Volume 2 Chapter 66 - The Knight Division’s Biggest Problem Student (1/2)

The training grounds for the Olsyvia Academy’s knight division’s students was a large field just outside of the northern Filomina branch’s school grounds. In this world, knights required the most input of wealth out of all the non-magic classes as the heavy plate armour and mount for a well trained knight was several times more expensive than the equipment that an archer or assassin of the same level needed.

Due to this reason, the students who had picked the knight class as their specialty were mostly students from the nobility’s Filomina branch and the royalty’s Euphemia branch. There were a few students from the Church’s St.Louis branch and the geniuses’ Olivia branch but there wasn’t a single student from the commoner’s Francis branch.

Currently on the training grounds, a large number of student knights had gathered and were awaiting the arrival of their instructor. There were a few among these students who drew more attention than the others , they were new to the academy this year, yet possessed the cultivation of dragon knight. One should know that even in the empire of knights, the Octavian Empire, dragon knights were quite few in number and it was hard to see them around in times of peace.

“Bellina…nee, aren’t you supposed to be in class right now? So why have you come over to our knight division’s training grounds?”

“Of course, your big sister is a good student and I’ve already gotten someone to take my place in class, you don’t have to worry.”

“So why didn’t you go find Kriss? Her relationship with you has been getting better and better every day?”

“I’ve came to look for my cute little sister Lisha first! Let’s quiet down a little, the instructor should be here soon.”

Bella and Lisha had already changed into a set of light plate training armour and were currently waiting for the knight division’s instructor to arrive. Beside Bella was one of her loli ‘maidservants’, Noesha, as well as Shelly who had decided to become Bella’s squire. A proper knight, under normal circumstances, would hire a squire.

Of the other students in the knight division, there were quite a few of them with their own attendants and squires so Bella’s arrival didn’t draw too much attention. The strange ring that Charlotte had given Bella didn’t only have the ability to pause time, it also created something similar to a body double that remained behind and continued to do whatever Bella had been doing previously, in this case, attending class.

Using this strange ring, Bella had successfully ditched her class and even though she didn’t understand how exactly this ring worked but she decided to thank Charlotte the next time she saw that fake loli. The reason as to why Charlotte was so hard to find was probably due to something similar to this ring, Bella wanted to ask some questions the next time that she saw him.

Bella’s older sister Irene was having a hushed conversation with a flaxen-haired beauty not far from where Bella and Lisha was standing. That beauty was the Octavian Empire’s 3rd princess, Octavio Luce, who had returned to good health after receiving the heart of a [Ground Dragon] to dispel the curse that had been placed over her.

It was quite evident that Irene had already talked with Luce about Bella as the latter’s eyes had looked towards Bella and Lisha quite a few times. Luce had most likely already recognized the identity of Bella’s substitute, Felia. Luce had a much better relationship with these two younger sisters of than Irene did and if it wasn’t for the fact that there were too many wandering eyes around, Luce would definitely have greeted the two of them.

Bella didn’t know how much Irene had talked with Luce about, in Bella’s plans, she had already ‘marked’ Luce as someone on her side. When she had the chance, Bella was going to invite Luce out to reignite their sisterly relationship.

The knight division’s instructor was the dragon knight Congreve, a middle-aged man who exuded killing intent and a member of the Octavian Empire’s Royal Dragon Knight Corp. Of his previous students, the most renowned was the young dragon knight, Randall Shawn. As an experienced dragon knight who had many times seen the fields of battle, he placed high expectations on his students.

“Lisha, where is your Golden Dragon?”

“Teacher, my mount is temporarily…”

“What, a dragon knight who lost her own mount, if this were on the battlefield… go and find a suitable mount before you come back to class.”

On the training grounds, Congreve immediately spotted the mountless Lisha. This girl who was called one of the Octavian Empire’s biggest potentials,【Magic Dragon Knight] Lisha, was just a third-rate knight who had even lost her mount and lost face for all the other dragon knights in the empire. If it wasn’t for her status as one of the Octavian Empire’s princesses and the fact that he served in the Octavian Empire and its royal family, he would definitely have lost his temper here and now and straight up kicked Lisha out of his class.

Lisha’s face was a little red as she looked down at her feet, just like a child who had been scolded, not daring to look at Congreve. Her mount, one of the Golden Dragons’ princesses, hadn’t signed a permanent contract with her. Lisha had desperately need power back then and had to settle for a ‘Risk Contract’ with the Golden Dragon, if she were to ever lose in battle, her contract with the Golden Dragon would be automatically voided.

Back in the fighting around the Gabriel Empire’s Laerte defensive line, Lisha had suffered a defeat at the hands of the demon king Bella’s six void monarchs. Her contract with the Golden Dragon had been broken there and then. Bella held quite a bit of the responsibility as to why Lisha didn’t have a mount currently, as it was her subordinate void monarchs who had defeated Lisha so handily.

“Wait, Mr. Instructor, by what right are you telling my little sis… dorm mate to leave the class? It’s not like you run this academy.”

As Congreve was about to begin class, a female knight with golden hair stepped in front of Lisha and spoke. This girl shared quite a few similarities in appearance with Lisha and Congreve almost thought that it was one of Lisha’s elder sisters, Irene or Luce, who had stepped up and spoke to him.

“This is my classroom, is there anything wrong…”

“Uncle, I feel like your qualifications to be a knight are a little lacking, where’s your chivalry? I think that the person that should get out of here, is you!”

“Little girl, you dare to question my…”

Congreve was a dragon knight who had seen his share of the battlefield and still kept quite a few of the habits that had been left from those times. Seeing that a girl had dared to speak against him in front of the entire class, he swung his lance at Bella without a second’s thought.

Of the onlooking knight division students, quite a few of the female students had closed their eyes out of fear. Congreve had quite the reputation among the academy’s students for being hard on his students and even though they secretly agreed with what Bella had said, they didn’t dare to take any actual action. The only one who was planning to actually do something was the male Saviour who Bella was paying attention to earlier, Scout.

Scout was about take this cliche hero saves the beauty chance. Even though he didn’t plan on flirting with Bella but if he took action know, he would definitely be able to leave a lasting impression in the knight division’s students and it would make it much easier for him to flirt with them!

However, Scout never got the chance to do anything. The students who had their eyes open were able to see that Congreve’s lance had been intercepted by the seemingly soft and weak golden-haired beauty, with only one hand at that. The scene was frozen in front of them and Congreve looked at the student in front of him with a look of shock.

This seemingly weak girl, without the aid of proper armour, had used her body to receive his attack. Even the dragon knight Shawn wouldn’t dare to take an attack from Congreve in this matter.

In Congreve’s moment of shock, Bella quickly applied force to her hand and pulled the lance right out of his hands. Quickly recovering from his shock, Congreve was about to launch an attack on Bella when he felt killing intent from behind him.

Behind Congreve, Irene and Luce walked over with their blades pointed at his back. As members of the royal family, they were allowed to carry sharpened swords during their time at the Olsyvia Academy and it was quite evident what they meant when they pointed their swords at Congreve’s back.

“Irene, Luce, what are you two trying to do?”

“Lisha is our little sister, we can’t just sit and watch as she gets kicked out of class!”