Do you want to?

Unsure of how to start, Talia remembered that she had heard a few rumors about Shane.

They were mostly about the first monthly ranking where he had been ranked among the best students. Other than that, he had also entered the subsequent wealth ranking where he was said to have earned more than one million gold coins in a single month.

This allowed Talia to conclude that Shane was quick-witted so she decided to speak freely.

"The seven students that had been beaten up and ridiculed before you helped them have been my friends for several years. We went to the same elementary and middle school. 

As such, we started to plan early on what we wanted to become in the future because we wanted to stay together.

The possibilities were endless, but we were reluctant to rely on others to protect us all the time. That is if we were to pick non-combatant occupations which we had planned to do anyway because we don't like fighting.