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Chapter 61 – Nox Academy
A week has passed and there seems to be nothing worth mentioning, still I will give a brief summary on what had happened so far. During each of my lessons, somehow the four soldiers are becoming more and more used to the activities though… I am quite worried as they have been quite pale recently… are they sick? Well I’ll give them some rest during the tournament. As I said this to them in the middle of the week the day after the color to their faces returned. I see that they aren’t sick anymore… as I thought this they suddenly trembled… still a promise is a promise, I’ll let them rest nest week. Oh? It seems the trembling stopped.
Rezald has been having fun teaching his students, it seems he quite like being a teacher. Also, it seems a student of his was picked by the principal his name was Ferlo their class representative as well as the self proclaimed “Great Rezald’s Devout Follower” I don’t know why he keeps on shouting it when he met me but I’m glad Rezald is having fun as well as making friends. I once congratulated him as he thanked with a wry smile. The principal also made me, Rezald and a woman named Caeka in which somehow created an awkward atmosphere around them so I asked.
Nelus: Rezald, do you know her?
Rezald was shocked at my sudden question as he stuttered.
Rezald: U-uhm Bro Nelus I do why did you ask so suddenly?
Caeka: (So cute! Rezald seems nervous… well so am I but… hahh… I heard from that girl named Tania told me that it seems he is already taken or at least that is what she heard from that man… Nelus was it? I got to investigate.)
Nelus: You seem awkward towards each other.
Rezald: Sorry!! Bro Nelus its kind of personal so…
Rezald said frantically with an apologetic face in which I just nodded. Caeka then approached me and whispered…
Caeka: Does Rezald… love someone?
Nelus: Yes, very much so that he risked his life... to be precise it is someone he will devote years to. (As she isn’t born yet it and will take time before Rezald can somehow make her remember her memories if he can though. All of it is up to him.)
Caeka: (Uuuu… so he’s married… what do I do…)
Caeka became frozen as she cried inwardly while still revealing a smiling expression. Nelus then went ahead to the principals office to meet the contestants that the principal has picked first one was Lora from the upper class in the academy, a Xaelos… it seems she knows who I am… the conversation went as follows…
Andros: Now Lora, why don’t you introduce yourself to Nelus he will be one of the instructors in the competition.
Lora stared at me with an admiring look on her face as she deeply bows and said.
Lora: I heard about you from my mother about what happened on that day. To have such a powerful teacher instructing me is an honor! My name is Lora Teone
Nelus: Nice to meet you, my name is Nelus.
Andros: This one is Miud from the slephnir say hello.
Miud: … Hello… Miud…
Nelus: Greetings, my name is Nelus.
Andros: This one doesn’t talk too much.
Another thing that has happened this week was… it seems Terul was granted permission by her parents to stay in the mansion in Tania’s room in which she watches over Altan with her. She has become quite attached to Altan recently. Tania said it was because it made her feel like a big sister though she knew that one day it wouldn’t last. That is all… the tournament will be starting this afternoon. The rule states as follows… each academy will have 5 representatives… each one will battle a designated opponent and those who win will reach the next round.
The extra ones who won will directly skip their turns, to summarize… if 1 Lux academy student won and 4 for Nox academy then that one will have to battle the four leftovers while the others will wait for their turn until there is only one type of academy student is left. There is also a tag team match in which there has to be at least two survivors each. Any of the academies can request it. For now, the competition is solely for Lux and Nox Academy.
Five students entered as well as three instructors, both Lux and Nox academy, teachers and students entered the audience area around us. They then introduce themselves as they were called upon by the principal as they just smirked and went up the stage inside the arena building.
Kawt: Hello everyone! My name is Kawt from the vampire race; I am Nox academy’s main instructor.
Said a handsome man with a pale face, wearing a jet black cloak as he then waves towards the students in the audience area in which everyone cheered.
???: Oh! Its our teacher!
???: Keh! Nox academy’s main instructor is just an S class with a purple shade.
???: Hah? You think your all that when our teacher is at the peak of S class.
