"Stretch out your arms and try to feel your ability, and channel your energy towards manifesting and maintaining it."
Miss Levy said and watched the students do as she commanded.
Murmurs could be heard from the students, as many of them found it difficult to maintain their abilities after manifesting them, while others had bright expressions as they seemed to have an easier time.
Miss Levy nodded when she saw some of them successfully doing it, while for the rest who had difficulty, she would walk towards them to inspect and correct them.
For awakeners, understanding their ability was more than just channeling it to fight; it requires a deeper understanding and being able to use it as though it were oxygen that could be inhaled and exhaled easily.
More like an extra limb where you could do things naturally.
While having a high-class ability meant the person could become extremely powerful, there have been cases of middle-class ability surpassing even high-class ability.
The reason for this was simply how much the awakener understood their ability, since an ability was only as good as its user.
There was a saying that no matter how powerful or high-ranked your ability was, if you couldn't use it properly, even a low-class ability user could still kill you.
And for those with a higher-ranked ability, the more powerful the ability was, the more difficult it was to handle; the only way to bypass the difficulty was constant channeling and practice.
While Miss Levy was inspecting the students trying to channel their ability, Ragna, on the other hand, seemed to have fallen asleep in class.
The students besides him had looks of bewilderment, including the cursed fragment soul that was wondering what the fuck he was doing, it was already bad enough that he wasn't practicing with them now the dude was sleeping.
They stared at the sleeping Ragna as if he was crazy. If there was any class that a student wasn't allowed to sleep in, it was Miss Levy's.
While other teachers could pardon the students or give light punishment, Miss Levy instead would give the students severe punishment.
At that moment, while she was inspecting the other students, the cursed fragment soul was doing all it could to wake Ragna up. Even though it was already dead and was just a fragmented soul, it was still its body after all.
Eventually she soon noticed some of the students seemed to be distracted and were staring at someone. To her surprise, a student was sleeping in class when it was active.
And soon there were little jeering murmurs around the class, while some had looks of pity, some were excited, awaiting what Miss Levy was about to do next.
"Quiet!"
She said with a frown on her face. Immediately, everywhere was silent as she walked towards the student who was sleeping.
"Ragna?"
She stared at the student who seemed to have been awakened from a deep sleep. On her expression was a slight look of surprise, there was no one in the whole academy who didn't know about him.
There were many names he was called but the most striking one was a failed awakener.
"Me?"
Ragna muttered as he stared at the teacher in front of him with groggy eyes. He would have sworn he was just about enjoying his sleep when he heard both the system notification and someone's voice. The person was none other than Miss Levy, the devil teacher.
[Sleep for ten minutes a day completed(1/4]
"Aren't you part of this class?"
Miss Levy's expression darkened further, as she said.
Ragna looked at her and then at the system notification. For some reason, after he completed the quest by sleeping for ten minutes, his mind and head felt strangely relieved, as if a heavy thought had just been lifted off his mind, making him feel better and his thoughts clearer.
After he was done staring at the completed quest, he finally turned towards Miss Levy who was before him.
There were two reasons why he dared sleep in class; the first was that, as a cursed one, he could use multiple abilities, so he already had a broader idea of everything she was teaching.
If anything his knowledge about abilities was more advanced than hers, because he had been a cursed one for centuries, and knew everything that had to do with abilities.
The second was because of the quest he had gotten from the system, and just like he had thought, there was a reason for it, which had something to do with the cursed fragment soul being in his mind.
"Miss Levy, should just punish the idiot. Not only is his ability useless, he's also dumb."
"I am sure the reason he was sleeping was that, since his ability was useless, he thought there was no need to pay attention to her teachings."
"Why is he still allowed to attend the academy, when he obviously can't become an awakener?"
Some students voiced out from behind the teacher, as they questioned why he hadn't been kicked out of the academy already.
'Are you insane? Do you want to actually get us kicked out of the academy? It's already a miracle we are being allowed even as a failed awakener and you wanna get us in trouble?'
He could feel the fragment's cursed soul's anger and frustrations; however, to the current Ragna, he could not be bothered with whatever they were saying; moreover, if not for the fact that he still needed to understand this world more, he would have decided it wasn't worth coming to school.
"Be quiet all of you!"
Miss Levy said she didn't know if Ragna was just plain stupid or ignorant, but she found his attitude to be annoying. The whole class was quiet, as they awaited what was about to unfold.
"Ragna, tell us more about ability channeling."
Miss Levy said with a dark expression, Ragna grunted as he stood up lazily.
His classmates gave him a look of someone who had gone crazy, but couldn't say anything because of Miss Levy, who was like a volcano about to erupt.
"Ragna, the whole class is waiting."
She called out again, after noticing that he still seemed to have a sleepy look in his eyes.
'Don't say anything Miss Levy is already upset, let's just apologize and accept any punishment she gives us.'
"Huh, sorry."
Ignoring the cursed fragment soul voice in his head, he tried to wipe the sleepy look off his eyes.
"First, what does ability channeling mean? The answer is simple, and it simply means slowly pouring a stream of water into a vase until it's completely filled."
'Dammit, what the fuck are you even doing? Do you even know what the fuck you're saying?'
Ragna, simply shrugged his head.
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