The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 9

Chapter 9: Room Choice

"Interesting choices. I can see the others, but why did you pick the balcony? The room itself is barely a bedroom." The teacher in charge of reception asked Karl.

"I can always set something up on the balcony, but mostly it's for training. I have an area attack skill that I can't train indoors easily. But the room is fine, it's bigger than mine at home, and it's got both a bed and a desk, with its own shower and water closet."

The others quickly double-checked to make sure they had picked rooms with their own facilities and sighed in relief. Not only did the rooms they picked have a full bath, they also had a small kitchenette with a fridge and hot plate for cooking in the room while they were studying.

"In that case, I will give you all your keys, and wish you well in your studies."

The teacher's smile told them all that they had probably screwed up somehow, but they had no idea what they should have done differently in that situation. Unless the juice was poisoned, they had just picked the rooms that seemed the most appropriate for their class. Or the biggest ones, in the estimation of James and Kruger.

They took a few steps, and students from the senior classes, wearing badges with White, Black and Bronze symbols on them, fell in beside the group.

White for Common Grade, Black for Awakened, and Bronze for Ascended, according to the text on the badges. The badges on the new students' uniforms were all white, so Karl hadn't noticed until now that they represented anything but the Academy.

"Welcome to the Academy. We will show you to your rooms. It's always fun to see the newbies' first experience of the dorms, you see. It's a completely magical building, so whatever you were expecting, just put that out of your mind right now." The student with the bronze badge, the strongest of the three, explained.

They didn't say much more until they got to the main doors of the dorm.

"On the right is the cafeteria, open from four in the morning until midnight. On the left are the laundry facilities, they're a drop-off service, just give them the basket, and they'll launder it and bring it back to your room. This isn't a hotel, there are no maids, but the cleaning supplies are right here.

Don't forget to keep your room clean, everyone gets punished if too many students fail the dorm inspections.

That way is the supply room, you can go visit him later, when you have academy credits, to get essential supplies and things you want for your room or your studies.

Now, there is no elevator, but there are three staircases. The main ones are the best, as they're five metres wide, and you don't get jammed up with cross traffic.

Your year is lucky, you got rooms on the second floor, mine is up on the fourth floor, and these two are on the fifth floor. It's a long walk down to get to class, but I heard that the rooms are nicer at the top than they are on the lower floors."

The boy's smirk told Karl that he was definitely pranking them. Either there was an elevator, or the rooms were all strange, no matter where you went.

The three older students put their hands on the shoulders of the newbies and led them up to the second floor with a smile.

"You two are right here, since you picked the square internal rooms." The leader of the senior students informed them, gesturing to the doors on either side of the stairs.

That was a factor that they might have forgotten to consider. Being right next to the stairs could be loud. But the hallways were decorated with thick red carpets, hanging tapestries on the walls, and plenty of decorations that should prevent echoes.

The two warriors opened their doors, and looked at the bare rooms.

Stone walls with multiple scorch marks, cut marks and absolutely zero furniture in the main room greeted them. They stepped inside in shock, and found that the bedroom had a simple single bed in it, unmade, but with quality linens and a comforter emblazoned with the school's crest folded at the foot.

The main room had a stone golem standing in the middle, the training dummy that the diagram had informed them the room included, and the older students whistled in appreciation.

"Now that's a nice bonus. They left you the training dummies from the last senior class. Those are Commander Class, you'll never break them in the first two years, maybe not at all. I think it's a good tradeoff for the initial cleaning you'll have to do." The student with the black badge laughed.