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Ansarivan Dragon Riding Academy's classes were not particularly long.
Although fundamental knowledge was equally important, and the teachers at Ansarivan Dragon Riding Academy had no intention of neglecting basic courses, people still instinctively placed greater emphasis on practical combat than on learning from books.
After all, Dragon Riders were not people who needed to be exceptionally learned. Every Dragon Rider studied at Ansarivan Dragon Riding Academy in hopes of gaining great power in the future, aspiring to become Dragon Knights, or even the highly esteemed Holy Celestial Dragon Knights.
By then, even if they did not want it, they would possess considerable status and power, becoming among the foremost figures in the Roreyamon Knight Kingdom.
Therefore, though the new term had only just begun, there was not much time spent sitting peacefully in the classroom listening to lessons. When the bell rang, the teacher simply left them with one sentence.
"The next class will be training in dragon-riding combat techniques. Please gather at the training grounds in thirty minutes. That is all..."
So-called dragon-riding combat techniques were, put plainly, the techniques for fighting while riding dragons.
Dragons were not inferior to humans in intelligence at all. In fact, since they could create all kinds of Holy Knight Armor, dragons were even more intelligent than the vast majority of humans.
However, dragons were far too straightforward in both temperament and personality. They did not know how to bend or adapt, so Dragon Riders generally commanded them in battle, maximizing the dragons' combat power.
There were no shortage of examples in this world where two equally powerful dragons fought, yet one overwhelmed the other solely because of the difference