A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Alex listened to the man as he thought.

The instructor was teaching them about so many things that they needed to know about the world.

He told them facts and myths and busted some legends.

The class was enjoyable. Alex enjoyed it very much.

When the class was over, everyone stood and went to the next hall for lecture.

The class they were having next was weaponmaking.

The instructor was already in the hall waiting for the entire students to come in.

When they came in and settled. He started his lectures.

After he gave note. He then began to explain.

When he was done explaining, he began to throw questions to the students.

"What is a weapon" he asked?

"Weapons are equipment we use to augment our power in battle" A student responded.

"Good." the instructor said. Then he decided to make it difficult as he asked a more technical question.

"The arrays in voidstones embedded in weapons, how do they produce cultivation energies that we transform into energy-attacks?" he asked.

Then he looked around trying to notice that one student that would give him a good explanation on the question he asked.

He could see the thinking-hard expression on their faces and he gave a smile.

Alex wanted to say the answer but he was worried he would attract more attention to himself.

When he saw that nobody knew the answer to the question.

Screw it! He said inwardly.

Then he stood to give the answer to the instructor's question.

The instructor when he saw Alex asked, "You must be the boy Jennifer brought in right?" he asked.

"Yes" Alex replied.

"Alright. Give your answer" the instructor said.

"They absorb energy from energy crystals which they transfer to the weapons" Alex replied.

"Hmm. Those energy crystals, how are they formed?" He asked after Alex got the question correctly.

"In places where the energy is very dense. For example, pyroforce energy, when in abundance at a particular place would appear as mist. This mist after sometime by natural processes would condense into liquids. The pyroforce energy now in liquid form would then crystallize becoming an energy crystal." Alex replied

Since Alex has the weapon book that belonged to the Azure Beastsman, he had read it to the section that explained how arrays in weapons work.

Arrays in voidstones produce energies for weapons. These arrays draw energy from energy crystals which they transmit to the weapons.

When Alex gave his reply, the instructor looked at him in surprise and said "Good!". He was astonished how Alex knew about that.

Then he began to ask questions on weapons which Alex answered back.

It got to a time that it seemed Alex was the only one in class. The other students were amazed by his knowledge while others snorted as they felt he was showing off.

The instructor was highly impressed with Alex. He asked "How do you know so much about weapons. You have advanced knowledge of them" he asked.

"I am a fan of books. Apart from cultivation, I indulge myself in reading. So I came across a small book about weapons, it caught my interest and then I picked it up and read till the end." Alex replied.

He knew his reply was partly true and partly false.

The instructor became more impressed.

He looked at the other students and said" That's how a good student should be and behave. Not just cultivate, indulge in immoralities or whatever. You should also take your time to read. Just read on anything that would enhance your knowledge. I am sure if I give you test right now, this boy here is going to score everything. And he just started yesterday" the instructor said.

The instructor then looked at Alex. "Would you like to learn how to forge weapons?" he asked.

Weapons?

Alex's eyes glittered. He quickly nodded.

"Good. During the weekends, you can come to the weapon forging room.. There I would teach you how to forge weapons. We would start with class-1 weapons." The instructor said.

Alex nodded. Then he sat back in his chair.

The instructor looked around and said "This invitation is also open to all of you. When coming, come along with your seriousness or I would chase you out of there like a rat"

Then he continued to give lectures.

When time was up. The student picked up their writing materials and left the hall to have another class.

....

When they were done with class, they moved out of the lecture blocks to have lunch.

The place where they went to have lunch was a really big place. It could hold more than thirty thousand students at once.

It's this large because every student from the entry stage to the saint stage gathered there for lunch.

In there, Alex met Jake who came over to his side with a smile. They both sat in the same place and began to have lunch.

There was a cute girl beside Jake having her meal.

Jake smiled at Alex who was eating.

Alex saw the smile and shook his head. He knew what Jake wanted to do. He wanted to stand and go to another spot to have his meal but he killed the thought and decided he would pretend he doesn't know Jake.

"Hi beautiful" Jake said to the girl. The girl didn't respond. She only looked at him and resumed her eating.

"Hmm. The silent type or you just don't talk to strangers?" he asked.

