97 Aura Creation before Duel Class
Aura Creation, as it sounds, was a method of coating aura onto your weapon and your whole body, enforcing yourself with your mana, and carefully spreading that aura outside your body into your surroundings. Aura was the first step every E Rank Hunter would learn and improve gradually as they ranked up.
“Yawn~, why did they arrange classes three days in a row? I want to sleep,” Venessa said to herself as she walked into the Weapon Arts Block.
She went in and saw Kevin Whiteheart, Sam Allister, Matthew, and other E Rank students who were also present there.
“This class smells of trouble,” Venessa thought as she took one of the empty seats in the back.
The class was more like a Dojo Room than a class, and it made sense considering what they were going to do in this class.
Asher came five minutes later, just before the class was about to begin, and as he stepped in, he saw many eyes staring at him like hawks.
The moment Asher stepped in, consciously or unconsciously, every single person in that class except one person had acknowledged Asher as the strongest. Even Matthew, who had quite a big ego before coming to World Academy, was intimidated by Asher’s presence, but the one who was trembling the most was Alan.
“Shit,” he muttered to himself as he tried to stop his hands from trembling.
Alan had decided that one day he would take his revenge and kill Asher, but facing him, all he could do was shake in fear. Even Sam shuddered a bit seeing Asher’s face up close as Asher, despite being the most handsome, had a cold gaze that always intimidated others without fail.
But there was one person who was just glaring at Asher with no fear in his eyes. Pure anger and pure hatred could be seen in Kevin’s eyes. He had heard rumors about Asher disrespecting his older sister, Raelyn, in front of the Student Council.
Right now, all Kevin wanted to do was beat the hell out of Asher and avenge Elena and Raelyn with his own hands. But what he couldn’t realize was that both times, it was Elena and Raelyn who instigated the fights with Asher. However, Asher wouldn’t have left them alone in this life, even if they had behaved differently than in his previous life.
He was no saint, he was no hero, and certainly not a person with humane emotions for others. If he had even an ounce of such things in himself, he would not have committed those atrocities he had done in his previous life.
Asher saw Damian, who was half asleep in one of the empty seats, and sat beside him.
“Hello,” Damian said as he greeted him with a drowsy look on his face.
“Just wait two minutes; his eyes will fall out of his eye socket,” Sam told Matthew, making a serious expression on his face as he pointed at Kevin.
“You!!” Kevin glared back at Sam as he listened to what Sam just said about him.
“Sit down, Kevin Whiteheart,” a 40-year-old-looking man came into the class, and the whole class went quiet.
His presence was quite heavy, making some students even have difficulty in breathing.
“I am Xander Demarcus, and I am your teacher for Aura Creation,” Xander said as he looked over the whole class and saw Venessa avoiding his gaze with sweat covering her forehead.
Xander was Venessa’s uncle, and he had always advised her to stop her shenanigans and come out as the official daughter of the Demarcus family, but she would always dodge the topic.
“Father didn’t tell me Uncle Xander would be teaching the first years!!” Vanessa was getting angry at her father for not telling her about this sooner.
Although Xander was the eldest son of the Demarcus family, he had given up his responsibilities to his younger brother, Vanessa’s father.
Xander was not a normal professor at World Academy; he was the Vice-Principal of World Academy, who had a 4-Star Authority that was just below Farnus Calmort, the principal himself, who had 5-Star Authority.
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Asher looked at Xander, who had a quite tall stature with his slightly grey hair and black eyes. Xander looked a bit intimidating, but Asher knew him the best. In fact, it was Xander himself who had taught Asher personally in his previous life, seeing his immense talent, but that was not the only reason he did that.
However, he had a disagreement with Farnus over something and had left the World Academy after he lost a bet he made on Asher. Soon, the news about Xander Demarcus dying was all over the news. It was quite a shock that a man as powerful as Xander, who was an SS Rank hunter, died overnight.
“I dislike wasting time, and your duel class with Professor Erwin will start soon, so let’s start your aura training,” Xander said as he raised his finger, and a blue light started covering his finger.
“Aura is the external manifestation of your mana. Try to draw out your mana to the tip of your fingers,” Xander instructed.
Everyone, including Asher, did the same, but their result was different as only a blob of mana on the tip of their finger formed, which was different from Xander’s that covered his whole finger.
“What you all are doing is manifesting mana, but it’s not Aura.”
