The trio found themselves seated at a corner table for four, while 3 plates were situtated right infront of them. Having no idea what was good in the cafeteria, the group decided to randomly choose what looked to be the most popular among all the stores.
On the plate, was a giant burger. It was a simple burger, with two bread holding the slice of beef in the middle, topped with onions and barbeque sauce.
However, despite the cheap cost of the burger, its size was massive.
"This is 5 credits?! Really?" Lilith exclaimed in a suprised voice as she looked at the burger that was at least 6 inches in radius.
Added on to that, the burger also came with a Large sized soft drink, it was no wonder that it was the most popular choice among all the hungry adventuring students.
"Gluttony....a truly befiting name...." Velerona stared at the burger.
"..." Dominic stared at the burger, wondering why he was eating when he already had breakfast.
"Thanks for the meal!" Lilith dug in as fast as she could. Her fork and knife pierced the giant monstrousity as soon as it came out of her mouth.
"Here" Dominic offered half his burger to the girl who didn't realise that she had already finished her meal.
"Alright, so my name is Velerona, as I had previously stated, I'm a guardian, a sub-class from the warrior class" Velerona said to Dominic.
"Sure" Dominic replied, staring at the Halo shrouded in concealment magic above her head.
"I'm Dominic, a gunslinger, I specialise in using duo pistols, or as they call it, akimbos" Dominic replied, as he slowly ate his half remaining burger.
"And you are?" Dominic looked towards Lilith, who had already finished the remainder of her meal.
"Lithuhtuea ji amh a...."
"Don't talk with your mouth full" Velerona chided her.
Quickly swollowing down the remaining food in her mouth, Lilith took a very long sip on her soft drink, before finally replying.
"Lilith, I'm a socerer" she said.
"So you're like a mage?" Dominic asked. He didn't understand why people had to distinguish between mages, socerer's or witches and wizards.
"S-O-C-E-R-E-R" Lilith spelt her class letter for letter again.
"What's the difference?" Dominic asked, ignorant of the fact that she was triggered.
"....Vel...explain" Lilith looked towards her long time friend, and pouted.
"Well...didn't we all learn this before? You know , in compulsary knowledge class?" Velerona awkwardly started.
"Nope, whatever that is" Dominic replied.
"..."
"Well, you see, mages are people who channel their powers through magic circles and their inner energy they call mana, to repropricate the similiar desired outcome in the form of physical manifestation. Well, I'm pretty sure witches are more of thoese who are the same as mages, but they borrow their power from summoning demons. Wizards are simply the male name for witches. And for socerer's they their powers come from manupilating the energy in the surroudings and rearanging them to form the desired outcome. So, they boast a near limitless amount of spellcast, but the power depends on the situation and place they are in." Velerona summarized.
"Ah, okay so there's a difference." Dominic nodded.
"And also the different classes have a long line of rivary, so its best to be careful" Velerona whispered to him.
"sure sure," Dominic replied nonchalantly.
"And also, are you done?" she asked.
Before he realised, the two of them were waiting for him to finish his meal.
"I actually ate before I came here," Dominic stood up, with the large softdrink in his hands.
His wasted half-half-finished burger laid still in the plate.
"Let's find the classroom?" he asked.
The moment they stood up, the automated nanobots in the air immediately broke down the wasted food to be reused as fertilizers for the plants in the city. It was amazing how technology left not a single trace of waste.
The bins around the city were a scarcity due to this reason, and cleaning bots sweep the city at all times.
"Its still amazing no matter how many times I see it," Dominic commented as he saw the millions of tiny machines fly in and plucked out the scraps bit by bit in little pieces and carry it off.
"Yeah" Lilith and Velerona agreed.
The three made their way out of the cafeteria, as the two made small talk and Dominic walked along behind them.
The school was pretty neat and massive at the same time.
The hallways were long enough that there were petitions around to build escalators on them. However, the school rejected it with the reasoning that it was part of training for their students to remain fit.
The glass window shone below on the field where students were sparing barehanded with each other, in a place where most students would be playing ball on breaks.
Dominic slowly walked along and took a look around.
Somewhere along the line, he got so into the different sceneries around, that the two of them were left behind.
"Wait, slow down!" he heard a voice call out to him.
"?" Dominic turned behind, and saw his two supposed members panting behind him.
"Why did you suddenly walk so fast?!" Velerona complained.
"Why are you so slow?" Dominic replied.
"What?!" the two of them stared at him.
"Fa....I mean yes, I will slow down" Dominic replied.
"Anyways, our classroom, 1-C(?) should be right infront right?" Dominic pointed ahead, as the class tagged 1-D was hung next to the door at where they were.
Students moved about in a black uniform, as a few who found their classrooms quickly entered in relieve.
"..." The two seemed to move on ahead, as they talked to each other once more.
