Chapter 230: Student Hierarchy
?"Something that one of you new students has already achieved."
Declan pointed at Vaan and questioned.
"And since a student can take 5 other people inside the Ancient Ruins together with him, you can always ask Vaan Astra Vesta for a favour and who knows? Junior Vaan might feel generous and accept your request."
Vaan frowned as he heard those words.
He looked around and could see the students looking at him with different eyes.
'What the hell is he planning?'
Vaan wondered when he noticed the smirk on Declan's face.
However, knowing that there was no point thinking about it, he simply shrugged and closed his eyes, showing his disinterest towards the topic.
Whatever Declan was plotting, he would deal with it later.
After all, a battle is only when the other side tries some moves before they fail.
One shotting the enemy was never fun, now was it?
Not knowing what Vaan was thinking, Declan continued,
"Anyways, moving on from the Heart of our Academy, let's move to its soul now, the reason why the Agresia Academy is so different from the rest of the world,
Our Magic Engineering,
We guarantee that the Technology you will find in the Academy is not something you would find anywhere else, we, the Agresia Academy, are home to the best Magic Engineers in the entire Agresia.
Not only our advanced Infrastructures, whether it is our Advanced Laboratories, our Communication System, our Enchanted Libraries where you can get the books you require with just a click on your finger, Advanced Training Rooms, Medical Rooms, Magic Transportation, Space Portals and many more.
Even the Academy Uniform can be considered a great discovery and is something no other Academy can provide.
We are far above any other Academy in the entire Agresia in every way.
Of course, to use most of these things, you would require Academy Points.
So the next topic I will be moving towards would be the one I am sure you all are most curious about.
Academy Points.
You can see it as the Gold Coins of our Academy. Students are required to earn these Academy Points in order to survive here, from the smallest things like food to accessing our greatest facilities like the Portals, everything here requires Academy Points.
As to how to get them,
Well, the easiest ones would be to work. The land we hold inside the Academy is quite big, compared to that, we only have 1 million people, out of which, only 100,000 are students.
To manage such a large land, manpower is required,
There are all sorts of odd jobs like cleaning, cooking, gardening, or any other things that require basic skills available in the Academy. All these jobs pay according to the amount of work done.
However, this is the Academy of the Elites.
Can we Elites be satisfied by doing some odd jobs? Were we born to do something that the servants in our house do for us?
Of course not.
These methods are chosen by the bottom of the barrel. Students with no hopes, students with crushed spirits.
In my eyes, doing these jobs is no different than punishment.
There are much better options out there to earn Academy Points.
For Alchemist, Magic Engineers and Healers, earning Academy Points is much easier, they can charge for their services and having a large market of consumers helps a lot.
There are also different clubs students can join and if you excel in what you do, you will be funded by your Club.
Of course, being part of the club isn't necessary either, excellence is always recognized no matter where you are.
Therefore, every time you earn an Excellence Star, you earn 20,000 Academy Points.
However, earning Excellence Star isn't a stable source. Not all students get Excellence Stars regularly, they are considered rather rare.
The Academy Points you earn through Excellence Stars are, at best, just rewards. A bonus of sorts.
According to me, the best way to earn regular Academy Points is to climb the Students Hierarchy."
Declan spoke, then, as he glanced at all the students in front of him, he smiled and,
"The Agresia Academy might be the Academy of the Elites, but this doesn't mean all the students here are the same.
Rather, there is a huge difference between students here, some are much more different than others, there are students here who are born with a different destiny compared to the rest.
They are born to be the World Leaders, the people who would rule over the rest.
Obviously, such people cannot be placed together with the rest, we are the true elites, the face of our Academy and as the Face of the Academy, the Academy cannot possibly not reward us.
The Agresia Academy has a hierarchy of students, with students on each level of the ladder receiving different benefits.
I'll start with the lowest,
A normal student, someone who still hasn't achieved anything in the Academy, someone who is bound to not be able to stand out.
Moving further, we have the Star Students.
Students who received Excellence Stars. Along with the Academy Points they receive after getting an Excellence Star, these students also receive monthly benefits.
The benefits vary depending on the Color of the Student's SIC. The White Card Holder would get 500 Academy Points every month.
A Silvery White Card Holder would receive 1000 Academy Points every Month.
A Grey Cardholder receives 3000 Academy Points a Month.
A Dark Grey Card Holder gets 10,000 Academy Points a Month.
And finally, a Black Card Holder receives 50,000 Academy Points a Month.
Of course, as enticing as it sounds, reaching this level is much harder than one would expect, most students in the Academy never get go above the White Card, so don't even think about Black Cards. That is not something you people should be worried about."
Declan snorted. The other students all narrowed their eyes, the old students, however, knew what Declan said wasn't false, with Vaan and Elara each earning Stars the moment they entered, the new students' perspective about Excellence Stars was somewhat skewed, however, as more and more time passed, they would soon realized that it is the two monsters that are much different from the rest and shouldn't be compared with normal standard.
"Together with the Star Students, we have Academic Achievers, the students who are mostly involved with research, whether it is Magic Engineering, Alchemy or any other thing in that matter.
As long as you excel in it and your research yields specific results, you are awarded, as to how much you are awarded and what benefits you receive, that depends on the scale of your research.
The higher the scale, the better the rewards.
Moving further, we have the Residential Representatives, honestly, in simpler words, they are the representatives of different Student Residential Areas.
They receive 500 Academy Points a Month.
After the Residential Representatives, we have the Club Leaders, of course, one cannot simply form a Club and receive benefits by becoming its Leader, your Club needs to be in the Top 5 of your Specific Branch.
The Club Leaders receive 3000 Academic Points a Month.
After the Club Leaders are the House Leaders, they are the Heads of a group of Residential Representatives.
They receive 1000 Academic Points a Month as well.
Then comes the Department Heads, as the name suggests, they are the Head of the Department.
Now whether that Department is Combat Magic, Magic Engineering, Swordsmanship, Martial Arts, Alchemy, Healing Magic, Familiar Training, or any other, all the Department Heads receive the same reward, 5000 Academic Points.
They are also the ones who represent their department in the Student Council.
Talking about the Student Council, I should discuss the rewards of being part of the Student Council as well.
Student Council is the group of students that manages all the students and even some Professors of the Academy, it consists of a Council President, a Vice President, a Secretary and the Department Heads.
The Department Heads have already been discussed.
So moving to the Secretary, a secretary receives 3000 Academic Points a Month.
A Vice President receives 5000 Academic Points.
And the Council President receives 10,000 Academic Points."
Declan explained, however, Vaan could notice that the moment he started talking about the Student Council, his expression became different compared to the rest.
His usual arrogance couldn't be seen on his face or in his speech.
This made Vaan frown.
And seeing that, Vaelen, who was sitting near him tapped on his shoulder and with a satisfied smile on his face, he explained,
"The Student Council is Declan Dawncrest's biggest shame.
That's why he has that rotten expression on his face when he talks about it."
"His biggest shame?" Vaan frowned.
"The guy wanted to become the Student President, however, no matter what he did, he couldn't replace the current student president."
"What...? Declan is not the President...?"
"Of course not.
The Student Council President is someone else.
The only student who is capable of keeping that bastard in check.
"