Chapter 38

"I'm your big fan!"

A red-haired girl ran up to me eagerly and her sparkling eyes made me feel uncomfortable. I don't remember doing anything heroic, nor anything worth admiring. Wondering why she was a fan of mine... she then answered before I could even ask.

"Kaspian Bladeheart is actually my uncle, he talked a lot about you." So that was why she knew of me from the beginning.

"And what he talked about me?" Being rather curious what Kaspian was thinking about me, I asked.

"He thinks that you are the only one who will bring a great future to this continent. He is your big admirer." She replied. Partly what Kaspian told her was right, I never intended to somehow help Dicathen, It will just eventually happen after finishing my own goal.

"So that's how it is...Anyway, what do you want?"

"Ah, yes. Can you sign it here?" She held out some notepad and pointed at a particular place on it.

'That's it? What does my signing give her?'

"Is it necessary?" I straightforwardly asked she flinched. Her eyes were pleading me to sign the note, she was so desperate to get me to sign this?

I just took a note and pen from her, after signing it I handed the note and pen back to her, she was literally shaking when she took them as if holding something precious. Never understood such kind of humans.

"Thank you!" She thanked me and after bowing she walked towards her friend.

"Already giving away autographs. so popular you are, brother of mine." Arthur joked behind my back.

"You are late Arthur."

"No, I'm not. You just started the lesson early." He complained, even though I'm not a teacher, I just gave them things that cost more than the budget of this country could ever afford.

"I saved this for you anyway. Here take it." I threw another leveling badge at him.

"Should I wear it now?" He asked and I just nodded.

Arthur took out the badge from the box and stuck it on his current badge. Of course, I already sensed what the badge was doing, it inspected everything in Arthur from mana-pool to physicality. He himself wouldn't sense this because the badge can hide mana pretty well.

And later numbers on Arthur's badge started changing. It went up from 0 to 57, not bad compared to other students who had lower than 30, some of DC had around 15-30 this was highest and then was Tessia with level 30 as well. (She doesn't have the Beast Will of the Elderwood Guardian.)

The badge also made a big mistake, calculating the overall strength of the current Arthur is impossible. It depends on how he uses his Beast Will, phrasing through time and space is a strong technique. I'm sure Arthur can even take on Lance, of course, if he uses Beast Will. (That's my personal opinion. He literally stops time for himself, like how can I judge his power at this rate? There are a lot of loopholes even I don't understand. He does Za Warudo in TBATE)

"Level 57... Reach level hundred and you can fight against Lances without your Beast Will." I whispered in his ear, of course, it surprised him. This also brought up new determination.

"Anyway, aren't you going to start teaching?" He questioned me, I just shook my head.

"Everyone, Arthur here is going to be your teacher. I don't want to hear any complaints, also he is my brother. Besides he is Level 57, he can defeat any of you in an instant." Just with a few words, I lifted Arthur into the hierarchy system of students. Now he can be considered as one of the best and strongest students in the whole of Xyrus.

"Brother?!" Arthur's new class went uproar.

'I wish you luck Arthur. I'm going to be inspecting you from the sidelines. Btw is that Blaine's son and daughter there? '

"Don't drag me into this!" Arthur yelped, but it was too late. I was already on the sidelines, waiting for Arthur's next action.

"*Sigh* Since, my incompetent brother doesn't know what to do. I guess I'll help him out a little. I'll introduce myself, my name is Arthur Leywin, a newly appointed disciplinary committee member, the second son of wonderful mages, a doting brother, and your new professor." He shot a smirk at me, I just ignored him.

"Most of you here, have high mana-core stages... Can this Leveling system be trusted?" He asked me.

"It can only show overall strength, battle experience is unfortunately out of its capabilities." I explained and he accepted my answer.

"Then I can imagine your strength. Mr.Ashborn, maybe you might have a theme for us to do today?" I understand he was doing this on purpose, he just didn't know what to teach.

"Goodsky asked me to teach you how to survive. I agreed to her request partly, instead of teaching I opened up a path for you to grow. Since you are now only weak to go against even a silver-core mage. I suggest for you to create a trump-card of yours which can win you a time, or even defeat your opponent." I harshly addressed 'weak students'. Arthur also agreed with me.

"Good idea. Trump-card which can be used only in desperate situations, strong enough to harm ANYONE." Making a big accent on words, Arthur got the full attention of the class.

Against those Asuras, it would still be useless, but against Alacryans it can actually work. Alacryans rate of awakening is big, but as I already mentioned they prefer quantity over quality. It was a good strategy before that is...

"But I don't think that our spells can harm even a silver-core mage." Voice some blond-haired elf his opinion.

