Heaven's Greatest Professor

At the end of the class, nobody managed to win the hundred credits, much to the students' disgruntlement. Obviously, the warden went a bit extra hard after they made fun of him. He was a little vicious, like that.

"Was it really like a villain monologue?" Warden asked June at the end of the class after all the students had dispersed from the classroom.

June only smiled as a reply.

"Professor," Aurel called in a tone as though she was asking for June's approval, "what did you think of the class today?"

"You two dealt with the students as good as I hoped," June said. "Although I would have liked the students winning in the challenge once or twice."

"It is only natural the student won't be able to do anything to him if he was like a walking fortress," Aurel snorted. She too fought Warden at the end, and the result only brought a deep sense of frustration in her.

"I might have gone a little harder than it was necessary," Warden admitted.

"A little?" Aurel clicked her tongue in distaste and turned to the elf. "By the way, Professor, do you have some plans at this moment?"

"Yes," June said and gestured to Warden. "We have something planned for the remainder of today."

Warden lifted an eyebrow, unsure when they had planned something together, though he wasn't complaining.

Aurel seemed somewhat peeved, hearing that. She bowed her head and disappeared, leaving the two of them there.

"So what have you planned?" Warden asked, smiling.

"I told you to be more secretive in using your Legendary grade equipment," June said with a sigh. "Did you forget about our talk about Soul Relic already?"

"I didn't," Warden said. "And I didn't use [Void Shroud] all that much either. Besides, these are just students, they can't recognise shit from gold."

June clearly had a look of displeasure written on her face as she just stared at him in thought.

"Sorry," Warden said. "I did make it look like a ward though, a very powerful one at that."

"I guess the students did not think much of it," June said. "Anyway, let's go. You'd need another weapon in your arsenal to not use [Void Shroud] all the time."

On the way, Warden asked where she was taking him, but she only answered by saying he'd know once he gets there. Unsatisfied and bored with all the walks, he asked different questions.

At the end of the class, he could not help but wonder: how difficult was it to cultivate all the attributes? The students had an average of three or four years of their awakening, but many of them had been cultivating with sword, spear and other weapons and even thier bodies since childhood. They seemed well enough in the latter, but their attributes seemed low for the years they had been awakened.

Their Three years seemed like a lot of time to be in the rank of copper.

Questioning June, he received a brief answer to that question. Although gaining essence from slaying wights was an easy thing, it was a lot harder to digest the essence and integrate it into your body.

"Strength is the easiest attribute to cultivate," she said, "even still, it takes a genius a week to integrate one point into themselves. The numbers became even harder with the other attributes, Spirit being the highest to cultivate.

"Although the Class boosted the speed of the digestion process, it naturally slowed down as one reached the saturation point of the class."

For three years the peak of copper, or early iron was a good enough indication of a potential genius.

Warden couldn't help but wonder, why it was so easy for him. And he did not even have a class. Perhaps it was because he was regaining his strength instead of cultivating it? Perhaps his fate lock was helping somehow.

As if guess what he was wondering, June continued as they walked out towards a training facility: "The Fatemarks do help I believe. Although it wasn't mentioned through system prompt, I found it twice as easier to cultivate Spirit after I received my Fatemark."

"What about the other attributes?"

"Not as fast as Spirit, but there is an increase," June said. "Considering your origin, it will not be wrong to say that you have some boost in cultivating all your attributes, especially recovery."

"I barely gain anything in a recovery," he said. But then again, it is the only attribute in three digits.

It appeared they have arrived at the secret training facility, which was out in the open after they entered through various layers and types of Ward. It looked like another Warp gate, though this one was more ancient-looking.

"You seem to be only a couple of steps away from awakening Spear Intent," June said. "I'm taking you somewhere that would help in that regard."

"There is something like that?" Warden eyes shone in delight.

Although he could manifest bits of the intent ever so often when he really gets into a fight, it was never conclusive. The most probable reason he came up with was that the void energy took over the budding intent, devouring it to nonexistence. The Void has an intent of it as well, it is mostly destructive and devouring.

"It will be difficult, though," June said, "there are chances of getting heavily injured and even death."

Warden was mostly unfazed. "That seems to be the path of the rankers."

An old man with grey whiskers sat amidst various books and paraphernalia in a corner of the warp gate. He was probably the caretaker of this facility.

"You have experienced the virtual realm, but inside, it's different altogether," June explained.

"How much does it cost?" Warden asked.

"A day costs 1000 credits, irrespective of rank," June said, causing him to let out a groan. "Naturally, your expenses for healing potions would be higher than the thousand credits."

"I guess it is goodbye to all my credits then."