Chapter 24 Leo's Faction
Author: M_W Cancer
Grammar Checker: M_W Nomral
After a few minutes, Teacher Marvin finally arrived in the classroom.
How Teacher Marvin used to arrive in the classroom surprised everyone.
A sphere suddenly appeared in front of the classroom, then he came out of the sphere soon after.
Just looking around the faces of the students, Teacher Marvin understood the situation as he let out a mocking laugh and said, "Did you think that getting the resources you needed was just as easy as harvesting an already fully grown crop?"
"If you did, then I can't help but label all of you naïve! You are not special! Always put that deep in your mind. You will never be special! If you want to become strong, you need to work hard to achieve that. A Mage Academy is unlike those ordinary academies for ordinary people where their grades are the basis of whether they will pass or not."
"In a Mage Academy, every student needed to step on each other's body, dead or alive, to pass! You will be walking on a path paved by the blood, sweat, tears, relentless effort, etc... of your fellow students, no matter how unwilling you feel! If you need to kill them to become strong. You need to do exactly that, or you die trying! Those are your only two options!"
"You are all Mages, one day you bunch will surely be deployed to the battlefield of the War of Races. If you are wimpy and always treat yourself as someone special, you will surely die in a matter of a few days. If you are lucky, then maybe a month. The day would only lengthen though by a few tens of days, but it still can't change the fact that you-will-die... Whether you want it or not, you will die!"
Everyone became more depressed when Teacher Marvin said those things. They were imagining different scenarios in their minds at this moment.
Suddenly, teacher Marvin clapped his hand loudly, pulling everyone's attention out of their depressing imagination.
"But, you don't have to worry! The Silver Mage Academy would of course lend you a hand. That's the reason for the Mage Academy's establishment, after all. Every student can accept the missions in teams of how many students, yes any number of students that you want. But of course, the points you would earn afterward would also decrease the more students you have in your group. So, you better think who you will allow to join your team."
"Moreover, all of those missions written in the Book of Missions can be accepted by as many people as possible as long as no one has yet completed it. In other words, you can steal it from anyone!"
"I almost forgot about the most important thing..."
"Everything inside the school costs points. Each school facilities, training grounds, a library, etc... In fact, if you want to pass your first year in the Silver Mage Academy, it would cost you 10,000 points. Good luck to all of you!"
"That's all, let's now start the discussion!"
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"Class dismiss!" Teacher Marvin said before vanishing out from the room using a Transportation spell.
The class discussion was about Mana and Magic which had lasted for an entire morning.
But absolutely no one in the entire classroom of class 1S- was able to understand a single thing about what teacher Marvin was talking about.
That's because everyone's mind was preoccupied with how they would earn points the entire time!
The Silver Mage Academy has allowed every student to enter their class only two days a week. So, everyone student would be left to use the remaining five days to complete some missions to earn points.
However, even though it gives all the students a lot of time to complete some missions, still the question was whether they could even complete one within the given five days.
Leo was also preoccupied at this moment with ways to earn points.
"You can create teams..." Leo said as he finally thought of something.
"Hey Alfred, let's create a team with Cassandra and those four from Class 1S+!" Leo said as he quickly turned to look at Alfred.
"Did you think of something? But, if we do create a team, shouldn't we be creating it by choosing students from our section, right...?" Alfred asked as he was curious about Leo's idea.
"Didn't you understand what Teacher Marvin said? He was simply saying that even if your class section is not within the top of the Class Ranking, you would still be able to buy the same amount of resources that the winner of those competitions could get just by buying it using the points you earn yourself! So, we should not care whether our class section could get a large number of points anymore, but whether, we, as an individual, could earn a lot for ourselves!" Leo whispered silently to Alfred.
Alfred's eyes lit up after hearing Leo's plan.
"Okay, I'm in! But, shouldn't we be recruiting more people? Though our points may decrease. But having more people would surely enable us to complete missions more easily, right?" Alfred suggested.
Alfred's thoughts were simple. If they have a lot of members in their team, they could separate them into three different groups. Specifically, logistics, defense, and attack.
