As Atticus phased through and entered the earth, he immediately started controlling the earth around him, pushing himself deeper and deeper into the room.
He had already come to understand that all the elemental rooms featured the same workings: the deeper he went, the more intense the element became.
Atticus kept controlling the earth, going deeper and deeper into the space. With each passing moment, he could feel a certain type of heaviness enveloping his form.
It was hard to explain, as though gravity intensified many folds on just his figure. Every movement required deliberate effort to execute, and even the earth he took control over became harder and harder to manipulate.
Atticus could sense an intense abundance of the earth element coming from every direction.
Just by being here and without even meditating, he could subtly feel his proficiency with the earth element increasing.
Just like all the other times, Atticus eventually reached a point where he could not proceed any further.
His form and the earth enveloping him felt so heavy that there was only a slight nudge needed to have his form crushed into mush.
'I'll stop here,' Atticus decided.
Swiftly choosing this spot to train, Atticus closed his eyes and entered a deep state of meditation, forgetting all his elements except earth.
Atticus remained in this state for about 30 minutes before deciding to stop. He immediately controlled the earth and started heading towards the exit at a fast speed.
Atticus reached the exit, and as he stepped out, the door closed with a loud bang.
Without wasting time, he immediately turned and started walking towards the next door. Atticus had been in a total of 5 elemental rooms so far.
And what was baffling was the fact that he still hadn't exhausted all of his elements yet!
This was one of the major issues Atticus had been facing: he had too many powers to train!
This was the main reason he hadn't bothered to learn more arts during the 5 years of training with Magnus.
He was already struggling with his current powers; why would he burden himself and add even more to that?
'Only 30 minutes more,' he reminded himself.
The number of minutes left wasn't nearly enough to have a decent training session for each of the remaining elements, despite their low levels.
The remaining elements were all still at level one, thus being able to advance faster than the elements at level 3.
Atticus walked towards the lightning elemental room next, depicted by the vibrant shade of electric blue-colored door and a jagged bolt of lightning as its icon.
Atticus entered the room after easily passing the test, and after about 5 minutes, he came out of the room and headed to the next, light.
It was depicted by a radiant shade of white-colored door and a shimmering beam of light as its icon.
Atticus repeated the same action and spent only 5 minutes inside before coming out.
He did the same thing for the ice and darkness elements too, and at the end of the 30 minutes, Atticus was seated cross-legged inside a completely pitch-dark space.
The room was completely quiet, so quiet that not even the sound of breathing could be heard.
At one point in the room, Atticus's expression, although not visible, frowned as his artifact suddenly lit up in a golden glow.
But what was supposed to be a bright display was anything but, as the darkness immediately swallowed up the light.
Regardless, the AI still delivered its intended message to Atticus.
'I guess it's time,' Atticus sighed deeply.
The AI had just informed him that the five hours had been exhausted and he had 5 minutes to leave the room before being forcibly teleported.
'Why do they even do pointless things like this?' Atticus found it hard to understand the higher-ups' thought process.
Each of these elemental rooms, if Atticus could have full access to them, would help him a great deal in advancing his bloodline. And this was the same for the other students.
The rooms were obviously being sustained for 24 hours, and the students weren't paying any fees whatsoever. Even the points they spend were all given by the academy.
So then, since regardless of whether students were using them or not, the academy still had to keep running the facilities, why not allow the students to use them unconditionally?
They were already running them at a loss. Wouldn't it be a better gain if the students all used them to advance their powers rapidly?
Atticus released another sigh. 'Well, it's partly my fault.'
Five hours should be more than enough to train an element significantly in a day, but Atticus had too many elements. Which meant he would have to work twice as hard and for a longer period too.
As Atticus stood up straight from the darkness, he immediately started heading towards the exit, his still invisible form reaching the door in a few seconds.
Upon stepping out through the door, Atticus finally decided to check and see how much he had progressed.
"Status," Atticus thought, and a holographic display materialized in front of him.
Character Profile:
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Name: Atticus Ravenstein
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Attributes:
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Strength: 251 >>252
Agility: 281>>283
Endurance: 292>>294
Vitality: 286>>287
Intelligence: 45
Perception: 36
Charm: 30>>31
Will: 33
Level: Expert
Talent: Mythical
Bloodline: Primordial Elemental Bloodline
- Leve 3
- Fire: 11.1 >> 12.2 %
- Air: 11 >> 12.1%
- Water: 10.4 >> 11.5 %
- Earth: 10.9 >> 11.3%
- Level 1
- Light: 50.1 >> 50.3 %
-Darkness: 40.9 >> 41.4%
- Lightning: 15.7 >> 16 %
-Ice: 14.0 >> 14.2 %
Locked Bloodlines -
- Space: 17 >> 20.8 % (Progress toward unlocking)
Abilities:
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Innate Skills:
* Conceal [Potential: Mythical]
- The ability to conceal your level from anyone regardless of rank. You may choose what level you want to be shown.
- Current mastery: Mythical
Life Weapon Skills:
* Transcendent Slash: Godspeed Grace
* Endless Strike
Normal Skills:
* Arcane Barrier [Potential: Transcendent]
- Current Mastery: Expert
* Elemental Mimicry [Potential: Transcendent]
-Current mastery: Advanced+
*Ethereal Clock [Potential: Empowered]
-Current mastery: Advanced