Day 8 – Valeria has to go to the royal academy and for this the servants had prepared everything for the departure and arrival of the young master, but, although he insisted that it was not necessary, the servants ignored his request because Mrs. Hustran had asked that Preparations are made for your child's first day at the academy.
Erick continued with his etiquette classes 12 hours a day and despite that the brothers took a moment to talk, they were on a balcony of the mansion.
∎ Frederick: Brother, how lucky you are, you don't have to go through studies again.
∎ Verónica: Haber, for you it should be simple, the only thing that can be complicated is history, from what I have seen mathematics and science are not very developed, and in fact you could be a doctor in this world.
∎ Frederick: I could never be a doctor, our family is a military one, even you must know how to handle a weapon.
∎ Veronica: I doubt this body has ever touched a gun in its life, it's not even athletic.
∎ Frederick: When we arrived, they made me practice fencing and my body moved on its own, as if I remembered the movements.
∎ Verónica: I suppose the only thing I have not lost is sociability, it is easier and more comfortable for me to have a conversation with others, even though just today I had to share a meeting between women.
∎ Frederick: I hope it goes well for you little brother, and please don't say something that could make you enemies, it's the least we need right now.
∎ Verónica: I will try, but I don't promise anything, in fact if I succeed it will be a milestone for me since I have never gotten along with any woman.
∎ Frederick: So that's why you've never had a girlfriend, but you might get a few friends now that you're a woman, and also a boyfriend you like.
∎ Verónica: Don't even say it as a joke, our goal is to survive and then find a way to return to the world where we came from.
∎ Frederick: Yes, that's our priority, I guess...
There was silence for 5 seconds, not one dared to break it until…
⨀ Butler: Young Frederick, your carriage is ready, have your backpack, there you have everything you need for your first day of school.
∎ Frederick: Thanks Stuart, see you sister, I hope you enjoy your meeting with your friends.
⨀ Butler: Don't worry, Miss Veronica, your brother is strong and intelligent, he will surely have fun and make many friends on the first day.
Valeria and the butler leave and leave Erick alone, Erick was not worried about his sister, he trusted that she would manage on her first day, what really worried him were the last words she had answered, because Erick suspected that His sister wanted to stay in this world after surviving the destiny already written.
In the carriage where Valeria was riding, there was a flag on top and the symbol of the archduchy was sewn into it. It had a sword, shield and bow which represented military power. Valeria knew that this would give her a luxurious entrance, as if she were going to her classes in a limousine, but everyone who attends the royal academy is the son of influential feudal lords.
Butler: I see you thoughtful, young Frederick.
∎ Frederick: Don't worry Stuart, I'm fine, I'm not worried about my studies.
Butler: Maybe, but you have always wanted to have someone to play with, in the academy there are the children of the duchies and counties subordinate to the Hustran, they must have the same hobbies and pastimes as yours so I think you will be able to make many friends .
∎ Frederick: I need more than just friends to hang out with, although it wouldn't hurt to know someone I trust.
The butler did not ask again, in his eyes the young son of the archdukes was not convinced of looking for friends if they were not at least archdukes, he seems to only want people of status is what Stuart thought, but he could not be more wrong since he only He wanted to have contact with people who could help him defend the northern territory.
Upon arriving at their destination, the butler took his things down to his bedroom where he would stay and Valeria settled into her room. She decided not to bring any servant to the academy. Mrs. Hustran had asked that she bring at least one, but she refused. He denied saying that he would try to be self-sufficient, which Mr. Hustran proudly supported.
In this academy, students will live in separate residences according to status and will only be able to go home on weekends, but they can stay if they wish.
The classes began with theoretical courses at 10:00 until 13:00, everyone had 4 hours free until 17:00, when the practical classes began and ended at 20:00.
The students decide where to have lunch, the academy had a dining room that all students could access without having to wait in long lines or pay, they could also cook their own food or bring food from outside the academy (this was done by the servants), and how Valeria had gone to the academy without servants, she had to go to the dining room.
In this academy there are 3 types of students, each one applies to one of the 3 forces of the kingdom (military, magical and technological). Each student takes different theoretical courses but the same practical ones, in addition to having a different uniform; cream for the military, blue for the wizards and gray for the technology.
As classes had already started, Valeria had to join her already formed class. Being in the body of the son of an archduke, she was placed in the class with the highest status and academic level.
