The Walker Of Voids

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--Military ID--

[Name: Lloyd Elrod]

[Age: 17]

[Year: First]

[Group: C-3]

[Commandment: First - Initial Stage]

[Race: Human]

[Class: Shadow Assassin Hybrid]

[Talent: 2-Star]

[Affinity: Shadows - Fire]

'C? It's not bad, but I expected a little better. You'd think that the news of me surviving a second commandment interplanetary dungeon would make them more enticed into throwing me into a higher group, but C group would do the trick just fine.

While Lloyd didn't know it at the time, his commandment had really brought him down a level. While many wanted to put him in B or even A-group, when they found out that he was barely in the first commandment, they scrapped the idea as fast as they thought of it.

Yes, it took years for people without backings or talent to reach the first commandment. Still, those with backing would usually reach it within the first one or two months of their awakenings. Of course, even a poor person with monstrous talent is capable of surpassing those with resources, but there were families out there who had both of these thing.

While the students didn't know of Lloyd's backing yet, the professors and the graders were well aware of his father's achievements and his connection with the glade family. He also spent 3 months in a mana-rich environment, such as a dungeon, where he was reportedly trained during most of his waking hours.

However, even that wouldn't have gotten him demoted to the bottom class of the C-group. They considered putting him in the B-class since his fighting capabilities were marvelous, as seen in the entrance ceremony. Yet, fighting capabilities were considered secondary to talent and commandment in a world that valued power more than anything.

Lloyd's talent was a measly 2-star. It was disappointing, to say the least. I meant that the chances of him reaching the second commandment were low, let alone anything beyond that.

Lloyd was a little thankful he had taken part in the entrance ceremony and had even gotten past the first trial since he would have most likely been dropped all the way down to the bottom classes of the D-group, if not worse.

Lloyd's mind snapped back to reality when he realized that everyone we beginning to move to certain sections of the plain grassy area. After remembering where he was, he quickly understood that they were lining up into their class and groups.

"Your class professors will taking you on a tour of the academy. If you ever get lost, you have a map installed into your watches, allowing you to navigate around the academy without too many problems.

For now, an indicator will show where your teacher is. In the future, this indicator will be used to show you the location of assemblies and events." The man on the pillar continued before finally seeming to be done with whatever he was saying.

The military academy was vast and spacious, never feeling too cramped, even if it were to be filled with people. The buildings of the place were as futuristic as they came, tall white skyscrapers erected above the clouds themselves.

The buildings go shorter the more out you go. It wasn't supposed to feel like a city, but it quite literally was one.

Shops could be seen everywhere, from leisure products to necessities like food or water.

"The only thing you can buy here with dollars is food and other necessities. To buy anything else, you will need to either sell something you have to earn military points, or you can gain them from exceeding in classes and doing missions around the city or outside the city if need be." Lloyd's teacher explained.

Looking up, Lloyd finally got a good look at the man who was leading them. He looked like a serious man, and that was something Lloyd liked in a teacher. Sure, it was all fun and games to have a chill teacher who would let you do whatever you wanted, but that was back in high school, where consequences were minor, and everything was lax.

Lloyd had entered the real world, and who better to guide them than a man who was serious about his job?

The man was quite tall, standing at about 5ft 11, with black hair and emerald eyes. He looked physically strong. His muscles were bulging, and from using his mana sense as well as his soul sense, he knew that the man before his was a martial artist who cultivated his body and his aura.

'Third commandment?! God damn.' Lloyd thought to himself with widened eyes.

"The city is quite small compared to the planet. The city only takes up about 5% of the planet and branches out like a tree through the surface of the itself to reach every inch of the planet, reaching almost every inch of it or at least encapsulating that ear as a controlled forest where kids could go to do missions whenever the wildlife became too much." The professor explained, but Lloyd was no longer listening.

The rest of the day went on as normal. Of course, the tour itself took several hours due to how big the place was. While many were physically exhausted, Lloyd was mentally exhausted.

He didn't really know what to do the entire time since he knew the rest of the information. He could have just turned his mind off the entire time, but he found himself bumping into too many people to make such a method viable.

He tried to cultivate his body in the meantime, yet even though he had seen many people do it on tv and even in front of him (like his father), he could not replicate their passive cultivation ability.

"Takes a lot of practice I guess." Lloyd thought aloud.

When they finally reached their dorms, Lloyd's mind screeched with happiness to finally escape the torture.

