Over the past year, except for Eadwulf Woottone, the Chairman of the Dreams Academy, getting serious about teaching the trainees and making them stronger, there didn't seem to be any significant changes, at least from the outside.
The first year trainees had gained basic yet higher level knowledge as they trained and got stronger continuously. Though they grew, not many stood out; if compared to the trainees from Class-S, not many were even able to shine as they were overshadowed by the talents and geniuses, which were not one or two from their generation, but 10 people!
And all of them were put together and were being taught in a single classroom.
And,
If 'that' incident didn't happen, then the number of outshining geniuses within the academy would still have been 10, but with the plus of a monster, who would have most probably devoured talents and geniuses alike.