened his system and scrolled for resources to buy to help him directly breakthrough instead of wasting months trying to enter the Master rank.

He has a physique that gave him perfect foundation as long as he cultivated properly, why should he not take advantage of it and pump himself with resources.

After scrolling for a while he bought a pill from the system shop

[Name: Master Rank Mana Pill]

[Description:

Can only be taken by those one step below the Master and and those in the Master Rank.

Can help break through Master rank minor realms.

Purity: 100%]

Anthony looked at the brown pill in his hands and nodded, this pill was available in his world and could be bought with money or mana crystals but it wasn't as pure as his.

The young masters just have to buy this pill, one of high purity and they would be able to breakthrough as long as they are at at SSS+ rank and have a good foundation, having an unstable foundation and trying to breakthrough would cause a backlash thereby crippling the person or killing them.

This was no different than courting death, this was why a good enough foundation is always being talked about in each realm and the lower your foundations, the lower your battle power, and also reduces your chances of breakthrough even if you have a freakish talent.

Anthony swallowed the pill, and he felt a large mana swirling in his body, he channelled it to his mana core, and it kept getting nourished.

After a week Anthony broke through and was finally in the Master rank realm.

The mana and aura being released by him was so intense that some trees were flung backwards and were uprooted, but the realm repaired itself immediately.

Anthony's aura calmed down and he opened his eyes with a smile on his face, he has finally left the mortal realm

(Many power houses usually called the F to SSS rank mortal realm, that is just their own perspective, it has nothing to actually do with any 'mortal' rank or whatever, this is just their way of calling them babies and untalented)

He opened the system and looked at the description of the pill again, then he smiled and bought many of the same pill.

He swallowed them one by one and went into overdrive in cultivation and just like that two and half years passed by.

He opened his eyes and released his aura without restraint like he always does, even wind and sound dared not move in his direction as he unfolded his aura

Anthony has climbed to the Peak of the Master rank. Anthony has gotten to Master Rank level 9 with ease.

He simply took advantage of his perfect foundation and abused resources by eating pill upon pill and cultivating to balance everything. This was all thanks to his physique.

If Anthony didn't have this physique he won't dare to swallow such pill or he would explode and die. His physique and cultivation manual worked hand in hand to make such an impossible nonsense possible.

If others saw how Anthony cultivated they would be furious, everyone would want to capture him for his secrets, even the Null family would be destroyed if such abnormality came to light.

Even masters turned on disciples, fathers and mothers turn on their children if they have anything that benefited the other.

This world, sympathy is for the weak, the only thing that is right here is the bigger fist.

Although he could still have a very fast cultivation speed with just his bloodline alone if he didn't have such a physique but he didn't dare to compare both scenarios.

Though other young masters or anyone rich can buy this pill in millions if they wanted, they would simply explode to death if they consumed the pills and their cultivation manual and foundation can't keep up with the refinement and speed.

Anthony was tempted to eat the pill again but of the Grandmaster rank, but he decided against it, it won't be good to lose his sense of purpose just for an increase in rank, he should balance his cultivation rank and knowledge together and all that, imbalance in either of them could be fatal in real battle giving his opponents a higher hand.

And besides three years has passed, he only has seven years to study about mana, elements and weapons. There wasn't enough time, so he dived straight into it.

He decided to spend three and half year on the magic side, the remaining on weapon side

The first three and half year, went by as he poured it into all elements he had at the moment especially the void element as it was too hard to use, although he was already good with it but to him it wasn't enough, he had to keep training on it, after the three years he still didn't go through all knowledge but he wasn't feeling down.

He changed to his weapon and continued training as time went by. The level Anthony has gotten to was dangerous to the extent that even a branch was already deadly in his hands at this point in time.

He remembered his weapons instructor klaus who would have spent thousands of years on his weapon training, he wondered if he has gotten to his level because of his physique knowledge and the instructor didn't have such knowledge, but he removed such thoughts and killed any arrogant thoughts that were about to come to life.

He didn't digest all knowledge on both sword and magic, but at least he has made progress on them right now

During this ten years Anthony didn't forget to sigin-in, he had too many rewards, he didn't even know what to do with them.

'Should I auction some off?, why should I auction them off when I have a family to give them to for free or I should keep them all till death or till each have a use' he thought as walked back to the house

'Speaking of auction, I haven't trigger any auction line or plot or whatever like those novel characters do....well what would I go to an auction for when I can buy an resources I want without even lifting a finger' he shook his head as entered the shower

After taking a nice warm bath and being a narcissist for a while, he put on some clothes, then he disappeared from the divine realm

Chapter 28: Blood

When he appeared he looked around and felt like he hasn't been here for ages, he felt nostalgic, it might have been six months in the real world but it's been ten years without civilization for him, he could only talk with the system.

After adjusting for a while, he looked at his clone who was sleeping away like a baby, he didn't know what to say to this clone, the clone seemed lazy, the clone also slept a lot when he entered the divine realm for the first time almost six years ago.

He shook his head and cancelled the skill and the clone's memory flowed into his mind.

After looking through the memories a vein bulged on his forehead, he clenched his fist, he felt like summoning the clone and punching it.

It turns out the clone went to the classes that were held, but it did nothing but sleep throughout, it slept and spent some of his point on a lot of food.

His clone was literally on vacation during his absence, he was like a lazy young master.

The clone behaviour made rumours to fly around that he is lazy and the rank 1 wasn't much, many people started looking forward to the mid term exam so they can steal his rank.

The reputation he suffered to build up by acting cool and all that was rendered useless within the span of six months by the clone.

He sighed, he didn't blame the clone, he too had a lazy side, if he reincarnated in a world without magic like his previous world and was born in a rich family, he won't bother working hard after he suffered in his first life.

It's just that his clone got to live the life before him which made another vein to appear on his forehead, he simply shook his head and forgot about it since there was nothing he could do about the matter.

Through the memories he saw that Bryan was accepted by the Dean of the Academy as disciple, this was two weeks after he entered divine realm, Anthony was shocked, it seems power houses were using this golden generation time to grab disciples.

Tiara and Bryan simply used six months to fly from A- rank to S- rank which was already too absurd, this kind of progress was only possible in the lower rank like the D ranks and lower, though it was possible to have this progress in higher realms but it would damage their foundation which was very a stupid thing to do just to make a little progress

The higher your rank the harder it is to even advance a small realm, that's why this is too absurd to Anthony

(Although Anthony did the same thing within six months, don't compare them as one was the A rank and the other was the SSS rank which is three major rank above, remember the higher the rank, the harder it is to even take a step in that realm, but Anthony did it in that same six months thanks to his physique and bloodline and cultivation technique, while having perfect foundation on top of that)

It seems the Dean and Vice president pumped their disciple with resource while helping them have a solid foundation along with the way, there was no way powerhouses of that level won't have resources to stabilise foundation of the mortal rank, power houses were simply too rich due to their ridiculous lifespan helping them gather resources all their lives.

Anthony had a thought of robbing one of these power houses but he killed the idea immediately it came to life, he was simply too weak to even injure these people, besides he has a free shop that can give him anything as he grows stronger together with the sign-in system, there was simply no one richer than him on this planet.

Anthony was sure that if those two powerhouse had a chance they would cultivate these two disciples directly to the SS rank but that would be a reckless move, as a backlash or damage would be imminent, nobody would risk their disciple's or their own life just to take a step that they could take a while later.

