Chapter 99: First Mission -I (1/2)

When the candidates heard these rules their faces became black, just as they were about to complain.

*Smack*

A loud smack was heard and the principal's voice which gave a majestic feel immediately took a 180 degree turn.

”You, old bugger, just because you are Marquis don't think I won't beat you to death. How dare you smack me?”

The candidates were immediately floored. Particularly the twenty people who are from the marquis city. Some of them are previously students of this academy and they saw principal many times. But all those times, they only knew the dignified leader of the academy.

Never did they expect that he would be swearing the Marquis like this. Marquis' voice interrupted their thoughts.

”you, old fool. I wish I could really beat you to death. Can't you say the rules properly? Let me tell them. I will deal with you later.” After a brief pause, he addressed the candidates.

”Everyone, the rules stated by the Principal are all correct except the rule about your spiritual energy. I will make it clear to you.

Your cultivations will not be sealed and you can use your spiritual energy, but in order to restore the energy and recover, you don't have any access to spiritual energy sources. The environment around you doesn't have spiritual energy dense enough to allow to you to absorb and cultivate. Your access to the spatial storage items is also gone and you won't be getting any spiritual stones from us.

The only way you can restore your energy is from the food we are going to send you.

Other than that, we will be giving you some missions and the ones who will achieve the best score will be rewarded. So, until the next announcement, take care of yourselves.

As your principal said, anything can happen inside those walls and you can do anything. Your life is in your own hands regarding the status you have outside and you will have to be responsible for your actions. Nobody from outside is going to interfere, no matter what happens.

Those who aren't able to take it anymore and want to give up come to the main door and shout out that you want to surrender”

After that statement everything went silent and after that brief silence, the candidates started to chatter. Some of them are confused, some of them are looking forward to it and some of them are feeling vexed that their cultivation isn't going to improve.

Sam probed to access his normal spatial ring and he wasn't able to access it. When he tried to do same thing to the divine dimension, he was able to see and communicate with Yanwu and Sky inside it, but wasn't able to get anything out of it.

But he still has one advantage over others and that is, his cultivation improvement isn't going to stagnate. Sky and Yanwu will cultivate for him and who knows, maybe by the end of six months, if he can meet them, he will even reach the Novice level 6.

After some thought, he felt that it is useless to worry about it and started observing the surroundings.

The ground isn't that damp, in fact it is a bit on the dry side and the trees are also not that dense in this land. There are a lot of open spaces with in this area.

There are no residences, no trees which have edible fruits, not even a single beast could be seen. Even the trees are a bit unusual. They only have leaves and the wood seemed to be strong.

Sam went to one of the trees nearby and scraped some bark. The bark isn't hard and tough, it is smooth and more like skin of bamboo. It has slight moisture content.

He observed the wood, which is hard and dark brown in colour, he wasn't able to recognize the trees.

While Sam is looking at the tree, members of the Falcon Cliff city are also doing the same except for Philip and Jack. They are waiting for Sam to say something.

They knew that they are slightly vulnerable in a new environment, so they aren't trying to do anything that they don't know.

Sam is very good at this, since their relationship isn't that bad, they aren't ashamed of getting his help.

The rest of the members are trying to do something, some of them are trying to communicate with the people from other cities, some of them are checking the surroundings and some of them are still hung up on that vexed feeling because of the rules.

After checking around, Sam started walking. First thing he did is get out of the crowd and went to look around the area. He walked slowly as he looked around seriously observing everything.

Philip and Jack followed him hurriedly.

Soon, they found something. They saw a stream which is more than ten meters wide flowing near the wall.

Sam looked around and came to a conclusion. The area they are in is rectangular in shape and surrounded by the tall walls, completely isolating them from the outside.

The only connection to the outside world is this stream which is flowing from one side of the rectangle to the opposite side. And even this stream didn't have any fish or other animals.

Sam took a sip of water and after confirming that they are normal and drinkable, he sighed. He suddenly felt glad that he enjoyed himself yesterday.

”Sam, what do you think we should do?” Philip asked.

Sam looked at both of them as if asking 'Are you planning on following me blindly?'

Jack felt a little shy, but wasn't completely ashamed as he felt that admitting what he doesn't know and asking for help isn't a bad thing. But Philip isn't least bit shy and in fact his face was proud as if saying. 'Isn't it obvious?'

Suddenly, Jack felt that he shouldn't have told Philip about how good Sam was, in that wilderness test of the Falcon Cliff city.

Sam didn't know what to say when he looked at Philip's expression and resigned himself to explain.

”I don't think the test is as simple as they said. The main point isn't even following the rules but the missions. Particularly the statement, 'anything can happen' is giving me a bad feel.

The main thing is that we have to frugal about the spiritual energy. So, we can't stay openly and need a proper place to rest to have enough energy. So, the first thing is we need to find a place to stay.

And we have to wait for the food they are going to send. Even though, with our cultivation we can stay without food, we can at most stay for a week or so at our level and it will cost spiritual energy.