"I'll be staying with those kids I hope you don't mind that"
The girl said leaving nothing behind the throne room.
As she left the six men remained standing, silence was evident because they didn't know what to say.
"Your Majesty"
"Yes"
"How strong is Lady Alicia?"
The archduke could finally ask to which the emperor answered "That my friend is my question too"
After Alicia disappeared from the throne room, she reappeared at the ruined temple.
"Ali!"
Alya immediately grabbed her as soon as she came back.
"Hey Alicia how did it go?"
Keith asked while guiding her inside.
"Wait we are not suspected right?"
Arabella was a bit worried so she asked that question.
"No worries I already settled everything"
"Yes!"
Her words made everyone rejoice causing the atmosphere to be warm. A bonfire was ignited and a feast was made by a couple of children.
"Where is Apollo?"
Despite the happy celebration, Alicia notices his absence.
"Apollo is inside the library and he seems to be tired so we leave him be"
Mckenzie said while handing her a tray of food.
"If you want to see him give him this, he might wake up if you spoke to him"
"I see I'll go then"
Holding the tray Alicia walked through the ruined temple and went inside the library. Amongst the shelves and books, there on one of the small corners of the room, you can see a boy covered in bed sheets and pillows. Apollo was there sleeping comfortably while embracing a pillow. So Alicia doesn't know whether to wake him up or just let him sleep.
"Well might as well leave this here"
She settles the tray beside him, she then puts a preservation spell on it to make the meal warm the same way when she brought it. After putting a spell she got a lid to protect it from any falling objects.
"Many things happened I hope you rest well"
After saying those words she finally left and let the boy take a rest.
"So how did it go?" Mckenzie asked as soon as he saw Alicia return.
"Still asleep"
"Leave the guy be he must be tired from all the ruckus we did"
Blair said while handing a barbecue to Alicia then Casper suddenly suggested something.
"By the way I was wondering if we could start preparing for the first Quarterly exam"
"Oh right, that will happen next week!"
"Was the date already announced?"
"No, I think they will tell us on Monday"
"We still have an entire day to rest so we should spend it nicely"
Niko, Alya, Agnes and Samael talk while circling around the fire. Then as they settled on the topic Braiden began to speak as well.
"We have all the materials we need since the previous lower class left their diaries here"
"I am really thankful they also left letters of encouragement" Vesta spoke feeling the letters were to lighten up the gloomy first-year lower class.
"Speaking of letters I even saw a one-hundred-year-old letter telling us to never give up" Aaron began to share while holding his half-eaten barbeque.
"Wow that's old"
Nino exclaimed while stealing some grilled corn from Blair.
"Wait that's strange I just put my corn here" the latter said before taking another corn to grill.
"We should study and put the materials left behind by our predecessor into good use"
Jillian encourage feeling excited about their upcoming exam.
"Okay"
As she went inside the library she found Apollo sitting in the corner she had last seen last night, though she found it weird that he intensively staring at the air.
"Apollo?"
"!?"
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"Oh, since when did you arrive?"
"Just now why?"
"Ah nothing, I just woke up so I won't be able to eat this"
He pointed to the meal she left last night, Alicia only nodded then she spoke.
"Breakfast is ready, everyone is waiting so we should join them"
"Okay I was about to go there as well"
"By the way Apollo?"
"Yes?"
"What were doing a while ago?"
"Ah, that? I was checking the items we got from the assault we did at the temples"
"So? How much did we get?"
"It's massive just looking at it in my ring makes me feel overwhelmed"
It surprised the girl a bit since Apollo was used to the wealth of the tower, so if he felt overwhelmed like he said then she could imagine how much they got from the attack.
"We should tell everyone about that"
"Yeah"
When they arrived a long table was already prepared with sixteen chairs waiting for them to sit on.
"Morning Apollo"
"Morning"
"Since our main character is here let's eat!"
Apollo couldn't help but shake his head at Mckenzie's words. Then the boy's eyes shifted and saw baskets full of freshly baked breath and a warm pot of soup.
"Come on dig in!"
Blair urged and then guided Apollo to sit with them.
"Let's eat!"
The breakfast went smoothly, and after that they hurriedly cleaned up before returning to their dorm.
"We are back!"
Mckenzie announced as soon as he entered the main door. However, his energetic attitude soon dampened when his eyes landed on a certain someone.
"Professor Adolfo?"
"Yes, what nice weather isn't it student Mckenzie?"
A wide brilliant smile appeared on the professor's face however his students felt hellish since they somehow felt a bad thing would happen to them.
Then Adolfo's smile grew wider when he saw Apollo walking beside his classmates.
"What's this? Why is he here?"
Apollo wondered but the professor's appearance made the entire class nervous. Then finally the professor spoke.
"The Quarterly Exam will happen on the 16th day of this month, so these coming days will be filled with reviews of your previous lessons, and also..." he looked at each of his students before continuing.
"This Quarterly exam will be held for three days"
"What?"
"Three days?"
"What do they expect to do have a written exam for an entire day?"
"Shut up Mckenzie"
The kids began discussing though they began to zip their mouths when Adolfo gestured them to quiet down.
"The reason for the exam being held for three days is because a tournament will be held there"
All the students stare at their professor not understanding why they need to put up a tournament on an exam day.