14 School 5 (1/2)

After slowly following his instructions, Ivan saw a popup announcing a new Skill.

<< Congratulations, you have learned the skill Staff Mastery (Novice). >>

<< Skill Staff Mastery (Novice) (F) Lvl.1 : You now have rudimentary knowledge on how to use a staff.

Damage + 0.5% while using a staff to attack. >>

”Alright, everyone stop practicing. You should all have gained the skill Staff Mastery now. Did anyone didn't get it?”

Everybody signaled that they had gained it.

”Good. At least you are better than the last batch. There really were some in that who weren't able to learn it in the first class. As you may have noticed the skill gives you a small damage increase if you use a staff to attack. This will not apply to skills you use and the skill won't help you in the way to use your staff. So even if you level it up you will still have to train on how to use the staff.”

”Since we still have half an hour left, it is time to get some experience, so find a partner for a training fight.”

Serge asked Greg to be his partner, so Ivan had to find someone else, but he didn't have any contact with his other classmates. * I guess I should have at least checked them out. *, now he could only regret his lack of interest in his other classmates. Luckily the number of students was even and as such there was someone else who didn't have a partner. It was a girl who was lanky and had short blue hair.

Since there were more guys in the class Ivan really wouldn't have expected a girl to be left over, even though she was at least a head taller than anyone else with her more than 2 m height.

When she saw, that only Ivan was left she came over and said in a silky voice, ”Hey, I'm Irena, please take care of me.”

Now that he could take a closer look at her he understood, why the others avoided her. One of her eyes was glassy and dead, with the half of her face full of deep pockmark, which completely destroyed her look which wouldn't have been bad, seeing how the other half of her face looked.

Surprisingly Ivan didn't feel anything when he saw this face and he had the indistinct feeling, that he had seen much worse, but he couldn't pinpoint that feeling and as such choose to ignore it.

”Hey, I'm Ivan. Please take care of me too.”

Seeing that Ivan didn't have any reaction towards her look a light flashed through her normal eye.

”Alright, now that everyone has found a partner I will give everyone a brooch which you have to pin on your chest. It will emit a magic shield, which will stop your partner from damaging you, but the pain will still be transmitted. If the hit was critical it will change it's color to red and the fight is over.”