Chapter 12 - Lots of scheming minds surface!
"Hmm." An instructor uttered.
He then asked with a certain expression on his face, "What family are you from?"
"I am from the Gaelvenmore family." Glade calmly answered.
Once he said that, the eyes of all the instructors shone with massive awe. So, one of the heirs to the vast Gaelvenmore empire was actually standing right before them? They couldn't believe it. Then they suddenly felt like summoning whoever registered his name during enrolment and never told them that a kid from the mighty, Gelthemore business empire had chosen their academy to study and obtain Blessings.
"Well, you coming from the Gaelvenmore family doesn't give you the right to vandalize school property. It's wrong. So, you will be definitely punished for it." An instructor said while the others nodded their heads in agreement.
"Alright. I will accept whatever punishment you give me." Glade said without batting an eye.
"Good. You can return to your classroom. We'll call for you later." A female instructor suddenly said while Glade nodded his head and immediately turned around, heading back to their large classroom.
Once he got there—now seated on his chair, he suddenly developed a certain expression on his face.
He recalled being able to hear the faintest whispers of people from about thirty to sixty feet away, which actually sounded like loud, eardrum-shattering booms in his head.
The nearly-inaudible whispers from shocking distances, as well as numerous other sounds that formed an intensely disorienting cacophony, had continuously rang in his ears like massive, powerful sound instruments—such as colossal sound cannons, only stood a few centimeters away from him, their barrels targeted at his two ears.
Understanding that it was a Blessing—Great-Interstellar-Distance Sound Perception Amplification, which could also be referred to as vast godlike hearing and would effortlessly enable him to listen to sounds from really great distances—like leaves falling to the ground in a particular nation that was four hundred and eighty-nine nations away from his, Glade tried to unexpectedly eavesdrop on what the instructors were saying about him in the staff room.
As soon as he thought of using that Blessing, he began to hear really loud booming sounds that rang in his ears, causing him tremendous pain.
His eardrums couldn't accommodate the extremely loud sounds that blasted into his ears from every corner of the region. All sorts of sounds—chiming, clapping, clinking, pealing, talking, shouting, screeching, shrieking, sensuously moaning, groaning, grunting, honking, splattering, and so on; like a thousand others, boomed inside his ears like they were furious, sound-based attacks continuously directed at him by an unseen being who could control and manipulate sound waves.
'Arrggghhhhh!' He groaned painfully within himself and immediately ordered the thing to stop, that was after trying to endure for more than ten seconds.
Once it stopped, he felt relieved. But the intense, savagely hammering headache caused by the sounds that wanted to seemingly split his head open, didn't stop. It continued to hammer away like it was on a mission to crack his head open.
'Well, I gotta train the Blessing first. Seems like it is going to be a really wild one to tame and bring under my control.' Glade said and shook his head.
This particular Blessing would surely give him constant future headaches when trying to effectively and efficiently use it. So he thought before deeply exhaling with a lamentable expression setting on his face.
Not long, a teacher came to class to address the students, Glade especially.
He then said with a certain look on his face once he turned his head to face Glade who was confidently seated, "Glade, after sending a transmission of all that you told us to the Council, it has been determined by them that whether or not you are from the richest family in the nation, you can't remain in the school premises."
"It won't be tolerated from anyone by them, irregardless of status or hierarchical rank. So, on that note, you are expelled."
"You are to pack your things and immediately leave the school premises, or if you stay more than three minutes longer, you will be severely punished by an elder from the council who is currently monitoring your movement. So, I will urge you to pack your things and immediately leave. That's all."
Once the instructor said that, he turned around to leave, not even glancing at Glade. While Glade who already knew the outcome—conclusively suggested by more than a thousand envisioned, perceived-reality scenarios that played out in his head, simply produced a bright knowing smile on his face and stood to his feet.
Actually, before the teacher would come in to address him about his immediate expulsion from the school surroundings, he had already packed his things and was ready to leave.
So, immediately the instructor finished talking, he carried his bags and walked out like a young, nonchalant boss, shocking the teacher immensely.
The teacher couldn't believe that Glade would leave just like that. He even seemed excited. Then he began to feel that perhaps Glade did that to the restroom mirror—vandalizing it, so that he would be evicted from the school.
But, what sense was in that? He wouldn't be able to attend other schools since his name had been tagged with Property Vandalizer by an elder from the council, just so that his enrollment applications into other institutions would be brutally declined or rejected. As it is, his journey to obtaining more Blessings as an already-blessed individual was over.
He couldn't help but shake his head in massive pity as Glade passed by his side, heading for the door to leave the classroom.
As for his classmates, when they heard that Glade was from the richest family in the nation, before hearing the verdict that was pronounced upon him, couldn't help but have their eyes glitter in awe. They couldn't believe what they just heard. But, they heard right. Beside, the teacher wouldn't be joking.
"Richest family? That's great. But his future is already destroyed. He wouldn't be able to stand up to us in the future who would have been imbued with two to three more Blessings. What a shame. Well, I don't pity him. You do stupid things, you get stupid results." One said and shook his head in great pity for Glade.
As for many others, upon hearing what the teacher said, had their eyes shine brilliantly with greed, before all sorts of wicked and really devious schemes and machinations began to take place in their heads.
Now, they saw Glade as a walking, massive moneybag who they would viciously oppress and brutally force to constantly give them overly large sums of monies.
Through him, they would quickly obtain their financial breakthroughs, becoming really rich and not having to depend anymore on their astute and calculating parents for tremendously heavy sums of money to either kickstart or maintain their former excessively lavish and extravagant lifestyles, which they also planned to turn up by many notches!