An employee from the royal academy came to take Valeria to her class, the butler left in the carriage once he left everything ready. Valeria was curious to meet her teacher and classmates since in her previous life her classmates were very close and achieved many academic achievements.
Once at the door of the classroom the employee knocked on the door and the teacher opened it. He was a middle-aged man wearing a green tunic with blue stripes and a cylinder-shaped cap of the same design as the tunic.
⨀ Employee: Good morning, Professor Graten, this is the student who will join your classroom for extraordinary matters.
⨀ Professor Graten: Good morning, young Frederick, let me tell you that I refused to let you join this class without having passed an exam, but since you are Tyron Hustran's son they allowed it, in any case I see that you cannot adapt and continue the rhythm I will ask to be changed to a room of his academic level.
∎ Frederick: No problem for me, it wouldn't be fun if it weren't that way.
Professor Graten: Fun? Studying is not a game but the duty of the nobles towards the king.
∎ Frederick: I don't do it for the king, I do it because learning something new is fun.
Hearing his young student's words made the professor smile.
⨀ Professor Graten: I hope they are consistent with your words, well come in, I'll introduce you to the class.
⨀ Employee: I ask permission to leave.
⨀ Professor Graten: Thank you for bringing young Hustran, you can leave.
The room inside was like an auditorium, the seats were distributed so that everyone had a very clear view of the teacher, although there were plenty of chairs because there were not many students, the students were of different ages and there was no separation by age only by ability.
Valeria entered with the teacher and stood next to him before he introduced him to the class.
⨀ Professor Graten: Well, as I had already told you, today a new student joins our class, I present to you the son of Archduke Hustran, Frederick Hustran.
The students did not look surprised or interested in the presentation, the teacher selected a seat for Valeria to sit and begin her classes.
Professor Graten's classes were in Basic Sciences (Mathematics, Physics and alchemy). The students paid little or no attention to his classes, but the teacher did not reprimand them because he did not have the status to do so.
After the theoretical classes, the students went their own way, Valeria decided to go to the academy's dining room, there she found a large dining room with very luxurious shared seats, there was practically no queue and a great variety of dishes to choose from. , those in line were servants and the students waited at the tables.
Valeria had no problems because she was the one who was going to stand in line, so she started to stand in line and the servants who were there began to look at her in surprise. A student is standing in line, they commented, but Valeria didn't care about this and took her food to a table. that was empty.
Since he had until 5:00 p.m., he decided to go to the academy library. There he saw several Technology and Magic students, but none of them were from the military force .
⨀ Librarian: Are you lost? The practice room is in the building next door.
∎ Frederick: No, he's coming to read some books.
⨀ Librarian: Well then, tell me what kind of books you are interested in and I will bring them to you for you to choose from.
The books he chose to read were about magical concepts and technological tools, in which they explained how magic worked in this world and how humans accessed them through a connection or tool.
Valeria stayed in the library until 4:30 p.m., at this time she went to her practical classes, these were in a coliseum and consisted of facing students from different classes, there was a scoreboard with the 3 symbols of the forces where they were counted. the confrontations won by each faction, the military were at a disadvantage compared to the others and those with the most points were the magicians, this scoreboard is reset every month.
Matchup scoreboard:
//////////////MILITARY FORCE/////////////////
0 MATCHES WON
//////////////MAGICAL FORCE/////////////////
25 MATCHES WON
/////////TECHNOLOGICAL FORCE///////////
15 MATCHES WON
The confrontations are:
Individual: 1 vs 1 duel between the best in the classes.
Groups: 5 vs 5 duel between the 5 best after the best.
By objectives: Simulation of a mission such as; recover objective, jump-defense and run to the objective.
All these scenarios were recreated with magic in the arena of the academy coliseum, the students wore medallions that protected them from fatal blows and teleported them out of the arena.
When Valeria entered the coliseum arena, her classmates were there. They had already selected who would participate, so she couldn't intervene and just watch in the stands. The audience was mainly students from the magic and technology classes, there wasn't a single one. military class student.
In the arena there were 3 teachers, one from each Force, Valeria realized that the teacher of the magical Force was Gutts, her brother's fiancé, and he had already seen him and was greeting him, Valeria returned the greeting, when the lessons were over. In practical classes, the confrontation score was counted and updated, and this was:
Matchup scoreboard:
//////////////MILITARY FORCE/////////////////
0 MATCHES WON
//////////////MAGICAL FORCE/////////////////
28 MATCHES WON
/////////TECHNOLOGICAL FORCE///////////
17 MATCHES WON
The Military Force students still couldn't score a single point and Valeria realized why after seeing the confrontations.
