I felt the eyes of the others on me so when I suddenly looked back they all looked away and began moving about.
“Hey can you two stop the little lovey dovey stuff between girls. It’s weird.” Margaret said.
“Oh my, are you jealous, you did like the petting when I did it during last class.” Stephanie asked grinning.
“N-n-no way.” Margaret denied with a beet red face. A complete tsundere and it was shown just the next moment when Emily put her hand on her head and began patting.
“Now now, you don't need to deny it so much.” Emily said with a gentle caress.
“Wha-What! Uhaa~~! Sto~p~!” Margaret quickly melted in Emily’s petting and even then tried to fight it out. It was like a baby puppy that barked a lot but when it gets petting it can’t help but melt in their arms.
I swallowed hard and looked at the princess that was smiling. The gentle patting on my head was slowly turning into a pleasant feeling but I quickly found out why. She was using mana covering her hand to gently caress my own causing great pleasure.
Not wanting to end up like the redhead I covered my entire body in a mana coat which made the elf princess frown for a moment before a devilish smile crossed her face.
"If that is how you wish to do things, I can do it your way.” With her smile I felt her hands being covered in a lot of mana and she began pet me but just before she got to start the sound of a large bang came from the teacher.
“Alright you kids, stop playing around, zee class shall begin. Today you vill learn zee remedial basics of zee art of cooking.” He said.
With a frown the elf princess sat down while pouting. I, on the other hand, sighed in relief and smiled warily at the princess. I turned to find a flustered redhead and a smiling elf sitting while looking forward.
“Note to self, beware of petting elves. Highly dangerous!!!” I warned myself mentally.
After that the class was rather monotone for the first half hour but it was mostly how to mix and so on. Mainly instructions of how to make cookies. After the black board was filled with the instructions which were labeled from step one to the final one we were told to make them.
Each station was a table with a sink of the far left. Under the sink was where all the pots and pans were kept inside the cabinets. Next to that one was a smaller cabinet with all the utensils and some magic items used for cooking. Yep, machines run on magic power was here as well, especially the cake mixer, the kind held by hand. Like the pens we have, they had a small gem which you fill with mana so it can run. In the center of the station was the oven and next to that was a cabinet for pans that you use to put in there. Finally on the far right was a fridge that held all the ingredients.
We each split up and prepared the ingredients. Since it was cookies it would be similar to cake baking but less liquid I think.
I haven’t cooked much and mostly for bait to catch a few animals for requests I did. Stephanie showed me what to do since she was more experienced with this. Also, those wondering, I never cooked in my previous life.
Anyway after a good 40 minutes of preparing the stuff and mixing it all we finally finish the batter and we put it in the oven to bake.
By the end of class they should be done. With the rest of the time we take the time to clean up our station and finally relax. Unfortunately by doing that the princess made her advance rather fast this time not giving me time to react. She hugged me from behind and petting me like you pet a cat. On the head near the ear and on the chin. Normally humans don’t have sensitivity here but using mana you can make it sensitive since you are petting the mana inside the person's body. Don’t ask me how it's done. I was far too preoccupied trying to feebly get away while I was melting in her hands.
It was only a few minutes before the cookies were done that she let me go so I could recover enough to help pull it out and leave class normally.
When I recovered enough we removed them and grabbing a few small pots we stored them. Yep, we keep them ourself to eat. This class ends at 6 pm so it’s already dinner time so we get to enjoy what we made.
There is a short 30 min break after this class and the next because of this. With the teacher having prepared drinks we enjoy our cookies. Our cookies were double chocolate chip cookies. The classic that will never fall to any other cookie. I will say this truth. COOKIES ARE LIFE and the only thing that can match it is Peach and Glop’s squffiness!
Well the snack was great but we had to end it soon. Each of us had a large plate full so we still had some to spare. Storing them in our inventory we finally leave for the last class. For me it was Alchemy. The class was one floor above. The class was set up just like the previous one and was set up in tables for two people and on the tables was a complete alchemy set. The tables had cabinets under that held the supplies and materials we would use.
This class was much more monotone. We didn’t do anything because alchemy was far more dangerous so we needed to learn the basic rules.
In the end we ended up just taking notes. There was only one other person from the top 20 in this class but she sat in the back while I sat in the front taking the same spot as the cooking class. Middle column second row.
As soon as the boring class was done we were told to go to the dorms. Curfew was at 10 pm so we had the remaining time to do as we like.
For me, I headed down the school on Rama. The tamer teacher’s pass allowed me to summon him for this. It was good training for both of us because it was physically exhausting for me to hold on to the fox without any harnesses.
In the dormitory lobby I found the four royalties plus the elf and redhead. The seven had a small glowing gem in their hand.
“Hey guys, hmm, what's that?” I asked.
"It's our dungeon heart bud?” Asher said showing me.
“Bud?” I said confused.
