Elder Fang hid his hands in his sleeves as he calmly flew towards the elevated tables of the teachers.

The students immediately quieted down as they scampered towards their own respective seats.

Elder Fang stood on the makes.h.i.+ft stage with grace and prowess as he exhaled loudly.

If it wasn't for the small beads of sweat dripping down his face, the students would've thought that nothing was wrong.

Since the Elder was here, the students immediately stood up and bowed to give their respect.

"Greetings to the Grand Elder!"

The students greeted the Elder with fervor, along with a confused Inna who was forced to follow as per Raghnall's instruction.

Elder Fang released another huge sigh before speaking.

"Everyone please be at ease."

All the students immediately straightened up and returned to their seats.

"Apologies for the delay. The Headmaster has called me in for an emergency meeting so I was held up for quite some time."

Seeing the anxious gazes of the students, Elder Fang cleared his throat before continuing.

"But no worries. It does not involve the rest of you. And although we are a bit behind schedule, we will proceed as planned."

Gazing at the empty plates and trays in the room, Elder Fang proceeded to speak.

"Since all of you have now finished eating, we will proceed to the sacred temple for prayers. As you all know, we normally require students to pray on the seventh hour at every seventh day of the month. But there are also special ma.s.ses that are granted for special events. One of these special events are what we will be having now which is the initiation of new students entering this school."

"But before we proceed to the sacred temple, it would be best to proceed in groups to easily monitor the students, to avoid getting lost, and to avoid unruly behavior."

Hearing this, students sneakily began looking at each other. They began to plan their teams in their heads while some began communicating with their friends through their eyes.

"To ensure that everyone belongs in one, there should be five people in each group. And since it is encouraged for students to mingle and build relations.h.i.+ps in this school, I will grant you the liberty to make up your own group."

As soon as Elder Fang finished speaking, the students began running towards their desired partners. Others began shoving while the rest began kneeling and begging people to be part of their group. The only stationary people were the high cla.s.s n.o.bles and the known powerful top cla.s.s students. And that's because they were the ones being pursued by other students.

Inna looked at everyone with a strange smile.

"Well, this is familiar."

She giggled as she remembered her high school years.

Despite crossing over different worlds, some things never change after all.

Raghnall briefly looked at the few people who were discreetly giving him glances. It seems that they wanted to ask him to be in their group, but were somehow hesitant.

"You'll be part of my group, no objections." Inna demanded as she grabbed his arm.

Raghnall looked at her with a smirk.

"Aw, I'm finally wanted."

Inna just simply glared at him in reply then she proceeded to watch the pandemonium taking place right now.

There was a student that has been betrayed by his friend just to complete a group with a high cla.s.s member. There were also middle cla.s.s students suddenly fighting with their magic to show off their strength in hopes that a high cla.s.s student would accept them.

Some started hollering when they lacked one member and some started hitting one another to get into that slot.

Meanwhile, Inna and Raghnall were the most composed lower cla.s.s students in the whole room.

Well, that was until a few minutes ago.

"Excuse me, Mr. Raghnall but with all due respect, the likes of her does not deserve to be grouped together with you."

The one eyeing Raghnall the most began to make her way towards them. The rest of her group followed as well. They were only four but they were all either strong or high cla.s.s n.o.bles. And with one missing member, they wanted someone deserving of their group's abilities.

Hearing the disdain in their tone, Inna's eyebrow shot up.

Should I get ready for the b.i.t.c.h slapping event number 2?

She snickered in her mind as she slowly and discreetly cracked her knuckles.

Raghnall saw her movement and inwardly gulped.

Better resolve this quick.

She's starting to act crazy again.

With this, Raghnall faced the woman that just spoke up.

"Apologies but I have chosen who I will be with. And that would be with this girl beside me. Deserving or not, that has nothing to do with this. Besides, we are simply going to the temples, so why do we need a strong group?"

Raghnall's tone was respectful but he was flat out rejecting the n.o.blewoman.

"Do you really think we're carefully grouping up just because of a small trip? Nonsense. Not everyone knows this but this grouping will actually be the decided groups for the cla.s.s-change matches after the prayers had been offered. So, if you're grouped up with a weakling, you would be dragged down from your prestigious Rose cla.s.s eventually."

The woman sneered as the rest of her group nodded in agreement.

"As for our group, we are all Intermediate rank peak stage of different professions. We have two priestess, one mage and one witch. And all of us are in the top cla.s.ses in these professions. Surely you would reconsider?"

She boasted as she looked at Raghnall with expectant eyes.

But Raghnall just quickly scanned them before shaking his head.

"It's best for you to look for someone else. I've already been captured."

He grinned as he showed his arm that has been nearly crushed by Inna's tightening grasp.

The woman looked at the hand that was tightly grasping his arm before fully looking at Inna.

"How shameless. She's so weak that she's actually clinging unto him for dear life."

She snickered. But Raghnall immediately wanted to shut her up.

She's not tightly squeezing his arm because she's worried…

She's tightly squeezing his arm because she's extremely p.i.s.sed off!

Argh, his bone is going to get crushed at this rate!