Monarch of Darkness

After returning to his room, Evan took a long shower.It had been fifteen days since he last took a bath. So,he properly washed himself. He took out a clean set of clothes from his spatial ring and after dressing up properly, headed toward toward the canteen.

It was already late morning and there was very less students in the surrounding. "They must have headed toward the practice ground for the daily morning exercise", Evan thought inside his mind.

He ate up his breakfast quickly and left the canteen area. His current destination was the central building of Imperial academy. Evan intended to check out the wisdom hall today. He had already listened to some general facts about the wisdom hall.

The Sword hall specialized in training students to become heavenly warriors. The beast taming hall specialized in training beast tamers. Compared to these halls, wisdom hall was somewhat unique. It neither taught about cultivation nor taught about beast taming. It specialized in giving trainning about how to win a war by using the mind. In this choatic era of magical warriors, war was the most common occurrence. So,for the continuity of an empire like Northpeak empire, wisdom hall was essential. 

Evan heard that all the generation of crown princes studied in this hall before. Even Lewis, the vice principal of Northpeak empire had told him to check out the wisdom hall. All the children of powerful clans and families gathered here. Evan was always interested towards the knowledge of humans, their intelligence which played a major role in the fall of devils.

Evan walked toward the central buliding of Imperial academy. In his way he crossed two big buildings. One was the beast taming hall and another one was the sword hall. The central building stood tall amidst numerous buildings. It's circular structure was eye catching and it was made up of durable white stones.

The central building was not only used for admission purpose, it had also another identity. The wisdom hall was based on central building. The central building had three floors in total. The ground floor was for the grade one students.

Evan entered the building through main entrance. After entering the central building,he first saw the admission elder. He was sitting on his desk as usual. His eyes were closed and there was a serene expression on his old face. Evan had no intention to disturb him.

He heard a cacophony of noise which was coming from a nearby direction. There were also some students who were heading in that direction. Evan decided to check out the source of noise and followed after some students.

There was an huge open space in the middle of the central building. There was an martial art arena in the middle of the open space. Currently, there was a huge crowd gathered around the arena. 

Evan checked out the gathered crowd. He could tell that all of them were grade one students. There were both boys and girls in the crowd. But most of the noises were coming from the girls.

Evan shifted his gaze to the martial art arena. Two girls were fighting it out in the arena. Both of the girls were beautiful and they had almost equal height. One of them held a slender sword in her hand and the other girl had a spear in her hand. The girl with the slender sword was dancing around beautifully. Her footwork was very nimble and she was moving around in the arena frequently. "Good footwork", Evan mumbled. Although he was just talking to himself, his voice was still heard by some of the surrounding students.

"Brother, you have got good eyes. If miss Jennis will be the one to win, you must accompany me for a meal", a young man walked out and patted the shoulder of Evan. Evan became dumbfounded by the sudden turn of the event.

Evan looked at the young man who just patted his shoulder. He was a young man who was slightly taller than him. From his appearance, Evan could tell that he must be twelve to thirteen years old. When the gaze of Evan fell on his hands, Evan felt astonishment in his heart. The young man who just patted his shoulder was actually wearing a spatial ring in his hand.

"Brother, there are many heavenly beauties in our surrounding. Why are you looking at me so intently in such a time like this?", Evan withdrew his gaze and rubbed his nose in embarassment. Light laughter came from some of the students surrounding them.

Evan felt slightly embarrassed because he lost his bearing for a moment. This guy who had just patted his shoulder was wearing a spatial ring in his finger. The spatial ring itself was no big deal for Evan but he felt surprised because a grade one student was wearing it openly. "Is he not afraid that someone will snatch it from him?", Evan pondered inside his mind.

"You must be a new student. I have never seen you here before", the young man looked at Evan smilingly. Evan didn't feel any malicious intention from him and felt his words were geninue. "So, he eased up.

"I am Evan, May I know your name?", Evan introduced himself and asked the young man about his name.

"I am Chester, I will properly introduce myself later. Let's first watch the match", the young man replied and his gaze was already on the arena. Evan followed his gaze and could see that his gaze was completely on the sword wielding girl. 

Evan also started observing the contest among two girls. The sword wielding girl was swift and the spear wielding girl was steady. Evan was a staunch believer of speed in the battle. So, he deduced that the sword wielding girl would be the one to win. 

Soon,the prediction of Evan became true. The sword wielding girl managed to land a blow on the left shoulder of the spear wielding girl. Blood started to gush out and the spear wielding girl admitted her defeat. Evan could see the unwillingness to admit defeat in her eyes. The perception of Evan had grown stronger without his notice. It was the result of his attaining the miraculous state of enlightenment.

The sword wielding girl, whose name was Jennis flashed a slight smile in her face after her win and walked down from the arena in a graceful manner. Evan looked at Chester who was looking at Jennis dumbly. Evan was still too young in the case of attraction towards other gender. So, he didn't understand any head or tail about the reaction of Chester towards Jennis. Only after Jennis left the place did Chester came back from his stupor.

"Brother, is not Jennis beautiful?", Chester looked at Evan with expectation. Evan nodded without hesitation in reply. A smile lit up on the face of Chester and he pulled Evan toward the corridor. Evan followed after him and after some steps,they reached infront of a room.

Evan looked at the room which was very large. A wooden tablet was hung on the gate and Wisdom hall was written on it using a bold calligraphy. 

"Have you registered your name with wisdom hall?", Chester asked Evan. Evan didn't know anything about registration with wisdom hall. So,he shook his head. 

"You, surely are a new student. You should have enquired about it earlier. Fortunately, there is some time left for our teacher to come", Chester exclaimed and brought Evan to the familiar registration elder.

Registration process went smoothly and Evan officially became a student of Wisdom hall.