Heaven's Greatest Professor

Chapter 105: Phantom Accursed Valley

A thousand credits for a day seemed astronomically expensive for any common combat instructor, whose entire monthly remuneration would only allow them to stay for two days. It seemed.

"It is more than fair," June said. "You'd know why once you get there."

Trusting her words, Warden didn't hesitate to pay up, but when he was about to, June halted him.

"No need. Considering you have limited credits," she said, "I'll play for this time."

"Well, I have most of my credits," he argued, unprepared to let her pay. "And it's not like it would take me that long to go get the credits."

A few runesmithing classes would keep his pocket flowing with credits, after all.

"You have already instructed me personally more than once in runes," June said. "It's the least I can do for you. Besides, I have a lot of leftover credits which I hadn't used for the last two months."

"Phantom Accursed Valley," June instructed, handing over her badge to the old man to pay the bills.

Done with the payment, they entered the warpgate. The arrays of formation lit up immediately, As they stood closer. Soon before Warden could even check his surroundings, he found himself in a new location with dimming light and rocky terrain. It was a world much more like a virtual one, but far more real. There was a distinction to it.

Warden found goosebumps crawling up his skin as he appeared in the darkened land.

"How did they turn out like this?" Warden croaked, as a blade with a sharp sword intent dug towards his solar plexus. he enabled Void Shroud just in time to restrict its path and swung his spear through the ghostly echo. Of course, it wasn't so easy to kill them, but the void energy in his spear did weaken them.

"Some unique circumstances in their time had them turn into malevolent spirits, but the echoes of their intent, their remnants of their soul and Will remain in this form."

"So, you want me to learn from them?" Warden asked even though it wasn't a time for questioning. There were eight echoes: three with spears, four with swords, and one with an axe. All of them had an intent of their own, some strong, some weak, but all malevolent as if it was Warden who killed them and turned them into maddening ghosts.

Somehow, they seemed to be avoiding June. After a couple of attempts at destorying her wards, none of the echoes even got closer to her.

"Naturally," June said, "only through enduring a weapon intent will you manifest your own. Just do not be hell-bent on defeating them; instead, try to observe and learn from them. I'll be going now, I'll come to check in now and then."

Void energy seemed to be the bane of most things, and even these ghosts were no different, though they were more difficult than a physical individual. Without void energy, it would be tremendously difficult for him to fend off all their advances.

"Oh, I forgot to add, the time is dilated here," June said as transportation runes manifested under her feet. "It's more or less 12 days here, compared to one day outside. So you'll have sufficient training time."

With that, her figure vanished from the darkened valley as the eerie figures of the echoes surrounded Warden from all directions.

"Time dilation," Warden muttered. He would have thought it was cool if he wasn't so pressed under the threat of their intent at this moment. "Fine let's get this over with."

Warden released all his defence and his hold of void energy. He focused completely on the spear in hand and shot at the ghosts.