Chapter 228: Mist Bodhisattva Royal Academy of Sciences [Part 1] (1/2)
Chapter 228: Mist Bodhisattva Royal Academy of Sciences [Part 1]
“Holy shit, that brat actually twisted that KJ350 multifunctional compound gun in half!” Bel commented occasionally while watching with keen interest from the sidelines.
Cillin didn’t say anything, but he wasn’t just paying attention to the battle but also to the surrounding comments. In most cases, the onlookers were able to supply far more information than the people at the center of things.
It didn’t take long before Cillin learnt why the two parties had fought each other again, and as he had expected earlier it was because of the arrival of the great noble house Blazing Eagle. After members of the Blazing Eagle Vogel had arrived on this planet, every person at every corner of the planet had learned about this through a well developed communications network.
All kinds of people began to move be it the small nobles who wished to curry favor with the Blazing Eagle royal family or the people who wished to win their acknowledgement. They had all began making preparations.
Naturally, Baelenbaatar Middle School paid a lot of attention to news like this. It was why the students were starting to interact and sound out the situation already. The conflict between the two sides had grown more and more intense since Blazing Eagle’s arrival. The nobles said that the commoners were delusional, the commoners quickly retaliated against such claims. Because more than 60% of last semester’s overall ranking were made up of commoners, the students of noble birth thought of it as their shame until today. That was how the argument gradually escalated into a brawl. That being said, anyone who paid close attention would realize that neither sides had gone all out against each other. It was also why the school’s security guards could watch the fight without a care from the sidelines.
As long as no major accidents were to happen during a brawl, the school normally turned a blind eye against such matters. As the saying goes, this was a form of stimulus competition.
Something was puzzling Cillin, however: Why do the commoners here dare fight against the nobles? Aren’t they afraid that the nobles will take revenge against them?
It wasn’t that Cillin had a very low opinion of nobles, but people like Bel seriously were few and far between. At Old Chang’s planet, the small nobles there often looked at people with their nostrils and put on airs that basically meant, “don’t provoke me or I’ll kill you!” That was why he found it very difficult to reconcile that scene with the one happening before him right now.
Because he didn’t understand what was going on, Cillin asked Bel directly for an answer. Bel was a real great noble after all.
“Bel, is the difference between commoners and nobles very small in schools?”
Bel rubbed his chin. “That depends on the school. The better a school is, the smaller it is the gap of treatment between nobles or commoners. I’ve never heard of Baelenbaatar before, but since it is ranked among the top 10 schools of this star region, this means that it has the power to narrow the gap between commoners and nobles. Baelenbaatar did manage to produce an honorary scholar for the Royal Academy of Sciences in the past after all. Who knows, maybe that honorary scholar may even grow into a scholar in the Royal Academy of Sciences in the future.”
Bel smacked his lips for a bit before tossing the empty bottle into a dustbin. Then, he continued, “That honorary scholar is a member of the Empire’s 24rd star region. When he was younger, he once received his middle level education at Baelenbaatar. Later on, he was deemed too outstanding and was plucked away by a school at the imperial capital’s star region directly. When he was finished with his higher education, he was accepted immediately by the Royal Academy of Sciences as an honorary scholar. Didn’t you see a video about their honorary scholar returning to school for a speech in Baelenbaatar Middle School’s introductory page, the one that took up a large amount of space?”
Of course Cillin knew that Baelenbaatar once produced a Royal Academy of Sciences honorary scholar, but he didn’t realize that that was all it took for Baelenbaatar to surrender so much equality. In fact, he was surprised that commoners were allowed to brawl against nobles in Baelenbaatar Middle School because he had seen the gap that existed between a noble and a commoner. Even more surprising was the fact that the school authorities seemed so used to this occurrence that they couldn’t even muster the energy to bother!
Noticing Cillin’s surprise, Bel let out a chuckle and said, “It’s the Royal Academy of Sciences, man! We’re talking about some ordinary institution here. Back then my father tried to encourage me to join them, but unfortunately I failed to live up to his expectations. I just wasn’t born with this kind of talent.”