By the Grace of the Gods: Volume 5 by Roy

Author:Roy [ROY]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2020-11-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4 Side Story 1: Meanwhile 1

While Ryoma was having a leisurely journey in the carriage, classes were underway at the academy in the royal capital.

“Class will now begin,” the teacher said, and proceeded to read indifferently from a textbook. It was a dull and repetitive class. The students listened in silence. One of those students was Eliaria. She sat up straight, looked right at the podium where the teacher stood, and listened to the lecture. But on the inside, she found it tedious to endure.

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When class ended that morning, Eliaria left her seat and hurried to the magic training ground in one corner of the schoolhouse. Students could practice there independently, but it was seldom used outside of classes. In other words, it wasn’t a popular spot. Eliaria sat on a bench off to the side of the training ground, ate the lunch she had prepared in advance, and killed time by practicing magic until lunch break was over. After class that afternoon, she would return to her room in the dorms. She had already been at the academy for about a month, and this was the routine she’d settled into.

Elia stopped casting magic and sighed. “I’ve only been here for a month, but I don’t know how much more boredom I can take,” she thought to herself. “I never expected classes to be quite this tedious.”

This academy taught about culture and various fundamentals for first-years through third-years, then taught more specific knowledge and skills for the fourth-years through sixth-years. After graduation, graduates could become disciples or enter training courses for whichever field they wished to pursue.

Elia had only just enrolled, so her classes taught the most fundamental of the fundamentals. They provided basic lessons about national history, geography, math, magic, and swordsmanship for the purpose of physical education. If they were all nobles, then the first-years’ classes taught the students nothing that they wouldn’t have learned before enrolling.

As such, Elia found the classes too simple. Her grades were good, but she felt no sense of accomplishment. Not only that, but none of the forty or so other students in the class ever talked to her. This wasn’t because they were trying to ignore her or bully her, of course, but because they were intimidated. She was from the duke’s family and possessed high magical energy, so they were scared to associate with her more than necessary.

Elia was aware that she was being avoided, so she didn’t go out of her way to try and speak with them either. Some of the students would likely have personalities that were incompatible with her anyway, but she didn’t want to force anyone else to talk with her either. Even if they were afraid of her, they would be unable to reject her approaches, and Elia didn’t want to form relationships that way. As a result, she made no friends throughout her first month at the academy. Her time there was spent bored and lonely.

“I knew things would be like this, even before I got here, but still.

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