The rank announcent was made in the main conference hall of the University, and for so unknown reason, students from other branches were also called.
Alia sat in the middle row to blend in with the crowd, not wanting any useless attention on herself, especially from people like Alexia and other friends of Hannah who wouldn’t stop at anything to humiliate her because they thought it was their duty to show her her place.
She watched Hannah enter with her friends and sit in the second row with Alpha Killian close to her.
As if Alpha Killian felt her gaze on him, he turned around to look for her.
His gaze t hers, and Alia tilted her head, daringly looking at him. The man, uncomfortable with her provocative gaze, looked in front again, and the girl smiled.
Alia rembered what had happened last ti at this announcent.
Since she arrived three months late, she was assigned to the last rank of the healers, the most useless ones who didn’t know basic formulas. Hannah, who had taken her data and ideas, was in the first rank, along with the best healers.
Alia was supposed to do all the howork and solve Hannah’s problems in the na of love.
On the other hand, she deserved the place but was supposed to prove her talent to everyone through her marks, which she failed to do because of various factors.
"Are you nervous?" Luna Jennifer sat beside her and asked with a soft smile.
Alia turned to Luna before shaking her head.
"Nothing to worry about. I know I am top tier," She said.
"One would call that overconfidence," Alpha Zane smirked.
"I would say it is my belief in my capabilities. Am I being arrogant?" Alia asked with a smile.
Jennifer chuckled at her words before grinning at Alpha Zane, who looked tongue-tied.
The head of the student council walked to the podium and welcod the professors who ranked their students.
"There is a twist to this ti’s submission. We have received so amazing assignnts, and our professors thought it would be a good chance to learn a little for everyone, especially those who didn’t do well," the student council head said.
"Who is he?" Alia asked.
For so reason, she felt like she had an encounter with this guy in her previous life.
"Why? Did he catch your gaze?" Jennifer teased Alia, who blushed at her words, unsure of what to say.
Ryan and Derrick, sitting in the row before them, turned around and looked at Alia as if judging her choices in n.
"I feel like I t him before," Alia explained.
"He is Caron Silver. You recently visited the joint council, didn’t you? He is Ethan’s cousin," Ryan explained.
Alia understood.
Caron. She had heard this na before. She rembered an incident when she was on a run as a rogue. He had helped her out and said that she had a chance at a good life.
He was a good guy, probably because he was the head of the student council or because he empathised with rogues.
"Hmm," Alia zoned out for the rest of the ceremony until Hannah’s turn.
"Miss Hannah, who ca third in the test, has submitted an aweso assignnt. It’s about healing burning wounds from silver. It can be revolutionary. Let’s give a round of applause to Miss Hannah, who will explain how she ca to this theory and the next steps towards her research," Caron said.
Hannah, who had been smiling earlier, froze in her place.
She had asked Alia to prepare sothing easy related to fever because she was working under her father on the sa stuff and knew a thing or two.
But who would’ve thought that Alia would go ahead and submit sothing like that?
She was too confident in Alia and didn’t check the assignnt or what was written inside before forwarding it from her email.
"Go ahead. Slay, girl," Alexia hushed loudly.
Hannah’s lips twitched as she fought to maintain her smile.
She turned around, her gaze eting Alia, who showed her a fighting sign.
The girl smiled bitterly, gulping her anger before she walked up the stairs.
"Healing silver burning. That’s so dope shit. I didn’t know she had a brain," Jennifer comnted.
Ryan, who knew who was behind the research, turned and looked at the girl.
How could Alia give Hannah such an important project and assignnt? This was revolutionary.
But he didn’t know that Alia had already lost too many experints to Hannah, and this was just another one among them. It didn’t matter too much to her.
"Shh, let hear her explain. This is interesting," Alpha Zane said, and Jennifer pouted.
"She won’t explain," Alia said with a smile.
"What do you an?" Alpha Zane asked.
Alia grinned.
