When professor Fedric arrived from nowhere and said hello to aran, everyone there, started to wonder what might it be.
" There is something we need to talk about. Can we talk in the office room?" Fedric asked because he wanted to know if aran had cheated in the exam.
" You can talk to me here, I am all ears!" Aran said as if he didn't have anything to hide.
Although it sounded a little arrogant, Fedric thought since Aran was injured, it might be hard for him to move.
He asked aran to talk in private because he didn't want to humiliate a young master of the Wilford family in front of everyone else but after hearing this, he decided to ask straight.
" The reason I want to talk to you is that I need to inspect you. I have a hunch that you might have cheated in the exam by using an artifact !"
Hearing that everyone started to wonder if what he is saying was true. Since aran managed to come out of the mountain, even after having weak cultivation, everyone thought that it might be true.
The Wilford twins who were sitting there waiting for the results tried to hide because they didn't want to get humiliated by what their cousin did. Jason was furious to hear that about Aran, and he wanted to punch him for ruining the family's name.
As aran heard Fedric asking him, he replied immediately.
" Did you or anyone see me cheating ?"
" No, But like I said it's a hunch!" Fedric replied.
" Before the entrance exam started, I heard an announcement saying that there will be many spectators observing every move of the candidates. Are you implying that they were not doing their jobs properly? " Aran asked.
As Fedric heard that, he remained silent for a moment. He knew that it was not Aran's fault to enter a region where there are no monitoring devices. Although he was a professor at the academy, he knew that if he can't prove what he said, then it might become a big problem. So he decided to not speak of that again.
Despite being infuriated about what just happened, Fedric had to follow the rules and he didn't have a solid defence against aran. Just when he thought about leaving there, Aran suddenly took off both of his rings and gave them to Fedric.
" Here! You can check everything that's in the ring and you can also check my pockets " He said.
Fedric started to wonder what was wrong with aran because he couldn't understand what he was trying to prove. But still, when he took out everything that was in the ring, except for some usual things, he couldn't find any artifacts from his ring or his pockets.
" I am sorry for doubting you, It was a mistake! " Fedric said. Since he had doubted an innocent person from the Wilford family, in front of everyone, he had to be respectful.
"That's fine, Sir. " aran replied very gently.
After giving back his ring, Fedric left that place.
***
After waiting for two hours, most of aran's wounds had already healed and The announcement of the names of the students who have passed the entrance exam began.
Professor stirel who announced the examination rules before was the one announcing the names. He started by announcing the names of the ones who had scored the highest points.
The one with the first rank had scored 179 points and the Wilford twins were at the sixteenth rank by scoring 138 points each.
While Stirel was announcing, everyone got shocked to hear the name of aran at the thirty-second rank with points of 106. They couldn't believe that he had earned this many points despite having weak cultivation. After hearing that they started to realize why professor Fedric doubted him for cheating in the exam.
Soon after announcing all the sixty names, most of them who had failed left the place, and some of them even started to speak out that the academy is corrupted and is helping the people from rich families. But everyone just ignored them since it was a common thing that happens every year.
***
After finishing the announcement Professor stirel invited the sixty students inside the Academy for the course selection. Most of the students including the Wilford twins selected their attribute-related classes as their primary subject and only some of them chose sword fighting.
Aran chose sword fighting as his primary subject. Because he was not only better at sword fighting, with the wind as a single attribute it was the best option for him. After the selection was complete, professor stirel arrived in front of the students to welcome them.
" Congratulations to all of you. I wish you will remain in the academy even after this year. You will have a proper welcome ceremony tomorrow, but for today, since you have been tired after fighting the beasts, go to your assigned dorm rooms and take a good rest. " Stirel said. Soon a staff member of the academy started to distribute the keys to the students.
After getting his dorm room key, aran looked around the academy to find his room and upon finding it, he went to his room and closed the door.
The room he got was better than what he had expected. When he tried to summon mana from there to see if it feels different, Aran felt a little more comfortable summoning mana in the academy than in all the other places.
Since he had just entered the room, he had too many things to arrange in his room. Without wasting any time he just started with it.
While Aran was arranging some of his things in the room, someone started to knock on his door. As he went to the door and opened it, a boy was standing there.
He looked the same age as Aran. He had black hair of the usual size and he was wearing some royal clothes. With an ordinary physique, he was smiling at aran and had a more positive face than him.
As aran saw his cultivation, He had a cultivation of the first tier of the profound stage, with wins water attribute.
" Hello, brother! I'm sorry for bothering you. I'm also a newly joined student and I am from the Cedrick family, my name is Barton Cedrick. Since my dorm room is in front of yours, we will be seeing each other often, so I thought about saying hello to you ." He said.
Although aran wasn't interested in making friends, he felt happy about someone talking to him, without looking down on him.
" Hello, come in, " Aran said with a smile.
As Barton entered aran's dorm, aran told him to sit down.
" I'm sorry, what family are you from again ?" Aran asked.
" I am from the Cedrick family. Don't you know about my family? Our families have a very close relationship! "
" Well, I don't live in the central palace, at the capital. So I don't know a lot about the relationships of the family. but it's nice to see you. "
" Ohh, That's okay brother. We have a very long time to know each other. By the way, why is your cultivation still in the intermediate stage ?" He asked.
Because he had gotten the forty-eighth rank even after having strong cultivation than aran. So wondering about that.
" That's because I couldn't break through from the beginning stage for many years and it's only been two months since I awakened my attributes," Aran replied. He felt nice talking about normal things without someone looking down on him.
" Did you really break through five minor stages in two months?" Barton was shocked since it takes more than six months for most people.
" Well, it was because my cultivation was stuck in the same stage for many years and I also used some cultivation blasting pills. That's it nothing else"
" But still, five minor stages are a lot. How did you fight many beasts, have you learned many skills ?"
" No. Except for some low-ranked sword techniques, I don't know a lot of skills and I only fought first-ranked beasts. What about you ?"
" Only first-ranked beasts? That's interesting! I just fought some third-ranked high-tier beasts and some first-ranked beasts But still, I couldn't get a higher rank than you! "
" That's fine, no one cares about the ranks you get from the entrance exam, you just have to make it through the exam. "
"That's right. Okay, brother, I will meet you later. I also have many things to arrange " Barton said as he got up. Soon he left the room.
After that aran went back to arranging his things, he felt nice about having a normal talk. For a moment he felt good about normally talking instead of overthinking things.