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Chapter 409 [Challenging Third Year Students]
Zoken Grail Academy had a variety of private cultivation spaces suited for all types of spirit masters available for rent. However, all things came at a cost, and these cultivation spaces were especially expensive. Too much for Ouranos to have even considered using until now. He had always been embarrassingly low on money and points, needing every single bit to purchase metals for forging and spirit items for breaking his seals. That left him with no resources to increase his cultivation efficiency.
As he recalled, these cultivation spaces cost one hundred points per hour. To put that in perspective, a single day of cleaning Spirit Ice Plaza netted one hundred points. Fortunately for him, after reaching the sixth rank of blacksmith, things were different now. His alloy forging success rate had skyrocketed. Enough so that he had a positive net income. Even so, one hundred points per hour was practically highway robbery.
“You think that’s expensive?” Sergio said.
"Yes!"
"It's worth trust me I don't lie to you asshole do you think I became this strong by doing nothing?" Sergio said he rubbed his nose and Ouranos rolled his eyes.
Well he will try it tonight then.
Following the beginning of the new semester was the reopening of the dining hall. And it couldn’t have come soon enough, especially for Ouranos.
After gobbling up his breakfast, he attended the opening ceremony. It was simple enough. With six classes, one for each of the six grades, the whole assembly only contained several hundred students. Elder Molly spared a few words and casually praised Ouranos's team for their victory against the Sun Rise Engineering Academy. Then the ceremony concluded. The teachers led their students back to their respective classrooms, marking the start of the semester.
Naturally, close congregation of students led to conversations, and conversations led to gossip. Norah class was no exception.
“Have you heard? Travis and the other rankers challenged the class president’s team to a match. It’s happening this afternoon. I heard it from a teacher yesterday. Travis has already rented an arena.”
"Your joking right but the president team is so fearsome you saw them can they nine rankers really win?" Someone whispered.
"I am not sure but I am so going there to watch the match it would be interesting I will just train later," Someone else said.
"Yeah it will be worth seeing," Someone else said.
“Really? They’re fighting again? Those rankers still haven’t had enough?”
“Of course they’re not convinced! They’re all on the Genius Youths Rankings while none of the members of Class President’s team are on it. It’d be weird if they kept quiet. Well, good for us. Just means we have a show to watch this afternoon. Who knows how strong they all are now?”
“Yeah. One thing’s for sure: they’ve left us in the dust. You know, back then I had believed Travis and Lennon would definitely win, but who would have thought Class President’s team was so powerful? I still don’t see anything too special about them, even though they managed a victory. And they even defeated the second grade’s class. I don’t think Travis team has got much of a chance.”
“Totally. I feel the same. But let’s wait and see. Travis wouldn’t have posed the challenge if he didn’t have some confidence. We gotta go watch this match.”
Norah eyes stared the students and all of them closed their mouth shut as they listened and what they needed to do this year as they listened closely all of them felt quiet happy knowing what will happen this next upcoming semester.
After class Ouranos was called over to Ezequiel office. He walked inside his teacher office and Ezequiel stared at him as he frowned for a moment and he sighed.
"I will be the referee of your match today."
"Huh teacher you also know!? But how.."
“Don’t be careless. Travis's team is very talented. As talented as yours. They’ve learned from their mistakes. Their loss had only driven them to work harder, and all got full marks on the semester’s end exam too.”
"Your right but they will lose to us, we just that much stronger then them in my honesty I want them to see what my team is made off," Ouranos said with a grin on his face.
“Let the facts speak for themselves!” Ezequiel declared.
“Yes. Teacher Ezequiel, I actually had something I wanted to talk to you about too.”
“What is it?” His eyes narrowed slightly.
“This is our second academic year, so I was thinking of challenging the third year students in the latter half of the semester. Will you permit that?”
"Are you sure?"
"Yes this will give my team a challenge to face each and everyone of them are growing I feel like they aren't facing enough challenging so I believe this would be good for them," Ouranos said as his eyes narrowed.
The third grade differed tremendously from those before it. Due to the structure of Zoken Grail Academy’s academic calendar and the three-year length of grades, everyone in the third grade was approaching twenty years old, if not just over that. Third grade students had been studying at Zoken Grail Academy for seven years, and the most talented of the bunch were preparing to take the inner court exam. The third grade simply couldn’t be compared with the second. They probably had one-word battle armor masters!
Ouranos team was extremely talented, but talent alone couldn’t overcome the divide between a battle armor master and a regular spirit master.
"What makes you think you can challenge them?"
"Because of our effects! Solomon has finally reached sixth heavenly jewel ring, Sergio has went under some changes, Lola, and Genevieve both awaken before break and they have been training, Harmony and Kendrick are now both seven heavenly jewel masters, Sage has went under changes I don't know what strength is, Faith is a fifth heavenly jewel ring master now, she ended up making another breaking through, Chance also has now four heavenly jewel ring, Zander is a four heavenly jewel master, that lives Erenay, and myself which of course as you can tell Erenay has grown stronger how stronger I am not sure, and I have grown stronger myself. It’ll be helpful to know how our seniors are making their battle armor too. Naturally, we want to win. But what’s more important is the opportunity to learn from our seniors.”
“We’ll talk about this when the time comes,” Ezequiel said as he sighed.
"Alright then I need to go to the teacher."
Chapter end
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