Chương 32: Determining your future

Anthony was supposed to know where Ellis was and approach her today so as to make an impression on his future wife. This was something that had happened in the novel but also an event very crucial for Anthony to get together with Ellis.

But now, Ellis was meeting up with Alex, and Anthony was meeting up with Lucia instead. Were these people just casually exchanging wives? Well, whatever the matter was, it was not like they stole Asher's wife so he didn't really care much about it, other than the fact that he still didn't know where the plot went haywire to the extent that it affected something totally separate from anything he had intervened in until now.

The destiny of the normal people, or extras as we call them was fixed. Making small changes over time would either not affect extras at all or cause a devastating alteration to their lives. On the other hand, there was no way to predict anything with these protagonists.

Contemplating a bit more over the current situation, Asher soon came to the conclusion that even if they exchanged wives, it wouldn't change the [Flow] of the world much as they were all variables regardless of ending up with different partners.

Noticing that it was time for the first class to begin, Asher headed over to [A-7].

Technology had advanced rapidly under the influence of [Mana]. One of the innovative inventions created by Simas Mendel was one which could detect and, differentiate between people based on their body's [Mana Frequency]. This was something that was unique to each Awakened person and was used as a replacement for the ancient "face detection" and biometrics scan technology.

Each of the classes were fitted with such technology to make sure nobody ended up in a place they weren't meant to go. Upon entering the class, Asher instantly spotted the main cast.

Alex and Orion apparently had an ideology that, so as to "not get attention" from other people, they had to sit at an ordinary spot. So, they had both conveniently chosen to sit at the two opposite corners, all the way at the back.

Well, that was working out quite well it seemed, as everybody was staring at them for literally sitting 1500 miles away from everyone else. Maybe they got a kick out of it from "lying low", or simply just thought they were looking cool.

Nobody knows but, what people do know is that they saw them getting beaten up just about an hour ago, and that had already ruined their image. Couple that with their average and ugly faces, and their lives were about to get miserable soon.

When they got stronger than the students, the teachers would start to bully them. When they got stronger than the teachers, someone else would simply come in.

Soon, I saw Anthony coming in with a black eye. Seemed Lucia had beaten him up when he tried to "make a move" on her once again.

I looked around and randomly took a seat somewhere around the middle, on the left row. After a few minutes had passed, I heard a soft voice beside me.

Looking over, I saw a woman with black hair and red eyes come up.

"If you don't mind, can I sit here?"

She was certainly a beauty though I didn't remember her from the novel, which simply meant she was either an extra or someone who would be introduced later on. Although her looks weren't on the same level as the females in the main cast, it was pretty decent too.

"Sure, why not."

I smiled at her while allowing her to sit beside me. After all, who didn't want to stay near beauties?

After she sat down, I didn't know what to say as my inner crippling introvert once again took over, depicting my absolute experience or, should I say the lack of it with women in my past life?

As I was going through the multiple scenarios that could occur when I tried to initiate the conversation, a woman with green hair and eyes stepped in.

Everybody was constantly eyeing the door to keep a note of everyone who entered on the first day. The moment that woman stepped in, most of the men instantly seemed to have held their breaths as they instantly got dazed upon looking at her beautiful face.

Glancing over at Alex and Orion, I noticed them having flushed eyes with a burning desire for lust within whereas Brian was constantly nodding for some reason as if he was admiring a piece of art.

As soon as she got to the center, a cold aura was released from her, dousing any feelings that her students might have about her.

I inwardly chuckled upon seeing how her behavior was in complete contrast to the nervous one she showed back at the [Cryptic Archive].

Soon afterward, I purposely moved my body so as to fall down on the floor. As if on cue, multiple other students also did the same, though not purposely of course.

Evelyn Mist, our teacher, had released her aura to suffocate the students, pressurizing them and their surroundings with her power as a [A] rank. She had not actually released her aura at its fullest potential as it might really kill some people.

Even though she was holding back, the only people that could be seen standing were Brian who was sweating quite a bit, Anthony whose face had completely crumbled while his legs were trembling, and Orion who was using the support of the surroundings to barely stand while his face looked like as if he had been running for 12 hours non-stop.

What was unexpected for all of these people was Alex, who was standing absolutely fine. He merely frowned a bit as if annoyed by some insect. I could see Evelyn's eyes go wide.

Soon, Evelyn recovered from the shock as she narrowed her eyes towards Alex, a look that screamed that she was definitely going to look into him after this class was over.

Looking over at my side, I saw the girl lying on the floor with a horrified look. She looked like she was giving it her all to resist the pressure and stand up with her head high but in the end, her rank was too low and she didn't have any cheats either.

Just as Orion was about to collapse under the pressure, Evelyn sucked her aura all back in, causing everyone to let out a sigh of relief.

"Well, at least some of you are interesting this time. Although you must have already known about me earlier, I'll introduce myself nonetheless. I'm your Teacher Evelyn Mist.

This Academy is a place where only the strong reign and the weak would have to bow against the stronger person, just as you all did to me.

Remember this fact well. If you ever start to get c*cky, REMEMBER how you all kneeled in front of me today, and make sure to use this desire to never kneel to someone else as fuel to grow your strength."

"Now, I would like to announce to you all that you have 30 minutes to go through the list of the courses we offer and select at least 3 out of them. There is no maximum limit but remember, that if you take more than what you can handle, you'll only be hurting yourself and hampering your progress.

Choose wisely as your future might just be determined by your course of actions in the next 30 minutes. Also, this list doesn't include the compulsory ones that you people in the combat department all have to follow."

'Even though I vaguely remember the list, let's not take any chances and go through this once again', Asher thought to himself as he started to scroll through a tab that contained the names of almost over 75 courses!

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