The Tales of Draconic Warlock

After a day of training in the class, I returned to my quarters. These were not the same that we had in the first year. Every year, the quarters change. Though I still have the top student quarters, the one I have now is different from the one I had in the first year.

The facilities inside are better and more advanced than before.

The academy should understand that as the year grows so does the skills of the students. Training with old and outdated equipment would only hinder the students' growth.

I wonder where they get the money to buy all these.

Are the drops from the dungeon sufficient?

No, I don't think so. Most of these drops were refined and used by the students. The prices here are cheaper when compared to outside. So no matter what, the drops can't be so much that they could be used to provide these facilities.

There was no admission fee, so there should be some money infusion some other way. It looks like a lot of taxpayer money goes into the academies. It is the only way for the academies to have such facilities.

I mean, the academy has to pay the staff too right?

If they depended only on the dungeons, it wouldn't be sufficient.

This is probably why our Academy has to share the entrance tickets with the other four academis though the entrance is in the royal academy.

These facilities are nice and good but I don't think they would be of much use for me. After dinner, I am going to enter Nexus. If what the guidebook said is true, there should be a training room inside and it was said that it is one of a kind.

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Late at night...

After having dinner, I entered Nexus.

In the guidebook, there was a mention of a training hall. The only description it had was that it was the best training hall that ever existed.

I don't know if it is but there should be something that can help me progress fast. I mean, this is after all a product from ancient times. Much of the knowledge from back then was lost.

The powerhouses that existed back then are too much for the present era. Even 10% of the ancient powerhouses can bring today's powerhouses to their knees, all the powerhouses.

So I hope the training hall is better than what was available in the academy. Even if it is not, having Nexus means access to the secret realm. Oh, I forgot to say that.

There is an entrance in Nexus through which one can enter the secret realm that I came out from a week ago. It was not the only secret realm that the Nexus has access to. There are nine more but at present, these portals are in a dormant state.

To activate them, a lot of resources are needed. Even maintaining them meant that a lot of energy was being burned. So they were turned off. I can turn them when I need them but before that, I should find which secret realms these portals lead to.

These secret realms could be in the wild. If that is the case, then it would be for the best. I can freely conquer them. It means that I would have access to a lot of resources. I can sell the abundant resources in the cosmic market and get what was not available here.

The problem arises if the portal leads to a secret realm that is already under someone else control. If I enter such a realm, there will be conflicts.

I can't brashly enter them without knowing what the realm that it leads to is. I nee to read the guide book as soon as possible. Only after that should I make my decision whether to activate these dormant portals or not.

Moreover, I don't think I have the resources to activate them anyway. It takes some time before I can collect those resources.

Also, a stealth-type skill. I should get one. It should be useful if I stumble onto an occupied realm. I want to know whether that realm is occupied or not but there is no guarantee that I could recognize all.

It was said that many big families have secret realms and it was also said that the number known to the public was not the true number. Some were hidden from outsiders.

Whether it was a rumour or true, I believe it to be true.

No family would publicly show all their trump cards. It would only make it easy for the enemies to come up with strategies to neutralise these trump cards.

Dungeons and Secret Realms are also trump cards. The more dungeons and secret realms that a family controls, the stronger they could be.

In this world, a combat professional needs EXP that they gained from slaying monsters. The more monsters that they can slay, the more EXP that they would gain and the faster they could reach higher ranks.

Moreover, the resources to craft equipment, potions etc... mostly come from dungeons and secret realms.

So resource points such as these are important to the families and the more they have, the better the strength of the families would be. There is another reason why they wouldn't show everything because there are many ways to sack someone's wealth. The wealth would be safe as long as others don't know about its existence.

There was a saying. Holding a gem in one's hand is not a crime but being weak and holding it is a crime.

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You have entered the Training Hall. Say START or STOP to activate or deactivate the training.

As soon as I entered the training hall, I heard the mechanical voice. This was the same one that I heard during the trials.

Why did it announce itself now and not when I entered the promotion room?

Well, whatever. I don't need to know everything. Let's start the training and see how good it is compared to the academy's facilities.

"START".