“Some of you might already be able to strengthen your body by coating it with mana,” Xander said as he looked towards Asher.
He had also seen the tournament but was surprised by Asher’s control over mana and his flawless battle techniques.
A couple of staff members came into the classroom, and all the students saw them placing a square-shaped container with crystal blue liquid in it. The liquid smelled delicious so much so that some students wanted to taste it.
“Don’t even think of tasting it if you don’t want to die,” Xander shut down the thoughts of those curious students rather quickly.
“What is in front of you is highly diluted liquid mana, and World Academy is the only place where you can get this liquid mana because only our Principal, Farnus Calmort, knows the method to create this form of mana,” Xander explained.
“I want you all to dip your palm and do the mana circulation technique and absorb the mana, but don’t do it mindlessly,” Xander said with seriousness.
“Cling to the feeling of mana sticking to your palm. You all have one hour before you will run out of your liquid mana,”
“This is your only chance before the Assessment Test to form your Aura,” Xander emphasized as each student present there got focused and tried to do as Xander instructed.
“Try to focus your mana in the middle of your palm and spread that mana gradually till your fingertips,”
“Spread that sensation around your entire palm and create a thin coating of mana that covers your whole palm. Then, extend it over your entire arm before you run out of liquid mana,” Xander spoke in a commanding voice.
This method was one of the things Farnus had sacrificed to share with the students of the World Academy to form the current World Academy, which gathered all the elites from all over the world.
Asher dipped his hand, and Damian beside him did the same. He could feel a cold, sticky feeling of liquid mana around his palm and the back of his hand. As for Asher, he actually didn’t need liquid mana to form his aura. After reaching D+ Rank, he could have done it himself as he remembered how he formed his aura.
But for others, only when they reached at least C Rank could they form an aura around their body, and it would be only a thin aura. However, students of the World Academy had the privilege to form their Aura at E Rank, which made them a lot stronger than other hunters in the world.
As Asher started to absorb the mana from the liquid mana, he could feel the temperature of the blood around his right hand slightly increasing. Asher took the mana around his fingertips and started connecting the mana flow inside his fingertips with each of his fingers.
Asher’s mana started to form a small cluster of thin layers inside the mana veins in the palm of his right hand. The thin layers started to multiply and gradually started to become bigger, but they were still too small to be seen with the naked eye.
[ External Mana Manifestation detected ]
As the system said, the mana that was coated outside the body would react with elements present in the surroundings and form a shell. Mana inside the mana core was the purest form of mana, but the natural mana consisted of all the elements, which was why it took time to increase your rank naturally.
Only two minutes had passed, and a whitish-blue film of mana had started to form around Asher’s palm.
[ Aura is being formed ]
[ Passive Skill Aura Force is formed ]
But Asher didn’t stop there. Right now, he could use the remaining liquid mana to absorb it and strengthen himself as well.
[ Host’s mana is increasing +2 ]
[ Host’s mana is increasing +3 ]
[ Host’s mana is increasing +2 ]
[ Host’s mana is increasing +3 ]
Xander squinted his eyes at Asher, who was gathering mana from the liquid mana, and it was depleting quite quickly. Normally, nobody would be able to absorb liquid mana this quickly, but Xander was not shocked.
“Greville bloodline,” Xander thought in his mind as the reason for Asher’s insanely high speed of mana absorption, but he was a bit disappointed.
“He should have created his Aura instead of absorbing mana from it,” Xander could not help but feel a little disappointed by Asher’s action. He had thought that Asher had mistakenly absorbed the mana due to his bloodline.
“I will help him later,” he thought in his mind, but Asher opened his eyes.
He stood up and started walking up to the door, but Xander stopped him.
“Where are you going, Asher Greville?” Xander said with a commanding tone in his voice.
The staff members in the big room got scared as Xander did not like those who behaved impudently in front of him, even slightly. His personality was so strict that some people even avoided interacting with him.
“To practice my aura in the duel arena,” Asher replied while indifferently looking at Xander, not getting pressured by Xander’s presence at all.
“Aura?” Xander frowned at Asher’s word.
Asher raised his palm and Xander’s eyes widened as he saw a thin blue film around his fingers.
“How?” Xander could not believe what had happened here,
3 minutes, it was the time Asher took to form his aura while others were struggling to even hold the mana in the center of their palm far from forming an aura.