Anthony thought of the Technique, Spells and Skills these two people would enjoy and was tempted to take a master, but he knew that ??? was the greatest, what if ??? takes back everything if he acknowledgeds anyone as a master.

He won't accept anyone as a master even if the world will begged him, he won't take such fruitless risk at all.

He continued moving through the memories, then he furrowed his brows when he came across a certain rumour.

'They are finally making a move' Anthony thought.

It was the 'Forsaken cult', they sent assassins towards some genius students and all of them died, not a single one of them that stepped out came back to the Academy.

Those who survived after leaving on a mission were those who were irrelevant to cult, they only went after those who were going to grow into power houses, and five people from the S class died, while the rest that survived did so by using trump cards prepared by their family, it seems the five that died in the top 20 didn't even have the time to activate their life saving item in other to run.

Since each child in the top 20 was the child of a power house they all had things prepared to save their lives which the academy left to them while everything was taken from at the academy entrance.

About 200 genuines died at once in a span of six months, this has to be a big stain on the Academy's reputation as this is the first time this was happening and the world was in complete chaos.

Of course the Academy didn't take this lying down, they wiped out every single base of the forbidden cult they could find, killed every single one across all domains, the world literally shook under their might, the families of the five dead children in the top 20 didn't take it lying down, they too sent out armies and blood flowed.

There were guesses of war going to occur, but no one cared, they literally pushed the cult to the edge, but the cult didn't give in, they kept attacking the students and the academy had to stop giving out mission for the moment.

The five at the top 20 who died were,

Rank 5 Fares Fare/Fairy

Rank 10 Von keron/Dragon

Rank 12 Blaze Lilian/Pheonix

Rank 16 Hemel Wolf/Werewolf

Rank 17 Hillary Amos/Human

People confronted the Academy for an explanation, which the Academy accepted it was their fault and compensated all families

In all domain, the patriach of each of these families that had a child that died, didn't even wait for the academy to do anything, they started the entire thing on their own before the Academy joined, especially the dragons who usually attacked anyone that killed their kin.

Even the Dean personally moved as the brother of the disciple he just accepted was killed, he had to show force to his disciple.

Once he moved, even the world tremble in space and a cultist and a demon power rank on his level fought him.

He fought two against one, but still came out without even a single scratch on him and then went straight for the bases they came from and wiped them from the planet, this day would simply go down in history books.

Some power houses didn't make a move as their children didn't die, so they didn't waste their time, but diverted their time to their own children and increased security in the area and around their children.

These six months were literally dyed in RED.

Chapter 29: Millionaire

Anthony was really surprised by all this, the forsaken cult really made a move against the Academy and they all fought for two months, even a demon on the Dean's level made a move to suppress the Dean but ended up dead.

Indeed it was a lot to unpack, the first year wasn't even finished and twenty percent of the students were already sent to their maker

Anthony shook his head at all the fun he missed, but at least he grew stronger.

He went through the last bits of memories then smiled, 'at least the clone completed something during it's time' Anthony thought.

The mission he gave the clone was to look for ten extremely weak people who are being bullied but are very strong willed that he would accept as his subordinate using the blood servant skill

He would only be accepting humans and saw no need for other races, others might chose other races due to their stronger body and bloodline but his bloodline servant skill made all that pale in comparison.

The clone found three girl and seven boys who met the criteria.

Anthony planned on meeting them after the mid-term exams and see if he could convince them, if they decline, he would just wipe their memories of what happened and leave.

The written exam will happen before the mid term break while the battle aspect happens after the mid term break.

Anthony took note of these people and planned to meet them later, then he threw them at the back of his mind, then he went to sleep because it was already 2AM in the morning when he arrived.

He woke up the next day, showered and wore fine exquisite black and golden linen cloths, then hung his katana on his waist and left.

He went straight for the cafeteria, which where he spent over two hundred points eating and sumptuous meal.

This was the first time he was eating here, he usually buys food from his system shop but he already spent almost every point on this Master rank pill that he ate like biscuits.

The Academy food was extremely good, it was worth the point, only rich people could afford it and some even spent more.

Some didn't spend at all since they had less need for such things as they grew stronger, so they didn't want to waste their points.

Anthony walked to the mana control class which was held by Professor Kevin.

When Anthony entered, they all looked at him then moved their gazes as they all got used to his face, some even looked at him with distain

Anthony didn't care about all this, he simply sat down and looked out the window as usual before the clone took over and started sleeping like a log.

Professor Kevin walked into the classroom and looked around with his blood red eyes.

He could feel everyone's progress in every aspect, some broke through a minor ranks, some didn't, some had higher mana control and elemental control, everyone was simply a genius here so every single one of them made progress in an aspect at least

Kevin's gaze landed on Anthony who he couldn't see through even untill now, only that the mana around him seemed calm like obedient children and didn't jump around.

Although Kevin didn't see it, he could feel it, his intuition he has honed for thousands of years wasn't a joke.

H could sense that Anthony's strength has increased again but he couldn't tell how much more compared to other students.

He could still see Anthony radiating the same F rank aura like he did since he entered this Academy, which he refused to remove.

Although people professors guessed he was at the A+ rank during the exam, but no one was sure as that was merely a guess

They were only able to make this guess cause Anthony fought at that level and a bit above since geniuses always fight above their level.

After making eye contact with Anthony, Kevin shook his head at this monster that wasn't supposed to be in human domain.

But ther was nothing he could do, he won't ask about Anthony's progress as that would be overstepping.

Kevin just simply started the class on mana and the element which went on for hours.

Anthony could understand his clone's predicament during this class.

After the class ended, the titan brothers walked up to him and greeted.

"Hey Anthony, you didn't sleep today, what a miracle that was" Bringer said

"Even though he didn't sleep he looked out the window the entire time, so it's not a complete miracle" replied Rider

"You better train Anthony, I can tell that Tiara and Bryan have gotten much stronger due to the Dean and Vice president accepting them as their disciple, their progress is simply off the charts at this moment" said Bringer

Anthony looked at this two titan who were worried about him and laughed and said

"Don't worry, if they court death I would just grant it for them, people I have defeated once are forever defeated, besides it seems I was too soft the last time and they are starting to get ideas now they made some little progress"

Veins popped on Tiara and Bryan's head as they heard this from their seats.

Even though Anthony spoke in a low voice they could hear it.

It made them angry that Anthony was looking down on them, they refused to believe Anthony was now on their level after training with world level power houses and resources within the same six months Anthony just slept and ate like a pig.

They believe in their progress and nothing will change that, they didn't reply at his statement.

They would simply challenge him later after mid term break for their rightful position

Anthony went for the demon class and beast class which taught them all beast and demons that has been studied with their various weaknesses

And as usual Anthony just dazed out the window during these two classes.

Anthony didn't attend the weapon class since he already graduated from the class.

He decided to spend that time walking around the Academy, going through shops in the area

Trying to see if he could strike it big like those protagonist who find world defying things in a shop made of unstable wood that looked like it would crumble anytime soon.

After walking around for about three hours Anthony found nothing, he cursed in his mind repeatedly, he didn't know if his luck was just that low or it was just that everyone could identify every single treasure and won't leave any scraps to anybody at all.

'Tsk....tsk.... I better not catch those authors who made those protagonist gain gems from every store they walked into, I better not catch any of you in heaven' Anthony thought.

Although he already had loads of treasures with him but who would say no to more.

