Chapter 28

Chapter 28

I returned to my room. New novel chapters are published on

It seemed that I could gain achievement points by getting involved in major events like dealing with Ludwig. Of course, I knew that I could also earn points by completing other challenges like slapping the emperor across the face, which was completely unrelated.

But wasn’t this unfair?

I survived a life-threatening situation, which rewarded me 100 points, but just now, when Ludwig was present and someone told him to leave, I was awarded the same 100 points as well. Was that even fair?

That was basically saying that all the hard work I’d done to survive was the same as Ludwig just getting nagged at.

When I thought about this in my head and tried to spawn the system message to get an answer as to why this was, no messages showed up. It seemed like these people had their own rules about it, and besides, it was exhausting to even think about it.

Most of the main story took place in Class B and their dormitory or classroom, so Class A would mostly be filled with events that I didn’t know much about.

When I returned to my room, I filled in the empty names in my notepad based on the self-introduction earlier.

First, Class A.

I couldn’t remember all of their talents. There were even some individuals that I didn’t remember at all.

1 - Vertus de Gradias (Swordmaster, villain)

2 - Ellen Artorius (The super overpowered one)

3 - Liana de Grants (Electricity)

4 - Harriet de Saint-Ouen (Magic)

5 - Cliffman (Close combat specialist)

6 - Heinrich von Schwartz (Pyrokinesis)

7 - Adelia (Talent in the field of magic)

8 - Connor Lint (Teleportation)

9 - Erhi de Raffaeli (Scum number 1, a holy knight I think...?)

10 - Kaier Bioden (Scum number 2, a villain in the early stages. Can’t remember what he possessed exactly)

11 - Me

And then, class B.

1 - Charlotte de Gradias (Unknown)

2 - Louis Ankton (Intelligent. The saint.)

3 - Scarlett (Magic, immune to supernatural powers)

4 - Ashir (Divine power I think...?)

5 - Cristina (Alchemy, enchantment)

6 - Anna de Gerna (Dark magic, not a bad person)

7 - Evia (Telepathy)

8 - Dettomorian (Shamanism, psychokinesis. A powerful individual.)

9 - Delphine Izadra (Talent in archery)

10 - Lanian Sesor (Talent in music)

11 - Ludwig (Has good stamina and endurance, pretends to be a weakling but turns out to be super powerful, protagonist)

Although I couldn’t remember all of their talents in detail, I was roughly able to organize them in my mind after listening to their self-introductions, as it triggered my memories. Since I would mainly interact with the students in Class A, I didn’t need to remember all the characters from the original work so diligently.

Anyway, because Charlotte and I had been added as well, there were a total of twenty-two of us now, which was different from the original twenty.

Among them, I didn’t know what Charlotte’s talent was. I wondered what kind of talent she possessed. Could it be the same type of talent as Vertus? Since they were both nobles, there was a good possibility that they could have the same talents.

But now was not the time to worry about Charlotte.

I’d gained 100 points for successfully escaping from the Demon King’s castle.

I’d gained 1000 points for rescuing Charlotte.

And I spent 300 points by using The Scribe’s Advice, which cost 150 points, twice.

And I received 100 points as a reward for the event just now.

I had a total 900 achievement points at my disposal.

To grant myself a talent with achievement points, I needed a minimum of 1000 points.

[Swordsmanship - 1000 points]

[Archery - 1000 points]

[Magic Attunement - 1000 points]

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My ability to acquire talents was quite ridiculously overpowered. Vertus had to endure immense pain and suffer through a great ritual in order to obtain three talents. However, I could acquire talents simply by using achievement points.

Of course, the required achievement points could fluctuate at any time.

Once I acquired the first talent, the second talent would probably become more expensive. It was unfortunate that I didn’t know how much more expensive it would be, though.

If I gained another 100 points, I could acquire my first talent, assuming whoever was in charge didn’t suddenly change the price of the talent.

There were incredibly powerful talents that I could acquire as well, such as the super talents.

[Weapon Mastery - 10,000 points]

[Magic - 20,000 points]

The weapon mastery talent, which was among Ellen’s numerous talents, required 10,000 points, while the magic talent that Harriet possessed required 20,000 points.

