Asher parted ways with Alyssa, who had gone back to the Ranker's Dorm. Right now, he was walking with Eric, who was explaining to him about the committee.
"Young Master, I have dealt with the guys you told me about six months ago," Eric said as he showed Asher a list of some students who were part of the Duel Committee.
"They are under our full control. I can remove them anytime now."
Asher looked at the list and saw that it had all the names he had given to Eric half a year ago when he had come back in time. These students were part of the faction of many people that were Asher's targets.
"Remove them, and you will soon receive an invite from Leonard Tarvian. Tell him that I will personally meet him," Asher told Eric.
"As you wish, Young Master," Eric bowed and left Asher.
Asher was going to his room in the Ranker's Dorm when he received a reminder on his ID Bracelet that was sent to all first-year students. It was for the selection of three or more subjects they wanted to choose.
Asher chose three subjects he actually wanted to learn and sent them. He didn't need to enroll in sword arts because it was a waste of time, and practical application classes would not begin until after the Assessment Test. For this test, parties of four students were formed, and they would compete in other tests that the World Academy would present for them.
He was going to spend less and less time in classes in the future, but he still needed to wait until the Assessment Test to leave the World Academy and go back to Soran for the rest of his plans.
The classes Asher had enrolled in were [Runic Theory], [Elemental Theory], and [Aura Creation]. The classes for specific elements were only available after the assessment test, which would happen soon.
He didn't need to attend sword arts or any of the Weapon Arts subjects, so he decided to train himself to increase his magic mastery, as it was something needed to increase the proficiency of his SSS Rank sword art.
Today was the class for [Elemental Theory], and it was a joint class with students who had opted for it. Only 100 students had enrolled in it. Only mages studied this subject, and the number of mages among the hunters was lower than other paths.
Amelia, Elena, Eva, Alyssa, and Lishia were also present in this class, as all of them were mages, but Amelia was an augmenter. She still needed to choose this subject to later study with the Professor that taught about augmentation.
[Runic Theory], on the other hand, only had 50 students, and they were all people who wanted to either pursue a career in Rune Arts or become artifact readers to earn money. It required high intelligence, so only a select few could actually study this subject.
Only Asher was present in this course among all the Elite families. Even Eva had not chosen this subject because Runes were something that were not that beneficial in battle.
And the last subject, [Aura Creation], was a class where only the Elite families and other students that had reached E Rank could attend. As the name suggests, it was a class that taught Aura materialization to the students. But this class only had 50 students, as all the other students had not reached E Rank yet.
The common subjects, apart from Duel Class, were not joint classes. There was only [Duel Class], in which all 1,000 students would gather and learn battle arts and other important stuff. There were more advanced subjects, but they could only be opted for after the assessment test was done.
It was the next morning, and Asher looked at his schedule. Today, he had only two classes: Elemental Theory and Beast Theory.
For Elemental Theory, Asher needed to go to Mage Art Block through the exchange sector. There were five such blocks in the World Academy: Mage Art Sector, Weapon Art Sector, Research Sector, Artisan Sector, and Arena Sector. Each of these sectors was ten times the size of all Blocks 1 to 5 combined. These sectors were common places where all students from different years could be seen.
Asher used the exchange sector and teleported to the Mage Art Sector. He went ahead alone because he was sure that Alyssa would have gone early, especially today, to avoid meeting senior year students. First-year students would avoid her, but that was not the same for second-year and higher students.
Asher saw massive buildings, but he went to the building where the class was going to be held. He entered the room, which was more than enough for 200 students, and these buildings had spatial runes to increase the size in case of extra students joining in.
Asher saw Amelia, who was sitting alone, and Elena and Eva, who were avoiding his gaze. From their expressions, it seemed like both of them were in a bad mood.
The first-years were not informed about this, but the news was spreading like fire among the senior year students. It was apparent from their expressions that they did not think that even Raelyn would be able to deal with Asher. The rumors were a bit exaggerated, but it still was not a favorable outcome for them.
