A Reverse World

Chapter 4

Only those who attend the academy are able to join the competition. The competition is based on a point based system. To enter the academy, one must pass an entrance examination, this year 300 students were admitted, 100 females and 200 males.

Upon passing the entrance examination each student had their mana reserve and magic talent tested. The academy has two separate buildings for the girls and for the guys. In the female building, there are 5 classes in the academy; the S class, the A class, the B class, the C class and the D Class and same for the males.

The twenty females who scored the highest in the examination are placed in class S, then the next twenty with the next highest scores are placed in class A and that's how the females are placed. For the males it's the same except it's 40 males a class. This year it just so happened that most of the students who scored the highest were also the ones who had the largest mana reserves.

The competition is based on points. Each class holds one competition each on a subject e.g poetry, archery,music,horseback riding, magic, weaponmanship , etc.

N.B: each class holds different competitions on all the subjects i.e class A has different competitions for all the subjects and so does class B and class C and class D.

The winner of each competition in each class gets 100 points, the second gets 90 and the third gets 80 and that way till the tenth, the eleventh to twentieth all get 7 points each.

Once the cycle has been completed once i.e all the classes have had all the competitions once, there will be a school ranking where the female with the highest point is ranked 1st and the female with the second highest point is ranked 2nd and like that till the 100th female.

'Of course, amaryllis was the 100th female as she had never won any competition, but not to worry I'll change that.' In the event, that two students have the same points, those two will the compete in a chosen competition, straws will be pulled to determine what competition that should be and the winner will be ranked accordingly while the looser will be below the winner.

At the end of a semester, when all the competitions have been held four times in each of the classes, the ten students with the highest points will be the final contenders for the position while the rest will be cut off from the competition.

At this stage, a competition will be held once a week for the final contenders and the last person in each competition will be eliminated, this will continue until the final two where the demon queen shall choose the final heir.

The sound of a bell ringing some distance away slowly brought me out of my thoughts, 'how far has the story progressed currently?', at this point, the queen has adopted the heroine. When she first got here, it took 4 days for the queen to prepare for her debut ball and that was the first meeting between her and the male leads, after the ball she had to wait 4 more days to join the academy, and now she has been attending the academy for a week so she has been here for 13 days.

Also, this is the point where amaryllis discovers her powers and goes to her mother only to meet her sister and get persuaded by her, in the story amaryllis woke up and had somehow triggered her power after waking up, I guess I'll try to do the same thing.

'lets see, how do I do this.... maybe I'll try thinking about it', as I concentrated, I felt a tingle start in my chest. The harder I concentrated, the more the feeling grew, soon enough it had surrounded my entire chest. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes willing something to happen.  Wind swirled around me harshly tousling my hair, I ignored it and remained focused.

After a while, the wind died down and I peeked through one eye. I opened both eyes and stared in amazement at the small and pristine ball of darkness lightly hovering above my palm 'great!, i was able to trigger it ' , I think as I try and succeed in manipulating the ball as I move my palm.

'this means magic is actually real huh?, Imagine all the things I could do with this back on earth' I sigh as I remember my own death. ' however, I'm here now and as much as I'd like to practice some more, I've got things to do'.

The door slams open and I hurriedly extinguish the ball, it's the same maid from this morning and I watch as she stalks towards me, not bothering to hide the disgust plastered across her face.

She looks at me and sneers"I guess you weren't beaten hard enough, seeing as you fainted twice and haven't fed for over 3 days and yet you're still alive, tsk tsk you're really just like a cockroach". I watch her coldly without saying anything." Why are you staring at me?, who do you think you are to stare at me like that?." She stalked towards the table on which I had placed the glass of blood.

She grabbed it and poured out the contents on the rug underneath the bed," I'm sorry?, did you want this?". She turned towards me and sarcastically smiled "if you still want it, you can drink it from the rug, it's not like there's any difference between you and a mangy dog, I think you'll be just fine". I just watched her silently, she probably expected me to bend before her and drink the blood from the rug as the former owner of this body had previously done but there was no way I was doing that.

I continued staring at her coldly and leaned against the headboard of the bed, once I was comfortable I faced her and said "you really have no respect for me as your master". At my words her expression changed and morphed into one of absolute disgust "you aren't my master!, you're just a weakling and a trash female, you're even worse than the males. I'm disgusted to serve under someone like you." Ouch, you don't have to be so rude about it, guess I'll deal with you first then .

"Oh really?" I said nonchalantly and stared unblinkingly into her eyes . She flinched and after a few seconds starts to fidget. What's going on? I think as I continue staring at her, then she slowly, reluctantly starts to kneel down.

I watch in silence until she completely knelt on the ground, her head bent in a submissive manner and sweat dripping down her neck.

" Do you dare repeat those words?" I asked and watch in mild amusement as she started shivering and shaking. The maid felt like it had been a huge mistake for her to come near the wretched princess today, she was obviously different from this morning and she was panicking. what's going on?!!, this isn't the timid and subservient princess that I know, right now the pressure she's emitting is too much for me to bear.

She didn't respond and I got off the bed staggering a bit as I walked towards her, I bent and lifted her head up with my palm " know this, the next time you speak to me in that tone that day will be your last" I ended nonchalantly.

Her shaking and shivering increased and I stared at her disgusted "take me to the head maid ", she stood up immediately and bowed before me " yes your highness this way."

That's more like it I thought and followed her. I have to deal with the two people who made amaryllis' life hell ever since she moved to this castle: the head maid and the head steward. The head maid controlled everything in the castle while the steward controlled everything outside the castle.

2 weeks after she moved in, the head maid moved her from the main master bedroom into a shabby room in the servant quarters. The palace is a very big one having 8 master bedrooms and one main master bedroom also containing a lot of servant quarters and lots of other rooms as it's meant to serve as the home for me and my harem.

But those two chased me out of the main bedroom and took it for themselves. The headmaid deprived me of my allowance and authority while the steward starved me and wouldn't give me food until absolutely necessary, not to mention he was the one who encouraged the servants to bully and torture me.

I'm going to make them regret those deeds so much. The maid stopped in front of a huge silver door with ornate good embellishments swirling around it. She turned to me " your highness, she's inside". I nodded at her and stepped closer to the door. "Go and summon the head steward" she bowed again and hastily left my sight "yes, your highness".

When she left, I angled my leg towards the door and gave it a good kick as I had mastered  karate and self defense moves back on earth, when that didn't work,   I conjured up a ball of darkness and shot it at the door, it exploded with a loud bang and must have alerted everyone in the castle.