Classes

'I doubt anyone can even repeat in an academy like this' Alex thought as he kept reading.

Other courses that would be accessible to them after they successfully become second-year students were:

Wild/outdoor analysis and survival knowledge, this course had a monthly fee of 3 gold coins!

Smithing/forging/mechanic — 3 gold coins monthly.

Engraving/rune enchantment/advance mechanic — 5 gold coins monthly.

Beast taming specialty — 5 gold coins monthly.

Gardening — 5 gold coins monthly.

Alchemy/medicine research — 5 gold coins monthly.

Alex saw that some courses were grouped together since they were generally related, but still, the number of classes that they could take after entering their second year was over ten!

But that wasn't what made Alex's feet go cold. Staring at the number of gold coins one would have to pay every month just to attend one class, he felt…no, he believed that he would not be able to finish his second year with what he had with him currently.

So expensive!!

Still, Alex continued to read on. Hoping for the academy to provide a way for students like him to continue staying in the academy.

While reading, Alex realized that for a student to move to the third year successfully. The students would need to pick five classes and excel in them, if not they would fail and have to repeat their second year.

Those five classes would then be their main focus till the fourth year and to become a fourth-year student, the student would have to break through to the Noble Mage rank.

The students would then have to reach the Nebula mage rank to graduate from the academy. Of course, they also have classes to offer during their final year in the academy but Alex did not even bother to check them after seeing the price. Although there were only two classes for the final year students, just one class cost 10 gold coins every month!!

Alex shivered at the thought of how he was going to pay for all these expenses, the fees for classes during the second and third year were already monstrous but the final year classes were even more demonic! He began to seriously pray for the academy to provide a way out for kids with poor backgrounds.

Next on the manual was the number of days used for class activities and the number of days that the students could have to themselves. Six out of seven days of the week, the students were expected to be in their uniforms from seven in the morning till three o'clock in the afternoon before returning to their lodges.

No student was to be found outside once it was past 10 p.m., or else they would be punished.

The manual also gave a reminder for the students to keep their belongings safe because they would have to pay for new ones if the ones given by the academy were misplaced, even if stolen.

A page in the manual also gave a brief explanation of each building in the academy even though their names were self-explanatory.

Alex kept reading until he found what he was looking for.

His eyes lit up the instant he found the page that explained the ranking.

The ranking was a system to spot the best students with the most satisfying results in the academy, this ranking in refreshed every three months and the number of spots on the ranking was also few as there were only 50 positions.

The ranking was determined by the total score of the students after they took the theory test, magic test, talent test, and combat test every three months.

Alex was kind of confused upon seeing that the combat test would also determine the position in ranking but the students would not be taking this class for the first three months, then how was the ranking going to be measured three months from now?

Reading on, Alex came to the benefits of being on the ranking; he felt his blood boiling as he read the rewards and privileges for being on the ranking, he now understood why the village head had said it would be tough when they were discussing it back in the village.

Students ranked from 50 to 31 get to attend all paid classes for one month free and will only be required to pay half the price of the original amount for the other two months before the ranking refreshes.

Ranked 30 to 11 can attend all paid classes for free for two months and pay only fifty silver coins for the last month.

10 to 1 get to attend all for free until the ranking refreshes.

But that wasn't all, what made the ranking so intense that even students with wealthy backgrounds would fight to be on it was the rewards for the top five students.

5th and 4th on the ranking get one magic stone once the ranking refreshes! Let's not even begin to talk about the market value of a magic stone as even some rich families can't afford one, it is also a great cultivation item!

Using a magic stone while meditating can not only help a student absorb mana easily but the magic stone can be consumed into mana as well!

3rd and 2nd place get one magic stone and a spirit grade magic vail!

What was a magic vail? A magic vail was a treasure that even mages at the mage king rank would fight for if found in an auction! There were three grades of magic vail, the spirit grade, the heavenly grade, and the cosmos grade. The spirit grade being the lowest of all the three was still extremely precious and would be fought over if presented to the public.

And why was that? It was because magic vail were magic treasures that had the ability to take in mana and store it, it also had the ability to increase the absorption rate of mana when a mage was meditating. The grade of the magic vail will determine how fast the absorption rate would be!

Most mages would save for a long time just to be able to afford one of these so they could use it when they were at a critical breakthrough point!

As for first place…first place would receive one magic stone and a heavenly grade magic Vail that was even better than a spirit grade magic Vail!