???: Well look at ours! See that man with white hair? That is our main instructor, Sir Nelus.
???: Hmm? I bet he is… eh? P-purple? What is that white shade of his…
???: He is at the peak of X class!!
???: E-eehh!? That’s cheating, how can someone like him allowed to become a teacher!?
???: There aren’t any restrictions on who is to become a teacher so its not cheating!
Kawt then noticed a disturbance inside the audience area. He then noticed that they were all looking towards the same direction… he then became astonished…
Kawt: (How could this be… an X rank? Moreover… a white shade to boot… wh-who is he? I haven’t heard of anyone like him before… don’t tell me the beings of divinity hid him only to show us at such a crucial time… tch! How cunning but that isn’t going to stop us in our plans. Even if you have someone as powerful as him he is just one person. He can’t handle what is to come after the competition…)
Kawt then decided to continue his introduction.
Kawt: These two are the other instructors of Nox academy, Marin from the Taeka race and Ira from the demon race. As for our chosen students… our main contender, Dotis, he is from the void race, as for the others; here is Falmi, she’s from the succubus race, Maque, he’s from the demon race, Dema he’s also from the demon race and Fion, she from the Taeka race. Why don’t you introduce yourself whichever is Lux academy’s main instructor?
Kawt said provokingly as Nelus calmly walked towards the platform. Kawt sneered at Nelus’ calm demeanor while everyone was looking at him intently, especially the succubus named Falmi. She noticed that he seemed quite familiar…
Nelus: Good afternoon all of you. My name is Nelus a main instructor of Lux academy. I will then introduce the other instructors… This is Caeka from the Fairy race and Rezald from the human race.
Falmi: Eh? N-Nelus… it can’t be… was he the one who save me before? Afterwards he gave me enough money to return home… if it is him then I owe him so much. Still I must win this competition… we trained so much.
Hearing that he was from the human race everyone from Nox academy scowled as they look down upon humans because of their short life span. Still Rezald showed no signs of being affected as he then smirked. He summoned his manaformed weapon as he immediate transformed it to its staff form as the crystal on his chest becomes purple… Everyone became silent. This year’s instructors were far too peculiar… an X rank human… even if they speculated that his weapon is an S rank that has the rare skill “Form Up” they were still astonished. They all know that ascending to X rank is very hard but even if Rezald was an “incomplete” X rank that haven’t ascended yet. If he could use such a weapon he would at least manage to go toe to toe with an X rank. Kawt was gritting his teeth as there were too many anomalous circumstances this year…
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Nelus: These are our chosen students. Our main contender, Cheil a Luminant, as for the others: Meril an angel, Ferlo a Colad, Lora a Xaelos and Miud a slephnir.
After the introduction it was time to draw ballots to see the pairings for the battle. The results were…
Miud vs. Falmi
Cheil vs. Maque
Meril vs. Dotis
Ferlo vs. Dema
Lora vs. Fion
After the drawing we all headed to our respective areas as the first two entered the arena. Mana weapons aren’t allowed, they are only allowed physical combat as well as magic as it is a competition which is unlike a duel has many rules to prevent any severe casualties especially considering the enmity of both the academies. As Miud enters the arena, Falmi does also.
They readied themselves as they hear the signal that starts the match. Miud rush towards Falmi like a beast as he spins while aiming to kick Falmi. Falmi’s eyes then turns pink as Miud’s movements suddenly dulled… it was because of her skill,
Miud then tried to dodge as be grits his teeth as he was going far too slow, he was forced to block most of it using his arms as it suddenly numbed… the needles struck his nerves temporarily disabling him to use his arms as well as his beast form as he would need all limbs for him to use it. He then jumps back but Falmi quickly follows. Her eyes turned pink again as she grabs Miud’s head while gazing at each other’s eyes… his eyes were feeling quite heavy as it closes forcing him into a deep sleep making Falmi winner of the first battle.
Next was Cheil against the demon Maque. Maque was quite fat as well as a first timer at competition like this but his strength was nothing to laugh at. He was a sub race of minotaur in the demon race which exceeds at power. He licks his lips staring at Cheil he was once told to be careful when battling Cheil but he ignored it as he wasn’t interested. He stomps his foot ready to charge at Cheil.