Beside he wants to experience picking up treasure from trash like other protagonist but it seems he was being naive here.

He simply sighed and went to the challenge arena where people battled each other

Here people can settle grudge or battle each other for training or whatever, simply put all battles were done here.

Anthony saw a lot of students on the way who looked at him with strange gazes as he was too handsome and from the badge hanging on his chest that says he was from the S class which meant he was a power house in his year amongst his peers.

Surprisingly, someone walked up to him and showed him around the arena, Anthony even found out that they could place bets here with Academy points, this was one of the sources of points but people almost mainly lost everytime although people still won too if not the entire thing would be shut down already.

He got to the betting area, picking a fight to bet own, each having their own odds based on the fighter, after picking a fight, he will activate 'All seeing eyes' gaze into their future fight, find out the winner and stake on them.

Since every student of the Academy were weaker than him, he could use the eyes on them without too much problem.

This was what Anthony planned to do.

After betting throughout the fights Anthony left with two million points making the manager nearly vomit blood.

He could have won more cause why not, but he was stopped by the manager saying he has reached his winning cap for the time.

Anthony left with a smile on his face as he went back to his room feeling that even professors were poor compared to him.

(Of course this is just his imagination as there is no way he would be richer than professors who have been in the Academy for years at least and some staying for thousands)

After entering his room, he pressed his phone for while, chatted his parents and the house guards, watched some movies and news then he slept off since he had nothing to do again.

Chapter 30: Subordinate hunting

Ten days has passed since Anthony returned from the divine realm and was lazing around.

Students spent all their time in the library and reading through the semester topic table given by the professor.

They were all reading as the time for the written exam was here, and today was the day for the exam, many people were tense, some were confident as they have been reading since the very beginning.

Currently everyone was sitting together in one large hall for the examination which was scheduled to begin by 10AM.

Although not the same professor taught everyone, same lesson was given so they have the same question.

When it was time for the exam to start, Kevin walked into the exam hall with stacks of paper in his hands.

"Some of you may not know me, my name is Rave Kevin, I am in charge of the S class and will be the supervisor of this exam, as usual any form of cheating means expulsion and nothing more or less so if you want to cheat with any of your ability or skill or spell make sure I don't catch you"

(Of course in a world full or magic, there will be skills which people might use to cheat but they are always being caught by the professor as the Academy was like a nest of powerhouses and not to be underestimated)

Kevin threw the paper and use mana to control each paper to land in front of each student and was faced down.

After everyone settled down and was ready

"You may begin and stop five hours from now which is 3PM" said Kevin.

Everyone started writing the answers they knew furiously and immediately least they forgot the answer.

Some bit their pens, some bit their nails while thinking and looking around for who to ask or cheat from.

Of course many races have better physique which gave them better eye sight that they could see further thereby seeing answers that was written even in the tiniest form.

But this was useless as the Academy uses a special type of paper were anything written on it automatically disappears immediately.

So nothing could be seen by anyone, this exam compromised of all courses and lesson given ranging from history lesson to the beast lesson, demon lesson, mana control, elemental control and more, that's why the exam is taking five hours.

Anthony knew answers to the mana control and elemental control due to the knowledge of his bloodline, together with demon and beast lesson because of the reward from the sign-in reward given a while back.

He wrote the answers immediately without wasting time, when he got to the history part and the rest, he didn't know them all since his clone only slept at all time during classes and didn't even go to the library to read but spent the point in the cafeteria.

He simply activated Authority of information and got the answer he needed then wrote it down on the answer sheet.

Anthony spent a total of three hours on his answers as they were simply too much.

He flipped over his paper then slept off like his clone usually does.

Kevin looked at all the students who had different faces, some felt cheated, some felt like taking a shit, some were sweating that their clothes were already wet.

Some were calm too as they had read enough and prepared well, Kevin looked at Anthony's direction and saw him sleeping, then he shook his head at this human boy he still didn't understand till now.

Although to others Anthony has become lazy and has been slacking off, to him he refused to believe such a thing as he believed the human boy could not be so simple after possessing such eyes like he did.

He had kept special eyes on Anthony to see if he would see him use his eyes during the exam, but Anthony didn't use it at all, Anthony already expected this when the history questions choked him, so he used Authority of information instead.

The professor already knew he had special eyes before when their eyes clashed, who is to say he won't catch him if he uses it here.

So Anthony simply didn't use it at all and opted for his Authority.

Kevin was quite disappointed that Anthony didn't use the eyes to cheat, he wanted them to have a clash of some sort then he could find out more about Anthony's eyes in exchange for not expelling Anthony for cheating, because he too has used his special eyes to cheat during his time as a student.

When the time was up, the paper burned by itself and disappeared from their sight.

Everyone left the hall, some crying, some too tired to even talk or complain.

Everyone just went back to their room to cry or jubiliate that exams were over.

Anthony got to his living room and sat on the couch. "I guess it's time to meet them" he murmured to himself

It was night time at 10PM, Anthony created nine clones and sent nine of them after other people and met one of them by himself.

The guy uses katana, so he decided to see this student who was a fellow katana lover like him personally, although Anthony used all weapons, katana has always been his favourite even before his reincarnation.

The clone had already gathered information on all of them, so he already knew where they were, everyone just teleported from the room to their target's room.

In a training room a boy could be seen swinging his katana over and over again, with sweat dripping from his muscular body, Anthony had already appeared here a while ago but just kept quiet and watched the boy train, the boy had various flaws but that was to be expected, as he had no one to correct him asides from klaus the weapon instructor.

After forty-five minute of continuous swinging of the katana, the boy stopped and turned to pick a water bottle behind him to drink water, there he saw Anthony leaning on the wall.

He immediately raised his katana and took a defensive stance immediately ready to attack.

Anthony smiled at his reaction and liked it, the boy didn't bother talking and went straight to defence, this is the real way of the world instead of asking stupid questions like who are you without putting up even a defensive stance.

"Calm down bruh, this isn't a death match, from my handsome face you should know me" Anthony said while hyping up himself.

"Why are you here" asked the boy as he dropped his weapon knowing it was useless if Anthony decided to make a move.

"I have seen you get bullied for a while now but you refused to bow down to your bullies, besides you have a strong will and dedicated to training, I've taken a liking to you and would like to take you as my subordinate"

Anthony didn't bother beating around the bush and just went straight to the point, he didn't need to sweet talk anyone into working for him.

If they refused he would let them be and won't speak on it again as he would wipe their memories immediately they decline

Chapter 31: Subordinate Hunting-2

The boy looked at Anthony for a while with various thoughts going through his mind.

He knew that becoming a subordinate of the heir to the NULL family was a very huge opportunity that many won't even question, but he didn't jump on the offer immediately.

He asked "Why me, I am sure they are other student who are better candidates and have better chance and talent, why would you come to someone crawling on the lower rank"

"It is precisely because of you are crawling on the lower rank that I chose you, it is because of that, that your will is strong enough and won't bend so easily and would be able to recognise an opportunity when you see one"

Anthony replied with a smile on his face.

The boy thought for a while and replied

"Can I think about it for a while, this is a life changing offer, I need sometime to consider"

"No problem, I would only give you two days" after saying that he threw a blue stone to the boy and said

"After deciding and you agree, crush that stone at exactly 1PM two days from now, if you don't accept the stone will disappear on its on, remember two days"

The boy caught the stone and nodded

Anthony asked "what's your name?"

