Lucian didn’t wake up to the sound of the academy alarm. He woke up to the sensation of his own cells screaming.
It was a hollow, gnawing ache that started in his marrow and spread to his stomach. He sat up abruptly, gasping for air, his skin coated in a thin, grimy layer of grey impurities—the "waste" his body had expelled during his first successful cultivation of the Divine Totem technique
He felt lighter and his mind felt like a sharpened blade until the pangs of hunger hit his stomach. “Ugh I'm starving yesterday's training must have drained everything I had” he groaned “Let me quickly hit those showers and head for breakfast”
Once he finished, he hit the showers, got dressed, grabbed breakfast, and headed to class.
The first class of the day was physical training, focused on stam
