The Retired Hero is an Extra

Unlike others being surprised by him having so many affinities, there was also a hidden feeling of gloating in their eyes.

After all, Jash was a swordsman and he would be busy honing his swordsmanship, so the plethora of elements would only become a hindrance to him.

Alas, those were pure delusions as they had no idea who Jash was.

'This makes things easier,' Jash thought, knowing that getting an elemental awakening wasn't the same as knowing one's elements.

But didn't the Academy have something to help the students attain their elemental awakening?

Surely, it did!

And that's why Jash's face broke into a thin, imperceptible smile as he knew that going to each element once was the best way to go about it.

If it was his first life, he might have to actually be burnt or frozen to get an awakening of sorts or wait for a life-and-death situation.

'If only things were this easy back then,' he lamented, but if others knew of his plans, they would spurt blood out of anger.

Simply put, knowing the elements was just the first step and most would spend days, weeks, or even months to go through an elemental awakening.

Most would stop at their major affinity, devoting themselves to one element for life and become proficient at it.

Not only would it save time, but also make their affinity increase with their own effort, which was already difficult for their main element.

Only those rich people with elemental rooms had the guts to dabble in auxiliary elements, or those that actually needed it.

Why would someone like a blacksmith not want fire or metal affinity even if it was their secondary or tertiary one?

Similarly, a potion maker would want fire affinity or water affinity as both could be used in making potions.

Such people would even ignore their main element, putting all their effort into the element they actually needed.

However, the progress for one's main affinity could be said to be at a snail's pace, let alone the ones going after secondary affinity and so on.

But did that mean that Jash was also the same as them?

No!

He already had enough experience of one life and it wasn't like he didn't have these many elements back then.

In fact, the only surprising elements for him were space and darkness, which he didn't have in his first life.

'And I still didn't get any advanced elements or mental elements or those ones,' Jash's eyes twitched as he recalled that.

It was really insane how he was asking for more when he was crying about others being useless just a bit earlier in class.

'At least I can use my mana circulation fully after awakening to the elements,' he mused happily.

Meanwhile, besides the students, Caera and Sharon had a frown painting their faces as they saw Jash's results.

It was one thing to have other affinities, but space? That wasn't good.

However the two remained quiet, with Caera keeping it in her heart to talk to him about it later.

It would have been a different case if Jash had gotten an affinity like gravity, a sub-type of space, but he had pure space element affinity.

This downplayed his light element affinity along with his other elements.

'Good thing those two didn't attend this class,' Jash thought, wondering what would've happened if they were here.

Surely, one light as bright as the sun and another as dark as the abyss would show up.

However, Amael and Helios seemed to be aware of such a result, instead opting to take the Sword Art Class.

And currently in the Sword Art Class that was happening parallelly, both Amael and Helios were together.

Though Amael had an amiable and affable persona while talking to everyone, Helios was kind of left alone as only those from the Church were near him.

Alas, even they didn't like him much, preferring the soft-spoken Vivia over him as she was the Saintess in their heart.

Caeron and Helios had come out of nowhere, disrupting their peace, quiet, and reverence for the Saintess, garnering many haters—both young and old alike.

In that class, the professor in charge was a man with curly brown hair who had begun instructing the students long ago.

Suddenly, a frown appeared on his face as he asked abruptly, "Where is Jash Ramille?"

His tall stature and broad shoulders gave him quite an intimidating look, startling the students following his guidance.

Only after his voice echoed did the others notice that their Year Representative was indeed absent from the Sword Art Class.

Meanwhile Amael only snickered in his heart, 'There's no way he would join this class, given his personality.'

Though he was curious why the professor cared about it, he didn't care enough, being wary of Jash despite the uncomfortable feeling of closeness with him.

'His death is inevitable, I will only be delaying and worsening it if I get swayed by these emotions,' Amael told himself for the umpteenth time.

{...}

His system could only remain quiet at the moment, unsure whether to warn its Host about the change was the right decision or not.

Similar to Amael's system, Helios's system was also in a dilemma, unable to get any read on the person named Jash Ramille.

(...)

It wasn't sure what to think of its Host's decision to ignore Jash Ramille and focus on Amael Blake only, which was strange.

(Host, the current Amael Blake hasn't done anything to you.)

The system tried to persuade Helios to give up on his meaningless revenge as his destiny was one of being a Hero, not of getting revenge.

'That's why he's alive, but I will be sure to eliminate him at the first sign of him turning evil,' Helios told the system of his resolve.

At this moment, a student barely stuttered, "P-Professor R-Ronan, I-I think he's a-b-absent."

Professor Ronan was confused and didn't care about the student's words as he continued to check the list of students while also checking on the students present.

After all, Jash, the best swordsman among the freshmen, was not present in his lecture.

In fact, he softly considered Jash to even be able to rival the Rank 1 of Second Year in pure swordsmanship alone.

But talking about talent, it was obvious Jash was better.

'Is he sick?' That was the only reason Ronan could think about before the worst possible scenarios came to his mind.

He paid great attention to the list of students in the Sword Art Class and couldn't find the name 'Jash Ramille' in it at all.

"This can't be..." he muttered to himself, fearing the consequences of such an event.

The right to choose subjects was purely given to the students, and even the most influential professors could do nothing about it.

Heck, they didn't even know about their future students until the first day of class, only receiving the list on their bracelet a few minutes prior.

While Ronan was in panic, others around were looking for Jash, wanting to see him and his strange swordsmanship once again.

Some wanted to challenge him and learn from the duel while some wanted to prove themselves by defeating him.

Sadly for them, the boy they wanted to see was not going to appear magically out of nowhere.

As Jash was the center of attention in a mage class and he seemed oblivious to it, lost in his own thoughts.

He was truly an anomaly, someone beyond the norm...