Chapter 40: Mid-year

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Chapter 40

Mid-year

Five months later

A few things had changed during the last few months.

Finally, Siegfried had reached his peak physical condition. He had successfully eliminated every last gram of fat, leaving him with a lean body, filled with muscle and raw strength.

His cultivation progressed well until it reached the peak of the energy (mana) gathering rank. Just a bit more and he will break into the spiritual (mana) veins opening rank.

His classes have progressed well. He has been learning as much as he could without neglecting his training.

Siegfried has discovered that he had no affinity at all for runes, or maybe it was the fact that to become a runemaster, one would have to dedicate their life to the craft. That didn't mean that he wasn't doing good in his classes, after all, the things taught during their first year were very basic. They would not even start to draw runes at all until the next year.

Alchemy was more of the same. For one to reach the peak of alchemy, that person will need to dedicate their life to the study of herbs, pills concoction, flame management, cauldrons, and many other components.

Cultivation is still necessary for those two disciplines. To create even the lowest of pills, it is imperative to break into the realm of an Official Magus.

The alchemist and rune masters also had their own ranks and like the ones from Magus, they also go from rank 1 to rank 9 to keep things simple.

This does not mean that to become a rank 9 alchemist, one needs to be a rank 9 Magus since that would be imposible.

Every rank of Magus gives the person enough power to advance through three ranks of either discipline.

A rank 1 Magus could become a rank 3 Alquemist and concoct pills of that level. Meaning that one will need to be a rank 3 Magus to become a rank 9 Alquemist.

It does sound easier than it really is thought. Becoming a Magus of that caliber is already something that few had managed to archive, and on top of that, one would need to dedicate most of their time to studying and practicing the art of alchemy while keeping their cultivation growing nonstop.

As for the other classes, He did learn a lot of new things, even during his first year, given that his knowledge of the field of magic was truly lacking.

The combat class was his favorite one. Professor Garret seemed to think that practice was the most important thing. He taught little theory since he preferred to leave that to the other teachers. His classes consisted mostly of sparring matches between the students.

Siegfried managed to learn many things about his classmates from these matches.

Edward Aston and Iria Monet had little ability and even less interest in improving their fighting skills, they only want to increase their cultivation base until it reach an appropriate level for what they really wanted to do and leave it there.

In the case of Edward, he wants to become an alchemist while Iria wants to become a runemaster.

Iris Castel's mastery of the arts of the sword keeps impressing Siegfried at every turn. Had she been born during his era, she would have definitely become a famous figure on the continent.

Her frustrations at being unable to use any magic with her magic sword, keep growing over time.

Hilda Vance is very competitive. After she learned that He also knew how to fight with martial weapons, she would often ask him for spars with no magic, just their weapons.

Of course, they fought with practice weapons that had no edge and Siegfried never went all out against her, but he could tell that her martial skills were no lesser than Iris' ones.

As for Charles Artois…he was a crafty one. He never showed much, but Siegfried could tell that he was quite a skilled person.

After the incident where Siegfried took away Serena and Angelina, he expected some retaliation, but that never happened. Instead, Charles has remained polite at all moments, for the few occasions when they talk. This made Siegfried suspicious but he had no way to know what Charles could be planning if he was even planning anything at all.

The last student in his class still remained a mystery after almost six months of studying together.

Astoria was something akin to a ghost. She would attend classes and then leave, he rarely saw her outside class, except for a few occasions when he saw her reading at the library.

She would never speak in class unless the teacher asked something, then she would answer in a polite manner that didn't fit a commoner. Her answers were always concise. She never spoke more than necessary.

Considering her outstanding looks, Siegfried was sure that she has been approached by many guys and probably even girls, but she remains alone to this day.

Serena keep visiting his room several times a week and at this point, Siegfried had the feeling that she would continue to come even if they didn't have an agreement at all.

She was behind him, getting dressed after they were done with their morning session, and keep stealing glances in his direction.

As for her friend Angelina, she was currently beneath Siegfried, moaning like crazy.

"Ahhhh!, yes! Don't stop, I'm coming!" The girl yelled.

"Is a good thing the walls are enchanted for privacy. Otherwise, things would be a lot more awkward around the campus." Commented Serena while watching her friend climax, there was a look of lust in her eyes.

Siegfried removed himself from Angelina, letting his seed spill onto the sheets. He then started to get dressed.

"We will be late for class if we don't leave soon."

"Ah…I think I'm going to be late because I can't move." Said Angelina with a smile on her face.

Siegfried gave her a look. She was laying on the bed naked, with her legs and arms open.

Her figure was different than Serena, while the brunette was of short stature with big breasts and hips, Angelina was tall and thin but had a very beautiful face, long blonde hair, and blue eyes.

It only took two months after he started sleeping with Serena before Angelina came to join them. Aparatenly, she had heard of the wonders of sex from her friend and wanted to experience it herself, even if it was one time.

Angelina never stopped coming to visit him afterward.

"You two can stay as much as you want. But I will leave for class." Said, Siegfried.

"I guess we can skip runes…we both are terrible at it anyways." Serena shrugged. She then turned to face Siegfried.

"Can I visit tonight? This morning you gave too much attention to Angelina and not much to me." Serena pouted.

"Oh?, that is a mistake I must correct. I will see you tonight then." Siegfried gave Serena a deep kiss before leaving the room.