The boy looked at Anthony and smiled while saying "I am sure you already know that"

"It was nice meeting you Spectre" Anthony replied with a smile also and disappeared

The same conversation held place in nine other rooms.

Anthony and his clones returned to his room, he cancelled the skill, looked through his memories and nodded, then went straight to sleep, he didn't even bother changing clothes.

Anthony woke up the next day feeling very refreshed, he went through his normal routine

Everyone was happy about today, because today was the day everybody will be going home for the mid-term break.

Anthony dressed up handsomely as usual and sat on his couch as he got a text from his father, that he was already in the Academy premises, it seems he left early.

Anthony walked out and stood at a random spot where cars could arrive, and in less than five minutes his father's and body guard's car arrived in a convoy.

His father came down from the car and hugged his son

"How have you been my little monster?"

"Father you have to stop calling me that"

"But you are a monster baby"

Anthony Sighed and asked his father about his mother, because she wasn't here which was unlike her.

"Your mother has some business to handle, she would be back in two weeks" he said

They entered the car and drove off to the NULL estate with the guards around them.

"So how was the academy, you indeed made your name resound in the Academy walls" Michael said with a grin

"Haaahh.....The Academy was boring, hardly any challenge or anything, life is too peaceful" Anthony said with sadness in his voice

"I'm sure if you took a mission and assassins were sent after you like the rest you won't be saying this right now" Michael countered

Anthony shook his head, he wanted the assassins to come, so he could fight and feel the thrill like he did with Dreg, if he couldn't win he would run away immediately, there was no reason to court death, that being would definitely laugh at him for dying immediately with all the abilities he has.

Within a few hours they got home without any issues along the way.

Anthony walked into the house, and saw the butler standing at the door as always and greeted him as soon as he saw him

"Good afternoon uncle, how have you been"

"Young master, it's been a while, it seems you have gotten stronger again young master" he replied.

"Yes uncle, the Academy taught a lot of this, I've made some progress" Anthony replied

Then Anthony walked around and greeted all the maids he gossiped with and guards as he wasn't here for six months.

And just like that hours passed and the time to know the people who accepted his offer came

He walked into the seclusion room and use void magic and created a void barrier around the room itself, in other to shield everyone's presence, then he sat down and waited.

Immediately 1PM struck, ten people appeared in the room, they were dizzy for sometime, before they got a hold of themselves and looked around before they saw Anthony sitting on a chair waiting for them to finish gathering themselves.

"It seems everyone accepted my offer in the end, congratulations for this is the chance to stand on top of everyone but below me" Anthony cringed as he said this line but he kept a straight face.

They all looked at each other and were surprised that they were this many, they each thought they were the only one being recruited but it seemed they were overthinking things and were not special.

"You may introduce yourselves if you wish to" Anthony said to them.

Spectre made the first move,

"My name is Spectre I use the Katana and I have the lightning element" he said

"My name is Litt and i have the metal element and I am a spear user"

"My name is Ross and I have the lightning element and I use the sabre"

"My name is Donna and I am a water mage"

"My name is Vivian and I am an ice mage"

"My name is Clement and I use the dagger and I have the darkness element"

"My name is Evelyn I have the light element and I am a healer and mage at the same time but my i don't have enough talent to support my abilities and class"

"My name is Mike, I use fire and the sword"

"The name is Marcus I use wind and the sword and I'm also and orphan"

"I am Arnold, an earth and spear user"

They were all practically orphans, Anthony didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he felt like he just bought an orphanage home

He shook his head at the thought and threw it out of his head, and looked at them and said.

"What I am giving you is pure power, you will basically become my slaves because you will forever be bound to me, and you can't go back, you can't wake up tomorrow and say you are out, you can never be out, the only out is death, my orders are practically law, this is the price of power I will grant you"

Some of them frowned, but they already expected this, there was no way they could quit mid way, but they still had lines they didnt want to cross at any cost.

As if reading their minds Anthony continued.

"Of course I won't tell you to do things that are mad, like wiping out the human domains and things like that, but of course you will have to kill people as I don't like goodey two shoes, well not that any of you here are which is one of the criteria for picking you"

They were all relieved, they didn't want to go all committing crimes, that was just too much

"Then let us begin, shall we" Anthony said

Then Anthony snapped his fingers and they all disappeared from their place

Chapter 32: Changing Fate

When they all opened their eyes, all they could see was outlandish trees, but they ignored it and focused on Anthony who was standing this time around.

"Let us get begin as we don't have much time"

He cut his finger with his finger nails and ten golden blood floated out and his face paled for a second before returning to normal due to the recovery speed of his infinite regeneration

(Anthony doesn't have golden blood, it's because it's his blood essence which is unique cause of his physique and bloodline)

The ten golden blood essence were in form of a water drop, which moved and floated in front of the ten children who just stared at it with uncertainty.

Anthony said "This is my blood essence, this will help you increase your talent in whatever you had even the most little talent in no matter how small, even if your talent was throwing stones, my blood essence will simply make you the best in it asides being better than me, in your cases, if different people possess the same talent, you get the same amount of talent but who is better at it depends on who trains and fights more"

They all nodded and proceeded to swallow the golden drop of blood in front of them.

They all immediately started convulsing and screaming, but none of it was heard as Anthony already erected a space barrier, nothing could leave here.

They all laid on the ground vibrating as if they were being electrocuted, blood flowed ouf of their skins and their seven orifices, some of them directly fainted as they couldn't endure anymore pain, only Spectre and Vivian stayed awake as the process, both still screaming their lungs out, if possible they would have coughed out an organ.

Their body and blood was modified down the to lowest form possible, their bones literally broke and healed itself, followed by their muscles, organs, skin, blood, even their souls were nourished, nothing was spared, but if they could endure, no pain they would feel in their life will make them flinch unless it's something like emotional pain.

After an hour of screaming competition between spectre and Vivian, their horror of a pain finally stopped, and they laid on the ground questioning their lives.

Anthony looked at all of them with a smile then waved his hands and all stains were cleansed from their body and the rest woke up from their sleep

"How do you feel now" Anthony asked

They didn't know how they felt, mana kept moving around them in greater degree like children who just saw an ice cream.

As they were about to reply, they were flooded with information directly into their mind.

This information was about their gains and physique and bloodline. After about another two hours, they were done and started smiling like new puppies.

They were about to talk when Anthony snapped his finger and the surrounding changed from the forest to another forest but this time, the mana here felt extremely and absurdly abundant and extremely pure, Anthony had transferred them to the divine realm, since they have absorbed the bloodline and became eternally loyal, they can enter here as they please now.

They looked around feeling like they have been transferred from a small sized swimming pool to an ocean, they didn't know how to explain it but before they could dive in, Anthony spoke first.

"What you are feeling is the primordial mana, which is the purest form of mana that has existed since the concept of mana and this place is my personal realm, no one is able to enter here unless they are absolutely loyal to me and me alone"

"But we haven't signed any mana contract at all since we arrived sir" said Evelyn the light user.

"My blood is basically a contract as you drank it you became my subordinate forever you can't betray me, I won't go into the details" Anthony replied refusing to explain

"Well take a look at yourself" Anthony said smiling as he waved his hand and used ice magic to create a mirror.

They were all shocked as they saw their faces, they didn't know what to say.

They were simply too handsome and beautiful, even the vice president and Dean paled in comparison to such face they possessed.

