Chapter 9: Settling Down
At 5 p.m., the academy island began to settle down as students retreated to their rooms for the night or going back into the building. The lobby are full and people are enjoying the food provided to them by the academy. Some ate theirs in their respected rooms.
Arteus, meanwhile just came out of the bathroom. He was panting.. his skin was all red.. and he looked like he went through hell but with hellwater instead of hellfire.
"I should ask around next time why that thing spouts liquid magma." he spoke sighing as he stepped into the living room.
What really happened was that he took a bath with a hottest water setting.. and with his lacking knowledge of advanced tools that doesn't exist back in the slum, he didn't know how that complicated looking faucet work so he just assumed that it was broken, not knowing the thing can be adjusted.
What fascinated him as well other than the bathroom was the size of his "room".. Because he was expecting a one room bedroom with a small bathroom. He instead got something that felt like a full-on "luxurious" house that everyone would kill for back in the slums.
Just past the front door was a small shoe rack and a long hallway. The living room door sat at the end, to the left side of the wall.
Inside the living room the moment you stepped inside it if you turnn on the corner on your left is a door that leads to a bathrom. Complete with a shower, toilet, and even a bathtub.
He ignored the bathtub because he wasn't really feeling it.. And yes.. he know what that is because he have found one like it back in the dump site and have gotten to know about its existence after asking around what it is.
And other than that, turning another left when inside the living room, you will find another door that leads to his bedroom. on the far corner on the left Completing the circle and occupying the square space of his room. All the other rooms are built in the way.. making it uniform to reduce envy among students... but there are a few exemptions... but thats for another story.
Anyway.. Arteus after going into the living room, he went into the far left corner and entered the bedroom. Still not believing it he pause to take the sight of his entire bedroom that was as big as the house his parents left him. Thinking about them.. his hand clenches together.. before pushing the thoughts to the back of his mind and walking towards the closet..
The closet is positioned on the right side of the room, while the bed sits at the center. To the left of the bed's headboard, there's a small table with a chair beside it, and just above the table is a window. On the right side of the headboard stands a small cabinet — and ontop of that Except, sitting on top of it is... well, something. A thing. A weirdly shaped furniture? That looks like a mushroom had a love child with a vase and lost the custody battle. It just sat there, doing nothing? being expensive, probably. Arteus stared at it for a moment, tilted his head, then made a very mature decision: Not my problem. Anyway! off to the closet!!
Yes, he didn't bring any clothes on his way here.. but that didn't matter.. as the academy provides him enouh clothes and pants.. He checled it earlier before bathing.... Opening his closet, inside is 5 sets of plain white shirt, 5 sets of pants, 5 sets of the complete Acadamy uniform.. which have a red tream seams.
He scoff.. Back then, He noticed something stranged in this place.. And thats the dynamics between the gold seams and the red seams wearer..
He noticed that those who wearing the red ones seems to be fearful towards the students with the gold seams.. if not afraid they are mad at them.. And as for the people wearing the gold trimmed uniform.. they look at the former with disgust, contempt.. or they're either ignoring their existence.
When he saw this uniforms before he took a bath. His suspicions were confirmed.
'So its probably about being a person with no family name... In other words... a commoner...' he looked towards the red trimmed uniform and realize the seams colors symbolized if one is a commoner or a noble.. then he recalled the words and advices Carter have told him before he left.
"The Nobles are Jack-ass, huh" Arteus smiled and took a shirt out and a pants from the closet and closed it. 'I guess they wouldn't mind it if im a jackass to them..Right?'
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Sitting on the chair on the side of the bed, hes reading a paper.. And yes... hes literate... Carter did a good job on teaching him..
"He should have been a teacher and not a miner..heh" Arteus chuckled.. imagining his rough looking neighbor and guardian teaching kids.. He also noticed a faint shimmer on the paper when he picked it up — but figured it was just for decoration.
Anyway.. the paper he's reading seems to be about the academy.. and probably a part of the enrollment.. it reads:
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Please select course you'd like to enter.. You can enter as much as you want.. But beware, a course subject is a major subject.. failing them would result expulsion. And failing 3 minor subjects will result to the same.. and — Blah blah blah fuck that shit I ain't reading allat!
Courses:
•Unarmed Combat
•Weapon Based Combat
•Alchemy
•Rune Scribe
•Beast Taming
•Arcane Arts
•Wilderness Survival Training
Minor subjects are as follows:
-Mana and Core Training
-Process of Dreaming
-History of the World
-Beastiary Records
-Teamfight Tactics
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After reading it all Arteus contemplated it for long and hard.. Some of the course doesn't really sound familiar.. or were they self explanatory on the name.
And after thinking about it for a while he finally made up his mind and took the pen on the cup of dozen or so pencils on the corner of his table and he soon began placing a check the courses he wanted.
"That should be i- WAIT WHAT???" his eyes accidentally landed on the last few words on the long ass message on the top of the paper and read:
Multiple Course is means you have to maintain a passing grades on all of them.. or you will fail and suffer expulsion...
"WAIT WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING WAIT!! I —!" and before he could even do something about what he just read.. The paper began turning into light and shattering slowy into nothingness with the particles of light flowing into the mark on his wrist.
Over his wrist his eyes looking his newly updated ID.
"Well, shit... I should have followed Abigails advice....Fuck...."
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