Monarch of Darkness

After process of registration,Evan received a rectangular token.As a student he needed to keep the token everytime.It was like a identity token for students and could be used for accessing various facilities around the academy.The registration elder narrated the use of token briefly.

"Do you understand?,the elder asked while looking at Evan.

"Thanks elder,I have learned most of its use",Evan replied and bowed slightly towards the registration elder. The registration elder smiled slightly.Then he ordered one of nearby guard to call the warden of grade one students.

Some time passed. The guard who went for calling the warden returned.A slightly fat middle aged man was following him. The middle aged man quickly bowed towards the registration elder. He then shifted his gaze to Evan."Is this the new grade one student",he asked to the elder.The elder nodded.Evan left the central building with the slightly fat middle aged man.

After showing Evan his new room,the warden left the place.Evan went inside.It was a simple room.Room was quite spacious.A simple bed and a pair of chair and table was inside the room.Room was cleaned already.Evan sat down and without worrying about anything,he started his cultivation.His aim was to strengthen wind,thunder and water element to his own cultivation level which was already in Meridian opening realm.As for other two element,earth and fire,he was not that interested.

Evan closed his eyes.Strands of green appeared inside his mind as he operated the mysterious elemental devouring technique.Strands after strands of green colour appeared above Evan.Wind flow grew rapidly inside the room of Evan.Evan sat there motionlessly. Time went past.When Evan opened his eyes,it was already evening.Evan stood up and took out a ordinary looking ring.

Ring was pale white in colour.A short sword appeared in his hand out of thin hair.A smile appeared on the face of Evan as he remembered the words of his uncle Aaron.The exact words of Uncle Aaron were like this,

"Little prince,it is a very precious thing even in Northpeak empire.Never expose this before you become strong.You can put all your precious thing inside this ring.As for how to use this,you can understand the details when you reach Meridian opening realm.So, quickly cultivate and reach Meridian opening realm.I will gift you a powerful weapon after you reach next realm."

Evan could not help but smile when he recalled how his uncle Aaron tried to act mysterious Infront of him.He was already in Meridian opening realm,so,he could use it easily.As for the ring,it was a spatial ring.It was not something new for Evan.As the devil prince of Eternal Moon kingdom,he had a few spatial rings in his disposal.Those were far more better in quality than this ring.But Evan didn't complain as he knew this ring would be very useful to him.So,he accepted the ring happily from Aaron.

Evan tried to channel wind energy from his body to the short sword.Soon,a green glow appeared on the short sword.Evan tried few more time and nodded in satisfaction."Wind energy is completely integrated with my cultivation level now.Now,it is the time for thunder and water.

But it will not be as easy as wind energy",he thought inside his mind.Then Evan start to practice his movement technique.This time he used wind energy in his legs to increase his movement.Sometime he went left,sometime right, sometime forward,sometime backward. Gradually he lost himself in practice.After sometime his movents began to sped up.If someone was there to watch the scene,he would have stupefied.There were only some extremely blurry movements without any pattern.Such was the essence of technique,Evan was practicing.Only after practicing for three hours,did Evan stopped his practice."Slaughter ghost dance,as expected from this technique,it didn't disappoint me",Evan thought inside his mind.

Evan walked out of his room.It was already early night.After a long day,Evan was feeling quite hungry.He went to the dining facility of grade one students.It was a one storied building near the rooms of grade one students.Evan walked to the counter from where everyone was taking their food.Evan observed a little bit.He saw everyone was taking out their student token and then receiving a plate of food from counter. When Evan was thinking of going to fetch the food,he saw a young girl.

She had long hair and she was wearing a body tight outfit.She also noticed the gaze from Evan. She sized up Evan and a look of disdain appeared on her face.Evan felt quite confused by seeing the disdain for him in her eyes.But he didn't mind much.He continued to observe the young girl.

That young girl went to the nearby counter where noone was lining for food.She took out a silver coin and received a plate of food in return from counter.Evan could see the food was much better in quality.Evan looked at the surrounding students who were making a long line to receive food and show look of envy and desire in their eyes.

"Brother,are you new here?",a boy who had almost equal hight with Evan asked while placing his hand on Evan's shoulder.Evan turned his head and saw a healthy looking boy looking at him with curiousity.Evan nodded his head.

"So,you are indeed a new student.I am Fredrick.You can call me Freddy. Brother,what is your name?",the healthy looking boy asked.

"I am Evan",Evan replied.

While conversating with Fredrick,Evan understood the entire system.There were people reaching billions in population in entire Northpeak empire.Society was quite complex in Northpeak empire.There were aristocratic families,nobles,clans,upper class and lower class in society.Rich and powerful families only took a small portion of entire population.A large section belonged to middle class and lower class families.So,there were many talented young boys and girls,who had talent but no money to push forward in their cultivation.So, every kingdoms and empires took care of such young talents by providing them some basic facilities of cultivation.Nutrition is important for a healthy body.So, Northpeak emperor had arranged free meal for Imperial academy students.

Soon,it was the turn of Evan and Fredrick.They received their plates and walked towards the chairs.Suddenly a young boy approached them.Before,Evan could react,the approaching young boy collided with them.The dress of both Fredrick and Evan,drenched completely by the soups.The conversation of Evan and Fredrick stopped abruptly.

"Freddy,how dare you?You knock out my food.Buy me another plate.Otherwise,bear the consequences",the boy yelled angrily.All colour drained out from the face of Fredrick.But Evan felt malicious intention from the boy infront of him.He felt anger boiling within him.Without thinking much,he threw his plate full of foods,toward the face of boy who was yelling on top of his lungs.