The Retired Hero is an Extra

He didn\'t want Ziva knocking or barging through the door to tease him any further.

"That was enough embarrassment for one day," he sighed, his red cheeks returning to their original pale skin tone.

It was as if he wasn\'t embarrassed in the first place, but that was totally untrue.

—Slap!

He slapped his cheek to get hold of himself before checking the reminder on his ID Bracelet.

"This, huh? It\'s sent to all freshmen, I guess," he shrugged after reading through it.

It was a reminder for the students about the selection of three or more subjects they wanted to study, deciding the path they want to walk on.

Aside from the 4 common subjects—Mana Manipulation, Beast Theory, the Duel class and Dungeon Theory—it was necessary to choose the other three.

"Hmm," he hummed, looking through the myriad of subjects being taught at the Academy, confused by the possibilities.

\'I am not into alchemy at all, I failed miserably at that, but blacksmithing, huh? I do know bits and pieces about it...\'

It wasn\'t Jash who knew about his likes and dislikes, or rather his talents and more, but his past life in which he dabbled in all the trades.

Though the world was different and things varied greatly, he was sure the fundamentals remained the same.

Just as Mages needed to cast spells irrespective of their element or specialization or the world.

"Spellcasting and Sword Arts is no-go as I won\'t learn anything there," Jash sighed as his confusion rapidly increased.

He wanted to choose the three subjects he actually wanted to learn as it would make no sense to choose randomly.

Alas, classes for mages and weapons were of no use to him, he was no mage and already had more than enough knowledge about weapons.

\'Not like the practical application classes would begin straight away,\' he shrugged, stretching his arms and moving to the bed.

Getting comfortable, he at least felt some comfort over going through the subject choices while standing uncomfortably behind the door.

While looking through them, Jash entered a daze, thinking, \'The class arrangements, the rules, the changes, the differences—\'

"Could it be...?"

Suddenly, he blurted out in absolute surprise, feeling like he discovered something major.

\'—it all points out that the new rules and changes would soon be made, right?\' he asked himself.

Although he didn\'t know the answer, the thought refused to leave him once it settled in his mind.

And he was sure that the practical application classes, or even the other classes, would get revamped after the Assessment Test.

\'The students\' performance must be off the charts this year, so it makes sense if new rules are applied a few months earlier...\'

Thinking so, Jash remembered about the Assessment Test and how it was a group test.

In it, groups of 2-5 students would compete in specific tests that the Academy would present for them.

Alas, if he wanted to do anything, be it not attending the classes or leaving the Academy, he still needed to wait for the Assessment Test.

Before that anything was impossible, and even the subjects might change, so it was fine to choose the ones to get stronger. special

"[Elemental Theory] for sure, it\'ll help me gauge my element, then [Aura Creation], because obviously..."

His voice trailed off as he scrolled the different classes, trying to find another that would help him grow.

"Blacksmithing is fine, but so is magic engineering, but what about something related to those runes?"

His eyes scanned the hologram for interesting classes, but he wasn\'t too sure about which one to choose.

After all, in his eyes, it mattered little what he chose now as it would change in the future.

But there was nothing that would help him immediately except [Aura Creation].

Even if he got to know his element, it wasn\'t like he could use it immediately, and even the specific element classes wouldn\'t start before the Assessment Test.

Unable to make a decision, Jash took out the one thing that had always been on his mind.

It was the hilt of his sword from his previous life, or what remained of it.

Due to it having nothing remaining, the Academy didn\'t ask him to throw it away, considering it a memento of some sorts.

Even the security had eyed Jash strangely for bringing such "trash" alongside him.

"Seriously, why can no one notice its brilliance or artistry or these diagrams–"

Jash asked nobody in particular with a strange expression on his face which soon froze as his eyes caught sight of the tiniest marks on the hilt.

\'I don\'t know where I got this sword from, but not even the greatest blacksmiths of my previous life could do anything to it.\'

The memories seemed to pour into his mind as he saw the sight of the anvils melting yet the sword being only warm.

No amount of hammering left a mark on its blade, but the hammers... they weakened and shattered not long after.

If someone used a whetstone to sharpen the sword, the whetstone would get slashed.

The sword was freaking too overpowered to the point it could literally cut through the thoughts metals like it was tofu.

"Not like anyone other than me could use it," Jash sighed, recalling the sight of others only being able to use it as a dull blade.

No sharpness, no strength, only an unbreakable dull blade in the hands of anyone but him.

"If only I knew your secrets or knew more about you," he lamented, but he had already decided the final subject he would choose.

[Runes] and [Blacksmithing].

Jash was sure that only he would be able to do anything about this sword and it might just help him in solving its puzzle.

Thus, he chose the final subjects for it, and blacksmithing was something he did try his hand on, so he wasn\'t a complete novice.

Of course, that was only his belief and only a master of the craft could tell if that was truly the case or not.

Thankfully, he came to a decision quickly and directly sent his selection of subjects.

But the other freshmen were suffering from what to choose, the four compulsory classes seemed a bit too much already.

Some chose what their friends did, wanting to meet in those subject classes even if their assigned classes were different, to begin with.

Unlike Jash, every mage chose the spellcasting and elemental class for sure while the warriors chose aura creation and one class for their choice of weapons.

Not everyone came with myriads of sword arts and their experience from their past life.

Unsurprisingly, Amael had also chosen the sword class, having gotten used to guns and bombs in his previous life.

But the most surprising was Helios who also chose the sword classes despite being a regressor and having the memories.

Sadly, he had to keep his past life hidden as he was under scrutiny by the Church and the Goddess herself after he lost.

The system wasn\'t omnipotent and could only help him deceive the Goddess, not totally fool her.

Or would she even be a God?

Thus, he had to make the same choices as his first life to avoid being targeted.

Poor guy had no idea that the one who defeated him and Amael didn\'t even bother to train today and wouldn\'t bother joining any Weapon Art subjects.