Chapter 11: Academy
Evan was eating some pancakes with coffee, his ideal breakfast in the non-magical world as well as in the magical world.
He liked the sweetness of the pancakes along with the bitterness of the coffee, because according to him balance of everything gave the best taste to a man.
The coffee here was however different from the one in the normal world. it was made through beans that were limited to the Vampire Sect, and was called their specialty.
Also the pancakes contained a honey made by blood bees and was sweeter than the normal honey made by honey bees in the non-magical world.
Evan burped after finishing his breakfast and thought
’I have eaten too much again.’
He put his plates aside and stood up looking himself up in the mirror, he was wearing a black tracksuit that had a symbol of two small red fangs on the left side of his chest.
As he was seeing himself in the mirror, someone knocked on the door.
’Come in.’
The door opened to reveal Evan’s usual guest, Harry.
’Let’s go, the carriage is outside waiting for you.’, he spoke
’Yeah alright lets go.’, Evan replied
They both walked towards the exit of the guest house where Evan checked out from by showing the card to the receptionist.
Outside there were two horse like beings tied to a carriage.
They had the structure of a horse however, they were only composed of hair and bones with no skin and eyes, the name of these creatures were called Skeletal rides.
’I’ll be dropping you to the academy, when we reach there, you will be on your own.’, Harry said.
’I see.’
Both of them sat inside the carriage, the inside of the carriage looked luxurious.
It had plush velvet seating, polished mahogany paneling and delicate silk curtains.
He and Harry sat on the opposite sides of each other.
’You like the track suit?’, asked Harry.
’Yeah it’s alright.’
Harry nodded and the carriage started to run.
After four or five minutes, they finally reached the academy.
’I’ll be going then, I hope you have a good time here.’
’Thanks!’
’And by the way Evan, there are people who might come here from royal families like sons of elders, so don’t mind them because they are rather spoiled than the other ones.’
’I understand, Goodbye.’
’Good bye.’
’As If I care who is from where.’, Evan sniggered
The carriage soon got out of Evan’s view, and he took a good look at the outside of the academy.
It looked like it was handmade with every rock put with precision, and on the top of it was written "Vampire Academy" in deep crimson.
He went inside to see a crowds of people talking with each other, all wearing the same tracksuit as him.
He felt that the only person alone here is he himself. But he did not mind because it was the very same with him when he was in high-school.
The Hall of the academy from inside was beautiful. It had a high ceiling and chandeliers with pillars holding all of the academy.
Evan looked at his right and found a bench not too far away. He sighed and started to walk towards it and as soon as he reached there someone pulled him.
’Where do you think you are sitting bastard?’, a student who was taller than him said, he looked muscular and had a small mustache.
He had three students standing with him who looked like bodyguards rather than friends.
If it was the previous Evan he would have remained quiet and would have endured the insult and humiliation, however he had changed and became a strong person.
’On your mom’s lap.’
The students around the guy opened their eyes wide in shock along with their mouths.
The guy got angry, so angry that his face had gone red.
’Do you know who you are talking to!?’
’Neither do I know nor do I care.’
When Evan said this, guy’s endurance for anger had ended so he swung his fist to punch Evan.
As the punch reached close to Evan’s face, he simply dodged it, seeing this, guy threw another punch, this time with his left hand, which got dodged again.
’You piece of shit!’, he shouted seeing his punches getting dodged
[ Quest : Punch this guy on the face ]
[ Reward : 1 Stat ]
The system gave stats that were to be put in attributes so that a specific thing could be enhanced.
’What is your name.’, said Evan to the guy
’Santiago, I am the son of Lord Elder Thomas, you commoner!.’, the guy replied angrily, swinging his fist again only to be dodged again.
’You see Santiago, I have got no option.’
Saying this Evan swung his fist, concentrating all of his physical strength in this punch hitting Santiago on the face, causing him to fall down because of the impact.
’What do you think you are doing.’, one of the student who was with Santiago said.
’What? I just punched him didn’t I?’ replied Evan coldly.
Santiago stood on the ground again stopping the student who was trying to start a fight with Evan.
This time, Santiago didn’t throw a punch, rather he smiled and said the students who were with him to go.
He held out his hand in front of Evan like someone did when they wanted to do a handshake.
’What is your name.’, asked Santiago.
’Evan, it was pleasant to meet you .’, replied Evan shaking his hand.
Santiago wiped a drop of blood from his lip.
’Evan, huh? Most people around here are boring statues. You’ve got a heavy hand, I like that. Let’s get to where people are standing, the principal is soon going to start his trash speech.’
Evan nodded, and saw the system gave a message.
[ Quest Completed: Punch delivered ]
[ +1 Stat Point given ]
He opened the attributes window
[ ATTRIBUTES ]
[ Strength : 5 ]
[ Stamina : 5 ]
[ Stats Available : 1 ]
He willed in his mind that the stat was to be put in the the "strength" attribute.
[ Strength + 1 ]
[ Strength : 6 ]
’Maybe this school won’t be so boring after all’, Evan thought
Santiago laughed and said
’I hate these people, they think of me too highly because of my old man, I like people like you who don’t judge people based on their backgrounds.’
’What is your age.’, asked Evan
’Eighteen.’
’Looks like we are the same age, want to be friends?’
’Hehehehe, yeah alright whatsoever.’
And this was how Evan and Santiago became best friends, through not a pleasant encounter but rather a doubtful one.
