The conversation quickly ended after that, with nothing much being said. However, just as Zale had said to the rest of his tribe. It seemed I was the key to everything now that I had acquired this power.

I still ignored how I would free them from this curse. But that wasn’t what I cared about.

With this power, the demonized monsters might not even be an issue any longer. Well, as long as I regained my lost strength and controlled this energy.

As I left Zale’s house, all of my students had woken up. It seemed Ariella had already told them about what had happened…about me being unable to even walk on my own.

“Are you okay, Professor?” One of them asked.

“Don’t push yourself too hard…this isn’t healthy!” Darla said, clearly worried.

“You can rest, too. Don’t get hurt.”

I just smirked at their worries. It was nice to have so many people worried about you. It was the first time that such a thing had happened to me. After all, before, when I was at war, people would say the exact opposite every time that we were tired, especially my master.

***

A long time ago.

“Rest is for the weak, Caedrel. Are you weak?” He said.

“No, sir!”

“Do you want to become just as powerful as me?”

“Yes, sir!”

“Then, stop lamenting and get up. We are far from finished.”

***

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Rest wasn’t something that I was used to. I needed to keep pushing my limits until I would die of exhaustion. I was the only one training so hard compared to my peers, which is also the reason why I got so powerful, I guess. And I would have to do it all over again.

I had no time for resting. As much as I wanted to, I needed to get back to my original strength as fast as possible.

“Do not worry about me. This much is nothing. I have been through much worse.”

They all gulped at those words. If this was nothing…they couldn’t even begin to imagine what kind of training I was used to going through.

“If you want to become powerful, sacrifices are needed. If you want to become as powerful as me, you will need to sacrifice more than me.”

They all nodded. They knew I was right. However, most of them didn’t think that it was possible to push themselves more than I was pushing myself.

After I was done with those words, Zoe coughed once, gathering all the attention to herself.

“Also, starting from tomorrow, I will be training Caedrel alone. Someone else will take over your training. Caedrel is a special case, and his strength is much different from all of you, so he will need something… harsher for his body to progress.”

They all gulped once again. If I had been in that state from this “basic” training, they couldn’t even imagine what would happen once I went through the “special training.”

“In fact, he will be going through isolated training, and no one will be able to contact him for over two months.”

“WHAT?! Isolated training?”

Ariel was the one who shouted, which surprised me greatly.

“Just what are you going to do to him? I want to join.”

“Same here!”

“We won’t leave you alone, professor!”

I just smiled at their reactions. However, I shook my head.

“The training I will be going through isn’t something you guys can do. I’m sorry. However, even while I’m not here to supervise all of you. I hope that when I come back, each of you will become much, much stronger.”

With those words, all my students nodded as Zoe, and I walked away toward a hidden space within the tribe’s village.

***

POV Jackson

It was now night, and our stupid Professor was going into seclusion to train and become more powerful, even if he was already strong enough to rule over the whole world.

I didn’t know why he was doing something like this, but I thought it was time to report everything I had learned to Alexandra, just like she had asked me to do. After all, she had promised me I would fire Caedrel if I continued to give her information about him.

I typed Alexandra’s phone number, and it rang. Within a few seconds, she picked up the phone.

“Jackson, what is it? What is Professor Caedrel doing in the Snowy Mountains?”

“He has just announced to all of us that he will be going in some kind of weird seclusion training for more than two months.”

“What? Seclusion? Training? What is planning to train?”

I had no idea why Alexandra was so obsessed with our Professor, but I could only guess that she was jealous of his strength.

“I don’t know. We entered the village of some kind of weird ancient tribe, and ever since then, he said that he needed some training for whatever he was planning to do in the Snowy Mountains.”

“I see, training…Ok, thank you for the report. Where are you right now? I will send someone to observe what’s happening. Share me your location.”

I clicked a few buttons on my phone, and my location was shared with the director.

“Alright, perfect. I’ll send someone right away. Just stay there.”

***

POV Alexandra

“Why is Caedrel training when he was in such a rush to go to the Snowy Mountains…this doesn’t make any sense.”

The more I thought about it, the more this made no sense.

“Some kind of ancient tribe. I’ll go in person. I need to see this for myself.”

Within a few minutes, Alexandra got all dressed up and left right away to go to where Caedrel and all of his students were. However, there was one thing she ignored. The fact that the village Caedrel was currently in wouldn’t be visible to most visitors.

There was a big chance that once she arrived at the location, Jackson had shared that she wouldn’t even find anything.

Nevertheless, she would only figure this out a few days later once she arrived at the said location.

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