Ye Chuqi lowered her head and smiled. So was this a task Bai Fenghua had left her, or an opportunity he had deliberately arranged for her to get along with her classmates? He really had gone to great lengths, worried that a newcomer like her might have trouble fitting in.
Unfortunately, she had spent the preceding days struggling with fighting spirit and had neither the time nor the opportunity to get to know her classmates. Now that she thought about it, aside from Herman, whose personality was rather odd, everyone she had met seemed quite nice.
They would be spending three years together. An atmosphere like this was pretty good.
Most of the tasks the academy assigned to its students were not exclusive. For instance, Akes could form a ten-person team for the task she had accepted, and other students could assemble another team to go as well. That would create competition, though, so once someone had accepted a task, others generally would not take the same one unless having more people involved would not affect its outcome.
Their task this time was to investigate demon beast attacks in a small town. Barring any surprises, additional teams should not have much impact on the results. If the teams got along, they could even exchange information and cooperate for everyone's benefit.
But if the other team taking this task was led by Herman, Akes could not be happy about it at all. Forget exchanging information and cooperating for mutual benefit; it would be good enough if they did not come to blows.
When Ye Chuqi heard the news, she doubled over with laughter, showing not a shred of sympathy for her teammate. Her exaggerated laughter held none of the airs one might have expected of her, either. Akes, who had been