4 CLASSES (FOUR)

The sun had risen by the time I woke up. The day before we had been told which classroom to go to and not to be late. I got out of bed and opened the closet, before my eyes sat what I guesses to be the school uniform. There was a pair of black pants, a white shirt and a red tie. I put these on, popped on my shoes and headed towards the classroom.

I entered the room only to find that there was one seat left, and the class was going to start in 2 minutes. Cursing myself for wanting sleep when I didn't need it I made my way to the empty seat and plopped down, right next to the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. Skin like silk, a gorgeous face with no makeup needed to, shoulder length silver head and to top it all off, pointed ears. I had ended up right next to the elvish princess on my first day of school in the first class I entered.

"hello" she whispered with a voice that took my breathe away

"'sup" I replied cursing myself for only thinking to say sup to a royal from another country who could probably have me killed on a whim.

to my surprise she chuckled lightly and turned to face the front of the class where the teacher had just smacked her hand on her stand as to get the classes attention.

"hello students, I am your teacher, miss Abigail, but you will call me miss A. This class will teach you how to manipulate the energy in your body, or mana as we call it here. Now I want everyone here to make a ball on your hand with the element or elements that you can control."

everyone did so

"good, you know the basics, now make that ball smaller with the same amount of mana in it."

I believed that everyone could do such a trivial task and immediately shrank the ball of water mana in my hand down to the size of a pea, then noticing that pretty much everyone else was having a hard time, I made it seem as though my mana disappeared then recovered the water and pretended to struggle with it, and wait until a good amount of students had condensed theirs to finish with mine.

I thought and hoped that no one had noticed my little act but of course someone had, they just didn't know what to do so they kept it to themselves.

After the mana manipulation class was another class based on mana in the same classroom, I was later told that the students will be in the same classroom throughout the day and only the teachers would switch to minimize unsupervised times in the halls and confusion. This classes teacher was a rather short dwarf. He hopped up onto a stool behind his stand and stated that we would be learning how to create a mana stone. A mana stone he explained, could be obtained multiple ways

one could kill a magical beast in their lairs (dungeon) or one could create one themselves, but one created by yourself would only have your element of mana and would be much weaker than a beasts so they were mainly used as mana reserves and carried around in a bag or storage ring(apparently those exist here, they are very uncommon though as one needs a mage who is attuned with the space element which is extremely rare.).

We were told to gather the mana into our hand and imagine it condensing and purifying until it became a solid object within our hand. Learning from my last class experience i waited until a good number of students had successfully condensed what seemed to be a very low quality mana stone to finish mine, making sure it was mediocre compared to the others in the class, though not so bad that I would need special help.

After this class was an hour long break in the yard to socialize and/or eat food as although the classes seemed short, in reality all that condensing and manipulating their mana left them exhausted and took hours. The mana crystal condensation took the elven princess, who seemed to be one of the most powerful students in my class, 45 minutes to complete, and that was for a very low quality stone.

During the break I decided to have lunch, so I went to the area with long tables lined up outside, which made it seem a bit like a Picnic area, and ordered some food (sandwich) from the stall that was there.(school stall so free meal) As I was eating, a tall, plump boy with blonde hair in spikes on his head walked up to me with his three friends and told me to get out of their seats. It was at this moment I realised that even though we were all adults, there are still those who believed themselves better than others. I am also beginning to believe that people here mature much slower than in my home world as they live to be hundreds of years old and can't really be trusted with many important tasks up until age 30.

"why" I asked

"because i said so" he retorted

"no" (me)

"Do you know who I am?"

"should I care who you are?"(me)

"I am George of the noble house of the eagle, and I should not be disrespected by a poor commoner like you."

"well I am leo, and I don't really care who you are, but for the sake of avoiding a conflict, i'll move."(me)

"so now you choose to make me the bad guy" George shouted as he threw my food across the yard.

"well now you've passed me off" I muttered as I proceeded to run, pick up the mushed sandwich, run back,, and mush it in his face making his friends chuckle slightly.

"I challenge you to a duel" he shouted, loud enough for everyone in the yard to hear, peer pressure is a bitch and after a few minutes of thinking, I accepted the duel.

We walked through the yard to a little arena and the entire time I was thinking about how I should approach this duel, should I end it quiso no one else will challenge me, should I just barely win then heal myself in my room after, should I make it seem like he is winning then pull something last minute, a bunch of ideas floated through my head and as we entered the arena, I had figured out which one it was going to be... showing off

*princesses (elvish(rachel) and human(Laura))

The princesses had bumped into eachother on the way to the yard from their class, and decided to eat together when suddenly a sandwich was thrown across the yard and landed a few feet away, almost hitting them. Then as quickly as it had come, it was gone as a tall, relatively handsome boy came and picked it up. From this distance they could see him mush it into the face of some blond chubby kid. They thought nothing of it until they heard a loud voice declare,"I challenge you to a duel" and then a voice just as loud, if not louder say "I accept". They were going to leave it be, until the princesses saw who it was that had been challenged, the human princess, Laura, recognized him from when he accidentally bumped into her the day before, and the elvish princess, Rachel, recognized him from their morning classes as he was the only one sitting around her not making a visible fuss while sitting next to royalty and had replied so casuallywhen she greeted him. She was surprised that she felt any interest in this duel whatsoever as usually she didnt care for violence,, but there was something about that kid,leo, that peaked her interest. The princesses decided to go watch the dual, if anything to check if this boy was worth their time.