Who told you I am an NPC

Chapter 107

I had no objections, and Divik had even fewer.

Penelope led him and Divik into the library where Alison had been searching for the magic crystal before. This place was also no longer messy like the last time I came, but was cleaned up spotlessly, even the spider webs in the corners of the ceiling had been swept away.

Now I understood. Alison was definitely not the one with a cleaning obsession. The only one who could pressure Alison into cleaning this place so thoroughly was her older sister, Penelope.

So it was because Penelope returned that this place became clean! Was this the suppression of bloodline?

It wasn't until the door completely cut them off from the sounds outside that Penelope once again bowed to me, "Senior Nolan, please forgive my previous impoliteness."

Her attitude changed to one of respect, and she even called out the name I used during my time as the Demon King. I knew then that Merlin must have told Penelope about my coming to Sigret Academy.

Didn't we agree not to make random arrangements?

I sighed, "Merlin told you?"

Penelope straightened up, the smile on her lips still present. I inexplicably sensed a feeling of kindness from it, yet Penelope's attitude towards me was extremely respectful, making me a little uncomfortable.

"He did mention a few things, but Senior Merlin only said that a friend of his would be coming to Sigret and asked me to take good care of him, and also to help you open Sigret's highest authority."

I was surprised. He recognized me just by being told this?

Penelope seemed to see my surprise, "Senior Merlin doesn't have many friends, and there are even fewer people who can still contact him now. I had guessed before that it might be one of the friends Senior once knew."

"As for why I recognized you..." Penelope said with a smile, "Your features are still very obvious. I already knew in advance that it was a friend of Senior, so it's not surprising that I recognized you."

"You have left behind many legends in the historical records, not to mention His Highness behind you. I'm afraid that besides you, only Senior Isabelle can have Lord Divik following her."

I coughed lightly, a little unaccustomed to Penelope treating me with this kind of attitude, "Even so, an ordinary person wouldn't think of that identity, right?"

After all, the Demon King was now a figure in the historical records. Having disappeared for over a thousand years, even if there were speculations, the first reaction would be doubt.

Penelope covered her mouth and chuckled, "Yes, that's true. So when I called out your name at first, it was just a test. I just didn't expect you to actually admit it. I thought even if you were, you would at least cover it up a little."

Me: ?

Good heavens, that 'Senior Nolan' just now was a trick to test me? I was just saying, Merlin wouldn't just tell outsiders my identity. After all, the identity of the Demon King was still very sensitive. At my current level, revealing the identity of the Demon King would only put me in danger.

Not to mention the Demon King's former retainers, even Romunik and Bartovita, who had destroyed the Eternal Empire while the Demon King was missing, would not be happy to see the Demon King reappear in the world.

Merlin wouldn't have failed to consider this. I was still wondering before, but now I understood.

This Penelope was indeed a very intelligent and bold person.

"But I also have a little selfish motive."

"Actually, my sister Alison and I are both your faithful believers. The reason why I tentatively called out your name was also because I was too surprised." Penelope curtsied again, "Please forgive my impoliteness."

"...Believers?"

I subconsciously opened the NPC friend panel, and sure enough, I found Penelope's name added to the panel, with a favorability of up to 89!

Divik's favorability was only 99. Penelope, whom I had never met before, had a favorability of 89 for me? Then this favorability could indeed be called a believer.

"Yes, my and Alison's ancestor is Zephyra. If we were to be precise, we should also be your retainers."

I was truly stunned, "Zephyra?"

I sized up Penelope, but couldn't see a single trace of Zephyra on her.

Zephyra, also known as the Phantom Spirit, was an elemental spirit born from the faith of the human race. Unlike spirits like Silf, Zephyra had no physical form and usually appeared in the form of a ball of gas or wind.

The humans who suffered from the War of the Gods begged for the gods' forgiveness but failed to receive their mercy. Instead, Zephyra was born from their strong emotions.

Zephyra was born from the faith of the human race, and thus protected these humans. In a sense, Zephyra was actually half a god, a very special race.

In the later stages of the escalating war, the newly born Zephyra had limited abilities and could not protect the humans who believed in him. So, he sought out the Demon King, wanting to sign a retainer contract with him and transfer the humans he protected under the Demon King's protection.

At that time, I disliked that the Phantom Spirit had little combat power and would waste one of my retainer slots, so I didn't agree to it. However, I did allow the humans protected by the Phantom Spirit to join the Demon King's protection.

