BXBX NOVEL Chapter 77: Improvements
This was because within those four days that went by people have consumed resources that they got from selling their 'life ball' so they all had taken a step or two in their cultivation rank, some bought better cultivation manual in other to increase the speed in which they absorbed mana from the air.
Some bought some skill book, some bought arts, some bought technique, some bought books and grimoires containing insights into their particular elements or mana to increase their controls over said elements and battle prowess, some paid for special cultivation rooms which had higher mana concentration where if tagged with a high rank cultivation manual and talent, people's cultivation would soar like rockets.
There were time dilation rooms just like Anthony's divine realm, but of course not as outrageous as his, but the points required to just spend even an hour of real time in there was way too expensive.
Even the food Anthony and his friends ate and paid for at the fourth floor of the cafeteria can be considered cheap in the face of that time dilation room, and the higher the real world time you choose to stay there, the more outrageously expensive it became.
(This is an Academy that literally hold races from the entire world, it literally has the support of the entire world so every resource you can think of was basically here so don't think too much of the Time dilation room, and to those who might think why won't the power houses just use it then, the time dilation room is simply too small it basically makes no difference to them, their life span has basically increased and their insights in many things are different, and their perception of time was vastly different, time in these low level time dilation rooms was no different than the real world's time to them, so to power houses the time dilation rooms were trash but to other people depending on their mana rank, it is an Absolute treasure, but of course depending on the level of the time dilation room, it can be a treasure to the world power houses too, BUT do not compare your understanding of time from your mortal short lives to the understanding of time in my world and creation and characters, so your perception of time is no different than that of a mayfly compared to my world)
It all depends on how you spend your point which determines how far your points from the life ball could reach since not everything was on the same level.
Everything was simply graded, the higher the grade of whatever you are buying is, the more expensive it is.
So you could say the atmosphere was one of joy, students could be seen smiling sleeplessly like idiots, all grinning ear to ear as their cultivation literally soured in four days.
Even the weakest right now who sat at the bottom of the battle ranking was sitting like a king on the early B rank and he too was feeling confident of no longer sitting at the bottom rank during the year end battle exam to determine their new and final rank for the first year as a total.
But of course not every single student improved as some used their 'life ball' to escape during the battle ranking so they weren't rich in Academy points like other students so their cultivation didn't soar nor did they acquire anything like Arts or Techniques.
They were all jealous of other students and could only grit their teeth in poverty as they saw many students that were going to overtake them if they didn't make a move to acquire points, wherever they walked they felt the thick aura radiating off their fellow classmates as everyone was basically a walking nuke right now.
You could say this generation indeed showed why they are indeed called the golden generation and also this shows that with enough money to buy resources you could make a pig fly, but there weren't any pigs here.
Those who didn't want to sell their 'life ball' initially opting to keep it for life saving moments couldn't handle the pressure of seeing other students leave them in the dust, so they met professor Kevin and sold their 'life ball' so they too could take off.
Tiara and Bryan went from their S- rank to S rank moving up a rank within a four days gap, they too decided to sell their 'life ball', they were literally children of world powerhouses, they could simply just blink and a treasure of the same rank as the 'life ball' or even higher would appear.
Anthony was shocked when he found out they both went up a minor ranks in just four days, the higher your rank, the harder it is to move in cultivation but these two didn't seem to care about this minor fact.
Anthony simply said in his mind 'Freaking Male Lead and Female Lead, bet if I was an extra, bet I would be selling my 'life ball' right now' Anthony chose to forget about it.
As for Anthony's 'life ball' he simply gave it to another student that impressed him during battle ranking and chose to forget about it as he didn't really care about such things, the life saving kills and artifacts he possessed was simply too much for anyone to die even in their sleep.
The reason Anthony can give out his 'life ball' was because it is a personal property, not something he bought with points from the Academy, so it isn't against the rules at all.
Of course he could have given it to his subodinate, he simply didn't want to hand anything to them no matter how small, he wanted them to work for everything so they would cherish it (even though he wasn't cherishing anything and was giving out things like Santa claus, the irony).
The Storm brothers went from their A rank to the early S rank, it seemed they too sold their 'life ball' and used whatever they could to improve, they were just one rank below Anthony's imaginary male and female lead.
Anthony's subodinate all sat happily at the peak SSS rank, as they were way too talented compared to everyone in this world, well asides 'two' people.
They weren't all eating and sleeping during these four days, they took Academy missions and used those opportunities to hunt for subodinate points, paid the Subordinate points and entered the Divine realm Anthony owns and cultivated faster within those four days with better mana and time.
(Anthony won't magically expect them to be able to afford a realm, that thing was ridiculous expensive, talkless of a time dilated one with primordial mana present, so he granted them access while charging points, his OP system is in charge of this thing, they didn't have to meet him, they only had to talk to their own system, their system relays the message to Anthony's system and the system demands points and they are moved to the Divine realm for the amount of time they paid for)
As for Anthony's improvement, he still hasn't finished digesting the knowledge gained from his bloodline and physique, so adding another one to that by breaking through to the next rank wasn't a good idea, so he spent 365 days in his divine realm as he continuously digested the knowledge, besides that attack he unleashed against Klaus gave him some insight somethings so he had a lot of things to do even if he wasn't cultivating.
Although he didn't improve in mana rank, his combat prowess had soared greatly.
So basically over 85 percent of student here had improved, the remaining 15 percent were those who ran away using their 'life ball' in the realm during the battle ranking.
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Author's Note
If you wonder the difference between an Art and a Technique.
An art contains just one attack move while a technique contains more than one, meaning two and above.
Example, a sword art would contains just a single move called stab, while a technique contains stab and slash and/or more