Chapter 212. Combat Department.

Western Continent.

Iron Empire.

Waldhar State

Sauna City.

Sauna City University.

Professorship Residential District.

Professor Turner’s villa.

The morning sun cast its glow through the glass windows of the room facing the beach.

Aiden’s eyes fluttered open.

He checked the time. It was almost 8 am.

He quickly headed to the washroom. Minutes later, he came down the stairs of his bedroom. He was simply dressed in a t shirt, jeans and some simple sneakers.

He looked extremely ordinary. Except the calm look in his eyes, and his good looks, nothing seemed entirely special about him.

" They are here" Aiden muttered. Even without activating his enhanced sight, smell and hearing, his body had the power of a beginner rank 3 warrior. Hearing the sounds of a car engine humming outside was something easy for him.

He stepped out of the house, and used the keycard to lock it.

Before the SUV parked at the front yard, stood Genevieve and Anly, dressed professionally.

" Good morning Senior Turner, I trust you had a fruitful rest" Genevieve asked.

" The place is very comfortable. Thank you" Aiden replied with a polite nod.

" You are welcome, senior" Genevieve and Anly replied.

" We should set off," Anly said.

Aiden nodded.

The two professors entered the vehicle. Aiden also entered it and sat in the back seat.

The driver drove off through the streets, lined by several villas of magnificence and trees.

[ It’s 8;30 am today and it’s Monday, I am your presenter for this show and...]

The radio in the vehicle played, making the comfortable silence in the vehicle more pronounced.

Eventually, the road gave way to a different region after a sign ahead of the road, which read, Combat Department ahead, came into view.

Several skyscrapers of different magnitudes came into view. There were even a couple of stadiums, streching across the place. Aiden deduced that these were combat duel arenas for competitions, assessments and life or death duels.

Vehicles with the insignia of the university and the insignia of various departments passed through different routes, headed towards different directions.

Students could be seen headed towards different lecture halls. Some of them paced forward with expressions of anxiety. Clearly, they were late for lectures. Others looked extremely relaxed and were even chatting around.

Eventually, the car pulled to a stop before a tall Skyscraper shaped like a slanted sword.

A sign read above the entrance.

[ Combat department, staff building]

" We have arrived, sir. This is the staff department, where we will register you officially as a staff after you are introduced to the dean and the other professors. The other buildings and facilities are all lecture halls and training facilities dedicated for the progress of the combat department. They include gravity chambers and VR towers, arenas and gyms" Anly explained.

Aiden simply nodded.

A calm glint flashed through his eyes as they stepped out of the car.

" The dean wants to test me before I’m registered officially as a professor. It’s only natural, " he thought.

His blue eyes turned crimson as his gaze peered through the walls of the villa.

Inside a large room on the fifth floor, several individuals were currently seated across a conference table.

They ranged from legendary rank 2 warriors to intermediate rank 3 warriors.

The intermediate rank 3 warriors were 30. The beginner rank 3 warriors were 30 and the legendary rank 2 warriors were 40.

Only one of them was an advanced rank 3 warrior.

He was seated at the head of the table.

" Must be the dean," Aiden thought.

The man looked very ordinary. But the sharp unfathomable glint in his eyes spoke a lot about him.

He was an experienced warrior. Although he looked fairly young, his eyes carried a demeanor that revealed that he was an old monster who had seen the vicissitudes of life.

" A very dangerous man" Aiden thought

"Someone like that cannot be underestimated. Out of everyone in the room, he’s the most ordinary looking person. But no one is daring to speak a word. It’s like they are all on edge around him"

Seated next to the man was a woman with an extraordinary bearing.

She had cut her hair short. Although she had a bustly figure. She looked very athletic. She was an intermediate rank 3 warrior.

But the looks the professors were giving her were looks of reverence and fear.

" Must be the vice dean. An old monster too" Aiden thought.

After that, his crimson eyes turned blue.

When they reached the entrance, several people passing across the place were muttering to themselves.

" Who is this person?"

"Professor Anly and Professor Genevieve are ranked 200 and 199 respectively on the professorship rankings. Yet, they are treating that young man in ordinary clothes with respect? Who is he?"

" Must be some new student..."

" Idiot. Why would two professors defer to a student? Don’t you know the status professors hold? Why would they defer to a student."

" He’s either a guest or the new combat professor for the fourth year students!"

" What?? But he..."

" I heard some fourth year high ranked students who just returned from the exchange event in the Drax Empire of the southern continent, state that they could be getting a new combat professor soon"

" You mean it could be him?"

" Yeah. Don’t underestimate anyone just because they look ordinary"

" Yeah. You have a point. If two professors are treating him with respect, it could be that the rumors are true"

" But still.. for them to treat him with this manner of respect is not normal. At most they’d treat him politely like they’d treat a colleague"

Suddenly, the people paying attention to the ordinary looking young man flanked by two senior professors of the combat department, heard Anly speak as she pushed open the door for the regular looking young man.

" Senior please, "

Aiden simply nodded politely and went through the door.

Anly and Genevieve followed him into the ground floor.

"Did they just address him as senior?"

" It seems he’s at least a beginner rank 3 warrior!"

" Had I met him on the streets, I would have probably tried to bully him!"

" Seriously. Powerhouses really are strange. They look nothing like the image we create of them"

" Well, that’s because they are so above our league that they don’t see the need to prove anything to anyone"

" It seems the fourth year students will be in for a shock when they find out that their new combat instructor is a rank 3 warrior, and is so young"

" Who knows... he could be an old monster. These days, old monsters look young because of cultivation"

" Well, whatever it is, we will find out soon enough"

" Yeah, news will spread anyway"

" Quick, let’s go to the VR tower"

The group of students quickly left the place and went about their business.