Cosmic Ruler
Chapter 75 Aftermath
Next day, Jake woke up to find his friends sitting in the living room.
"Don''t you guys have classes today?" Jake asked as he approached them.
"It seems you were sleeping all this time," Mark said and then turned on the T.V.
Jake looked at the T.V., which showed the destruction of a big estate, various houses broken and corpses laid here and there, the workers collecting and disposing of the corpses.
"What place is this?" Jake asked.
"Granvis Clan," Mark said.
"What about Dio?" Jake frowned and asked.
"We don''t know," Emily said.
"We tried to contact him but he wasn''t picking up his phone," Jimmy said in a sad voice.
"[He is alive]," Nexus said. With the system''s help, he has marked all his friends, so he knows Dio is alive.
"He is fine, don''t worry," Jake said.
"How? Even Peak Emperors ranks were slaughtered," Mark asked.
"I meant, let''s stay positive," Jake said.
His friends nodded, and then after some more talk, they returned.
"Luna, can the academy find the whereabouts of Dio?" Jake asked.
"They can," Luna nodded, and then Jake asked Luna to find about Dio.
"I wonder what he is doing?" Jake mumbled.
Time flies, and a year passed by.
There was no news of Dio. Jake''s friends thought Dio was no more, while Jake thought he might be trapped in a secret realm.
While in reality, Dio was training with Rami to control his impulses and his now half-tainted nature.
He didn''t contact his friends in fear that he would attack them and might kill them. After all, after becoming half-tainted, all those resentments pushed him to S rank.
Jake, after a year, has now reached C+ rank, while his friends are also in C rank but at C- and C rank.
It was a cautious move of Jake, or he might have been dissected by now if he raided Gates and improved quickly.
Jake looked at his status and saw he is now level 89.
"11 more, and I can have a job in real life too," Jake mumbled as he wiped his sweat after training with Luna.
"Your swordsmanship is improving, good," Luna said.
Luna''s advantage as a robot allowed her to download any type of Weapon arts and weapon mastery, making her a perfect training partner.
"Well, it is rewarding being trained by you," Jake said, and then Luna nodded and went to the kitchen.
"7 a.m., huh?" Jake mumbled, seeing the time, and went to shower.
Coming out, Jake ate his meal and then went to class.
Today is his year-end examination, which is made up of two phases, Knowledge and Practical test.
The written part was easy for Jake, who had Akashic Eyes, allowing him to see the answers as easily as having a book next to him.
Jake then went with everyone to the hall where their practical tests are going to happen.
Jake reached the hall and, spotting his friends, he went to them.
"Yo," Jake said, and everyone greeted back too.
"How was the written test?" Mark asked.
"Mommy,"
Mayhem started, and Jake yawned, and then, taking a deep breath, he said, "SILENCE."
Everyone fell silent.
"Now, first check if this thing can be driven," Jake said, and then a student in the Top 10 stood up and reached the cabin.
"Everything is broken," he returned and said.
"Check if there are any supplies," Jake said, and then everyone started to check the Plane.
After some time, everyone brought what they found to Jake. Jake then told all of them to carry the amount they can.
Everyone nodded and started distributing the supplies among them.
After everyone got the supply, Jake said, "Those who have the ability to survive any fall on the right and those who can''t on the left,"
100 students, that was the capacity of each Drone-like plane, and among the students in Jake''s plane, 60 of them don''t have the ability to survive a fall.
Jake looked at their numbers and sighed, "Pair up one on the left and right," Jake said, and then Jake paired up with the rest of the students.
"Jess, bind all of us," Jake said to a student who has the ability to control threads,
Jess nodded and then connected all the pairs.
"We will jump with one second gap," Jake said as he blasted open the door of the Drone.
The still-flying Drone balance started to break, and Jake jumped first.
"I am doing Skydiving again," Jake thought, remembering the past life.
"Spread yourself like this," Jake said as he stretched out, the students nodded and then did what Jake did,
Jake looked up and saw students in pairs of two following after them, each of them has a distance of 1 m.
Jake instructed them and then all of them reached at the same height.
"It''s fun," one of them suddenly said.
And his partner, a blue-haired girl, smacked him and told him not to give their Academy any more ideas.
Others laughed seeing this, and then Jake, who was looking at the approaching ground, shouted, "NOW!"
As Jake signaled, everyone used their abilities, some formed a water ball around them to break their fall, some used wind, some gravity, and some simply flew. Jake too used Light Wings to help everyone safely land.
Arriving at the ground, Jake said, "I checked from above; this Island consists of many biomes, and we took the Forest one,"
Others nodded, and then Jake said, "Check and make the list of supplies,"
Everyone started working as per Jake''s order, some girls took this task while Jake, along with others, went to create a ground for them.
The others broke the trees and cleared the ground; they laid the leaves on the ground and also made fences.
Soon, they started building some simple huts and also made a bathroom.
"Phew, it''s better than nothing," Jake said, and the students helping him said
"Better than nothing? It''s the best actually."
"Yes, Captain, we didn''t know you have this talent."
Everyone praised Jake for his art, Jake smiled and thanked them.
"[Who would have thought, you will use Craftsman Authority like this]," Nexus said.
Jake shrugged and then took the list of the supplies girls have arranged.
"So we have food, and water and some other camping stuff," Jake nodded seeing the list and then told them to check their expiry date.
Girls nodded and checked, and their faces paled. "Captain, it''s only until three days from now."
Jake didn''t find it surprising and said, "Then let''s eat this for now and go to hunt."