I could save up and accumulate enough points to acquire those talents, but that could take months, or even years to save up. Also, I wasn’t certain how much the talent would cost then.

When the talent of swordsmanship reached its peak, it could evolve into the talent of weapon mastery, but who knew when that would happen?

Moreover, talents like weapon mastery and magic required support from other talents to unleash their full potential. Most often, talents related to magical power were necessary.

But then why was I, a fully grown man, also intimated along with them? I was supposed to be the more mature and experienced one, but this teacher was just too intimidating. Was it okay for a teacher to be that scary?

Laughter echoed from the classroom next door, in stark contrast to the fiery atmosphere within our own.

“Hahahaha!”

It was Class B.

“Well, then, I hope you all understood the warning to be cautious of one another.”

Unlike Class B, no one was laughing in our class.

“And, Number 11.”

Huh?

“Come with me.”

‘Huh? Me? Why? Why me all of a sudden?’

I hadn’t expected this plot development.

‘Um... teacher?’

***

Next to the Royal Class’ exclusive dormitory was a separate building reserved for common class classrooms. So, on days when we had common classes, we didn’t need to wander around the entire Temple.

Although there were about a hundred students receiving education, the common class building was slightly smaller than the other Temple buildings. However, it housed not only teachers but also other staff members as well, similar in number to the number of students.

I set it up like this, but I didn’t really know what all those teachers and staff actually did...

In the office assigned for first-years, there were dozens of other people working besides the homeroom teachers. I wasn’t sure if they were all teachers or something, but it was likely that all offices were like this as well.

The number of staff members and students could be on par. In fact, there might even have been more staff members.

Mr. Effenhauser took me to his personal office and instructed me to have a seat in front of him.

I felt like a patient who’d been finally brought to a hospital after their illness had worsened because they had waited too long.

I wasn’t sure what this feeling was, but I had a feeling that something bad was going to happen.

He rummaged through some documents without even looking at me and spoke.

“Number 11, Reinhart.”

“Y-yes, sir.”

“...”

He stared at me silently.

“So, you have many aptitudes but no talent. Is that correct?”

“Uh, um... yes.”

Was he going to ask what a useless piece of trash like me was doing here?

I did set him up as a character that was cold and ruthless, but not to the extent of being a total dick.

“What classes are you planning to take?”

“...Pardon me...?”

The words that came out of Mr. Effenhauser’s mouth were unexpected. He placed a document in front of me which contained profiles of each student.

The document he handed me was about Number 3, Riana de Granz.

“Number 3, Granz, is a superhuman.”

“...I see.”

‘So what?’

He rummaged through the papers and showed me another page.

“Here’s Number 5.”

“...Yes.”

“Cliffman. He has talent in combat.”

“I see.”

I looked at Mr. Effenhauser with a puzzled face, and he stared back at me with an intimidating expression.

Looking at him made me realize that there were people in the world who could intimidate others with just their eyes.

“Usually, superhumans enroll in special classes for meditation or controlling their abilities. Since there aren’t that many superhumans, they require such special education.”

“That makes sense.”

“I suppose you, Number 11, wouldn’t need those specialized classes, correct?”

“Yes, I suppose so.”

‘I might need it later in the future, but definitely not now.’

“Cliffman has a talent in combat. It’s a rare talent. He excels in unarmed combat, swordsmanship, martial arts, archery... he has basically all categories of combat talents you can think of.”

“I see.”

Cliffman demonstrated talent in all forms of combat. Although Cliffman only had that one talent, it was a talent that surpassed weapon mastery.

“So, Number 5 who has combat abilities, would likely focus on physical training, weapon techniques, and sparring-based classes. Do you agree?”

“Yes.”

Ah, I knew what he was trying to say.

“The other classmates already have some direction in their specialization. They have a rough idea of what they need to learn and what classes they will need to take.”

“Yes.”

“But, Number 11, you have an aptitude in all areas, but no outstanding talent in any.”

Though that was slightly discouraging, his purpose wasn’t to put me down.

“Perhaps you also don’t know what direction you should head toward. Is that right?”

It seemed like he thought I needed some guidance.