With the assembly finally over, the students were dismissed and they began heading towards their assigned classes. Cecil was walking with Lucia when she suddenly asked him, "Hey stupid, did you have a look at your MID yet?"

"MID?"

"...it's the device that was delivered alongside our uniforms."

"Oh! It's the phone-like thingy!"

"...don't tell me you don't know how to use it?"

"Nope! Not a clue! Hehe," Cecil laughed while scratching his cheek.

Ainz, who was on the side, joined in and exasperatedly added, "He tossed the MID aside when he couldn't turn it on..."

Fina who was just about to talk to Lucia immediately went speechless hearing this. She couldn't help but give Cecil an odd look. Lucia somewhat expected this and chuckled, "Cecil is Cecil after all, stupid beyond redemption!"

"That's uncalled for Lulu... I'm not that stupid. I just didn't know how to use it!"

"Despite having read the manual 10 times over?" Ainz said with a distant look.

Lucia immediately burst out in laughter. She took a moment to calm down and Fina who had been quiet finally spoke up after Lucia calmed herself, "Everyone, did you already register what classes you're going to be taking?"

"Of course, I have! The great Ainz would never commit such a blunder like forgetting!" Ainz said loudly.

Lucia also responded with an affirmative and only Cecil remained silent. Seeing this, Lucia sighed and held out her hand, "Give it."

"Hehe, thanks, Lulu," Cecil took out his MID from his uniform pocket and gave it to Lucia who immediately turned it on and started fiddling around with it. Cecil couldn't help but take a second look at her. He thought that she looked rather splendid in her uniform.

The academy's uniform had a white and blue color scheme. Everyone wore a white robe that had a blue dragon head with a sword and staff crossed over it imprinted on the back. It was the academy's symbol. Underneath the robes, the male and female uniforms were only slightly different.

For the boys, they wore a white and blue button up long sleeved shirt with a blue and silver gilded vest on top. They wore long, navy blue pants and had to choose between wearing a blue tie that had the academy's symbol imprinted on it or a white and blue striped scarf that similarly had an imprint of the academy's symbol.

For the girls, they wore almost the same thing as the boys, except their colors were inverted. The shirt was blue and short-sleeved while the vest was white-silver, and instead of pants, the girls wore skirts that reached down to the middle of their thighs. It was a pretty short skirt that showed a lot of their legs, but they also wore thigh high white-colored socks that had the academy's symbol imprinted on the sides which covered them up. Just like the boys, they too had to choose between wearing either a scarf or a ribbon over their shirt and vest.

Every student had academy issued foot wear and every student had a small silver ring on their fingers. On the ring was a small black gem on it, this gem was called the spatial gem. This ring was an interspatial ring. Every student in the academy was given one. The space inside was about a cubic meter in size and they could store all their books and school supplies inside the ring as well as anything else that the students deemed important as long as it wasn't too big.

To use the ring, all you needed to do was inject mana into the gem then a detailed projection of the space inside of the spatial ring would be sent into the minds of the wearer and all you need was a thought to deposit or withdraw an item into or out of the ring.

Cecil admired Lucia's appearance as she was wearing the academy's uniform quite fashionably. She opted to use a bow while Cecil himself used a scarf. Her 3 tails were wrapped around her waist and her kodachi was strapped tightly onto her right thigh while her katana, the Butterfly, hung loosely on her waist. Cecil thought that she looked rather heroic.

If Lucia knew what he was thinking, she would've smacked him. Looking heroic? Why couldn't he say that she looked cute instead?

"Your uniform sure looks good on you Lulu!" Cecil complemented out of the blue.

Lucia turned to him before saying smugly, "Hmph. Of course!"/

She twirled on the spot and showed off her outfit before sticking her tongue out playfully at him. Cecil smiled and the two continued walking towards their class. Meanwhile, Lucia was still fiddling with Cecil's MID.

"By the way Lulu, do you have any detailed info about the Mana Network?" Cecil suddenly asked.

When he found out about the network, it immediately drew in his interest since he thought it sounded similar to the internet back on Earth. He wanted to ask Lucia the moment they met up before the assembly, but unfortunately for Cecil, she was in a foul mood for some reason. Her mood had definitely gotten better now, so he finally found the chance to ask her about it.

Lucia, who was busy trying to input his classes into the schools mana-network data base, responded without looking up, "It's a network that connects all the MIDs together."

"Details Lulu!" Cecil exclaimed.

Lucia sighed and then began explaining to him. The MID or Mana Network Interface Device, as the name implies, was a device that connected the owner to the mana network that was set up in Angla City. The one in Cecil's possession was a MID that was connected exclusively to the network set up in the academy's district. The academy's network was also integrated with the mana network that spanned the entire city so the students could also access the city's network through the academy's network.

There were plenty of things one could do with the MID. For example, a student could access the latest news that circulated around the academy and city just through their MIDs, look at the adventurer guild's bulletin board and also accept quests from there. One could even access the market and stores inside the city and order things from them to be brought to the academy district. It was a service akin to the online shopping from back on Earth.

Of course this wasn't something that just everybody in the city had. The only reason why Cecil was able to have one in his possession was because the academy graciously gave every student that was enrolled in the academy this device.

