Chapter 112: Annoying Augury

Chapter 112: Annoying Augury

The next day taught Evelyn why she should always take care of explaining things properly to her friends. Even if running away would allow her to relax at first, later on, it would always cause her a major headache.

Not only had she already spent almost half an hour consoling Vivian and the others, even when she thought she could relax in the 'Beast Taming' class, Amber came to her crying, giving her another headache.

"Wuu I thought something had happened when you didn't come to class yesterday!"

Evelyn patted the girl's head, feeling a little helpless. Although Amber's orange eyes looked very cute when they were wet with tears, she also felt bad for making the little girl cry. "My teacher just took me out for a little trip, nothing happened, don't worry."

The auburn-haired girl sniffled. "Un, un, I got it"

Evelyn didn't know whether it was the absence of Professor Dane or having Amber to keep her company, but this beast taming class was far more bearable than what she expected.

In fact, getting to know a few little tidbits about various beasts in this world while the teacher gave them practical demonstrations as well was quite entertaining.

Of course, the new teacher seemed a bit amateurish, a young looking girl who looked like she should be an apprentice instead of a professor, but Evelyn preferred someone inexperienced who earnestly tried their best to teach when compared to someone experienced who didn't try at all.

Unfortunately, this wasn't the only class for the day, and the next one happened to be the one that Amber had warned her of.

At first, Evelyn had been a bit happy that she wouldn't have to attend the class in Maker's Mansion today, as not only was the teacher extremely condescending, she had also not had the time to go through 'Arms Codex: I' yet, since she was quite busy yesterday.

However, Madam Augury soon proved to her how hateful someone can be.

"Hey you, standing beside that good for nothing piece of trash, the one with the annoying pink hair! How come I don't remember seeing your ugly mug in the last class?!"

Evelyn frowned. Although this woman looked like a kind old white haired lady, her attitude was truly just the opposite. "I was with professor Aurora, you can ask her if you have any"

The old lady scoffed. "Are you threatening me?! Hmph. Disgusting. Bringing out your 'backing' to cover up for such minor things like missing class. I assume you're from one of those trash 'ancient families', right?"

Evelyn remained silent, and the old lady sent a wave of spirit power directly to the purple badge pinned on the girl's chest.

"Let's see Evelyn Knox. A privileged princess of the ancient Knox family. As I expected. Alright, let's see what the affinities of a genius like you look like. Come, it is just right for a privileged brat like you to waste the time for everyone else. Here, channel your spirit power through this stone!"

Evelyn couldn't help but get a bad feeling as soon as she saw the red stone. 'Don't tell me it's fire, right?'

After all, her affinity for fire element was the lowest.

Her focus remained entirely on the strange group of ten Evelyn had spotted earlier, eight boys and two girls. The old lady spent the entirety of the class giving them one on one personal guidance in turn.

Each of the students in the group also seemed to be quite well versed in wielding the elements as well. 'Strange'

Unfortunately, with Aurora not being in the academy, Evelyn couldn't just rush off to her tower to complain, and could only gloomily move to the next class with Amber.

Of course, Evelyn fully intended to complain about this 'Madam Augury' and everything she had done to Aurora, whether it seemed childish or not. After all, the woman had even dared to ignore Aurora's ribbon. But that would have to wait till her teacher returned.

The rest of the class had probably already reached the hall for 'Physical Combat' class, though the two of them should still be able to get there in time.

The little girl tried her best to cheer her up. "Y-You don't have to take her words to heart! She's just a mean lady! Un."

Evelyn smiled as she squeezed her hand back. "Thank you. You're such a sweet kid."

Amber looked away, feeling a little embarrassed. "W-We're the same age!"

The pink haired girl chuckled. "Right. By the way, did those strange people that Augury focused so much on attend the last class as well?"

The orange eyed girl nodded. "Un. She introduced them as a group, though I don't know their names. Uh, I think they were called 'The Champion's Club' or something?"

Evelyn couldn't help but be curious. "Oh?"

Amber nodded. "Yep, Madam Augury looked very proud when introducing them, and said that compared to worthless trash like us, her champions are a thousand times better."

The pink haired girl nodded. 'Going by their skills in manipulating elements, it looks like she's been training them for a while. And none of them look like they have spirit physiques either, which is just strange.'

Evelyn felt a little regretful that she hadn't managed to probe them before Augury cast that restriction on her to make her shut up, thus also preventing her use of spirit power for the rest of the class.

'Well, doesn't matter. Since they are more or less the same age, it shouldn't be possible for them to be higher level than myself. In fact, they should be at a significantly lower level. I don't believe many people have artifacts that can block my skill, and if my guess is correct I should be able to see what's so special about them soon enough.'

~ To be continued ~