Chapter 35: Coming Back To Academy
"Finally, it's over," Dean said while looking outside the window of the van. From the window, Evan and the other hunters could see the outline of Astrate city.
"It was one of the hardest transport missions of my life," George said, recalling the black ogre and bandit attack.
"Well, it doesn't matter now that we are back safely," Dean said and looked at Evan, who was still gazing out the window.
After the bandit attack, nothing major happened during their journey, and they all safely arrived at Astrate city.
They did encounter some monsters on their way back, but most of them were E and F rank, and Evan and the other hunters took care of them easily.
Evan did not get any high-rank cores, but he wasn't disappointed because he already had enough cores to push his prime corey to E+ rank.
After three minutes, the van finally entered the gate of Astrate city, and Evan saw the familiar city once again.
Upon entering the city, the driver parked the van where most of the transport vehicles were stationed.
When the driver parked the van, Evan and the other hunters came out. Henry also came out and walked towards them.
"Thanks for your hard work. If not for you guys, I would have never come back here safely," Henry said to Evan and the other hunters as he approached them.
Evan and the other hunters just nodded; now that they were back in the city, they all wanted to finish everything quickly and get some rest.
Henry could see that all of them were quite tired after constantly fighting against monsters, so he didn't hold them back and gave them each a letter.
It was proof that they all completed their mission successfully.
Evan and the others took the letters and put them away in their storage rings. Evan and James could show this letter in the mission hall to receive their mission points, while George and Dean could show this letter at the association office to receive their payment.
After handing out the letters, Henry was about to walk away when Evan said, "Aren't you forgetting something?"
Upon hearing this, Henry's body stiffened for a moment, then he coughed and gave Evan a light yellow crystal and a black device, saying, "I completely forgot about these."
Evan took the barrier crystal and the black device without any change in his expression.
Although he didn't know how to use them and left them in Henry's hands after killing the bandits because he was feeling off at that time, there is no way he would let Henry keep these precious artifacts.
'These two will fetch me a good amount of money,' Evan thought and put away both items in his storage ring.
"It was a pleasure to work with you guys," Evan said to George and the other hunters after putting away the barrier crystal and black device. Evan was happy that his teammates were not some di*kheads who would try to kill the weakest member during the mission.
During the two years Evan spent in this world, he had often heard how some hunters killed their weakest member during the mission to rob their share and other things, so he was relieved not to have met those kinds of guys.
"We were lucky you were doing this mission with us. Thanks for your help during all this time," George said with a grateful voice. Dean and James also nodded in agreement, as they knew that without Evan, this mission might have been their last.
"Don't worry about it. Let's meet again in the future," Evan said with a smile after hearing George's words, and he started to walk away from them.
'Should I go directly to the academy?' Evan thought while walking. 'Let's go to a hotel and rent a room there. I will return to the academy after taking proper rest and having dinner.'
Evan hailed a taxi and asked the driver to take him to the Crown Hotel, which was pretty near to the academy, and he had heard that the food there was also quite good.
The driver nodded and started to drive towards the Crown Hotel. Evan closed his eyes and finally relaxed his tense muscles.
It was his first time doing a mission, so he was quite tired after not sleeping properly for the past few days.
Evan was so relaxed that he fell asleep while sitting in the taxi.
"Wake up, young man. We arrived at the Crown Hotel," Evan woke up after hearing the shout of the old driver.
He looked outside and saw the Crown Hotel. "Sorry, I fell asleep," Evan said to the driver and exited the taxi. He paid the taxi bill and looked at the grand building of the Crown Hotel.
'Just a few days ago, I couldn't even think about coming here,' Evan thought and entered the hotel.
He went to the reception and asked for a room. And just as usual, the receptionist was again a young man instead of beautiful big sister.
"It will be 2000 credits," Evan's mouth twitched when he heard the hotel price, but he still paid.
The receptionist gave him the key to his room and told him to go to the third floor, where his room was located.
Evan entered his room, which was quite luxurious, and first decided to take a bath before doing anything else.
After taking a bath, Evan jumped onto the bed and lay down like a log. "This mattress is quite soft. I can't even compare the mattress of my academy room with it," Evan said while rolling on the mattress.
'Should I steal this mattress using my shadow storage skill?' Evan thought with a wicked smile. His mentality was completely twisted after living like a beggar for two years.
Even though he could get hundreds of thousands of credits after selling the things he got after killing the bandits, he still couldn't change his mentality in just a few days.
Even before he decided what to do, the fatigue of his mission kicked in, and he fell asleep without even realizing.
When Evan woke up again, it was already 7:00 pm. Evan had arrived at the hotel around ten in the morning, so he had slept for around nine hours.
"It's the first time I've slept for this long since coming to this world," Evan said while stretching his body after standing up.
Evan washed his face and ordered something to eat.
His food arrived in ten minutes, and Evan started to eat while cursing the hotel owner for the price of the food.
"I will advance my prime core to E+ rank after going back to the academy," Evan said while taking a bite of the meat steak.
After eating, Evan headed out from his room and left the hotel to go to the academy.
The academy was quite close to the Crown Hotel, so he arrived there after ten minutes of walking.