They literally became the top 10 most charming, of course compared to Anthony they could only curse their gods for their ugly faces that didn't even get anywhere near his.

The men's body were literally packed with chiseled abs and packs, they weren't bulk but they are sure their possessed absurd strength in those muscles.

The women's body were alluring, the fairies dare not say they could compare here, their waist length hair they were too smooth as if crafted and plaited from the universe hands.

Skin so smooth that even a baby's butt paled, such jade like skin has never existed, even the men dare not say they possessed a more charming skin as theirs were still good but thick and strong from too many muscles.

But this didn't mean the women's body was weak, they took possess maddening strength that could crush mountains.

Their eyes sparkles as if it were removed and replaced with the rarest galaxy gems itself, they simply gave every single female from any race no chance to contend even if they used charming magic or make up or elixirs to improve their beauty.

Anthony looked at these people wondering if they would fall into an abyssal hole called narcissism, forgetting that he, himself was already deep in that hole and was suffering to come out in one piece.

Anthony shook his head and destroyed the mirrors and said "Tell me your gains"

Spectre responded first, "I have awakened the Lightning Battle Katana physique, which makes me unparalleled in battle, lightning and in katana" he said with a smile, as he always loved his katana and enjoyed battle but had zero talent for them, him going to fight was no different than courting death or suicide so he kept training

Vivian followed up "I have awakened the Origin Ice Physique which grants me a lot of perks and advantages" she said with her thick blue eyes that radiated ice itself.

Even her body was as if it affected ice, her face becoming cold and she resembling a cold beauty that only smiled in front of her prince charming but kept a cold face in front of other people.

Clement followed up "I awakened the Death Physique, which goes well with my dagger and darkness element"

"I awakened the Spear God Physique" said Litt with pride overflowing his body

"I got the Overlord Physique which makes makes me a master of sword and fire" said mike while sending a smirk to spectre as if challenging him to who has a better physique.

"I have the Origin Aqua Physique which makes me the ruler of water it self" said Danna glancing at Vivian who has almost the same physique.

Her physique gave her a demeanor of someone who was peaceful and serene and loving but if touched unnecessary would crush anything with a single wave

"I have the Origin Light Bloodline, which makes me unmatched in the light element, making me a healer and a mage who is unmatched on the battlefield, also granting me special eyes that can help me see through a lot" said Evelyn as her eyes flashed with golden light.

"I awakened the Forbidden Sabre-Lightning Physique, granting me dominion over sabre and lightning as their ruler" Ross said

"I awakened the Sword Celestial Physique" said Marcus

" I awakened the Universal Spear Physique" said Arnold with a smile sending a glance to Litt as they stared at each other wanting to clash weapons.

"Congratulations to you all, now I will begin with some small explanation of some things" Anthony said

Chapter 33: Changing Fate-2

"Your Physique and bloodline comes with knowledge that will help you in tandem with your talent as you train, as you progress you unlock more knowledge and depth of your bloodline and physique" Anthony began his explanation immediately.

"As l already said this place is a divine realm, the time in here can be adjusted to be hundred times slower at the maximum compared to the outside world, you will train here, for basically hundred months with each other, which entails cultivation and training your weapons and elements and everything in that hundred months"

"As for those of you that have friends I have sent out clones of mine that look like you to interact with whoever that has friend and would be weird if you disappeared, so no need to think about anything as I got it all everything covered already"

"Hundred months here is basically eight years, it will be hard talking to yourself for eight years but I have no choice, if I want you all to catch up and be able to help me in the future so a trial of solitude is one you must pass to help me"

"I too will be here with you as I too have knowledge from my physique to digest and all that so I will be here but don't disturb me if it's not important"

"We would leave here a week before the mid term break ends, so you all can adjust back to the normal civilization"

"Of course I have no need to say this, but you are not to say to anyone what you experienced today not even to your list trusted people"

"After the training section, I will grant you some skill that can help you in some ways"

"Any questions?" Anthony said

Ross raised his hand and Anthony nodded

"Sir how are we to address you in the Academy, should we act like we know you or we shouldn't talk to you"

"You can ignore me for the first one week after the Academy resumes, then from there you can talk to me once in a while and become friends from there, of course you can become friends with others but you should know your priorities"

Vivian asked "Sir what if people asked where we gain such power and everything, what do we say, and what if some people want to accept us as disciples"

Anthony laughed as he already had plans for all this, so he just replied

"You don't need to worry, when it's time for the Academy I will brief you all on everything for now, all you have to do is train cause i want to see you all in the top ten ranking"

"Since there are ten of you, it means there are only nine spots, I wonder who would be the one ranked outside it" Anthony said with a smile

"Also don't call me sir, if feel very old, call me boss when we are alone and Anthony when people are around us"

Then he gave each of them resources, he planned on pumping them with resources like he does with himself but they don't have his physique so he has to give them pills to solidify their foundation.

Since the ten of them were barely even D rank, the monthly spending points was enough to go round and able pump them.

He didn't need to teach them anything, he gave them some information and advice and left, he knew their bloodline and physique will give them knowledge and everything so he didn't bother teaching them anything at all.

He also bought ten of them small houses with the remain point, then he went to his own house and slept off.

After waking up, he went through his normal bathing routine, then left his house and looked at the ten of them and saw that they were still digesting information, Anthony thought that this might take them a while so he called them, since their knowledge wasn't as vast as his, with the help of some skills he can help them digest it fast.

"I will give all of you the same skills to help you progress faster with the knowledges" Anthony said, then gave all of them skill books which were basically divine intelligence, one million thought compartment, accelerated thinking and Eidetic memory.

These were basically the perks his bloodline granted him, but they were not up to the level of his own aside the Eidetic memory.

After that he left them to their devices, the bloodline and physique gives them cultivation manual to match their Physique and bloodline, unlike him who ??? had to create a cultivation technique to match both his bloodline and physique together.

Spectre could be seen swinging his katana from time to time, one moment it was a simply swing, then next it had the lightning element and the next the katana would release a hum.

Vivian in her own side, where she basically created a castle of ice and could be seen controlling mana exquisitely, digging deeper into her mana control and elemental control, trying one spell after another trying to fine tune it all. Her physique basically made her immune to the cold or ice attacks.

Mike basically created a castle of fire, anything that entered here would simply be burnt to ashes.

He was swinging his sword as he moved at extreme speed as he left fire footprints as moved, but were immediately covered up by the environment since it was made of fire.

Donna basically was under a sea practicing, they all rarely left their own place, the sea changed form from time to time. Some times calm, sometimes angry sometimes alluring.

Everyone were doing their own thing pushing their self forward, every once in a while they gather and talk as not to fall insane.

After eight years they were all basically at the early SS rank, if not for the resources Anthony gave them they won't be at this rank right now.

They all gathered at Evelyn's place and talked as they ate their food

"Man I can't believe I've been here for a long time, feels like a dream" said Marcus

"After all this time, only a month would pass outside, which is crazy if you ask me" Arnold said as he sighed

"We have come very far unlike before, we progressed from D rank to SS- rank in seven years, plus the knowledge we got from our physique that took a year to go through truly taught us a lot" said Mike

"It's all thanks to boss we are able to come this far, I owe him my life" said Litt

"You already owe him your life" countered Ross with a smirk

"I wonder how strong boss is, if we are this strong, besides I'm sure with all these we can fight above our level" said spectre

" Let's not compare ourself to unknown things or we might turn this happy mood to a depressed mood" mike said with his mouth twitching as he always wondered how strong Anthony really was to give rise to monsters like them but he gave up on the topic.

