’Come to think of it, does she have enough Evolution Crystal on her?’ watching himself being left completely on his lonesome, Novus turned around to return back to the male dormitory, all while his mind pops up with such thought.

Seeing that she had already left in a rush previously, he concluded that there won’t be any way for him to ask her of such now, prompting him to continue walking forward, back to the male dormitory to prepare himself for the upcoming classes.

With such big of a commotion that one of the ’weakest’ among the freshmen and one of the strongest, if not the actual strongest among the seniors, hanging around together brought, it is bound to catch attention of a lot of people.

And one of those people is someone that Novus was once all too familiar with.

Feeling a deep, complex gaze staring at him from behind, Novus turned around once more, his sharp gaze meeting the scrutinizing gaze of a student, a lady watching his back from one of the female dormitory’s higher floors.

Through the well-illuminated window reached by the morning sunlight, partnered with his extreme senses tempered by Evolution Energy and improved by Sensory Expansion, he saw a figure that he hadn’t seen for quite some time now.

Healthy, rosy skin that goes extremely well with her long, pale silver hair, the lady held her gaze as the two of them locks eyes, a faint, yet conflicting light glows from the depth of her eyes, something that the young man could see all too clearly.

Hers is a face of a beauty that Novus can only describe as barely standing up at the same level as Medea’s own, the downturned, graceful eyes holding a gem-like ruby pupils, connected by her adorable nose to her small, cherry lips of the same color as her eyes.

In fact, even without seeing her features in full detail, even just seeing her silhouette, Novus would’ve been able to tell who she is without any problem at all.

A former ’affiliate’ whose family comes from the same empire as his Argenta Family.

A direct descendant of the Aurum Imperial Family, the youngest child of the Aurum Great Empire’s Heavenly Sun.

Imperial Princess of the Golden Land.

Eris Alicia van Aurum.

The very person who left him the same day he acquired the system and the Evolution Domain.

The young man, feeling something seething within his being as his sight falls onto this lady for the first time in a long while, couldn’t help but heave his chest in a wave of unprecedented discomfort, his palm gradually turning into a fist as his eyes refuses to break gaze with the ruby-eyed beauty.

It took him moments, but through his own will, along with a small help from the image of Medea’s smiling face flashing on his mind, he managed to gradually calm himself down enough for him to tear his gaze off this acquaintance of his.

As he continues walking, he can still feel the intense gaze seemingly trying to bore a hole through his back, yet even then, he remains unfazed, he chooses to, deciding not to dwell on it too much anymore.

’I should’ve been the one feeling like that...’ he laughed wryly to himself as he begins ignoring the gaze, the clear, palpable hatred directed towards himself something that makes him momentarily wonder what is it that made the Imperial Princess he once knew exude such feeling towards him like that.

No, in fact, it wasn’t just confusion, but rather, a faint bitterness that he feels as he wonders just where can she get such guts to hate him after all that she had done.

’I guess there’s no use crying over spilled milk now though...’ he continues laughing to himself as he comforts in his mind, the pity for the progress the two of them had built for a long time, the pity that started on welling up from the depths of his being once more, receded helplessly, without any fight at all.

After all, his concerns on the matter regarding the two of them falls down lower and lower on his list of priorities, something that is now stacked with quite some things for the time that he is still in this academy.

’After the daily duel with Medea, I should start giving her E Tier Evolution Crystals instead of the F Tier ones... also, since there are some excess, I guess I should give her some Slimy Gold Dust as well...’ he reminded in his mind as he finally finds himself inside his dormitory room once more.

He moves in practiced motion as he took off his morning walk clothes, heading directly towards the bathroom as he cleaned himself up, taking a short, admiring look at the mirror at how far his body has progressed ever since he started using Evolution Crystal for his improvement.

He is already well built for a mage given the discipline instilled to him by his father, however, now that his bodily prowess is already growing along with his affinity with the arcane, his sharp features gradually turning chiseled as time goes by becomes more and more apparent and pronounced.

After the short inspection, he eventually nods to himself as a faint smile creep towards his face.

Getting out of the bathroom and before long, he was already well prepared, wearing the academy’s student uniform carrying nothing to himself, not even a spatial accessory as he thought that all he needs are already in the system’s Storage Space.

Now all prepared, he walks with light step towards the door to his room, then exiting the male dormitory, greeted with the sun already rising way above the horizon compared to when he and Medea were walking earlier.

As he treads the path towards the academy’s main buildings, he couldn’t help but catch several rumors of himself flying all across his surroundings, students, both male and female boring their gaze at his being as the walks seemingly without any care in the world.

Most, if not all of the male shares the same jealousy and envy that he can feel from their gaze, something that these students felt more than likely due to him getting so close with one of the schools most well-known flowers, and not any normal one among them at all, but rather the Sword Princess in the flesh.

Meanwhile, most female couldn’t help but show a look of intrigue at his tall, charming figure, after all, it is the very same person who had taken the attention of not one, but two prominent female students in the academy.

The first one being, one of the top placing freshmen, a princess of a Great Empire, and the second, the eldest daughter of one of the most influential clans in the world.

Despite the mix of opinions being directed at him through gaze and words, Novus’ gait is as calm, as certain and as confident as it can get, the walk towards the academy seemingly nothing all too important to him despite several rumors of him circulating.

It was as if true to his previous words to Medea, such rumors don’t even seem to matter to him anymore, so long as he knows he is having fun himself.

With the first ring of the bell, another day of classes in the Galilea Magic Academy starts again.