Ch34.Entry.

The day has finally arrived where I will officially enter an Academy! I have woken up especially early this morning and have made sure to stock up on everything I may need in my shadow space, including a lot of stationary as well as some daily necessities in case I end up living at the Academy for an extended period of time.

I then got on my bike and drove to Swernoot Academy, after arriving, I stowed my Bike away before considering whether I should use my key to open the gate. 'Nah its probably too early, and I have no idea where to go when I get inside, so its best I wait for someone to guide me inside.' While I decided to wait by the front gate, I feel quite annoyed that the Dean seems to have forgotten to tell me where I am supposed to meet him or what time I am supposed to arrive. Since I have some time, I decided to do some basic exercises as I wait for the sun to rise or for someone else to appear.

As I was ending my morning workout, I noticed someone walking towards the gate. I stopped what I was doing and looked at the person approaching. He is super short, around 122cm(4ft), with broad shoulders, large muscles, a large potbelly and a thick beard that reaches down to his neck. As he approached me he took a large sip of a wine bottle in his hand before saying, "Yo, big guy!! Burp* is you the teach that takes new students to where we go?? Burp*"

I looked at him before frowning and saying, "What are you implying there shorty? I am a student! I thought you were the teacher!"

He then approached me with clear shock on his face, saying "What?? How is you student? You is massive!! How you possibly think I am teach!! Can't you see how short my beard is? I am obviously child! "

I replied "What? How is that a short beard, I would kill for a beard half that length! All I have is this smooth baby face . . . Are you a Dwarf or something? And why are you talking like that?"

He then laughs loudly, then proceeds to downing the rest of the wine in his bottle, before saying, " Buuurp* Yeeah me Dwarf! Thanks for compliment and Human language be hard!"

He then scratches around in a bag and all I can hear is the clinking of bottles, he starts to panic before saying "NO! Bad news! I am out of Wine, no ... no ... No! Can't go without wine!"

I watch him in amusement thinking 'looks like he is a fellow drunk, I can't have him suffer now can I...' I then take out one of my large bottles of beer and say, "I'm not much of a wine drinker myself, I do, however; have the Supreme alcohol called Beer!" After saying that I bring out two beer mugs, and top them up.

I then hand him a mug and say, "Cheers! By the way, my name is Rob, what is yours?"

He grabs the mug, saying "I am Nafets, Cheers!!" He then takes a large sip before screaming at the top of his voice, " BUUURP* BY THE SUPREME 'RUNE', WHAT IS THIS … THIS … THIS … MASTERPIECE!!!"

I laugh loudly at that wrap my arm around his shoulder saying, "This is my masterpiece my friend! Now let's get our morning drunk on! HAHAHA"

After that we drank as we waited for others to arrive while we drank and chatted about various things, like how he was kicked out from his Dwarf territory after he stole their Cave Lords Wine stash and drank it all. It turns out that in Dwarf country, that is considered worse than kidnapping someone's wife. He was lucky he was only exiled and not thrown in jail. The reason he joined this Academy is that the Cave Lord, which by the way is similar to the high nobles in a human country, has pressured the other Academies into rejecting him. So he had no choice but to join Swernoot Academy. He honestly doesn't seem to give a shit though, the only thing on his mind is alcohol, and the only reason he is even learning magic is to start brewing better alcohol.

I promised to teach him how to make beer, as long as he agreed to work for me, supply me with as much alcohol as I want and swearing to make the best beer conceivable. I even made up some bullshit story of how Beer is the greatest alcohol in existence and that there is no limit to how many times it can be improved. I even stole an idea from a cultivation novel, saying that when beer reaches a certain level of greatness, it will cause the world to be jealous, thereby resulting in lightning striking down from the skies, testing whether the beer is worth existing. He was super excited after hearing this and seemed to completely believe me, vowing to create a beer that made the world jealous!

When others started to arrive, they looked at us strangely as we were just busy drinking and loudly chatting, they collectively decided to stay as far away from us as possible. We completely ignored them and just continued chatting, eventually we saw the front gate open and a pissed off Dean walked out looking around before saying, "What are you all waiting outside for? I gave you a key are you stupid or something. . . Now follow me, I am tired of waiting." he then mumbled under his voice, 'I guess this is what happens when you only get the other academies rejects … sigh'.

After he said that Nafets and I started laughing, half drunk, while I said "Oi dean you didn't say when or where we were supposed to meet you, so this is all on you HAHAHA, you want a drink?" I handed him a mug filled with beer, he looked at me in annoyance, before sighing, grabbing the mug and responding "You are way too young to be drinking, give me that!"

He downed the drink before throwing the mug back at me and walking through the gate. Everyone then followed him while looking around at where we will be studying for the next few years. Inside the castle gate, the first thing I see are rows of old abandoned houses on either side of a long thick street, most of houses have broken down walls and you can see some people chilling on the roof.

As we traveled further down the street, I can see two students fighting over what looks to be some type of food parcel. As we walked passed one of the guys got distracted and looked over to us, the other guy took advantage of this and covered his fist in a blue energy and punched the distracted guy in the chest, causing a shockwave and sending him flying through the air into a building, breaking the wall in the process. The first guy then excitedly grabbed the parcel, ripped open the packaging and took a huge bite of what seemed to be a hotdog roll.

This was not an uncommon occurrence as the Dean didn't pay any attention to the fight and just continued walking, as we made our way through the Academy we saw similar fights happening on multiple occasions.

We finally arrived at a large empty square, surrounded by buildings that are mostly intact, the Dean then stopped, turned around and spoke "Welcome to Swernoot Academy! If you want to live here, you can choose any empty building to live in, it is then your responsibility to protect and maintain it."

He pointed to the buildings around the square while saying "In these buildings you will find most of what you need, including the cafeteria, clothing store, etc. We don't really enforce you to wear a uniform here, so you can chose to collect one if you want, It is, however; required to wear our Academy Badge. You can get that from the clothing store."

He continued explaining the various different building surrounding the square and then he said "You will be studying here for the next 9 years, at the end of every year, there is a graduation test and you get three retests per year. If you fail a test three times, you will be expelled. We don't have many rules or restrictions here, just don't do anything too stupid or I will be forced to take action and I fucking hate taking action so beware."

After staring intensely at everyone for a few seconds, he then continued "We only have five teachers working here, but If you actually want them to teach you, you will have to convince them to do so yourself. We don't pay them enough to have them actually organize classes and lectures, so if you can't convince them to teach you, then you will have to self study at the library. There are no limits on what you want to read at the library, but if you cause even the slightest bit of damage to a book I will beat you until you are seconds away from death and literally kick you out of this Academy!"

After hearing that I was super excited, 'The teachers are underpaid, so I should be able to buy their tutelage relatively easily! Also the library is completely open!! How fucking awesome is that! My goal is to now read as many books, with my 'Greater Comprehension' Rune active, as I possibly can.' This is going to be a super busy year, and I can't wait!!