Chapter 47 - Shadow Movement

Lucas had already seen his quarters. It was a wide room with a wheeled screen divider in the middle of the room. Also, his bed has a canopy that he seems to find amusing because of how it was designed.

'Even though I have looked at it many times, I still can't comprehend the uniqueness of their art. This world will surely bring me joy different from my world.'

As Lucas also felt that there was nothing happening that seemed to be repetitive or similar to his previous life, he tried to accept this realm.

So, instead of rushing to Immortal Heaven, why not spend some of his time here in this world applying his previous world knowledge? It wasn't bad.

In his previous world, he hadn't had the chance to create his own guild or to be precise, a solely managed guild that no one built by inspired by him.

In his prime in his previous life, he became immortal, and because of that, he didn't have the chance to really want to start his own guild, as, at that time, he was an advisor to a country.

Well, it doesn't mean that he didn't think of it. He just doesn't have the inspiration since he knows how tiring it is to become a leader of a group of people.

But what if he changes his mindset right now? Instead of ignoring things that he finds too bothersome, why doesn't he try to experience them?

"How about I make my own sect? Right. I haven't tried a guild in the past, so maybe this time, I can accomplish one!"

Lucas stood up from the bed, as he had sunk himself earlier when he entered his room.

He went outside of the room and went straight to find Jeric. But as he realized that there was no need to really look for him or ask for his permission, he just smiled and activated a spell to create an inner court disciple robe.

"I've already seen core disciples. And from what I've seen, they had plenty of privileges compared to the outer court. How about I look at the inner court?"

Then, he swept his feet off the ground and passed through walls.

Of course, he doesn't intend to be invisible but still had to be invisible. As he wanted to change his mindset, he'd try to see things in public and also try to socialize if there was someone who wanted to talk to him.

Then, after some time, he felt that he had already left the most privileged place and saw the difference between the buildings and the difference in the robes.

He saw some cultivators wearing grey robes, and just as he expected, they were inner court disciples.

"Sweet! I'll try walking with them."

Then, he descended into the shaded part and deactivated his invisible spell.

However, as he didn't expect it, someone saw him and called him out.

It was also an inner court disciple who was a male and wore eyeglasses.

"You are an amazing brother! You already grasp the understanding of the Shadow Movement? You are amazing!"

Lucas was startled for a second as he didn't realize that there was someone. According to his suspect, this person may also have a technique for lessening his presence.

Lucas smiled at him and just didn't try to expose himself.

"Y-Yes... It was a pretty amazing experience."

"By the way, brother, I don't see you regularly. Are you new here or were you intentionally hiding your presence to practice Shadow Movement?"

"Oh crap. You are right. I was practicing it. You know it too, right? I didn't feel your presence, or I must say, I didn't realize that the presence I felt was a human."

It was absurd that Lucas wouldn't feel a presence. That's why he chose this place because he knew that there was no human presence here. And also, he doesn't always use his eye ability to check things. He is confident in his senses.

"Oh... You knew it. I was practicing the second form of Shadow Movement. It was Fake Presence."

'What a self-explanatory movement technique.'

"That's amazing. By the way, who's the brother I am talking to?"

"Ah! I am Oliver Yang."

"Oh... Oliver, I am Claus White." Lucas said.

"White? Or Wei? Please enlighten me, brother Claus."

"Right. It is Wei. I am Claus Wei."

Oliver smiled at him and then led him to the street.

"Why don't we try to get an assessment together? Actually, I haven't taken an assessment since I learned about Shadow Movement because I was afraid that no one in my batch had learned it. I was afraid to stand out." Oliver said in a somewhat less energetic tone.

"Don't worry, Oliver, I'll come with you," Lucas said with a smile as if he was a brother who was giving his sibling confidence.

"Really? Thank you very much!"

"Then, lead the way."

Lucas doesn't know what he should do next. But as he wanted to know what the disciples do in their casual times, he followed Oliver in a direction where a wide arena was. As he still doesn't know what and how they will be assessed, he just didn't bother with it.

'I could care less. It won't matter anyway, at least I can encourage this person before me.' Lucas thought, as he was following him, that it was solely for the purpose of encouraging him. Even he doesn't know if it will result in greater things, the decision was from Oliver.

"We are here," Oliver said.

'Now, that I don't know what to do. Should I just go first? Hm... I'll cast an illusion on that observer.'

"Excuse me, we are here to take an assessment."

Lucas faced Oliver as there was a question he hadn't asked earlier.

"By the way, why do we need to take an assessment test?" Lucas asked.

"Are you trying to joke with me, brother Claus?"

"Just Claus is okay."

"Okay. But I'll just play with your joke. We take an assessment test to gauge our progress and give us points if we truly learned our lessons. It was something that every disciple should do so that they could put some credibility and achievement into their records."

Lucas just nodded after Oliver explained.

Some moments later, Lucas stepped forward before Oliver.

"Let me go first, Oliver so that you'll never feel that you stand out," Lucas said to him, and just as Oliver heard it clearly, his eyes widened.

"You are kind, Claus."

"I know."

Lucas just snickered then stepped forward. He looked at the observer with some kind of look and, as there was no time for them to talk since disciples should just put their hands on a totem to check their registry, Lucas activated a series of spells.

'Look here, mister observer."

The observer's eyes widened as he heard someone talking to his mind.

'Mind Communication?!'

As Lucas had already cast an illusion spell to alter his appearance to the observer, he confidently talked to him through telepathy.

'Don't be obvious. I already passed this assessment, so there's no need for me to touch the totem. Can you do that favor?' Lucas asked.

'Well, if you can use Mind Communication, there's no need for me to doubt your credibility. Go on.' the observer replied.

'Thank you very much.'

And thus, Lucas started stepping into the arena and started showcasing his abilities.

As Oliver didn't mention any differences, Lucas just kept in mind that the movement technique was supposed to work in shadows, as the name suggests. So he just went into an artificial tree in the middle of the arena and activated his invisible spell.

Meanwhile, from a distance just above the arena and on the benches in the audience, a young man was looking at Lucas with disdaining eyes. Inside him, he was clearly contemptuous of Lucas for some reason.

'I found you. You are also a disciple of the sect, and still taking an assessment for a crappy movement technique. Lucky for me that I can easily kill you without wasting any efforts..' Then a sinister smile followed after his thoughts.