Chapter 60: Chapter 60The workings of the Dusk Academy are simple.

    There are no regular classes held here. Sometimes, the professors teach, but to attend those classes, the students need Dusk credits.

    Every student would get a minimum stipend, but that would be enough to buy groceries for a month and dive into a dungeon a few times. That would be all.

    If one wants more credits to attend these classes, they should be someone who has entered the academy with a higher ranking contract or enter a loot dungeon to hunt the monsters inside. The loot would be sold for credits, which then can be used to buy the available slots for the classes.

    Yes, every class would only have slots. A teaching hall would have a limited number of seats for the students to sit at a time. So, only a limited number of slots would be available per teaching session.

    This won’t be a problem as many teachers would hold sessions about the same topic multiple times. If the previous one is not available, then they can choose the next one.

    Of course, if credits were the problem, then one could just go to the library to get the knowledge, but the experience would be lacking there. If one sees no problem with that, they can try the library, which is the cheaper option for getting knowledge in comparison to the classes conducted by the professors.

    Yeah, everything in the academy costs. Nothing is for free, but the first years are new here, and burdening them with these costs would only hinder them instead of making them know the cost of peace that they are enjoying.

    The reason why the academy chose to make them pay for everything was because many of these students coming from rich backgrounds are used to being fed by others. It made many lazy and arrogant, especially when they awakened powerful professions.

    Using their family power, they levelled up faster before the exams and with higher levels, they easily gained higher ranks in the exams. This made it possible to get into top-rated academies, which only made them more arrogant and, at the same time, idiotic.

    The family may have supported them at the start, but no one would be there for you, except for yourself.

    This was something that not everyone understood and that not only caused their deaths later, but before they learned that lesson, they caused damage to other talents who were supposed to reach a higher stage.

    These arrogant students, using their family power, crushed anyone that they didn’t like, which damaged the foundation of human society.

    To make sure such incidents don’t re-occur, academies brought certain changes.

    First, they cut off the family’s financial support by introducing their own currencies and no academy currency is similar to other, though the monetary value was same.

    Second, they made sure that everything had to be earned. Nothing would be handed out for free but by doing so from the start, it stunted many. So, some changes were made and some stipends were dolled out for the first years.

    They would be given free living quarters and monthly credits till the end of the year. What they do with those credits is their own choice.

    They can waste their credits on unnecessary things. They can use them to enter dungeons or attend classes; everything is their own choice, and they have to face the consequences of their actions later on.

    Some students are intelligent and they would invest wisely.

    As they are first years, not every class is necessary for them. The cost of classes is not the same. Everything is different, and it depends on what the topic is and who is teaching the class.

    So, students have to stratesize what to attend, and what not to.

    This is also a training for the students as in battles no one would have everything required for the battle. They have to make a proper strategy with the limited options available to them. sea??h thё Novёl?ire.n(e)t website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    Every rule and regulation that the academy has is well-reasoned. It was for the students to find out how they are useful to them and make the best use of them.

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    Today is officially the start of the academy.

    Aaron woke up early for the Orientation that would be held in a few hours. He perfectly remembered Reyna’s warning to be punctual. There should be a reason why she warned about that, though she never specified.

    Aaron didn’t want to find out the consequences of being late. He was sure that Reyna had warned him for a reason, and that reason probably had to do with the higher-ups of the academy who hate people who aren’t punctual.

    So, he woke up early and freshened up before making breakfast for himself.

    The reason why he was able to wake up early was that he went to sleep early. Originally, after touring the academy, he had some thoughts about entering a dungeon, there was still half a day.

    It was a good idea, but later on, while having lunch, he scrapped that idea.

    He remembered the warning from Reyna.

    Going to the dungeon means he would be too tired to do things early in the morning. So, instead he chose to check out the training facilities available to him in the house.

    He didn’t totally dive into training but he made sure to check every device there is.

    There are many facilities that can improve the mind, reflex actions, stamina etc..

    There is a meditation chamber, which can improve his mana regeneration. When one exhausts one’s mana, there are a few ways to regain it.

    There are potions created by alchemists. Professions like priests and healers can cast skills that can make others regain mana faster, but that won’t work if they cast on themselves.

    These cost a lot, but there are natural ways to regain mana.

    When mana was spent, the body would regain mana, but that would take a lot of time. Resting would make it go faster, and meditation is the fastest way to regain lost mana without any external help, but of course, these methods are not useful in battles.

    For now, that was not a problem for Aaron as he was not going to battle. The meditation chamber would be very helpful after he practises some skills here but his skills were not like fire balls or something that can be used on inanimate beings.

    So, to make the perfect use of this, he needs a few skills that have nothing to do with his profession.

    Even though that was the case for the meditation chamber, the other facilities are very useful.