Chapter 457: The most intense training
"You look like you have something you want to say," said Isabella as she looked at him with amusement in her eyes. Seeing how seriously Nero took everything made her want to tease him just a bit. Between the two of them, he was the teenager so why was he so uptight?
"I want to ask about what’s next," said Nero, suppressing the urge to call Isabella out. Yet his attempts at restraint only made Isabella laugh.
"Enjoy yourself a little, young man. You need to learn to enjoy the little things, or you’re going to get burnt out. I’ve checked the status of your application, and though you have been referred you are far from being selected for the position.
"KMA often goes without selecting a candidate for the legion rather than picking someone unsuitable. While you have a strong resume so far, you are not the only candidate that KMA is keeping an eye on."
Nero raised an eyebrow. He did not need to be told who the other candidate was, he could already guess.
"Vilhelm?" he asked, more to satisfy Isabella’s desire for suspense than anything else.
"Yes, Vilhelm," responded Isabella. "Although you beat him in a fight, that does not exclude him from being a candidate at all. They are going to review his, yours, and any other applications for another eighteen months, and that’s when the final decision will be made.
"What you need to do, within that time, is build up a strong application during that time. You need to cover for any advantages he has over you, and gain your own unique advantages as well. That basically means that within the next three semesters, you not only need to prove yourself, you have to make up for the one semester’s worth of classes Vilhelm has already taken ahead of you. It won’t be easy."
Nero did not seem daunted by the news at all. If anything, now that he knew what he needed to do, he felt slightly relaxed. He was already taking one additional class. All he needed to do was take one more additional class per semester, and within three semesters he could make up for any classes Vilhelm had taken that he hadn’t, putting them on par with each other.