As Lumian slowly made his way to the Academy's hall . Thoughts came to mind .
"I'm in the awakened academy now huh...
The headaches gone now but my mind is still clouded and my memories vague ."
His thoughts went to his aspects .
" So my aspect ability allows me to somewhat act like a healer . Thought it does not directly heal the wound. It revitalizes the body and makes any injury heal at a massively faster rate "
" It also reduces the physical and mental pain of a person , so kinda acting as psychiatrist or mind healer also ."
His mind knawed at a fact .
" I had overlooked this before , but Lumian of NQSC was doing a course of medicine in school, apparently here children are allowed to choose a specialized course when starting school affective reducing the need of college , future's quite efficient huh..."
" This is in turn only makes my Aspect more potent , like a extension of my inner self huh
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" My Innate Ability focused on better surviving attacks is quite the most effective fulfilling my previous wish to continue existing "
Simultaneously Lumian reached the hall full of sleepers .
As he entered , scrutinizing gazes from the sleepers dawned on him . His shiny clithes and weirdly anomalatic fashion only made the gazes more potent .
Soon , the scrutiny left .
Soon Lumian's scrutiny of the sleepers began . It was lively scene . The crowd had formed little pocket of groups socializing with each other .
At one part of the hall stood young people , emanating an Aura of elegance and confidence . They even the Legacies.
At another part young people dawned an Aura of casulity . They were just comman sleeper from a normal family effected by the Nightmare spell .
There stood another dark corner and a young beautiful girl sat there with blindfolds on her eyes .
'That must be Cassie ' Lumian thought .
There were also ransom small groups in between and casual strollers of people .
Lumian was never a highly social person but nor was he a shut - in . He also did not have mostly anything to hide or had a flaw related to communication .
So he made his way to the commoners .
Random people approached him and made small talk . He also approached random people and made small talk .
During this time Lumian also noticed nephis who stood out with an Aura yet did not talk to anyone .
And Sunny who made commotion and disgusting comments to make people avoid him .
Soon Awakened Rock came and gave a speech that was as boring as a rock .As the time flew Lumian found himself in his Dora's room .
He had two choices ' Either attend Awakened Julie's classes or not ' Lumian had studied survival skills since a young age in this apocalyptic world so the basic course was not needed . But considering forgotten shore, he wanted to flesh himself out for survival .
There was also Awakened Julies , having connections to him was also a very good resource .
In the end he decided to attend although for only an hour long session . Along with that he also applied for the Combat class . He also took part in hunter classes which were basically a guide to avoid nightmare creatures .
The next day he went to the appointed councilor , he was basically there to interview the new sleepers and try to fashion their abilities in between the conversation .
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Days passes in a swift wind .
Lumian sat groggily in the cafeteria feeling sleepy all over .
" It's time huh....hell sure is coming " He was referencing that today was the day he was supposed to be transported into the dream realm .
His thoughts wandered off to his time in the academy .
First he remembered his time in Awakened Julies's class . Nowhere major had happened there . He did get to know Proffesor Julie's but his interactions with sunny was basically none . They were the only two students in class yet Lumian did not have any proper conversation with sunny . Even if Lumian thought of starting one . Sunny just ignored .
Other than that He remembered his time in the Combat class .
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Lumian made his way to the combat dojo .Today was his first Combat class , he knew a little that would happen .
Firstly he noticed that the class was full of sleepers . After all Combat was the most skill to survive in the dream realm . He managed to make out the shapes of Nephis and a person he suspected of being of Caster .
Soon Awakened Rock came told us to test our strength in a punching machine .
Soon the sleepers started doing it . Most landed 10 to 14 points . With some leading with 15 or 16 probably die to their aspects .Then came Lumian's turn . He walked to the machine and strikes a punch with as much power he could muster .
11....The machine displayed his score . Nothing to laugh but also nothing noticeable .
"That much even though my fist hurts now " Lumian thought .
Soon Nephis did her 16 and caster got 21 .
That's pretty accurate Lumian thought.
He had tried to discreetly notice sunny's shadows but he did not manage to in the end .
Soon the sparring session started instead of being an actual tournament nephis had started beating all of the challengers from the start . The rules were simple Either make the opponent's back touch the ground or throw them out the ring .
Now it was Lumian's turn .
He with a poker face got into the ring . Looking at the nephis and her deadly stance .
It did unnerved him somewhat . After all the semi protagonist of the story was in front of him .
Down came Instructor Rock's signal .
At the moments behest came nephis's blows . His Innate Ability helped him dodge most of them but his strike backs were lacking and entirely useless .
"There is not even a thought of something like losing too easily on purpose , I'm already at my 100% and losing my shi*t "
Nephis continued her blows . Lumian's ability to dodge more easily did make last a lot longer but his loser strike backs made him got himself pinned on the ground .
Nephis's face had come very close to his own with Nephis's hand touching his chest .
Lumian was really surprised that people can call him now tired to death with his chest aching a romantic scene in any regard .
And nephis's face really only seemed terrifying in that moment.
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Back to future
" I really did not manage to talk with any of the protagonists huh..."
He had also never interacted with Cassie in case of his attributes being revealed .
Soon the time came .
Instructor Rock gathered all the sleepers and let to a part in the academy .
In the way he showed them the hollows , then we were our own rooms with an awakened pod in then.
Lumian looked at the discreet machine . If his guess was correct he will not wake up for about a year trapped in the forgotten shore .
Only that hell awaited him past the time he fell asleep .
As sleepiness drowned him , he entered the pod . The next second he fell asleep .
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In the vast echoing darkness he heard .
[Welcome To The Dream Realm , Lumian ]
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I know I squashed the forgotten shore arc but doing so felt right , there is really nothing more interesting in the academy and forcing conversations with sunny is not a good choice either . The next arc .
You won't guess what would happen next , a thing that never happened before in any Shadow Slave fanfiction .