Chapter 40: The First Class

As soon as he pushed open the classroom door, a burst of clamor entered his ears.

The classmates were heatedly discussing, and the content was indeed about yesterday’s practical combat class.

In their words, there was no shortage of visions for the future, and what kind of Magitech Knight they wanted to own after becoming knights.

Of course, the more important content was naturally admiration and respect for Ye Xu, Isxila, and Lol.

Unlike yesterday, when Ye Xu entered the classroom, there were still people whispering because of his apparent illegitimate child status.

Today, their eyes held only admiration and longing.

Ye Xu didn’t pay attention to these, nodded to Isxila and Lol, and then returned to his position from yesterday.

However, he didn’t know if it was an illusion, but Isxila’s position, which was originally more toward the middle, seemed to have shifted back a bit. An illusion?

Whatever, since he had let this little blonde pursue him, he wouldn’t mind. He hoped she had some sense of propriety.

Thinking this, Ye Xu then sat down.

Beside him, Vitt and Emon saw Ye Xu arrive and came over, looking at him a bit embarrassed. “Um, Boss Nal, about us yesterday……”

The five of them still had fresh memories of getting drunk last night.

Although it was drunkenness, as they say, drunken words are sober thoughts. Since the five had sworn brotherhood, there was no reason to regret it.

What embarrassed them the most was that when sober yesterday, they wanted to recognize Ye Xu as big brother, but after getting drunk, they just collapsed everywhere.

However, although big brother hadn’t formally accepted, he hadn’t refused them either, so Ye Xu was their boss!

“It’s fine, just drunkenness. Everyone has those times.”

“Very normal.”

Ye Xu waved his hand, indicating he didn’t mind, then said flatly while slightly crossing his legs, taking out the textbook from his choker to preview.

As for spending money to have people send them back.

How to put it, Ye Xu lacked everything now except money.

Not to mention the pile of gold coins filling his fifty-square-meter storage choker, where silver and copper coins were almost nowhere to be seen, just a glittering pile.

Even the treasures he had swiped from the empire before leaving were each worth a fortune.

Last night, he had quite a good impression of these five clowns. Spending a little money to make friends was well worth it.

….

Oh, speaking of which, he was running low on silver coins. He’d need to exchange some in a while.

And get some more copper coins too.

Otherwise, pulling out gold coins for every little thing would be too eye-catching.

“Hehe, hehe~”

The other three were from other classes, so only the two here could face Ye Xu.

“Heh……”

And as everyone knows, boys are a marvelous species.

Like when being scolded or punished, even if objectively more people wouldn’t make the punishment lighter, they would inexplicably feel much better from body to mind.

This led to, at this moment, even though Ye Xu indicated he didn’t mind, the five still felt deadly embarrassed.

“Then Boss, we’ll sit in front of you from now on. You don’t mind, right?”

Although he looked cold and unapproachable, after interacting last night, the five brothers could say they truly knew how good Ye Xu’s temperament was.

After all, in this world, not every noble could give a good face to five guys drunk on the street.

But their Boss Ye Xu not only remained well-spoken, witty, elegant, and calm in conversation even after they got drunk.

He even thoughtfully found people to send them back.

What is a noble???

This is a real noble!

Those self-proclaimed noble and elegant nobles should come see what their big brother was like in various situations.

“Feel free.” If it were usual, Ye Xu naturally wouldn’t want too many people around him.

But these five guys seemed to have a sense of measure in his view; they should know what to chat about and what not to do.

Moreover, this was a classroom; even if others wanted to approach Ye Xu, they would back off due to his aura, leaving the seats around him empty.

But essentially, these seats weren’t his; if they wanted to sit, they could sit.

“Got it, got it!”

Seeing this, the two also grinned and turned around, sitting down in the adjacent seats in front.

They had planned to chat more with the boss, but noticed he was propping his face with one hand, gazing indifferently at the textbook in front of him, like a god incarnate under the light filtering through the curtain gaps.

The two were silent for a moment, then each took out their textbooks to preview.

The boss is too excellent; we have to work hard, or we’ll be useless later and get left behind—that would be embarrassing.

“Tick, tick, tick……”

A moment later, the hanging clock on the central podium at the front of the classroom slowly turned to nine o’clock.

And in that instant, Teacher Hera, arriving right on time as remembered, pushed open the class door full of energy.

“Good morning~ Teacher’s good babies!”

“How did you rest last night?”

The cute teacher, full of energetic greeting, just hearing it instantly swept away the fatigue from the body.

“Good~”

The classmates answered the teacher in unison.

Seeing this, the teacher also nodded in satisfaction, waved her hand to signal the students to sit properly, then walked to the podium.

“Starting today, we’ll officially begin school life.”

“I believe all classmates have prepared, right?”

Taking out the teacher’s dedicated first-year magic textbook, Hera then asked the classmates.

“We’ve been ready!”

“Start, Teacher!”

Yesterday’s battle could be said to have thoroughly ignited the classmates’ dreams.

Looking at Ye Xu and the other two in the classroom, endless longing rose in their eyes.

And it was these three, in the teacher’s words, whose comprehensive combat performance actually still had a considerable gap compared to professional knights.

At the end of the practical class yesterday, the teacher had clearly stated that every one of them had the potential to become a knight.

As long as they worked hard enough, not to mention anything else, at least surpassing yesterday’s Ye Xu and the others was a sure thing.

For this, everyone was full of drive.

“Good, good, Teacher fully feels the classmates’ determination.”

“Then let’s officially start our study life.”

Taking out a finger-length silver-gray magitech stone from her hand, inserting it into a spot in the lectern, then the magitech screen behind the teacher displayed the lesson plan she had prepared last night.

“Good, everyone take out your magic textbooks.”

“Turn to the first page’s ‘Mana Principles and Magic Composition.'”

“Let’s start today’s study.”

On the lesson plan were extremely vivid and easy-to-understand analysis diagrams.

They explained that mana originates from the soul and exists in all things in this world.

“Before formally starting class, Teacher wants to understand the classmates’ grasp of magic.”

“I hope all classmates don’t be shy; boldly tell us.”

“Today is the starting point of our new life. Although previously due to family background and status differences, the classmates’ starting points have some gaps, but this won’t determine your endpoints.”

Considering that in the past, there had been cases of lying about study situations due to shyness, leading to inability to keep up later and causing a series of problems, Teacher Hera specially reminded them.

Then, she had the classmates who had never studied magic, could release first-level magic, could proficiently use first-level magic, and could use second-level magic stand up respectively.

And the final result was, out of the 43 in the class, 16 had never studied magic or related knowledge, 8 could only release first-level magic, 11 could proficiently use first-level magic, and only 5 could release second-level magic.

As for the 3 with even higher levels……

That was well known, no need to ask again.