The first day wasn't as bad as Alex imagined.
Except for a few people looking at him as if he was a scumbag nothing much happened as many came to know about his true identity soon and afterwards as the words and gossip travelled quite faster, many started to look at him curiously.
Some gutsy guys even believed that they had a chance to hit on Riya as she was forced to marry him and may soon find all sorts of trouble with him in the future.
For them, Alex was already sharpening his knife to butcher. His hands were already itching to fight. How can academic life be boring in their presence?
He was already looking forward to the fun times.
He avoided fights but if provoked he wouldn't let them leave in one piece.
Meanwhile, Riya was already burning incense for those lecherous.
She also noticed several eyes stealing glances at his lord but they didn't approach him hastily and might be waiting to see his performance and see whether he was worthy or not.
Like his Lord, she already started to keep a tab on those girls who might come under her dagger.
Alex had thought that Riya and he would be in a separate class but he came to know that, a class consisting of all three groups of Magician, Martial Arts and Scholars and the other classes had to be chosen as electives.
History, literature, Social Science, etiquette, Sewing, Geography and Theology were some of the elective subjects and they will move to other classes when their turn comes to their course.
One had to select five electives and the main course was divided into general and honours.
General can be taken by everyone who wants to try another field while honours can only be taken by the students enrolled in the particular department.
For example, Alex may take Martial Arts classes in general but he cannot do honours in it. Similarly, Riya can take general magic classes but cannot do honour in them.
Alex was looking forward to Quinn's lectures but he was saddened to know that he took lectures only in 3rd year.
His classes are packed from Monday to Friday with three one and a half an hour classes each day.
Saturday was the physical class Magician and Martial Arts where they would practice their spells against each other and issue challenges.
In a month, there would be one physical class where both the classes exchanged blows with one another.
It starts with a friendly smile but ends with all kinds of curses poured on another.
Magical theory and Mana application were common for all which was taken by their homeroom teacher Neon.
Since Alex was new, he along with Riya was forced to join the first-year supplementary classes which were conducted for those who failed to advance in the first final semester of the First Year which was quite humiliating for him.
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"Just like people consider air to be the basis of life, mana is considered as the basis of strength."
"Without mana, the world wouldn't be what it is today. You can find people who can't feel or use mana and those who use, and draw out substantial differences."
"It's not true that only an awakened person can feel mana. Many unawakened ones can also feel mana. The difference between the two is the ability to draw out, channel, store and manipulate mana."
"Mana accelerates our body growth, healing and regenerative power and even a low level awakened one can have a longer and healthier life than unawakened."
Currently, they were taught about Mana from the basics by Professor Kale.
Alex knew about all those but listening to the professor drew his attention. His speech was quite good. Neither too slow nor fast and best of all it wasn't boring in any sense.
"Now let's move on to the next thing," Kaleid spoke and raised his glasses.
"Now, the most basic question? What is mana? Where did it come from" He spoke and started to explain without asking anyone.
It's not as if he was ignoring everyone, rather everyone in this class was a failure except Alex and Riya and a few others who were also transfer students like him.
"Mana is present in the world as naturally as air. Even in elementary magic, we can manipulate air but have anyone tried to create air out of nothing."
"There is a famous saying. Mana can neither be created nor destroyed and can only be changed from one form to another."
"Some big scholars and philosophers consider mana as small minute particles which cannot be seen under naked eyes but are theoretically present. Whether it's true or not, only future research will tell us."
"Like mana, all the nature magic didn't sprout from nothing.''He paused and started to explain.
His questions brought discussion among everyone.
Many of them haven't even thought about it. All the elemental magic was used by manipulating other elements.
In water magic, the molecules of air were broken and chemically reacted to form water.
The people subconsciously applied science through magic with the help of their spells.
The dust particles and molecules joined to form rock while light, flame and lightning were natural forms of energy which can be converted into one another and altered into different things by the use of mana as they were the natural form of energy.
If one was out in the void, he couldn't use most of the elemental magic.
Alex, who had a brief knowledge of science, was able to correlate it with magic and came to know about all these plausible theories.
Mana was a special kind of energy and it is the purest form of energy.
Neon also explained something quite similar to him but it fell sort of in front of him as this world still didn't know about the presence of molecules, elements, electrons and protons.
Alex didn't dare to imagine what kind of scenarios would happen if all these things came into existence in a magic world.
Alex could already cast a spell of atomic fusion and if everyone came to know a spell like this wouldn't the entire world be wiped off existence?
"Now, all of you, let's get on the tiers of Mage."
"There are 10 Tiers of Magic spells which divide the magician categorically."
"Tier 1 to Tier 3 is known as a basic spell, Tier 4 to Tier 6 is known as intermediate spells and Tier 7 to Tier 9 advance and above it are Tier 10 which is known as a legendary spell."
"Magicians' classification is a bit different from the normal warrior's realms."
"A magician reaching the Mythic realm doesn't mean he could cast advanced Magic and is considered a Tier 7 Mage."
"It just means, he could cast the spell he knew more efficiently and the results would be much better."
"Magic depends on aptitude and amount of knowledge one holds. Swallow knowledge and lack of proper understanding hold many of you back."
"The reason why nobles rise while commoners are left behind is that nobles are taught early while commoners have to work hard to even get a chance to learn. On the other hand, some have already started their race."
"Archmage Sophia and Archmage Michael were the outstanding wizards who rose in the continental list from commoner and have spread their fame far and wide."
"Most of the backbenchers here are either commoners or fallen nobles. Even though you are behind but fret not. Your hard work will always be repaid. So, give your all."Professor Kale spoke in a gentle tone trying to encourage everyone.
