Notes from the Story Channeling System: Names were translated into their phonetical versions of the world they are channeled into. The names for the futa/hermaphrodites can end in any letter. The name for females were translated to end in the letter A or E or Y, with the names for males ending in any of the other letters. Some information is censored or modified, to fit into the world it is channeled into, due to the limits and filters set upon information entering the world from outside of the world. Some information is censored or modified, to fit into the world it is channeled into, due to the limits and filters set upon information entering the world from outside of the world. Many terms were translated into their equivalent in the world they are channeled into.

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After constant attempts at making pills and elixirs of decent quality from mere random grass with a bit of aura in it, it was, once again, time for classes. Upon entering the cafeteria, there were three distinct lines. One for those who had weapon classes, and two for those who didn't. And they checked the identity tokens to make sure to only allow those who actually are in the weapon classes to get the food, because the physical exercise expected to be done in the weapons class required a meal a few times larger than what was usually needed for an aura user at the Copper level.

Although there were a few people who tried to convince some of those who go to the weapons classes to give them part of their food, every single time that happened, one of the people who gave us the food used aura to speak loud enough for everyone to hear, no matter how heated of a discussion they were in, a sentence reverberating thorugh everyone's bodies. "Trying to take something as insignificant as food from other who train their aura is the easiest way to get yourself killed. The teachers might even not punish the killed, because they stood up for themselves."

Those words were enough to persuade most people, but there was one who wasn't convinced, and right when we were about to hear other words reverberate through our bodies, another student started speaking.

"Just how stupid are you? What you are doing is interfering with the classes, and it is up to the teacher of each of those classes if and how they wish to punish you. Want to know what are the punishments for interfering with the classes? For the weapons classes, it's to become a living punching bag, and have everyone in the class punch you, while the teacher makes sure you cannot use your aura to defend yourself. For the healing classes, is to have the teacher cut you repeatedly in painful ways and have the students try to heal you, but mostly fail because the teacher leaves some of their aura in the wounds, so the bleeding will stop, but it will hurt a lot. For the alchemy classes, there are plenty of pills which will show the other students just how much pain and suffering can be done with mere pills. For enchanting, your blood will be drained and the students will get the chance to try to use your blood to make enchantments, and you will be left with enough blood to recover enough in a week to come back to classes, but it will take at least one month to be able to use your aura for something else than just keeping yourself awake for long enough to not sleep half the day. And the sound classes usually make you throw up, piss yourself, and shit yourself, at the same time. Do that more than a few times, or have a teacher in a particularly bad mood, and you will no longer be in the academy the next day. If you still want to interfere with the classes, now you won't even have the excuse that you didn't know, so you will not be given only a verbal warning.", the other student said.

"And who the heavens are you?", said the student who wanted to take another student's food.

"Someone who saw a student die because of such punishment, that's who.", the other student said, before grabbing the last bite of food and leaving the cafeteria.

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"Alright, weaklings, it's time for you to exercise. This is the first class, so we'll only do some light exercises. We'll start with one lap of jogging at a comfortable pace.", the weapons teacher said.

The class quietly did just that. And everyone kept up. After everyone gathered in front of the teacher, he started speaking again.

"Good. Now everyone run as fast as you can, from the school building to the line in front of the weapons rack.", he said again.

The class did just that, but noises could be heard from the students who gave it their best. After everyone gathered in front of the teacher again, he started speaking once again.

"Good, now everyone do 10 laps of running at your own speed, after which get back here.", he said once again.

Half the class completed the 10 laps without even breaking a sweat. A quarter of the class completed the 10 laps and were panting heavily, after the exercise. The last quarter, in which Sipher was also included, only managed between 6 and 9 complete laps, after which they either stopped in place, on their feet or on the ground, or moved to the side, so they do not become obstacles for others.

"What are you waiting for? Keep running!", the teacher shouted.

"Teacher, I have an argument for why we should not continue this time.", a student said, while still panting.

"If it's a bad argument, you all will do 10 more laps. Speak!", the teacher said, ending with a shout.

"This is the first class, and if we are unable to continue to the next part, we will not be able to prepare for the next part for next week. By letting us, who did not finish the 10 laps, to continue without finishing those laps, because we tried our best to finish the 10 laps, we will not only start working out during the work week in order to keep up with the running, but we will also be able to find out what othings we need to work on, which would not be possible if we kept running instead of continuing with the rest of the class. By having us continue, or even worse, do 10 more laps, we would almost certainly end up punished next week, for something we did not know we had to train for next week, because we were not allowed to do try it this week, because we had to keep running.", that student said, followed by heavy panting, for speaking all that in a single breath.

"And what kind of exercise do you think you will have to do? Any of those who still didn't finish their laps can speak up.", the teacher said.

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After a short pause, Sipher started speaking. "If I were to guess, by the end of the school year, we will have to run 100 laps at the speed we ran our fastest today, and that is only for the running exercise."

Everyone was looking at Sipher. From the croud of those who finished their laps, a female voice spoke, confused. "What?" More than half of the students had a confused look on their face, and the other half were too exhaused to make that kind of face.

"What makes you think that?", said the teacher.

