"Yeah. We're co-workers now, Lady Luqing... I'm happy to be working with you."
"You don't need to call me lady. I'm happy to work with you too, Miss Amy."
"Same to you, Luqing. There's no need to call me Miss either."
After the two reached a consensus, they headed back to the classroom together before Luqing went back to her seat.
"Ahem, everyone, please open your textbook to page 125. I'll be going over the manaification effect..."
A few hours later...
As Amy began to clean up the blackboard, everyone else was beginning to leave the classroom for lunch.
But before Luqing left with Sophia and them, Amy pulled her over for a second.
"Luqing, can we talk for a bit?" Amy asked as she put her blackboard eraser back down.
Luqing looked over to the three kids, who nodded as they waited outside, leaving the classroom empty beside them.
"Since we are going to teach the same students, how about I teach in the morning, and you teach in the afternoon?"
"Um, sure... But I don't know what I can teach to the class."
Seeing Luqing looking a little lost, Amy started to get a little confused about why she had been assigned to be a teacher in the first place.
Still, she didn't question the letter's decision as the principal's signature was at the bottom.
"You're aren't a mage, right? You're a barbarian class?" Amy asked after noticing her mana was non-existent.
"No, I'm a cultivator."
Amy's face was a little shocked for a second, but it quickly disappeared as she considered an idea.
"How about just training the student's physical body? Mages need a strong body as well."
After thinking for a bit, Luqing took Amy's suggestion to heart, as it seemed to be the easiest option she could choose.
Her Qi conflict meant there was no way she could actually teach anything she had besides her sword skill, which she didn't want to show.
"Great. Then you can take over the class after lunch... I'll be back later to let you take over."
As Amy left the classroom, Luqing's brain was still processing the thought of becoming a teacher.
"Luqing, you okay?" Sophia curiously asked as the three of them walked inside the classroom.
"I'm fine."
"Okay then... Let's go get lunch!"
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As the four of them arrived in the cafeteria, most of the seats were already full.
But fortunately, there was already a group of four that was saving seats for them.
"Sophia! Here!"
Camille excitedly waved her arms as Sophia quickly walked over to them, with the three following right behind.
"Thanks for saving saving a seat... So many people at the cafeteria today."
Sophia murmured as the four of them all sat down on the other side across from the four girls.
"Um, they are a grand archmage, but I don't remember people calling her that."
"Regina is in the north, so Chloe definitely got the right person." Alex chimed in this time.
"Anyway, back to the story. So everyone's soul was transported into some weird city where people fought each other.
I met Mary very early in the competition. Then we both ran into Mom and our grandparents.
Luqing was standing right behind our grandparents... Alex, do you want to explain how you met Luna and Evelyn?"
"Sure, I can do that."
As Alex puts his fork down, he wipes his mouth with a tissue before speaking up.
"Unfortunately, I was the polar opposite of these two. I was constantly hiding half the time until I felt I had to do something.
So I started wandering around, trying to find my sister and mom... That's when I ran into Luna and Evelyn.
The three of us decided to start walking together until we ran into a group of mages who were eliminating people left and right.
Usually, there was an unspoken rule not to fight mages lower than you.
But those low-level mages were relying on a level three mage to bully beginners like us."
Alex paused as he drank a cup of water before continuing.
"Fortunately, some wondering mage stopped them before they could throw spells at us, and then Mom came by to knock them out. Find more to read at m_v l|-NovelFire
The next part is pretty much the same from here, Sophia. You can take it back."
Alex went back to eating the food on his plate, leaving Sophia, who had just started eating, to be forced to put her fork down.
"Anyway, after we all met up together, we ran into... Let's just say a rival to our family.
The next thing we knew, all of us were scattered all over the place. Low-level mages were fighting low-level mages.
High-level mages were fighting high-level mages as well. But the biggest issue was they had an archmage."
Both Camille and Chloe took in a sharp breath as only a handful of archmages were still alive.
"After all the back and forth, Luna and Evelyn were both eliminated after a back and forth battle.
Mary was up next, trying to stall out the fight and burn as much mana as she took on the rival's daughter all on her own..."
After describing the fight scenes word for word, all four of the girls were fully hooked on the story.
Even nearby students who overheard Sophia talking were intrigued by what was going to happen next.
"Just as Mary was about to lose and the two of us were about to step up to replace her, a sudden flash appeared."
With a short little water break, Sophia continued.
"Just within a blink of an eye, we were out of the archmage trap and into a completely different place."
"How?"
Evelyn asked in disbelief, as she couldn't believe someone could escape from an archmage.
All the other three were in disbelief, as running away from an archmage almost sounded like a fantasy.
"Well, that's where our guests come in... You wouldn't believe who the person who saved us was..."
Sophia suddenly stopped as she began eating her food, leaving the story on a cliffhanger.