Cosmic Ruler

Chapter 54 Emily Resolve

{A/N : My laptop stopped working suddenly don't know why yesterday, Anyway , Thankyou BigNerdNasty, Zombie_V1 for your gifts

thank you balivio for your golden tickets}

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As Jake bathed in everyone's cheers and admiration, Emily clenched her fist and thought, "I can't wait any longer."

She looked at Jake and thought, "I will be your first woman." She knew that in the Celestaria world, it is common for strong men to have multiple women as wives, but she would like to be at least Jake's first woman.

As Jake descended from the stage, his friends came near him and congratulated him.

"It was a good match," Dio said.

"It was easy, right?" Mark added.

"Fight me too," Jimmy chimed in.

Jake smiled and then answered each of them. He then noticed Emily looking at him with hesitation visible on her face.

"Is something wrong?" Jake asked.

[What are you, dense protagonist?] Nexus retorted to Jake's obliviousness.

"What do you... she loves me?!" Jake realized suddenly.

[What else?] Nexus remarked.

"Emily, do you want to talk somewhere private?" Jake asked.

His friends looked at him, and then Dio smiled and whispered into Mark's ear, whose eyes widened. They then left them alone. They also dragged Jimmy out, who kept pestering Jake for a fight.

Seeing everyone leave, Emily looked into Jake's eyes and said, "Jake, I... would you like to go out with me?" Emily's face turned beet red as she said those words.

"Yes," Jake smiled shyly and replied.

Hearing Jake's response, Emily didn't say anything but directly hugged him. Jake hugged back.

"Cough... Go somewhere private," the referee said to them as they were literally standing at the side of the arena stage, with everyone watching them.

Jake looked around, and Emily buried her face into Jake's chest. Jake bowed and left the arena with Emily.

Mark, Dio, and Jimmy, who were watching from afar, gave them thumbs up.

While all the girls in the audience felt jealous of Emily, boys marked Jake as public enemy number one for taking their goddess, Emily.

Lucien, who was watching all of this, gritted his teeth and thought, 'I will surely pay you back for this humiliation.'

On the other hand, Jake and Emily returned to Jake's mansion. His friends also came with him, and a group of girls too.

"I don't remember seeing you in the Academy test," Jake said to the girls who were formerly followers of Lucien.

"Some of us are from the second year," one of them replied.

"So, why were you all following Lucien? I don't think someone with a sane mind would follow that d*ckhead," Jake asked them.

"Weak students' condition here is not very good. Our resources were stolen by the strong mostly, leaving us with nothing. Most upper-class men use us as playthings. This academy is basically a jungle, where the weak are prey and the strong are predators," a girl replied with a sad expression.

"And the Academy doesn't do anything about it?" Jake frowned and asked.

"No, there are strict laws against bullying, but most of the bullies are from influential families. So, unless those incidents of bullying reach the High Elders, lower teachers can't do anything about it," the same girl replied.

"I see. So, those rich brats can even overpower teachers, huh?" Jake nodded and said.

"We are lucky that you are our friend, or we might suffer the same as them," Mark sighed and said.

Emily and Jimmy nodded, while Dio shrugged. He is confident in dealing with those other special admissions except Jake.

"You can all go and say you are under me. This way, you wouldn't be bullied," Jake said and dismissed the girls.

The girls bowed and thanked Jake.

"So, what's next?" Jake asked.

"Tomorrow is the welcome ceremony for this year's admissions, and then classes will start," Dio said.

Jake nodded. After some more talking, his friends and his girlfriend left. He asked Emily to stay with him, but she replied she is not ready. Jake nodded and gave her time.

"Iris is here," Luna said.

Jake nodded and told her to call her inside.

After some time, Iris appeared. "Don't be too happy. I won't ever be your slave," she said, looking at Jake with disdain.

"You signed the contract," Jake replied calmly.

"Humph, what contract?" Iris snorted.

"Kneel," Jake looked at her calmly and said, Iris kneeling. "This contract."

"How is this possible?!" Iris yelled as she kneeled. "I clearly used a King rank Contract Breaker," she shouted in disbelief.

"So, this was your source of confidence," Jake said.