"Well, first of all, the first exercise, jogging comfortably, is to get our muscles working and our blood and aura flowing. Then the sprint was probably to both find our curent top speed, and to have those of us who did not train before, to get more tired. After that, we had to do 10 laps, while those who did not train before were still tired. So the whole point was to get us tired. And since you tried to punish us by doing even more laps, my guess is that the goal of this class is to push people to their limits. But this is the first class, so those who have trained before were used as an example of waht we should do. So we will know to start training. But in future classes, I think nobody will be spared, and everyone will work until they either faint, or until they cannot move anymore. The healing classes are next, and they will probably have to try to heal us and get us into a shape in which we might be able to continue with the rest of the classes. Thankfully, the rest of the classes do not require any workout, because we will definitely not be able to do that, after working us to our limits.", Sipher said, panting after every single complete sentence.

As Sipher was talking, the grin on the teacher's face grew larger and larger, until he could no longer be denied to enjoy our suffering. And after Sipher finished talking, the teacher started laughing carelessly. After a few minutes of laughing, the teacher finally calmed enough to start speaking again.

"Good. Very good. You found out. That's the plan for my class. Because my class is not about fighting with a weapon, that's for the other weapons teacher. My class is about training you enough to be able to keep fighting for hours without a break, by the end of the school year. For some that will mean more energetic fighting, for others that will mean more energy economic fighting, and I couldn't care less which group you will be a part of, but you will be able to fight for the whole duration of the other weapons teacher's class, by the end of the year, or you will have to join my class the next year. Half of those who finished their laps early were those who failed to meet my standards last year, and have to repeat my class this year. The ones who passed my class are now training with another teacher in the forest for the inner students.", the teacher said, while still smiling.

"But you figured out the general idea of what the goal of this class is, so I will let you off, if you can no longer continue the exercise. And because I am sure that some of you will faint by the end of the class, I will tell you now what the other exercises are, so make sure to remember that. First is the running. Second is jumping side to side. Third is jumping forwards and backwards. Fourth is jumping in place and rotating while jumping. And fifth is pushing against my aura wall. And everyone who's in the healing class, you can stay where you are, because the healing teacher will bring the other healing students here, to treat you all, and I recommend you to wash your armpits before they get here, everyone, because you will stink. Now everyone take a break until most of you stopped panting, and we will continue with the next exercise.", the teacher continued, the smile on his face being no longer visible.

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After the weapons class ended, the elder for the healing class brought the helaing students, then looked at the students who took part in the weapons class and said: "Those of you who take the healing class, come here. Those of you who cannot come here, raise a hand, so I can treat you first."

6 students started walking towards the group of healers. 3 more raised their hands, including Sipher.

The healing teacher moved next to each of those 3, then brought an enchanted item from some hidden storage item, gave it a pulse of aura which Sipher could see with his Aura Eyes, after which the item started absorbing ambient aura, and after a minute of waiting, the teacher then moved the item next to a student, and a few seconds later, the student was told to absorb that aura and integrate ti with the rest of his aura. The same thing was repeated with the second student, but she did need to be told to absorb the aura given by that device.

Then it was SIpher's turn, and being so close to the item, he finally saw what was happening. The device not only absorbed ambient aura and compressed it, but after putting the item next to Sipher's body, the item started releasing aura very similar to that of Sipher, which made the process of assimilating that aura much easier, and flooding the body with aura had the advantage of healing one's fatigue quickly, and slowly heal one's injuries.

But the item was only used enough to rid one of fatigue. It was not meant to get us healed, it was only meant to get us able to participate in the healing class. Those who were not tired were allowed to leave, shortly followed by those who used aura crystals to get rid of their fatigue, leaving behind mostly poor people and people who were curious about the healing class. Sipher thought that some of them wanted to watch to decide if to try joining the class or not.

It was only at that moment that he noticed that he did not see Zara in the weapons class. Did that mean that she was already in the advanced training class? Or was there another reason for her absence? He planned to ask her, when he has the opportunity to do so.

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After everyone in the healing class was no longer panting from fatigue, it was time for the teacher to tell us what we will be training for, in this class. To the surprise of some, but not of Sipher, we were going to train in doing the same thing the enchanted item was doing. We were going to use our aura together with aura crystals, and filter the aura from the aura crystals, in order to mimic the aura of the person we are assigned. There were not enough people who were still tired, so a few of those who have recovered have volunteered to play the role of those trying to recover.

The process of filtering the aura was very difficult. It is one thing to filter aura for yourself, and a completely different thing to filter it for someone else, especially when that someone else changes regularly during the duration of the class. For the first class, only 3 target changes happened, meaning we had to filter raw mana for 4 different people. Almost all of us did very poorly, only managing on average 10% better purity than ambient aura, even though the total change was on average 20%, because not only did we filter too much or too little, but we also added some of our aura in the mix.

It might be a very difficult task, but it has the advantage of training one's aura control. At the end of the class, the class was told that filtering aura is only the first step. By the end of the school year, those with potential for healing will be able to filter aura for at least 3 different people at the same time, or filter aura for one person and use that filtered aura while the target is unable to use aura by themselves, in order to force the target's aura to move through their body and assimilate the filtered aura without the target needing to be awake for that.

Sipher saw a lot of use for those techniques in alchemy. And some day he will get to do just that, but not today. Today, he was not good enough for that, in either healing or alchemy, and the healing classes were over. As usual, everyone leaved quietly, keeping their distance from the others, then splitting in roughly 3 groups, the group going to the alchemy class, which had Sipher and 2 other people, the group going home which had two thirds of the students, and the group going outside the academy which had a third of the students.