Zero to Hero (Prequel/prototype)

Chapter 34. Last Day

With the sun barely shiny through his window, Ken heard the normal morning greets from the girls as he opened his eyes and got ready to start a new day.

"Morning everyone." Ken greeted the girls as he opened his dorm and got ready for the final day of the semester.

With a fixed daily routine, endless hours spent studying and training, the days hanging out with the girls and trying to get stronger and more educated passed in a blank of the eye and the first semester of Ken's second year came to an end just like that.

With a blonde girl holding his left arm and pressing herself onto him tightly and a wolf girl doing the same with his right arm, As the group headed for the stadium to grab some food and enjoy for the final day of the tournament, Clare and Alice's absence provided the opening Genesis and Lovetta needed to get as intimate with Ken as physically possible while Emma and Indra watched in envy and Seraphina just following along being her cheerful self.

Thanks to his natural talent and hardwork, with the continued tutoring from Alice and the two of them spending hours a day at the library along with Genesis going over history books, geography books, solving math problems and learning the science behind the elements and human biology, Ken managed to pass intermediate level on all four of his written classes without stepping into the classroom once and was well on his way to possibly pass the advanced portion by the end of their second year.

On the physical and elemental practical classes, Ken was able to join the advanced lessons from day one with Alice, Seraphina and Genesis also tagging along for those lessons. With additional training and practice with Lovetta and the others at the training facility, while Ken was still at intermediate level on both, he is well on his way to pass advanced level on all physical enhancements and basic elemental spells by the year end exam as well.

Not only was he doing very well with improving his overall scores, he had spent many hours at the training facility working on combining his enhancements and spells with different keywords and is now able to seamlessly enhance any combination of physical traits while also able to fire out all the basic elemental spells without much delay and improved his actual combat abilities greatly.

With his unmatched desire to learn, boundless curiosity and some of the best private tutors for all of the subjects, Ken ascended the ranks like never before and after 3 semesters, he went from ranked 1022 all the way up to rank 555 and is now ranked higher than Genesis.

"You better put in some effort soon Genesis, you don't want to waste this chance and end up having to drop out next year." Ken warned as the blonde human girl showed no sign of wanting to do anything except spending all available hours with Ken.

"You know I am doing more than just staring at you everyday when we are in the library and at the training facility right?"

"Really? What else were you doing? Definitely doesn't seem like you were doing any studying."

"I was also fantasizing about our life together after the academy days and how many babies we will have and what I should name each of our kids." Genesis smiled, while a speechless Ken could only shake his head in disbelief.

Bowls of steaming hot soup and noodles with thinly sliced beef, pork and vegetables, Ken and the girls got a nice spot at a noodle stall as the group reached the stadium grounds to enjoy a hearty breakfast before the final day of tournament starts.

It was no surprise to anyone that Clare maintained her overall number 1 rank after the midterm and has now achieved expert level on all the basic subjects, spells and enhancements and is at a point where she is so overwhelmed with school work that other than joining the group of meals and on Sundays, Clare spends most of her days either in class, on her way to another class or getting ready for another class.