Chapter 101.1 - The Second Year at the Academy - [Lanain] (1)
A few days after the first-year students returned from the first-half outdoor training, we also set out for our outdoor exercises.
The Lambert team remained the same as last year, with Lambert, Felix, Lola, and me.
Since Number One, the blonde drill quit alchemy, Elphimia became the team leader, with Carmel, the 2nd knight, and a new addition, Elliott.
Our goal this year is material collection and securing magic stones.
To recover what I lost, I ran through the forest hunting magic stones during the exercises.
However, after the exercises, an unbelievable event occurred. Instructor Deshind took away all the magic stones from us.
It was outrageous.
I was running around outside the camp and got everything confiscated.
Strangely enough, Lambert and the others intervened to stop me from protesting.
To make matters worse, he said something absurd, “The collected magic stones will be used by the first-year students.”
“If we don’t do that, it’ll turn into a scramble for magic stones. So the magic stones you guys are using this year were collected by the current third-year students. Didn’t I explain that before departure?”
Lambert sighed deeply.
Come to think of it, I vaguely remember hearing something like that.
It’s a clever way to do it.
Nobles are bound to snatch magic stones from commoners, and probably, there were frequent looting incidents in the early days of the school.
But did it have to be this excessive?
I appealed, but the magic stones didn’t return, and three days of effort ended up only helping the first-year students.
Feeling dissatisfied, I returned home, only to be greeted by smirking stonemasons.
The backyard was neatly paved with cobblestones.
“Can you give it back?”
The stonemasons looked flabbergasted. I had warned them not to do anything on their own.
Moreover, these cobblestones were the reward for the stone wall.
Dobal, make sure to supervise properly.
But as I thought that, even Dobal was flabbergasted.
Since when did our place become a playground for artisans?
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