When Evan entered the academy gate, someone bumped into him.
When he looked at the person who bumped into him, he saw a tall guy who looked like an orc, smiling at him.
'Again, this as*hole,' Evan sighed when he saw Mike and his gang.
Chapter 36: Challenge
"Can't you walk while watching in front of you?" Evan said in an irritated tone because he was in good mood just by thinking about advancing his prime core to E+ rank, but he bumped into these morons who will surely try to pick a fight with him.
The person who bumped into Evan was Lucas who was looking at Evan with a cold smile.
"Did you say something?" Lucas asked while looking down at Evan since his height was around 210 cm.
Evan sighed when he saw this 'I might as well settle everything with them so I will not have to waste my time with them in the future'.
"Hey, I ask you something did you say something to me?" Lucas asked once again while grabbing the collar of Evan.
Mike was watching everything with a cold smile 'this bastard was saved by Valery last time, but let's see who will save him this time'.
Since they were at the gate of the academy there were not many students.
Only a few students were watching everything and they had no intention of intervening in this mess.
"I warned you guys last time don't mess with me again" Evan said while looking at Mike since he is the leader of their gang.
Currently of the four members of Mike's gang only Lucas and he was present the other two whose name Evan didn't bother to remember were not there.
Mike just showed a cold smile to Evan and sent a signal to Lucas.
When Lucas saw the signal Mike sent him he smiled coldly, Evan also saw how Mike sent a single from his eye to Lucas 'typical clinch plot of an old movie where third rate villain uses his eye to give order to his subordinate' Evan thought after seeing the signal that Mike gave.
'Let's finish this so I can advance my core to E+ rank' Evan thought and even before Lucas can do anything, he used his left hand to free his collar from the hand of Lucas, and while using more than half of his strength slapped Lucas using his right hand.
Since Lucas wasn't expecting Evan to attack him suddenly he wasn't able to do anything, with his strength Evan easily freed himself from Lucas.
And with his high moment speed because of his agility even before Lucas can react Evan's right hand arrived before his cheek.
Slap!!!
Thud!!!
A loud sound rang out Lucas's head was smashed against the cold ground of the academy floor.
The power behind Evan's slap was too much that Lucas's head was smashed against the ground because of the impact of his slap.
Lucas's jaw was dislocated, some of his teeth were broken and his mouth was bleeding, even his head was bleeding because of how hard his head smashed against the cold ground, Lucas's eyes rolled inside his head because of the sudden attack and he passed out.
Mike and the other students were shocked when they saw the condition of Lucas just after taking a slap from Evan.
They all looked at Evan with their eyes wide open and saw him looking at Mike with an expressionless face.
When Mike saw pitch-black eyes of Evan his heart trembled for a moment.
"Let's have a spar next Friday, if I win stop bothering me with your nonsense again" Evan said to Mike without any expression on his face and started to walk inside the academy leaving behind a dumbfounded Mike and some shocked students who were lucky enough to see everything.
Evan did not wait to hear Mike's response because he was 90% sure that Mike will accept his challenge.
If Mike refused his challenge he will not be able to control Lucas and the other members of his gang.
Mike watched the back of Evan while his back was drenched in cold sweat, he looked at the condition of Lucas and can't help but gulp down his saliva.
"How the hell he can knock out a D-rank hunter just by a slap?" some students who saw everything were shocked because they never expected something like this to happen.
Evan is known for being the weakest hunter in the academy so it was not surprising that most of the students who saw Evan knocking out Lucas with just a single slap were shocked.
"I don't care how he did it, but do you think Mike will accept his challenge?" some students wondered while looking at Mike who was trying to wake up Lucas.
Evan didn't care much about the challenge he just made, because he did all this so that Mike and his gang will not bother him again in the future.
Evan first went into the mission hall to receive his mission points.
Evan went to the reception of the mission hall and saw a different receptionist there.
"How can I help you?" the receptionist asked Evan when he was him.
"I am here to submit my mission" Evan said while giving the letter that Henry gave him to the receptionist.
The receptionist checked the letter and scanned it into the computer and after a minute when he didn't find anything wrong he nodded and said "give me your academy hunter card I will transfer twenty mission points in it".
Evan handed his hunter card and after a minute the receptionist returned him his card.
"Do you want to accept another mission?" the receptionist asked after transferring the mission points to Evan.
"Not now" Evan refused politely and left the mission hall and went towards his room.
"Tomorrow is the sword manship class of professor Robert although I don't need to learn Sword manship now because I have enough power to protect myself even without a sword, I should at least inform him I will not come to his class anymore" Evan mumbled to himself after sitting down on his bed.
Students of the academy can only skip classes if they are out on a mission or doing a dungeon raid, if they are not out on a mission or doing something important they can't skip classes at the academy.
Evan was able to skip classes this week because he was out on a mission and it is the first time since he joined the academy that he skipped classes.
Previously Evan can't accept the mission from mission hall because of his low strength so he never skipped a class before.
"Let's advance to E+ rank" Evan said and sat up crossed legs while taking out cores that he got after killing bandits.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
200+ Power
Ranking 
14 Power
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