Xavier was very angry.

He had been hearing many comparisons between him and a certain first year student for a while now. It wasn't so serious but yesterday when the second monthly evaluation of those first year students was concluded a piece of news had blown it to a higher proportion.

That student not only had the same type of aura attribute as him, a primordial element which still remained unknown to others, but that guy actually was able to gain the vice principal, a noblewoman’s favor, to gain access to the Mountain of Triumph before everyone for training.

He had managed to gain five more levels from it and his three attainments for a combat class was very high than his peers. At present he had no match among the first years and firmly secured himself at first rank of student ranking.

This matter wouldn't have still bothered him as he could say to others that the guy was a combat class while he was a production class, a non-combat type. How could there be comparison between the two? That guy had strong points but so did he. There was no reason to be compared like this.

But who would have thought people were blind to this fact.

Not only was everyone saying insulting remarks about him as an “inferior” player but they were also spreading it with malicious intentions to further defame him with no logic behind their conclusions. More infuriating fact was that nobody seemed to be considering the part about his class but kept joining to secretly mock him behind his back.

If not for the fact that he was pampered by the academy for more than half a year now there would have been some trash that would have jeered at him openly. They still dare not do such a thing as his future prospects were still higher than those idiots with nothing going for them but his best friend had informed him that the matter seemed to be going out of hand and surely within a week they would get enough courage to spout nonsense openly.

This made him want to beat those trashes but alas he wasn't a combatant, after all.

His best friend however had assured him that nothing would go wrong as long as he didn't openly engage with them but ignored it completely. He also agreed with it since those types of people would only get satisfaction if you react to their bullshit. There was no need to degrade yourself on their level of mentality.

However, just three days later, the incident escalated.

His best friend, Thomas, had accidentally heard even some teachers mentioning it. Though from his opinion, it was just some remarks about something about personality and whatnot but Xavier, after learning of it, was enraged. Even those teachers who would try to pander to him for his future potential were behaving like this.

So what if that guy was renowned for his good personality. Were they indirectly saying that he was inferior to him in that department?

Enough is enough!!

He had to do something about this or his mind couldn't settle down. How could he, a top prodigy unrivaled in the field of production within the pre-second year students, be kept being told to be inferior to a first year brat.

Thanks to having a very rare grade class of Concocter along with a primordial element of time as his aura affinity many teachers wanted to be his preferred personal teacher when he just enrolled and his performance within the academy was exemplary, in his opinion.

There was a bit of a regret though.

When he first chose a personal teacher he didn't quite get along so before the midterm test started he decided to change it. That way he could already have settled on someone thus not wasting his valuable time after the exam. While looking for a suitable teacher he saw a beauty who was apparently ranked first as the most beautiful among the female teachers within the academy which the students of his batch covertly concluded without others opinion.

When he just enrolled, that teacher or her secret renown had nothing to do with him as he was too busy from the sudden clamor he caused and also that he was a production class while she was of combat class.

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But when he finally saw her that day within the academy he was stunned as if hit by lightning. At that time he understood what love at first sight meant. So with much emotion in his heart he had asked her later to be his personal teacher even before the midterm test.

To his utter delight she agreed and it was going very well until a few days later on the very day he just finished the exam, she rejected him for being too “arrogant” for her liking. Thus she cruelly went back on her words even though she would get punishment from the faculty management center.

This broke his heart and then he began to hate her intensely.

From his perspective, he hadn't done anything wrong to her and even tried his best to secretly impress her but look at her. She said such things to him with no regard to her role as his personal teacher.

It seemed that outer appearance might have made her beautiful but she was ugly inside. In retrospect this was a good lesson for him to not judge people so easily. He had thus kept a strict distance from anyone that was trying to curry favor with him later.

That being said, the situation changed for him when he finally met his best friend Thomas about two weeks later. His like-minded attitude had deeply impressed him so even though the guy was a senior from the third year and a combat class he got along well and now was his best friend.

The first true friend he had made in this academy.

From him he had heard about a piece of news that made him feel somewhat bitter. That ugly woman apparently got a personal student from the first years and they got along well. That turned out to be the same guy who had been somewhat compared with him during those days.

At that time he only felt bleak and wanted to just forget about her so he had asked Thomas not to mention her again. Thomas was also a good guy so he never talked about it.

Until this month when things escalated like this.

From the intense comparison and being called “inferior” by students behind his back from the day after their second monthly evaluation ended to now three days later when even the teachers were secretly calling him “inferior”, this was too much for him to keep bottling it up. Even that woman had chosen him over his “arrogant’’ self. At this point he became certain of one thing.

That guy named after a fucking color was truly the bane of his existence!!

Apparently noticing the frustration and torment within him his best friend Thomas patted his shoulder before giving him some encouragement,

“Xavier, there's no need to keep being so passive. For two months that guy has been on his high horse. It's about time we take him down a peg. You can't let him keep walking over you like this!”

“What do I even do? It is not like I can beat him up! He is a combat class and even had reached level 14 while I am a production class. Even the academy rules forbids the students from fighting. I can't even call in a favor from you. This is too much! I also don't want to keep being treated like this.”

He said with utter rage in his tone.

“Why do you have to fight him!? There's a much better way to get things done. Alright, dude. Tell me your class.”

“What are you on about? I am obviously a Concocter. Did you get memory loss or something?”

“My guy, you are too prickly. Since you are a Concocter then just use your strong points to get the job done. Easy!”

“Huh!? Really, what did you have for lunch? You're speaking nonsense. What could a Concocter do to an unique grade Blight Paladin like him? Throw my concoctions at him in a fight!?”

“Ah, why do you keep thinking about a battle? The very reason that guy was being so celebrated by the entire academy is because of his reputation. He is also apparently a good guy which got him to this point. So just make his reputation horrible and to others he would no longer be such a good guy worthy to be compared to you. At that point who would have the guts to slander you, huh?”

“That's easy for you to say. How do I even get started? I have done some digging and that guy literally has zero dirt on him. I can't use anything against him. And what could my class even do in that direction!?”

After hearing his questions Thomas gave him an evil grin before replying,

“I have a peer who's actually the big sister of that guy's girlfriend. She is also in the same class as mine. This makes it so that I can secretly manipulate her to get him firmly defamed since I can approach her without any suspicion during the class lessons. Tomorrow I will talk to her about that guy and then you should…”

Xavier listened to his plans and his eyes kept widening from how brilliant it was which also secured his safety from being labeled later on.

However he seemed to have ignored the incense stick that his friend had lit today in the house after being visited by Xavier. Thomas wasn't a guy who particularly preferred burning incense for aroma within his room.

An odd behavior but it wasn't much worth his attention.