The next day, everything was back to normal. Well... Except for when I get crowded by students in the corridors... Apparently, my popularity had over takened James's. His attitude toward's me haven't change...though it's still a bad thing as he sort of worships me.
Other than enjoying my privileges of having a shorter queue than the other student's in the canteen, there was not much going on. Sometimes, the people at the shorter queue would let me fo infront for some reason, was this the benefit of getting first place? I'll take it!
"Ah! I'm sorry for blocking your highness!"(random student C-78) ."Don't mind it!" I shook my head. Oh yeah... News got out that the King adopted me as his little sister. Thought it's been a few days since it leaked out, the change still hasn't occured to me. I want to be the relatable character that occasionally shows up to help the main character! Not some untouchable idol that can't speak with commoners!
"But you look unhappy." (random student C-78)"Eh? But this is just my favourite stoic expression. I'm not unhappy. Has this been how everyone views me?" *sigh* huuuh~"
Well, these students weren't losing much. They were just going back to queue by 1 spot, it's not like they lost a lot of time. Well... I should probably stop going in front...what if people started viewing me as arrogant.
After school was over, I was asked to meet a delinquent girl and her squad at the back of the school. "Now look here, just because he hid our power and didn't participated in the tournament, doesn't mean you get to be arrogant and walk over us!" (leader) "I apologised if I offended you by acting arrogant, I'll try to stop from now one. Is that enough? I wouldn't mind fighting you weaklings either." "What! You apologised yet you displayed your arrogance infront of us again! Ignorance is bliss. We're going to beat you up and people will question who beat their idol up. Hahaha..." (leader)
They weren't as strong as that last battle mage but all 12 of them had enough strength to be in the semi-finals. Tired of them, I decided to use my time power like last time." Run! She's a monster! ", my previous victim shouted from a distance away. She got curious and was mistaken that I called them here. Apparently after that day, she had a change of heart. 'That person... Emily is the scariest...it's best if I just try my best in other fields instead...' was her mindset. Anyway, severing all their limbs in a second all of them collasped. I watch as some of them drown in their own pool of blood and others die instantaneously from the shock of losing their limbs. Reversing everything in time except for their memories, they know how it feels to die now. About half of them collapsed mentally and the rest had a trauma. Hmm.. Whatever. I'll just leave them there. I walked out of the alley without a care and gave a smile at my previous victim who was behind a corner.
Magic really is something... I always forget, on the outside this school is just 9 to 12 year olds playing with magic harmlessly. On the inside, there are so called prodigies here and there. I bet other than the guy who had [teleport-tier 1] everyone else was just under developed. Unless I was overdeveloped? I don't know. Some of the kids here mature faster than others. Some train as if their lives depend on it during sparring sessions. Some cannot improve no matter how much they try, I wonder what they think of prodigies? I wonder what they think of a monster like me? A first year being unbelievably strong, defeating the principal in the second week of school and destroying the school.
I guess I'll use my winner privileges after all... Due to the influence of my previous life, I learn at a much faster rate than this kids. Its not their fault. Since we are still in the medieval era, education wasn't that important, experience was. Hence the children of this era learn to adapt to their environment faster than process information.Using my privileges, I could get a private instructor to teach at a fast rate and finish school earlier. I can roughly learn a months worth in a week, that would mean I can graduate after roughly 4 months.
The next 4 months was roughly the same. I would hold off on defeating the last boss of the dungeon in the city "Harox", my mana control training would be done in my free time and I was already going to the dungeon for combat practice. So i used all of school time to learn magic theory. There were 2 topics built on false theories, debunking them for the teacher was trouble some. The reason I had prior knowledge was that, I had already memorised and identified the magical conponents of a magic circle before going to school. Other than that it was rather smooth sailing.
At the end of the 4 months I had leveled up from 343 to 487,leveling had drastically slowed down but it was still 4 months worth hard work slaughtering level 500s everyday. In that time my assassin had helped me learned new skills. [detect-tier 5] was really useful for finding monsters to kill. Using condensed mana, I was bale to make them into the size of string of move them around from a remote location, gaining [manipulate thread]. Overtime [manipulate thread] evolved into [manipulate matter(weak)].
The reason why it was a weakened version was due to the fact I have to insert my mana into an object before being able to control it. I experimented eith rocks in the cave as movement would catch the attention of monsters. The lower leveled monsters view me dashing through to the deepest level as a natural disaster and would try their best to dodge. The thing was that, I could control my trajectory and didn't want to miss free experience... So i would run them over and they would splatter from the pressure of getting ran over...