Chapter 44: Cordelia Argent

’I want to die’

No doubt I was rash in understanding the intentions of the girl next to me, who by the way is named Cordelia. believing she was asking me out, taking it as a given and acting rash.

The only thing that resulted in me wanting to die from embarrassment, luckily no one listened, wait…. I think Ivan heard what happened.

’…mmm how do I get rid of him.’ I need to eliminate any possible witnesses to my embarrassing moment.

in fact, i agreed immediately and excitedly when she asked me to be hers, but i misunderstood her by making myself look like a fool desperate to add girls to my harem.(it is).

In the end what happened is that…well to put it simply, I am now her servant.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t a confession but a way to get away from Seraphina, or so I thought, as I couldn’t think of anything else that could be the cause of this sudden recruitment.

to begin with in the academy there shouldn’t be the concept of servant, but that’s only formally, behind the scenes the descendants of nobles usually recruit or bring servants.

in fact technically I was doing the same thing since elena and I were tacitly known as seraphina’s servants.

But after some thought I decided that Ivan was more useful alive so I’ll leave him this time and that it wouldn’t be so bad to have agreed to be Cordelia’s servant, I felt it was better to go with the flow of what I was planning.

I believed that there was nothing to be lost in being close to her. It could be a perfect opportunity to find out who she is and why she hates Seraphina so much but I have to check a few things first, unfortunately we ran out of time to talk.

At this point, classes started, so our conversation was left pending. I waited for her to finish to know specifically what my role and her objective is.

I mean, usually anyone would hesitate to betray their master, but at the end of the day I am betraying myself, so it doesn’t matter.

Now I tried to pay attention to the class, which was the first one and it was as boring as I thought, since it was just history and past gods era stuff, records and stuff I already knew, so I started to doze off.

On the other hand, Cordelia next to me was active in class and answered every chance she got to answer the instructor’s questions even with her flat face which was kind of funny since she was enthusiastic and at the same time, it seemed like she was doing it out of obligation.

I remembered that, although she behaved like a bitch with my female self, she was very polite and also very active in the academy activities, and her way of acting towards others was flat and indifferent which highlighted a lot the unfairness of that bad treatment exclusive to her.

Besides, she always got good grades which added a lot of points as a prospect and to her attributes that increased her potential as a member of my harem.

unfortunately i had a tendency to humiliate seraphina whenever i could, besides hating everyone around me.

By the way, she also belonged to William’s harem, or so it seemed, since she was not as active a member as the others and always seemed to have something else on her mind, or rather she didn’t seem motivated either.

but she made sure she was close to William , so I guessed she liked him , I don’t know why , but only when she is with my female version she acts different.

So much so that it makes me wonder if seraphina before she took his body killed her parents or something, but I can’t find a single interaction with Cordelia in the memories, no matter how hard I look.

Come to think of it, I hadn’t tried, but just out of curiosity I tested if my lust eyes could see her state.

Honestly, now that I know she just wants me to be her minion and hates my female version, I don’t think I can see it, so without any expectation I activated them and….

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Name: Cordelia Argent

Race: Human

Rank: Minor Transmutation

Gender: Female

Stats:

Strength: 30

Mana: 52

Agility

: 26

Defense: 79

Vitality: 31

Skills:

Iron Heart (Ω)

Affinity for Metal (A)

Weapons Master (B)

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’But what the sh…’ Leaving aside that I can see his status window, there are many things that blew me away in this status window.

First, I realized that I don’t have to research anything else, since, just by seeing his last name, I know where he’s from.

Many things connected in my head, but even more questions arose from this discovery.

Another thing to take into account is that he has a Blessing. I don’t know if it was by inheritance or direct, but the good thing is that he is not yet at the mercy of the Gods, since he doesn’t have any EX Skill.

On the other hand, he has three abilities, one being by blessing, and from the name I guess it’s from the god of metal or some god related to the name of the ability. But most likely it’s from the god of metal, since it’s related to his family.

The blessings of the gods vary even when they belong to the same god and some can be stronger than others, for example, I have the strongest and most complete blessing of the goddess of purity.

while Elena has a blessing that doesn’t even have a trace of darkness handling and only has the concealment part, although it is powerful.

I know that if she had the most complete blessing she would have been able to handle darkness to a ridiculous level surpassing by far the affinity ability for darkness (A) to the point of being one with it.

But still her concealment is very strong so I guess she doesn’t lose out on anything, the only thing is that she is more specialized, from what I see it’s the same for Cordelia, heart of iron(Ω) is not the strongest blessing of the metal god.

if i remember correctly , for elemental gods their strongest blessing is always something with monarch, like monarch of darkness(Ω), monarch of shadows(Ω) ,

Well with that I can be sure that it has no relation with gods and at most it’s like Alice who just got the blessing and leaving it to grow and they just marked it, so it won’t be stolen by another god.

Now, the last but not least point I need to analyze.

’Why can I see her status window?’

The conditions for my eyes to be able to see people’s status windows are only one, and that is that he must have lust for me.

At the very least, for that he must see me as someone of the opposite sex. At that moment I realized that my chances with her are greater than I thought.

Honestly, I thought I would have to invest a few years for her to even begin to see me as a man, but it seems that this is not the case, at the very least my appearance awakened a little desire in her.

’It was already getting weird for her to approach me even if it was to steal from me. Apparently she likes me, at least physically.’

Hueheueheu. I was already 100% sure that this broad would be in my harem, it was only a matter of time.

’It’s about time, after sending me so many troublesome girls, finally something I can work with.’

I thought my bad luck was finally starting to improve, I began to look forward to my future school life.

I decided to be an exemplary student just to stay on her good side and develop good feelings beyond her liking my appearance. I couldn’t wait for the day she would join my harem.

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So, the first class was about to end, and the old professor was still talking with the intention of making me look bad, as he was surely casting sleep spells, which was cloaked in his words, because even with my will I almost fell asleep three times.

Causing Cordelia to look at me, although she showed nothing on her face I knew she was thinking of me as someone who was not good at academics, which is a misunderstanding created because of the skinny old man.

’Damn old man, he did it on purpose.’

When he finished his long sleep inducing spell the old man started talking something of interest to most of the students, he started talking about the assistant position.

In detail, being a teacher’s assistant is an academy system in which a student is assigned many responsibilities that he shares with the instructor, but the important thing is that it also has many benefits.

And one of the most important is that it is the easiest way to earn a lot of academic points, these are points that you can use to buy things in the academy like weapons, potions, artifacts and knowledge, all provided by the kingdom and the nobles for the academy.

Even for me it was kind of tempting since there were even things that my father couldn’t get, although they were very expensive.

When the old man explained the assistant system and its benefits, many of the students raised their hands and a battle began to see who would win such a generous position.

Even William was among them, but the fool does not know that it is unnecessary the kingdom already has plans for him, so he is unlikely to be chosen.

In the end, the professor drew lots and chose someone, but said that depending on the performance of the assistant he might get to change it.

Then he started a short 5-minute break. At that point, I started talking clearly with Cordelia needed to understand some things.

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