The heavy silence in the hall was hard to breathe in. Professor Morgana's final warning about getting kicked out at mid-term hung over our heads like a falling rock. No one dared to breathe, let alone speak.
Then, a trembling hand rose from the back of the crowd.
"Ah... Um... Professor?" a male student said, his voice cracking under the weight of her power. "How do we... actually earn Class Points?"
Morgana stopped just as she was turning toward the back doors. She let out a long, tired sigh, rubbing her nose like explaining the rules was a pain.
"Class Points are a shared pool for all fifty of you," she began, her sharp voice echoing through the quiet hall.
"Your own skill does not matter if your class pool is zero. You earn these points together through academy trials, class-wide tests, and direct fights against Veritas, Fortis, and Audax. This whole system is a new experiment starting with your batch. The older students do not have it, but the classes after you will."
