She was free from her foes for the first two classes and so was pretty happy about it however the seniors were much bigger and older so they basically refused to work with or acknowledge her. Most figured she bought her way in from some rich family. It was not until they saw her scores and finished final products that some wanted to work with her.
Some even wanted her to do their homework for them but Eric who had also advances into the higher defense classes put a stop to that with just a few conversations. After he beat their highest ranked fighter in combat and they found out he would protect her at any cost did most backed off. No amount of money or other offers would persuade him.
Of coarse with success, power, intelligence and few social skills many students became jeolous and vengeful for the vaguest reasons. Many enemies begain silent campaigns against their success. One would even dare become a pretend friend but that betrayal comes later.
Overall they quickly grow familiar with the school, teachers and learned to negotiate through the few troubles they encountered including Melissa and her group,
Missing supplies to missing assignments, accured on and off, until even her test paper finally disappeared from the teachers desk when it had been handed in. This resulted in the whole class being punished and since they could not defeat Eric they turned on the trouble makers making it understood that it had to stop.
They learned to not use the school lockers and to avoid the cafeteria on Wednesday but overall the pranksters backed down. So the teachers, students and school life in general became much more endurable.
Both Eric and Goldy were able to step multiple classes due to their mothers education and their own dedication. By the second year they were both taking senior classes and self studies. Eric was mastering command post and historical battle tactics. He was in advanced studies for sword, spear and archery.
Goldy and her team had begun studying specific effedt to improve gem maintenance and replication. Goldy found out that the were only able to extract about 20% of a gems power mainly because the remaining energy was held locked in it crystallized form.
She was doing experiments with depleted gems and the collected poisoned beast blood. From her teatings the blood had been contaminated by the gems within a beast body causing both the mutations and the poisoning. However the blood also contained the same type of energy within the initial gems though it was diluted.
She was convinced that these gems could be refilled with this energy and that it would also decontaminate the blood as well. The species, the beast were mutated from were of the larger variety and carnivorous. She hypothesized that the gems were not a natural process in nature but that they were implanted within the beast at a young age causing the mutations.
In addition some had been implanted multiple times probably with fragments the then slowly grew with the size of its implanted prey. Also many must have died from this process and may even be trained to follow order like a dog learns tricks.
Goldy was dismayed by these thoughts because that meant someone was perpoiously was creating them. In addition some of these beast were capable of reproduction which could eventually lead to gems being tranfered into their newborns gaining children with greater power, mutations and intelligence.
She was finally able to extract the energy and through a slow process of tritrations an heat usage refill some of the emptied crystals. In a secondary processor in her room she found a way to compact this energy so it could last much longer and even be measurably. In this way if one had to go into battle with a beast you would be able to tell how much charge was left to use.
This could in reality save lives due to one ability to take the appropriate tools into a battle. Or tell you how much healing magic was left so one didn't waste it on a patient that would not be able to be healed.
As their final projects were to be presented their kingdom announced a new discovery on how to renew dead gems. Goldy could not believe it only two days before her grand presentation the government was saying they had found a solution. An it was done by one of her best friends the Crown Prince Jarred.
There was no way it was a coincidence she had explained her plan and gotten approval from her teacher for this project in front of all four of them. His guard would definitely say it was the prince's discovery and both her and Solo were from small families with little true power, hell Solo only had a commoner mom and I was just adopted.
I felt so betrayed and powerless, I could,not even tell any one in my family because they could be tortured, imprisoned or killed for accusing a royal without positive proof. Even the teacher would not be able to say anything.
I knew the pressure the prince was under to help prove himself to his father and country and if he had asked for my help I probably would have been willing to share credit with him on the discovery. However the way he did it was so wrong, it made me feel as if I was nothing in his eyes. Less then a person whom he said he was being trained to protect.
The next day as he stood on the grand stage explaining my process for empowering gems I could just look on in anger. He never looked my way and never showed a single ounce of guilt or regret. When I asked the teacher why he just looked down quiltily and walked away.
Now I had two days to finish a project and hand it in so I had to finish some adjustments to my meter of energy devise and present it. It would not be as impressive as my first project but It should be able to get me into the beast hunting party with Eric hopefully.
That night unknown to me the prince and his guard Alex were stopped in the privy by a masked attacker and beaten rather severely. They would not. be able to go on the beast hunting party this year. With their spots opening my spot was approved after my presentation.
On the day we left to go hunting the prince called me aside and gave me. letter to read which included a seat of power from the kingdom. In the letter he apologized for his deceiving me and his country. He told the King his father what he had done and the King asked for forgiveness as well but would like to make you a princess in his family.
He asked that this matter not be disclosed to the public as it would affect public morale and faith in their crown prince. I would receive a estate and monetary compensation as well as partial credit for the discovery. In addition he would owe me a favor in the future as well as from his son.