The Retired Hero is an Extra

After returning to his room for the day, Jash relaxed for a bit before moving to the training room and began to warm up.

A while later, as he was swinging his sword, a thought formed in his mind, 'It would be better if there were real targets.'

He had been trying to improve his sword mastery and synchronize his new mana circulation pathway with his combat style.

After all, it would be stupid to leave a gap behind which might get exploited by others in the future, causing him to lose or even die.

There was no way he would be negligent and leave loopholes behind, knowing the stakes and the geniuses around him.

But he really needed that slight push of real targets to polish his combat style as well as stabilize his breakthrough.

"Haa..."

In the end, he just sighed and gave up, putting his sword in place while also arranging his clothes.

Apparently, he really disliked disorderly things and could be said to have mild OCD.

But it was nothing serious as he did get used to all kinds of messy and chaotic scenes in his past life.

It was ingrained in his body, so he subconsciously followed that desire before collapsing onto the bed and falling asleep helplessly.

It was not like he could do anything more by staying awake so he felt that it mattered little whether he stayed awake or woke up.

The next morning, he woke up on his own before the alarm even rang, finally getting a good night's sleep after who knows how long.

After waking up the first thing he noticed was the notification on his ID bracelet, and he willed for the notification to show up.

「Change in class schedule: Duel Class will happen together with Aura Creation class.」

'Chance,' Jash immediately thought before his expression twisted. 'Did I know of it or not?'

He couldn't confirm it as there wasn't much of a mention about the classes in the novel, but more about the protagonist training to defeat Amael.

However, he suspected that he knew it already as the timing was just too perfect and helpful for him, solving yesterday's problem of lack of targets.

"Anyways, Aura Creation is going to make me stronger," he shrugged before finally going to dress up for the day.

[Aura Creation] was a class where only the privileged students and some other rare geniuses that had reached E-Rank could attend.

Obviously, one could attend it later on after reaching E-Rank, but there was no guarantee as it wasn't easy.

The arrangements for Aura materialization were not something to be taken lightly.

And as the name [Aura Creation] suggests, it was a class that taught Aura materialization to the students.

Alas, only a little over 50 students could be a part of this class as most of the other students had not reached E-Rank yet.

Of course, Mages were directly disqualified from this class as they couldn't form Aura.

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"Yawn~, why did they arrange classes three days in a row? I wanna sleep," a student grumbled while walking into the Weapon Arts Block.

But they immediately went quiet after entering and seeing the faces of the prominent E-Rank students.

"This class smells of trouble," the student mumbled and smartly reduced their presence to not get caught in the crossfire of their clashing egos.

Well, the class didn't look like a similar classroom but a Dojo which made sense, considering the subject and its goals.

After all, just creating Aura wasn't enough, one must also be able to cultivate it and grow stronger but it wasn't all that easy.

Immense dedication and concentration was needed to be able to improve one's aura except by ranking up and increasing weapon mastery.

That's why everyone wore solemn expressions on their faces, waiting for the class to begin, wanting to manifest Aura and increasing their combat power.

Jash arrived just a minute before class began yet all the eyes stared at him like a hawk, wanting to tear him to shreds.

Ah, it was not purely based on hatred or jealousy, but wanting to prove oneself superior and stronger than the others.

'I'm glad I didn't arrive any earlier,' he smiled to himself, feeling the uncomfortable eyes on him.

The moment Jash stepped in, consciously or unconsciously, everyone briefly considered him to be the strongest in the room.

It wasn't acknowledgement of him being the strongest, but the moment others felt it, their heart raced, their cheeks almost flushing in shame.

After all, how could these proud sons and daughters accept someone better than them?

But of course, where there were rotten apples, there were also good apples and some really only gave him a look of envy before focusing back to awaiting the class to begin.

Some were curious, wanting to ask why he wasn't in the Sword Art Class, but noticing the time left for idle chattering being only seconds, they gave up the idea.

Maybe the teacher will ask, or so they thought.

Unfazed by everyone's looks, Jash took one of the many empty seats, sitting alone but near Amael, and even nodded to him perfunctorily.

Not like there weren't others he knew, but there was no such time anymore as the graceful figure of a female entered the class.

Contrary to everyone's expectation of seeing a veteran teacher, they were met with the beautiful, cold-faced Aileen.

Naturally, her expression wasn't all that cold as she was gloating inwardly instead after finding Jash in the crowd.

She had initially wanted to take the Sword Art Class but Ronan stubbornly resisted, becoming the Swords Art Class professor in charge.

Poor guy got cheated out of his luck as Jash signed up for Elemental Theory and it made him so furious after he found out that his expression was really a feast for the eyes.

It was the first time for Aileen to see a change in someone's expression that fast, wanting to record it but gave up due to seniority.

Yet here she was, about to teach Jash and getting another chance to guide him and then poach her as her apprentice.

"Be seated, everyone," Aileen said after recalling everything within a flash, quieting the whole class with her authoritative presence.

It was really surprising how a "feeble, frail, female" could manage to do it, but it wasn't a world where your gender defined anything.

So eveyong sat with their back straight except Jash whose eyes trembled at her sight, unable to believe it.

'What the hell!? Since when did she teach Aura Creation??' Jash asked himself, but he had no answer, leaving him only the ability to speculate.

'Could it be because of me?' he thought incredulously.

Similar to him were the stiff expressions of Amael and Helios who were too dumbfounded at the change, but Amael's expression softened at the sound of Villain Points.

But Helios had an expression as if he had eaten shit as one of his helpers was the Professor in charge of Aura Creation who helped him greatly during this time.

Though all three believed it was due to the butterfly effect from their presence, it was, in fact, solely Jash's fault.

Aileen had never wanted to help either Helios or Amael as they both were devoted, but Jash... he was the kind of talent she liked nurturing as he seemed to have no idea how to use his talents to their utmost, effectively.