Chapter 151 - The Beautiful High Elf Professor

  Chloe and I followed the other students toward our first css, the air thick with a mix of ay and curiosity. After the presentation ended, a few staff members guided us through the academy’s corridors. Chloe, always excited, looked at me with a sparkle in her eyes.

  “What do you think the css will be about?” she asked.

  “They said we’d find out throughout the day, but I’m hoping for something practical,” I replied, eager for an activity that would put our abilities to the test.

  The two mages who had been with us during the presentation were still walking closely behind, their presence already being familiar.

  “If I know my aunt well,” Thyra said, “she’s probably saving the best for st. If there’s a practical css, it’ll likely be at the end of the day.”

  Syvis took the lead in roup.

  “I suspect the first year will be focused on general cepts, blending mandatory tent with lessons from various mage csses,” expihe blonde elf. “After that, we’ll specialize more depending on what we choose.”

  iled, clearly pleased with the idea.

  “I’m just happy to know we’ll have something practical,” my cousin said, clearly excited at the thought of finally getting her hands dirty.

  Thyra, always wearing that predatrin, added, “I’m just waiting for them to give us permission to head into the dungeon. The academy has mission boards avaible for students.”

  Mission boards?

  That definitely caught my attention. I turo her, intrigued.

  “Thyra, you expin what that is?”

  Thyra ughed at my curiosity. “Of course. The academy also works like an adventurer’s guild. They put up mission boards, and you take on tasks like sying monsters and gathering parts from them, which are very useful to the city and the kingdoms,” the wolf girl said excitedly, but I k was just the thrill of battle that had her pumped up.

  “Useful parts for the city?” Chloe asked, surprised.

  Syvis sighed, taking on a calmer and more expnatory tohe wolf didn’t expin it well. Factories and businesses here need rare materials that only be found in dungeons. Sihe academy has its own dungeo requests for resources. Students accept these missions, earning points and rewards in money. Some nobles even team up to do missions to help pay off the academy fees.”

  “Thyra doesn’t hat, sihyra’s aunt is the director, so Thyra just goes to rack up points and fight,” she said, still brimming with excitement.

  Does she refer to herself in third person when she’s really excited? I thought.

  Syvis’s expnation about the dungeon’s system intrigued me. It was a way fes to hoheir skills while earning practical points and mohe academy was encing students to grow stronger while rewarding them for their efforts.

  We ehe and looked for seats.

  “Let’s sit together,” Chloe suggested, and we all agreed.

  We fous by the window. I sat in front of Chloe, while Syvis and Thyra sat in the row o us. Thyra, still grumbling, muttered,

  “I’m not good with theoretical csses…”

  Oh, so she’s back to talking normally now? I guess her speech ges with her mood.

  I took out my saterials from my ste bracelet and arrahem on the desk. I noticed many students doing the same. Everyone had ste bracelets, and the academy had provided them to those who didn’t already have one.

  Now, all we had to do was wait for the teacher to arrive.

  Please, let it be a practical css! I thought eagerly.

  "Someone’s ing!" shouted a studehe door, already excited.

  A familiar figure ehe room.

  "Good m, css! My name is Adrihna, and I’ll be your teacher today."

  Chloe and I exged grying to hold back a ugh.

  It's going to be a magic css, I'm gd.

  The students began whispering, enting on Adrihna’s beauty and how different she seemed pared to other teachers.

  "I’ll be teag your css this year," she began. "In the past, I only gave occasional lessons to advaudents who then their uanding of pure mana, but this year I’ve decided to focus more oical lessons and take on the responsibility of teag you, first-year students."

  A part of me felt a bit disappointed.

  She’s an amazing mage, and I’m stuck with theoretical csses? Just when I thought I’d learn more from her... Why is she teag theory to first-years?

  "My css will be about the History of the Races, fog solely on High Elves and on Elves," Adrihna tinued, briefly casting me a signifit look.

  Ah, I see... Is this her way of me a more... personalized education? Or is it just a aybe it's because of Syvis. I fot she's the elf princess, so perhaps she's here to supervise what is being taught to her.

  "Professor Adrihna is so cool," Syvis whispered with soft admiration. "She introduced me to magic when I was little."

  Chloe and I exged gnces, unsure if we should mention that we had also been taught by her. It felt almost like a private secret.

  "Many of you might be curious about my single purple eye, which may seem striking," Adrihna began, notig the restlessness in the room. "You should know that I’m one of the few users of Special Eyes in the world," she revealed, causing a murmur to ripple through the css.

  "So it’s true? I always heard Special Eyes existed," whispered a wide-eyed student.

  "She’s really famous; everyone knows Professor Adrihna," murmured another.

  Adrihna raised her hand, and with a simple gesture, a ball of light shone in the ter of the room, catg everyone’s attention. "Please be quiet and pay attention. I’m dedig valuable time from my long life to teach you, so I expect you to appreciate it," she said, her tone calm yet firm.

  She approached a transparent board on the wall, toug a page in her book. In an instant, the page rojected onto the board, every detail intact. The magical teology was impressive.

  "Is that a magic mirror?" Chloe asked, curious.

  "Or some advanced magical tech," I replied, equally impressed.

  The image on the board showed a human and a high elf side by side, with expnatory texts. "Your books provide only a superficial view, but I believe learning directly from a high elf is a much richer experience," Adrihna said, as the css watched ily.

  "Does anyone know how a on elf is born?" she asked, sing the room.

  "Iing, I like this school. First css of the day, and we’re already talking about sex," Athena ented.

  SHUT UP…

  Several hands shot up, and Adrihna poio a blonde girl.

  "Princess Melina Asalon, I believe you’re the perfect person to ahis question, given your family’s important role in our history."

  The princess stood with fidence. "A on elf is born when a human and a high elf fall in love," she replied firmly.

  Adrihna nodded, letting Melina sit back down, but quickly followed with a corre: "That’s incorrect..."