I give the man my ring of questionable worth and he places it into the magic item. After some time, he gives me back the ring and tells me that I’m free to go.

I walk into the academy, knowing and feeling pride that I am probably the first person to get into the academy illegally. But who else would have the great skill to beat a wizard all by their lonesome and then think of an ingenious plan to sneak by the academy's miserable defenses. Truly I am the smartest person in this backwater world.

Now there should be some sort of, yearly speech that the headmaster does for the new first years. It's some sort of tradition for the current headmaster to give a speech about hope and the god of knowledge, or whatever. The point is that I’m going to use it to bump into Jeldard.

I just need to find where it is.

I would assume it would be at the head building, luckily I know where the head building is located, thanks to the info.

Heading into the building, I see a lot more people. Most of them are going in one general direction, I blend into the sea of dimwits and follow the flow of movement.

After a while, I am led to an area that looks like some sort of stadiom. There are seats arranged in the stadium and plenty of people already seem to be sitting. I head to the seats reserved for the second years and try to find where the most far from the speaking stand yet list conspicuous seat would be.

Finally, I decide on the seat that is on the second to last row and one in from the right.

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After everyone took their seats the headmaster finally appeared. Literally, he just teleported in out of nowhere. The first years the gap-toothed idiots that they are, looked shocked and amazed at the site of such great magic.

After which, the headmaster proceeds to deliver a painfully boring and clichéd speech about hope and responsibility. He even managed to fit in friendship in those long and mind-numbing sentences of his, and of course, let’s not forget the great god of knowledge, after all, he mentions them in every single sentence.

Looking around I am annoyed to see the idiots of this academy eating up these sad excuse of a speech that's dribbling out of the headmaster's mouth. Truly just a giant herd of brain-dead sheep.

As the speech ended everyone started to clap. I painfully joined in to not stick out, it is truly a crime that I am forced to clap to this nonsense, but alas I can’t get caught because of a silly reason as not clapping.

After the clapping ceased the headmaster teleported away, probably making more crimes against humanity in the forearm of his putrid speeches.

After the headmaster teleported away everyone started to get up and leave. Looking through the first years I found Jeldard, he isn’t hard to find, he strikes out like a sore thumb.

Looking at his face I smile and cry a little inside because my face looks indistinguishable from his, it seems I’m a bit higher than him and our eye colors differ, but that’s all

I don’t approach for now, I just follow behind him. As he is about to reach the exit of the main building. A trio of guys dressed in green robes block his way, who will henceforth be known as dimwits number 1 through 3.

Dimwit number 1 sead ” Well, if it isn’t Jeldard Ustos, buddy how have you been?!”. “Yeah, Jeldard how have you been? Why didn’t you come to find us?” added dimwit number 3.

“Umm you know, I was just about to go– ”, “You should come with us, let's spend some time together like the old times.” cut in dimwit number 2 as he put one of his hands on Ustoses shoulder.

The dimwit trio pulled Ustos along with them, well acting all cushy with him. I followed along hoping to find a chance to make a good impression on Ustos.

Eventually, they made it to a secluded part of the academy. Where none could be seen. I hid behind a tree, not being noticed by anyone.

One of the dimwits I recognized by the voice to be number two says “So Ustos, what are you doing here?”. Ustos with a scared voice answers “w–what?”.“because the last time I saw you I remember saying that if I ever saw your disgusting face again I would beat the shit out of you.”. “U–uhh”, “so what the fuck are you doing here!”.

Ustos is so scared he can’t even answer. “You comin' pease of scum!” number two yells as he delivers a fist straight into Ustoses stomach.