TChapter 15: Second Day Of School
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Arteus
Credits: 2
1st year - class 2B
Room - B2F4R16
•Desperados•
Course/s
•Weapon Based Combat
•Rune Scribe
•Wilderness Survival Training
Minor Subjects:
-Mana and Core Training
-Process of Dreaming
-History of the World
-Beastiary Records
-Teamfight Tactics
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"Oh God! Hnggg.. " It was early in the morning, the sun is up in the horizon and students are leaving for their class. While Arteus is still enjoying his Delux breakfast meal. 'So what if it expensive? this shits Delicious!! I can't live without this anymore!' While screaming in his mind he was moaning in reality from just how good the food was.
But it didn't last forever as he soon finished his meal with a loud burp. Standing up and heading to the sink, he got washed up and cleaned his mouth before walking up to his window. Then he checked his ID once more.
Next Class starts at 18 Minutes
He, of course was not worried, and with a casual flick he jump out of the window and at the same time activated the way point system of his ID and quickly flew in that direction with a burst of speed.
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Outside of a building, a few students could be seen walking up to the entrance and entering. Some had an excited look, while others looked like they were about to die from boredom. It was supposed to be just the usual morning routine for most of them when they all started to hear a faint sound of whistling and roaring wind.
They looked up in the sky to see what it is, only to catch a glimpse of a blury figure crashing towards them.
And with a loud Whooosh everyone was forced to close or sheild their eye from the strong burst of wind the assaulted them. The only good thing was the road around the academy are cleaned many times throughout the day making it quite clean or dustless. Because if not they all would have showered in a fine dust of dirt.
They were about to ignore the person who did it, thinking it was just another fellow noble only for them to see that it was becaused of a young peasant boy with a large wing behind him. One of them approached him.
"Oi, Bastard... Didn't your peasant parents teached you manners in your peasant house? Do you wanna die? This is why your kind are not welcome here... You all are a bunch of brutes" A man taller than Arteus approached and began hurling insult and threats.
"Oh yeah.. I AM a brute.. Why would I care about your shiny ass face? Want me to break it in? I'll show you a proper brute!" He quickly moved. Twisting his hips and planting his feet on the ground he delivered a powerful punch towards the guy.
But to his dismay the noble infront of him managed to react on time. Tilting his head the man managed dodge Arteus attack and went for a counter delivering a punch towards Arteus face.
But instead of dodging Art smiled. And with a resounding snap, he fell back to the ground.
"Hah! Sloppy! Is that all you can do? Peasant? YOU fucking shit!" He yelled and kicked Arteus in the stomach smiling wide in the face of victory.
But the next thing he heard made him frown.
"I'd like to report an assault" Arteus mumbled towards his wrist. Smiling at the man.. Finally, his fruit of hard work paid off.
Last night, after getting fucked over for not reading his course enrollment. Arteus went on to read the entire rule book out of spite, and he had learn quite a lot of things...
"Report an Assault I barel-..." The noble was about to laugh, but then he remembered something.. He faught back.. whats worse, he faught back without the other party landing a hit on him!
He started to panic and look around. All his fellow noble are looking at him, some with dissapointment and others in amusement. Everybody know, that they are not suppose to hit the commoners.. they can yank their hair, push them around, insult them, dump water to them, or throw them in the toilet.. but they have all learn no to hit too hard.. specially if they cant cover it as a self defense.
"What's the problem here? I was getting ready to my class when I got notified that theres a nearby disturbance just outside the department." An aged voice came from behind them.
Turning around, they saw a gentle looking lady. She have a few wrinkles and her eyes exudes a deep sense of wisdom behind them. She wore a modest dress that accentuated her motherly curves, specially her waist.
"U-uh... THIS BAS- Brute! attacked me out of nowhere! S- so I faught back! You can ask them!" explaining himself, he pointed to the people around him.
"Is it true?" The lady asked the people around, receiving a soft yes from them. " I see.. young man.. why did you attack him?" Turning her attention towards Arteus she softly asked him.
"L-lies.. all lies" Arteus looked up, he was crying. His cheeks are swollen and he weakly place a hand on it. "Th-they are working together all of them.. He punched me out of nowhere... and kicked me when I was down... he's a monster!.. I thought...I thought the academy will be the place where I can learn without prejudice... but all of you are the same"
Cries of pain and betrayal came out of his lips. He looked up towards her with a fearful eye.. afraid that she too will take the side of the nobles. "How can you prove that they are working together? Child.. you know I cant do anything just from baseless accusatioon right?"
