Chapter 84: Isabel
The student dormitory of Saint Nali University is divided into male and female wings, located on the eastern and western sides of the campus respectively. With only a few days before the autumn semester begins, many students have started to return to school bit by bit. They need to come back early to tidy up the hygiene that hasn’t been cleaned for the entire holiday and to pre-select their courses for the upcoming semester.
The courses at Saint Nali University are self-selected; the school only provides the courses needed for the degree certificate at enrollment, some of which are mandatory while many others are elective.
At the entrance, carriages are lined up to drop off the students. Many families even have dedicated servants to help carry their luggage. Students who can attend Saint Nali University are either academically excellent or come from well-off families.
At this moment, in the innermost dormitory of the girls’ wing on the fourth floor, a black-haired girl dragged a heavy suitcase, wiped her sweat, and opened the door to her dormitory.
The dormitories at Saint Nali University are uniformly assigned to three people per room, with independent washrooms and a shared living room, offering a great living environment. Now, as she opened the dormitory that hadn’t been returned to during the holiday, it was surprisingly clean because one of her roommates hadn’t gone home for the break. She had heard that this roommate came from a far city in Nali to study at Saint Nali, and the round trip was quite troublesome, which is why she had specially applied to stay on campus during the summer.
“Jasmine! Come help me quickly, ha, it’s too hot outside!”
At the door, the black-haired girl was wiping the fine beads of sweat from her forehead as she called. Following her call, a girl wearing a long home dress walked out of the bedroom. The soft curves on her chest were beyond normal, and her beautiful face exuded an exceptionally gentle aura.
With a warm smile, she walked to the door and caught the luggage of her roommate.
“Welcome back, Milica.”
“Ah, I’m exhausted, exhausted! Luckily the cooling magic in the dorm hasn’t expired yet. I talked to Isabel, and she said she would bring some over from home.”
“Wow, but isn’t that very expensive?”
Jasmine’s rosy little face revealed a bit of concern. Summers in Saint Nali are surprisingly sweltering, making some companies’ indoor cooling magic props very popular. These are categorized by duration: some are for hourly use, some by day, and others long-term. Last semester, they used the most expensive long-term one that Milica had brought.
Milica pinched Jasmine’s slightly chubby cheeks, causing her beautiful and adorable face to contort slightly as she let out an unintelligible whimper.
“Don’t worry, Isabel lives in the Golden Palace, so she has plenty of pocket money to spare. Since she said she would bring it back, there’s no need to worry. By the way, you aren’t just going to stay in the dorm all the time, are you? Haven’t you gone out or seen any plays?”
“No, no! It’s too far from the city center, and it takes a long time to walk. What about you, Milica? What did you do during the holiday?”
Upon mentioning this, Milica laughed.
“My dad is a bishop at the church, so he let me intern at the Saintess Choir for a while, and I even went to the Southern Continent for a performance! But the officiating priest in charge of teaching us was really fierce; several girls cried after being scolded by her, and I absolutely loathe her.”
Milica stuck out her tongue, annoyed at the memory of the strict priestess. Her time in the Saintess Choir could only be described as torturous. There was no gentle father like at home, just that stern officiant, which caused her to have nightmares every night. She couldn’t wait to return to the Western Continent.
There was only one dormitory room for students, but it was spacious enough to fit three beds and desks. However, aside from Jasmine’s desk, the other two desks had become vanity tables.
Milica had a lot of belongings and needed to tidy up the snacks and items she brought from home, then take out the gifts for Jasmine and Isabel.
She turned to glance at Jasmine, who was reading at her desk. Then with a mischievous smile, she stretched out her arms and suddenly hugged Jasmine’s body, prompting Jasmine to make a small, startled cry like an animal.
“Uh, Milica.”
“Hehe, Jasmine, my Jasmine, I haven’t seen you for an entire holiday! Why is your body so soft? It feels so good.” Milica rubbed against Jasmine’s soft body and then asked, “Didn’t you go swimming today?”
“I went this morning! It’s so hot, Milica!”
Only then did Milica remember to turn on the cooling magic. She ran to the living room to confirm the glowing emblem on the wall was still usable, then activated it again. Instantly, the stuffy room became several degrees cooler and felt exceptionally refreshing.
“You silly, haven’t you used this much during the holiday?”
“I-I went swimming a lot, so it was okay. Also, I was afraid of using it up, thinking you’d need it when you got back.”
“Silly! We’ll definitely bring it back!”
Milica patted Jasmine’s fluffy face, and just as she did, the dormitory door swung open, revealing a young girl in a light golden dress standing outside.
This girl had long golden hair that reached her waist, wore a pair of sunglasses, and had a faint smile. The back of her light golden dress revealed a faintly shimmering three-ring arc emblem, which was the insignia of the Godlin Royal Family.
