Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Rein’s POV: ]

Now that it was revealed that I possessed the darkness attribute, there was no reason for me to hide it anymore. And since I don’t need to hide it anymore, joining a class that most only join if they have affinity with Darkness attribute was no big deal, right?

‘Well, I thought it wouldn’t be since I’m the vice president and all.’

But no.

It was the very first class after the lunch break and they all were staring at me as if I was some kind of a repelling object that they must avoid at all cost.

“Looks like everyone’s more focused on their Vice president than the teacher, huh?”

The teacher for this class was a Shaman, and the class itself was called <Special arts of Darkness>, something that people saw as a cult class to learn dark sorcery that mostly harms people and is useless in actual combat.

‘They were gravely mistaken if they thought the things from this class were going to be useless.’

The teacher that we have here was given the title of one of the best shamas and assassins of the world.

People came to him to eliminate the obstacles in their paths that they did not want to deal with directly.

There were people who even came to him when they wanted an advantage with their diplomacy tactics. The fees that he charged was nothing small, but he did not deal with money.

What he asked as a price was something else, and his requests were never simple or easy.

‘With his dark sorcery, he could make someone sick remotely. Using the ghosts, and dark creatures, he could make the financial situation of a small place crumble down.’

Thanks to his expertise, even mother Nol had a special arrangement with this person.

If I had the chance, there was no way I was going to miss his classes.

‘I was excited for the class from the start…’

But right now, even though we are sitting in this special location within the academy castle most probably unknown to the students unrelated to this class, instead of looking at the teacher sitting right before us, they were staring at me instead.

“There’s nothing on her face either. What is it that they’re so conscious about, Miss President?” The teacher’s face and body was covered in tattoo markings. They were tribal, filled with darkness Mana, and even though I could tell he was strong, I could tell he did not have as great an affinity with darkness that I did.

“I think it’s because of the lunch, teacher… we didn’t have lunch in the garden, and I guess students didn’t like it.”

The word that we ate in the office must have already spread across the academy. From how there were so few this time, the student must not have known about the lunch destination.

‘They also sent in the personal chat forum for our close group instead of the open student forum.’

I mean, we were busy in the first place. We weren’t even going to go out for food but the rest of them came to the office and asked for something themselves.

Darling always has food in his gate so it wasn’t anything difficult to feed them all, but he still needed to make something for everyone later on, so he was perhaps still thinking about what he was going to make for the others for tomorrow.

There wasn’t going to be any special thing tomorrow but there will still be some good items on the menu. However, I don’t think that’s important.

“I think it’s more than about lunch, Miss vice president. They are upset because you didn’t include them and are still sitting here as if you didn’t do anything at all.”

The teacher knew what was going on here and he just smirked at the students who were looking at me to the left side.

They were looking at me without maintaining eye contact with the teacher– the teacher wasn’t unattractive, but he was still a simple looking old man covered in tattoos.

He was a teacher, I could see that already. There was no one in this class that I had fun with, but it still seemed better than those having nothing.

***

“Tell me about the forest, big brother.” An innocent request of the innocent little one. There’s no way the doting big brother could ever say no to that request now, can he?

“Sure thing, little love.” He smiled at her warmly and caressed her little head as he looked at the window on the other side of the room.

-Swiiiiiiiish…

Calm winds were blowing outside as serene moonlight illuminated the room they decorated just for their little angel.

She had worked hard today as well, learning from her elders and siblings the things that she had always wanted to learn… today was also the first time she manifested her Arcanum into a spell-like structure, so she was happy tonight.

She had worked hard and she deserved a reward. Eon could not say no to a request that had come after she had achieved something, so he nodded as he looked at her with another warm smile.

“The forest… the great forest of Kamut is… well, how do I say it?” Eon thought about it as he looked around the small room of his little sister.

There wasn’t much space in this room even though most of the rooms in this tower were spacious and well arranged.

This particular place resembled the room Anna had back in the capital of Roxanna. A small room, a small table in the center.

Walls covered in shelves filled with some books and stuffed creatures, most of which weren’t simple creatures but artificial creations used for various things.

The color theme of the room was also on the lighter side. The minimal things and the small bed were much more comfortable to her than most other places in this tower.

“The great forest is like a ferocious representation of natural law, the survival of the fittest.”

Instead of the big rooms filled with all kinds of different things, Anna liked this small place. She had everything she needed here, and if she needed anything else, the entire tower was open to her.

For food, there were different floors. For music, for books, for reading, for spending time, and for doing many more things, the tower was big so she could just go to those places if she wanted anything else.

Still, this small room was one of the best places she liked for sleeping.

Listening to stories from her big brothers and sisters was also one thing that she loved, and today she had her big brother for the story telling.

She was always happy to have him since she rarely got him at these hours, but today she was happy. Today, she was going to listen to the stories of the forest that they were soon going to enter.

“When I was younger, when I first fell into this forest, I was at the lower ends of the food chain.” Eon always hesitated to tell her about his experiences in the forest, but he knew she was going to see these things when they took her to the forest.

It was better to tell her and prepare her for things that she would witness soon, things she had not been exposed to.

She was understanding and would learn quickly thanks to her skills, but she still needed to know the truth, the raw truth of the kind of forest the Great forest of Kamut was.

Her curious question simply gave him the opportunity he needed.

“In the first few hours, I was attacked by a wild boar.” Eon remembered his first days in the forest, the dreadful days when he did not have anything but a few powers and a storage device that couldn’t store much.

“I was almost killed… It was perhaps pure luck that I was able to survive my first night in that forest, in a hole of a tree that the creature had almost trashed.”

Eon did not hesitate this time and told her how dangerous the forest was, how there were things which would kill someone as weak as her in a blink of an eye, how one must not spend nights in that forest by themselves, especially if they are as weak as she is.

“The time I spent in the forest was never easy. There were many times I died, many times to things that might seem just too simple.

To make things worse, there was almost never any food or water to drink. For a good amount of time I lived there, I had to live without proper water.

I still remember drinking from the small springs in little caves, storing as much water as I could, or doing anything just to secure some drinking water.

There have been times when I didn’t get food either. I had to carry days worth of food with constant fear of the predators. There have been times when I had to fight ants and Ents. There have been times when spiders of different size, shape, and strengths came after me.

I don’t even know how many times I stole the houses of the spiders that usually came to kill me, oh, there’s also the time when I made a hot-air balloon just to get to the top of a great tree to get the sap of the tree… let me tell about that as well.”

In the few years that Eon had lived here, he had to move very carefully.

He had death waiting for him at each step of his life. There were times when he could neither move for days nor get anything to eat or drink.