Auditorium, Abalax World Academy.
The auditorium was customized and in front of the stage now laid many round tables with chairs. The tables had nameplates with the name of the class written on it. Arya, Lith, Dennis, Ralph and Sel were currently sitting on one such table which was very close to the stage.
“Greetings, students. Congratulations for acing your first test and becoming the personal students of your respective class teachers.
This will be a short seminar about what you have to do from here on by being a personal student.
First, you are the top students of your class and you will be leading your class in various activities and events.
Second, you are given access to many restricted areas. Such as the access to higher levels in the library would be given to you depending upon which class you are in.
Third, your monthly credit points would be doubled.
Fourth, you can skip various classes and directly take different examinations and graduate early. But, you have to coordinate with your respective teachers. They will be the ones to judge whether you are qualified to take the exams and skip classes or not.
Fifth, you are given a one week holiday to visit your home every three months.
Lastly, you can open up your own clubs as long as it’s something new and not something which already exists.
There are also many more things and advantages and disadvantages that have to be mentioned but time is of essence and your respective teachers can guide you on that.
All the best on your endeavours, have a nice day.”
A host walked to the podium and gave this short speech when everyone was settled.
The students were all surprised due to how short this whole event was. They thought they might be given certain merits or privileges or simply awarded for getting selected as a personal student but they were wrong.
In any case, they didn’t mind it as what the host said was correct. Time was of an essence and they needed to increase their ranks not only in magic cultivation but also in the academy.
One by one, everyone got up and left the auditorium. Arya and her students being no exception to that.
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Lith arrived in front of a five storey building. It wasn’t very huge nor was it too small. There were walls surrounding the building and they weren’t too high. They were imbued with a translucent barrier which covered the whole building and protected it.
“You three will be living with me together in this building until you graduate. I’ll be staying on the top floor, you can come to me anytime if you need something and if I am not available, call me on the number I shared with you on the way.
Get to know each other well and be good kids. See ya~”
Arya briefly informed them a few things and entered the building.
Lith, Ralph and Dennis were currently standing in front of the building gate with confused looks. Their teacher had not even mentioned anything about which room was theirs and just left them. Teacher Sel was also not present as she left for some work after the small event in the auditorium.
“What now? Teacher didn’t even inform us about our rooms or brief us about the building’s inside.”
Dennis said while looking at Lith and Ralph in a confused expression.
Ralph didn’t say anything and only gazed at the entrance door of the building.
“Let’s go inside and figure it out ourselves. No point in standing here and wondering why the teacher didn’t say anything.” Lith said and walked into the building.
Ralph once again didn’t say anything and just followed Lith while Dennis too nodded and joined them.
Entering inside, Lith found a big living room with two large black sofas between which was a square glass table. After walking across the living room came the dining room where a big table with five chairs was placed. Then on the same floor there were restrooms and a big kitchen.
The building had five floors out of which the first one was where everyone in the building could come and hang out, this being the living room. The rest of the floors had one big room with many amenities such as a personal snack room and game room.
Lith, Dennis and Ralph realised that they were supposed to take one floor and stay there. They didn’t argue or bicker with each other and chose the floors according to their ranks and settled down.
Now, the fifth floor had Arya living in it. The fourth had Lith, third – Ralph, second – Dennis and the first one was empty.
After touring the building and moving their belongings to their respective rooms, Lith, Ralph and Dennis were currently sitting on the sofas in the living room.
After having a sip of tea, Ralph put down the cup and met his gaze with Lith and said in a calm and indifferent look
“What did you do to win instantly like that in the final round?”
“I just used some spells. Nothing much.” Lith sipped tea and said in an unbothered tone.
“Let’s have a rematch. This time I won’t be sucked into a vortex and teleported home so I can analyse what you did clearly.” Ralph said in a neutral tone.
“Hey, hey, I want to fight too. Your highness take me in too, please.” Dennis interjected hurriedly.
“Dennis, you can just call me Lith when we are in private.” Lith said in a neutral tone while taking a sip of tea again.
“No, your highness, that won’t do. Anyway, let’s go and fight!” Dennis put down the tea cup and rushed to the arena present in the backyard of the building.
“Let’s go, Ralph.” Lith too put down the tea cup and walked to the arena. Ralph nodded his head and followed suit.
Reaching the small 1 km² training arena in the backyard, Lith, Ralph and Dennis first searched for the activation of the protective barrier. This would ensure that they could fight without holding back and also protect the building from damage.
After not being able to find it even after fifteen minutes of searching, they decided to call their teacher for help.
Arya was free at the moment they called and picking up the phone she said
“Yo kiddos, what’s the problem? Are you missing your beautiful teacher’s face already? Hahaha!”
Dennis was embarrassed by his teacher’s teasing, Ralph was as reserved as he could be and was expressionless. Lith on the other hand was a person who couldn’t be teased so easily. His mother had trained him well in that aspect. He said in a neutral tone
“Yes teacher, we do. Come to the training arena, we want to see you.”
“Hoho! At least say it in such a tone that would make it seem believable. Anyway, I’ll be there in five minutes.”
Arya said and hung up.
Lith, Ralph and Dennis continued searching for the activation switch while waiting for their teacher to arrive. After fifteen minutes, Arya arrived.
“Aha! I arrived much earlier than I said!” Arya said in a cheerful tone while flipping her bangs to the back.
“Teacher, you are ten minutes late.” Lith said in a neutral tone.
“That’s early for me. You kiddos should be grateful because getting to meet me so quickly is very rare, hahaha!”
“Teacher, less jokes, more work. Please show us how to activate this barrier so that we can fight.” Lith boldly advised Arya in the same neutral tone as before.
Lith was used to such a before. His mother would always tease him or crack jokes and delay his training. He therefore had to resort to asking her to be serious and so, Arya’s playful behaviour wasn’t an issue for him.
Arya raised an eyebrow to what Lith said and smiled. She developed a bit of interest in him after watching how he could even boldly advise her to be serious. In any case, she wasn’t angry with him or annoyed by his behaviour.
Lith, Ralph and Dennis were her first students and she was a very open minded lady. Therefore, she didn’t mind Lith’s words. She chuckled while ruffling Lith’s hair and said
“Haha, alright, come, I’ll show you.”
After learning how the barrier was activated, Lith and Ralph went to the stage and got ready to fight. Dennis stayed at the sidelines and watched them along with his teacher, Arya.
Arya had already seen many matches of Lith and the finals of the combat test tournament was no exception. But she still stayed in the training arena to watch her students fight and ensure no mishap occured while also ensuring to give them a lesson after their fight. This was her goal currently.
Arya was a carefree person but when she took responsibility of something, she would always be serious about it. Teaching these kids and guiding them to the right path while also ensuring their magic cultivation is happening smoothly was her responsibility for now and she wouldn’t slack off of it.
At the arena, Lith looked at Ralph with a calm gaze. He stood still and said to Ralph while taking out his sword from his ring
“Come at me whenever you’re ready.”