Chapter 66: Removing the Distractions

Professor Rowe had stopped talking, his smile was wiped off of his face like it had never been there. His posture was no longer slouched and relaxed. His eyes were deadly still, as he observed the still-talking students. It was a dramatic change that caught the attention of many students who were watching.

Julius just sat back and waited to witness what happened next. Finally, one of the students in the group noticed that nobody was talking except for them and nudged his friend who was still joking around with his group.

The guy had long blonde hair lying over his shoulders and according the Julius’s senses was one of the students who were already Tier 2. The blonde guy looked around and saw that everyone else was looking at their group, some with annoyance and some like Julius with anticipation. They wanted to see what Professor Rowe was going to do.

Julius was glad to say that Professor Rowe didn’t let them get away with it, unlike Professor Edwards.

“You there, the one who doesn’t want to stop talking, what’s your name?” Professor Rowe demanded.

The guy to his credit, calmly responded, “Jacob Rolands sir.”

“And why are you interrupting my lecture? You guys were laughing pretty loudly, so it must’ve been funny. What was it?” Professor Rowe said with a stern tone.

“I’m sorry Professor Rowe, it won’t happen again.” This time it was a different girl in the group who apologized.

“I wasn’t talking to you Ms. Abernath. I was talking to Mr. Rolands.” Professor Rowe admonished her.

The girl acted like she had just gotten slapped, and quickly backed away. Julius was more surprised that the professor knew her name in the first place.

“It was just something stupid professor, I am sorry.” Jacob also apologized.

“So it wasn’t even important? The reason why you thought it was appropriate to interrupt the entire class with your giggling and chatter was for something stupid?” Professor Rowe asked them.

The guy didn’t seem to know to answer to that. He just nodded his head while looking at the floor under his feet.

“You and your friends are free to leave.” Professor Rowe told him while pointing at the door.

“What but we weren’t doing anything,” another guy from the group protested.

“Mr. Collins you can forget about coming to tomorrow’s class as well.” Professor Rowe told the guy.

The guy who spoke up didn’t say another word, but you could see the anger burning in his eyes as he stared down the shorter professor. The blonde guy, Jacob took his friend by the shoulders before he did anything he would regret and left alongside his entire group that was being disruptive.

Once they had all left, Professor Rowe went back to his jubilant self. “Okay! Now that we don’t have any more disruptors, we can get back to business!”

For the first hour, Professor Rowe explained the general gist of the class and answered many of the student’s questions regarding what they would be doing throughout the year. According to the professor, the class would be doing basic combat training for the first couple of months, it was only after that they would start doing more advanced combat training such as rift delves or full contact sparring with simulated combat devices.

During the last hour, Professor Rowe took them around and showed them some of the facilities, before taking them to a large area where he had them change into their training uniforms. For the rest of the time, the professor had them go through some basic footwork drills before he let them go for the day.

Not much happened throughout any of his classes except for some drama with some students, but it was a very similar experience to schools in his old world. The main difference was that his last school didn’t have magic.

His next class was his swordsmanship elective with Sarah Hashen. Unlike mandatory classes, electives could be taken by every year of students. Professor Hashen’s class was apparently quite popular because Julius saw many underclassmen and upperclassmen all funneling into the training yard where the session was held.

Julius checked his status for a minute and was surprised that he had some notifications that he had missed.

[Mana Layering lvl 3 -> lvl 4]

[Empowerment of Will lvl 3 -> lvl 4]

He had been practicing [Mana Layering] last night, but Julius must’ve forgotten to check if it leveled up afterward. He was more interested to see that [Empowerment of Will] had leveled up throughout the day. He didn’t know if it was because of the incident with Liam, or the fact that Julius had been trying to sense a lot of people’s aura, but something must have worked because it was now level 4.

Julius let himself get distracted for a moment before he remembered why he was checking his status in the first place. He wanted to know what his [Swordsmanship] was at and how close it was to evolving to uncommon.

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