I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 246: Real wealth

Eryndor glanced past the mission and read the rest of the information.

[Name - Clarence]

[Level - Stage one Qi Condensation realm]

[Duration - Two years six months twelve days.]

[Rank - Unranked]

[Mission completed - 42]

[Spirit coins deposited - 319]

[Weapons deposited - None]

[Room - 6 C]

The Academy back on Earth had a term of four years for each student.

Whereas here, it was a seven year duration.

First, it was because the Cultivation Outer Domain wasn't in any hurry to pump out strong people.

They let the students practice, learn, and grow at their own pace.

The Academy was under a lot of pressure to have strong and capable graduates.

Rumor was that the common consensus was for The Academy to have a two year or maximum three year term.

It was solely due to the voice of Dr. Kirchoff that they were allowed to have a per student period of four years.

In the Academy, a student could graduate and leave as soon as they reached the later stages of the second realm, which were the seventh, eight and ninth, regardless of which year they were in.

The reason that was so was because The Academy had nothing else to give to the students at that point.

If they decided to stay in the Academy, they could no longer take the missions, but needed to teach the weaker students in exchange for credits, and it was such a low amount that the majority of the students chose to graduate.

Well, one might ask, then why were so many students at stage nine of second level, like Edward, still staying in the Academy?

Because these were the old rules.

After the Cosmic Limit increased to level three and the Academy found an energy mine, it could afford much more resources than before.

There were also a few other reasons which allowed the Academy to train students to higher stages.

The limit hadn't increased by much though.

The Academy would now only provide you resources till stage nine of level two, and a specialized room when you were trying to break through to level three.

Until The Federation found more resource points, the level would be stuck at stage nine level two.

When Eryndor saw the graduation level here, he got quite a shock.

Level four?

Well, given that they got seven years, it maybe wasn't that difficult to climb till level four within that time frame.

Level four was the standard of high level graduates. The ones at the very top would even graduate at level five at the end of the seven year period.

In the information that he got, in the central lands of Cultivation Outer Domain, there was even a monster who climbed till level six at the end of the seven year time period in his Training Camp. Since the last century he was the only one.

That was also the limit of the Training Camps, level six. Once one reached that level, they wouldn't give you any more resources or help, you had to graduate and leave.

The second reason the Academy had four years and the Training Camps had seven years was because the former taught all eight power systems, whereas the latter only taught cultivation, which was especially slow.

The cultivation power system had a low threshold to start in terms of all things such as time, resource, knowledge, but during breakthroughs, it was one of the slowest if not the slowest.

It was obvious that the Academy wouldn't extend their term years just to accommodate the cultivation power system. They didn't force you to choose that, it was all up to you in the first place.

Removing the badge from the shallow depression, Eryndor put it back in his pocket.

This identity can stay here for more than four years.

But Dr. Kirchoff said that I'll die if I don't get to level three in three power systems in three months.

Is that the key to deal with the danger brewing here?

What would happen if I fail to deal with the danger?

Eryndor blanked out for a second before recalling that he already knew the answer.

Oh yea, I'll die of course. Why am I being so stupid.

He shook his head and took the stairs to head towards the living quarters.

When he reached the door to his room, he took out the badge again to scan it at the handle before the door opened with a click.

After entering the room, he locked the door behind him.

It was a small room with a bed, a few other miscellaneous things, and two doors. One of which led to a bathroom and one led to a similarly small kitchen.

If he wanted to upgrade his living quarters he would have to pay more.

There was a ranked list here at the Training Camp which was similar to the leaderboards of the Academy.

If you were strong enough to be ranked on the ranked list, you would get a room for free, and it would be a bit better than his current one.

Well, the Academy is at least much better than the Training Camp in regards to living accommodations.

Eryndor freshened himself up in the bathroom after hanging his armor on a stand nearby.

From what he observed, it seemed to have self repairing properties, but he didn't know how long it would take.

After changing into another set of clothes, he sat on his bed.

As soon as his butt touched the mattress, he remembered that every room's storage compartment was below their bed.

He got up, and faced the bed.

Moving around the mattress, he finally saw the compartment below the bed.

Eryndor looked around for a second or two before finding a well hidden latch and handle.

Opening it within a moment, Eryndor gazed inside and found a weapon.

Huh? A pair of daggers?

Eryndor could already envision a few ways to use them, but he wasn't really fond of them.

He liked hitting from a safe distance and closing the gap only when he was absolutely sure.

Well, gotta make do with what I have.

There were also a few spirit coins at the bottom of the compartment along with a few glass bottles.

This must be my real wealth.

A disciple could choose to store their spirit coins, weapons and other things at the counter near the Mission Hall, as it was absolutely safe, and no one could steal it from you.

A downside was that it charged a certain amount of spirit coins every month for the service you were using.

If they didn't wish to store it there, they could also choose to keep it in the storage compartment of their own room, which was less safe, since the doors with badge scanning mechanism were purposely made to be not completely infallible.

It was to instill a sense of unease in students which would propel them to work harder and be stronger.

Another point where the Training Camp is different from the Academy. Our Villa is designed to be an absolute safe haven.

Clarence had very likely kept a few spirit coins in the counter still because of emergencies.

What if he was extremely injured and couldn't climb the stairs to claim the spirit coins in his storage?

In that case he could use the ones stored at the counter.

Apparently this was a common tactic among the disciples.

If this was the Academy, Eryndor was sure they'd never let a student die over something as trivial as this, but the Cultivation Outer Domain lacked everything but talents and youngsters with their immense population base.

Eryndor put the pair of daggers aside and kept all the spirit coins back in the storage compartment, there were 1018 of them.

After doing so, he took out the glass bottles and opened them one by one to sniff the pills inside.

These look like food pills.

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These are Qi Gathering pills level two.

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Qi Gathering pills level two.

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Qi Gathering pills level two.

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Food pills.

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Spirit Strengthening pills level two.

Oh I can use these for my Mentalist power system.

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Pure Qi pills level two.

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Qi Gathering pills level two.

Once he was done identifying the pills inside, he put them back inside the storage, quite satisfied with the hidden stash which Clarence had.

At least he had some capital to start with instead of being completely poor with nothing to do.

Since he didn't have his extendable spiked mace on him, he would have to make do with daggers until he could customize a weapon for himself.

For the next few moments, Eryndor input Qi in the pair of daggers and figured out their functions.

It's just enhanced sharpness and durability, way less functions then what my spiked mace had.

Even if he didn't have enough money to order a customized spiked mace, he at least had to put in a few more functions in these daggers for more versatility.

He took a look at the armor, and realized that more parts of it had been repaired. If it continued at this speed, it would be completely repaired in a few hours.

Eryndor took a look at the bed and considered sleeping.

After all, before getting beaten and dropped here by Dr. Kirchoff, he had gone to sleep.

Nah fuck it.

The armor's about to be repaired.

I have got a weapon.

And I don't feel very sleepy now.

Having thought so, Eryndor sat cross legged on the floor of his room and decided to make a mental note of his future actions to be taken here before heading out to complete the ongoing mission.