Arts

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(Kalki's POV)

The day after tomorrow was the opening day of the hexagon hero academy so I decided to go there today to avoid rush time. I packed my bag and picked up the clothes I shall require during my stay in the dorms. I really wanted to put my bags in my dimension and walk carefree but knowing that personal storage rings were not allowed inside, I dropped that plan. 

After traveling for 3 hrs, I finally reached hexagon hero academy. Even though the novel stated how huge the academy is but still in real life it was kinda unbelievable. Hexagon academy was a city in itself. They provide everything students may need during their stay. I walked inside and reached the reception area after showing my letter and some proof through my phone. They took my biometrics and handed me a black watch and an id card.

The black watch was an artifact built by the academy 'for the safety of students'. It contains their id and storage space. It's not mandatory to wear the watch during the academy but every outdoor activity requires it. Even for entry either an id card or watch is required because both contain biometrics that corresponds to the academy database. Only a few people know this fact but the watch also acts like a GPS too. Due to being a storage device, many People use it. After all, artifacts that provide storage space are too expensive for a normal person.

I reached in front of my dorm buildings. There were four sky-high buildings one after another in a lane. These buildings contain 6 zones: copper, bronze, silver, gold, platinum, and diamond.

The diamond zone is the zone where the top 10 ranking students stay. It provides extreme luxury and equipment for their use. After that 11-50 -> platinum, 51-100 -> gold, 101-500 -> silver, and 501-1000 -> bronze. As the rank drops the facility and luxury also drop, thus encouraging students to score high to get more.

 Knowing that the academy allotted a room with a room number the same as rank, I didn't bother to disturb the receptionist and walked straight toward my room. I walked inside the Gold zone and reached in front of my room which was room number 93, the same as my rank. The room was quite spacious. It contains 3 rooms connecting to the hall in the middle. On the right kitchen can be seen and on the left bathroom. I put down my bags near the sofa in the hall and walked towards the rooms to see the interior. The first room was the bedroom which contains a big bed, desk, and cupboards for clothes. The second was a training room made with the help of mana crystal and the third one was a gym. After I arranged my things and took a bath I decided to practice my art.

I was sitting in the middle of the training room circulating my mana according to the path my art created. It took me three hours to circulate mana in both of my art one by one.

Arts were usually classified into two groups: Magic arts and Body arts. 

'Magic arts' are usually those arts that give the user the ability to do some kind of elemental control. For example, both of my art comes in this category. Usually, magic arts are very rare and hard to master. For every 500 martial arts, only 1 magic art can be found, and even then it's not necessarily a good one. Most magic art gives a specific part of elements as power. For example, the heroic grade 'Explosion art' used by world ranking 10 heroe, only provides explosion as an ability which is a fraction of fire element power.

Whereas 'Body arts' arts which give users good movement, strength, stamina, rarely body transformation and other miscellaneous powers. Unlike magic arts, these can be found in different grades and are comparably easy to learn. For example, my 'black panther step art' provided me with movement comparable to the monster black panther at the highest level. Thus, people usually prefer body arts over magic arts.

Thinking about arts I used my stigma to take out my dairy to add some details on divine arts. Divine grade arts or Divine arts are totals of 13 in number among which 9 were magic arts and 4 were Body arts.

Divine arts are special because they contain the will of divine beasts and mostly get inherited either in special inheritance dungeons left by the previous user or divine beasts themselves, or handed down in the families of previous users.

 In my case, I was the first inheritor of shadow and light dragon arts and both Erebus and Ciana agreed to me inheriting it thus, my case was the prior one. But other divine arts which have their previous users like 'lightning dragon art' which Alec gets in the inheritance dungeon created by his previous user on accord to the will of the divine beast and 'Black turtle body arts' which was passed down in the royal family of dwarves; are by one way or another gets passed down to the next inheritor.

Strangely, figuring out the mana circulation path of 'Divine grade arts' doesn't make you an inheritor or give you access to the art like others. If you are a descendant of previous users then you may be able to use a fraction of divine arts power but, only the true inheritors, which were chosen by 'Divine beast's will' able to fully utilizes it. Therefore even though, 4 out of 13 divine arts are passed down from generation to generation in big families and inherited by their family members. No one was truly able to utilize it and only showed powers comparable to those at heroic or legendary grades at most.

Well, this timeline was gonna be different due to that infamously famous 'golden generation' thing. Hence this year's inter-academy competition was gonna be a battleground with almost half of the true divine art users fighting among each other and knowing I also have to participate in it because of 'that thing' there were only two words in my mind: " how bothersome".

I looked at my hand watch and found out that it was already past 9 pm. I walked out of the training room and took a quick shower again due to me being sweaty all over. Looking at the mirror I was quite amused due to two reasons.

 Firstly, even though now I wear my mask all the time, I never felt unusual. It also helps to reduce my charm which was a good thing for me right now because just a few days earlier I remembered that, right now not even all the main cast would have their charm in SSS rank. Thus, making my charm comparable to them.

And secondly, even in this life, my face was similar to what I looked like in my past life. Just my features being upgraded and my eyes color being changed. Thus, I never found difficulty in recognizing myself. 

Wearing my clothes which were black pants and a t-shirt, with a white hoodie on top of that and also my usual mask, I walked out of my room to get something to eat.

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( On the same day )

Inside a very big training room covered in a special fog, a boy with dark purple hair can be seen heavily panting. His eyes showed extreme tiredness and his clothes were fully soaked with sweat. Around him many emptied and filled bottles of potions and some leftover herbs were present.

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"Huff… Huff….. finally…. Huff….."

" In damn time….Huff..."

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[Congratulations!!] 

[Your stigma got awakened]

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I tried to stand but my legs had no strength to support me. I dragged myself towards the potion and picked one of them. After drinking 5 bottles one by one I finally got some strength. Looking at the room covered in illusion mist, I turned on the air sweeper and called the butler to clean up.

Sitting on the couch, I spoke "status" in my mind.

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"Status"

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Name - Drago Velson

Age - 16 yrs old 

Talent - Diamond

Rank - E

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Strength - E+ 

Agility - E-

Stamina - E

Mana -E+ 

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Charm - S+

Mind - E-

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Art -  wind sylph art (heroic)      

Stigma - push and pull

Manual- Imperial spear art(5 stars) {competent}

Skills -  1• concentration (B grade) {active}

             2• fireball (B grade) {active}

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