Dungeon (1)

After the orientation at the Academy on the first day was over, students from every grade gathered in an auditorium-like building for the entrance ceremony. Allen rarely saw the second- and third-year students otherwise.

The second- and third-years wore slightly different uniforms. It seemed the design changed a little every year.

The Academy had several large buildings, as well as multiple auditoriums and plazas. The grounds were enormous. They hardly ever ran into students from other grades in the cafeteria, either, so Allen wondered if there were several cafeterias as well.

Allen hadn't seen the Hero or the headmaster since that day. They'd said various things about the Spirit King, but he still had no idea what they meant.

If there was one thing he'd learned from the Appraisal Ceremony, it was that the Hero was in Normal Mode.

And there were almost no one else in this world in Hell Mode. In Hell Mode, even someone with S-ranked stats would have all E-rank stats. The headmaster, an elf who had lived for a thousand years, said they had never heard of it. The headmaster had also been in place since the Academy was founded. They must have seen hundreds of thousands of applicants, so it was probably safe to say there were almost none.

Since Allen was attending the Academy, he figured they would tell him if there was anything he needed to know.

First-years took general education classes, but they also had a class called Magical Beast Studies. Right now, they were learning about the habits and behavior of goblins and orcs. It was a class you could only find in another world. Their instructor was passionate as he taught them how to defeat the beasts, their weaknesses, and what to watch out for.

In the afternoon, students took different classes depending on their Talents, but there weren't any classes for Allen's Talent, Summoner. When he asked his homeroom teacher about it, the teacher said there were no particular exams, so he could just take whichever classes he liked. Apparently, he could even do research in the library, so the rules were pretty lax. Allen was taking a few classes at random, like swordsmanship and magic. For now, he planned to try them all.

The Academy had classes for four days, followed by two days off. With two days off in a six-day week, the schedule didn't seem too crammed...