Chapter 176: Back To School Again Part 1
( Days after. )
The Prodigal Academy is open again for it continues its course of education, but still, after the Elven Invasion, there's that one kid who felt uneasy.
" Hah... " Donovan sighs while looking out the window.
"( It's been days, guess the Elves really need time to invade after I destroy their device... )" Donovan thinks about it, remembering that he destroyed the Elves' [Gatebridge]*.
While looking at the window, at that very moment, a sharp eye suddenly looks at Donovan and gets pissed as he sees Donovan looking at the window.
" Uhum, Mr. Richter-Grimshaw! " he calls Donovan which made him startled as Donovan immediately looks back at him.
" Uh, yes sir. " Donovan responds to the person who called him, his homeroom teacher, Mr. Alex Crowler.
" Lost in thoughts, I see? "
" Did you already take your breakfast, Mr. Richter-Grimshaw...? " he asked Donovan to stand up and answer while Donovan tells him that he only had his bread earlier since all of his house people had left his home earlier, of them.
" Oh, I see... " Mr. Crowler responded.
" So, despite all of that, could you please tell me about the reason why all humans After Ragnarok can use magic..., please answer that! " Mr. Crowler orders Donovan to answer it, since he's a history teacher, his class is basically the histories around magic and the world all of them lived.
But in his class, like all other history classes in the world, in every history lesson, there is one particular topic that had always been popular to be discussed ever since, a topic that will never bore anyone who hears it.
Ragnarok, the ancient event that will bear the new world, the event will make new growth to the world afterward by destroying the old world filled with twisted things.
"( This topic is really popular, isn't it...? ) " Donovan wonders while answering the question, he thinks inside his mind if this 'event' is really important to the world's historical lore.
" The reason why the humans could use magic is that we were 'freed' from our 'shackles', a shackle that had been placed upon us by beings superior to us, beings who used us to empower themselves by making us work as its familiars. "
" The shackle of power the humans of old borrowed from those superior beings, a mistake that will doom humanity in secret for ages old. " Donovan simply explains.
" That's correct, that's good... " Mr. Crowler praises Donovan.
" For someone who didn't eat much, you really have good strength for morning's lesson. " Mr. Crowler tells Donovan, praising him for his knowledge regarding the topic, unlike some other classmates of Class 1-S and the other classes below.
" Geez, Don... " Goriath says quietly as he sits behind his desk, Donovan hears him.
" You are really very good in history, aren't you? " he asks Donovan.
" Bro, that part I said is common knowledge, I only said what I read regarding the topic... " Donovan answers Goriath, still standing up for the teacher is explaining more about what Donovan just answered earlier, hence Donovan can't sit for Mr. Crowler didn't tell him yet.
" Just like what Mr. Richter-Grimshaw said, the reason why we can use magic is that we are freed from the power that shackled us, the power our ancestors once borrowed from the beings more powerful than them. "
" And when I said 'beings' I mean the superior beings more powerful than the humans at that time, monsters, beasts, creatures, even those superior beings called gods and demons. " Mr. Crowler says as he looks at the students who stared at him, he knows why they're all like that.
" What, are you guys shocked by what I just said recently? " he responds to their reaction.
" Yes, gods and demons exist in the worlds of old, for they are the main factions in the world back then, read the history kids! "
" And speaking of them, remember when Mr. Richter-Grimshaw tells that the humans were once 'shackled' by something back then? " he asks the students, he sees all of them have no intention to answer so he immediately decided to let Donovan answer him again.
" No, none of you want to answer...? " he asks.
" Fine then, Mr. Richter-Grimshaw would you be so kind as to tell your classmates what kind of 'shackles' that I meant? " he asks Donovan when that question is uttered from his mouth.
< Vague Memory Voices >
"( The gods and demons' power is shackling us... it's always been its nature. )"
"( Using a conduit to put their power in the human body, making them able to manipulate the humans using the power they inserted. )"
"( Hence, the power is called .... Core... )"
" Cores. " Donovan says as he says it from what the vague memories say about it.
"( Oh hell, what did I say? )" Donovan wondered all of the sudden for he really just burst out saying it out loud.
The whole class went silent and Mr. Crowler was surprised to hear such an answer, he looks at Donovan and smirked.
" Well done, Mr. Richter-Grimshaw... "
" You answered it, perfectly... " he praises Donovan, and the whole class also clapped him too.
"( Thanks Donovan, if it not because of you, Mr. Crowler would've asked us instead... )"
"( Thanks Donovan, after the class I will treat you! )"
The whole class is really grateful for Donovan as he saved them from being asked by Mr. Crowler, it really makes them feel good for Mr. Crowler is a strict teacher and kids nowadays hated them.
< Status Increased >
< Intelligence +2 >
"( Okay then, haha... ) " Donovan felt embarrassed for a while for he still feels hungry and tired because he didn't receive a proper meal in the morning.
< Hunger +50 >
< Fatigue +100 >
" Right... " Donovan says as his belly rings out as well as the academy bell, it covers his belly sound.
" Thank goodness... " Donovan says as he then goes out with his friends before he goes out.
" Donovan. " Mr. Crowler calls him suddenly.
" Yes sir? " Donovan asks what's going on.
" No it's nothing, I just want to ask you... "
" Do you see Carlos and Carol, before entering the academy gates? " he asks Donovan which suddenly surprised him.
" Wait, Carlos and Carol...? " Donovan asks back and remembers that he didn't see them among his other classmates during class.
"( Oh yeah, how I couldn't realized... )"
"( Where are they, those two prestigious and diligent students from Class 1-S? )"
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Extra:
Welcome, this is the Part 2 of Volume 4, after escaping Alviheim, Donovan will continue to face more troubles from his academy again.
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