It was too hot in summer, so she wore no extra clothing on her long legs under the dress, only a pair of white stockings at her ankles paired with light golden heels, making her look elegant and beautiful.
“Good afternoon, ladies.”
The young and beautiful woman didn’t carry any luggage, just smiled as she greeted the two girls inside the room. Her light golden eyes scanned the decorations within.
“Isabel! You’re finally back. I thought you would return later!”
Milica rushed over to take Isabel’s hand, looking at the empty corridor behind her, “Huh? Didn’t you bring any luggage with you?”
“I didn’t have much to do these past few days, but from now on it won’t be so easy. I figured it was better to return early. My luggage will be sent over by my family soon. Hello, Jasmine! We haven’t seen each other for the entire holiday!”
“Isabel, hello! Welcome back.”
“Oh, I almost forgot. People from the Golden Palace can enter the school! If I had known, I would have had you take my things first, making me carry them for so long!”
“Who told you not to come play with me during the holiday? I’m not going to help you.”
“I was on a business trip to the Southern Continent! Boohoo, I was constantly pushed by a priestess who was like a devil, and she wouldn’t even let me eat meat, saying, ‘Keeping your figure is the key step to becoming a lady.’ Oh, if that’s the case, then she wouldn’t look like a skinny bamboo pole!”
“You can ask Jasmine about that. I also want to know why Jasmine developed so well.”
“Eh?”
At this moment, Jasmine’s face turned red again. Even the gaze of her dormitory roommates looking at her chest made her feel shy. She instinctively covered her body, not wanting them to see.
After tidying up a bit, the three girls sat back down in their dormitory and continued to chat. The young girls who had just returned always had endless topics to talk about—love, family, and interesting happenings.
But there were also some serious matters, such as the upcoming autumn semester classes.
“By the way, did any of you go to check the Course Selection Slate to see what classes are offered for next semester?”
Isabel, sitting at her vanity putting her new mirror in place, looked towards her roommates and asked. Behind her, Milica raised her hand.
“I went! I even used Recording Magic to record it!”
“Thank you! Let me see what classes we can take next semester. I heard from my sister that the Griffin Party is blocking our school’s education department. I don’t know what Ken is doing to respond to it. If our Magic Academy doesn’t start classes soon, I bet the students will run to the parliament to complain.”
As Isabel spoke, she and Jasmine looked towards the glowing stone in Milica’s hand, from which lines of text flew out and formed a miniature Course Selection Slate on the wall.
The slate was divided by departments, listing course numbers, full course names, teaching professors, and additional notes. The notes generally provided a brief description of the class’s content and precautions from the respective professors.
Jasmine and Isabel glanced at one wall, while Milica looked in another direction since she was from the Art Academy and wouldn’t be taking the same classes as Isabel and Jasmine.
Isabel’s gaze quickly caught the courses illuminated on the Magic Academy’s Course Selection Slate.
[Magic Type 1001A: Introduction to Basic Magic]
[Instructor: Fisher Benavides]
[Notes: This course teaches extremely basic magic principles, with no prerequisites. Class capacity: 50.]
[Recommended reading: “Fundamentals of Magic Theory,” “Detailed History of Magic,” “Logic of Magic.”]
Staring at the long list of recommended reading behind it, Isabel felt captivated by this peculiar professor.
This basic magic introduction course is taught by two professors, and the note for the other professor is: an intriguing and profound magic theory class.
“Fisher Benavides, that name sounds a bit familiar.”
Just as Isabel said this, Milica, who was drinking water behind her, suddenly spat it out and started coughing.
“Wait… cough, who did you say? Fisher Benavides?”
She quickly turned around, confirming from the name on the projected wall that it was indeed that gentleman from Nali. She exclaimed in surprise, “Oh my god, it really is Professor Fisher! I didn’t expect him to come teach at our school! I thought he was still in the Southern Continent?”
“Milica, do you know this professor?”
“Yeah, don’t you know him? ‘The Rebel of the Royal Academy!’ The author of the Soul Magic Source Theory, and a student of the Grand Magician Heilson! The academic world has been almost wiped out by his papers these days; everyone is hiding at home secretly proving his theories! Before, when he was still studying at the Royal Academy, my father hired him as my math tutor. Even though my math is still terrible now, he really is a great teacher.”
“And, and, and the most important thing,” Milica’s face flushed as she spoke to her two roommates in front of her, “He is incredibly handsome! Simply the most gentlemanly man in Nali!”
Isabel opened her mouth. Although she grew up in the royal family, because she had an older sister and three older brothers, and her father was not very strict with her, she didn’t have a deep understanding of Nali’s academic world.
The reason she found the name familiar might be because she had seen it on, hmm, her sister’s desk?
“Fisher Benavides, huh.”
Her light golden eyes scanned the professor’s name and added the Magic Type 1001A course name to the course planning list.
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