Free Web NovelChapter 27: Chapter 27. Social Anxiety.
Derulo City University.
Training Hall District.
Aiden got out of the cab.
The breeze brushed past his face, causing his clothes and hair to flutter.
The sun did not look like it would shine much today. Instead, it was quite cold.
Winter was approaching.
Aiden exhaled slightly.
The sight before him was breathtaking.
"All these are training halls?" Aiden was honestly surprised.
Several skyscrapers lined the perimeter.
Each one of them had summits that peered through the clouds.
Large crowds pulled in and out of the buildings.
Chatter was everywhere.
These were students from various year groups, entering the training halls to train.
Most of them were clad in various battlesuits as they headed into the training halls.
Aiden entered one of the skyscrapers.
When he entered the ground floor, a very lively environment greeted him.
The ground floor had a lounge, and several elevators which led to different places in the training hall.
Aiden proceeded through one of the elevators to the first floor.
From what he had read on the training halls, each floor had resources that could be used, depending on one’s contribution points. The higher the floor, the higher the contribution points that would be needed to use the resources there.
So, most of the first years were on the first floor, and the senior year students were usually on the higher floors. Of course, there could be instances where first years could also utilize the resources of the higher floors. It was all a matter of contribution points. The reason why the senior year students were mostly on the higher floors of the training halls whenever they visited the training halls was because they most of the time had high amounts of contribution points than the first-year students because they had spent a lot of time in the university, completing more missions than the first years.
The resources on the first floor were what Aiden’s contribution points could afford at the moment.
Aiden arrived on the first floor.
There were a lot of sections on the first floor.
As Aiden walked around, he discovered that gravity chambers were not the only places he could use for training.
There were virtual reality rooms, too. The virtual reality rooms had VR pods that could simulate real environments for training. They had an 89 percent reality simulation.
So the sensation of pain, environment, and everything was extremely realistic. Virtual reality could not help improve one’s cultivation.
In his case, Aiden theorised he could not absorb the blood essence of anything he killed or found dead in the VR space since it was virtual reality. However, the virtual reality would recognize his ability to manipulate his own blood and the effects of his transformed body as his affinity.
Inasmuch as virtual reality could not improve one’s cultivation, they could help warriors hone their combat instincts and battlefield experience to a degree.
Although VR could never replicate a real environment, it was very helpful to prepare students for actual environments.
The virtual reality had combat arenas and gravity towers. Each gravity tower required one to clear specific conditions to climb the gravity towers under extreme gravitational pressure.
Depending on one’s contribution points, one could spend a particular amount of time in the virtual reality towers or combat areas in the VR space.
"The VR rooms are too expensive for me to utilize. I don’t have enough credits for that. I should make use of a gravity chambers for today. Looks like for my next mission, I will have to choose a mission with a high difficulty level.
During times between missions, I should be able to use my contribution points to spend time in the VR rooms, aside from using the gravity chambers," Aiden thought.
He proceeded towards one of the gravity chambers.
When he arrived in front of it, someone was standing before the door. A very tall person. He looked like a bouncer standing in front of a nightclub.
"Sorry, someone is inside. They do not like to be disturbed. The young master has social anxiety. So kindly wait for him to leave the gravity chamber first," the person said.
Aiden sighed.
Then stepped forward.
Several first years around the place were drawn to the commotion.
"It’s Aiden Vhorn."
"You know him?"
"Yeah, he’s in my class."
"Oh, that guy who was on the news recently for assisting some second years to close a gate?"
"Yeah, it’s him!"
"Looks like a fight is about to break out between him and someone."
"Yeah. It seems he’s quite unlucky. That first-year student has been in that gravity chamber for a while. Anytime someone comes and tries to use it, that lackey at the door says the person inside has social anxiety and wants to use the gravity chamber alone."
"What?? Why are they tolerating him?"
"Well, you know Vultor Han?"
"Yeah, the third highest ranked first year on the heavenly Ascension ranking list?"
"Han? Is he from the Han Chamber of Commerce in Insula Business City?"
