Holy Light Academy had over a thousand years of history. Countless great warriors and mages had originated from this institution, and now…Suo Jia was lucky enough to become a part of it.
Wearing dark blue mage robes, Suo Jia silently entered the classroom. Nobody paid attention to him, and he didn’t bother them either. He walked to the corner of the classroom alone and quietly sat down, waiting for the class session to begin.
This was Suo Jia’s first class in school. Sitting around him were many amazing geniuses from other areas. After all…everyone here had been specially selected out of millions of people. If they didn’t have the talent, they would not have the qualification to be sitting here.
After surveying his surroundings, Suo Jia realized the strange truth that out of his entire class he was…… he was actually the only male student! The other a hundred students were actually “all the same color”; all of them were young girls! Within the classroom, a subtle smell of flowers floated about; no, the smell of it surpassed that of flowers.
Water arts are favored by females, and is under their domain! With regards to water mages, women will always be more blessed than men! This is similar to the idea of how men are more blessed with fire arts than women. What excites earthly people the most about this is that all men with the fire attribute are mighty, powerful, and formidable warriors, while all women with the water attribute are tender, loving, and charming.
After a long time, a woman in her 20s walked in with indescribable daintiness, wearing a purple mage robe, and carrying a magic book in hand. As she walked in with a sweet smile, the entire classroom became silent in a flash. Lightly placing the magic book down on the podium, the instructor asked, “Before I begin class, I would like to ask everyone a question. What exactly is the greatest difference between a mage and a warrior?”
Hearing the question, all the girls began to noisily chatter, answering the question all at once. Some said that the difference was in the limitation of the types of attacks, others said it was the strength of attacks, while there were those that didn’t answer at all. However, not a single individual could clearly, with concrete reasoning, correctly answer the two largest differences.
Helplessly wrinkling her brow, the lecturer gave up and answered in a heavy voice: “Let me explain it to all of you then. The largest difference between a warrior and a mage is distance. From today on, I would like you all to remember that to be able to maintain the distance between you and the enemy is the foundation of being a mage. Close combat is within the warrior’s realm!”
Listening to the lecturer’s words, Suo Jia’s eyes lit up in excitement. Hear that? Warriors were still the coolest; mages were under the warriors’ realm. The warriors were so majestic and formidable. As a man, if he could not become a hot-blooded warrior, he would regret it for the rest of his life!
Suo Jia pondered for a bit, as the lecturer with indescribable beauty continued: “As long as you widen the distance, then…no matter how powerful the warrior, they can only be reduced to our target. Thus…as mages, we only have two goals: to learn how to evade, and to learn strong magic. It’s that simple!”
As the female lecturer’s voice fell, all of the girls started chatting again. Straining his ears, Suo Jia could hear the surrounding girls discuss: “Aye, we totally don’t want to fight with those males, how crude. Mages are still the best, to be able to beat them up with magic from afar.”
Sigh…
Hearing the thoughts of the girls around him, Suo Jia laughed bitterly. For such hot-blooded fights to be insulted so easily… Using a cowardly method like hiding from far away and throwing magic spells out, these girls would really never understand the passionate feelings attained by warriors.
“Pa pa pa!” After clearly clapping a few times, waiting for all the girls to quiet down, the female lecturer continued, “Okay students, we will be spending the next ten years together. I hope that everyone will study diligently, build harmony together, and help each other out.”
“Ten years!” After hearing the lecturer’s words, Suo Jia inhaled a cold breath. Originally, he had thought that he could graduate after learning for only a single year. After hearing the teacher’s words, he realized that it actually took a time period of ten years!
Suo Jia clearly understood that the thousand gold his family paid could not be ten year’s worth of tuition. In this world, such cheap things did not exist. If he wanted to continue learning after a year, he would have to pay another thousand gold. To Suo Jia however, this was an impossible task.
Originally, Suo Jia had planned it all out. After graduating, he would definitely work hard to earn money, buying his mother a spacious and cozy house just like their previous one. With this turn of events, he wasn’t even sure where to find money for next year’s tuition, let alone be able to buy a large house .