"?" Dominic was confused.
"I guess that means that they heard me?" he guessed.
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Continuing on, Dominic found the classroom's to have way too much space inbetween them. And the classroom's appeared to be airconditioned with a regular size.
As he walked alone, he found the two girls attempting to speed up ahead.
Thus, he followed their pace.
Two rather tired girls entered the classroom 1-C with an exhausted expression. One of the girl's legs appeared to be shaking. The reason for this, was simply that the two had attempted to walk as fast as they could, while maintaining the appearence that they weren't running.
They were trying to take revenge in a sense, leaving a certain person behind in the dust.
But despite that, the target of their revenge followed along almost too easily, and entered right after them.
The trio found themselves to be one of the first few groups to arrive, and the two immediately dropped onto the chairs that were available closest to them.
The room was arranged in groups of 3's where 3 chairs were placed behind a table in a standard row. The class was arranged in a lecture theater style, where there were 3 rows, with the last being the highest. There were 3 tables in each role, aside from the first role with 4.
There were 3 doors placed at the back of the room, leading up to them were the stairs seperating each columm.
A male and female sign hung above the doors at the corners respectively.
Dominic sat down in boredom at the corner seat, as he watched each new group of students enter and leave, some who had entered the wrong class, and some who thought they had entered the wrong class just to enter again.
There was a mix of races as usual, with the majority being humans as usual.
Most of the groups didn't interact with each other and merely kept to their own.
The time hit 9.30, and a dragon-kin entered the room, he was massive, at about 2meters or so in height. Wearing a suit and tie, he was in a sense, pretty well dressed for an adventuring school.
He stood at the podium infront.
"Ahem" with a loud cough he garnered the attention of everyone around.
"As you know, there are 3 doors. The male toilet to the right, the female toilet to the left, and in the middle, we have a special door, this is where most of the lessons will be conducted, not where you are seated now, but beyond that door." he said.
"Now if you would please, follow me" the gentleman dragonkin beckoned.
Beyond the door was a classic training ground as one would expect. It didn't have state of the art facilities and whatnot, but simply a wide open field with lights. Needless to say, it was warm inside. The only source of relieve was the air conditioning that leaked in from the door leading to the classroom.
"Alright now, get away from the damned door" the dragonkin suddenly changed his deamenor, the door slammed shut behind them, and his suit ripped into pieces, showing his muscular body below.
A few students immediately jumped backwards in shock, before regaining their senses.
"All thoese who jumped backwards or moved and are dazed in shock or fear, you guys have supplementary lessons TODAY!" the dragonkin announced, and pointed at every single student who moved or displayed fear.
"But its the first day!" someone argued.
"You die even if its your first time! 1 week of supplementary lessons for you!" the dragonkin immediately rebutted.
"Now then, welcome to 6th District Highschool! For your first lesson, you learn to fight and fear your teachers!" the dragonkin roared.
"Each group will now face me 1 by 1!" the dragonkin commanded.
A spear materialized in his hands, as he established a threatening position.
"Alright, that group over there, with the 3 cowards that jumped back, come at me!" the dragonkin taunted.
Dominic watched, as 3 warrior type guys, who probably signed up together ran towards the dragon wasting their energy with a meaningless battlecry.
All 3 used a sword of the same type, and a similiar style to boot.
"The Shourein sword school will never falter!" they shouted in unison.
"At least their voices are in unison..." Dominic watched as the 3 of them got in each others way and was easily blown away by the dragonkin.
"...pfft" someone from another group laughed.
"That guy there, you who laughed, come here with your group right NOW!" the dragonkin demanded.
"Let's go" the guy said in an arrogant voice.
"Heh, let me roast you with my ultimate magic! Fla-...."
The two other front lines were taken down instantly along with the arrogant sounding mage.
"..."
The surroundings were quiet.
"Come on now, next!" he called out.
"We'll go!" a scrawny looking guy and his members came out infront.
"Heh. A tough guy eh?" the dragonkin smirked.
"Haiya!" the scrawny guy shouted and covered his team in a smoke bomb.
"RUNNNN!" he shouted.
And was knocked down on the ground as the other two team members headed back for the classroom doors.
"Oh shit its locked!" the other two rattled the classroom doors.
And another two bodies hit the floor.
And the dragon kin continued his fights. There were at least 2 groups that had put up a decent fight, managing to injure the dragon kin to some extent.
"Now, the last group..." the dragon kin stared at Dominic's uncaring face.
"..."
"Do you feel no fear in my might?!" the dragon kin roared.
Dominic looked towards the retarded dragon-guy dude thing.
"Is your throat alright? You've been shouting alot..." and responded in due consideration for his throat.
"Heh. Good one" a person pretending to be on the floor chuckled.
The dragon kin made sure he was knocked out with the back-end of his spear.