"Yeah. He’s the only child of the Han family!"
"Sigh. I now get why he is being so overbearing."
"Yeah. But... wait... what is Aiden Vhorn doing?"
Everyone watched.
The person before the door into the gravity chamber snorted.
His hand moved swiftly as earth hardens into rocks around it.
He was a beginner rank 1 warrior with the earth affinity.
He clenched his fists and brought the rock covered hand down on Aiden. The onlookers could feel the attack was not ordinary. It was very overbearing.
However, Aiden felt it was too slow.
He did not even need to evade it.
He simply pointed a finger forward.
The finger and the rock-hardened hand met.
Crack..... crack...
The bouncer-looking fellow screamed.
The rocks surrounding his hand cracked and disappeared.
Pain traveled through his arm.
Then his arm exploded. Blood splurged.
He screamed.
The onlookers felt chills crawl up their spines.
They stared at Aiden. He was calm. He retraced his finger.
What sort of terrifying physical strength was this?
Was the gap between beginner rank 1 warriors supposed to be this high?
He had exploded the whole arm of the bouncer with just a finger ?
This Aiden Vhorn guy was simply too terrifying.
The bouncer-looking fellow was about to apologize and scram somewhere to consume a healing medicine as soon as possible to recover, else he would collapse and find himself in the university hospital.
But Aiden was done.
The bouncer looking dude felt a hand across his face.
The hand slapped his cheek.
Bone-crunching sounds were made.
He somersaulted towards the hallway and crashed into the ground.
His face looked very swollen.
He went unconscious after that.
"Someone help!" A good Samaritan carried him away from the place, obviously to the university hospital.
Aiden looked around for a moment.
When his eyes fell on the onlookers, they felt a chill crawl up their spine.
Rumors were that Aiden Vhorn beat up a late beginner rank 1 warrior, a second-year student to the point where the fellow shit on himself.
It seemed with how he effortlessly trashed this bulky fellow, the rumor about the second-year student he beat up was not just a mere rumor.
It was real.
If that was the case, didn’t that mean he was the strongest first-year student?
Many sucked in breaths of cold air.
But, with what Aiden Vhorn had just done to the lackey, and considering the rumors that Vultor Han had made sarcastic comments about Aiden Vhorn in class 1A, he didn’t like Aiden Vhorn.
Things would definitely not end peacefully between them.
Before Aiden could enter the gravity chamber, Vultor came out of the gravity chamber.
"Couldn’t you have just used another one? Why did you have to go so far to injure my friend? Don’t you—"
Before he could continue, several blobs of blood appeared before Aiden. They turned into crimson arrows.
The crimson arrows shot towards Vultor Han, appearing a few millimetres near his neck.
"Just because killing is not allowed, does not mean you can’t end up in the university hospital. Move," Aiden said calmly.
Vultor was shaking.
He did not have to exchange a move with Aiden Vhorn to realize Aiden Vhorn was more powerful, several times more powerful than him.
The kind of fear he was experiencing as he stared at Aiden Vhorn was something he only experienced when he met opponents far stronger than him.
This Aiden Vhorn had never been weak. He was a lowkey but terrifying person. Vultor realized that all this while he had been looking down on Aiden Vhorn, he had been wrong about Aiden Vhorn. Aiden Vhorn simply didn’t pay any attention to him because he was not worth Aiden Vhorn’s time.
Vultor simply nodded obediently, then left the place, his tail tucked between his legs.
He vowed in his heart to never offend Aiden Vhorn again.
As for his lackey, screw friendship. The bastard could go to hell for all he cared.
Everywhere was silent.
Vultor Han, the heir of the Han Chamber of Commerce, had been completely dominated by Aiden Vhorn in such a tyrannical manner.
Han had left in such a subservient and obedient manner, terror written all over his face.
This Aiden Vhorn fellow was too terrifying.
Oblivious and uncaring to the thoughts of others, Aiden’s crimson arrows transformed into blobs of blood and returned into him.
After that, his crimson eyes assumed their normal color, and he entered the gravity chamber.
