The Last King Of Darkness
Chapter 72 - 61: Spiritual Energy Promotion

Chapter 72: Chapter 61: Spiritual Energy Promotion

Fighting and brawling were taken very seriously at the Academy, with punishments ranging from point deductions to confinement, and even expulsions, some were even taken away by the Internal Affairs Court.

However, Kashan had quite a persuasive influence on the teachers, and after her explanation, the teacher only took Habulin and his two companions away, without dealing with Rod.

This made him breathe a sigh of relief.

The date for selection was drawing near, and this was definitely not the time for any kind of disturbances.

Rod had just thought about thanking Kashan when she flicked her hair and walked away.

What’s wrong with her? Rod felt a bit puzzled, but he was so overwhelmed with his own issues that he didn’t have time to ponder it further.

For the next several days, life regained its peaceful rhythm.

Rod studied intensely every day, tirelessly refining his humanity and practicing his skills with Spiritual Energy.

It must be said that Rod always felt he had a strange talent, a natural instinct for the use of Spiritual Energy, instantly mastering everything.

Even the always excellent Kashan wasn’t as quick as him; she simply relied on the strength given to her by Fire Spark, wielding immense brute force and fists hard as steel.

However, during another visit for a special training session for talented students, Mina, who was teaching him advanced handgun techniques, told him not to use these techniques in actual combat given his current strength.

Because his Spiritual Power was too weak, these techniques couldn’t effectively counter monster attacks or inflict damage, and handgun damage was far superior to the strength of his fists.

To illustrate this, Mina brought out a box of small pebbles.

"These are glow stones; as long as you input Spiritual Energy, they will light up, lighting one is equivalent to one moment."

"There are a thousand pebbles in this box, lighting them up is one of the trial tasks to become an official combatant."

Rod stretched out his hand, attempting to light up all the glow stones using the method he learned last time, but he failed.

Each glow stone continually absorbed his Spiritual Energy, and no matter how hard he tried, he could only light up one corner of them.

"This is your highest Spiritual Power Strength, 171 moments."

Mina pulled out a large chart, lifting her glasses on her nose.

"According to the mechanical formulae I devised, the maximum damage equivalence of your full-strength punch is 4, if it hits a Primary-Rank Ungraded monster, it wouldn’t even shed a hair, only capable of stirring up dust."

"Whereas one light strike of a Spirit Gun loaded with True Silver Bullets delivers a damage equivalence of 70, and a Heavy Strike reaches 160, which is 40 times that of your punch."

Rod leaned over to see the confusing formulas and sophisticated charts.

Mina pushed her glasses: "Stop looking, you wouldn’t understand. This is all beyond the syllabus, not taught in the Academy, only top scholars get access to such information."

Rod frowned, indeed unable to understand many aspects, but he understood the mechanics involved.

"This isn’t right, is it? The Lagrangian dynamic equation is written incorrectly. This caressing-like symbol should be above the equation, not in front of it. According to your descriptions, my punch moves like a pendulum, but in reality, it’s a straight line."

"Also, you miscalculated this second-order variable coefficient linear differential equation. Based on the figures you gave earlier, the derived value should be 71, not 55."

Rod grabbed a charcoal pen and began furiously correcting.

"...So, the damage equivalence of my full-strength punch should be 5, the Spirit Gun’s Heavy Strike is only 32 times stronger than mine, not 40."

Rod put down the charcoal pen, looked up, and saw Mina as if frozen by an Immobilization Spell.

Rod reached out to touch it, immediately getting smacked away by her hand.

Tsk, so it’s a fake, I thought I might make up for the regret of not being able to watch monkeys back in the day.

Mina’s cheeks turned slightly red, her large eyes appeared to ripple with water yet burn with flames. She examined Rod from head to toe as though she’d discovered a new continent.

"How do you know such advanced knowledge? Whose student are you from which top scholar?"

Rod blinked.

Is this considered profound? Isn’t this what grade-schoolers know? Royal City looks so advanced, seemingly in an electric era, or at least a mutated Spiritual Energy electric era, how can it be not clear about basic mechanics?

"...Would you believe me if I said I am self-taught?"

"Impossible," Mina flatly denied. "Only the smartest minds can understand such knowledge. If you can’t explain, I can only assume it’s a gift from the Evil God."

Rod was startled and quickly said, "Of course not. A long time ago, an old man passed by my house and said I had an unusual bone structure. This ’coming’ mechanical classic was then given to me. I studied it for ten years to achieve such results."

Mina looked at him skeptically: "Where is the book?"

Rod pointed to his head.

Mina questioned: "Was he a well-known scholar? Why do I feel like you made that up on the spot? Hm...maybe not, top scholars are often eccentric and hard to understand, they could do such strange things."

Rod nodded seriously: "You are right."

Afterward, they exchanged some knowledge on the subject.

Rod found her knowledge to be quite disorganized and unstructured. She understood the concept of waves, yet didn’t know the law of inertia. Rod spent a long time explaining how on a smooth mirror, physical motion doesn’t stop, yet she stubbornly insisted her feet were also smooth but would still stop on the ground.

Rod told her her feet weren’t smooth enough, and Mina got angry, insisting on taking off her shoes and making him feel them.

Rod couldn’t refuse her and tried it. The feel was cold, soft, and slippery, coated with Dragon Hand Herb Essential Oil, emitting a faint fragrance.

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