Go to the Welcome Speech

He decided to be a good student for a while and listen to the welcome speech proper. Afterwards it was free use of time anyway so it really did not matter much.

As he was going down he saw many other students who were up early in the morning. Many were in groups talking to each other in the benches or crowding among vending machines.

Yes the class of Alchemist and Machinist is one of Medicine and Machine in this world, science might come late but it arrived in a fucked up magical way nonetheless.

Many machines of past worked the same in this world, it’s just they don’t use cars or planes, they do have flying ships and costly teleportation circles.

He hitched a ride with a merchant class children who were also entering the academy. Actually in that caravan only a few were entering and they had connections to the noble families.

The rest were going to move to the capital city to open their own business or take over the one which their family already owned.

His families barony was located in the Western region of the Great Lustria Kingdom, now it is has the title of Great before it because it was once a mighty empire, its just some royal battles split the empire and new duchies were formed from that war.

So it got downgraded from an empire to a Great Kingdom, a rank below the empires in this world. Though all this would not affect his life as he was just small nobleman.

There were many humans as well as other magical races in the Lustria academy, leftover from the multicultural empire days.

Elves, Dwarfs could be seen at two different side of the room at any given place where his eyes could see. Though it was also true to look at one of them and see the other around somewhere. The races were like a hate magnet repelling each other.

There were many fury faces also, they were called beast race but he called them furries. It is weird that these beast races would have their respective animals around them as they could communicate with them easily.

The beast race had an innate natural talent for the Druid class, looking at his transformation innate talent his ancestor might have fucked or had been fucked by a Tailed Fox Beast race.

Soon he reached the auditorium and sat down in an empty seat at the back, after half an hour the large empty hall was filled students who were talking to each other.

The back was empty as some students did not reach the welcome speech in time, they slept through it or decided to skip it. Their year end test score points will be deducted for this but geniuses can have the luxury of skipping as in that time they will make their points in other ways.

Soon the headmaster came onto the stage and the faculty staff was standing near him.

The archmage headmaster looked like a buff old man, not like the mage known by many people. He looked more like a Knight than an Archmage.

All the teachers looked young but considering the lifespan in this world they will be older than even his parents.

The headmaster was certainly older than his grandfather as he did look 70 years old and that was speaking something when most people still look young or middle aged in this world.

“Hey Max what are you doing in the back?”

Max was surprised by sunny voice that came from the side, looking at the person was a blonde young man with blue eyes named Mark.

He was from a merchant family who he had hitched a ride to reach the capital city. His father told him he would not pay for his travels as he needed to learn to live on his own.

It had to be more like his father was penny pinching and did not want to spend much money on him. Luckily his sweet sexy mother secretly gave him some travel money.

Which he still has left as he quickly hitched the ride with Mark and his group to reach the capital city.