Chapter 154: Strongest Relation Household

Besides the Great King's relation household studying military, the remaining thirty-something formal classmates at Northern Border Academy were simply divided into three classes according to entrance exam scores.

Class A, Class B, Class C.

Before revealing any specialties in certain subjects, they currently are all in the basic class, studying the same curriculum.

Great King is in Class A, Wei Shen is in the military specialty class.

Both of them lack student status; Wei Shen is old enough, but he cannot attend full-time and also hasn't obtained formal student status.

Although he didn't take the exam, the officials in charge of the academy dare not place Great King in the last Class C.

Northern Border Academy and Celebrating Yang Academy are both 'universities', belonging to the higher education institutions of Great Jin, recruiting those who have completed county-level studies. It does not start from enlightenment classes, so it requires ages twelve to thirty.

Class A has twelve people; besides Great King, the youngest is also fourteen, making him stand out particularly.

Every classmate glanced at Great King, intentionally or not, wondering whether he was a genius boy recruited through special exception.

Not only were classmates sizing him up, Great King also sized up the classmates; after glancing at them he was satisfied, discovering that this class had a manor official he had forcibly sent here, and someone had done the homework.

That official is named Zhang Qi, twenty-two years old, with a wife, child, and job. Because his position is dispensable and his age suitable, Great King's one sentence optimized him, sending him back to school for further remodeling. That's nothing; further study is fine, but it's a bit awkward being classmates with Great King. Know that his official rank normally doesn't even qualify him to attend small court meetings; this pressure is huge.

To Great King's right, across the aisle, is Zhang Qi; to his left is the youngest boy besides him, named Du Shan, who looks like an adult compared to Great King. Du Shan's family is also from the gentry of Secluded Prefecture; nowadays ordinary commoners hardly read at all.

Du Shan, taking advantage of the teacher's absence, curiously struck up a conversation with Great King: 'Hey, kid, how old are you? Are you a prodigy? How did you end up in Class A?'

Zhang Qi had just broken a sweat for him when he heard Great King say bluntly: 'I'm not a prodigy; I'm a relation household, I know Lord Xie.'

Zhang Qi: ……

Du Shan: '…Sorry, sorry! Junior fellow student, I don't know how to address you.' This kid definitely has a big background; even a big shot like Lord Xie would bow to give him a backdoor.

Great King: 'Wei Tai Ping.'

Du Shan: 'Greetings, Wei junior fellow student, I am Du Shan.'

Great King politely: 'Brother Du!'

Zhang Qi: …… What should I do? How should I address Great King from now on? Also call him Wei junior fellow student? …Can his official position be retained? Can he go back? Waiting online, extremely urgent!

The courses just started are the same for all classes; class division is due to differing qualities causing later learning paces to differ. Great King mingling among them isn't out of place, because the subjects are new, everyone starts at the same point, and Great King even understands more than his classmates.

In the morning, with clear minds, they arranged science courses; two NPCs came to lecture physics and arithmetic, successfully leaving these dozen-odd people utterly confused. This is still thanks to the academy's buff; if it were elsewhere, they wouldn't understand a bit, which wouldn't be surprising.

In the afternoon, Xie Yuan personally gave them a history lecture, then assigned an essay as homework. Except for Great King, everyone else was extremely excited. This is Xie Yuan of the Xie clan giving them a history lecture—what virtue, what ability!

Is there a 'In This Lifetime' series?!

Great King doesn't plan to do the homework left by the morning NPC class; but for Xie Yuan, he thinks he should give some face, after all it's the signboard he painstakingly kept for Northern Border Academy.

After Xie Yuan left, Great King turned to Zhang Qi, 'Pfft-pfft~'

Zhang Qi: ……

'Wei, Wei classmate, what's up?'

Wei classmate extended his claw, made a tiny gesture, 'Just a small matter. Help me write the article Mr. Xie left; turn it in tomorrow, tomorrow I have something so I won't come.' Tomorrow the scout cavalry will go out for drills, and he and Wei Shen will go.

Zhang Qi: …… Sniffle, wants to drop out!

In his mouth he merely agreed: 'Okay, okay, Wei classmate.'

Du Shan was stunned, can it really be like this? Is this what a relation household is?!

On the first day of school, Great King went home after school with a grin all the way; school officially started, he could now draw a prize!

He completed main quest three, which grants one chance at an A‑level prize wheel for inviting a great scholar to preside; also today, achieving fame that startled fifty thousand people also grants a chance; the remaining possibilities Great King dare not imagine.

No matter how you look at it, the only viable option left is to recruit a hundred students.

He sent people to advertise in the south; Abundant Yang and Everlasting Peace presumably everyone who should know already does, yet it still hasn't reached five hundred thousand, so Great King has resigned himself to fate.

Great Jin lacks academic soil; knowledge is monopolized by the gentry, not this king's fault.

Great King thought having two rewards was already good; he felt quite content, eagerly awaiting tonight to prepare for a good draw.

As soon as he finished school, his happy laugh caused a misunderstanding with Zhao Bao; he told Tong Chen: 'It turns out Your Highness likes school so much; Your Highness, studying alone since childhood, never found joy in it, but now with more classmates, look how happy Your Highness is studying!'

Tong Chen: 'Exactly, exactly! Our Highness is naturally a person who deals with great learning!'

Great King: ……

Take off the filter!

That night, Great King bathed, changed clothes, touched White Marsh, sat upright at his desk, and opened the draw.

Waiting for two gift boxes to pop out, Great King and his three attendants stared intently ahead.

Great King was excited, White Marsh was watching the show, Zhentian basically couldn't understand. Winnie is an ordinary bear unrelated to the system; it can't even see, and to blend in it also stared blankly ahead, looking clueless.

What are you looking at? Well, it doesn't matter; just looking is fine~!

Great King took a deep breath, opened both at once, and sincerely prayed: 'Give me another ore~'

【Congratulations, Lord, you have drawn an A‑level medium‑grade reward – Eight Directions Galloping Road; claim now? Yes/No】

【Congratulations, Lord, you have drawn an A‑level low‑grade reward – City Wall of a County Under Jurisdiction; claim now? Yes/No】

'Ah! Two medium‑low grades! No top grade, Mengmeng you…… still quite useful, I'll forgive you.'

White Marsh: ……

It's yours to brake.