After the morning exercise, Evelyn gathered the knights, the squires, and the servants of the Leonardo Estate to the training hall. Even the mages assigned to maintain the magical barriers in the Leonardo domain were summoned there.
Since almost everyone was gathered, Hannah, the baroness, joined in as well.
The interior of the training hall was already equipped with long tables and chairs, enough to accommodate all the attendees. They all then each grabbed a seat behind the long tables, facing a huge blackboard right in front of the hall.
The arrangement made the training hall looked like a huge classroom. Only for this particular class, the students were a noble, knights, squires, mages, maids and butlers.
Evelyn then entered the hall accompanied by multiple carts which were pulled magically by invisible force, a spell casted by Evelyn.
Each of the cart was carrying dozens of similar-looking thick books.
The young noble went to the front of the blackboard and faced the attendees. She spoke to them.
"'And I will put enmity between you and the woman, between you and her descendant; you shall crush her descendant's heel, and her descendant's heel shall crush your crown.'
"An excerpt from the Book of Edenites, chapter 2, the Day of the Fall. It was a declaration of rivalry by God Einsof between His creations and the Fallen Angel, Lucifer."
Evelyn looked at the people in front of them, making sure they were listening.
"Until the year 969, there are more than 500.000 demonic species recorded to exist in the world of Bara." said Evelyn. "Countless of Einsof's creations have fallen victim to those many demons."
The soldiers, mages, and servants of Leonardo sat there and gulped. Dread filled their mind as they heard the damage the demons had brought to the world. They all wondered whether they would soon be included within those numbers.
Seeing she had captured all of their attention, Evelyn began the class.
"Welcome to your first session on Demonic Studies! In this lecture, you will be studying all the demons that exists in the world." said Evelyn. "The purpose of this study is to make you aware of the danger the demons possess. All so that you can make use of that knowledge for your own survival."
Evelyn looked at the students in front of her. All varied in backgrounds and profession.
"Since this is the first lecture, all of you are gathered together despite your role in the Leonardo Estate." said Evelyn. "But moving forward, each of you will attend the Demonic Studies session in accordance to your profession."
She started pointing to each group of subjects of the Leonardo Estate.
"Knights, squires, and mages will be in one class as part of the Leonardo army. While the servants will be in another group as part of the civilian class.
"We will also open a civilian class to the people residing in the Leonardo domain. There will be no fee charged as all the expenses will be handled by the Leonardo family."
Murmurs filled the hall. This was the first time a noble opened a learning course on demons for both knights and civilians, free of charge at that.
But what was on their mind the most was why Evelyn insisted all of them to learn about demons.
The knights, squires, and mages understood why they had to be there. But the servants felt they had no need to learn about demons as they won't be the ones in the battlefield fighting the vile creatures.
Evelyn could see that the butlers and maids were eager to leave the training hall so they could continue with their work on the estate instead of sitting around, studying, which was already an activity typical for nobles to do.
However, Evelyn had expected to receive this reaction and she was prepared to handle it.