141 The Principal (2/2)

”Alright let him in”.

Quickly responding to her master's orders Sissy let the man inside. Rank 2 magus Professor Loodwell walked inside with a scowl on his face. He was quite upset with the sudden death of his student and wanted to see if he could get the Academy's help in making the perpetrator's life a living hell. Someone at his level killing someone at an apprentice level is below him and would leave him open for a large amount of criticism from others at his level including his peers. Overall it wasn't something he needed in his life but he still wanted to do something for his fallen student because he had thoughts of making Gerald officially his apprentice.

”Principal Duvall I am grateful that you are willing to speak with me about this matter”.

”I was gonna have to speak with you anyway so we might as well do this now rather than later”.

”Excellent so I must know what the academy intends to do to exact justice for my student and those other students who were brutally murdered yesterday by Howell Maverick and his accomplice. Howell has been rampaging inside this school unchecked for too long. We must do something about him before he starts thinking that he can walk over even his teachers”.

”I hear what your saying Professor Loodwell and I can assure you that the academy will do absolutely nothing to resolve this matter”.

Loodwell was surprised and upset by what Duvall said to him because he wasn't expecting it.

”What do you mean your planning on doing nothing are we really going to let Howell get away with murdering 3 students in cold blood that's against the rules”.

”Are you sure he murdered those students because as I recall the report said that he honorably risked his life in defense of an old man who was being assaulted and robbed by your student and his friends. All of which in turn protected our school's reputation. How could I possibly punish someone that would go to such lengths to protect this city's citizens and the school itself”.

”All that is nothing more than a bunch of beautiful lies that he whipped up”.

”So, what if they are do you have proof to refute them because I certainly don't. At this school we training our students to be leaders, to fight, to be mages and cultivators in the truest sense of the word. How in the world can they be that if they can't adapt to every situation thrown at them or above all read a book?

Every single word in the student guide book was chosen carefully and Howell found the purpose of each one and used them to his benefit. That is what we are teaching here and he is a shining example of what a true mage should be able to do. Not those useless brats who died moments before the war even started. If you want to act against Howell go ahead, so long as you don't abuse your power as a professor or as an official mage I won't care. A few big losses will teach Howell not to get too cocky”.

While Loodwell didn't like what Duvall said he respected and listed to hid decision.

”Fine I understand your stance on Howell but what about that old man in the reserve unit who personally killed 2 students and assisted in killing one other. Why won't you do anything against him”.

”Well for starters it is officially stated that he was acting in self defense. So, us pursuing a man who was simply defending himself from our who were robbing citizens will not go well no matter how you look at it. We could always use our massive influence to win the case but why should we even bother. The second reason I will not pursue this is because it's too dangerous”.

Loodwell had an intrigued look as he asked, ” dangerous how so?”.

”This old man claims to be the official apprentice of a powerful and extremely skilled mage rank 3 that goes by the name Zane. While I don't believe that its true for a second because I actually know that bastard his words mean one of two things. One is that he is publicly claiming that Zane has some kind of invested interest in him so messing with him would be the same as messing with Zane. Which is something you don't want to do unprepared or he is announcing that he is the biggest idiot in the world and will most likely be dead within a week once Zane finds out someone was using his name again”.

”Again, someone misused this man's name before?”

Duvall had a complicated look on his faces as he explained what happened, ” don't you remember the One Man Riot about a hundred years ago”.

”You mean that slaughter that one man carried out hunting down every person with the same name as him across the world because someone stole his name and made a bunch of deals and trades while pretending to be him”.

”Ya, it's the same guy he's an absolute lunatic that should have been imprisoned years ago. If that's not enough for you then you should know that man fought against Nisus Bel and Nester Vargas yet is still alive to talk about it. So, I highly recommend you drop the matter against the old guy for your own health”.

Loodwell not expecting the situation to be so complicated was happy he didn't do anything beforehand and talked to Duvall first. With nothing left to address Loodwell respectively said his fair well to Duvall and left. Duvall alone at last immediately got back to his research while Sissy moped in the corner.