Chapter 11: Chapter eleven

The first thing that came to his mind while walking in the class was ‘something’s wrong’ and it was corroborated by the fact that when he entered everyone stopped talking and now there was a pin drop silence and everyone's gaze was directed at him. Their gazes were filled with disgust, loathing, aversion and abhorrence, some gazes had a little hesitation and disbelief but they were like drops in oceans.

 

He had a feeling about what was going on but still kept a little hope and walked towards his seat, the bell rang indicating that it was time for the first period to begin but somehow Mr Phillips was running late and when he didn’t come for another minute or so everyone started whispering to each other.

 

‘Hey isn’t that him?’

 

‘Hmm, yeah he is one.’

 

‘So he’s the one who has been harassing and following that girl in A section?’

 

‘Yupp and guess what he’s a pervert, treacherous and an insane nymphomaniac.’ A boy commented. 

 

All the girls in the class shivered at that and their gaze at Akira intensed, they also made up their minds to never interact with him or even go near him. The boys too made up their mind regarding that and as a result the ones that were sitting near him got up and left that place so that now Akira was left alone at the back bench.

 

‘‘I have also heard that a few years ago he beat up our classmate Ryle just because he was talking to that girl.’’

 

‘‘What was her name again?’’ A boy asked.

 

‘‘Ahh I know it is Lily, she is the daughter of that dryad.’’ A girl who lived near Lily answered this question.

 

‘‘The only dryad in Origin city?’’ The boy asked.

 

‘‘Yes I live near them so you can be sure.’’

 

‘‘Hey guys are you sure that the rumours we have heard are true and not just a hoax?’’ A timid bespectacled girl asked.

 

‘‘You don’t know? Prince Richard and Lily were talking about this.’’ Ryle answered with a smirk plastered on his face.

 

‘‘They were talking?’’ The shy girl asked.

 

Now everyone else was looking at Ryle waiting for his response. He stood up from his seat and went to the place where a teacher would stand so that everyone’s attention was now focused on him, Akira too.

 

Since the moment Akira entered in the class the entire scene was following the same route of the game though the intensity was much bigger and that confused him as he had made sure that this won’t happen but all in vain he could stop this nonsense but there was also this curiosity of what’s going to happen next so he endured.

 

‘‘Ahem.. ahem” Ryle cleared his throat then looked at Akira and began speaking.

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“You guys might have heard the rumours right?”

 

All of them had heard that rumour from someone who was eavesdropping on Richard and lily's conversations whose gist was that a boy in their class had been chasing and harassing a girl from A section and despite her repeated ‘requests’ of not being chased he still continued and she was forced to endure it. At first they treated it like normal, yes they were disgusted but nothing that extreme but when Ryle came forward and began telling everyone his personal experience they were shell-shocked.

 

Yesterday when Akira was in the dungeon Ryle took many of the students to the cafeteria where they 'accidentally' met prince Richard and when asked about Lily’s experiences he denied to speak anything saying that it was a private matter between those two and he had no right to comment on it. His statement which was neutral only made Ryle and other guys believe more in the accusations. They had never met the victim or the accused but believed all the story.

 

And since this was a place where rumours travels faster than anything, most of the people from sections C,D and E of first year now know about Akira and his deeds which have made him quite infamous. As for why the A and B section were excluded, they were simply not interested in the problems of commoners. This was actually in sync to what happened in the game but the scale was limited only to their class but now the entire first year was included.

 

"So what should we do next?” The bespectacled girl asked. 

 

“it's very simple we should stay away from that guy, unless you want the same thing to happen with yourself .” Ryle replied and at that very moment Mr. Woods came into the class, his breath was uneven indicating that he had been running to reach here.

 

“Hey kids, sorry for coming late on the second day itself.” He said with a sigh and removed sweat beads from his forehead then he looked at Ryle who was still standing at the teacher’s place.

 

“Uhh… Mr Ryle, could you step down?” He asked politely.

 

Ryle who was in the middle of his interaction stepped down from the pedestal and went to his seat not before giving Akira a hateful and a smug grin to which the former only shrugged his head.

 

“Let’s skip the formalities and begin our lesson. Today’s topic is mana application.” Then Mr Woods begins telling them the scientific analysis of mana along with how it produces energy and then how humanity re-engineered core stones to power the current civilization.

 

The lesson was quite intriguing and for the students who were learning this for the first time they had their eyes and ears glued to his explanation of course that didn’t apply to Akira. Was the lesson not good enough for him? Nah the thing was he knew almost everything they could teach in theoretical ways, his understanding about mana and the delicate intricacies regarding it were very detailed. Like when Mr Woods was telling about the state of mana depreciation in a body and the consequences like shortness of breath, powerlessness, suffocation, anxiety etc etc he immediately knew the cure to that was circulating the mana present in the atmosphere inside the body and recharge the mana cores.

 

Or when the topic was about mana beast and their evolution, he already knew their history of first being ordinary animals and then through getting in contact with mana rich areas several new changes began developing in their DNA and with a passage of time it made them compatible with the mana and hence the title ‘Mana Beast’.

 

Even after knowing everything he made sure to appear attentive in the class and not act like a certain prick who would never focus on the class as according to him this theoretical knowledge played a tiny role in actual combat so physical training is the best.