Chapter 23 - 24 : Judgmen (1/2)

Quite some time passed since Lisa and Christian left the park, but Arthur still didn't let go of Frederic and the chains were still bounding him, the surrounding people were astonished but none dared speak to protest, they just watched from afar excited yet fearful of what about to come.

finally, the principal came flying using her weird flying magic, accompanied with Zephir, though she didn't seem angry, in any case, she was smiling, she was surprised to see Frederic bounded by those chains but nonetheless, she didn't talk.

Arthur noticing her arrival, retrieved the chains from Frederic and willed them to disappear, he turned his head towards the principal as if expecting her to say something.

”Well, hello there Miss Sonia.”

”Hahaha, Mr. Arthur, I see you caused some problems with Lisa, but that doesn't matter since she was the one who provoked you, I've come here because I need to talk to you, and it would be nice if we talked in private.”

To be honest, Arthur was quite surprised to hear she knew her name, but after some thought, it's to be expected, after the commotion that happened earlier, there's got to be some students who heard his name, he just shrugged his shoulder then nodded at the principal.

He stood up from the bench, and followed her with Lucy, the principal, of course, didn't say anything when she saw Lucy following for she knew Lucy and Arthur almost never separated from each other.

They walked for quite sometime before they reached the edges of the Academy island, what Arthur saw was a gigantic building, probably the biggest one he ever saw since he came here, it was only made of stone and seemed more like a tower than a habitable building.

Sonia noticed the slight shock of Arthur and began talking ”You may or may not have noticed, that although we do have some powerful individuals, they are not very strong, I mean if I fight you, I'm certain that I will lose but if we are so weak, why do you think the Academy is feared by other continents?”

It's true, Arthur always wondered about that, he was sure with his new stats, he was the most powerful in the academy, but he has never seen the pope power or LVL so he couldn't guess how much they are powerful but he judged him to be a little higher than the principal but if so, why do they fear the academy since they are more powerful than it?

The principal chuckled for a bit then resumed talking

”Actually, the holy church manpower is way stronger than us, in fact, the pope's LVL is extremely high and he can kill me with but a single attack, but we have a weapon, a dangerous one, and as long as we have it, they won't dare attack us”

Just as she finished that, she and the other council member mumbled some incantations, then the tower blurred for some time before it changed to a metallic object. Arthur observed the object, and to be honest, it looked like a cannon? but an extremely big one, with runes and patterns all over it.

”It's called 'Judgment' and it's an ancient weapon the founder of the Academy made with his companions created, it only used twice since its creation, but you must know a single use requires a LOT of mana, if it's used, maybe half the Holy church's Headquarters would obliterated. That's why none of the leaders of the continent dare attack us, because they fear this weapon, but the problem is, to prepare a single use we must inject it with mana for a week at least and we cannot fire it consecutively. Sigh, since you are a member of the council, we thought you should know about this but be aware not to divulge this secret or else...”

'Judgment huh?'

He never read about it in Zodiak's book so it must be made after his death, nevertheless he was still amazed by this weapon, he couldn't help but swallow some saliva, and imagine what if he was hit by a shot from that cannon, without a doubt it would be his doom, I mean the height of this weapon is 400 meters and it's length is about 250 meters, that's completely ridiculous.

He continued gazing at it for sometime before turning his head towards Sonia and just nodding as if understanding what she said. Though she was still suspicious of him, she nevertheless decided to tell him about 'judgment' for he is not someone to mess with and since he is a council member now, he has the right to know.

The principal only wanted to show him the weapon, so when everything was done, everyone got back to their respective duties, as for Lucy and Arthur they headed to the mana manipulation class, since it was about time to start. As always, Lucy was excited about the class and couldn't help but shake a bit from excitement, every time she is going into a class, she is happy because learning magic and becoming more powerful is her goal.

Though Arthur was in a dilemma, as he wanted her to get stronger faster and just going to class is not helping that much apart from teaching her new ways of using magic. Too bad she wasn't a parasite or else she would power-up fastly like him, nevertheless he decided to try the leeching way, it's when he lowers the opponent's health to near zero and she finishes him and takes the XP. Though it's slow but effective so he decided to try it when they got free time.

Soon, they reached class and took their seats. The same teacher as yesterday came and began explaining about mana manipulation and as always Lucy listened to him carefully, afraid of not missing anything, as for Arthur he lazily watched the students practicing and injecting mana in their bodies to get bonus stats, since he succeeded yesterday, all this gibberish is useless to him, if not for Lucy wanting to be in this academy, he would have gone adventuring and visiting all the continents.