Despite being startled, Neo maintained a neutral expression.
"Is that even possible?"
"I think it could be possible with your bloodline."
Neo did not say anything.
"Sigh, Neo, death isn't a punishment.
"I'm sad too that my friends died, but trying to resurrect them isn't the answer.
"You need to accept Death.
"How long will you continued this? Everyone you know will die someday, will you keep reviving them?"
"Neo, if you don't learn to accept Death, your mastery will…"
"If I tell you about it, it will lose its meaning. You need to understand it yourself."
He patted Neo's back.
"I'll keep the corpses with myself until as long as you want.
"Still, please think about what I told you."
Jack stepped out of the room, leaving Neo behind.
Neo thought about Jack's words.
He shook his head after a few moments
"I'm getting late for the classes."
Neo left the Seraphim Hall.
He met Arthur, Felix and Mars on the way.
"They went to their class."
Neo noticed quite a few people were staring at him.
It reminded him of the day when he was going to give the speech as the Ruler.
Back then, the gazes had been filled with mockery.
Now, they were staring at him with awe and admiration.
The four reached the class.
The teacher entered a few minutes later.
She picked the chalk and wrote 'Elemental Clash aka Elemental Overriding' on the board.
"Good morning, students.
"Since a few of you are seeing me for the first time, I'll reintroduce myself.
"I'm Evelyn Valtara. Your Elemental Theory class professor."
Her gaze was fixed on Neo.
"Today, we are going to cover the topic 'Elemental Clash'.
"Anyone know what it is?"
Arthur raised his hand.
"Yes, please answer, Arthur."
"Elemental Clash refers to the clash between two elements."
"Very good, Arthur. As expected of a Rank 2 student. It was the perfect answer."
Professor Evelyn continued.
"But how does Elemental Clashes work?
"What will happen if Water and Fire strikes against each other?
"Will water douse the fire, or will the fire evaporate the water."
An orb of water materialized above Professor Evelyn's right palm and a orb of flames above her left palm.
"What factors will affect the result?"
"The total amount of Divine Energy imbued in the attack."
"Yes, good answer. Anything else?"
"Think, students. This is something you all must've experienced during your past three months practical classes at the academy."
"Elemental Superiority."
"You can't expect a lightning element user to win against a time element user.
"The time element user will snap his finger and that's it. Time has been stopped. Lightning user can't do anything."
"You need to be careful about the compatibility between your opponent and you, and use a superior element.
"Of course, that's not always the case. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?"
Arthur, again, raised his hand.
"We can overpower our opponent's element as long as out mastery is high enough. This can cancel even elemental superiority."
Professor Evelyn smiled.
"There are countless examples of what Arthur said in the history.
"The battle of GodKing, Zeus, the War God, Ares, against the Father of Time, Kronos, is one such example.
"They overpowered the Father of Time with their high elemental masteries.
"The Godking Zeus used his lightning affinity to out speed Time and War God Ares burned Time itself."
Professor Evelyn could see not everyone believed her.
It was to be expected.
The Age of Gods happened long in the past, and her words sounded too absurd to be true.
The students believed the myths of the past were often exaggerated.
"I'll give you a live example."
Professor Evelyn conjured a flame in front of her.
"This is Apprentice-mastery level fire."
She raised her head and looked Neo in the eye.
"Neo Hargraves, please attack this flame with your Death affinity
He spoke to help make it easier for him to conjure the image of the attack and increase its accuracy.
A single condensed red bolt struck the flame.
The flame suddenly died.
"Marvellous. That was a perfect demonstration of Elemental Overriding."
She looked around the class.
"Neo Hargraves' mastery of Death has reached Adept-level.
"He was able to impose the concept of Death over my flames and kill them.
"This happened because Adept-mastery represents a higher form of understanding than Apprentice-mastery."
"Now who is going to tell me the weakness of Elemental overriding?"
Arthur raised his hand to no one's surprise.
"Yes, please answer, Arthur."
"Mainly, the two weakness of elemental overriding are Divine Energy pool and Elemental Superiority.
"Even a high mastery is useless if an Awakened Demigod is fighting a Mythic Demigod.
"The Mythic Demigod can just overpower the opponent with his denser and larger Divine Energy pool."
"Elemental Superiority is similar.
"Just because they have a higher mastery does not mean an earth element user can defeat a lightning element user in a race. Elemental overriding is useless here."
Professor Evelyn let them go after an hour.
"I feel like I'm dying," Felix groaned.
Her head slumped onto the desk.
"Someone kill me. I can't study anymore."
"Why are you complaining, Felix? It was an interesting class."
"It wasn't, you nerd."
Felix glared at Arthur.
"I've told you multiple times. If you are going to keep raising your hand, go sit somewhere else."
"You draw attention to yourself! One out of seven professors asks a question from me since I'm sitting next to you.
"I'm not smart like you. I beg you, spare me, you lunatic!"
She was on the verge of tears.
"Where are you going?" Arthur questioned.
"I have something to do. I'll return before our next class starts."
The next class was after two hours.
Neo had plenty of time to meet Professor Daniel.
He moved through the academy grounds.
The meditation hall was only half-hour distance away.
It was as deserted as ever.
Neo stood outside Professor Daniel's office and knocked.
"Professor Daniel, it is Neo Hargraves.
"I came to meet you three months ago and asked for help in awakening my time element."