Chapter 168 Reaching The Second Year Class

"Hahahaha! I just want to see the look on those jerks' faces when they see all of the Long clan appearing at the classes today, hahahaha!"

And just as he followed her rushing steps that looked more like running than walking, she laughed all of sudden and said these words.

William knew she didn't intend to settle in the classes and might go and seek trouble with Guanin if the latter didn't seek them first.

With such racing steps, the duo finally arrived at the compound of classes dedicated to the second year in half an hour.

There was one single grand building in the middle, with few smaller buildings around. The place was surrounded with a small steel fence which had one guard standing there.

"Sorry, but this area is only for the second year disciples," the guard inspected in suspicion the two new faces in front of him.

One of the two the guard could tell with a single glance. After all, Berry was famous in the academy thanks to her special background and unique situation.

As for the other one, he looked like he didn't belong here.

Even if both of them wore the uniforms of the second year, the guardian's duty was to check over the identity of those coming inside. And he doubted William belonged here at all.

"Senior, we have emblems of second year," Berry showed him her emblem which had the sign of the academy engraved on one side and the number 'II' on another.

"We just joined the second year class recently, and this is our first time attending it," William said, while he followed suit and showed him his emblem. After gazing for a long minute, the guard who looked to be a gold grade spirit master in his thirties cleared his throat before letting them pass.

Berry didn't come here before, but she seemed to know everything about the academy. Of course, she knew lots of things about the class she never succeeded to take, the class that looked like an insurmountable mountain for her.

After William passed the guard and left him stupefied, he followed Berry inside, finding their way easily between the smaller buildings until they arrived at that big building.

Inside, a clatter of noise came from the single room inside. This huge building only had a single huge room with seats arranged in circular, different levels, surrounding a central stage where masters should stand there and speak about the content of their lectures.

The hall had five big doors leading to it, and once William entered, a grand scene appeared in front of his eyes.

This hall could accommodate at least one thousand spirit masters. And this might seem huge, but it wasn't enough to accommodate the entire bronze spirit masters in the academy.

The academy accepted disciples from different clans and families from a large region around. Even few would travel far and come to study here.

It wasn't thanks to the grand reputation of the academy, but thanks to its lower rules of admission compared to other prestigious academies.

Besides, the admission fees of the outsider spirit masters were cheaper compared with other big academies.

William knew the Aspire academy wasn't the strongest one in this world, not even in the kingdom.

So those who would get rejected by others would take the trouble and travel here. At the same time, those close by would decide to join here to save themselves lots of trouble.

Only a few would decide to adventure and go to other and more famous academies. William knew there wasn't a law in the kingdom to prevent these spirit masters from getting into other stronger academies.

Even going to another hostile kingdom and learning at one of their academies was accepted as long as that academy was at least on par with the ones inside the kingdom.

And the golden rule of thumb here would be the ability of those spirit masters to afford the high fees of such widely famous academies.

Despite it being allowed on the surface, it wasn't encouraged by the kingdom's hidden rules.

The clan or family that dared to do that would suffer depression from the kingdom as a sort of hidden punishment.

But with the higher number of bronze spirit masters, the place wasn't filled to the brim. And William knew why.

Many of the spirit masters didn't place much importance on classes. Classes were only useful to learn few things, yet the true teaching grounds lied in the forest.

Many spirit masters were venturing outside, either freely fighting monsters or doing missions from the Mercenary Department.

And Wiliam planned to do the same after attending today's classes.

Once the duo arrived, they got to see lots of faces turning and looking at them. The once noisy class turned all silent as everyone showed looks of astonishment, respect, and enmity.

"Lang is here… Hi Lang," Berry seemed to ignore such a weird atmosphere, or perhaps she wasn't affected thanks to her overwhelming excitement and desire to slap Guanin in the face by showing herself up with such a shout.

After Berry shouted and pointed towards a direction, William recognised Lang. As Berry took the initiative to shout at him, Lang stood up in a hurry before the duo came to them and sat with the group Lang sat with.

William looked at the group of fifty and could recognise the few faces he saw before. Back when Lang came to help in the monster outbreak, he brought all the white and bronze ranked spirit masters of the young generation.

Those in white rank would still attend the first year class. As William looked around, he found ten familiar faces here in addition to Lang.

So out of the twenty who came with Lang earlier, the clan had nine at the first grade and eleven at the second.

This was something weird in William's eyes. Shouldn't the first class host a larger number of spirit masters than the second? Or what?