Chapter 35 - Super Tier (1/2)

Slyvia was in deep thought about what had just happened. She had expected Ray to do well in the test. She even perhaps thought he was someone special. Anyone who was able to go out everyday and hunt magical beasts had to be skilful. Unless they were lying, but Ray didn't seem like the lying type to her. And Ray even claimed he had hunted an intermediate beast.

Slyvia couldn't get the thought out of her head so she decided to head over to Gary and ask him a few questions.

”Hey Gary, how strong would you say Ray is?”

Dan, Ian and Monk had a habit of sticking together and when they saw Slyvia go towards Gary decided to follow behind and listen in on the conversation.

”Ray, he's really strong.”

Dan who had overheard the two talking couldn't help but laugh. After all, he had just seen Ray nearly fail all four tests.

”Him, have you seen the results on the test, I know he's your friend but you need to look with your eyes and not your heart.”

Slyvia looked towards Dan with a stare. He quickly shut up, remembering the situation in the dorm.

”That's why I wanted to ask you, Gary, I thought Ray would do well. What makes you say he's strong.”

Ray was scratching his head like a monkey who was deep in thought.

”It's hard to say, I haven't fought him in a long time.”

”Maybe I can rephrase the question to make it easier for you. If you and Ray were to fight now who would win?”

”The last time I fought Ray I won with easy.”

”But you still say he's strong.” Dan interrupted again.

”There something strange about him. I think if I thought him now I would lose nine times out of ten. When we were kids I got attacked by an Intermediate black wolf. I thought I was going to die that day. Then Ray came along and saved me.”

”You need to make your tales more believable, there aren't even many squires who have trained for a year here that could take on an intermediate beast solo,” Dan said.

It was true most people would find it hard to believe if someone would have said they defeated an intermediate beast at the age they were at now. The fact that Gary was telling them it was when they were Kids made it unbelievable.

The rest of the group thought Ray was just exaggerating a tale, perhaps it was just a big Basic tier wolf.

Slyvia thought different though, she remembered back to the night where she caught Ray leaving the castle. He had said he had defeated an intermediate beast before.

Although she kept this thought to herself the coincidences that happened in the test also concerned her. A mage from Roland academy would know there limits well when doing a test, she found it hard to believe that they would make a mistake and cause magic sickness. And with the bow, If a human tried to use pure strength to break a bow's string it would be near impossible.

She couldn't help but think that Ray was just unlucky.

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I must be unlucky. I thought to myself.