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That's the MC Desir Herrman for you, being one of the last 6 mages in a party of the strongest mages who's gone back 13 years to school to recruit the very same people in his party that would defeat the labyrinth's dungeon boss, by hook or by crook.
The school that Desir once attended (and has to again) is the prestigious Hebrion Academy, the school for both nobles and commoners, split into Alpha and
Beta classes, which is designed for students to receive the education best suited to their skill level, resulting in the best possible learning outcomes for all the students. But with that balance, soon came oppression between the two entities, because while the academy still placed the most skilled students in the Alpha Class, most of them were nobles who had been systematically trained from the beginning of their education, leaning the Alpha Class to an aristocratic, superiority-obsessed air to it. And in that sort of atmosphere, a commoner with the appropriate skills would sometimes rightly qualify for the Alpha Class but would always be pushed back into the Beta Class, which, other than the obvious difference of being the total opposite, was mostly composed of commoners who lacked any kind of support. Care and passion were not directed towards the students, as almost none of the lectures had proper professors assigned to them, making it extremely difficult for the commoners to reach their full potential.
But
there is a silver lining for the Beta Class commoner students (as well as nobles) wanting to make it into the aristocrat-stinking Alpha Class: Hebrion Academy's traditional Ranking Tournament, which also acts as a sort of midterm exam for the students. It starts off with the typical 1-on-1 tournament phase, which slowly dwindles down to the Top 30 students, who would use the academy's specially tailored and crafted Shadow World (which typically would be reserved for evil creatures to envelop their enemies) that's laden as both a survival-of-the-fittest battle royale and a team mission in top of it to avoid that world's catastrophe, which would round up the Top 9 to receive the Single Ranker title, regardless of either commoner or noble status.
You might ask: What has everything above got to do with the characters? This is where the story and plot take their form.
As mentioned, Desir's primary role is to recruit his party members to avoid the exact same catastrophe happening in the new timeline, albeit in their high school form. And the first of which he would meet is the Wind elemental attribute mage of Romantica Eru. She first depicts herself as nobility, having joined the Alpha Class and partnering up with one of the best parties in the academy, but after finding out that everything about her is falsified, Romantica is soon "brought down to Earth" back to the Beta class, where she has become the subject of infamy to both commoners and nobles.
