Chapter 28: Quitting
Time went by slowly as one teacher after the other came to teach them different topics, but the gossip of the students didn’t stop as they kept on talking about what had happened the previous day.
Since there were many fourth-year students, all of them could not naturally fit in the same classroom; there were different classrooms for fourth-year students in the academy, so Alex didn’t come across Laura until morning classes were finally over.
After taking four different classes in the morning, the students were allowed to go out for a bit before preparing for more classes later. This was when Alex would usually take his post at the desk in front of the library and many students would come to collect passes.
Also, there were different training rooms and meditation rooms in the academy for students to train or gather mana if they didn’t want any distractions. Alex had never been to any of those since they had no use for him.
"Registration for the competition will last till Wednesday, I should just register today and get it over with," Alex mumbled to himself as he walked out of the classroom and entered the large hallway where other students were also walking.
Alex’s appearance immediately attracted the attention of many students and they began to look at him with strange eyes while whispering to each other.
Alex simply glanced at this before walking away. Apparently, the whole academy already learnt of what happened yesterday and were talking about it.
’Not like I care about being the subject of gossip,’ Alex thought to himself. This wasn’t a new thing since it had been like this for the past four years.
The only difference was that this time, he wasn’t being ridiculed.
After taking a few turns in the hallway, Alex arrived in front of a black door and knocked on it.
"Come in,"