Chapter 16 - 17 : Unexpected Encounter (1/2)

Edward Omond, the father of Feylord, was sitting in his office while in front of him were 2 figures dressed in black. They seemed really similar to the assassins hired by Feylord, but they excluded a colder and creepier feeling. He looked at them for a second before speaking

”Speak, what have you found out about 'him' and where is his location?!”

One of the 2 black clothes figures bowed respectfully and said with a calm voice

”Lord Edward, apparently his travel speed is beyond ordinary, in less than a month he managed to arrive at Govore city and it was reported by our spies there that today he took the teleportation array leading to Nemia academy accompanied by a lady who was the same one he bought at the auction in Willsden town.”

Hearing this, Edward's face boiled with anger 'bastard! To think he would go to the academy, how can I capture him now!'. After pondering for some time he waved his hands toward the 2 figures and they disappeared without saying anything else. Edward picked a paper and began writing on it for a couple of minutes before he called his butler who was standing outside of his office and told him

”Deliver this letter to Frederic in the Nemia academy, but you have to hand it to him personally, do you understand?”

The butler nodded continuously, not daring to disobey and soon enough he left the room after bowing respectfully toward Edward.

The Principal seemed really angry at Arthur and with that shout of hers, not a single person dared speak, since they were even afraid to make a noise by breathing. She used a special magic and slowly flew towards Arthur while staring daggers at him.

Even the 9 council members quickly followed after her, as they saw how the female beastman who was named Mary couldn't kill or even injure the black-robed man, so they knew he was dangerous.

Probably a spy from some continent or something similar, because to have that amount of strength why would he pose himself as a mere participant? If he had shown his talent, he could have easily become a teacher in the academy. They also noticed how Mary's punch didn't even as much as scratch him and he just stood there doing nothing, so he was by no means someone to underestimate and they knew why the principal interfered and stopped Mary from doing anything reckless.

Arthur wasn't surprised when he saw all the council members and the principal coming toward him, for what he did was truly excessive and brutal, but he didn't care and if he was given a second chance to redo it, he would do the same thing with no hesitation.

Lucy was everything to him and seeing her hurt was something he couldn't handle and watch, he wondered why they didn't stop the fight, after all the beastman clearly was perverted and wanted to touch her and it was obvious he was winning for it, so why didn't they finish the fight or stop it? Didn't they care about what happened to her? Or they simply accepted the strong no matter how they behaved?

Just a couple of seconds passed and the principal was in front of Arthur and Lucy, she was standing near Mary who was still holding her hand, which had some broken bones; nonetheless, she stared at Arthur with anger and a little bit of fear, for she knew he was strong and maybe stronger than her.

She was a beastman and also a member of the council with a very high level and still couldn't injure him, or even scratch his robe, so of course, she would be a little afraid, but she only used her fist and didn't use any skills so she couldn't gauge his power.

”Mary told you to stop, so why didn't you listen to her, moreover, you clearly got your revenge by injuring him that much, so why continue any further and brutally kill him? Do you have no heart?”

The principal scolded Arthur angrily while still using her special skill which emanated pressure, but of course it didn't affect him; nevertheless, he still created a small dark barrier around Lucy, since she was not like him and clearly the pressure from the principal affected her and made her pant heavily, so he had to make that barrier to ease the pressure, yet surprisingly the barrier completely blocked it.

”No heart? You must be kidding, right? If I don't have a heart, then what about you? Didn't you see my companion struggling and clearly losing? So why didn't you stop the fight? He clearly had a bad intention and everyone could see that, but none of you made a move or spoke up, do you even have morals or do you just worship the strong?”

Arthur replied with another scolding as if blaming them for what happened to Lucy.

The principal seemed surprised by what Arthur said, she expected him to make poor excuses for his action but instead, she got harshly scolded by him.

Normally a person who interfered would be disqualified, so of course, she planned to do that, but when she saw that Mary's punch didn't even scratch him, she seriously was astonished. She thought that he may be a spy but soon gave up on that, for if he was one, he wouldn't try to attract this much attention and would instead lay low.