Firstly, they do not take into account the abilities of others and act like barbarians.
2nd they only know how to use a weapon and do not change as necessary.
3rd there is no teamwork.
Valeria was thinking of retiring to her room just when she meets Gutts.
⨀ Gutts: Good evening, Frederick, right? I would like to talk to you, can I?
∎ Frederick: Of course you can, after all you are my sister's fiancé.
⨀ Gutts: It's just who I wanted to ask you, how is she feeling?
∎ Frederick: my sister is happy, she enjoys her days meeting with her friends and reading books in the library.
⨀ Gutts: Hasn't he told you about me or our engagement?
∎ Frederick: No, now that you mention it, she receives letters from someone and responds to the letter instantly.
⨀ Gutts: So he's in contact with someone else, do you know who it could be?
∎ Frederick: I thought it was you, but since you don't seem to know, I think you must be the son of some duke or earl from a collateral line of our family.
⨀ Gutts: It seems strange to me, according to the rumors she would only focus on wealthy people with similar or greater status, but I suppose they are rumors for a reason. Leaving that aside, your way of speaking seems strange to me, you are very correct and use complex terms for a 5-year-old child.
∎ Frederick: My sister taught me those terms and thanks to her I am good with the sword and the bow.
Valeria lied about a lot of things in this conversation because she wanted Gutts to become even more interested in his sister.
⨀ Gutts: Wow, I didn't know that my fiancee was a good teacher, maybe I should visit her to see it with my own eyes.
∎ Frederick: See you young Gutts, I have to go to my room.
⨀ Gutts: Be careful and if you have any questions you can come ask me.
Valeria was heading to her room, but on the way she met her classmates.
⨀ Partner 1: Hey, your little one, we need to talk for a moment.
⨀ Partner 2: Don't worry, we won't do anything to you.
∎ Frederick: Please be brief, I have things to do.
⨀ Classmate 1: Today the teacher introduces you so now we will introduce ourselves, my name is Tristán Holder, son of your mother's brother and he is...
⨀ Partner 2: Drake Healling, son of your father's brother.
⨀ Tristán: And the others are…
Tristán introduced all the students in the classroom, there were a total of 25 students including Frederick (to know all the names and relationships between the family members, see the note at the end of this chapter).
⨀ Tristán: You see the reason we wanted to talk is to clarify the reason why we left you out, you see it takes 24 people to participate in the practical classes so we wanted to apologize to you.
⨀ Drake: We also considered that you were too young to participate, most of those who participate are between 12 and 18 years old.
∎ Frederick: Don't worry, I understand your reasons, but if you allow me to tell you my opinion about your participation in today's practice as payment for your absence, I will pretend that nothing happened.
⨀ Tristán: Well, go ahead, we have already received a lot of criticism and I don't think yours will affect us.
⨀ Drake: I agree, you can say whatever you think.
∎ Frederick: Then I'll be direct, your efforts are useless, what's more, are you giving everything you have? They don't know how to face their enemies, they don't have good teamwork and they can't even use different weapons.
⨀ Tristán: Now it's my turn to respond, what solution do you propose?
⨀ Drake: All those who have criticized us only know how to say that we are doing it wrong and we know it, but they don't give us solutions, so...
∎ Frederick: Pay attention to Professor Graten's class.
⨀ Drake: How do you think that listening to his classes could…
⨀ Tristán: Drake wait, let him explain to us how that could help us.
Valeria explained to her classmates how the teacher's classes could be useful for practical classes. Valeria's personal explanation is as follows:
1.- Each individual has magic in their body and they can control it at will with training, but those who have strong enough control to use magic external to their body are called magicians.
2.- If you are not a magician you can develop magic in your body and be able to transfer it to an object that you touch, this is what the Military Forces do.
3.- The magic in your body contains all the elements, that is, you can use the 3 primary elements, magicians can only use one element for external magic.
∎ Frederick: They only care about handling the sword well, but all the guards in my mansion can transfer their internal magic to their weapons. If they can't understand how to do it, it's because they never paid attention to classes.
In this world, physics classes explain how magic works in bodies, mathematics is a tool to quantify magic, and alchemy is used for the application of magic.
⨀ Drake: It's easy to say, but maybe you can...
∎ Frederick: Yes I can.
⨀ Tristan: Prove it.
∎ Frederick: I need something that can be used as a sword.
