The Duke's Eldest Son Escaped to the Military

Ch. 13 - Jjampbap Doesn't Go Anywhere (2)

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The children couldn't calm down so easily after experiencing a shocking actual battle during their first day at their academy. In particular, Jaiden's appearance was so shocking that it was deeply ingrained in everyone's minds.

While everybody else was staring at him, Jaiden just released a sigh when he felt that his body had started to tremble and shake. Perhaps it was because he was still too young that his muscles went into shock. It seemed like his body was not working smoothly since this was his first actual battle with this body. The toll that it took on his body was quite large after doing something so violent and flashy.

'I think I need at least three days of recuperation?'

He needed at least three days of recuperation so he needed to pay attention to himself. He planned to avoid practicing too hard so he would only do some light warm ups in the meantime.

It would have been perfect if Baepsae was here at times like these but he had rarely seen Baepsae ever since he left the duchy. With how things were going, he was wondering if the next time that he would see Baepsae was when he returned to the duchy.

Of course, his youngest brother had told him before he left that their own divine beast would always stay next to their owner so he thought that he would come back one day. However, he still felt a bit disappointed since Baepsae did not show up at all.

'Baepsae, that punk. I'm going to give you a hard time when you get back.'

He thought about Baepsae busily pecking at its prey somewhere without knowing about it's master's mind.

Jaiden waited for the professors to come back.

Not long after he came back to the building, the supporting troops started to arrive at the Academy. As the troops arrived, the professors returned to their posts one by one.

"You did well, everyone. It must have been hard for everyone because it's your first time so have a good rest today."

The first professor that came in saw them and left those words to them. When the children heard the professor's words, they immediately ran towards their dormitories with their blood-soaked armor.

Jaiden also dragged his exhausted body back to his dormitory. The first thing that he did was wash away the filth on his body. After washing away the uncomfortable and filthy monster blood, he quickly changed into his new clothes before trudging back out to look at the Academy's landscape.

"Come to think of it... we're not the only students here... how is this place structured?"

He walked around but the only thing that he saw was the building housing the new students and the professors. Then, his eyes were attracted to the map on one of the walls.

"What the hell. Why does the Academy look like this?"

Jaiden looked at the map with confusion.

With the freshman academy at the center, academy buildings corresponding to each grade were located on mountain peaks with fortresses in between. Looking at the map, he could see some sort of defensive line somewhere before the mountain peaks housing every academy grade. The structure of the academy that connected and built a line of defense across the mountain range created an ideal structure that could deal with monsters with only a minimal number of people. It was a smart structure that brought the students of the academy at the forefront of the line of defense which hereby solved the Northeast's chronic problem, the shortage of troops.