Logistics team which would be in charge of completing the mission.
The Defense team is in charge of defending the logistics from the other teams.
Lastly, the Attack team would attack the other teams to disrupt them from completing the same mission.
It was indeed a good idea, but Leo shook his head in disagreement.
"Your idea is indeed feasible, but we need quality, not quantity if we indeed choose such a plan. If we have a lot of members, yet they are all weak, we would still fail the mission and your plan would be deemed useless. However, what if we only have a few members and work on completing missions stealthily, we might be able to complete two to three missions within five days!" Leo explained.
Simply put, Leo's idea was to move in a small group of people. By doing such a thing, they would be able to work on the mission they choose without being noticed by others who had accepted the same mission as them.
This was the same way how Leo lived his whole life; always staying away from conspicuous things since they are always the center of attraction, hence each attracting a different kind of trouble.
"Okay then, let's do it that way!" Alfred immediately agreed. He understood that it would indeed be much better to move in the shadows than bluntly work on the mission out in the open.
Working in the dark would allow them to work unhindered, and with a small group of people, they would be able to act like they were not doing the mission if they possibly met with others. On the other hand, working in the light was the same as telling everyone to 'attack us or else we will steal your mission!'.
Although both ideas were feasible and had their own pros and cons, working in the dark, in their opinion though, was much more fitting to them.
"Let's go to Cassandra's room. I'm sure she had also thought the same idea as us!" Leo calmly went out of their room. Alfred also followed behind without making any suspicious move, careful not to let others notice that they had already made a plan to earn points.
When Leo and Alfred arrived in front of Cassandra's room, Class 1S+, the same situation as yesterday was still happening. Two groups of students on both Cassandra and Elizabeth's side. But this time Cassandra's side had only a few since Jake and the other four students that Leo had beaten up yesterday have all transferred to Elizabeth's side, except the four that agreed to become Cassandra's bodyguards.
The Class 1S+ had more students compared to their own Class S-, specifically 30 of them. Elizabeth's side has 19 students in total, including her. And Cassandra's side has 11 students, including her and the four bodyguards.
Outside of their room, Leo could already hear that the students who chose to be part of Cassandra's group were actually not really part of her group yet, but were still persuading her to create a group with them.
He can't help but let out a silent chuckle at their helpless faces and desperate voices. It was truly amusing watching people beg. It shows what a person is capable of doing just to get something from someone.
Despite their persuasion, though, Cassandra at this moment was still acting nonchalantly. Obviously, she doesn't give any mind to their words at all. The other four students who had become her bodyguards were left to handle such a mess.
"Hey, please persuade her to create a team. You are closer to her, right? Please help us a little since we are classmates!" A weak-looking young student said desperately.
"We really can't do that!" One of the bodyguards, based on Leo's memory named Michael, tried his best to reject his classmate's desperate call for help.
"Just try doing it... Just trying won't be that troublesome, right?" A pretty-looking female added while showing her cleavage and at the same time acting seductively to Michael.
"I really can't do that, gulp... She already said a while ago that she doesn't want to create a team with a bunch of stup... I mean, with you guys." Michael said, almost saying the exact same word that Cassandra had said to them before.
Michael and his buddies had already tried to propose to Cassandra the idea of creating another group with the other classmates who had chosen her. But her reply was only 'I don't want to create a team with a bunch of stupid and useless people!'.
So, Michael and his buddies could not do anything anymore aside from stopping the others from bothering her any further. They were also really afraid that she would suddenly not care about the consequences and the destruction of her image by bluntly calling everyone, 'Stupid and useless!'. They were now her bodyguard, so they obviously should do everything to protect her, and that includes her image.
Couldn't be bothered with waiting anymore, Leo and Alfred suddenly barged inside the Class 1S+ room. He went to Cassandra's seat directly, pulled her closer to his body, and loudly claimed, "I apologize, but I'm the leader of the faction that she is a part of! That's why she can't decide whether you guys can join it or not."