Inheriting a Lost Bloodline, My First Task is to have heirs?!

Chapter 16: Chapter 16 - I badly need money

As I walked quickly out of the room, I was thinking about how to earn money. Maybe you are thinking why I was sudenly thinking about money when I was picking an attendant just a while ago and decided to escape. Well, if I start to take men in, I have to support them right? This is a matriarchal society which means that the women bring home the money.

I remembered the things I have read from the school handbook regarding how to earn academe points. Academe points is a way to earn money as a student of Gnosis. Given that we do not have families in this world and no one to back us up, this is the academe’s way of helping us to start our lives here. As a student, my first source of money would be this. The handbook does not specifically tell me though as to how I can earn academe points. This is something I have to inquire about when I have the time.

The academe is not restrictive in any way so earning money outside should be a viable option too. Students are allowed to go out of the school and look around the city freely. One part of the curriculum also requires students to do some kind of field work where they go to other territories to study and look around. The students can complete the subject once they send in a report about the place they visited. I think those subjects are the best parts of the curriculum since I want to know more about this world.

I dressed up with my casual clothes (there was some in my closet for some reason). Well, casual is quite an understatement since this is definitely a semi-formal dress. This outfit is such a hassle. I miss wearing shorts and pants but I guess this place being backwards have not accepted that as a normal set of clothes for women. I thought to myself, should I also dabble in improving clothing styles here? Maybe later.

I went to the student admission office that I visited just this morning and saw the same kind old man that gave me the handbook. I approached him, smiled and said, ”Do I have to request a pass or something so I could go out of the academe?” The man smiled back and said, ”It must be my old age. I totally forgot to tell you about that.” He handed me a thin silver bracelet with some weird engravings. At a glance, I knew it had magic imbued in it and for sure it is not just an accessory. He then spoke again saying, ”This serves as your student identification since it contains a unique mana signature assigned to you. It will also serve as your storage space and provide you some sort of protection when you are outside the academe. It will alert the academe in case you are in any form of danger so we can help you out quickly.” I accepted the bracelet and inserted some of my mana in it to check for other hidden features.

Once I have confirmed that it doesn’t have some form of evil seal or curse, I wore the bracelet. This man definitely concealed that this one has a GPS-like capability too. I said my thanks and nonchalantly went out like I did not notice the concealed feature. Once I am out of the room, I check my memories for a spell to remove this GPS feature since I don’t want the school to find out all the places I will be visiting in the future. I will definitely visit Eieneos one of these days and that should be kept as a secret. I found the perfect spell but it seems like I could not remove the GPS thing totally since it will destroy the device. For now, I can at least control the amount of information it transmits back to the academe. I set it to just tracking places within this realm and whenever I have to go to Eieneos, the place that the academe will see on their records will be somewhere in the school as a default setting.

Eieneos is definitely not on this plane or land based on my inherited memories. The surroundings and the amount of mana in the air is totally different. Hmmm... What else? Oh I will also ensure that this device will not be able to transmit audio or video for my privacy. I don’t mind if the device reports my activities outside the classes and who I am with but not what I am exactly doing or what I am discussing with the other person. Alright! That should do it.

When I looked outside, it was already late in the afternoon. I guess this can wait till tomorrow. At least, I am all geared up to go out tomorrow.

While I was walking really slowly, I did not notice that I was already back to the door of my own room like I pinned it on a map and my body just automatically moved there. It is kind of weird but at least I did not end up lost while walking absent-mindedly. I suddenly remembered Ioannis again. Why was he staring so intently at me? Was he angry or something? Is there something he wished to say? I really love his eye color. Those gray blue irises. Ahem.

I shook my head to push the thoughts about him out of my mind. I still have books I need to finish so let’s focus on that for now. I went in the room and sat on my bed with my back on the headboard. I started reading one of the books and I purposefully picked up the one about resonance since I think this is the most useful topic to know more about right now. Instances like these will happen more and more as I live longer in this world. I then started my second speed reading session for the day. I’m bored and there’s nothing to do anyway so might as well learn as much as you can right?