Chapter 24 Leo’s Faction

Author: M_W Cancer

After a few minutes, teacher Marvin finally arrived in the classroom.

The manner that teacher Marvin used to arrive in the classroom was really marvelous. A sphere suddenly appeared in front of the classroom, then he came out of the sphere soon after.

Looking around the faces of the students, teacher Marvin immediately understood the situation as he let out a mocking laugh and said, “Did you really think that getting the resources you needed was just as easy as harvesting an already fully grown crop?”

“If you did, then I can’t help but label all of you naïve! You are not special! Always put that deep in your mind, since you will never be special! If you want to become strong, you need to work hard in order to achieve that. A Mage Academy is unlike those ordinary academies for ordinary people where their grades are the basis of whether they will pass or not.”

“In a Mage Academy, every student needed to step on each other’s body, dead or alive, in order to pass! You will be walking in a path paved by the blood, sweat, tears, relentless effort, and etc… of your fellow students, no matter how unwilling you feel! If you need to kill them to become strong, then you need to do exactly that, or else you will die instead!”

“You are all Mages, one day you bunch will surely be deployed to the battlefield of the War of Races. If you are wimpy and always treat yourself as someone special, you will surely die in a matter of few days. If you are lucky, then maybe a month. The day would only lengthen though by a few tens of days, but it still can’t change the fact that you-will-die… Whether you want it or not, you will die!”

Everyone immediately became more depressed when teacher Marvin said those things. They were imagining different scenarios in their minds at this moment.

Suddenly, teacher Marvin clapped his hand loudly, which has then pulled everyone’s attention out from their depressing imagination.

“But, you don’t have to worry! The Silver Mage Academy would of course lend you a hand. That’s the reason for the Mage Academy’s establishment, after all. Every student can accept the missions in teams of how many students, yes in any number of students that you want. But of course, the points you would earn afterward would also decrease the more students you have in your group. So, you better think who you will allow to join your team.”

“Moreover, all of those missions written in the Book of Missions can be accepted by as many people as possible as long as no one has yet completed it. In other words, you can steal it from anyone!”

“By the way, I almost forgot about the most important thing… I need to remind you that everything inside the school cost points. Each school facilities, training grounds, library, and etc… If you want to pass your first year in the Silver Mage Academy you also need to reach 10,000 points. Good luck to all of you!”

“That’s all, let’s now start the discussion!”

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“Class dismiss!” Teacher Marvin said before vanishing out from the room using a Transportation spell.

The class discussion was about Mana, and Magic that had lasted for an entire morning. But no one in the entire classroom of class 1S- was able to understand a single thing about what teacher Marvin was talking about.

Everyone’s mind was preoccupied with how they will earn points the entire time!

The Silver Mage Academy has allowed every student to enter their class only two days a week. So, everyone student would be left to use the remaining five days to go complete some missions to earn points.

However, even though it gives all the students a lot of time to go complete some missions, still the question was whether they could even complete one within the given five days.

Leo was also preoccupied at this moment with ways to earn points.

“You can create teams…” Leo said as he finally thought of something.

“Hey Alfred, let’s create a team with Cassandra and those four from Class 1S+!” Leo said as he quickly turned to look at Alfred.

“Did you think of something? But, if we do create a team, shouldn’t we be creating it by choosing students from our section, right…?” Alfred asked as he was curious about Leo’s idea.

“Didn’t you understand what teacher Marvin said? He was simply saying that even if your class section is not within the top of the Class Ranking, you would still be able to buy the same amount of resources that the winner of those competitions could get just by buying it using points! So, we should not care whether our class section could get a large number of points anymore, but whether. We, individually, could earn a lot for ourselves!” Leo whispered silently to Alfred.

Alfred’s eyes quickly lit up after hearing Leo’s plan.

“Okay, I’m in! But, shouldn’t we be recruiting more people? Though our points may decrease, but having more people would surely enable us to complete missions easier, right?” Alfred quickly suggested.