"Why don't you shut up and let me eat in peace. I don't want to eat your saliva. It could spray from your mouth into my food" the girl replied.

Damn. That's a savage reply.

Alex laughed within him. He was enjoying his friend's misfortune.

Jake eye's turned red from anger. But he controlled himself and gave an attractive smile.

"Well, I know you are trying to piss me off so I would stop talking to you. Anyway, straight to the point, I like you very much. You are indeed beautiful. You are the girl that caused my dead heart to begin to beat again." he said.

The girl looked at him and smiled." Oh really?" she asked.

Seeing it worked, his eyes shone as he quickly nodded. "Yes. I like you sooo much" he said.

The girl nodded her head with a smile. Then she stood up and picked up the plate her food was in and poured it on Jake.

Jake shook while Alex's eyes widened in astonishment.

Her action caused everyone to turn their heads and look at her. They saw what she did and began to laugh.

Jake's face was now ugly as it twisted due to embarrassment.

"Your saliva is all over my food you bastard." she said in anger. Then she left there.

Jake quickly stood from there and rushed to the room he was staying in. He had forfeited the remaining classes for the day.

Alex pretended he didn't know Jake. He faced his meal and continued to eat.

"Isn't he your friend? Why are you pretending you don't know him? You should also share in his misfortune!" somebody shouted.

Alex heard this but he ignored it.

Suddenly, he heard something shooting towards him.

Very quickly, speedforce energy flowed to his eyes and saturated it. Then everything slowed down.

When he turned his head to see what was coming at him, he saw a bowl which contained hot liquid cut through the air at high speed towards him.

He quickly deployed his air control power and the air in front of him quickly compacted and shaped into a barrier.

The plate smashed into the air barrier and lost it speed. But it hot liquid content splashed about and every other person around him got hit by a drop or two of the hot liquid that poured out.

Argh!

The people who got hit shouted when drops of the hot liquid got to their skins. They stood up from where they were and hurried away to tend to the painful swells on their skins.

Their screams pulled everyone's attention, then some seniors quickly came over.

One of them asked "Why did you throw that plate?"

"Nothing. I just felt he should also bath in his friend's misfortune" the boy questioned responded.

Just as the senior was about to talk, he suddenly heard an angry voice in his head. "You fool, Back off this instant!"

He shook. Then he quickly went back to his table. Same with the others. They had also received the order he got.

Alex saw the senior tremble. Since he left just like that without punishing the boy, he felt someone must have ordered him to mind his business.

He could arrive at this point because of the way Jennifer usually throws messages into his head.

"Instructor Micah!" he shouted in his mind. There would be no other person than him.

Besides, he felt the hair on his skin stand on their ends again. He suddenly felt they were reacting to the presence of something.

He was right about that, they were reacting to a presence. The presence of Micah's saint-sense.

Then he thought, since my hairs stood on their ends, that means they were giving me signal of something around me. And it was just the same moment that senior trembled that I felt it.

"Hmm. That damned Instructor must have been spying on me. My hairs were actually giving me sign of his invisible presence" He said inwardly.

He was amazed and happy. He just discovered another ability of his body.

Then he remembered how his hairs stood on their ends on two occasions. In the bathroom and in the hostel block he was in. "Instructor Micah have been spying on me?" he asked inwardly.

Alex wasn't sure.

Then something came to his mind

"Was it instructor Jennifer? My body hairs reacted a second time the moment I got her message. Would she be the one that spied on me in the shower room? Definitely not. It must be that perverted Micah. The asshole has actually seen the size of my rod. Damn!" Alex said inwardly and felt like crying.

Someone have seen what he kept very dear to himself.

As he was lost in thought, he was suddenly pulled back to reality when the boy who threw the bowl at him shouted. "What now? You wanna fight me!?"

Alex looked at him and said "No. Why would I do that?"

He sat and resumed eating. Then he focused on sounds around him as he ate. He did this so he would be able to quickly respond to an attack by anyone. Once he hears any sound of something coming in his direction. He would quickly try to evade or block.

The moment he placed his focus on the ambient sounds, he suddenly felt he could hear everything to a far distance. His hearing amplified.

He started hearing the discussions of every students in this place. It was so powerful he could hear the heartbeat of everyone.

He became shocked at this revelation.

"I can do this too?"