Believe it or not, Cecil had never held so much money. Especially his own.
The middle aged man didn't even flinch when he handed him 9 ivory white coins, lined with lavender lotuses.
Normally, Cecil would just think of it as, well, a coin, but now...
[
Platinum Coin(EU2), Lv1
Passive Arrays- Mana Storage(Lv1)
Storage-Mana(Lv576)
Sentience- None
Cost-5780 Mp
Suggestion- Animating the coin to use the stored mana is discouraged as that wisp of mana is the authentication seal, and the currency loses it's value without it.
]
That was not what Cecil was looking for.
Currency has become coin based,
Copper, Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Fragment, Shard, Crystal.
Each coin worth 100 of the lower ranked. Right now, he was rich compared to his level.
Still poor by academy standards, but atleast he could buy real food now, not caffeine.
"C, can you explain your skill?"
Cecil looked elated and Aron couldn't help but feel a bit more cheery himself.
"Which one?"
Which one? What?
"Don't you have one skill?"
"Yeah."
"Where'd you get the Daggers from?"
"Gift."
"From?"
"Not important. The point is, I can upgrade the Daggers like normal equipment."
Cecil was more excited about that part. The item box gave 3 items for the three Daggers. As for the Chunk of Rose Gold, his theory was that animating more Rose Gold and fusing them would make it stronger.
"So how many Daggers do you have?"
Big question. This was to help Cecil hide his true strength. If things went that far. Aron believed that Cecil would be top 10, and he's already preparing him for the things that they have to do.
"Four, the fourth one can split."
That.
Was the one thing he was not supposed to say.
"Into 5 at most."
Better.
Cecil typed the rest of way to the cafeteria as Aron talked about the binders in their class.
"Oh yeah, C, what do you eat?"
"This would be my first meal as a binder."
"Didn't you get breakfast?"
Level 1 is basically human, and Cecil didn't look hungry.
"I had a single bag of chips and a couple of energy drinks."
"No wonder you look like a stickman, you're coming to the gym with me tonight. 7 to 9."
What man eats a single bag of chips for breakfast?
"How many energy drinks did you drink?"
"7."
Okay, 7, probably weak ones.
"Which brand?"
"Xpulsor"
Xpulsor.
That thing is just water dissolved in caffeine.
"How the fuck are you even alive?"
———A bit farther away
"Look Lydie, they're here too."
The 'French' girl spoke tiredly.
"I'm hungry and you're thirsty, let's go."
And The white haired girl walked faster, the blonde catching up immediately, slightly deep in thought.
Does she not get it? I didn't even try to hide it.
The 'French' girl though as she saw Lydie deep in thought.
———
"Oh yeah, C, I eat with those two."
Aron said as he saw Lydie and the white haired girl approach. The white haired girl looked as tired as she does, and Lydie bounced with the ungodly lightning themes accessories on her.
"Hey."
"Hi Aron!"
"Hello, both of you."
"Hello."
Cecil recognised the two.
Rank 4, Lydie Voltaire-Sparkholm, some sort of Electric class, very fast.
Rank 6. French girl with a Sythe.
"Oh, Velhana. Heard you Binded with Mana."
'French' girl spoke. She sounded as tired as one could be, so it was impossible to know if she was being sarcastic or not.
"Let's go. I'm starving."
The four of them went to the food counter,
Lydie got 3 Apple pancakes for herself
The 'French' girl got a bowl of spaghetti for herself
Aron got Chicken and rice for himself and Cecil.
"You're basically a skeleton, C, what will you do if the Breach monsters outright refuse to eat you?"
That was Aron's argument.
"That's not very convincing, is it?"
Cecil didn't know what the opposite of convincing was.
"I mean, I usually beat people when I want to convince them so..."
All 4 of them sat on corner table, Aron and Cecil on one side, Lydie and her 'French' friend on the other, Lydie and Aron did some small talk as they ate, while Cecil and the 'French' girl were... Wolfing down food. A silent compition of who is the faster eater.
Spaghetti was coiled so hard around the fork that it looked as thick as a branch, and the 'French' girl downed it in one motion, her small mouth somehow managing to swallow all of that.
Cecil had a different strategy. He was crushing the rice and chicken into paste, in a bowl. It looked viscous, but a few pieces of chicken still remained.
"Professor Boris seems really bored this year, doesn't he, Aron?"
Lydie asked Aron, cutting a pancake, with the rhythmic sounds of Cecil piercing the chicken serving as a (not exactly) Nice background score.
"Yeah, I'd be the same if I had to teach Mana Theory for years."
Aron said, and took a bite off of his chicken. The 'French' girl's spaghetti rotated enticingly, before being downed immediately.
"Well, atleast C pays attention to the man."
Lydie's legs trembled. Well, the entire table did, but that's not really relevant.
The Chicken and rice were liquified now.
"Yeah. I mean, isn't he going to retire soon? One would think that he'd be nostalgic or sentimental or something."
Aron's forearm contracted a bit as he put the spoon down and grabbed the glass of water at the center of the table. The 'French' girl's spaghetti was half gone now.
"Guess he's just that stoic."
"Mhm."
Lydie took a bite out of her pancake, glancing from the corner of her eyes at the other two devouring their food. Well, Cecil was not devouring. She was going to say something, but Cecil lifted his bowl, and began drinking the paste with a spoon.
"Well then, there's a Breach Expedition this Sunday. You up?"
Aron asked Lydie, and Pulled out a paper. This week's timetable. Cecil was now using both gravity and spoon to drink the Chicken and Rice.
Week4
Monday- Alchemy, History
Tuesday- Mana Theory, Weapons training
Wednesday- Island wide Maintenance
Thursday- Field training, Weapons training
Friday- Alchemy, History
Saturday- Field training
Sunday- Weekly Breach Expedition
"Sounds good, how about a training Breach Expedition of Wednesday?"
Lydie was not going to miss any chance of Being with Aron.
The 'French' girl's spaghetti and Cecil's Paste were almost over. And The winner would be decided in...
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"Oh yeah, History Essay. We need to do that too."