"What is he doing here?" Eva asked Elena, because Asher was a swordsman, so he didn't need to attend this particular subject.
Asher calmly walked in as he saw each desk had a transparent orb in front of them, and only two were present on each seat. Alyssa was sitting alone, and behind her, Amelia was also sitting alone. Alyssa was being avoided due to her reputation, but nobody approached Amelia as they were repelled by her indifferent and cold gaze.
Amelia's face changed when she saw Asher as she herself was surprised why Asher was here. She was going to stand up but stopped as Asher walked up to her and sat beside her. Although Asher did not want to sit near Amelia, it was better than sitting with Alyssa for now. Until the assessment test, he was not going to openly favor Alyssa.
"Ah, why are you here?" Amelia asked with a low tone.
"Do you have any issues?" Asher's expressionless face made it even more confusing for Amelia.
'Do as you want, rude bastard,' Amelia cursed in her mind and kept looking out of the window.
Both of the Greville siblings were wearing an indifferent look, but as the class started to fill, all students were avoiding sitting near Asher, but one girl went and sat in front of him. It was the daughter of the king of Halcyon, Lishia Halcyon herself.
As she walked down the room, the students couldn't help but turn their heads to catch a glimpse of her beauty. Her long black hair swayed elegantly with each step she took, and her golden eyes attracted a lot of attention. But there were three more beauties like her in the class, and all of them made the hearts of all the boys present in the class flutter.
"Lishia Halcyon," Amelia muttered with a low voice as she saw her sitting in front of her.
Whispers of students could be heard in the whole classroom, but most of them were targeted at Alyssa. She was the only student who had two advanced elements, and as a mage, nobody could say she was below anyone else.
Alyssa ignored all the whispers and kept reading the book in front of her. She found it calmer to focus her mind on something else instead of listening to all the bad things others said about her.
The voices died down as Professor Elsa walked into the classroom. She was going to start the lecture soon but noticed Asher sitting with Amelia.
"Asher Greville, why are you in this class?" Elsa questioned.
"Do you think that World Academy is qualified to teach me about swords?" Asher replied with a question.
His words made many students widen their eyes in shock. It was the only time they had seen a student being this forward with a Professor.
Elsa saw a headache coming as Professor Erwin, who was in charge of the Sword Art class, would be enraged if he listened to Asher's remark, but she knew what Asher meant by his statement.
"Do as you wish," Elsa stopped as she saw a guy who was a bit late enter the class.
"Gavin Neville, right? Why are you so late?" Elsa asked the green-haired boy who had just arrived.
"Sorry, Professor. I woke up a bit late today," Gavin lied, but Asher, who was looking at Gavin with an indifferent look, knew the real reason.
"Go sit," Elsa said as Gavin quietly went up and sat in one of the front seats.
Asher looked at Gavin, more accurately the tips of his fingertips, and saw a bit of blood as he focused mana in his eyes.
He smirked inwardly as there had been no change in Gavin's behavior until now.
"Well, I will start today's class," Elsa began. "As you know, each spell is categorized into an element: Fire Element, Water Element, Lightning Element, Wind Element, Earth Element, Black Element, and Space Element," Elsa explained.
"Any spell a mage will use can be categorized under these elements, but apart from these, there are also advanced elements."
Meanwhile, another class was taking place at the same time: the [Sword Arts] class.
"Where is Asher Greville?" asked a man with slightly brownish hair.
His tall stature and broad shoulders gave him quite an intimidating look.
He was Professor Erwin, responsible for teaching Sword Art to the students.
He was confused because the best swordsman among the first and second-year students combined was not present in his lecture.
"Is he sick?" Erwin could not think of any other reason.
"It can't be. The plans would fail," he muttered to himself as he thought of the worst possible outcome.
The right to choose subjects was given to the students, and even the professors only knew about their future students on the first day of class.
Even Matthew, who was present in this class, was waiting to see Asher once again.
