The next morning, Daniel drove through Astralis Academy's spotless halls in his Voidshadow, its quiet hum standing out against the noise of the Combat Techniques School he'd just left.
Vice-Principal Travis Standen was left completely speechless after watching Daniel flawlessly perform the S-Grade [Dance of the Trident Assault] just hours after learning its A-grade version.
His scarred face had cycled through disbelief, shock, and finally, a kind of terrifying joy.
True to his word, he had granted Daniel unrestricted access to the entire A-rank assassin skill vault, an act that had sent shockwaves through the Academy's faculty.
Now, it was time for his scheduled visit to the Weapons and Armaments School.
The school sat in an industrial part of Rivernorth, a vast complex of dark metal and glowing forges that released harmless, filtered smoke into the artificial sky.
The air smelled of hot metal, ozone, and a faint, almost magical trace of cooling oil.
