A week has already passed, until now, the academy was easy for Harlow, however, during this week, he has brought up a lot of attention, especially of Nobles. Noble's sons and daughters were literary fightings for Harlow, just to join their family, that's how much he was worth for families.
Dukes, Counts, Barons, Viscounts the rank didn't matter, as long as they had enough resources, they competed for him. The government, for now, was staying quiet, the rumors haven't probably reached there yet.
Well that was that, however, Harlow started to avoid lessons due to that, he didn't want to be anyone's private mage or something, if he had to, then he would rather be like in his previous life a commander or general, it was the thing he was good at, strategies. And with this world, being outdated in the military compared to his old world, he would be called Military God or something.
"If this continues I will be forced into the army or something" These were his last words, before staying only in the library. He didn't leave, he sleeps there and literary decided to live there.
It couldn't last forever, after 3 days, the principal finally came. She was frightened of what the young man did, books were everywhere, not only books there were also dishes and cups, just like a gamer's room.
"Damnit, you little imp! What's this everything" The principal said, she was angry right now.
Harlow was just looking at the principal for some time, he didn't know what to say. It was a mess, and he didn't have any excuse.
"Ummmm....." It was only this familiar sound, you always hear it when someone doesn't have an excuse.
"Ya little imp, not only you don't go to classes, but you also make a mess here? Go on a lesson right now, and later do something about this mess" The principal said. Honestly, she didn't want to punish him, since he was skilled enough, to out mark any other student, so he was a skilled one, but she had to, this was too much.
Well, what he could do? She obviously could order him around, both she had more power, and higher rank in the community, so he had no chance against her, well for now.
"Yes.... yes" He responded. He looked somewhat annoyed, well he was interpreted with his studies, there were standing around already 11 books, with were beginning to level 2 magic. Honestly, it was amazing how fast he read through the books since it was only a week, meanwhile, it was already the beginning of second grade, so he was well, pretty much above his grade, and was a genius.
As he said that, it didn't take long, for him to leave the library. What was more time-taking, was the hall, it was around 200 meters long, which take like 5-7 minutes to walk from the library to the class.
Harlow walked into the classroom. It was a middle of a lesson, to be specific, Non-elemental magic, it was the easiest lesson that he could ever take, it was easy to understand, even without Albedo, so he could learn it alone, however, the bigger problem was remembering it all.
When he entered the classroom, a big silence has awakened [Sorry if this makes no sense, however in Polish, sentences like that have sense.] thorough the room, no one expected him, especially that lessons have already begun. It wasn't hard to understand, that he didn't sleep through countless nights already, and he didn't even bother to go anywhere. Harlow had bangs under his eyes, and his hairs were a mess. However, even though he was in a total mess, that didn't mean he was unattractive, he looked like your girlfriend in the morning without makeup, beautiful
He didn't even bother to look around, at people or the professor, and just sat down on his chair, and said softly, barely heard.
"I am sorry for not coming for lessons, and I am sorry for being late"
It was those words, his soft voice was pretty seductive, it couldn't be denied. It sounded so girlish, yet so boyish. Boys at this moment thought that Harlow may be a woman or something, however, they quickly denied that idea, as they have seen his willie on PE.
Honestly, Professor couldn't hide his annoyance, and as quickly as he has said that, just asked a question, just like any other teacher, when he is annoyed.
"Right..... Harlow, answer this question" As he said that, he pointed at the board. There were already a lot of notes, he was sure that Harlow would not gain a grasp of it, in time. And would just leave him with humiliation. However, that didn't happen.
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"Yes........" As Harlow has looked on the board, there were already a lot of formulas, the class was probably in a hurry or something since if you count all of them, there were like 10 of them, where normally there can be max 2 formulas at max on a lesson. "Which one exactly," He asked, there were a lot of questions, so he didn't know which one.
"This one...." As he said that, he pointed at one of Formula and the question below it.
It was Sheild. 2nd level non-elemental magic was one of the most complicated and took the most magic, however, the results were always satisfactory.
'Godammit, why shield?! It's hard to explain you old geezer.' He though.
"So........ First off, you need to gather Mana flow around your body. To manifest even the slightest shield, you must release the Flow outside your body which after that, you have to materialize the magical circles....... the rest is up to your imagination of what "material" you use." Harlow explained.