The woman asked, crouching infront of him to face him properly. "Proof?!! DONT you SEE??! Look at their Uniform! THEY'RE ALL THE SAME KIND! heartless monsters who enjoy watching others in pain!" He yelled at her, anger and frustration eched deeply in his face.
"Calm dow-" She reached out wanting to hold his arm but he slapped it away. "DONT TOUCH ME!" she looked at him for a few moment of silence.. then she smiled.
Turning towards the noble who started the attack she spoke "You, and all of you.. transfer all your credits towards this young man" an outrageous statement. Their hard earned credit? To him?
"BUT HE STARTE- " The one who caused all the mess suddenly froze, his back drenched in cold sweat.
"I dont want to hear it.. Dont make me repeat my self child" Her voice were ice cold, and her gaze pierced through them. She turned her attention to those around them and all of them flinched as well.
.... With alot of hesitations, the nobles began moving.. gritting their teeth — some even crying as they transfer all the credits to Arteus.. But all their glares landed on the noble.. If he just didn't involed them in this mess!
And while all of this are happening.. Arteus is trying his best not to break down laughing. He was biting his tongue and pinching his thighs just to prevent himself from laughing outloud.
Acting was easy for him.. In the slums where lies and deceit were everywhere, you'll be force to learn them as well.. And he had used it a dozen of times to save himself out of trouble before.. and he's confident that he's pretty good at playing pretend.
He could feel the pulse of his mark each time a credit gets transferred to him. And each time he couln't help but think of how much food he can get with this..
"You... is this punishment enough?" The woman infront of him asked. Making him smile inwardly.
"I...I just want to hear them apologize... t-thats all please" He said, feining a snfifle as he speak.
"..!!!" hearing his request.. the noble around him collectively clenched their teeth.
"You heard him.. Get on your knees and apologize" The beautiful lady spoke, glaring at them..
Gritting their teeth, they all got down.. and at the same time "We're sorry"
"A-pff... Appology accepted" He spoke.. he almost broke but he managed just in time.
"Good.. now that everything is settled you all can go and leave. I still have a class to attend to" With that the woman turned to leave. And of course, Arteus walked just behind her winking at the nobles as he walks pass them.
"How did you do i? You did a number to them... " He heard the soft voice of the lady in front of him. Smiling, Arteus replied calmly. "I believe, I dont understand what you were asking, Miss"
"Not bad.."
With a soft chuckle the woman turned and entered to the... same room? As he opened the door behind her and entered the room, his eyes landed on the few people who had already arrived.
"Oh, what a pleasant surprise.. Go on, take a sit.." She smiled at him before cheking her wrist, maybe checking the time. "There's about 5 minutes left before class starts.. Let me introduce my self to our late enrollee.. My name is Astrid Sol Lockhart.. I'll be your teacher on the subject [Process of dreaming] nice to meet you"
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"Lets do a quick Recap" Astrid turn around and wrote something on the board by just running her fingers on the clean surface.
Dreamer and Awakened "People specially in the general puclic.. they alway mixed this up.. Some people call those with a power and awakened.. but in truth the person they are pointing at haven't even awakened their cores yet. So, what does a Dreamer have that an Awakened dont?" She spoke and looked around the class.
And everyone just spoke in chorus "A Dream" the voice of a dozen or so student said. Hearing this she clapped. "Thats right! A dream is the manifestation of a person Desire! and — " she was about to continue on when she saw Arteus raising his hand.
Pointing at him she asked "Yes?" In which Arteus stood up, struggling a bit from his wings.
"Who or what allows it to manifest? I've been meaning to ask this after receiving this things" Pointing at his back he spoke. "Im just a normal kid, and the people I talked to that are on the same situation as I am were also normal people.. yet they suddenly they managed to manifest a literal thing out of thin air?... what's allowing it to happen?"
Smiling as someone finally started asking the right question she began answering his question. "The simple answer is the Universe" staring at him and his back she continued "We all are connected to the universe since the they of our creation, We might not know it but we all share a faint string of bond or connection to our world.. Because in technicality our world is the same as our mother.. or our creator.."
"Through this, the Will of the Universe can hear us.. But because our connection is faint, We must have a strong desire, wish or a strong voice towards that once thing that we ned before the universe gives it to us.. Of course, not all the people who wished enough were given what they wanted.. The universe is fair, and only give those who are worthy or either who are in desperate need."
"And people who achieved Dream Manifestation through desperate times are called—" "Desperados" Arteus spoke.. now it make sensed to him.. at least a little bit.
