CHAPTER 44: REGISTRATION (2)

In the grand registration hall. There was a total of four thousand and two hundred students.

This meant the lowest ranked is the four thousandth number.

And the highest ranked is the number zero.

Each number will be determined after every single student has gone through the registration phase.

The guardians remained by the student sides as they waited patiently in the hall.

This time, the hall was deathly silent.

The grand hall stretched out before them, It’s high ceilings lost in shadows.

The air was thick with an eerie silence, the only sound the soft rustle of fabric as masked beings moved with an unsettling stealth.

Every corner of the hall was guarded, each stationed at a strategic point, their eyes hidden behind black masks.

They were dressed in long black trench coats, the fabric billowing behind them like dark wings.

The coats were buttoned up to the neck, the collars turned up, giving them an air of mystery and intimidation.

It worked as many students present were frightened to the core and that included their guardians who were on high alert.

But amongst them, Caden stood unfazed as he had expected this. This is the Valor Royal Academy after all.

Ranked below the number ten, it sure has powerful existences like all this guards.

Each masked guard had the Sword Level cultivation of a Swordmaster. It was quite shocking.

While Sword Grandmasters were renowned, they were extremely rare not to talk of Sword Great Grandmasters and Sword Generals.

Sword Level, Sword Masters were beings who stood at the peak as well. Entities brimming with great power.

To think they had Sword Masters as guards.

The registration hall became noisy as students could be seen whispering amongst themselves.

Caden softly exhaled ’If this many Sword Master guards were brought into this registration hall’

’I guess he’s coming then....’ Caden thought.

Just then a masked guard stepped forward. All attention drifted towards the masked guard.

"Let there be silence!" The masked guard commanded. His voice reverberated through the air.

Applying tiny bit of Mana into his voice. The students could felt fear, their bodies shivered.

Even Sword Level, Sword Elites could not contend with Sword Masters for every level is a whole different realm entirely.

For them to reach this stage of a Sword Master. They are undoubtedly strong, too strong.

At once, the registration hall became deathly silent, no one dared to speak after what just happened.

Suddenly the eyes of the masked figure flickered for a second, "All ye students, bow before thy head chancellor"

The masked guard didn’t need to tell them twice as everyone fell on their knees. Bowing towards a certain direction.

And a green door-shaped portal appeared on the air. Stepping out of the portal was a figure whose presence was far more intimidating than even the masked guards.

This is after all.....a Sword Level, Sword Great Grandmaster!

Head Chancellor of the Valor Royal Academy.

Darius Kincaid.

Brother to the Patriarch of House Kincaid, a member of the Supreme Council who forsook his duties.

House Kincaid ruler the forty-fifth supreme kingdom.

Gray Soul Kingdom.

This was someone who was once renowned as the greatest military general before he received the invitation into the Supreme Council.

This is the ranked eleventh strongest man in the Purple Continent.

Darius was dressed in a white robe as he stepped out of the portal. His purple hair was wrapped up by a band, having similarities with the ponytail hairstyle.

Darius Kincaid had the facial features of a man who’s in his early fifties and his cultivation were visible.

He’s a Sword Level, Sword Great Grandmaster and a Mana Convergence Stage Arch Mage.

And behind him were his two trusted servants. Both members of the Supreme Council but on the bottom ranked.

Why?

Because they were below him. The middle-aged looking figure who stood by his right had the cultivation of a Sword Level, Sword Grandmaster.

And the young lady who stood by his left had the Mana Convergence Stage of an Arch Mage.

Both were agents of the Supreme Council specifically picked by Darius to be his personal aid.

Darius’s lips curled into a faint smile, he could see all the successors kneeling before him.

There were even successors of supreme kingdoms present. If something like this was revealed.

No one would dare believe it.

For even successors of Supreme Kingdoms had great powers compared to kings of medium-sized kingdoms.

Even Caden obeyed as he knelt. Only the guardians were permitted to remain on their feets.

While the rest of the guardians were frightened by the presence of a Sword Level, Sword Great Grandmaster.

Alyssa yawned, she stood unfazed.

Darius’s white teeths were shone "Greetings freshmen of the Valor Royal Academy"

Every student could feel their bones quivering at the sound of his voice. Caden was not an exception.

He too was shocked to the core.

"So this is the power of a Sword Level, Sword Great Grandmaster?" Caden mumbled.

For some reason, he was extremely excited.

Darius continued "Before we begin the registration and the numbering ritual of every freshmen today"

"I must warn you about a few certain things. This is not your supreme kingdoms, neither is it your super kingdoms, medium-sized kingdoms or lower-tier kingdoms"

"This is the Valor Royal Academy....."

"Our system is different from the outside world for a reason. We exist to guide the next generation"

"And as the head chancellor of this prestigious academy. I do not mind using iron hands against anyone who will defile my laws"

"My rules are my laws.....while I exist in this royal academy. My laws shall never be defiled"

Darius paused for a second, his eyes scanned through the grand hall. He noticed Caden who just like the others knelt.

Darius nodded before continuing "We’ll proceed with the numbering test, but before we do that"

"I should first make a few certain things clear" Darius took a step forward "There are a total of four thousand and two hundred students admitted into this academy as first years"

"But the lowest ranked number will be the number four thousandth"

"Starting from number two hundred, two students will occupy this numbers down to number one"

"But number zero shall only belong to a single student. One who has proven himself to become the first year’s student president"

"Although I don’t know how promising each of you future are. But I must warn you"

"You’re students of the Valor Royal Academy!"

"Under no circumstances will you be permitted to do anything that will stain the name of our prestigious academy"

Darius exhaled softly "And before I conclude, I should also let you know that even if you came here as successors"

"For the gravest of sins.....I shall not hesitate to grant the death penalty" Darius declared.

Caden’s eyes widened, he chuckled inwardly ’This is certainly quite interesting’ He thought.

’I cannot expose my knowledge of the Reds any further. I’ll use the academic system to wipe them out’ Caden didn’t even realize it.

But he wore an evil grin and Darius had noticed it.