Chapter 2142 Rapid Results

Chapter 2142 Rapid Results

The students of the academy had been puzzled when the headmistress of their Martial Academy had suddenly halted all their activities and summoned them to inform them that they would be carted off for some special training.

Much to their surprise, the Martial Academy didn't even tell them where they were going. After they stepped out of their carriages, they were assembled in a training field and told to await further instruction.

It was truly puzzling.

Normally, the Martial Academy was a lot more transparent with any and everything that they wanted the students to do. Thus, it was highly unusual for them to act in such a manner.

Many of them wanted to leave, yet they didn't even know where they were.

"Tsk, did they just bring us here to while away time?!"

"I'm sure they have something in mind."

"I wish they would tell us," another complained. "It's super boring doing nothing here!"

Eventually, however, something changed.

WHOOSH...!

They grew stunned as an army of clones appeared before them out of nowhere.

Clones of themselves.

They were identical in every conceivable fashion in not just physicality, but in terms of mannerisms too.

"What the-?!"

From her point of view, it was jarring to see an ultimately insignificant Apprentice rise through the years to the heights that he had.

It made her feel old and outdated, reminding her of her own stagnated power.

She had long given up on reaching the Sage Realm. Any Martial Drive that she once had had long fizzled away, leaving behind a person without any more ambition or desire for any more power. It was why she had stepped away from the battlefield, and instead taken on the important mantle of headmistress, assuming the duty of ensuring that Martial Art constantly received a fresh supply of new Martial Artists each year. Yet, now that she had seen one of the students far surpass her in every dimension conceivable, she had to admit that she hadn't taken it as well as she would have liked.

It couldn't be helped, after all. This was the first Martial Master to emerge from the Martial Academies since she had taken office seventy years ago. Reaching the Master Realm took an enormous amount of time; thus, she had always thought that this significant event would require decades more.

"Headmistress."

Rui drew her attention, gesturing at the crowd of students down below with a smile.

"We have our first breakthrough."

Her eyes widened with shock as she sensed the faint yet unmistakable aura of a Martial Apprentice down among her students. "...That is far earlier than I anticipated!"

Her stunned gaze shifted back to Rui.

"If you can trigger breakthroughs with this little time working on the subjects, then..."

The ramifications were scary to even consider.

"We're not done yet, headmistress," Rui smirked. "I hope you're able to secure a greater budget of expenditure from the Martial Union because you're going to need it to expand the Martial Academies when they're overflowing with Martial Apprentices, I'm afraid."

A moment later, several more students discovered their Martial Paths in the heat of battle, breaking through to the Apprentice Realm.

They added weight to the veracity of his words.

Rui grinned as he pushed each student to their very limits as they learned more about themselves in the past five minutes than they had during their entire time at the Martial Academy. As long as Kandria could persist, it would reach unprecedented heights of power.

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