NOVEL NEXT Chapter 179: Settling In
There were a total of four doors on the side, and Nolan quickly skipped towards them, his heart beating in his chest.
Arriving before one of the doors, he twisted open the knob and peeked inside. Nolan's face brightened when he saw the contents.
The room was none other than the kitchen, filled to the brim with various foodstuffs.
Dishes and plates were all perfectly cleaned up, and Nolan's eyes sparkled from the cleanliness and fullness. Continue your journey with m|v-l'e m,p y r
Now this was what a kitchen really should look like.
Even the one in the Newcomers' area, which he had prided himself on, failed to compare to this one.
With a satisfied nod, Nolan shut the door and moved toward the second knob.
Opening it up, he found a sparkling white bathroom, with a glass jacuzzi at the far side of the room.
There was also a mini-room with hangers, which was probably the dressing room.
It was far bigger than his former bathroom.
He opened the next door after that and was surprised to see another bathroom, looking almost identical to the first one.
"So, the students share different bathrooms, huh? I guess that's cool for privacy," Nolan thought to himself, but his eyes narrowed when he looked at the bathroom.
This one was dusty, and seemingly unused, almost as if no one had stepped foot in it since its creation.
"I guess I know which one is mine now..." he mused, and the system giggled in his head.
Since there were two bathrooms—one unkept and the other sparkling clean—and knowing his luck, it was safe to say the unkept one was definitely his.
"I'll have to clean that up too..." Nolan muttered as he turned to the next door and sighed.
The door before him was the one the lady had walked into, and Nolan didn't need to open it to know it was the bedroom.
"So, we end up sharing the same bedroom in the end. Tsk, I got too hopeful..." Nolan thought to himself as his hand inched towards the door knob, then retreated.
He walked back to his own bathroom.
Folding his hoodie's sleeves, Nolan quickly got to work, cleaning up the dusty bathroom and scrubbing the floor thoroughly.
He had seen how well-kept the room of the Hexgaliev was, so he also decided stepped up his cleaning game.
He didn't want to be seen as a dirty person and one could say he had fallen into the 'peer pressure' group.
Hours passed in a blink as Nolan finally exited the bathroom.
He was now donning a much lighter shirt and trousers, and his hair clung to his head, showing he had just finished his shower.
Now, he felt more than alive.
He had cleaned up all his dirty footprints and even scrubbed the dirt off his body. Now, all that was left was to keep his bag in the bedroom.
Stepping fully out, Nolan arrived in the living room and noticed the TV was currently switched on, playing some kind of drama movie.
Sitting on the comfy sofa was none other than his roommate.
Standing behind her, he could only see her long white hair and a big bowl of what he immediately interpreted as popcorn on her lap.
Her attention was completely absorbed in the movie, and Nolan didn't disturb her.
Instead, he reached for his bag on the other end of the sofa and finally walked towards the bedroom.
He had wanted to put his bag inside for a while now, but for some reason he had been reluctant to open the bedroom door.
But now, that feeling had disappeared. He twisted the knob and entered.
Immediately, the bag slipped from his grasp as Nolan's jaw dropped.
Right before him, through the gigantic window pane that practically formed a wall, he could see the entire academy.
The view was nothing short of breathtaking.
"A good place to dream..." Nolan mused silently, but he quickly snapped out of it and looked around the room.
To the left side was an entire wall filled with wardrobes, and Nolan walked toward it.
Arriving at the center, he looked to his right and saw a white card plastered on one of the wardrobe doors with a simple word written on it: Luna.
"I guess that's her wardrobe..." Nolan mused.
He didn't bother touching it and instead moved to the far end of the wardrobe.
Opening it up, Nolan coughed as he covered his nose and stepped back. The wardrobe was filled with dust and absolutely empty.
"What the heck?" Nolan muttered as he stared at the dirty space before him.
"I'll have to clean this up too..." he thought silently to himself.
He couldn't throw his clothes into such a dirty space, so he had no choice but to grab a bucket and towel from the bathroom and clean the wardrobe.
It took him almost an hour before he finally finished and stepped back into the bedroom once more.
Now, the small wardrobe space was perfectly clean. Nolan unzipped his bag and began placing his clothes inside.
Opening his new bag, he found a couple of new books and some strange tools, including his new uniform—a total of three pairs.
Unlike in the Newcomers' area, where they could wear their normal clothes, in the Ascendants' area they were required to wear special uniforms.
They were cool to look at, but Nolan was too tired to check everything out one by one. He placed everything in the wardrobe and hung the two bags on the side before shutting the wardrobe door tightly.
"Phew..." He exhaled loudly before turning his gaze to the left side of the bedroom.
There were a total of two beds.
The beds were huge and wide, big enough to comfortably fit 5 full-grown men sleeping side by side. That was how massive they were.
The beds were placed far apart from each other, around 15 meters of space between them.
Nolan felt that the beds were probably supposed to be closer, but they must have been moved apart by someone.
He didn't mind it in the least though.
Arriving before one of the beds, he was about to jump onto it when his eyes moved to the pillow, and he instantly stopped.
On the pillow were the words "Luna."
In the end, he could only turn to look at the bed the side, and thankfully this time, it wasn't dirty. It seemed the materials used for the bed had kept it clean.
Nolan quickly skipped toward it and landed on the bed.
CREAK.
The sound of the bones creaking resonated through the entire room, causing a slight uncontrollable chuckle to escape Nolan's lips.
The days' journey had drained every bit of his energy, even managing to suck away the joy he felt from finally becoming an Ascendant.
It was just too exhausting.
Nolan lay on the bed, and almost immediately, his eyelids grew heavier. But just before they could close completely, something made them snap wide open.
[Congratulations, Hidden Quest: "Reach the Ascendant Area of the Academy" has been successfully completed.]
[The host has been given new rewards!]
The system's notifications echoed repeatedly before Nolan's eyes, and he was quite surprised.
He didn't remember the system giving him a quest to reach the Ascendant area of the academy.
It had been Nolan's personal decision, yet here it was, rewarding him for it.
Now he understood the meaning behind the "Hidden" part of the quest.
[Wanna check it out?]
The system asked him as Nolan exhaled loudly, shifting to his side to stare through the glass window, where the entire academy could be seen.
"Don't you ever get exhausted?" He asked the system.
Every time he interacted with the system, it was always ultra-lively. Never once dull. That wasn't something you saw every day.
In fact, Nolan was starting to wonder if it ever got tired at all.
What kind of battery does the system even run on to stay active all the time?
[I can never be tired. I am a creation of God King Trimurti.] The system responded in a smug tone, and Nolan rolled his eyes.
"I'll check it out tomorrow. Right now, I'm exhausted..." Nolan muttered before finally drifting into a deep sleep.
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A few hours later, as he slept, the doorknob to the bedroom was gently twisted and quietly opened up.
An outpour of intensely cold white air poured into the room through the gaps of the opened door and following that, the snow-white figure stepped into the room.
It was none other than Nolan's roommate, the Hexglaives.
Her six eyes immediately turned to look at the place where Nolan was asleep, and they stared blankly for a while before they turned away from him, and straight to the wardrobe instead.
With a small focus, Luna's eyes pierced through the wooden wardrobe and looked at the inside where she found the well-cleaned spaces as well as the new clothes and books.
"He forced himself to clean up his bathroom, and also cleaned up his wardrobe, and also wiped away his dirty footsteps, and a shower to remove the dust from him all before he could go to sleep even though he was already exhausted."
"Maybe I can allow him live a little longer..."