"Well the boss will be here to pick us up soon as our 1 week is getting closer and closer, we should make our last preparations before he arrives here" said Spectre as everyone nodded at his words.

Chapter 34: Assassin

Anthony was busy shopping while the rest were talking about other things in the divine realm.

He hasn't spent money since he came to this world so this time he decided to go crazy.

He bought cars, clothes, laptops, shoes, phones and many gadget he didn't need.

He just wanted to know how it feels to shop without a budget and only going home because you are tired and contented not because your account balance said so.

Many people took note of him as they made way for him as they saw him walking and the amount of things the porter behind him carried. He spent over three billion quarks today, and he was happy, smiling like a fool as he left the shopping district.

(Quark is the currency in this world)

Anthony transferred everything to his storage space after he was done, entered one of the new cars he bought and drove off with high speed while laughing like a fool in the car.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, is this what it feels like to be rich, no wonder the real rich people rarely go on shopping because when you shop so much like this, you will easily get bored of it, but i am still new to this, there is still so much fun to have" he continued laughing as he drove.

About an hour later, as Anthony was driving, a magic circle suddenly lit up on the road and Anthony and the car were teleported to another place.

Anthony who sensed that he had been moved to another place smiled, he came out from his car and kept it in his storage space

Twenty figure wearing mask appeared looking at him as if they had caught dinner

Of course he already sensed them when he was still driving but just played along like he didn't see them.

There was no way they could hide the magic circle they place on the road, such things couldn't escape his eyes, even if it did, Anthony would still be able to sense it by seeing the movement of mana to know it was a spatial movement skill.

"Well well well, who knew the young master of the Null family would dodge us for a long time as we killed other students, I guess geniuses really don't die easily" said one of them.

Anthony looked around and counted them and assessed their mana rank and said

"Twenty people, Five peak Paragon rank, fifteen peak Grandmasters rank, isn't this a bit over the top even for the 'forsaken cult'"

"Well you can't blame us dearest young master, we thought you would be with some guards so we just increased the amount of people we were sending, but it seems you are indeed without security saving us the stress" said another one of them with a laugh.

"It seems, I will really have to fight this time" Anthony said with battle intent leaking out of him

"Hooohh.. it seems the son of a tiger is still a tiger, even when faced with death you still want to battle, respect to you" said one of the paragon ranker

"That's enough talking, kill him immediately"

Immediately the word dropped, a dagger immediately appeared out of nowhere stabbing at Anthony's neck, which was stopped by infinity and Igris sword moving from his shadow stopping it, both moved at the same time. The Grandmaster who just made a moved was shocked and jumped back immediately he felt a sense of danger

"It's been a while since I had a real fight, shall we begin gentle men" Anthony said

"Come forth" he said, and darkness fell on the already dark night and the ground was as if it was covered in dark blankets, and nineteen figures stepped out.

Igris, Bellion, Beru, George and unknown who were the five peak paragons each picked an opponent.

"You dare lay hand on my liege with such filthy hands, your own punishment is death" said Beru to the opponent he picked

"You know for once I agree with you" said Bellion as all five of them unleashed a devastating peak Paragon rank aura.

The remaining fourteen were faced and challenged by other Grandmaster rankers among the shadows.

Anthony brought out his katana and took a stance against the final peak Grandmaster who was also a swordsman named Hariko.

The assassins were shocked, seeing subordinate appearing out of nowhere

"Let's dance gentlemen" they all moved at the same time and clashed, each with their opponent, this was a death dance.

Hariko and Anthony clashed and a deafening explosion resounded.

Anthony was throw back like cannon ball immediately they collided, he continued flying across the air, smashing trees along the way, creating ravines as he bounced on the ground. After landing on the floor he stood up uninjured while telepathically tell his shadows to continue their own fight and not intervene in his till they were done.

"It seems you overestimate yourself young man but I am more surprised you survived that, it was truly worth moving in other to kill you like we did" hariko said with a smile.

As he spoke Anthony was in deep in thought

'So this is the strength of a Peak Grandmaster, although I am sure he hasn't used his full strength, I get the gist of it, it seems today I will have to fight with everything I have, well asides my magic side, with this I can test the limit of my physique and try out somethings I haven't tried before'

Due to thought accelerator skill, Anthony finished his thoughts before Hariko finished speaking

"Pardon my disrespect earlier, I was testing out something, but now let's battle see the end to this" Anthony said with his demeanor and aura taking a sharp change with a crazed smile on his face.

Hariko blurred and appeared beside Anthony and swung his sword at his neck.

Anthony ramping up his physique to the peak and increased his speed and met the sword with his Katana and a cataclysmic implosion occured, but this time none of them moved from their position at all.

Hariko was shocked by what this little lass who was not even eighteen was doing.

'I have to kill this monster here' he thought.

Hariko didn't hold back anymore and he increased the destructiveness of his attack.

They left shockwaves in their paths as they moved, even the paragons were shocked by such as their battle occured. They couldn't believe that the Null family hid such monster.

Little do they know that the Null family didn't hide such monster, they just didn't know they had such a monster.

Tree branches uprooted as they moved, the grounds shaking at the might of their speed and feet.

They only left feint light streaks as they moved while sword marks scatter and were engraved on the ground

*Clank*Clank***Clank***BOOOM***BOOM**

They air pressure from their attack so massive that even the debris where further grounded to dust under such display.

They suddenly took their fight to the sky as they flew up in the air and clashed swords.

Clouds disappearing as they clashed, space shattered at their might as they weren't even going all out yet, but still testing the waters with each other.

Anthony teleported behind Hariko and sent a kick to Hariko ribs as he was sent flying downwards and colliding with everything as the mountains even shook from the weight of the fall.

Hariko stood up from the ground immediately, cleaning the the little drop that dripped from the corner of his lips as he looked at at Anthony with killing intent.

Anthony landed on the ground Infront of hariko, with his battle intent still radiating with high intensity.

Gone were all those playfully smiles he had whenever he fought, he won't let down his guards now for anything.

If before Hariko just wanted to kill Anthony cause of the mission, now it was personal.

He felt like taking Anthony's soul and torturing it till he died.

If he didn't kill this little brat and even manage to go back with all this information, his colleague would still laugh at him.

He wasn't going to hold back anymore.

Although Anthony had many spells he could use to end this fight sooner but he won't do that as Anthony has turned into a battle maniac without him even knowing.

If he just used magic to kill off opponents by bombarding them with magic, how would he improve, so any fight where he could still fight without bringing out more cards, he would fight it like that as people only truly improve during battles and with their lives on the line

From now on, testing any water is over.

Chapter 35: Anthony V Hariko

Hariko activated his innate talent which he acquired when he awakened, which purely doubles his strength, mana, speed.

A very thick red Aura seeped out of Hariko's body covering his body further enhancing the already doubled speed and strength, also covering his weapon with aura which further strengthened it

Space seemed to bend just from his presence alone due to all this.

Anthony's eye activated on its own as it sensed the danger and gazed a second into the future where Anthony's head was cut off, then went back to its passive state.

Anthony didn't bother thinking why the eye activated on it's own but thanked it for activating.

Anthony dodged as soon as he was back to the present, he moved by leaning sideways in an attempt to dodge, but his left hand was cut off and he was sent flying like a broken kite.