Hannah would be a fool if she grabbed that mic and spouted nonsense because the professors before her weren’t rookies, nor did they belong to the healers of the west who would vouch for her.
As Hannah reached the podium and was about to hold the mic, she suddenly fainted, and everyone gasped.
Alpha Killian rushed to the podium to help the girl, and Alia chuckled, her laugh catching her friend’s attention.
Ryan, the only one who knew the reason, pressed his lips into a thin line before sighing.
The ceremony continued as it was supposed to before Alia’s turn.
"Well, what is this? Is there a mistake? You didn’t exactly submit any particular formula but just a few techniques," Caron said, but he moved out of the way when he saw Alia walking to the podium to answer.
"Greetings, everyone. Honorable professors, I am sure those who are well-versed in ancient healing techniques that were passed to us through our ancestors know what I have ntioned here. It’s a technique indeed—a technique to cure paralysis," Alia said.
Her gaze shifted to the triplet brothers as she said those words.
Just like she had expected, they imdiately looked at her.
"Student Alia, proceed, " one of the professors, interested in her work, signalled for her to explain.
Alia smiled and, with permission, started a detailed presentation she had prepared about how to encourage the treatnt using the ancient needle thod.
Then she gave the formulas of the decoction that would go along with it.
"How much ti will it take, according to you?" Aaron, the closest to his mother, raised his hand and asked, not bothering that he was interrupting her work.
Alia understood his urgency and interest.
"Seven days to show results. One month to cure completely. My best shot is 2.5 weeks," She said.
The professor nodded at her.
"You are quite confident. We will surely test it," The professors said.
"Since you are a prodigy kid with a brilliant brain. I want to know about that healing formula for silver burning," Ryan said.
Caron imdiately stepped forward and took the mic from Alia’s hands.
"Student Ryan, we understand your curiosity, but it’s not Student Alia’s assignnt. How can she–" he started, but Alia smiled.
"Sure," she said without hesitation.
The professors raised their brows before signalling Caron to give the mic to Alia.
"Are you sure about it?" The professor who was impressed earlier asked, and Alia nodded.
She walked to the podium, where Hannah left the assignnt sheets, before explaining the formulas and their side effects.
"While this is an effective asure. It’s still lacking in many aspects. It’s not well tested and can cause cancer. We have natural healing, and it’s better to rely on it. However, a little change here can improve it," Alia said.
She made the change and wrote the extensive formula again.
Even the professor, whose domain wasn’t organic chemistry, felt a headache just reading the formula’s many carbon compounds.
Alpha Killian, who returned after dropping Hannah off at the infirmary because he was genuinely interested in different cures, saw Alia shining like a ray of sunlight in the darkness.
There was a strange glow on her face as she explained sothing that was her forte and that she loved.
He felt srized just looking at her.
"This can be tested," Alia said with a smile before handing the mic to Caron.
"Thank you for giving this chance to explain," Alia said.
The professor, impressed since earlier, stood and clapped for her, followed by everyone.
Not only did she have a great mind, but she was also humble and sweet. It would surely take her to higher heights.
"I don’t care about the rest of the results. I announce Alia in the first rank of the healers, and I will personally train her," Professor Kinsley said.
Alia raised her eyes.
Her heart skipped a beat. She rembered roaming around Professor Kinsley to get at least one chance to learn from him because he was also called a prodigy among healers.
It wasn’t just that. They said a witch bestowed him with magical healing, and his techniques were unique and impossible to mimic.
"You will take as a disciple?" Alia pointed to herself, still in disbelief.
Everyone was in shock. If that were possible, it would make Alia have professor Kinsley’s one and only disciple ever, when so many talented people ca and begged him to take them under his wings.
"I will," The old man smiled, and Alia smiled before she descended the stairs and held his hand like a kid holding his teacher’s hand after being praised.
"Thank you," she said, placing his hand on her forehead as if worshipping him. The man blushed.
"Don’t suck up to just yet," The man cleared his throat and everyone chuckled.
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