Chapter 378 One Above All (1/2)

Chapter 378 One Above All

After teeks, the students had been allowed back to their ho back to the safest place they knew, in hope to show their progress to their parents, that was not the case for Ivan, as now standing next to his father, and the nicely dressed fatwhat Ivan had learned to his eedheld between the fat ed merchant while Ivan remained quiet, and his father anxiously observed the reactions of the leader of the conglomerate to which he was part of

”It would see, and the ardless of their status or power” Said the fata summary of what Ivan had told him ”Their infrastructure are more than adequate, and if their teachers were known cultivators, the acadeh level facility”

Theblack beard while in a pensive state, then turned to look at Ivan, and asked, ”You have visited high level acadeest difference between those, and this one”

Seeing that he had lost the attention of the ed , ”Sir, they come from a poor and ownerless system, and-” However, he was interrupted before he could finish speaking

”I wasn't talking to you” Said the ed man with an authoritative tone

”It does not feel like an academy We do not have limitations on our nments, or co as we have enough crystals, and pursue the path that we prefer It feels like a simulation of our life outside of the academy, but e follow a more Benevolent path, we are rewarded” Responded Ivan with a single breath, while trying to convey his impression of the place he had been in for the last teeks

While aware that the rest of the highhim do the dirty work, and that they would ultimately take the academy away froed randfather His interest for this academy was the same as the rest, and while his children were not as hopeless as most of the others, he knew that there was ht them to be more prepared for their future

”Tell me about the students you have mentioned before The senior students” He then asked to Ivan, co the presence of the fat man

”They act as simple students, but their standards of power is impossible to match None of Cato's students can coh acadeovernment, but the senior students They are on another level, Sir” Responded Ivan as honestly as possible

In an atteather infor thewhenever one of the senior students would begin their training He would then spectate, and try to gather as much information as he could

”Have you ever spoken to theed merchant with clear curiosity

Ivan nodded faintly, then responded by saying, ”Multiple times They were not too friendly, but I haven't felt any for their powers, I have asked in many ways, but the only responses I have ever obtained, was related to the founder of the acadeedhis beard He only stopped the moment a faint smile appeared on his face a few minutes later He then turned to look back at Ivan and his father, and said, ”You two can go Mister Mir will give you your next assignment before your return to the acade for this, Ivan's father bowed politely, and left while dragging his son by the right ared merchant to talk alone

”Sir,about?” Asked the fat man after a few unco, or not be aware that so to increase their power We need to have a look at those kids Have Ivan spread the rumor about the One Above All Cato still has seats to occupy And don't forget to have hiious Mercantile Ethics when on topic” Responded the ed merchant with an uncertain tone

The fat man was shocked by what he had just heard

The One Above All was an event that had been organized by the universal government for the first time in history, and whose prize and purpose had yet to be revealed The only things that were known about it, was that millions of the overnment's academies, would face each other in a series of events, froies would come out victorious

What had been kept as a secret, was that the winners of this event would be the ones that, just a few years from noould have to participate in the coovernment, and the invaders that came from the other side of the worranted to each galaxy, and as the core of its own galaxy, the rich e portion of it Siranted to the many factions and the military academies

”Sir, I don't think They are qualified to coenuine aet them out of the pocket dimension If they really have an artifact that can boost their powers, they will need it in the coregious Mercantile Ethics with a stern tone

”The other students will spread the same rumors we have heard, and before they conduct their research, and coet a hold of that artifact”

After only a few days of freedo of their education, which consisted in siain resources, but also introduce the which they had seldootistic lives