=====>Arima was standing in the middle of a plain with his eyes closed "So, how is it?" When he opened his eyes, Chulainn inquired.
"He"s saying that he"ll arrive in two weeks or so" Arima answered to him.
Chulainn hummed and looked at the ground "That"s an interesting idea though, to make a natural G.o.d move for you" He said.
"Well, it was easy. I didn"t even need to force or convince him. I just baited him a bit and he started moving" Arima responded and transferred to the FDA, he casually reappeared in his cla.s.sroom and sat on his seat. He was the only one in the room at that moment.
"Then what about those kids, why are you teaching them so earnestly?" Chulainn finally asked the question intriguing him the most.
Arima shrugged and smiled "What is there to say? It"s fun to teach people, you know? Anyone who teaches people can agree with me when I say that we feel proud when our students are successful. Also, I"m doing my job. I accepted the job here as a temporary instructor and I must accomplish my duty"
Chulainn mused "But it"s not really a reason to train them so much. And why do you want to make them so strong in the first place?"
"Like I said," Arima stood up and went to the door "It"s fun" He smirked and left the room. Today, no one was waiting in front because it was the first day of the local compet.i.tion and all of them were most likely waiting at the fighting stage.
Arima nonchalantly walked in the corridors, pa.s.sing by numerous students at the same time and headed toward the said stage.
The place he arrived five minutes later was a sort of large building with runes engraved on the outer walls. When Arima walked in by the front door, he was welcomed by the reception that was in the hall.
The woman behind the reception slightly stressed when she saw Arima entering but kept her calm "Where"s my cla.s.s?" Arima just asked and the woman took a map from her desk and gave it to Arima.
"Here, your cla.s.s has been a.s.signed to the third block, it"s here" She said and pointed at a certain point of the map.
Arima scanned through the map and nodded, he then gave it back and left "Huh?" The woman was confused as to why he would leave the map but Arima had already vanished before she could react.
Arima reached a certain door and opened it. Behind, there was a surprising sight. It was a huge training area, maybe even bigger than the building itself if you were to compare it with what you can see from the outside.
Of course, Arima wasn"t surprised, the moment he stepped inside, he felt all of the s.p.a.ce distortions in this building.
Inside the training area, most of the students were there, sitting cross-legged with their eyes closed. Arima frowned at first but then noticed Night doing the same in front of all of them while releasing his aura very calmly and slowly.
"Tempering, huh?" Chulainn remarked and Arima nodded. Tempering with the aura was a simple way to train. You would totally restrain your aura and "bathe" in the aura of someone stronger. The effects of that training were basically a better control over your aura, strengthening of your body and mind, and warm up.
"It"s actually a perfect training before a compet.i.tion" Chulainn said "Your soul beast is quite responsible"
Arima smiled and patiently waited at the entrance for everyone to finish. Ten minutes later, all of the students opened their eyes and felt invigorated. When they realized Arima was watching them, they all hastened themselves to greet him.
"You"re all prepared to go it seems. I don"t know how strong your first opponent will be, but if there"s something I need to tell you, it"s this" Arima raised his voice and caught the attention of everyone "You"re not allowed to lose" He declared and his students breathed in.
They all nodded at the same time. Arima was satisfied with that and turned around "Let"s go then. If I"m not wrong, we"ll fight against the cla.s.s number four, and whoever it is, it"s time to begin" At the same moment Arima finished, a bell rang across the entire building and a voice spread.
"The first round will start. Teachers, please lead your cla.s.s to the corresponding areas on your map" The voice instructed and Arima immediately left the training area he was in and his students instantly followed.
Arima led the group along with Night and Chulainn. Lanya and Karma were not here, apparently, they preferred going somewhere else. Well, it"s not like they were obligated to come, it was the same for Lanya since she would only need to fight Velvet at the end of the compet.i.tion.
As for Arister, that guy was behind with the cla.s.s, Arima didn"t know how to react anymore actually, that guy really had a crush on Ferzia that it was almost too much. But the fact was that Ferzia herself wasn"t rejecting him. After a minute of walk, the cla.s.s arrived in a big room with an impressive arc in the middle which was producing a sort of white screen.
A man, that was in the same place, welcomed the cla.s.s and told them that the arc was a portal leading to a confined s.p.a.ce where the tests and fights will unfold.
Behind the portal was a simple stone arena with multiple rows of seats around it. And in which the jury was sitting on. And expect that arena, there was nothing. The whole place was surrounded by a white wall and roof. It was basically a thousand-meters-wide giant room.
When Arima entered that place, the first thing he noticed were the judges, there were five of them, and he actually knew two of them. He smiled and went to them with a single step that made him travel the entire distance in a second.