"It's like a seed, we need to cultivate this by feeding it a lot of mana until it’s the size of our fist. When it's nearing its final size it will begin to form an ego. We are supposed to think of how we want it and the ego will normally take that route. We were told to think of a nice peaceful being with a butler's personality and loyal to its maker.” Owen explained.
“Here look how it's made?” Asher said.
They showed me their books. There was 5 pages describing it and I read it all intently while they chatted away. When it finished there was a detailed drawing at the end that showed a diagram. To make the bud I needed to gather my mana in a ball like you do for mana bolt.
After that you need to compress this mana while adding more. While you add more you need to have the ambient mana also called nature mana absorbed by the ball. The bud will crystalize when it has 1000 points of your mana and 250 nature mana.
“Have you finished reading?” Asher asked.
I nod, “Yep, but...are only people in your class allowed to make it?” I asked.
“Well, no, as long as you have a teacher or one of the maids present when you make so they know you have one then you can make it.” Stephanie explained.
|If you are going to make one then I would suggest walking outside where there is more nature mana.” Out of nowhere the halfling maid appeared. She had a smile on her face that showed she was planning something.
“Um, well I don’t do dungeoneering so I doubt I need it.” I said.
“Well, if you show great promise the teachers can add it as extra curriculum, you won’t need to go to class as long as we pass you what we write down and you take a test every month to prove that you are properly learning.” Emily said.
"Is that so. But...I see dungeoneering as something that will keep me from traveling.” I said the reason for my reluctance.
“Hey hey, are you planning to be an adventurer? You know tamers are the best dungeoneers right!” Nova exclaimed.
Owen nodded, “She is right you know. Unlike us who use the royal dungeon for training, tamers use the dungeons in the place of the pocket dimension to keep your tamed creatures. It offers them a real hom
e as well as a training ground.” He explained.
I was slowly getting tempted, “Well, I can’t overturn that reasoning, but I still don’t know where I would place it.” I said.
“Well under your home.” Asher said.
"I lived in the capital remember, it would probably invade into your dungeon and make a safer exit for the monsters.” I replied.
“Well it’s not like it will matter. We will be planting our buds here like every other person. At the end of the year we get to take it with us?” Owen said.
“Don’t dungeons die if you remove the heart?” I asked.
“Not when you use dungeoneering skills. When you remove the heart you kill off all the monsters by draining them of mana and the dungeon is destroyed leaving only the original cave that is made, all that mana is stored up in the heart for the next location it’ll be planted in.’
Finally giving in to the growing desire, I show an excited expression, “Wow, so it’s like that. Well I don’t see why not. I can make a home for my pets so they can stay outside, then I might do it.”
"If that is what you want then follow me outside. I will be your supervisor.” She said.
I nod and we all exit. It seems they want to see if I can make it. We walk out of the gated area and stand in the middle of the road.
I take a breath and do like the diagram showed. I stretch my hands out while facing them together and form a ball of mana out of 100 points. Then I close my eyes and feel for the mana in the air.
Soon the sensation of the air changed and became vibrant as energy was coming off everything.
I expand my mana out and grab at this mana before drawing it in slowly. I mix the nature mana until there are 25 points for 100. With that mix I then start expanding my mana out releasing the remaining 900 and grabbed the remaining 225 points of mana and slowly drew it into the ball in a proportion of 1:4.
After 10 minutes the last bit of mana entered the now massively compressed ball of mana. When the last drop entered the ball, the ball compressed becoming the size of the top digit of my pinky and forming a crystal around the mana and then working its way inside until all the mana turned into a crystal.
When it was done I breathed a sigh of relief and opened my eyes and grabbed the little gem that was on the ground now. It was a tiny pearl like marble that had a fantastic white glow to it.
When I turned around the others, they were staring at me. “What?” I asked.
“You did that on your first try and in so little time!” Her voice was in a flat tone.
"Is there a problem with that?” I asked.
"It took us nearly the entire class to make our own and we failed countless times.” Asher replied.
I blushed and looked down seeing how I overdid it again.
“ guess it’s a given considering your rank five. What keeps you from being number one is the blessing these four have.” Emily said.
Those who were below my rank just laughed but the top four were stunned stiff. Even the elf princess that has a blessing that improves her magic control. Sorry though but I guess me having this body makes me better than elves and maybe the goddess of mana’s blessing could also have something to do with it.
"I seriously wonder if Miss. Ginshiro isn’t from the original royal family of Monville.” The little maid said.
"I don’t know, I was never told anything like that as a kid. I also never remember anything related to Monville.” I replied shaking my head.
“Well, if you awaken a second god's blessing we will know then.” Asher said.
“Anyway I think I will go to sleep. A lot just happened and I'm tired.” I said.
The others agreed and I retreated to my room and changed. I lift the small gem above my eyes and stare at it intensely.
“An ego that is similar to a butler. Nah too stiff, maybe a childhood friend that is obsessive about being a maid is better.” I thought.
I built the image with my knowledge of anime and manga and gather all my mana and pour it into the little bud before going to sleep.
