Teacher Raine continued to stare at him, with her expressionless gaze as silence echoed through the entire hall like a dark blanket.
The silence stretched on from five second to ten seconds, all the way to fifteen seconds!
One of the students couldn't take the tension any longer and nervously swallowed their saliva.
In a silence as deafening as this, the sound was like a monster snake swallowing a human!
Finally, Teacher Raine adjusted her glasses and spoke.
"Vogue Morningster."
Her voice was soft and gentle, almost as though she was speaking to a lover which instead of making Bogue relaxed, it made him even more terrified!
This world was terrifying as it is, not to mention those who lived long enough in it.
If she had shouted, it would have been better, but she spoke gently instead!
"Y-yess Teacher Raine?" Vogue stammered and blinked as he replied nervously.
"Did you enjoy your nap?"
"I-I swear on my parent's life, I wasn't sleeping!" Vogue placed his left hand in his chest and his raised the right up and spoke solemnly with seriousness on his face.
Teacher Raine eyes blinked and paused for a while before spoke again.
"You're an orphan, Vogue."
"I… uh… swear on my bestfriend's life then?"
Teacher Vogue jaws clenched and the lectern before her started releasing cracking noises but she closed her eyes and inhaled then opened her eyes back.
"I will ask you again," Her voice dropped even lower and softer. "Did you enjoy your nap?"
Vogue swallowed hard. He could feel sweat forming on his back. She was really angry this time.
"Y-yes, Teacher Raine. It… it was a good nap."
"A good nap," she repeated, nodding slowly. "I see. You found my lecture so boring that you decided to sleep through it. And not only that, you woke up and decided to disturb everyone in the class after I just scolded them not to speak."
"Ma'm if you slept like I did you will—"
"Since you're so well rested now," Teacher Raine completely ignored and and continued.
"Since you're so well rested, you wouldn't mind volunteering to be the first to partake in the practical exercise right?"
Vogue immediately heaved a sigh of relief. 'I thought the punishment would be something bad. I didn't know with would be a simple combat exercise.
He gazed at the Teacher and slapped his chest with confidence.
"Don't worry about that Teacher Raine. Not only would I be the first for the practical exercise I can volunteer to fight twice even!"
The jaws of everyone in the class room dropped as they stared at Vogue as though he had run mad!
Not even those who underwent a successful OSYMPIC test and awakened a god Talent would dare to brag of facing two radiants all by themselves! Not to mention Vogue who hadn't even awakened his system not to talk of talent!
"Oh! Is that so?" Teacher Raine raised an eyebrow and she immediately knew Vogue didn't have any idea what she was talking about.
Vogue nodded his head confidently. While he has little to no combat ability, he feels no pain, and with this ability, he can fight dirty. Which is most people don't like sparring with him. He would never give up until he could no longer stand.
"How about we make it three instead?" The teacher chuckled, making her chest jiggle in the process.
Vogue tilted his head slightly. Three would be extremely tiring and might cause internal damage. Also, the next Osympic test is in a week. He cannot afford to be incapacitated.
However, since such a wonderfully blessed teacher was smiling at him, Vogue couldn't help but swallow as his eyes roamed that endowed area.
He immediately nodded. "Three is also fine."
"Everyone give a thumbs up to student Vogue." Teacher Rainee suddenly clapped.
This time, the students couldn't hold it in and immediately burst out in laughter, disbelief, awe and amusement as they all gave him thumbs up!
"You're our role model brother Vogue!"
"Such a brave man you are!"
"How can someone be so foolish?!"
"Such premium name, such premium bravely!"
"I don't even know what to think at this moment."
The students were stunned and amazed at the same time.
Teacher Rainee cleared her throat.
"Ahem! That's final Vogue. You will face three radiants in the practical exercise."
Vogue felt something was strange from the reaction of his fellow students but he didn't care about them. However, as he heard teacher Rainee's sentence, his brain short circuited!
"Hm!?"
"R-R-Radiants? Ma'am you mentioned Radiants." Vogue stammered.
"Yes. Didn't you hear? Oh wait, you were asleep." Teacher Raine's smile turned incredibly vicious now.