Hariko sped up and met Anthony who was still flying backwards and slammed his knees in Anthony's chest mid air.

Anthony was sent flying backwards further

He collided with trees, broke through mountains and stopped after slamming on another mountain.

"Masterrrrrr" all the shadow soldier screamed and moved to save Anthony, but before they could even take a step, Anthony commanded them through their telepathy while standing up from the stones and leaves covering his body.

'Don' interfere unless I say so, focus on your own fights and killed them immediately, don't make me repeat myself again'.

He couged up blood, his body was battered, bones broken, even his chest was caved in.

But his 'infinite regeneration' he got from his sign-in system reward was already at work and healed him in two seconds, even his hand regenerated immediately.

Anthony looked at Hariko while thinking

'I could barely match him before but now he has activated something like his physique or whatever and even boosted it with aura, even if I activated my Aura I won't be able to match his speed since he has stepped one foot in the door of the paragon rank'

Don't think of the Paragon rank as just another rank like the Master rank or Grandmaster.

Even if Hariko has doubled his speed and strength and mana, even further boosting it with aura, at the end of the day, a true Paragon ranker just needs a slap to kill Hariko.

Right now in this state, Hariko can be considered a pseudo-paragon, even though this is not an actual rank, but he has one foot already in that room.

The difference between the Paragon and Grandmaster rank is no different than that between and SSS rank and F rank.

There is simply no comparison at all between the Paragon and the Grandmaster Rank

(Remember that Anthony is matching Hariko who is a Peak Grandmaster rankers, while being at the Master rank, this is how broken Anthony already is)

Anthony didn't bother fighting those assassin at the Paragon rank because he knew he was still an ant compared to them.

He couldn't match them in anyway unless he used his magic he possess which is broken.

'Why is someone as talented as him with the Forsaken cult, well it doesn't matter all I have to do is kill whoever that takes a step near me' Anthony thought

Anthony breathes out and activated a magic he has never used before since he reincarnated, today in other to fight an enemy stronger than him, he has brought out another card, if not for his skill 'infinite mana', he won't dare to bring out this element and use it like this at his current level.

Time seemed to slow for him, he could feel the wind slowing down, falling leaves getting slower to the point as if time has stopped for him, everything kept on getting slower.

An illusionary huge clock appeared behind Anthony which only him could see, the moving hands on the clock seemed to increase in speed before dissipating immediately it appeared.

Anthony using time magic increased the time around him, thereby increasing his own speed

Anthony released his Aura and covered his entire body and Katana with it, further increasing his speed and strength

He took a stance and moved as if he teleported, arrived before Hariko and swung his sword in a horizontal manner.

Hariko caught off gaurd by Anthony's speed immediately blocked but he was sent skidding on the floor, which he easily regained his balance immediately.

Hariko activated his wind element to further increase his speed as he saw Anthony's speed has increased.

As they both moved and collided, the sheer impact destroyed everything in its wake.

A Master ranker could die just from being near this fight these two were having.

[Sword Technique: Wind Style: Hurricane Slash]

Hariko slashed at Anthony with his sword covered in aura and wind element sending out a thousand cresent shaped wind attacks, Anthony saw the fast attack but didn't fret, he simply controlled time and slowed down the speed of the approaching attacks, increased his own speed and cut all thousand of them into pieces.

He immediately moved to attack.

[Endless Technique: Katana Series: Lightning calamity]

Anthony's katana which was already covered with aura immediately got covered with lightning and he slashed out with his full strength in a diagonal way, leaving a a faint purple line.

Hariko was shocked by this sight with his sense tingling sending him death signals, he immediately brought out his armour which he always hide inside him and activated it, pouring all his mana into it before the attack landed on him and his surrounding

*BOOOOOOOM***BOOOOOOM*****

Everything within a ten kilometres radius was reduced to ashes and atoms, some charred, trees set on fire, mountains collapsed, smoke occupying everywhere.

The paragon rankers were shocked by this scene, this was too much power for people at the Grandmaster rank

They were shocked that Hariko has reached such level, even more shocked that Anthony could match one of them at the Grandmaster rank and he could release such devasting attack at such a young age.

Anthony could be seen panting as he has never been pushed to this degree before, he looked around looking for the sight of his enemy

Hariko could be seen in a pit of charred stones with blood around him, his body and armour with his skin and hair burnt.

He stood up dizzyly, looking at Anthony who could match him after training all these years, he cursed the heavens for being unfair.

He knew he would fall here, as he has used the amour he once found in a ruin to save his life, but he poured all his mana into the amour leaving him with nothing.

He could take potion but there was no way his opponent would allow him

Anthony walked towards Hariko who was haggard and was on his last feet.

They looked at each other without saying anything, but the fight said it all

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...The heaven truly are unfair, even if I fall today I shall take you with me" Hariko said while laughing maniacly

The next moment Hariko eyes looked resolute, like he still had a final card.

Mana from Hariko's core moved from within as he wanted self destruct to bring down Anthony with him.

Before he could detonate, time seemed to stop completely for them, it came to a complete halt as Anthony looked at Hariko, then he sighed and swung his katana, decapitating him.

Time resumed, but the explosion didn't occur due to Hariko's death.

Anthony sheathed back his katana and looked round and saw the destruction and shook his head, if not for the barrier set up by the forsaken cult, other people might have arrived here due to the disturbance.

The Paragon rankers that came with Hariko have been caught alive by Igris and the rest.

The Grandmasters were simply killed off by the other shadow soldiers before Anthony's fight even ended

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Author 's note

Time is a very strange and strong concept, don't think because someone can control time, they are automatically the strongest.

Controlling other people's time is a very hard thing to do and depends on the power level difference between the two individual.

An F ranker can't just go halting time of a Paragon rankers and killing them, how much time you can halt depends on the strength difference and you control over it

This is why Anthony just controlled his own time to increase his speed, rather than controlling time to halt or slow down Hariko

It all depends on your progress with the time element and also the power gap

Chapter 36: Obsessed Beru

Igris, Bellion and Beru brought the five Paragon to Anthony.

Anthony looked at them, not knowing what to even say to these people

"My liege, how about we use them as spies, they can feed us useful information about their plans and everything" said Beru

"That is true master" Igris concurred with Beru

"But that would be dangerous, if we need any information about anything I could simply spy for master if master orders it" said Unknown

"Who are you again?" asked Beru cautiously as he looked at Unknown and George who were on same mana rank as him.

He didn't want anybody to take away his position as a his liege right hand man, he already had Bellion on his plate.

He already bragged about being the only one their liege sent on a mission

There was no way he would give away his position.

"I am called unknown and this is George" said Unknown, beru looked at them but didn't reply, he looked at his liege waiting for his command on what to do with these people

Anthony said "There is no need for them, I have my way of obtaining information if I want to, so they have no use at all"

"How about we torture them for information they already have before killing them off" suggested Bellion

Anthony nodded as he already planned on collecting information from them but he didn't need to torture any of them.

He gazed at one of the Paragon, then he activated 'All seeing eyes' and gazed into the past of that Paragon and saw everything he had done, even the food the man ate, he saw it all, the mission he completed, the people he kidnapped to turn them to their minions, their various locations and they runes they used to hide their location.

They weren't too high up in rank so he didn't get any concrete information, but this was enough for now, as he found a location holding people even above the Paragon rank.

