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"Hey, why are you dressed as a girl?" Abby couldn't hold back. She was really interested in his reasoning.
"Real men wear skirts!" Marrissa stood up and flexed his muscles, which looked very dangerous with how high skirt skirt rose in the process.
"Really?" Jack asked in confusion. Leo facepalmed and shouted at the same time as the girls. "No!"
"Ah. Oh! Ok..." Jack scratched his head and blushed. His friend, Billy, was having a hard time holding back his laughter. His shoulders were shaking, and his face was red.
"Hahaha! Your friend is an amusing one! Hahaha!" Leo was once more suffering from the back slaps Marrissa was giving him. "Anyway, tell me how did you know who would win or loose?"
This was a very important question for Marrissa. He had to know how Leo did it so he could try to win his Academy Points back. He had just lost half of what he had with these two matches.
'Just tell him you need to pay attention to the small changes in a monsters body and look at how the Card Master interacts with their monsters. These subtle things can be win or lose for the Card Master.'
'Thanks.' Leo was glad Liana spoke up, or he would not have been able to explain it since he hardly understood it himself. He quickly explained it to Marrissa, who nodded his head in understanding. "I see! I see! I should have been doing that! I am so stupid! All my Academy Points!"
"Academy Points?" Leo asked curiously. He had never heard of such a thing.
"You all are new, right? Then, as your upperclassman I should do my duty and give you an explanation. Academy Points are gained by turning in dungeon loot. You all should know that Card Masters dive into dungeons and kill other monsters. Sometimes even capturing them. You have two choices when a card appears. You can either enter the Chaotic Realm or store it away to sell later. Other things can be dropped or found as well. This includes items your cards can eat to grow in strength and evolve. Based on the path you have chosen for evolution, your card will need a variety of items.
"This is where Academy Points come in. Items or cards you do not need can be turned over to the Academy for Academy Points. You can also gain them by fulfilling requests as well from the Academy request board. The points are very important to new Card Masters like us. So get as many as you can." Leo was not so much worried about Academy Points but the need for money. So hearing the Academy only gave you points instead of gold did not sit well with him.
"Can you turn these points into money?" Leo asked. He felt slightly embarrassed to ask such a question, but he had to know. Or else he would need to figure out where to sell his items outside the Academy.
"You can! You can sell them to other students. The richer students will be more than happy to buy the points for five silver per point. It's how some students send money back home since the price for a point is much higher than the amount you would get for selling the items outside the Academy. This is because the items you can buy with points are much higher grade.
"If you wanted the same rank of an item outside, you would need to search auctions. So don't be afraid to sell those points if you do not need them right away. But remember to always keep in mind if you wish to rank up quickly you will need many points."
Leo let out a relaxed sigh. He was glad to know that he would still be able to sell his points. If he can gain enough gold, he might be able to quickly buy a place for his sister and mother here in the capital.
"Anyway, Good luck to you all. I need to go dive in to the dungeon. I lost quite a bit today." Marrissa stood up and only now did everyone realize the color of his armband. 'Blue…' Leo was surprised. He never expected to meet a B-rank Card Master.
They watched as Marrissa waved at them and walked away, his skirt swaying gently as he did. Until a breeze blew by, causing his skirt to rise up higher than one would want, only to see… "Meow… Ouch!"
Leo turned and looked at Bella, who was ruthlessly pinching his side, with an aggrieved expression. 'Why was she being so mean!?'
Bella's cheeks were puffed out with a shade of pink to them as she twisted Leo's skin mercilessly. 'How can he say that! I don't care if Marrissa was wearing the same underwear as me!'
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In another part of the Academy, inside a dorm room pillows and other items were being tossed around the room while another young man hid in the bathroom. Harry was seething with anger. The more he thought about how he had been humiliated by a commoner, the angrier he got. 'How dare he! How dare he! He humiliated me and even rubbed in the fact that he could easily hold the Princess's hand!'
The more he thought about it, the more he wanted to kill the commoner. He had worked so hard to try to win the Princess over and now some commoner ruined it all! 'I just needed to get the Princess alone. No one would have made an issue of it if she had slept with a Marquis's son.'
He bit the tips of his fingers. He knew right now that the commoner was under the protection of those three. He had no idea how the commoner even got himself ingrained with them. The three beauties of the kingdom, each with their own unique beauty. He, too, wished to covet them all, but he knew it would never work. So he settled for the Princess. The one with the highest status, but now… "I will just need to see which classes he has. Once I figure this out, my people can take care of him. As long as I don't touch him or his family personally…"
A scheming smile formed on Harry's lips. He would not do anything himself. He never intended to anyway. A commoner was just that, a commoner. They were just tools to be used and tossed aside like garbage. Just like all the girls he has had... "Let's see how long he can last here at the Academy…"