Chapter 596 - Time Blurred Past

The days that followed began to blur together far more quickly than anyone had expected. What had once seemed like an overwhelming stretch of time stretched thin under the academy's relentless pace, transforming into a continuous forward surge where one sunrise bled seamlessly into the next. First- and second-year students found themselves completely submerged in the Dark Knight Academy's brutal one-month training regimen, with no clear distinction between rest and exertion anymore. Meanwhile, the third-years were pulled in a different direction altogether, their days consumed by apprenticeships under trusted instructors as they prepared for the realities that awaited them beyond the academy's walls.