Drake handed her a long, thin wooden stick that was used to make arrows, Valeria grabbed one end and said: "fire." The sword began to radiate heat and generate steam until it turned into a flame; the stick did not burn, even though the temperature continued to increase.
∎ Frederick: If they had used this in their confrontation they could have even won a duel.
⨀ Drake: You convinced me, now tell me, do you think we have the ability to win, even if we learn what you're telling us?
∎ Frederick: They have the ability, but not the confidence and that is why they have lost all the confrontations, they go without a plan, achieving a crushing defeat.
⨀ Tristán: Are you really just a child? You seem like someone who reads a lot for your age.
∎ Frederick: They usually tell me that.
⨀ Drake: Whether he is a genius or an old man in a child's body, we just have to do what he tells us and expect results.
Valeria's classmates say goodbye and each one goes to her room, Valeria also goes to her room to rest for tomorrow.
At the Hustran mansion an unexpected letter arrives for the lords and Erick. It was a black letter with yellow embroidery that arrived in Tyron's hands, which had his daughter as the sender.
⨀ Tyron: Call Veronica, she has a lot to explain.
⨀ Celestine: Don't go blaming our daughter, just like that, this could be the work of the prince himself.
The servants left the living room of the mansion and sent for the archduke's daughter.
The butler Stuart is the first to arrive at Erick's room and knocks on the door.
⨀ Butler: Miss Veronica, sorry for interrupting your rest, but Mr. and Mrs. need you urgently.
∎ Veronica: Don't worry Stuart, I wasn't sleeping yet, where are my parents? And why do they need me?
⨀ Butler: They are in the living room and they need you to clarify a letter that has arrived to you from the palace.
Erick, confused, goes down to where the gentlemen are waiting for him. Once he knocks on the living room door, Mr. Hustran allows him to enter.
⨀ Tyron: Sit down my daughter, we have to talk.
Erick sat on the couch in front of his father and mother and before he could say anything.
⨀ Tyron: A letter has just arrived, it is an invitation to the royal palace and it is from the prince Damián.
⨀ Celestine: Your father wanted to know if you have had any communication with this prince after the princess's party.
∎ Verónica: Nothing to do with it, I have only attended women-only parties and no man has been writing to me.
⨀ Tyron: There is my daughter, this prince has gotten into every problem, he has convinced every fiancé to leave their engagement and go with him and when they do, he leaves them or abandons them.
⨀ Celestine: Your cousin was a victim of them, she began to secretly receive letters from the prince, until he convinced her to leave Mr. Bernardo.
∎ Veronica: Don't worry, I haven't received a single letter from the prince before, this would be the first.
⨀ Tyron: I'm glad to hear that, if you were to fall into his clutches we would have big problems, first with Archduke Kristtan and second with the prince, who if I find out that he hurt you will face my sword.
∎ Veronica: Father, speaking about Duke Kristtan, I was thinking about the engagement and I came to the conclusion that I am still not sure about my marriage.
⨀ Tyron: What a bad joke, now is not the time to talk about your engagement but rather how we will respond to that letter.
∎ Verónica: I have to go, if I said that I was sick and couldn't go, I would simply postpone the meeting until I go and since he is the king's son we can't do anything to avoid it so the best thing would be to go personally to his invitation.
⨀ Celestine: Our daughter is right Tyron, she has to go, but I will only let you go if you bring a companion to the meeting, I was thinking about Gutts, but he is teaching at the academy and I don't want to bother him so you will take Jonathan Holder, one of my trusted gentlemen.
⨀ Tyron: I think it's a good idea, don't separate yourself from him, much less in the presence of the prince, I will give him strict orders not to allow the prince to lay a single finger on you.
∎ Veronica: You shouldn't worry about me, don't forget that I'm a Hustran and I can defend myself.
⨀ Tyron: That's precisely why you're going with Jonathan.
By this Tyron meant that Erick could defeat the prince without problems and the reason why Jonathan would accompany him is to prevent his daughter from killing the prince.
The conversation that began as serious ended as a joke between father and daughter. Erick was still confused by the prince's letter and his intentions with the archduke's daughter, who was already engaged, but he decided to wait until he had it in front of him so that the same author of the unknowns answered their questions.
On the other hand, Valeria was already asleep at the academy, she had a long job ahead of her before graduating, but she has already had a small advance with her classmates who seemed to be individualistic, but turned out to be very competitive.
End of day 8.