"Get back!" Velerona warned Dominic, and headed to the front line suddenly equiped in full body armor.
"Nice, so you were buying time for your teammate huh?" the dragon kin remarked.
For a second there, Dominic forgot her name.
"Take this!" the socerer behind shot flames towards the dragonkin teacher.
"However..." the dragon kin found himself having to seriously push back the guardian blocking his way.
"However what? You seem to be having a hard time there" Dominic taunted yet again. It came to him as a habbit of sorts.
Jumping above the guardian, the dragonkin headed for Dominic with the blunt end of his spear.
"Miss" Dominic said, as the spear hit the air, swinging to the left, as he crouched down.
Almost instantly, the guardian rotated inbetween Dominic and the dragon kin, shielding the hit from the spear that instantly dropped downwards when it missed.
Taking out his two trusty plasma pistols, Dominic shot towards the dragonkin who instantly backflipped away.
"Not bad" the dragon kin laughed.
And then, he found himself in a sea of flames. Literally.
Due to the hot tempreature of the room, the socerer, Lilith was able to manupilate it to her favourite element. Sending the flames around the oversized lizardman.
"Sadly, your fun ends here" the dragonkin blew away the fire along with the wood on the ground,creating a giant mass of sawdust in the air.
"HA!" Litlith laughed.
Ever heard of a dust explosion? Its where the rapid combustion that occurs in a confined space like the room causes enormous overpressure to cook up. The conditions needed would be oxygen,ignition,confinement, and a high concentration of the dust in the air, like the sawdust created by the dragonkin's spear.
The final condition was fufilled by the lizard himself, as an explosion shook the entire area.
The dragonkin being the one in it.
"Stop right there!" the explosion was contained by a barrier that suddenly appeared.
From the other side of where the classroom was, another teacher walked in. She was female, had three horns above her head, and a really voupulous body to boot.
"You could have accidently killed the students pretending to be unconscious on the ground young girl!" and began to chide Lilith.
"..."
"Ah....Headmaster..." the dragon kin who looks to be half-fine came out of the explosion.
"Mr Belvonet, how many times must I tell you not to take the introduction greeting too far?" the really sexy demoness scolded him.
Dominic stared at her, rather blatantly, or more accurately, the 6 wings behind her back. They were once again concealed in magic.
"What's a high devil doing in the mortal world?" Dominic wondered. Then again, there were gods walking around as well...
The difference between demons and devils were their wings. Lower devils have red skin and no wings nor horns, while demons have horns between 1 or 2 or the strongest with 3. Average devils have red skin, and 2 wings along with 2 horns. Higher devils have a changable skin color as well as 3 horns and the number of wings varies with their power. And yes, devils and vampires are almost alike, having only to be able to be put to death with a wooden stake in their heart.
"What are you looking at?" Velerona nudged Dominic who was lost in his own thought.
"? Oh the new sexy headmaster that appeared" he replied.
"I'll take that as a compliment," the headmaster who overheard him answered.
"Well it is, isn't it?" Dominic replied.
"..."
"..."
Everyone just looked at him.
"What you looking at me for?" Dominic replied to their emotionless stares.
A few hours later...
With that, concluded the first class.
"Class continues after lunch! We will be working on the different strategies, your group must present your own unique strategy by the end of the semester! It counts as 50% of your overall grade for the year!" the dragonkin announced after everyone was patched up by a medical team who appeared almost immediately after the mess.
"And also, Dominic, Velerona and Lilith please report to the headmasters office" the dragonkin teacher(Belvonet) added on.
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Another few hours later...
"..."
"..."
"Whatever" a certain someone replied.
"Do you really understand?" the headmaster was staring at a certain trio.
"Yeah yeah." Dominic replied.
Honestly, he forgot the preaching completely already.
"The two of you who looks remorseful please go out." the headmaster pointed to the exit, stopping Dominic when he tried.
"So what exactly did you do wrong? May you tell me?" the headmaster asked once again.
"Attend school?"Dominic replied hopefully.
"No wait...what?" the headmaster stared at him.
"Ok, so we shouldn't have caused that dust explosion and since its a group thingy we are all punished right? yada yada whatever" Dominic replied.
"And?" the headmaster stared at him.
"what?" Dominic replied.
"GOING FOR LUNCH INSTEAD OF COMMING TO MY OFFICE FORCING ME TO WASTE MY BREAK!" the headmaster shouted.
"Stop whining, I was hungry as well" Dominic replied.
"Do you want to be expelled on the first day?" the headmaster looked at him.
"Are you a priest or a devil, yeah I'm sorry and all so I'm going" Dominic walked through the headmaster office door.
Meanwhile, the headmaster sat in silence.
"Did he say devil? Was it a mistake?What if he knows?" and was deep in thought.