"After this class ends, each of you will be facing a crippled Radiant in a controlled environment. You'll have basic protective gear and a standard issue combat knife. The goal is to kill the Radiant before it regenerates enough to become dangerous."
Vogue's face turned even paler and he looked like a ghost at this time. "Wait a —
The Teacher didn't let him finish his words as she continued.
"Since you're so confident, Vogue, you'll go first and battle three Radiants bravely."
The class chuckled at the same time. Even facing one crippled Radiant was considered extremely dangerous. Two was basically a death sentence for a student who hadn't even taken the OSYMPIC Test yet.
"Wait! Let me tell you some—" Vogue wanted to kneel and beg but the teacher immediately glared at him and he knew if he said something else, it would be even worse.
Teacher Raine turned back to the rest of the class, her massive chest once again resting on the lectern as she continued her lecture as if nothing had happened.
"Now, where was I? Ah yes. Radiants are divided into various realms with each realm containing 9 stages. Savage radiants, Mutated Radiants, Fiendblood Radiants and others, the same as the realms of we Silver Knights. As I was saying…"
'I'm dead! I really am dead this time!' Vogue smiled bitterly as his slumped in his chair with hollow eyes. Just one sleep and the punishment is death? What kind of place did he come to?
He suddenly felt someone kicked his chair from behind.
"Hahaha! You idiot!"
"I had been thinking about killing you all this while. I didn't think you'd go and rape the Grim Reaper's mother. I can't wait to watch you die! Hahaha!"
Vogue immediately recognized who the person was. It was Gerald. His father was an actual Half-Moon Silver Knight and a top guard in this Third Ring. This gave Gerald confidence and pride to bully anyone he wished.
Moreover, Vogue was best friend with the girl he liked which made him hate vogue even more.
He had tried bullying Vogue a couple time. But anytime Gerald punches or beat Vogue up, he didn't get the response he expected.
"More! More!"
"Haven't you eaten today?"
"Have you really activated 50 percent of your cells?"
There's words always comes out from. Vogues mouth, triggering Gerald even more but since it was forbidden to kill fellow humans, Gerald would simply give up after being tired and leave.
Hearing Gerald's worlds from behind, Vogue rolled his eyes. "Stupid!" And then ignored the angry bastard.
Vogue tried to focus on Teacher Raine's lecture, but his mind kept wandering. How the hell was he supposed to kill three Radiants? The original Vogue's memories showed that he had zero combat experience. The current Vogue had even less, his only fighting experience was beating his meat and that doesn't even last for long either!
This was bad. This was really, really bad.
As Teacher Raine droned on about the different evolutionary stages of Radiants, Vogue's mind raced through possibilities.
Maybe he could fake being sick? No, with Teacher Rainee's mindset, she would just postpone it and probably add another Radiant as punishment.
Could he run away? Also no. The outer ring walls were so high that it seemed like a mountain.
As for the skies, they had been locked down by a device called Skynet, creating a forcefield around the ring or walls to lock down the skies as well.
"Sigh, maybe I should just give up and commit suicide."
"Mr. Morningster."
Vogue's head snapped up. Teacher Raine was staring at him again.
"Since you seem distracted, perhaps you can answer this question for the class. What is the primary weakness of a level 2 Savage Radiant?"
Vogue frantically searched through the original Vogue's memories. He knew this. The original Vogue had studied this obsessively.
"Their… their heart?" he ventured.
"Be specific," Teacher Raine snapped.
"The solar core, located two inches below their heart. If destroyed, the Radiant dies immediately regardless of its regeneration capabilities."
Teacher Raine looked mildly surprised, though she hid it quickly.
"Correct. And how does one destroy this core?"
"Through…" Vogue swallowed. "Through direct penetration with a blade or projectile. The core is usually protected by reinforced bone structure, so it requires significant force to pierce through."
"Also correct." Teacher Raine adjusted her glasses. "Perhaps you weren't completely asleep after all. However, knowing the theory and executing it in practice are two very different things, as you'll discover very soon."
As he heard the worlds very soon, Vogue wanted to slam his head on the table and just die rather than embarrassing himself before everyone.
The lecture continued for another hour. Teacher Raine covered the different stages of Radiant evolution, their behavioral patterns, their strengths and weaknesses, and the proper techniques for combat against them.