Overlord and the Seraphim

『Penny for Thought』

Jack stood on the very top, the climax, of the Academy. His feet seated on the angle of the spire roof of one of its handful of towers. A small grin over his lips as he was overlooking the campus and the rest of the Empire's Arwintar, their capital city.

"Probably around next week I'll get that orientation..." He'd whisper to himself, he wasn't talking gleefully, but he was definitely looking forward to it.

Meeting a bunch of school goers. When was the last time he actually attended an institution for learning? High School then College, university? This place was a great place for not only beating down the entitled nobility, but also a place to brainwash children into serving a new cause.

The Emperor wants to use the school to turn the children loyal to the Royal House, the Empire itself, rather than the nobility factions which had sprouted up and fallen over and over again.

Fallen nobles, extended members of the royal family. Factions could be tamed, turned into puppets here. Jack definitely hit the jackpot.

With his wings still tucked within his body, his eyes turned towards the one known as Jet who was entering the building with a group of classmates. He was sure they all stopped to look up at him for a few seconds. It even caused him to chuckle as he could hear Jet dismissing his presence as a continued commonality.

Even bragging that he knew him, and how powerful he was and his 'plans' for the club.

He was sure that he could definitely help those who wished to become Mages, be the top of their class. He wanted to indoctrinate everyone, especially those similar to Fluder.

He knew those obsessed with gaining power for themselves and recognition, would want the contacts which he could extend their way. A small chuckle erupted from his lips.

"Oi..." Jack couldn't help but look in the general direction of his City home. If he could have her, Arche, here with him he'd be even happier. Yet she had already let herself be known, she didn't want to come back to the academy.

She wanted to be with her sisters and earn her keep. She couldn't do that whilst attending school, studying, working and so much more all at once.

Jack himself never truly studied, never in his life had he studied for an exam or a test. His mind kept a lot of information as trivia, even if it wasn't something a normal person would memorize. Though when it came to testing, it was always a fifty percent chance he'd forget everything, know half of it or even completely ace it.

Yet if he were to study, hard or not, he'd fail and his chances of success were higher when he didn't. Why? It could be that studying it over and over again just makes the subject stale.

The mind not wanting to hear it, know about it, any longer... Just abandons it!

He was a horrible test taker, why? It wasn't because he was stupid. He had a high IQ, a high understanding of emotions, but a troublesome learning curve when it came to his memory.

His eyes shifted towards the Palace, his head turning with his sight. It was a massive construct, he knew and could very well tell that the interior was even larger.

Someone who had punished the inept nobles, who still lived in luxury whilst favoring the poor and common folk. It made him think of them as a hypocrite, but that was what humanity was.

Jack would've done the same thing. Destroy the nobles, take their wealth and build an amazing Empire where people lived with smiles on their faces.

Now, the only thing keeping smiles from the faces such as the twins, Arche's little sisters, was the darkness that laid beneath it all. Slavery. Elves, he could somewhat understand. However there were humans who had become enslaved, ones who owed money or were collateral for someone else's debt. Jack saw it as disgusting.