" Bingo!" beaming, she clapped her hand. "But there's a few issue about being a Desperados.. and what is that class?" Looking around she searched for some volunteer to answer her.
"They skipped a few process of Dreaming, specially the Majority of the First stage.. Making their Dreams, sometimes be a nuisance or hold the user back because of the lack of adjustment.. It can be compared to rushing a delicate process of sculpting... the result would be rough around the edges, not up to your standard, and sometimes even far from your imagination.. as oppose to planning it out and slowly and carefully sculpting your dreams into reality." A girl... Amelia answered perfectly.
Receiving a soft clap from professor Astrid. "You nailed it again!"
"Just like what our cute Amelia said, Manifesting your Dream through desperation isn't ideal most of the time.. I can see you're struggling to move around with such big wings on your back right?" She said pointing out Arteus awkward sitting postion.
"But dont, worry you can still do a bit of adjustment with your dreams.. Although youll have to work hard just to achive the same result as everyone else.. Anyway, Our Recap is done.. lets move on to our lesson for today!"
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Arteus listened to the subject with keen interest and learned a few things along the way. The lesson was about the first stage of Dreaming.. Which is the entire stage he skipped.
That stage was called Manifestation. And that stage had 3 steps. The first one was conceptualization. Where you whisper the basic concept of what you desire into the bond you have with the universe and then manifest it.. the issue here is you cant be sure, if the universe have already heard you.. So you have to make sure it do.
Because there were many cases where people manifested the wrong dreams they wished for because the universe had not yet heard them enough.. And only gave them something similar to what they wished for instead. This stage, Astrid said that it'll be fine if he skipped it since he already have something he wanted.
The second step was called Tuning. This is where you whisper the more advance details of you Dream. At his time. Arteus asked.. 'Do we just tell it what we want?' and Astrid told them that they will be using a bit of bribe of some sort to make the universe listen to them.
Either offering up their mana, or offering a essence crystal.. anything at all. But she said, a more valuable thing will be better. And usually this process takes multiple times before the universe change your and upgrade your dream so they should first get the offering before attempting this process.
And the last is the Anchoring. And this is the only step a desperados dont skipp.. this process involves you tethering your Dream into your own existence. And becoming one with it. The process? You just had to reintroduce yourself to the Will of the Universe and make it acknowledged you.
Astrid, being a great teacher she is... Used Arteus to explain more on the Desperados.
And she easily guessed how he manifested it in the first place.
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That time, Arteus was called in front of the class and was instructed to spread his wings — and he did. After doing so, Astrid began disecting and analyzing his wings
"Since he manifested a wing. I'm pretty sure he was falling at that time. That is why his main desire was to fly.. That was his concept." looking at the class she continued. "And of course, since it was desperate times, he moved on to the process of Tuning without his knowledge and expressed the more advance details of his Concept.."
"This is just my guess.. but either, our sweet boy over here loves birds and was fond of them...OR.. flying with wings is the only thing he could put his mind around.. Perhaps flying with pure levitation is something he cannot grasp.. That's why his mind unconciously chose wings as the base model.. And of course.."
She turned towards him, smiling.. warmly?
"The sized can be explain easily... Either he's just prideful.. Or he needed an extra push because he's carrying extra weight...perhaps? Something Valuable?.. or someonevaluable?"
Seeing him react to her last word she smiled before turning away. "Anyway, let's not pry any further.. and instead base our understanding in those assumption.. Do you now understand how the mind unconciously weave your Dreams in desperate time?" panning her gaze across the class she suddenly turned serious.
"That's why let me tell you this...." She pasued, and the entire room quiet down
"Be Careful on what you wish for.." a suffucation silence and unknown pressure slowly decends into the class before quickly vanishing.
"Anyway.. Class dismmised.. the next meeting well do the practical subject of the first stage and ill guide you through your Dream Weaving!" And with wave of her hand she ended the class and turned to Arteus.
"You did well.. But you can go now, thank you for helping me.. I had rewarded you a points already now get moving, I'll be heading to my next class soon" She said as she ushered him outside before turning to leave on her own after locking the room.
Seeing her leave Arteus couldn't help but turn his gaze towards his wings. Before turning back to the hallway and moving on.
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Arteus
Credit: 102
1st year - class 2B
Room - B2F4R16
•Desperados•
Course/s
•Weapon Based Combat
•Rune Scribe
•Wilderness Survival Training
Minor Subjects:
-Mana and Core Training
-Process of Dreaming
-History of the World
-Beastiary Records
-Teamfight Tactics
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