Playing a construction game, which player would complain about having too many beasts of burden... no, too many people in their faction? Anyway, I had enough food. If not, I would go out and fight for more, or farm my own fields. There would never be too many people.

So Zephyra was considered to have joined the Demon King's faction, but had not signed a contract with the Demon King, so it was considered to have the substance but not the name.

It could barely be said to be one of the Demon King's retainers.

But the Penelope in front of me... how could she be Zephyra? Zephyra was a purely elemental life form, how could it take on a human form? A thousand years had passed, had Zephyra evolved?

I was a little strange, but I didn't ask it outright. What if she was a mixed-blood born from the marriage of Zephyra and a human? In this world, the status of mixed-bloods was very awkward, even a disgrace. I wasn't so emotionally unintelligent as to directly ask if you were a mixed-blood.

The main thing was that I couldn't figure out how a purely elemental life form, a gust of wind, could marry a human.

So strange, really strange.

I touched my nose. Penelope was very considerate. Seeing my discomfort, she didn't continue the topic, but changed it: "It seems we've delayed too much time. Senior Merlin said you wanted to see the emerging disciplines of these years?"

"Although Senior Merlin instructed me to grant you the highest authority, as a student, there will be some restrictions no matter how high the authority is."

Penelope said: "Can I directly enter the authority of an acting principal for you?"

Me: ?

Me: ???

I was dumbfounded. Merlin was still too conservative, only saying to let me be a teacher and open the teacher's authority. Now it was good, Penelope directly took one step and promoted me to be the regent, almost directly usurping the throne.

"That's not necessary, is it?" I was startled, "Didn't I already pass the assessment for recommended admission? I remember Ms. Alison said before that students with recommended admission have high authority. There's no need for a principal or anything."

Penelope frowned, "But with your identity..."

Me: No, I have no identity!

I clenched my fist and held it to my lips, coughing lightly twice, "No, I'm just an ordinary baron's son, I have no identity."

Penelope paused for a moment, understood my meaning, and after a moment of struggle, finally agreed, "Then let's follow Senior Merlin's wishes and grant you teacher's authority."

Seeing that I still wanted to refuse, Penelope hurriedly said: "It won't be announced publicly. In the academy, you are still a student. You can rest assured."

It seems possible?

I thought about it and felt that there was no difference, so I finally agreed.

"Then I will register your identity for you. Next, I will arrange for a student to show you around the campus, is that okay?" Penelope asked, adding, "Of course, if you don't mind, I can also accompany you to get familiar with this place."

"No, no, no." I refused repeatedly.

Being shown around the academy by the principal? Let alone tomorrow, my name would be in all the students' discussions today, and it would not be peaceful for the whole year to come.

I still preferred to fleece the sheep in a low-key manner.

Penelope was a little disappointed, but still handled all the procedures for me. When I left, I passed by the principal's office and saw Alison and Walkley buried in sorting out messy materials.

I clicked my tongue. If I had just accepted the authority of the acting principal, would I also have to stay here every day to deal with messy documents?

***

Divik was chased away by me.

The student Penelope found for him to lead the way happened to be someone I knew, the senior Lin Nuo I had just met when I first arrived at Sigret Academy.

"Xavier?" Lin Nuo was very pleasantly surprised, "We meet again! Did you successfully pass the entrance examination?"

"Yes, I was lucky." I answered.

"This can't be called luck at all." Lin Nuo sighed, "I didn't even know there was such a thing as recommended admission before. I only found out after asking around that in the history of Sigret Academy, everyone who passed the recommended admission has become a powerhouse."

"At that time, I was still a little worried about you."

Lin Nuo said with a smile, "But now it seems that you originally had the strength to pass the assessment. It was me who worried too much."

Lin Nuo led him as he walked and introduced, "That's the teaching building over there... Um, it's indeed a bit late for you to enroll now. Some popular elective courses are basically full, but your badge is dark gold, so you should have the qualification to choose courses freely."

As he spoke, Lin Nuo pointed to the badge on his chest, and the badge on my chest. Their badges were roughly the same, from color to shape. The only difference was that Lin Nuo's badge had three stars, while I only had one.

"The dark gold badge is rather special. Only the top student of each grade, or those who have made great contributions to Sigret and have been awarded special commendations, will have a dark gold badge."

"But that's the old saying. For many years, no student has successfully entered the academy through recommended admission. I didn't know before that students who enter through recommended admission also have dark gold badges. It seems my intelligence database needs to be updated."

