When Elsa mentioned the part about the Auction, many students cheered up, as they had heard that they could bid on artifacts through the Auction. After those auctions, some people even sold those artifacts at the Trade Center.
"As you know, at World Academy, we don't allow you to bring artifacts inside, but throughout history, the presence of artifacts was significant," Elsa said.
"Even though some of you might call artifacts fake strength or not even consider them in the rankings, nobody can undermine their impact and value to society," Elsa's words were true.
Despite being an external power source, many hunters, including the highest-ranked hunters, used artifacts. Going to a dungeon without proper equipment and artifacts was even considered suicide by the high-ranking hunters.
All kinds of artifacts were discovered in the dungeons, and they could be used for various purposes.
"There are three kinds of artifacts that are present in the auction," Elsa raised three fingers as she spoke.
"First are the dungeon artifacts found in dungeons in the outside world and bought by World Academy," she said.
"Second, the artificial ones are the most common ones in the Auction. They are made by humans and have a variety of uses, and these are the ones that you should aim to bid on," Elsa said.
These man-made artifacts were the ones that occupied most of the items in the Auction.
"And the third ones are the artifacts that your seniors register in the auction because they are useless to them," she finished and looked at the class, seeing one girl raise her hand.
She gestured for her to speak, and the girl stood up from her seat.
"But Professor, we don't have enough GP to bid on them," a girl said, as many others also nodded.
They were just first-years, and apart from a few, none had yet managed to cross the 1000 GP mark.
"As you know, you are only first-years, but from tomorrow you can visit the Task Center, which works like a Guild Task Hall where you can find various tasks from which you can earn GP," Elsa replied.
"Apart from assignment tasks that will be given to you each month, you can do many other tasks to earn GP at the Task Center, which are posted by some of the professors and even some seniors," Elsa explained.
The Task Center was another facility that some students and professors used to spend their GP. It was a place where small tasks like being a sparring partner and helping seniors with their work could be done for a small amount of GP.
Some first-year students purchased GP even to learn and get help from the senior-year students.
It was the way students could circulate the amount of GP they had with each other.
"What if we buy GP from the Trade Center?" a guy asked, as he came from a reasonably wealthy family.
"Well, if you can find enough GP in the Trade Center for the auction, very well, go ahead," Elsa said with a smile on her face.
The Trade Center was a facility that allowed students to sell and purchase almost anything in the World Academy that they owned.
And only senior-year students had the most amount of GP with them. Therefore, a very small amount of GP was available in the Trade Center, which was insufficient to compete in the Auction for later bids.
For example, among the third-year students, most of the GP was distributed to Leonard Tarvian, Raelyn Whiteheart, Tyrone Martell, and people like them.
It was distributed among the top rankers of each year, and Asher already knew about it.
Even if Asher bought most of the available GP at the Trade Center, he still would need more GP to compete in the Auction. It was simply an advantage for the senior-year students, and it would take Asher months to accumulate an amount that could compete with the second year.
"But don't focus on artifacts too much; we only allow A Rank and below so that a huge gap doesn't appear between students," Elsa said as many students breathed in relief.
Even if Elsa said this, she knew that having an artifact was an advantage for the students regardless if that advantage was big or small. Those with normal backgrounds could only try to save enough GP to buy the Artifacts in the next Auction that would happen when they reached their second year.
"Many of you have the Artifacts you found in the Dungeon Exploration, and we allow those artifacts, so you can use those," Elsa replied.
But many of them were still unhappy because most of those artifacts were useless to them, and most teams had decided to sell them at the Trade Center for GP.
There was a simple way to identify if a student carried Artifacts. Each Artifact had a particular mana wavelength that was unique to them. Due to the runes written on them, even man-made artifacts like nano-armor had a unique mana wavelength to them.
There were many wavelength detectors placed all around the World Academy. But unfortunately, apart from Professors and a few staff members, no one was allowed to register Artifacts for themselves.
This mana wavelength could be recorded from the Dungeon Gate itself, so the Artifact from the C Rank dungeon that was currently with Alyssa was already registered in the database around the World Academy.
It was a loophole Asher abused, which allowed them to use a B Rank Artifact without anyone knowing.
A Runemaster needed to study the ring closely for hours to determine anything about the rank of the Artifact. So Alyssa could openly use that Artifact after the Auction.
Many low-rank ring-type artifacts would appear at the Trade Center soon after the Auction.
"Well, that was all, and tomorrow will be the day the mana density increases in the whole floating island," Elsa said.
"You will be given a choice to choose the subjects, so take the whole day, as the classes will start after the Auction," Elsa said as she wrapped up the class.
"I would advise that you take some time to think about what subject you want to choose," Elsa said as she stood up.
"You can go back now," She said, leaving the room soon after.
Asher also stood up to leave the class, and everyone watched him quietly as he left the room.
"Are you attending the auction?" Venessa asked Alyssa as she stood up.
Alyssa, who took out her wheelchair to sit on it, looked at Venessa and shook her head.
"No? I was going, so if you change your mind, you can come with me," Venessa talked with Alyssa as they left the room.
The students of Class 1 looked at Venessa, who was talking with Alyssa, and their faces had a frown, but none dared to step up and speak to them.
Nobody wanted to mess with two rankers, and Alyssa was in the Student Council, and they had heard that rankers were allowed to use mana outside of duels.
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In Class 4, Professor Dahlia had just left the room after giving a similar explanation to Elsa's.
"You are lucky, Kevin; you will get an artifact from your big sister," Elena smiled at Kevin.
"Oh, come on; you know she will get you one as well," Kevin looked at Elena.
"Well, Eva, you are the luckiest one among us," Kevin said.
"Yeah, your brother would use most of the GP to get you one of the best artifacts," Elena said as Eva just smiled.
"Will he come back soon though?" Elena asked.
"His treatment will end in a few more months, so he will join after 5-6 months," Eva replied.
They were talking about Reece William, who was currently getting treated in the Williams Household due to one of his injuries while ranking up.
"Well, if you asked him, Reece would also get you one. Surely, he wouldn't deny his brother-in-law," Elena teased Kevin as Eva giggled.
"Do you want me to ask?" Eva asked.
"Don't tease me, come on," Kevin said with a smile.
'Should I tell them about it?' Kevin thought for a second but decided not to.
"So, what subjects will you be choosing?" Elena asked Eva.
"Not much, but I will add some difficult theory subjects," Eva replied.
"Why don't both of you ask my sister about it? She can help you with a few suggestions," Kevin offered Eva.
"Sounds like a good idea," Eva replied as they approached the Ranker's dorm.
