30 Academy Bets (1/2)

Zack was in the group who left the classroom, as he departed Zack only waved his hand to Yale and gave him another thumbs up before departing.

To Zack practicing the Magus Path was just a method to improve his archery, so he merely joined the Wind Element Class in which he had a Perfect Grade Affinity.

After Yale observed all the three lessons he attended until that moment, he could rank his classmates based on how proficient they were using their spells.

The best ones were those who Yale suspected to have a Perfect Grade Elemental Affinity and thus the only ones he viewed as people at his own level.

Until that moment in the Magus Classes, only Aizu and Zack were in that category.

Of course, Yale didn't discard the possibility of someone being low-key, that possibility was something that always should be taken into account.

As for someone with a Perfect Grade Elemental Affinity, but who didn't reach the level demonstrated by Zack and Aizu, Yale didn't care for because those people weren't training hard enough.

Without training hard, even those with lower talents would surpass them, and the power difference between them and the hard-worker group would only grow bigger.

Both parts talent and hard work were essential to reach the required level to have Yale taking them as equals. Yale could even treat someone without talent but with a very hard-working personality as an equal, but Yale would never recognize those who only rely on talent and disregard the effort.

Yale's talent and hard-work were higher than any other student he had seen, he had three Elemental Affinities at the Perfect Grade and was crazy at training.

Yale had shown his skills in the water element previously, and he knew that he would need to expose some more talent in the Water Elemental Class or it would be weird.

Evidently, Yale wouldn't use his Origin Skill and then breakthrough while showing his prowess.

Yale had planned to use the modified Frost Claw with more Origin Qi than before, but without using all the ten Origin Points. Even if the technique approximated to the Origin Skill, it wouldn't reach the threshold of being fully executed.

The Water Elemental Class started, and to Yale, it was effortless to understand.

That was because when he created the outline of the Origin Skill, his understanding of the water element deepened a lot.

After a bit of lecture about the water element, the students started to display their spells.

Yale waited until all the other students had shown their spells to ask to expose his own.

The reason was that Yale knew that if he were to be the first, his performance would eclipse all the students who would show their spells after him.

It wasn't that Yale was arrogant, but he was almost at the 2-star, and the only reason he didn't breakthrough yet was that he didn't want to do it in front of everyone.

Yale exhibited his modified Frost Claw making it take a lot of different forms including offensive and defensive ones. Showing the versatile of the spell which everyone mistook with an improved version of Water Hand, provoked even the teacher expression to change.

Yale's exhibition shocked the whole class, even if some of them already had high expectations for his performance based on the recent rumors or because they had seen him in the Fire Class.

The teacher was delighted with Yale's performance, having such an outstanding student was a blessing for any teacher.

After seeing Yale's spell, the most knowledgeable ones detected that he shouldn't be very far from reaching the 2-star.

As that was the first day of classes for the newcomers, it had also started with the traditional bet about talents. It was very simple, the other students and the teachers would bet who will be the first among the newcomers into making a breakthrough.

The teachers and the students spread the word about those who showed their talents and then it became public information to the rest of the academy.

Yale's performance made him one of the favorites to be the first in both paths, Warrior and Magus.

In the Warrior category, the bets were put almost only on Yale, George, and Zack; there were also two girls who were among the favorites.

The lessons for the Magus were still unfinished, but Yale and Zack were already at the top of the bets. Aizu was also very high due to her illusion spell, but her failure in the Fire Elemental Class affected her and then she came after Yale and Zack in the stakes.