"What did you do?" Iris glared at Jake and said.

"Who knows, but first, you are not allowed to use any Contract Breakers," Jake said firmly.

"Oh, but I can," Jake cupped her face and replied. "Now, you are nothing but a b*tch to me." Jake let her go and said, "Give me your core art."

Iris kept gritting her teeth, but her body wouldn't listen as it automatically brought out her core art ring and gave it to Jake.

"You can't use it, only someone with the Heart of Fire core can use it," Iris laughed.

"I never said I will use it," Jake shrugged.

"Then what are you planning to do with it?" Iris asked.

"Sell it, obviously," Jake replied.

Iris's eyes widened in horror as she heard him. "Please, don't do anything but that," Iris pleaded.

"Didn't you say others can't use it? So what's the reason to be afraid?" Jake asked.

"The branch family. Someone has awakened the Heart of Fire there too, but the main family didn't allow them to use our core art as the main family had me," Iris gritted her teeth.

"So, they basically are afraid that if that guy or girl from there cultivates in the Heart of Fire core art, he or she might surpass you?" Jake asked.

Iris nodded. "Very well, I won't sell it, but what can you offer me in return?" Jake said.

"Anything you want?" Iris bowed and said.

"Anything you say. Hmmm, right now, I don't need anything, but I will call you my b8tch when I need anything. Now get out," Jake said as he threw the core art back to her. Using a non-matching art is dangerous anyway.

Iris stood up and left without saying anything.

Reaching her quarters, she took out a higher level contract breaker, but she wasn't able to use it. She couldn't even ask for anyone's help, just because of Jake's orders. "At least he hadn't used me as a plaything," she laid on her bed and thought. Unknown to her, the only reason Jake didn't use her as a wh*re was because he is now in a relationship with Emily.

If she was a day earlier, she might already be warming Jake's bed.

Back to Jake,

As Iris left, Jake took out the skill card and the other skill card he received for the village establishment.

"A legendary skill card and a class skill card," Jake mumbled and then asked Nexus about the class skill card.

"Right now, the class isn't available, so you can't use it," Nexus said.

Jake nodded. Class will be available at level 100, which is B rank. Each rank is divided into 30 levels—10 levels of each sub-rank. Right now, Jake is at level 28, just two levels short of D rank.

"As for this legendary skill card, hmm, I will use it later too when a need arises, or Nexus, can you recommend me any skill?" Jake mumbled and then asked his guide.

"There are many I can recommend, but I don't think you should choose now," Nexus said.

Jake nodded. Class will be available at level 100, which is B rank. Each rank is divided into 30 levels—10 levels of each sub-rank. Right now, Jake is at level 28, just two levels short of D rank.

"As for this legendary skill card, hmm, I will use it later too when a need arises, or Nexus, can you recommend me any skill?" Jake mumbled and then asked his guide.

"There are many I can recommend, but I don't think you should choose now," Nexus said.

Jake nodded and then, after eating, he logged into World's End as Dusk.

As Jake returned, his heroes came to him and greeted him. "How is the village?" Jake asked.

"Nothing major happened," Razor, the mage hero replied.

As Jake looked around, he saw some new villagers. "They are?"

"Refugees, from other destroyed villages," Lily, his golden Knight hero, replied.

Jake looked and saw there were a total of 16 of them and asked, "Is any of them trainable?"

"We didn't check as we were waiting for your approval of them," Razor said.

Jake nodded and then inspected all of them. "All of them are clear. You two can choose among them," Jake said.

Lily and Razor nodded, and just as Jake was about to log out, a rumbling sound came from the west.

"It seems a horde of beasts is coming," Lily said.

"Ahh, yes, the newbie raids," Jake remembered Luna's words and then decided to participate too.

Jake reached the western border of his village and saw a rat swarm. "They are quite big."

"They are Shredder Rats, a species who like to chew their victims' bones," Razor said.

"Support me and Lily from the back," Jake nodded and then instructed, although all the beasts coming were only E-rank and a leader with E+ rank, but their numbers were troublesome.

Lily and Razor nodded, and then Jake dashed in front and used a wide area Dark Slash, his attack halted the incoming swarm.

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