Lin Nuo added: "This badge has many special privileges in the academy. For example, for elective courses that are already full, those with a dark gold badge can ignore this condition and join directly. So you can also join those elective courses that are already full, but I don't really recommend it."

Seeing me look at him curiously, Lin Nuo organized his words before saying: "Um, some of Sigret's elective courses have rather profound content, and some of the teachers who teach them have very strange tempers. If you join in the middle of the course rashly, it is very likely that you will fail the course at the end of the academic year because you can't understand the content that has already been taught."

"Once you fail a course, the title of top student may not be guaranteed—oh, right, you didn't get the badge because you are the top student. In that case, I'm not sure if your privileges will be reduced if you fail a course."

No need to worry about that.

I thought to myself: I almost became the acting principal, how could my authority be revoked just because I failed a few courses?

However, Lin Nuo was still genuinely worried for me.

Me: "It's fine, it probably won't happen." I have connections.

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"Is that so." Lin Nuo thought for a moment and still advised, "Although I know you are very confident, some teachers in the academy are very strict in their classes. It's best for you to master the content of the main courses first. If you can't keep up, it will be a bit difficult."

"Of course, you can also ask me if you have any questions. I'll take you to get a Te-xin first. With this thing, as long as you are in Sigret or Buma City, you can contact people who have added each other's Te-xin."

Lin Nuo took out a palm-sized token from his pocket and showed it to me, "This is it, but this is personally bound, others can't use it. You'll know how amazing it is when you get it."

"Is this also an alchemy item? Is it powered by mana?" I curiously looked at the small token in Lin Nuo's hand. On the back was a magic circle with a complex pattern. I wasn't very familiar with this aspect, so I couldn't recognize what magic circle it was.

But isn't this function just a portable mobile phone?

"Yes, you haven't seen these outside, have you." Lin Nuo said, "You'll get used to it after you've been at Sigret for a long time. New and strange things pop up here from time to time, all made by those alchemy teachers and students. Some of them are really convenient."

"Um... I've never seen it before." I once again lamented how skewed the technology tree was.

Lin Nuo took me to register as a new student, and by the way, to get the dormitory key and that little token called Te-xin.

"New student?" The teacher who was registering me looked me up and down and muttered, "There's still an unregistered new student at this time? Hasn't this school year almost passed by half?"

After a few operations, he spoke in surprise: "Eh... recommended admission?"

That teacher looked up at me again, "I see, you're the student who came to take the recommended admission assessment before. What's his name again?"

"Xavier." Lin Nuo answered for me. He was a little curious, "Teacher, have you also heard about Xavier taking the entrance assessment?"

The teacher continued to register, "Yes, I heard a little. It's been many years since a student came with a letter of recommendation, let alone... cough, it's nothing."

He seemed to have realized he had said too much and quickly stopped talking, speeding up the process of registering my identity, "Give me your badge."

I handed over the badge I got from Penelope.

The teacher operated the badge to record the information, muttering, "Dormitory, there aren't many empty dormitories now, um, matching according to the specifications for recommended students..."

"Ah, found it."

The teacher took out a simplified map of the academy and pointed to a few areas on it, "The treatment for recommended students is the same as for top students. The dormitory is a two-person, three-story small villa. However, every building in that area now has at least one person living in it, and there are temporarily no empty dormitories, so you have to choose a roommate."

As he spoke, the teacher placed several retrieved files in front of me.

I glanced at Lin Nuo. His badge was the same as mine, so Lin Nuo should also be a top student. It would be best to live with someone I knew, "Senior, do you have a roommate?"

Lin Nuo showed an apologetic smile, "Ah, sorry, I already have a roommate."

I nodded. Then there was no other way. I picked up those student files and flipped through them casually, choosing one, "Then this one."

Lin Nuo turned his head to look and let out a surprised "ah".

I paused, "Is there something wrong with him?"

Lin Nuo hesitated: "Uh, it's not a problem."

The teacher took the file and looked at it, letting out an "oh". "Demetrius? Oh, he's pretty good, very strong. He's also a first-year student who just enrolled. To be able to take the top spot in his first year of enrollment, he's a capable one."

Me: ?

Then why are you two making such exaggerated expressions?

Lin Nuo coughed twice and said vaguely, "It's not a serious problem, it's just that this junior is not very easy to get along with, his personality is a bit strange. You should be mentally prepared if you become his roommate."