Chapter 12 The Revelation
It’s finally Saturday. This first week was both boring in the morning except for monster studies.
The worst class though was reinforced PE. It seems it's only a class for unique children like me so I was the only one. The location is outside on the field between the school and forest. When I got there I waited a while on the first day before the teacher came and boy did she come in style.
Out of nowhere a shadow jumped out at me from the forest and crossed the distance before I could even react and threw a punch which I barely dodged.
It buried its fist in the ground making a 10 meter wide crater and leaving me trembling and pale like a ghost.
I lost complete control of my body after jumping back out of fear, making my body hit the ground, and only when I saw who it was did I realize why. Standing while smirking was the demonic amazon that trained me the three years after I was reborn in this world.
“M-Master Be-Bellado-donna, wha-what are you doing here?!” I asked still trembling on the ground.
Having felt my fear from our link, my pets appeared by instinct because I couldn’t summon them. Shame though that as soon as they saw the reason they cowered before the amazon.
“Hehe, good. It seems the fear I instilled in you is still kicking. Well, I'm not going to be so nice from now on kiddies.” She was grinning like the devil and we could only shrink as we helplessly squirmed backwards trying to get away.
Sadly it seems we won’t get away ever from this demon.
The first thing she did on the first day was to get an authorization to use unorthodox methods to train me because of my body. Not only that she gained an extra authorization so that Peach, Glop and Rama could stay summoned on school grounds and even in class. These info have already been handed to all teachers.
First thing she did was to have the slimes transform into their demi human form. She then put magic cuffs on their neck, wrists and ankles. These kept the slimes from reverting back to bubble shape as well as gravity weights. For Rama he gained riding harnesses that were painfully heavy. Lastly for me, I had new bracelets put on and these can’t come off whatever I do. I wouldn’t be allowed to take them off even when I sleep.
She then dropped three wooden swords on the ground.
“You three, pick those up.” She commanded with killing intent. “You will do 100 vertical swings, 100 horizontal swings, 100 diagonal swings from the left to right and 100 going to opposite. GET TO WORK NOW!” She yelled making the slimes and I grab them quickly and start swinging only to receive a hit to the head and she showed us the proper pose.
She then turned to Rama and pulled out a 5 kilograms rock and tied it around this waist.
“Fox, run once around the field and return here, you can’t stop or you will run another.” She said that in a tone just as deadly as she did for us, and Rama quickly ran away and started to circle the field.
From there we received instructions that we should train one hour like this after our last class and then I was free to go.
Now getting up from bed I coat my entire body with mana so I could lift myself up. Around my neck fell the now thumb sized dungeon heart bud.
As you can guess, with my mana capacity I can feed it a lot. Like everyone that has one, we feed all our mana to the dungeon heart before going to sleep where it’s the time having least interference to our live. The day after I made the bud the dungeoneering teacher came early in the morning to confirm it and was shocked to see me with it. She did bring a special belt that would hold the gem even as it grows. It is fully grown when the bud is the size of a handball. About 50 cm in diameter is the end result.
Normally it would take about two and a half month for normal children with the regular mana capacity of around 800-1000 to reach max size. For really talented kids and elves it’s about a month and a half since they had less than 2000mp.
And for the top five broken kids. The teacher
estimated that Nova and Stephanie will be first and will complete it next week. Followed by the remaining three the week after.
Because of this fact the dungeoneering teacher is working feverishly to try and change my class or add it to my curriculum.
What negotiation that came from it was that the alchemist teacher wouldn’t care if I changed from his class as long as I produced dungeon herbs and products that have been running low since the end of the year when everyone had to bring down the dungeons.
I simply sighed when I heard what was the results but since I didn’t really care about the alchemy class I accepted it. But instead of dungeon herbs I traded one of the three herbal slimes I had with the professor and taught him how to produce the herbal extract. From there he was free to experiment.
With that I was out of alchemy class and in dungeoneering now. And here I thought I would at least get the basics but from the looks of it that isn’t happening.
Well, with the weekend on us I wash up and put one of my sundresses on with a small light blue hairband. The dress went down to my knees but even then I wasn’t going with just that so I put pair of loose jean shorts under.
Kumi was already gone so she was eating already so I simply left with half broken pets in tow.
We sluggishly walked out and went to the dining hall. I first go to the table the others are on and pull out a bowl for Rama and drop his food.
The others saw how tired we were especially when the normally vigorous slimes sat down without changing into slimes and let their heads hit the table with a resounding ‘Thump’
“Woah! What are you guys doing to make even slimes tired?’ Asher asked with a worried look on his face.
I simply fed Rama and went to grab my food before returning and letting my weight drop.
“Show all those on this table last week’s stats increase.” I said in a monotone voice and started to eat. What appeared for everyone was a series of stat’s updates from me.
In total, that amazon demon trained me so hard that even my normally slow growth experienced a boom. With last week I gained 5 strength, 7 agility and skill for sword mastery.
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