He was pretty sure he would have been bored to death if he had to go through another second of that.

"Your dorm number will be sent to you on your watch. You will most likely have one or two roommates, so don't be surprised if you see someone already in there." The teacher explained, causing Lloyd to look down at his watch to see the number on it.

[Block-B: 109]

"Floor one, room 9." Lloyd spoke aloud so he wouldn't forget the number. Sure, he had an amazing memory, but that only came to help him when it was on something useful.

After saying a few final words, every dispersed, and Lloyd walked up to his room. He just hoped that his roommate or roommates were nice. Otherwise, he would need to beat the shit out of them before moving into another dorm, possibly one without roommates.

'Should have asked for my own room.' Lloyd thought back to when he instructed his father on what he wanted when he went to military school.

*Ding*

*Click*

The door unlocked, and as he opened the door, Lloyd could not help but stiffen a little the moment he saw that someone was inside, already getting comfortable on the bottom bunk.

When he finally walked through, he looked at his roommate with a little bit of puzzlement.

There sat a man with jet-black hair slicked back with what seemed like jell. His hair looked a little greasy from where Lloyd was looking, but it wasn't hard to see that he most likely used jell since there was no way that hair would naturally stay slicked back the way the boy had it.

He had a pair of piercing blue eyes that would make most normals shudder, as well as a pair of round spectacles that would have made him look like a scholar if not for his lack of a beard. Yet the lack of a beard also had its advantages, allowing anyone and everyone a jawline so shart that Lloyd had to question if it had the ability to cut through an apple like it was a hot knife passing through butter.

His build felt far more superior than Lloyds as this young man stood at about 6ft 2 with broad shoulders and an incredible physique that could easily be seen despite the all the clothing he had on.

"Really going for the professor look? All you're missing is a beard." Lloyd commented while looking him up and down.

He was wearing a black turtleneck sweater with a brown blazer over it.

"Oh, you must be my roommate. Nice to meet you; my name is Jay Ludwig." He smiled and reached for a handshake.

'German origins huh.' Lloyd thought before clasping his hand into a firm handshake and replying-

"Lloyd Elrod, nice to meet you." they both smiled before letting go of one another.

Lloyd was happy he the black contact lenses. While having black hair and black eyes was normal, it also indicated a low family status. Therefore no one would have ever suspected Lloyd of wearing a contact lenses since no one would want to downgrade to black, right?

Nothing much happened for the rest of the evening. Jay and Lloyd didn't speak much after their first introduction, and once they got settled in, Lloyd simply started cultivating while Jay went to sleep.

The morning light shone through the window as Lloyd's eyes flickered open. From what he had seen last night, Jay had readied an alarm of his own to wake him up, and even if he didn't, the military had a system in place that would wake you up out of your deepest slumbers, no matter what you're dreaming about.

"First day of military training starts in about 2 hours. I might as well kill time." Lloyd spoke to himself after having walked outside.

Closing his eyes, Lloyd tried to focus his mind on cultivating his body, and at the same time, he would try to move around in order to allow his body to adapt to such a thing.

Eventually, it'd be like an instinct that his body does on his own, but as a wise man once said-

"You to crawl before you can walk."

***

-Deroxa - Military Outpost-

Several army individuals sat in a room filled to the brim with screens and computers. They were all experts when it came to analyzing battlegrounds and learning from prior mistakes to make sure the army never made them again.

The interplanetary dungeon was an enormous scandal! Half a planet's population had to relocate so as to not be in the danger zone of the planet's corruption.

Others were also thinking of moving away before the damage became irreparable.

However, as teams of scientists, Battle Scene Investigators, and other experts looked at a certain location, they could not help but widen their eyes in surprise.

No... It wasn't just a surprise; even traces of horror and terror were in their eyes. They had seen things like these only during their education or while watching a movie, but now they were living it.

Evidence of spacial manipulation... No, not just that... There was evidence of reality warping. It looked slightly like a true domain, but that wasn't all.

No, true domains were things of legends, passed down from one family member to the next. The only person they knew with such a technique was the king of humanity... The emperor of Solaris.

The royal family's legendary technique that hadn't been seen in use in over 100 years.

They were looking at evidence that someone had learned how to use a true domain; all they had to do was find out who it was.

The men looked at each other momentarily with excitement as their eyes trailed to a set of youngsters that had come out of the dungeon alive.

And from the looks of it, there were only two people they could talk to.