Alfred’s thoughts were simple. If they have a lot of members in their team, they could then separate them into three different groups. Specifically, logistic, defense, attack. Logistic which would be in charge of completing the mission, defense in charge of defending the logistic from the other teams, and lastly, attack which would attack the other teams to disrupt them from completing the same mission.

It was indeed a good idea, but Leo shook his head in disagreement.

“Your idea is indeed feasible, but we need quality, not quantity if we indeed choose such a plan. If we have a lot of members, yet they are all weak, we would still surely fail the mission and your plan deemed being useless. However, what if we only have a few members and work on completing missions stealthily, we might be able to complete two to three missions within five days!” Leo explained.

Simply put, Leo’s idea was to move in a small group of people. By doing such a thing, they would be able to work in the mission they choose without being noticed by others who had accepted the same mission as them.

This was the same way how Leo lived his whole life, always staying away from conspicuous things since that stuff is always the center of attraction, and hence attracting a different kind of trouble.

“Okay then, let’s do it that way!” Alfred immediately agreed. He had immediately understood that it was indeed much better to move in the shadows than bluntly working on the mission out in the open.

Working in the dark would allow them to work unhindered, and with a small group of people, they would be able to act like they were not doing the mission if they possibly meet with others. On the other hand, working in the light was the same as telling everyone to ‘attack us or else we will steal your mission!’.

Although both ideas were feasible and had their own pros and cons, working in the dark, in their opinion though, was much more fitting to them.

“Let’s go to Cassandra’s room, I’m sure she had also thought the same idea as us!” Leo calmly went out of their room. Alfred also followed behind without giving any suspicious move, careful not to let others noticed that they had already made a plan to earn points.

When Leo and Alfred arrived in front of Cassandra’s room, Class 1S+, the same situation as yesterday was still happening. Two groups of students on both Cassandra and Elizabeth’s side. But this time Cassandra’s side had only a few since Jake and the other four students that Leo had beaten up yesterday have transferred to Elizabeth’s side.

The Class 1S+ had more students compare to their own Class S-, specifically 30 of them. Elizabeth’s side has 19 students in total, including her. And Cassandra’s side has 11 students, including her and the four bodyguards.

Leo outside of their room could already hear that the students who choose to be part of Cassandra’s group were actually not really part of her group yet, but were still currently persuading her to create a group with them.

Leo can’t help but let out a silent chuckle at their helpless faces and desperate voices. It was really amusing watching people beg. It really shows what a person is capable of doing just to get something from someone.

Despite their persuasion, though, Cassandra at this moment was still acting nonchalantly. Obviously, she doesn’t give any mind to their words at all. The other four students who had become her bodyguard were left to handle such a mess.

“Hey, please persuade her to create a team. You are closer to her, right? Please help us a little since we are classmates!” A weak-looking young student said desperately.

“We really can’t do that!” One of the bodyguards, base on Leo’s memory was named Michael, said trying his best to reject his classmate’s desperate call for help.

“Just try doing it… Just trying won’t be that troublesome, right?” A pretty looking female added while showing her cleavage and at the same time acting seductively to Michael.

“I really can’t do that, gulp… She already said a while ago that she doesn’t want to create a team with a bunch of stup… I mean, with you guys.” Michael said, almost saying the exact same word that Cassandra had said to them before.

Michael and his buddies had already tried to propose to Cassandra the idea of creating another group with the other classmates that have chosen her. But her reply was only ‘I don’t want to create a team with a bunch of stupid and useless people!’.

So, Michael and his buddies could not do anything anymore aside from stopping the others from bothering her any further. They were also really afraid that she would suddenly not care about the consequences and the destruction of her image by bluntly calling everyone, ‘Stupid and useless!’. They were now her bodyguard, so they obviously should do everything to protect her and her image.

Not wanting to wait anymore, Leo and Alfred suddenly barged inside the Class 1S+ room.. He went to Cassandra’s seat directly as he pulled her quickly closer towards his body and loudly claimed, “I apologize, but I’m the leader of the faction that she is a part of! That’s why she can’t decide whether you guys can join it or not.”