54 - Teatime

Loud foot steps could be heard as the students slowly quietened down. From what I've heard from the whispers around, most of the teachers were ex-adventurers who had retired.

Walking in, he was missing an eye and had horrible posture. His black hair stood out from the crowd of students having brown hair. Though I can't talk about that since I even have white streaks at the end to add on to my black hair. I was in my Teal dress as usual, over the years, I added waist armour and made sure there was short pants under. I could just use [Abyss control] and manifest shadow armour anyway, at this point I don't know why I was attending school.

Was it to be 'normal'? To pass my boredom? Whoops I went off on a tangent and forgot about the poor teacher. Pressure was subconciously radiating out of my seat as I daydreamed about my purpose here. Regaining my composure, I apologised before going back to my usual posture of leaning on my left wrist. Introducing himself as Sean sensei, he carried on with introductions.

James as usual, was his arrogant self that paid every small detail to the presentation of himself. Unless he was talking to me or Fez, he wouldn't drop his tone of speech, which was a little annoying. I could only akwardly laugh it off when a classmate complains about it. Fez was indifferent as usual, she only opens up with a bright smile when we are alone. When it came my turn, I just hoped not to bite my tongue.

"I am Emily von Lilith. I was second place in being voted to rule this kingdom due to running away from the venue. Please to meet you *. From now one, I'm in your care!"

I didn't mess up did I? I even managed to slip in a wink at the end. Hopefully everyone's impression of me was positive and ignore me scaring the teacher earlier. Speaking from experience in my previois life, the best way to avoid embarrassing things you've done is to ignore that it ever happened at all.

With that method, at most people would only bring it up for a day. The next day would be like nothing had happened. Of course this was assuming whatever you did wasn't caught on film.

After our introductions, lessons about the laws of this kingdom would commence. Since adventuring in itself was another topic, the first years were taught about the specifics of these laws in different lessons.

Usually it was easy to bypass weak disguises and see people's levels, but if the disguise was too hard to reveal the person's actual name and level, then it was safe to say that person was level 600 or above. It would be problematic if the person disguised themselves as a low level and went unnoticed, so technology was developed for this sort of cases.

The only levels the technology weren't able to reveal are those above 3000 as the system just automatically blocks people's perceptions if their level is too low. Levels are important as anyone above 200 could destroy a small building. This would then endanger non-combatants. There were debates on what disguises could pass the law and what couldn't. Some people fought for privacy, the other side fought for safety.

The amount of content I needed to memorise wasn't much, so I could get by as usual. Today, we barely scratched the surface into these topics though, it seemed to me that there would be quite a lot. In the middle of all the lessons, there would be a tea break for the students to rest from all the studious work.

Walking through the hallways, lots of glances were attracted towards my direction. *sigh*, when would they stop staring? I'm just a normal person like the rest of them. What types of food do they sell in the canteen? Thinking solely about my meal, I stared blankly into the air as I took every step. People usually gave way for some reason, so I didn't need to worry about walking into people. A sudden large noise echoed in the background. But I couldn't be bothered so I continuously daydreamed.

"Hey you! Who are you? And why are people giving way to you? I'm the most superior, you should be giving way instead of walking in the middle!" (?)

' Whoa, he's about to get murdered...'

'You sure? It's him though. He doesn't currently have the power, but people say he will be a general in the future.'

'That's true, if anyone could beat lilith it would be him. In fact she should watch out.'

(Background whispering)

"Hey! Watch out for Kexis! You should get out of the way before something were to go wrong!"

Again there was a strange commotion in the background. Was Kexis bullying a random student? Well they're saying watch out, so it should still be fine. Their levels are so low that numbers can overwhelm the enemy. A strange tap hit my left shoulder. Releasing myself from my thoughts about the lunch menu, I looked at the place where I was last tapped from. No... There was a blatantly large hole in the wall in that direction that pulled my attention...

Could it be?... I subconciously walked too fast and knocked someone out of the school? Well I hope he is okay. Other than going through the wall, he should be fine. Continuing my walk towards the canteen, the whispers in the background died down a little. I didn't exactly have [Omni detection-tier 3] on all the time as it would be rude, so I couldn't tell or couldn't care about what they were gossiping about. Anyway somethings are... better left unheard of... You don't want to know what weird things these people going through puberty would converse about.

The rest of the day was as usual. The students were nice and helpful in certain traditions I didn't know about. On later days, I would see a terrified decently fit guy in the hallway. He seemed to fear me for some reason. His anxious face contrasted with his usual dignified look, making the scene surrwal for passersby. The school prodigy being scared of a little girl? At least that was how it was for those that didn't catch up with the news like Kexis. Or they would have learned of my name. I didn't exactly demand something absurd like complete disobedience or clearing the hallway, common courtesy was enough so I couldn't care less about rumours.

Now that I look at it, the adventurer's academy was somehow more normal than the magic institution. Sure it incorporated combat training from time to time, but the magic institution was full on combat practice for 3 years. Did it influence me in any particularly impactful way? Not really, I was already grinding dungeons 6 hours a day at that time. I only learned much later that since dungeons require mana to spawn monsters, dungeons would suck mana out of adventurers and give them mana sickness. Basically it was very mentally draining to challenge dungeons when you're a low level. But my thirst for agility stats eclipsed that I guess.

The next morning was the same as the day before.