After Lucia explained in detail about this mana network, many of Cecil's unanswered questions were finally resolved. He finally found out what those tablet-like devices that the guilds, shops and inns used. Unlike the academy issued MIDs that were phone-sized, the tablet-like ones were the standard issued MIDs and they functioned similarly close to Earth's computers.

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Also, from the information about the MIDs and Mana Network, Cecil found out that the mana network wasn't only present in Angla City. The network actually spanned the entire Urrugdrasil Continent, and Cecil's immediate thought upon learning this was, "It's really this world's version of the Internet!"

This network wasn't only present in the Urrugdrasil Continent, the mana network was present in every continent except for the Non continent. but each continent had separate mana networks and each network was encrypted with a unique mana signature so a continent's inhabitants couldn't just connect with the network of a foreign continent.

In the city, practically only high ranked city personnel and well off citizens would have this sort of device, but even with his experience back on Earth, Cecil still did not know how to use this modern-like device. It functioned similarly to the smart phones back on Earth, but it was a tragedy for Cecil since he's never touched or even used one! He's only ever seen his siblings use them.

Due to his training, he's never had the need to use one before. It was only after Cecil finished inheriting his family's martial traditions would he then learn more about the modern era. Too bad Cecil didn't get this chance since he was teleported to Alterna a couple years earlier before his training finished.

Lucia finished her explanation before they arrived at their classroom. She also finished inputting Cecil's classes as well. Other than the mandatory classes, Lucia took the liberty of choosing the optional classes that he could take for him. Naturally, she chose the classes that were the same as hers since she wanted to learn together with him. The only courses that she didn't let Cecil take that were the same as hers were the elemental class and the magitech class.

Cecil had no use for learning the elements since he was a non-elemental user to begin with and considering how hopeless he was with anything that had to do with technology, Lucia tacitly didn't select the two classes for him. She gave the MID back to Cecil and told him that there were some classes there that he might be interested in and told him to pick them himself until he filled up all the class slots he could take.

"Hrmm...magitech looks interest–"

"No! Not happening, Cel. Pick a different class.!"

"Eh?! But! This looks–"

"Like I said, no, with how stupid you are, you're not going to learn a thing there," Lucia berated before leaning closer to him and saying, "Magitech requires you to know how to manipulate elemental mana to some degree."

"Oh!"

Cecil now understood why Lucia didn't select that class for him. Although it was true that he was hopeless with anything that had to do with technology, he could at least learn more about it, so he wouldn't be completely clueless. However, if it involved needing to use elemental mana, then like Lucia said earlier, he really wasn't going to learn anything in the class.

The MIDs that they received were also a form of magitech which was why no matter what Cecil did, he couldn't turn it on. After all, you needed elemental mana in order to be able to activate it. There was never a case where a person had non-elemental mana before, so the MIDs were tuned to that mana attribute. It was such a shame since Cecil thought magitech was pretty interesting and the classes for it were likely also interesting.

He whispered back to Lucia and told her that even though he couldn't take it, he wanted her to at least tell him about the cool things she'll be learning from the class and she naturally said yes. She felt a little bad for him, but what could she do? It wasn't like she could just change his mana's attributes for him.

While the two were 'bickering' with each other, Ainz and Fina were observing them and thought that Lucia was a little harsh to Cecil at times though the boy himself never really took it to heart or even minded it.

What Lucia said earlier was a bit harsh, but even they could only second her opinion after seeing just how hopeless Cecil was with magitech, though they didn't know the actual reason why she told him not to pick the class. Cecil being a non-elemental mana user was a secret that only he and Lucia shared. They weren't going to let anyone else know about it for now because it might lead to some unfavorable events for Cecil, events that they could easily avoid if they simply kept their mouths shut.

After a little more bantering between the two, Cecil started browsing the course selections and finally chose two that he found interesting.

"I guess I'll go with Mana Forging and Live Combat Class."

Ainz, who was walking behind the two, was surprised to hear that Cecil chose to take the Mana Forging class.

"Mana forging? Hey, Cecil, that class demands a pretty a high requirement in mana manipulation!"

Lucia perked up hearing this and she exclaimed excitedly, "Now that's a class that's pretty much tailor made for you, Cel!"

"Haha, I know right. It looks interesting so might as well learn it."

"Hey! Didn't you here what I just said?!" Ainz exclaimed after seeing how laid back Cecil was being. He did find it odd that Lucia supported him this time and even said it was a class that was tailor made for him. He still decided that it was right to advise his roommate because to his knowledge, mana manipulation was an innate talent, not something one could just obtain.

Before Ainz could say anything, however, Lucia turned to him and explained, "Don't worry about Cecil. If it's about mana manipulation, then all I can say is that there's no one on Alterna who could possibly be better than him!"

"What?"

Fina immediately realized what Lucia meant and so she asked, "Are you saying that Cecil has an elemental constitution?"

"You could say that~" Lucia replied vaguely.

Lucia wanted to explain a bit more, but their group had finally arrived at their classroom, so they paused their conversation and entered it. They were a little late because they were walking slowly because of Lucia helping Cecil with his MID, so everyone else in their class had already arrived in the classroom. That was why when the group walked in, they immediately garnered everyone's attention.