As the signal was seen the Maque charged towards Cheil with his horns pointed towards her. He was looking at her lewdly wanting to rip her clothes up. Cheil sighed as she gathers light magic towards her palm she then grabs on of the minotaur’s horns completely putting a stop towards his charge. It was the spell,
Next was Meril and Dotis. Meril readied herself as Dotis just walks towards her, once they were only a few feet apart the signal was seen. Dotis gathered mana on his palm forming a swirling vortex of darkness getting bigger and bigger. Meril then quickly backs away and used Gale Burst which made everyone shocked to see an elemental spell other than light from Lux academy. Not delaying any further, he threw the vortex as it passes through Meril’s powerful magic without resistance as it heads towards Meril, it was the spell Nox Cutter. Seeing no signs of stopping it was headed towards Meril at a dangerous rate… Meric closes her eyes as she heard a sound. She opens her eyes and saw Nelus with a white cloth signaling her defeat as well as the Nox cutter on the other hand slowly dissipating. Kawt clicked his tongue for the attack didn’t manage to go through but was ecstatic to see that they won two out of three.
After Meril’s battle was Ferlo vs Dema which ended too fast as Dema was a demon with a sub race of Nox Gorilla which was extremely slow compared to Ferlo who greatly excels speed as well as his strength too was formidable. It was truly in the favor of Ferlo as the match had gone. He still had a bitter face as he looks at Rezald with a face as he smiled. What he wanted to do was to show off to Rezald for him to be praised but it ended just to quickly for him to do so. He then quickly got out of the arena.
Finally it was Lora and Fion turn to battle. Fion was of the Taeka race a powerful race of the beings of darkness. She had dark purple wings as well as piercing velvet eyes, she was quite a beauty with pale skin and very long hair up to her hips tied in a ponytail. After the signal was seen she immediately rushes towards Lora challenging her to a pure brute force battle.
Fion tackles Lora in which pushed her a few feet as Lora retaliates by releasing whip like kicks. Fion quickly dodges them by a hair’s breath as she grins. She jumped to the air as she dives towards Lora in which she quickly hets out of the way. In Lora’s surprise Fion’s trajectory changed dramatically using her wings to shift. She delivers a frightening punch towards Lora’s stomach. Lora slid through the floor a few feet and stops as she rush towards Fion. Fion’s eyes glistened for a moment as she clenches her fist. Lora was actually very beat up from the previous attack but still held on. As she releases her punch so did Lora as their punches collide, it seems Lora’s strength was losing at a quick pace.
As Fion’s punch connects, it hits Lora’s face as she flew outside of the arena giving the win to Fion. So far the winners are Fion, Dotis and Falmi on the Nox side and Cheil and Ferlo in the Lux side. The Nox academy issued a tag battle which they expected. They planned to worn out the two before facing Dotis. As the four entered the arena, Ferlo looked at Falmi with disinterest while Cheil was looking at Fion.
As the match starts, Fion immediately charges towards Cheil in which Cheil dodges. Behind Cheil, Ferlo pops up and smashes Fion with his fist down wards as she laid face flat on the floor in which she quickly disappeared. It seems she didn’t move at all since the start but was charging a huge attack. They realize too late as what actually happened is that what they attack was just an illusion made by Falmi. Both of them rushed towards Fion as Fion releases her attack. Her fist was covered in mana converted to darkness as she punches it towards them it created dark shockwaves that pierced them somewhat.
Luckily Cheil used
Cheil then appeared as Ferlo blocks Fion’s attack Ferlo then threw Falmi out of the arena and did a combination attack with Cheil defeating Fion. It was their win. As the final match was going to start something happened. They suddenly felt a tremor on the ground thinking it was an earthquake but noticed that there seems to be a lot of presence outside of the vicinity of the academy… like an army headed their way…
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If you are all wondering who the succubus was she was the one Nelus saved in chapter 10. You can search it if you want just use ctrl+F then type succubus.
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