After getting the information he needed, he simply burned them to death, then collected their space rings from them and drolled about how rich he was now, as these were rings from paragon and Grandmaster.

After collecting all mana crystals from rings he kept them into his inventory and looked at his shadow soldiers and smiled and said

"Good work everyone, if there is anything anyone needs they should say and I can fulfil need or want" although Anthony didn't need to do this, he just wanted to do it as they all had consciousness.

"Master we are eternally loyal to you, we have transcended death and immortality, this is already the greatest gift" everyone declined as they said they had no wish

They were practically correct as they can't die if Anthony had mana to keep them with him

"My liege, I want a skill from you my liege" of course Beru won't pass on this chance he just got.

"What do you want Ant king" Anthony said

"My liege I want the shape shifting skill, I want to transform into a human form and stay by your side" Beru replied

Anthony sighed, this guy was always obsessed with standing at his right hand side but he can't go back on his word can he.

He raised his hand and a skill book materialized from thin air and he tossed it to Beru who smiled like a baby with a new toy.

Beru immediately learnt the skill, the book then disintegrated, the skill cost no mana to use, even if it did with his soldiers tapping into his infinite mana the skill can be used 24/7

Beru then shape shifted into a tall man who stood at the 6'8 height with black hair that reached his waist with golden eyes, with chiseled face and a perfect jawline and skin

When Anthony saw this he was speechless, Beru was simply too handsom, even his recent ten subordinate couldn't compare to such face Beru had.

Beru wore a long black coat, with a black shirt inside, and black trousers with black boot on his feet, with gloves covering his hands and fingers, his entire body was covered in black clothing like he was representing death itself

Only his face and neck could be seen as the cloth covered any other thing

"What do you think my liege, I tried to make myself as handsome as you but it seems I couldn't, like someone was interfering" Beru said while looking at Anthony

'How can you be as handsome as me, this face was carved personally by that being how can a mere skill dare to match it' Anthony thought but didn't say it out loud

"You look perfect if I say so, your hair matching your cloth" Anthony said

Beru was happy with this as he could now stand with his liege openly and didn't need to hide anymore

Anthony saw something on the right side of Beru' jacket, he looked closer and what he saw made him speechless

Beru had carved his face on the jacket he wore, Anthony didn't know what to say to this Ant king, he was truly too stunned to speak

'Should I take him to therapy' Anthony thought, but got rid of such useless thoughts

"Beru why did you print my face to your coat"

Beru froze and said with pride "My liege this is to remember you, I will always be here to protect you, and everyone will know I am your right hand soldier"

"Remove it or I won't allow you to transform into the human form again" Anthony replied

Beru cried and begged Anthony but Anthony paid him no ears and with a broken heart, Beru removed Anthony's face from the coat

Anthony suddenly remembered the sword Igris usually used that was gifted to him, then he opened the system shop and bought a sword for Igris

[Name: Rakasha Sword

A sword crafted by the Primordial Blacksmith God using his life force as it's main material, then he threw it into the river of time to find the one who is destined to have it.

Effects:

1: Grows with it's owner

2: Can returned to its owner when willed even if it's in another reality or sealed

3: The sword possess its own technique of all basic elements which the wielder would be able to use as the sword grows

4: Can change size and design as willed by the owner

5: Indestructible]

He had already spent most of this month point on pumping his subordinate, he used the remaining to buy the sword for Igris.

Anthony waved his hand and the sword appear on Igris's hand, the sword started vibrating with intense intensity upon contact with Igris as it recognised Igris as it's master with glee

Igris who could tell the value of the sword just from contact was too happy and showed happiness on his face, which reverted back to his normal face as if it wasn't there.

He bowed and thanked Anthony who just smiled and told him to use the sword to the utmost and take care of it.

"It's time to leave" Anthony said

"Go back into the shadow world, I will introduce you to everyone later as you can't just appear from nowhere" he said to Beru who just nodded and they disappeared.

Anthony looked at the destruction they had caused and shook his head.

He simply just waved his hand and time started moving backwards as everything moved backwards and into their place, taking the serene and beautiful forest it once hand.

He then opened his shop and was about to buy clothes but bought something different this time around with his last point

[Universal clothing

Effect:

1: Can shape shift into other clothes and design the wearer wishes

2: Indestructible

3: Forever clean

4: Soul bound]

The cloth was simply just taking shape and design of other clothing.

It doesn't act as amour for Anthony because of it's indestructible effect.

When Anthony is attack, he will suffer damages alone but the damages won't bother the cloth, the cloth won't shield him from anything, it's just a normal cloth but can't be torn apart

Anthony casted a spell and cleaned the sweat and every dirt from his body, then he changed the universal cloth to the design of the one he wore before the fight.

He then teleported out of the forest and appeared in a corner in the shopping district.

He brought out a car he bought earlier from his inventory and drove home.

Although he could teleport home, he just wanted to clear his head as he drove.

Chapter 37: Skills-1

When Anthony got home, he was greeted by the butler who was standing at the door.

He just went into his room, turning his universal clothing into boxers then wore the new clothes he bought, put on the wrist watch and shoes and perfume.

He stood infromt of the mirror, he was simply too dashing, no man had any chances of taking any girl if he wanted the girl, this was what he called true handsomeness.

After admiring himself for a while, he went downstairs for supper with his father.

His grandparents were still out, he hasn't since them since he entered the academy.

When he got to the dining, his father was already there waiting for him

"Father, when is mother going to arrive, I haven't seen in half a year, where is she" Anthony asked his father.

"I didn't want to tell you at first but she is fighting at the front line with your grandparents, the demons are stirring up more trouble this time around" his father said

Anthony didn't know if to pray for this demons or pity them, he knew his mother was ruthless and cold to other people, the demon were probably suffering right now, for she had the title 'The Elemental Queen as she could use almost all element, which made her a monster like her husband.

He shook his head and got these thoughts out of his head as it didn't concern him at all, the demon should suffer for their work.

"So how is your preparation, you will soon be going back to the Academy, you did nothing but sleep and go shopping during the one month break, you didn't cultivate or train, I hope you haven't gotten arrogant" said Michael as the temperature suddenly changed and dropped becoming chilly.

Although Michael loves his son, he won't hesitate to knock a few senses if his son has gotten arrogant because of a little progress.

Anthony's lips twitched as the mood suddenly changed from a loving father to a strict father.

This is all his clone's fault, he spent that one month training and learning in the divine realm, but it seems the clone did the same thing it did in the Academy.

It just ate and slept like there was no tomorrow, this clone was busy creating trouble everywhere he went, but he couldn't beat up the clone, he was basically beating up himself, that sight would be funny.

"Father this is your handsome son, why would you would think I have become arrogant, I promised you that my name would sound in the Academy, just like yours and mother did, so you don't have to worry about me becoming arrogant" Anthony said looking at this father with a serious face

Michael didn't know what to say to his son, he was skeptical about all this.

Through out the entire one month he didn't see his son train at all.

His son already said his physique doesn't allow others to train or teach him, if not he would have trained his son personally, he felt conflicted, he knows his son was already talented, but that was the same case for his peers, as this was the golden generation and they were all different.

Anthony looked at his father who seemed to be troubled and deep in thought.

He sighed then released aura of an SS+ ranker with smiled and a cute face.

Michael was shocked when he sensed the aura Anthony was releasing, then an evil grin appeared on his face while releasing a ting of battle intent, he wanted to battle his freakish son so he would see what he is hiding