I hesitated for a moment, thinking about whether I should change roommates, when I heard the teacher say, "Ah, the conditions of this dormitory are not bad either. It has just been renovated once. I heard that a training room was also installed in the dormitory? Let me see... Oh, of the newly renovated dormitories, only this one still has a spot."

I immediately made the decision: "Then this one it is."

Just kidding, which student could refuse a newly renovated dormitory?

If the roommate is a bit strange, then so be it. Anyway, the dormitory is very large, and each person uses one floor. Maybe we won't even see each other for a few days.

Lin Nuo wanted to say something but held back. After I made the decision, he didn't say anything more.

I got the dormitory key and the Te-xin. Lin Nuo taught me how to bind the Te-xin and added me as a Te-xin friend. We agreed that he would show me around the academy properly after I settled in, and then he left first.

The Te-xin had very complete functions, even a map of the academy. It marked what each building was used for, so I didn't need to study my own minimap.

Following the location provided on the Te-xin, I reached out and stopped an empty Xiao Bai, and got on the school 'bus'.

Taking this kind of transportation required a certain amount of points. However, not to mention the high point subsidy that came with my recommended student status, could I, with my identity, be short of points? When Penelope gave me the badge, she had already opened a back door for me in advance, putting my account under the principal's account.

In other words, I now had a black card that would never max out, but at this moment, I hadn't realized this yet.

The dormitory area was located in the southwest of Sigret. The self-driving Xiao Bai was not slow, it was practically ramming its way through the campus. I sat restlessly, afraid that I would hit someone in the next second.

Fortunately, Xiao Bai had a specific driving area, so passing students wouldn't be sent flying by it.

When I got off the car, my legs were still a bit weak. I had ridden a flying dragon before, but I didn't expect a flying car could still scare me.

Seeing me get off, a person in a student mage robe nearby couldn't help but say: "Bro, how dare you ride 44? That Xiao Bai is famous for its bad temper and liking to run wild. Last time, it even threw a senior who was riding it out, causing that senior to rest for several days."

44?

I looked back and only then did I realize that there was a clear number on Xiao Bai's butt and big head. The Xiao Bai I had just ridden had a 44 written on its butt.

"...Do different numbers of Xiao Bai have different personalities?"

That student looked at me strangely, "Are you a new student? You've been at the academy for so long and you don't even know that the Xiao Bais in the academy have different styles? Like 6, 29, 33 are all Xiao Bais with particularly gentle personalities. 11, 14, 22 are Xiao Bais that drive steadily and quickly."

Me: ...I really didn't know that.

No wonder I had never experienced that lightning-fast feeling the few times I had ridden Xiao Bai before. It turned out that Teacher Walkley and Lin Nuo had deliberately helped me choose a Xiao Bai with a better personality.

"Lesson learned." I said with a look of sudden realization, "This is the first time I've heard of this."

That student looked at me strangely: Where did this savage come from?

His gaze fell on the dark gold badge on my chest and his expression changed again: Holy cow, a dark gold badge?

Top student or special outstanding student? Forgive my disrespect, it's actually an amazing guy!

I noticed that the person's expression was changing, colorful as if they were acting in some comedy pantomime. I said goodbye to him in confusion: "Then I'll go back first..."

Before he could finish his words, the student in front of him slid on his knees in front of him and offered his Te-xin, "Big shot, can I add your Te-xin?"

Me: ...?

So jumpy, he doesn't seem very smart?

In the spirit of 'one less thing is better than one more thing', I agreed.

He was overjoyed to get the big shot's Te-xin, "Big shot, let's keep in touch in the future!"

I was puzzled. After he walked far away, I opened the Te-xin and looked. Good heavens, this person's Te-xin space was full of sales promotions.

The latest one showed:

[AAA sells magic potions, weapons, alchemy materials, etc.]

Freshly made frost potions, those who need it, private message me~ Good price, come quickly! [Image][Image][Image]

I was silent.

A limited edition micro-business from the magical academy in another world?

Oh no, this should be called a Te-shang? Xin-shang?

Forget it, let's just call him a second-hand dealer.

I was speechless. I browsed through this person's Te-xin space and was actually a little tempted by a few things.

It was just that this guy's promotional words were so extravagant that they were tempting, making people want to place an order immediately.

I discovered my own thoughts and immediately became vigilant.

No, if this continues, I'll be tricked into buying health products when I'm old!

I closed the Te-xin and walked firmly towards my dormitory.

I will never be deceived by these unlicensed vendors!