Chapter 55 Serious Training 1

After arriving in Sector-1, Lothur made his way to the foreign language class, where his journey this day was to begin.

However, upon entering the amphitheater where he should have Spiritual Language class, he found himself in a strange situation.

As he walked toward where he usually sat, the students already in that area were all looking in his direction. Not only that, while they stared at him without any discretion, many had strange expressions on their faces, as if Lothur was in trouble or something like that.

Realizing that there was something wrong in this place, this man frowned in concern as he made his way to his seat, which was close to some of the beauties of this class.

Lothur was not in the same foreign language class as Elke, but one of her friends, who was also in Professor Koch's class, was part of this class.

Precisely because of this, he soon followed in the direction of this woman with black hair, brown eyes, and beautiful dimples on her cheeks when she smiled.

He may not have known what was happening, but he had no problem talking to women, let alone a friend of Elke. So, he soon looked her in the eye, curious to discover the problem.

[Name: Anke Geissler]

[Cultivation: level 1]

[STR: 1.9] [CON: 2.1] [DEX: 1.5] [AGI: 2.3]

As Lothur sat next to her, he realized that such a woman was also looking at him strangely and asked. "Anke, what's the matter? Why is everyone looking at me like that?"

That beautiful friend of Elke's continued to stare at Lothur for another brief moment before finally shaking her head and sighing.

"You're in trouble, Lothur." She said in a low voice as she pulled him, bringing him closer to herself.

Hearing and feeling Anke's movement, Lothur's eyes sharpened as he became even more serious. "Tell me what happened."

She then whispered in his ear. "A few minutes ago, a student from Sector-3 came here looking for you."

"He knew you had a class here, so he left a message for us to give you, saying he challenges you to a battle in three days."

"A battle?" Lothur made a strange expression, finding this somewhat meaningless. "I can just refuse... I don't understand why you seem to think there's a problem with that."

But Anke did not change her expression at all. "You can refuse if you want, but this person has important contacts within the academy, and they will certainly make your life here difficult."

"On the other hand, we will have a competition in three months to determine the Secret Realm vacancies. And since each Sector is entitled to a certain number of vacancies, the academy allows people from different sectors to challenge their competitors."

"According to the rules of this competition, one side cannot refuse the fight unless, of course, he is willing to give up the competition."

"Oh?" Lothur found this strange since there was a big difference between the strength and knowledge of people from different sectors of this academy. "Isn't that unfair? How can people from Sector-1 compete against those from Sector-3, and the academy allows that?"

"That's simple. This competition doesn't depend on your cultivation since it takes place in a special area, where the cultivation of each competitor facing each other is equal."

"This competition tests your skills as a warrior and other areas, not your brute strength."

"Because of this, even people from Sector-1 have a chance to go to the Secret Realm, and naturally, people from other sectors can challenge us."

"He will certainly challenge you in this competition if you do not accept his three-day challenge."

Such challenges could happen, but it was not usually frequent since facing people from lower sectors was a great shame to this institution's students. However, the person who wanted to fight Lothur had shown quite a lot of hatred when he came to this place, and knowing this, Anke did not rule out that possibility.

"So that's it..." Lothur muttered in a low voice, understanding the rules of that tournament.

He already knew that this competition would happen soon. Still, since he had just entered this place and was preoccupied with other things, he had not given it much thought.

He knew that he had to participate in this competition as all students of the Morning Star Academy had to do this, at least in the initial stages of it. But, on the other hand, the results of this tournament were also counted in the students' ranking, something that interested this young man a lot.

Because of this, he would participate in this competition and not think about the possibility of giving up because of a troublesome opponent.

'In three months, I will probably already be at 5th Transformation or maybe even higher...'

'Someone from Sector-3 won't be a worry to me.' He smiled as he closed his eyes, curious to know who this person who wanted trouble with him was.

'Is it some old enemy of my predecessor?' But he did not waste much time thinking about that and soon asked Anke. "By the way, who is this fellow? What does he have against me to want a fight? Do you know?"

"His name is Merten Baier. But I can only imagine what his problem is with you..." She said this as she remembered the confusion a few days ago when Alric had challenged Lothur.

"Merten is Alric's cousin."

"Oh?" Lothur's eyes widened in surprise, with him finally understanding what the problem was. 'That was quicker than I expected...'

'But why this guy and not someone stronger? Is he just trying to scare me because of that recent disagreement?'

Lothur knew that the Baier family would find out about his and Alric's quarrel. After all, dozens of people, several of them being that young man's lackeys, had seen the whole thing.

However, he thought it would take that family longer to bother him because, despite that argument, there was nothing else to incriminate him. Besides, Alric was not exactly a young man beloved by the masses.

Everyone knew about his arrogant personality. He constantly got into trouble with other noblemen of lower status than him, who generally had to lower their heads after getting in his way.

And since Lothur had already heard about that individual from Elke, he expected that at least other people in this academy would be bothered by the Baier family before him.

He had just entered this institution, was someone famous for being a good-for-nothing in Peters City, and even had no cultivation.

How could he be a suspect in what happened to Alric?

That way, he could only think that this cousin of Alric was trying to deal with him to test his innocence.

"Tsk!"

'He's probably challenging other people in this sector, so the three days...' Lothur more or less understood the situation but did not despair.

"Well, if he wants to challenge me during the competition that will take place in three months, then that's fine. I won't fight him now just because he wants to." He laughed as he looked at Anke.

Hearing this, that 16-year-old looked at Lothur curiously, finding his calmness unexpected. "As I said, Merten has contacts at the academy."

"Such competition is not the only way he can harm you."

"Don't worry. I don't need many things from this academy and don't intend to use essential services for a while. So, it won't make a difference." Lothur said this calmly.

Such a thing was out of his control, so it did not make sense for him to stress himself. And since he did not have many benefits in this place, he did not feel he had much to lose.

Thus, the two finished their conversation just before a fat, bearded, middle-aged man entered that place to teach the Spiritual Language.

"Well, let's start from where we left off in the last class..."

...

After a few hours, Lothur returned alongside Annaliese to the Frost family estate, where he practiced some of his techniques and then had dinner in one of the cafeterias.

Then, he hurried to Annaliese's residence, where he greeted his beautiful sister-in-law and proceeded to the spot where she had previously beaten him.

"Well, let's determine some rules..." Annaliese began to speak while looking at him thoughtfully.

...