The combat weapons training class was overseen by a man that went by the name Dan Schneider.On Arran's first contact with instructor Dan, he was left with only one impression.Fierce!Instructor Dan was very fierce indeed.Instructor Dan was a battle-hardened veteran with crisscrossing scars on his face that did nothing to subtract from his handsomeness.He always seemed to have a scowl on his face and was the type of person who felt that it was a waste of his time to be away from the battlefield just to train a bunch of babies who were still wet behind the ear so that they could effectively wield a weapon when he could have made better use of his time and strength winning more battles for the Aeth.In his own words, he said, "One day I spend teaching a bunch whining children is another day that the Aeth may lose ground in the frontlines of battle!"Rumors said that instructor Dan used to serve in the frontlines of the aeth explorato

Arran was currently standing before the field of weapons.In front of him was a little distance the length of one foot that separated Arran from all the weapons that are planted there. This meant that after one step, Arran would officially have stepped into the field but that one step seemed to be too heavy to take.As Arran stood before the field of weapons, he closely observed the weapons that were planted here. Every single weapon he set his eyes on had one obvious characteristic, they were battle-worn.No matter if it were the swords, axes, or spears, they all had tell-tale signs of what they had experienced and the battles they had been through. While the weapons were kept in really good shape, and there was still a lot of use left in them, basing solely on the purpose of their creation, then it was without any doubt that these weapons had been retired from active duty.Why then was the last step too heavy for Arran to take?Well, that was bec

The first exchange between Arran and the training dummy ended with Arran's loss but Arran did not think that it was an entire loss. As a probing attack, Arran felt that he had succeeded. at least now he could roughly gauge the standard of this dummy.According to how Arran felt, he thought the dummy was most likely at the level of a veteran swordsman with twenty years of experience who had been using the sword since they were old enough to wield one.That was where Arran judged the dummy to be in terms of its skills with the sword alone, that did not mean that its strength was only at that level.This dummy was built with beginner Demi's in mind so naturally, its fitness level would be around that level, coupled with the fact that it was a man-made creation, Arran suspected that it had been programmed with intricate code of commands and intrinsic reactions.In order to prove his suspicions, Arran continued probing the dummy.After a few probes whic

"So I'm telling you, if you ever want to increase your status with the Aeth, the fastest way is to get married to someone from a very powerful family. Believe me, we Aeth are all about family relationships and marriage." Charmy was informing Arran.As Charmy and Eris were escorting Arran to the venue for his invitation, they were discussing the social distinctions between members of the Aeth race.Among the Aeth, there were usually different class structures that differentiated a person's status from another. While it did not get to the extent where people were discriminated against simply because of their status it could not be said that such discrimination was not entirely nonexistent.As they talked the topic gradually moved from the different class systems to how an Aeth could increase their social status.At least in this part of the universe, it was relatively easier to improve one's social status. Apart from the usual options like gaining vast weal

The doubt that Arran had could not be said to be a big deal or it could be a really big deal instead. Either way, Arran felt that his doubts were pretty significant.In the beginning, when Arran had first had noticed the series of anomalies that had given rise to his doubts, because of the commotion at the moment coupled with the fact that Arran could not piece some of these puzzle pieces together, Arran had not been able to come up with a reasonably complete picture in which his doubts would fit in. Now that Arran had some time to think where he was not being hunted by man-eating monsters, he had finally put the puzzle pieces together and had come up with a relatively complete picture in mind.The first piece of the puzzle that Arran noticed was the absence of any of the instructors or the authority figures of the academy.Since the alarm had rung throughout the academy and the portal connecting the academy to the other end of where the green-skinned mandrakes