"How are you doing?" Arima sat down and asked the man he was sitting beside "Raal"
The Demon King laughed "I heard you were teaching some kids here and I demanded to be a jury. At first, I didn"t believe that the Kind Demon was a teacher, but the actual facts really shocked me" Raal smiled and said.
"h.e.l.lo, Arima" A woman"s voice joined the conversation and a graceful elf sat down with them "I came here for the same reason" She said.
"It"s been a while Karia" Arima smiled and greeted her "Your aura has become a lot purer"
"Yes, thanks to you" Karia smiled and responded. The three other judges frowned at that. They thought that the teacher having connections with the jury wasn"t something that should be allowed. But they also heard about the man sitting there. Almost no one wasn"t aware of the Demon King in the Main Land those days. They chose to remain silent.
Meanwhile, Arima"s students looked at the jury with strange eyes. They never thought that their teacher will be acquainted with some of the judges. Night sighed "Hey, focus there for now" He said to the cla.s.s. He seriously felt like he had done already too much for those kids.
The cla.s.s followed his words and looked to the front, toward the other cla.s.s that arrived from another portal. The teacher of that cla.s.s was a middle-aged man. When he saw Arima, his expression turned very sour.
"Teacher Musk" One of his students called him "We will do our best" He said and Musk just snickered and stared at his student" opponents.
"The first round of the local tournament will start. Everyone, prepare yourself. The first test will be aura measuring" The voice from before resounded again in the entire place.
"It"s me who supervises that" Karia said and stood up "I"ll be out for a moment" Arima and Raal smiled and nodded.
Karia did like Arima just before and only took a step to go into the middle of the stage "The way the examination will unfold depends on me. I can choose to either make you pa.s.s one by one or altogether" Karia said with a strong voice "And I choose the latter. All of you step on the stage and release your auras when the start signal will be given" She instructed.
The two cla.s.ses entered the arena in groups and readied themselves to release their aura to the maximum. At the same time, on both sides, students started to transform using their soul contract.
Karia observed that "(He made something really scary, huh?)" She said in her mind.
"I will announce the start of the tests. I will countdown from ten to zero. It will be the signal to start the tournament" The voice said and started the countdown.
"10, 9,7," The students tensed and prepared themselves. During the countdown, Gaodu"s appearance changed, Ferzia"s eyes glowed and Kine became surrounded by a b.l.o.o.d.y color.
"3, 2, 1, Start!" At the signal, the auras of eighty students were released at the same time. That was enough to scare a ninth level. But for someone like Karia who was between the tenth level and the earthen realm, it was just a bit strong.
But, Karia glanced at Arima"s cla.s.s. The amount of aura coming from them was just absurd for a bunch of kids. She also felt a certain aura that was so wicked and prideful that she almost had the urge to retreat. The owner of that aura was Gaodu, who was in his blue outfit and had a huge grin on his face.
For Karia, there were no mistakes, whether it was on purity, quant.i.ty or magnitude, the best was Arima"s cla.s.s. She released her own aura and overpowered the others. The students took that as the signal to stop "The winner is cla.s.s 3" Karia said after a second.
Arima"s students smiled while the other cla.s.s was a bit downed, but the moment they released their aura earlier, they already had realized that they had no chance of winning this test.
"How was it?" When Karia came back to sit on the bench, Arima asked.
"Little demons" Karia just said and Raal started laughing.
"I did not expect you to make a joke like that" He said amused "But, yeah, I can understand her after seeing this" He looked at the students "I never saw something like that. In that bunch, I felt an aura extremely powerful, something like a cruel beast in a sheep"s clothing. I even felt a Blood Eater" He remarked.
"I don"t know if you"re lucky to have gathered that many talents or too good at teaching" He wryly said and Arima just smiled.
Five minutes later, the students competed in magic theory. This time, it was another judge that supervised the entire test.
In the end, although the opposite cla.s.s had read and learned from Arima"s books, the latter"s cla.s.s directly learned under his tutelage. They also could ask him every time they had doubts and confusions and receive a detailed and intuitive explanation.
After the theory, it was the mana control and spiritual forces" control and power. In the end, Arima"s cla.s.s won every test with a crushing defeat on the other side.
When it finally was the combats, Raal was ready to supervise it when Musk stood up and conceded for his own cla.s.s. He knew they had no chance of winning the fights. And even if they win, they would still lose the overall match.
"Eh?" Raal exclaimed. He was quite excited to see what Arima"s students could do in a fight but it was taken away from him instantly.
Arima smirked and stood up "Well, you"ll have the chance to see it in the next round" He said to Raal and went to rejoin his students before going through the portal.
The Demon King"s face darkened and he also left the place through the same portal. Karia chuckled and also left after him. And like that, Arima"s cla.s.s easily finished the first round.