CHAPTER - 20
Iris Fontaine: Here you go, professor! Your lunch!
Narrator: Her contagious smile was a rarity in that environment. Even Dav, that ever-impassive mummy, seemed to waver for a moment, caught in the lightness of the moment.
Dav: I will make sure to eat everything without leaving a single bite.
Iris Fontaine: If you would like something different tomorrow, you can let me know after classes.
I will take care of getting the ingredients, and if necessary, I'll go buy them at the supermarket.
Dav: If you ever need help with grocery shopping, don't hesitate to ask me. I'll make time to accompany you… so you can cook something delicious every day, Miss Iris.
Narrator: Are you doing it for the food… or to really help her?
Iris Fontaine: I'll make sure to ask for your help if I ever need it, professor.
(She smiled gracefully)
Now, I must go. Enjoy your meal!
Dav: Damn… this is so good!
No doubt about it, she's an excellent cook.
Narrator: As always, Dav was sitting alone at a large table, enjoying his lunch in silence. But this time, as he looked up, he noticed Elysia approaching. Without saying a word, she sat next to him and started eating her meal, carefully prepared by herself.
Neither of them spoke. The clinking of forks against the containers was the only conversation between them.
After finishing his lunch, Dav stood up, went to the bathroom to wash his hands, and then headed to the faculty room. He had a task to do: study the files of the first-year high school students he would be meeting the next day.
- The Next Day -
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Dav: They should all be in the arena waiting for me.
I hope Professors Kael Solis and Master Eldrin Voss get along with each other.
- Shortly after his arrival -
Kael Solis: Guys, stop fighting!
The professor will be here soon, and he won’t want to see this!
(Desperate)
Master Eldrin Voss: My code forbids me from hitting kids, so I'll let the professor handle this.
Cedric Von Grauer: Gabriel, just because you're the hero's brother, you think you're some big shot!
You won our duel the other day only because I wasn't in top form!
Gabriel: I only asked you to train with me that day… I didn't want to duel.
Cedric Von Grauer: Without your beloved brother, you’re nothing—just a fake A+ rank! Hahaha!
Gabriel: What a bother.
(Sighs)
Cedric Von Grauer: Maybe the hero isn't even as strong as they say, and that footage was all fake!
If only I were in better shape, I could beat him too! Hahaha!
Narrator: The second-year high school students and Gabriel immediately sat down in silence because they noticed that the professor was standing right behind Cedric Von Grauer…
He placed a hand on Cedric’s shoulder, his suppressing aura weighing down on him.
Dav: We’ve got a brave one here.
Perhaps I should crush you like an ant and heal you just to crush you again… and again?
Cedric Von Grauer: You don’t scare me! What kind of professor would hit his students!? Hahaha!
You can’t do anything to me.
Gabriel/Leo/Fin/Elysia/Eldrin: (We will pray for you…)
Narrator: With an aura strong enough to terrify both classes, Dav grabbed Cedric by the head and hurled him into the sky—so high that the academy looked smaller than his fingertips.
As Cedric ascended higher and higher, the students followed his trajectory with their eyes.
Leo: This time he really went too high…
Fin: Should we notify the control tower?
Elysia: No. Let him fall.
Narrator: When Cedric plummeted back down, Dav caught him with one hand, still wearing his usual impassive expression.
Dav: Did you see the moon?
Narrator: Cedric, in tears, nodded slowly. For the rest of the training session, he didn’t say a single word.
Dav: Today, there will be two different training sessions.
We have two hours, so we’ll use one to focus on aura reinforcement and spell activation without magic.
Form two groups: Aura and Mana.
So few mana users…
I expected more.
536 mana users
913 aura users
Those in the Aura group, sit down, clear your minds, and let your energy flow throughout your body.
Do not rush. This is only to train your refinement.
Tomorrow in class, I will explain why.
As for you Mana users, as I already told some of you yesterday, you must focus your mana from your head to the point where you want to manifest your spell.
Free your mind of all unnecessary thoughts and guide your mana.
You too, do not rush—this process requires time and determination.
(Thinling) Gabriel already knows how to do this after training for two months with those other two brats.
Name: Cedric Von Grauer
Age: 14 years old
Rank: B
House: Von Grauer (minor but ambitious nobility)
Ability: Pure Aura (can manipulate combat energy without using mana, making him unpredictable in battle)
Personality: Arrogant and conceited, he loves provoking others and considers himself superior to the average B-rank students. He looks up to A-rank students with envy and constantly tries to prove his worth.
He despises authority and often clashes with those above him, but when he met Dav, something changed.
END OF CHAPTER - 20
