The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Once I returned to the academy, I started to use every minute that I had to hunt or use the skill Rank Booster. I even had to reduce my relaxing time with Asya, instead, the time turned into a hunting-together time. This is the best I could do to spend more time with her.

When Inari was present, I could have been absent for a long time and it wouldn't have mattered, but being alone is not a healthy habit for any creature.

Isolation breeds many negative emotions and the positive ones would take a back seat, which would make one aggressive towards others.

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I don't want that to happen to either me or Asya. That's why I regularly make contact with my family, Angela and sometimes my classmates but I would keep the unnecessary contact to a minimum. Speaking with my classmates is now out of the question, as they are always away from the academy on missions.

Most fourth years are but a few aren't. They would rather dive into the dungeons where their chances of survival are almost one hundred percent.

Though dungeon diving is dangerous, the dungeons in the academy were explored too many times. There are detailed reports on how to defeat the monsters in there. Everything that happens in those dungeons was already known to us. So there are no dangers unless you go into a dungeon that's way beyond your power.

So if one chooses hunting to earn the academy points, then dungeons in the academy are the best way to earn that, rather than the missions.

The problem was that even completing an entire dungeon wouldn't yield as many points as a mission would. Completing a mission is not as easy as completing a dungeon. Everything has its own pros and cons.

The best course for one is not the best course for others. Everyone has to decide what's the best course for them. So there are still a few students from the fourth year in the academy, though I think none are from my class.

All the students in my class are battle maniacs. Though they weren't at first, they should have been frustrated enough to become battle maniacs to prove their strength and overcome others.

Hmm, thinking about the battle maniac classmate, Malia, the girl who would always be the second in the class, would give me dangerous looks every time before and after the exams.

I believe she wants to reach the top rank but in the past three years, I stood as a big hurdle in front of her, stopping her from reaching that goal. So I don't think that it would be weird for her to have some animosity towards me.

I mean we are all humans and if there was someone who is stopping us from reaching our goals, we would certainly be pissed at them.

The good thing is that she didn't try any backhanded methods against me. I believe that she wanted to gain the rank through her own efforts, not using devious means. It would hurt her pride if she did something like that.

Prideful people are the most competitive of all. If you face a prideful one, it's best to withdraw from the race. This was because unless you lose, there are only two outcomes.

They would continue to hound you until they win fair and square. This is the best outcome if you win whatever competition that you both competed in.

The second one is the worst one. They can't accept the failure and would try to eliminate you. This could lead to either your death or possible endless fighting.

The person would only try to eliminate you if he has a background. If they don't have any, they already lost to you. So there was no reason to start a war with you unless they were thinking of killing you using devious methods but as I said Pride.

Their pride wouldn't allow them to backstab. Whatever they do, they would do out in the open, whatever the consequences might be. They don't care about consequences. Their only concern would be about the moment.

If they failed to kill you and instead died in your hands, you may not face any legal troubles but family troubles are a separate matter.

The family of that prideful person would certainly come after you until either you or they were dead.

Yeah, that sounds like a cliche novel, I know but things like that do happen but in real life, it's the single person who would die, rather than an established family who were wealthy and powerful.

In novels, there is a term to describe the situations where a single commoner who has nothing but his own personal strength would overwhelm powerful houses. It's called Plot Armor.

It's something that would destroy the novel itself.

I mean, if you want to have a powerful hero, then there are other ways to do that, rather than destroying the descendants of previous heroes.

Yes, they can destroy the enemies of the nation or become pioneers in various industries that can propel the nation forward. No, almost all of them would have a first enemy in the form of a noble.

They are the hero's money bag. Generations of wealth earned by the family would be lost due to a small conflict that would lead to the destruction of their family.

How would that happen, I wonder?

I mean with huge wealth, they don't need to send their family members one by one to die at the hero's hands. They can send assassins and eliminate threats within hours.

Of course, they would do that with others but when it comes to the hero, they would send their own family members who would die in the hero's hands and that would create a rift between them, which would end in their destruction and their wealth in the hands of the hero.

This wealth would act as a startup fund for him to reach the top of the world.

Such cliche.

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Wait, I did again.

One moment I was thinking about something relevant and the next I would completely go off-topic. Though it is not entirely off-topic as there were certain links, those thoughts are not needed.

This has been happening a lot recently.

When I was young, I wasn't like this. This is becoming a problem and I should find a solution for that or I would be wasting more energy on thoughts that are not needed.