knock knock knock

The setting of Zack's room sounded incessant from outside.

Hearing this, Zack's eyes slowly opened looking around confused by not recognizing where he was.

"Who is there?" he asked unconsciously.

“Lord Hero, I am one of the palace maids. They have asked me to take you to the dining room for breakfast"

Memories of yesterday began to flow into Zack's mind one after another. After a moment Zack went to the door and said:

"Wait a minute, I'm going out now"

Zack got up from the bed and stretched out his body.

The room where he was was nothing special, it could be said that it only had the essentials. The only furniture in the room was a small bed and a small desk with a chair next to it.

Still, Zack knew he couldn't ask for more. Currently, he and his companions are at the mercy of their kidnapp-I mean, summoners. It is best to do what they say for now.

When Zack left the room, the maid who was waiting for him greeted him wit a bow and began to lead the way.

In a few minutes, they reached the dining room.

Unlike the central dining room in the castle, the dining room in the wizard building was much smaller. Zack didn't think this was the main dining room, the reason being that there were only a few maids and their companions who had acquired magic classes, except for Seto and his Sage class.

Zack looked at the three people who were sitting while he approached the table. The food on the table was of a lesser quality than what we were served at the banquet, which means it has less seasoning, which means it is edible.

Austin seemed completely out of his element as he focused solely on filling his stomach. His other two classmates were those who possessed the Shaman and Magic Tailor classes: Daigo Shun and Endou Miyu.

Shun is a boy with short hair and a thin figure, in school, he belonged to the geek group; Miyu has pale skin and long hair, and he belonged to the girl group led by Airi.

Shun's family runs a supermarket chain across the country, while Miyu's family runs a metallurgical factory.

None of the people at the table were familiar with the others, they belonged to different groups and their family businesses didn't collaborate on anything so they barely knew each other.

Except for the sound of chewing food, neither of them talked about anything at breakfast.

Little by little, each one finished what they had on their plates. Unlike yesterday's banquet, this breakfast served no purpose other than filling their stomachs.

Once the four of them finished eating, one of the servants approached and motioned for them to follow her while the rest of the servants began to clear the table.

Austin tried to chat with the maid, but all he got were respectful retorts. It was obviously not the answer he wanted to get. Even so, this was not totally useless, at least Zack and the others were able to obtain some information.

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The maid, whose name was Amy, told them that they are currently in the capital of the Parmece kingdom, Parma.

Amy was born into a small merchant family in the capital. When Amy turned fifteen she went to serve a noble house as a servant, by chance at one of the parties organized by that nobleman she managed to impress a palace lady. The next day she was transferred to serve in the castle.

Amy's story ended there, but there is a detail of that story that doesn't make sense, why is Amy here and not serving that girl from her story?

Although Zack listened carefully to her story, he couldn't help feeling that the nobles traded her off as if she were a toy.

Zack can get an idea of what happened next; Amy served that lady she was talking about as one of her personal servants. However, as time went by, that noblewoman got bored with her company and decided that she no longer wanted her by her side. Although she had already gotten tired of her, she didn't want someone else to play with her so he decided to send her with her common servants.

It was just a guess and there was no proof, but Zack felt that it was more or less the truth. Even if she wasn't, the mere fact that a noble with just a few words could make Amy leave everything behind to come to serve here on a whim made Zack take a closer look at the tremendous power nobles have over the life of the people. common people.

Zack remained silent the whole way and shortly after they arrived in front of a large door that had two servants on either side.

Amy approached one of her servants who nodded her head and then directed her gaze to the four students:

"Please come with me, the wizard is waiting for you"

The maid opened the door and entered the room with Zack and the others while Amy and the other maid stayed outside.

The room they entered was poorly decorated, it only had a few tables and some chairs inside. To Zack, this room couldn't help but remind him of a classroom.

At the far end of the room was a man dressed in a purple robe who was reading a book while he was sitting on one of the chairs.

When the man saw them arrive he looked from him to them

"Oh. Our heroes finally show up” he said with a tone full of sarcasm.

(That can't be good) Zack thought when he heard the tone with which this guy greeted them.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Take a seat and let's finish this at once” said the stranger with the same tone of disdain.

"Hmm. What are we here for? Austin asked.

The others had already taken their seats. Although the rest had already figured out the reason, they were all eager to know the answer.

Hearing Austin's question, the robed man looked at him with a look of disdain.

"You're not very bright, it's a miracle how you've obtained a magic class."

"What are you-"

"Down"

Bam!

Hearing that response, Austin was about to protest indignantly when a force began to crush him to the ground.

The next thing Austin knew he was being crushed to the ground. As Austin tried unsuccessfully to get up, the robed man ignored him and his gaze turned to the others.

"I am Albert Pergus, a member of the noble Pergus family and a Storm Mage, one of the most powerful tier 2 magic classes," he said in a proud tone.

"And as for why I'm here, can anyone tell me what is the most important thing for any magic user?" Albert asked as his eyes darted around the room.

After a few moments in silence, Albert raised his chin and said:

"What I supposed. None of you 'heroes' know anything about magic. You don't have the remotest idea what you're doing. You are like babies with a gun, unable to move it one bit” he said as he rubbed them in their ignorance of something they had been in contact with for less than a day.

"The great archmage has personally ordered me to introduce you to the complex and, for many, unknown arts of magic"

The wizard was going to continue when he suddenly heard a growl in the room. After inspecting the place, he saw that Austin was still on the ground unable to move.

"Oh"

Albert snapped his fingers and the pressure on Austin eased.

“How long are you going to stay on the ground? If you don't get up, I'll make sure you stay there for the rest of the week."

Hearing this, Austin quickly got up and sat on a seat.

Albert waved his hand and four sheets of paper flew to each of the tables.

“While you are lucky enough to be blessed with my tutelage, my time is too precious to waste teaching the basics. That is why I have prepared a list of books that you must read by the end of the week. That day we will review the concepts that you should have studied by then and you will be able to ask any doubts that have arisen”

Without giving them time to process the information, Albert left through the door behind him without looking back.

By the time the four of them processed what had happened, there was no one else.

"What has happened?" Austin asked.

Zack asked himself the same question.