It was the easiest way it could be explained, honestly, it teachers used it, it was way easier than the formula from books, honestly, the hardest thing to understand from his explanation was that there was no explanation of how to manifest mana flow around you, but honestly, right now in the class, everyone knew how to manifest it.
"......" The teacher lost his all pride while listening to Harlow, even he couldn't shorten the Formula this much, it was for him impossible to be this creative, and shorten this large formula containing 3 pages to this level.
"Correct." He said.
Everyone was surprised at how short he made this 3 pages spell, and honestly, it was easier for them to use this, instead of the book example. Almost everyone was applauding. Honestly, it also gave him another score in girls' imagination, which for him was annoying, since he didn't plan to marry anyone soon, especially when they are only 16-20. For him, it was like pedophilia.
Well that was that, but the first lesson quickly ended in his eyes, all he was doing was reading his 2nd-grade book, which he brought with him. The teacher just decided to ignore him instead of asking him something, he didn't want to humiliate himself even more. If he would do that, then it would make Harlow a better teacher than him, and he didn't want to admit it.
All lessons except for PE were pretty quick in his eyes, with no unwanted attention, teachers already have learned their lessons from Non-elemental class and Alchemy class, that it is not worth it to educate Harlow since it will backfire.
PE started.
In Germania, it was standard for boys not to have a shirt, it was to not only motivate them to work out, but also for ladies, to watch their future partner. Well, that was the law that schools and military had to obey, honestly, a lot of people thought it's sexist and everything, but emperors always denied the idea of deleting this law,
Boys came out of the changing rooms. Girls as always were watching their bodies, it was a literary tradition at this point, girls in school already were at this age to care about the opposite gender, so they had no problem with the law.
Most boys, were mostly average, the same you would see in our world, and there was Harlow, he had both abs and build muscles in his arms, an ideal athletic body. Not too many muscles.
***Murmurr.***
The girls were having girls' gossips as always, about every boy's body, with made them even more pressured about it. Typical girls at this age, well, those girls were talking about something far more erotic.
That was that, but the lesson hasn't even started yet, and boys were already having small hopes when they saw Harlow, they had no chance against him, good-looking, smart, and strong, how could they be competing with just a little magic talent? It was impossible at this moment.
In the lesson, they were testing the max weight you could lift, Harlow was in another league than the others, even though he didn't lift max he could. He lifted max about 50 tons, with his current strength, and had pressure strength of 10 tons, however, he lifted only 300kg, just not to get too much attention.
The rest of the day was easy, people didn't even bother him, and at lunchtime, everyone has already learned that they would not even make him say a word, so they just gave up after few days.
At the start of another day, he was given a letter.
As he opened the letter, these were the contents of the letter:
The student, Ruprecht Von Friburg, has declared a duel against the student, Harlow Shallfear.
The stated reasons were: Huminilation of Ruprecht, Multiple oppressions of Ruprecht when student Harlow Shallfear had occasions.
With this, The student Harlow Shallfear shall go at 8:00 [8 am] to the arena.
If student Harlow Shallfear will not accept the duel, then he will be expulsed from the school for his dishonor.
It was a short letter, yet easy to understand.
It reminded him about second grader, that he humiliated once when he tried to do the same to him. He humiliated him that much, that he never even bothered to talk again, and those others reasons, were probably made up just to challenge him.
He had no other choice, if he would not accept challenge since he would be expulsed from the school, which he didn't want to, he had so many things that he didn't learn yet.
What was the advantage in accepting the challenge, that he would be freed from lessons, as well as students that would attend the Challenge in the arena? As there was a disadvantage there was also a huge advantage in accepting the challenge, with he had to anyway.
It was 7:38. If Harlow hurried up, then he would have time to prepare somewhat, by preparing it would be waking up Albedo, and meanwhile, battle asking her advice and stuff.
Harlow showed up at an ideal time, 7:46. It was ideal time to wake up Albedo and prepare his looks, since he didn't wash himself up since week or so, he would look like he would humiliate the enemy even more, just because of his looks, and he didn't want to, since then he would just meet a mass of duels every day, just because of this.
His hair didn't dry up yet, but he had to come out since it was already 8:00.
***Cheers***
A lot of people cheered for either Harlow or Ruprecht, Now, it wasn't just a matter of winning against the enemy, and gaining points in school, right now it was a matter of Honor.