*Author's note: This chapter contains a time skip
Pov: Vik
I woke up early as usual and started crawling toward the pond to refresh myself. On my way, I saw both Lu Xiaoran and Roman in new clothes. I once asked them how many outfits they had in their storage device, and they told me they stored at least 100 kinds of clothing, courtesy of Roman, for emergencies.
Sometimes I thought that having a storage device would make life easier. I should try to make one, but first, I need to understand how it works and gather the necessary equipment. That's something I'll explore in the future.
For now I'm looking forward to our class. Today is the tenth day and after today, I will complete the system mission and receive the system reward. Over the past days, I tried various things like teaching new subjects to my disciples and introducing sparring matches. Roman dominates these matches due to his extensive fighting experience. These sparring matches are just simple hand-to-hand combat classes, similar to karate and judo.
I also attempted to boost my strength by practicing techniques I improvised. However, when I tried this, I received a system notification:
System: "Ding host is currently banned by the system and can't increase his strength. If you forcefully try to increase his strength, he will face punishment from the system."
Seeing this, I realized the system was showing its true nature and was trying to control me. I summoned my fire to see if I could burn the system, but before I could act, the system begged me to stop and listen.
System: "Host, this system ban is to ensure that the host can't exploit the loophole of just taking disciples without teaching them. Right now, one of your disciples is mortal, and the other is facing a bottleneck; neither of them has increased their strength since they became your disciple. So, this system protocol activated automatically."
System: "This ban will lift once any of your disciples makes progress, and you will also receive a 10X rebate of the progress they achieve."
After hearing this, I stopped. I understood that having a protection protocol was necessary to prevent someone from abusing system loopholes.
Realizing I couldn't increase my strength for now, I shifted my focus to other things. I improvised the techniques I received from the system after accepting Roman as my second disciple.
After my improvisation the techniques upgraded to new forms:
* Celestial magic technique → Void magic technique
I scrapped the Thunder God fighting technique because my Omni Element fighting technique is better. The Alchemy technique only had its first part so I decided to set it aside and improvise it when I get the complete version.
Additionally, I got an unknown beast egg which is now in a nest I built in the tree where I sleep. There are also some spirit stones with it.
After thinking about all this, I completed my daily routine and arrived at class. There I found Roman and Lu Xiaoran sitting with excited expressions. Today is not a typical theory class; I will help them practice the cultivation techniques I improvised for them. These techniques are versatile so I made them memorize everything completely, and now it's time for practical circulation.
I started with Lu Xiaoran and said, "Lu Xiaoran, first circulate the Nuclear Spirit Gathering Magic technique. Then, use the energy you gain from it to circulate the Chaos Titan Body Refining technique, and finally use the Nirvana Qi Refining technique."
I gave the same instructions to Roman. This process begins with generating energy through the Nuclear Spirit Gathering Magic technique, which uses spirit stones as fuel. This energy then flows into the Chaos Titan Body Refining technique which refines the body and inadvertently destroys body cells. Lastly the Nirvana refining technique heals and replaces those dead cells with new and stronger ones.
It's a simple process, but I need to wait to see the results. Slowly, both of them focused on executing the steps. First the spirit stones I placed around them showed signs of energy being drawn. Then their faces showed pain, and chaotic light flickered around their bodies.
So far, everything was proceeding as I expected. However, the last step involved them starting Nirvana. I kept my gaze on them. Everything was going smoothly until suddenly a bright light illuminated their bodies, expelling chaotic light in the process. Along with this, their bodies started to decay.
Gradually, their body parts decayed, making them appear like they were aging rapidly. Within a minute, only their skeletons were left. At that moment, I thought, I'm messed up. I unintentionally killed someone again, I truly felt like a monster. While lamenting my situation, something occurred to the skeletons. They produced a crackling noise. Expecting something magical, I focused entirely on them.
The skeletons cracked slightly along with the crackling noise. The entire structure showed fractures all over it. Just as I anticipated a miracle, their skeletons first shattered into pieces and then turned to ashes.
Staring at the ashes of my two disciples, I said, "system, I think I should just die."
Here I sat in a lifeless forest, surrounded only by trees, while before me lay the ashes of my two disciples, whom I had taught for only ten days. I felt like the worst teacher in the world. No I am really a worst teacher, because I accidentally killed my two disciples.