"Not entirely true, I'm pretty confident to take on silver-core mage right now. I'm only in the Light Yellow core stage. FeyFey." Responded Arthur, making the whole room explode in laughter, while FeyFey himself was blushing in embarrassment. (I like the Ivysaur joke more.)

"While I don't want to give hints this early... It would be too hard for you to realize it. The badge itself is always inspecting your body with the use of mana, this means your core is in constant contact with mana." I gave a big hint to Arthur, he was the only one who could guess the meaning behind my words. He was quadra-elemental, of course, knew more about mana than others. (Also there are Sylvia's teachings.)

"This means depleting your mana completely doesn't actually harm you. Thank you for telling us such vital information, now this gives us more ways of creating our trump-cards." Replicating the previous system in this cheap version was easy, of course, it doesn't have a game interface and such, but it does its job.

"Damn, those badges are so cool. I wonder who created them?"

"Yeah right."

The first lesson of Arthur continued with little theoretical material. Discussing ways of how to cast spells faster, or how to increase levels. Those were natural questions, especially after getting such a thing as 'that' badge.

"How was the first meeting with students?" Cynthia questioned me in her office.

"Kicked out one and appointed Arthur as a teacher. You aren't against it, right?" I asked, without glancing at her.

"No, I'm actually thankful. Who you kicked out by the way?"

"He was someone called... Gayve or something along those lines. Damn those nobles have such confusing names..." I mumbled the last part. I wasn't trying to remember their names, but they indeed have some hell of a name.

"Clive? Student council vice president... He was a capable mage so why?" Cynthia's answer for this should be already obvious to you.

"He won't last there a month with his attitude. Knowing Elijah, he will beat him up just to get a hand on the cool design of the badge." I was already sure that Elijah will take the position of one of the players, he will probably kick out someone from the Student Council.

The Disciplinary Committee members were chosen by strength and Elijah won't be picking on unknown powerful mages. He also knows from me that the Disciplinary Committee is created under command of the Council.

"It will be tough to deal with that family, but I'll manage it somehow. Maybe you aren't against me using the title of S-Class adventurer to shut them up?" She inquired.

"If it fixes the problem immediately I'm not against it."

"Another cup of tea?"

"Ah yes, thank you."

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(3'rd POV)

Players worked their asses off and worked hard to raise their levels. 3 levels were the maximum they could get from training, those three levels only were only for low leveled players. Arthur couldn't get level, of course, he needs to do harder tasks than just training.

"Ah damn, I couldn't even get one level!" Arthur grumbled and slumped down on the grass.

"Art, you are already ahead of us by a large margin." Tessia sat down next to him while panting.

"Man, you complain about your level while we couldn't even scratch you." Arthur's old acquaintance, Prince Curtis, also joined the conversation.

"So annoying, Ash probably set up something for me in this badge." Grumbled Arthur and wanted to tear off the badge, unfortunately, he couldn't because it wasn't his property.

"I think it's just harder to level up after a certain stage." Voiced Claire her opinion.

"Gotta agree, while FeyFey leveled up by 3, he stopped doing this on 20th level. We might need to do something harder, maybe actual battles? Teacher, what do you think?" Theodore just recently started calling Arthur with the nickname of Teacher, just to tease him.

Everyone already picked up this right after they realized how he hated his brother's actions. Got appointed as a teacher without any prior notice.

"For us, this is a good opportunity to get stronger." Always, silent and expressionless sister of Curtis, Kathlyn voiced. everyone nodded at her.

"We need some serious opponents, while I don't want to steal all the experience from any of you. The best option might be fighting among each other." Theo proposed, almost everyone agreed...

"Hm, so Arthur needs better opponents to level up. I remember someone grumbling about not needing this badge, but now is eager to fight just for some level..." Just Ashborn's voice irritated Arthur, now teasing in addition to that.

"C'mon man you set up things for me right?!" Ranted Arthur, but saw Ashborn shaking his head.

"Obviously, the higher your level, the harder task you must fulfill to improve. That is simple logic for you players. Now you want to get some levels, you are receiving quest form badges, go to the nearest battleground to hear instructions." With this said Ashborn disappeared from the place.

"This might be it guys! We can get levels."

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Sorry guys, I don't have much time this week. Because I'm going abroad and writing on the phone while traveling isn't good, not because of health, but because I just can't concentrate on writing.

Anyway, even more, interactions are coming and slowly Ashborn becomes a little more talkative.

THERE'S ALSO MY FUTURE PROJECT'S LINK.

Discord: https://discord.gg/tQk4cBspt7

Second FF: https://www.wattpad.com/story/284711075-tbate-severing-fate

Future Project: https://www.wattpad.com/story/287446607-tbate-destroyed-beginning-future-project

Cyaa!