Miskatonic University, Inner Academy, training room.
This was a place dedicated to training the students in physical combat. In Jimmy's words, a competent supernatural should have no glaring weaknesses, yet for the vast majority of supernaturals with special abilities, hand-to-hand combat was precisely their weakness.
So, to help the students develop across the board and shore up their weaknesses, the academy had built this training room. Not only was the environment completely devoid of spiritual energy, but it also subjected them to terrifying gravity.
In the circular training room, the closer one got to the center, the more terrifying the gravity became.
And this was merely the training room for first-years. The third-years' training room even allowed them to adjust the gravity freely. One extra note: its upper gravity limit had no limit.
Right now, Cheng Yu and the others were watching Dile trade blows with the instructor.
The two girls, Tang Lan and Ning Qing, naturally paid more attention to Dile, while Bennett and Cheng Yu stood farther back.
As for Cheng Yu, he was currently watching Dile and the training room instructor trade blows "intently." Incidentally, the instructor was the burly man they had seen after the entrance test.
His name was Qi Yao.
None of the new students had expected the seemingly frail Dile to hold his own against Qi Yao to this extent.
The two fought back and forth, neither giving ground. Even Jimmy, standing off to the side, couldn't help muttering,
"Could this little guy have spotted me during the entrance test? With hand-to-hand skills like that, I really might not have fucking gotten away."
Bennett said nothing, merely watching Dile's progress in silence.
Cheng Yu did the same. But while he watched Dile's solo performance, he had mentally connected with the Conductor and the