To send him away would be like losing a good seed, especially when he was going to join her academy, it would bring her more benefits if she kept him in the academy rather than letting him go, it was true that he broke the rules she set and even killed a participant ruthlessly, but what if he broke some rules? She didn't have to just let him go because of some stupid rule and to be quite honest, she felt a little guilty, after all, she saw what that beastman intended to do but nevertheless, she just watched. After some thinking she spoke:

”You and your companion, follow me”

Once she finished, the principal returned to her seat followed by Arthur, Lucy and the rest of the council members of course. Once everyone sat down except for Arthur and Lucy, the principal said loudly

”No need to stare, this participant was using a high leveled enchanted item and used it to kill 'huge build' and defend against Mary. Continue with the tournament at once!... As for black-robed and Ice queen, they are both disqualified from the second test”

None of the participants dared to say anything back to her and resumed the tournament as if nothing had happened, but you could still notice some who were glancing at Arthur every now and then.

Just when the tournament resumed, the principal looked at Arthur who was still standing not far away from her and said

”Wait until the tournament is finished and we selected those who passed then I'll see how I can punish you, for the time being, wait here!!”

Her tone was quiet but angry, still Arthur was confused since he thought that he would just be disqualified together with Lucy and be sent away, yet surprisingly the principal told him to wait here, so he was curious as to why she did that.

Truthfully he thought of the possibility of her wanting to rope him in because he displayed a decent amount of strength, but he snickered and felt disgusted toward the principal, if she really wanted to rope him in because of his power, then that really made her no different from greedy people, she would let him join her academy just because he was strong, even though he broke the rules and killed a participant.

The tournament finally finished and some participants, who even though they didn't win, still got accepted. The skinny demon won in section A and there were some powerful individuals in the other sections too, the beastman with the axe on his back and the second prince were also accepted.

The principal soon left the stage followed by Arthur and Lucy. They walked past many big buildings and Arthur was quite amazed when he saw them, even Lucy never stopped gazing as she seemed more cheerful. Since she was a child she dreamt of coming here, so of course, she was happy, even though she still didn't forget what happened earlier, but with Arthur, by her side, she felt comfortable and joyful.

After half an hour or so of walking, they entered a 5-floor building. The building was decorated from head to toe either with symbols or gold lines, even the structure of it was fascinating. Arthur couldn't help but be amazed at how well constructed this building was and not only this one. When they passed through the academy grounds, each and every building was luxurious and they were all connected by long hallways, except this particular building, which they entered right now.

They finally stopped walking when they reached a big office which was obviously the principal's office, it was quite a large room decorated with paintings and runes, and there were also a lot of bookshelves put next to each other neatly. In the center of the room there was a desk with 2 chairs in front of it and a large chair behind it, there was nothing on the desk except for a few scattered papers and a crystal.

The principal sat on her 'chair' and gazed at Arthur with cold yet curious eyes. She broke the silence by finally saying ”Now that we are alone, how about you tell me who YOU really are?” she said that with a smile hanging on her face.

Lucy remained silent as she gazed coldly at the principal while Arthur replied with a mocking tone:

”No one you should have heard of, I'm simply someone who wants to join your academy along with my comrade here”

He chuckled softly after saying that and stared at the principal to see her reaction and what she would do to him. If she tried anything against him, he was prepared to go all out and escape with Lucy, even if she was high leveled, he still had confidence in his power and if he couldn't win he would just escape.

When he was attacked by Mary earlier he could feel that she was strong, but compared to the earth dragon, she was a little weaker and to him, who had gained the dragon's stats plus his previous stats and also got the bonus stats from creating a body, so he should be several times stronger than the dragon and that's only physically. If he used his magic, especially the destructive ancient fire, none would be able to guess the outcome of a battle between him and this principal, so a person with Mary's strength was no threat to him at all, even if he didn't do anything all day, she couldn't hurt him and if all the council members had more an or less the same strength as her, then he shouldn't worry about them.

After seeing Mary's power and judging that he was stronger than her, he guessed for someone with his level he was overpowered, no! Overpowered would be an understatement for he was god-like.

Even though the principal told the participant that the black-robed man was cheating and had used a powerful enchanted item, that was because everyone saw how he wasn't hurt when he was hit by Mary, who was one of the council members and if she didn't say that, Mary would have lost face and would be probably called weak to not be able to injure a single participant who didn't even defend against her attack.

The principal had to make an appropriate lie or else how could she protect the honor of Mary, but deep in her heart she was curious about this black-robed man 'Just who is he? To be able to take a bare attack from Mary and still not budge'