Chapter 22 Alchemy Academy (3)

"Ahem, alright, let's begin the official class. If you have any questions, feel free to ask." The class instructor coughed a few times before speaking.

This continent's academies have a different teaching style. Perhaps due to the influence of magic and martial arts instruction, after teaching some basic things, they let students research and learn on their own. If they have any questions, they can raise them during class.

Martial arts and magic are both things where the teacher shows you the door but you have to walk through it yourself. They can only teach some basic knowledge, and can't teach anything else. They can only guide you while you practice on your own.

Some people may wonder, why not just find a master and study alone? Of course, that's an option. But are there really that many masters in the world? Even if there are, you'll only be able to find one or two at most to guide you.

In an academy, it's different. Not only are there many masters guiding you, you also have classmates to help you verify your martial arts and magic skills.

While the teacher is guiding one student, they often also help others. In other words, the questions asked in class will benefit the entire class. Even if you don't ask a question today, the class isn't meaningless.

Of course, sometimes they will also share their own experiences.

Therefore, as soon as the class instructor finished saying that questions were welcome, someone immediately raised their hand to ask a question.

"Me, me," a student immediately raised his hand, eager to ask a question.

However, upon seeing this student, the class instructor frowned and said evasively, "Uh, Ye Lang, save your question for after class. We'll discuss it then. For now, just listen to the questions from others."

After several bloody and tearful lessons, no teacher dared to answer Ye Lang's questions in class. Plus, his questions were of no benefit to others. So, they basically chose to discuss them later, whether or not they actually talked about it was another matter.

"Oh," Ye Lang seemed accustomed to this, he lowered his hand and began listening to the students' questions and the class instructor's answers while looking at the thick alchemy book.

Soon, the morning passed. Aside from the break in between classes, it was basically just questions and answers. With the end of class, today's theoretical knowledge class was over. After lunch, it was either self-study or practical classes.

This is the academy's arrangement: theories are taught in the morning, and in the afternoon you are free to do whatever you like. If you want to continue researching theories, you can. If you want to put your theoretical knowledge into practice, you can go for a practical class.

Seeing that the class instructor left immediately after class, as if running for his life, Ye Lang temporarily abandoned his plan to discuss the question with him. He went to the cafeteria with a sleepy Tiger Girl to have lunch with his sister.

Tiger Girl wasn't interested in alchemy. When she accompanied her young master to alchemy class, she was either sleeping or reading martial arts books she borrowed from the library.

Ye Lang had once suggested that Tiger Girl go to the martial arts academy. He said that the alchemy academy was very safe and he could take care of himself, so he didn't need Tiger Girl to accompany him. But Tiger Girl didn't even think about it before refusing. She was there to accompany him. If she went to the martial arts academy, her purpose of coming to the academy would be gone.

Even if it had a purpose, she wouldn't leave her young master's side for a single step.

Chapter Nine: I Lick

Looking at the massive and magnificent campus

In the cafeteria, Tiger Girl's heart began to feel uneasy. This was the time when it was easiest to be attacked. It was the only opportunity for someone to approach Young Master Thirteen.

This wasn't her being paranoid. It happened every day, most of the time she and Ye Lan Yu were able to block them, but sometimes they were unlucky and got attacked. Luckily, these were mostly harmless pranks or attacks meant to humiliate him.

Well, for Young Master Thirteen, these humiliations were nothing. But it was a different story for Ye Lan Yu, she would get angry and make those people pay dearly.

Carefully leading Young Master Thirteen to the cafeteria, Tiger Girl found a table and sat down. All the tables in the cafeteria were the same, there weren't any VIP tables or anything. This was the school's way of expressing their intentions: everyone in this royal academy has only one identity, student. No matter how noble your status is in this continent, you are all treated equally.

Of course, this is probably because the academy doesn't want to see these young masters and ladies causing unnecessary conflicts due to differences in treatment.

"Tiger Girl, I'm hungry. Go get some food." After a long time, Young Master Thirteen finally spoke.

"Wait a little longer. Let's wait for Miss Lan Yu to come. Why isn't she here yet? She should have been here by now." Tiger Girl looked towards the entrance, puzzled.

Before Ye Lan Yu arrived, she wouldn't go get food because it would leave Young Master Thirteen alone, and she didn't know what would happen. She also didn't dare to take Young Master Thirteen to get food, as there were too many people in the way.

So she waited, waited for Ye Lan Yu to come. With Ye Lan Yu around, she could rest assured. The problem was that Ye Lan Yu seemed to have run into something, and she was late.

A little more time passed, and Ye Lan Yu finally arrived. Her face was full of displeasure, clearly something unpleasant had happened. Not far behind her was a beautiful girl, about the same age as Young Master Thirteen. Unlike Ye Lan Yu, this girl was smiling brightly, as if something happy had happened.

This situation made it easy to think that maybe they were involved in the same event.

Yes, Tiger Girl was sure, they were definitely involved in the same thing. This girl was none other than their nominal young mistress, the Seventh Princess of the Empire.

Since the birthday incident, they had been at odds, constantly arguing and bickering. When one was happy, the other was definitely unhappy, and vice versa.

At this moment, Tiger Girl understood, they had bumped into each other, no wonder Ye Lan Yu was so late.

"Don't follow me, don't pester my brother. Brother, don't talk to her, or I won't talk to you anymore." Ye Lan Yu sat down and shouted at the girl behind her, then warned Young Master Thirteen.

"I don't need you to talk to him, I can talk to him. Right, Ye Lang?" The Seventh Princess giggled as she sat down and spoke to Ye Lang as well.

The gunpowder between the two women was thick in the air. If Young Master Thirteen said the wrong thing, it would trigger a war, a small-scale one.

However, Young Master Thirteen completely ignored the two women and said directly to Tiger Girl, "Tiger Girl, go get some food quickly. I'm starving."

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