Chapter 76: Chapter 76Aaron woke up as usual. Though today was the day that he would complete his Rank-2 quest, he was not acting differently. For him, it is business as usual. Nothing out of routine.

    This is so because his brain thought of something paranoid.

    Till now, he believed that he would be safe as long as he was inside the academy, but is that truly so?

    Every student that was in the same year was a competitor. He had only met them at the orientation, spoke with one or two, and that was it. After that, he didn’t meet any of them, as he never went to any classes nor was his residence anywhere near other students.

    Even if that is so, he has met several prideful gazes who looked down on him, more like looking down on his profession. There are many envious looks among them too.

    There are a few who didn’t care much, but even those are his competitors from day one.

    The academy doesn’t have an infinite number of resources. They would provide the best of the resources to the best students. This is to make sure that they were making the best use of those resources.

    No one wants a freeloader leeching off them.

    So, the competitions to check whether the student is growing or not. If they aren’t, then it’s not worth the costs that the academy is bearing.

    For Aaron, the academy is the only way he could get his hands on a large quantity and quality of resources. So, he needs to be at the top consistently, and that means others would lose their chances of getting those top resources.

    There would certainly be resentment among some who wanted to reach that rank. sea??h thё n??el Fire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    These students should be weaker than him. So, even if they resent him, it would only be a little troublesome, but what about their families?

    The reason for a student to be prideful is that either they awakened a powerful profession or they have a powerful background.

    Dusk Academy is one of the top five academies, which means everyone here should have either awakened powerful professions or have powerful backgrounds that helped their growth before the academy exam.

    If they were just powerful, then they wouldn’t be a problem, but if they use their powerful background, that may become troublesome not just for him but also his parents.

    The issue was this wasn’t even his paranoid thought.

    After the attack on the train, he read about the cults online, at least what was available for the public. There is some information regarding them in his personal library, which the public doesn’t know.

    A few years ago, the cults were able to recruit some top students to their organisation.

    Normally, the ones that join the cult are forced due to certain circumstances as they lacked the talent to improve themselves, leading them or their loved ones to be in a vulnerable situation.

    This gave the way for the cults to burrow into the lives of the weak and spread easily.

    Many weak awakeners saw the cults as a way to improve their lives. This is what everyone believed for a long time.

    Everyone that joined the cult joined only to leave their weakness and poverty behind, but a few years ago, when the alliance raided a lot of cult HQS, something came to light.

    This was not published for the public, but it was in the information that the academy provided to Aaron.

    The cult doesn’t have weak professionals who are looking for ways to improve themselves, though the methods would hurt others.

    No, there are many talented awakeners who wanted to achieve greatness in a short time and to reach the pinnacle, cross the pinnacle of the human society.

    The cult is not just made of desperate people. They were just the face of the cult, but the real ones that control the cult are the greedy ones.

    They are much more dangerous, and when the raids happened, a lot of names came out. The alliance cleared them up slowly without alerting the public, but many of those greedy bastards were working as professors in the academies who recruited some students into their cults.

    Even the top five didn’t escape from this disaster. Though the number is quite low when compared to other academies, they were still present.

    For now, it was concluded that all the filth was cleaned, but who knows?

    There could still be some staff or students who joined those cults.

    If Aaron shows any abnormalities, there is a high chance that the information would reach those cults, and they might act against him.

    So, for him, it’s business as usual for him, to reduce the chance of them acting against him.

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    After breakfast, Aaron went to the dungeon hall and went straight towards the dungeon portals.

    Before he dived in, he once again checked his Rank-2 Quest to make sure he was not making any mistakes.

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    Rank-2 Quest: Clear a Dungeon of a minimum of two levels in two hours.

    Dungeon Requirements: All of the monsters should be higher than level 35.

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    The quest was simple. He has to clear an entire dungeon, where the minimum level of the monsters should be level 35, and the dungeon should have at least two floors. These are the conditions.

    He quickly checked the available dungeons in the hall and found three dungeons that satisfied his conditions.

    The three dungeons are the Wolf Dungeon, Goblin Dungeon and Spider Dungeon.

    Out of these, Aaron crossed off the Spider Dungeon. They are very problematic dungeons. Unless you have AOE skills that can clear out the enemies in a certain area effectively, it’s best not to dive into that one.

    During normal times, it doesn’t matter whether you can clear a dungeon or not. One can enter and leave a dungeon as long as one finds the exit portal.

    The issue now was that he had a quest that required him to clear the entire dungeon, and that meant he couldn’t leave the dungeon until it was cleared completely.

    So, in the spider dungeon, there would be thousands of spiders, many of them newborn and so small that they could hide in small cracks, making it almost impossible to deal with them without proper AOE skills.

    The choice remains between the two: the Wolf Dungeon or the Goblin Dungeon.