The Villainess Returns with a System

4: Prince Liam

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The First Royal Academy

The First Royal Academy of Elgard is a worldwide famed school that graduates the best Knights, Sorcerers, and Leaders of the high society. A place that requires not just influence but also talent, hard work, and a great deal of luck.

Even a prince can't advance in this school with some mediocre performance. That's why none of the students there can be seen as incompetent in any way.

Aristocratic children are homeschooled about the world and society for the first 16 years of their lives before applying to the Academy. The Academy teaches them the best knowledge possible for 3 years before sending them off as the new generation of leaders in Elgard at the age of 18.

The subjects that the Academy teaches are many but the most important ones are Magic, Warfare, Alchemy, and Diplomacy. One must at least specialize in one of these four majors. Diplomacy is the busiest followed by Warfare, Magic, then Alchemy.

Other classes serve around those four like the Martial Arts class which is very popular, History, Literature, Religion, Mathematics, Engineering, Technology, Music, Astronomy, and many more.

This school of elites was a place of knowledge and a castle of youth under the leadership of the two representatives from each year. This year, it is Prince Liam and the other five elites.

Three days ago, this Academy witnessed a confrontation that was the first of its kind when those elites, adding a seventh former student to them, confronted one of the top female students of the school, Vivian Moore.

A disgraceful scene happened when a noble was forced to kneel down under the rough hand of a junior knight to a commoner. She didn't bat an eyelid but kept a strong glare at the ringleader of the scene, Prince Liam, her fiance no longer.

The air in the academy dorms was freezing. Now that the top nobles are at odds, things may turn ugly on all fronts if they were to escalate badly.

Some felt it was strange judging by how Vivian Moore was treated so harshly and some thought it was alright as the third-year Vivian was clearly bullying the first-year Matilda and causing her trouble. Social status is important and all but under the judgment of the royal family, all necks are equal.

No matter what's right and what's wrong, Vivian Moore is now at the short end of the stick. She was deemed guilty without trial and got her engagement broken only two weeks before the first day of the final exams. Some rumors went as far as saying that the Crown Prince had arranged a disgraceful engagement for her to a baron house from a rural countryside.

However, the tides of the outside world rarely affected the inside of the academy at this time of year as the finals drew nearer.

In a certain individual building beside the academy's main building known as The Students Assembly, the top room was lit and two young men sat calmly inside staring at their books.

The first was a silver-haired man with green eyes who undid his suit a bit loosely around the neck and discarded his necktie. His appearance gave off elegance and calmness despite his carefreeness while reading from his book, this young man was Prince Liam Harland of Elgard. The other man was a strong-built one with short hair and firm eyes, this young man was Richard Marshall, son of the knights' commander.