BXBX NOVEL Chapter 34: Adriana
"Good," she nodded her head with a satisfied expression. However, she frowned upon seeing the frontmost seat in the middle empty.
"Has that blond kid not come yet?"
The class became silent as her killing aura erupted again, even more than before, and she coldly looked around.
"Where is that kid?"
Silence!
The entire classroom became eerily silent.
Yawn!
Suddenly, everyone\'s attention was drawn as they looked at the door where a young boy entered with a tired expression on his face.
However, his very presence seemed to exert pressure, enveloping every student and causing a terrifying sensation in everyone\'s mind.
"Who are you?" The red-haired woman asked with a frown on her face.
William was jolted awake, seeing the red-haired beauty in front of him.
"You mean me?" he pointed at himself.
"Yes…" the woman was already seething in rage, and the ground seemed to make quaking noises beneath her.
"I am William."
"So why are you late?" Her anger flared as she expressionlessly looked at him.
"Oh," William quickly realized his situation.
"I am sorry, teacher, I won\'t do it again," he said as he casually took the front row middle seat.
The red-haired woman just nodded expressionlessly as she looked at everyone.
"My name is Adriana, and I will be teaching you guys from now on, understand?"
"Yes, teacher." Everyone bowed, showing proper respect to the teacher.
She nodded her head, and the huge man beside her handed her a copy of something.
"Does anyone know how you progress further?" she said, and instantly everyone raised their hands, while some didn\'t. Those who didn\'t were basically wearing simple clothes.
The red-haired woman frowned, with a slight disgusted expression that flashed for a second before returning to normal.
"Very well, I will explain it to you. You should already know about mental space and how it works, right?"
All of them nodded their heads.
"Good." She took a deep breath. "Do you also know about vital spells?"
"Yes," most of them replied.
Adriana just ignored the one or two who didn\'t know.
You can draw the mana from the surroundings into your mental space with your vital spell. The more you evolve the spell, the faster you can absorb the mana from the surroundings. If you can fill 25% of it with mana, then you are a mid-mage apprentice.
Half the mental space filled with mana makes you a high mage apprentice, and if you can reach 75%, then you are a peak mage apprentice. These criteria are the same for high-tier mages as well.
Adriana suddenly extended her hand forward, and a blue light flashed.
"This is blue mana, the symbol of a first-stage martial artist…" She looked at her students and pointed at a person in the front row.
"You, show your mana."
"Yes, teacher," the man nodded as he stood up with a haughty expression on his face.
He wore goggles and had a half-white and half-white skin tone, with a relatively small build in luxurious clothing.
The man put his hand forward as he closed his eyes, slowly focusing on his mental space and drawing a strand of mana. Nothing flashed, except for the surroundings becoming slightly distorted.
Adriana nodded her head.
"When you are a mage apprentice, your mana is entirely colourless." She looked at the children again; however, her ears twitched as whispers rang among them.
"Isn\'t the vital spell we learn only supposed to be when we start the academy?"
"How could these guys get it so soon?"
"Isn\'t that… umm…"
"Unfair."
The children muttered among themselves.
"Quiet, you bratty kids. The world itself is unfair. If you want to complain, go to the village leader and the elders and do it."
The children became silent as they just gritted their expressions with injustice.
Seeing this, Adriana frowned.
"I shouldn\'t have made the third elder\'s kid do the demonstration," she cursed with frustration, however she soon calmed down with a calm and confident expression on her face.
"You guys don\'t have to worry; the academy will provide all of you with an equal amount of mana crystals for cultivation. We will also offer better spells for your vital spells, including countless spells even superior to the ones demonstrated, all thanks to our leader\'s grace."
The children\'s eyes lit up with excitement upon hearing this, as there gaze filled with reverence for their leader.
"We have to thank our leader for gracing us with this opportunity," Adriana said with a glint in her eyes.
"We thank the leader," everyone said in unison.
"Tch," the boy with goggles gritted his teeth as he sat back down with an irritated expression.
"She trapped me instead," he muttered with some resentment.
"Hey, I thought you were supposed to be the wise man here," the man beside him snickered with mockery.
Hearing this, the boy was even more filled with resentment, however, he didn\'t speak any further, choosing to remain silent instead.
The man next to him snickered even further.
"I should suppress this guy as much as possible. After all, my old man gave me that task…" The man wore a green robe with a rather lean build, sharp eyebrows, and big, large eyes. He looked rather heroic.
He was the first elder\'s son, Jack, who was just a step away from becoming a high-grade talent but couldn\'t.
The first elder and the third elder were in fierce competition for resources this time, while the second elder was sidelined because his son Gertrude was killed. Gaining the village leader\'s favour was the most crucial thing for both of them to obtain resources.
Jack basically represented the younger generation of the first elder, while the man in goggles represented it for the third elder, with the second elder\'s faction being sidelined from the resources because his son couldn\'t enter.
Although Jack was in the backlight due to the golden halo of Williams, who was an even higher talent than the village leader himself, that didn\'t mean he was weak. With the tempering he has been given from his father, he quickly learned his first vital spell.
Jack looked at his huge mental space that was almost two times bigger than Aur\'s and couldn\'t help but nod his head, seeing the colourless liquid that reached about knee level for him.
"I am very close to becoming a mid-mage apprentice…"
Suddenly, he looked at Williams, who looked rather sleepy with half-closed eyes, and couldn\'t help but mutter, "How much has this monster progressed already?"
"Teacher, I have a question." A girl raised her hand with a confused expression on her face.
"Yes, you may speak." Adriana internally scoffed; however, outwardly, she maintained a smiley face.
"If it is about filling the mental space with mana, then it\'s just a gradual process that takes some time. Even if it takes longer with the increase in the space of the mental space, the real problem is breaking through tiers instead."
"Why is it so, teacher?" she asked with confusion.