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Chapter 6: Day One — When the Veil Shuddered

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last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-12-21 03:35:41

The first bell at Apex Academy did not ring.

It resonated.

A deep vibration rolled through the campus, waking wards, sigils, bloodlines, and instincts older than the buildings themselves. Students poured into the central courtyard—wolves with eyes already glowing, vampires walking in flawless silence, hybrids standing stiff and unsure.

At the highest balcony, the faculty gathered.

They were not ordinary teachers.

They were former Alphas.

Exiled vampire lords.

War survivors.

Executioners who had retired because nothing left could challenge them.

They felt it immediately.

A pressure.

A distortion.

Like a shadow cast by something that refused to be seen.

“Did you sense that?” one of them murmured.

“Yes,” another replied. “But it vanished.”

Below them, Alpha stood among hundreds of students, hands in his pockets, posture relaxed, heartbeat steady. No aura leaked from him. No power flared.

The system tightened.

[POWER VEIL: ADAPTIVE MODE]

[FACULTY DETECTION: PARTIAL — REDIRECTED]

The headmaster stepped forward, voice amplified across the courtyard.

“Welcome to Apex Academy,” he said. “You are not here because you are powerful. You are here because the world expects you to become dangerous.”

Eyes scanned the crowd.

“Let us begin with introductions.”

The first group stepped forward.

Werewolf Alpha Candidates.

A tall boy with silver-streaked hair smiled confidently. His presence forced nearby wolves to stiffen.

“Dominance output at eighteen percent,” a faculty member muttered. “Impressive for his age.”

Another candidate cracked his neck, eyes glowing amber, aura pulsing without restraint. Several students stepped back instinctively.

“Unstable,” someone noted. “But strong.”

A third said nothing at all—his power compressed so tightly it bent the air.

The crowd whispered.

Then came the Vampire Royal Candidates.

One girl glided forward, eyes like cut garnet, blood responding to her every step. The wards along the courtyard flickered.

“First Court blood,” a professor said sharply. “Pure.”

A boy with jet-black hair smiled lazily, f_professors feeling a familiar, dangerous authority crawl up their spines.

“Second lineage,” another whispered. “He’ll challenge early.”

Each introduction caused ripples—students comparing, ranking, measuring threats.

Alpha remained still.

The system worked constantly now.

[THREAT ASSESSMENT UPDATED]

Alpha Candidates Nearby: 5

Royal Vampire Candidates Nearby: 4

Recommended Action: Remain Average

Then the headmaster’s gaze paused.

Not on the strongest.

On Alpha.

Just for a fraction of a second.

The wards around the academy pulsed once—confused.

The headmaster frowned.

“That one,” he said quietly to the faculty. “Who admitted him?”

“Conditional slot,” a professor replied. “Barely passed.”

“Why do I feel…” The headmaster trailed off.

The feeling was gone.

Alpha met his eyes calmly. No challenge. No fear.

Nothing.

[VEIL STABILITY: 97%]

“Strange,” the headmaster said finally, turning away. “Probably residual ward feedback.”

Classes were assigned. Rankings unofficially formed. Dominance challenges were scheduled before sunset.

As the crowd dispersed, several Alpha candidates glanced Alpha’s way and dismissed him instantly.

A vampire royal barely spared him a look.

Which meant none of them noticed the thin fracture spreading invisibly through the system’s veil.

Because Apex Academy was built to cultivate kings.

And it had just admitted something it was never designed to contain.

The combat hall smelled of iron, sweat, and old magic. Light filtered through stained glass, casting fractured patterns across the polished stone floor. Students arranged themselves in pairs, murmuring as the instructors assigned matches. Alpha’s name appeared on the board last.

He walked toward the center of the hall, muscles tense, heartbeat calm. Across from him, a rival stood—a tall, broad-shouldered werewolf named Kael, one of the top Alpha candidates already glowing with dominance. His amber eyes narrowed.

“You’re the weakling they let in?” Kael sneered. “I’ll make this quick.”

Alpha said nothing. He didn’t need to.

The bell rang. Combat began.

Kael lunged, claws extended. Instinct screamed in Alpha’s chest—but his wolf stayed silent. The system had locked all his reflexive power. He barely dodged, knees scraping the stone. Pain burned, and Kael grinned.

“You’re slow!”

Alpha breathed. Observed. Learned. Every twitch of Kael’s muscles, every shift in his stance, every micro-pattern of aggression—it was all cataloged, stored. He couldn’t strike back yet, but he was calculating, absorbing.

[SYSTEM SLIP DETECTED: 2% POWER LEAK]

[HINT OF HYBRID CORE ACTIVE]

[RECOMMENDATION: CONTAIN — TEMPORARY FAILURE]

Alpha felt it. A surge. A flicker of instinct, sharper than usual. His senses tingled—the wolf whispered, the vampire hunger flared. Not enough to fight properly. Not yet.

Kael swung again, faster this time. Alpha barely sidestepped, but something unintentional happened: the hall reacted.

The lights flickered. The stone floor vibrated. The wards around the combat hall shivered. A soft hum, deep and resonant, rose through the students’ spines.

The faculty noticed.

“Did you feel that?” one whispered.

Alpha’s eyes didn’t leave Kael. The system immediately responded, trying to clamp down.

[SYSTEM: CONTAINMENT ACTIVE]

[POWER VEIL RESTORED — 97%]

Kael stopped mid-swing, confused. His aura prickled like static.

“What the—?” he muttered.

Alpha didn’t move yet. He let the system restore control, hiding the surge. Slowly, he stepped back, chest heaving slightly from the effort of holding everything in.

The bell rang. Match over. Kael’s grin faded, replaced with suspicion.

“Lucky,” he spat.

Alpha said nothing. Didn’t need to.

As the students left the hall, the faculty lingered, whispers echoing off the walls.

“Did you see that?” one asked. “A fluctuation in the veil… right around that boy.”

“Too subtle to measure,” the headmaster said, frowning. “But the system shouldn’t allow that. Not at Level One.”

Alpha’s eyes followed Kael as he walked away, already plotting. A slow burn ignited in him—not rage, not pride—but calculation.

He had survived Day One’s combat.

The system had almost slipped.

And for the first time, Alpha realized: when the veil fails, even slightly, the world starts noticing him.

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