Ancient Pasts - Tbate

Mock Battle

Cathan Leywin Pov

The fire hawk surveyed the area. When it laid eyes on Azrael and me, its eyes widened. The hawk quickly flew down, dropping the professor in the process.

The hawk landed in front of Azrael and me, then bowed to us. Azrael looked disinterested by the fire hawk. Meanwhile, the entire class was bewildered by this turn of events.

'Papa, she's scared of us.' Azrael calmy sent.

"W-What on earth?!" The professor and everyone else looked shocked by this.

Usually, mana beasts bow down to the more powerful beast, although some mana beasts tame their instincts or suppress them. Since the professor is an adventurer, her bond's instincts are still unsuppressed.

Both Azrael and I are draconic beings. I have the body of a dragon, and Azrael is a dragon. The fire hawk sensed the difference between it and us, which led to it bowing.

"There, there." I patted its head.

"Kraa." Azrael let out a croak, ordering the fire hawk to return to its bond.

"L-Let's move on from what just happened." The professor tried to sound enthusiastic, but her voice was confused as she rode on top of her bond.

"As I was saying, my name is Professor Glory, and I will be the one teaching all of you brats! This Flare Hawk is Torch, my bond." She introduced herself after shaking her head.

The first thing I did was measure the stage of our professor's mana core. I wasn't surprised to see she was a light yellow augmenter, which for her age is quite impressive.

Guessing from the way Arthur hissed and rubbed his temple, he tried to sense her core as well, which he couldn't do due to being a stage below professor Glory.

"I have to say, you guys have set the bar pretty high for all of the other classes," she announced after inspecting Lucas. She took quite a bit longer to analyze the disciplinary committee and the student council members, nodding every once in a while.

"Well, if it isn't my newest colleague, Arthur Leywin. It's a pleasure to meet you," Professor Glory gave Arthur a playful grin as if she was itching to tease my brother.

One of the male upperclassmen raised his hand. "Professor Glory, what do you mean by newest colleague?"

"Ah! Most of you probably saw him at the commencement this morning, but this boy is a freshman disciplinary committee officer. A real prodigy, if I do say so myself. He's also a newly appointed professor for the Practical Mana Manipulation class that you all took during your underclassman years." She gave me a firm pat on the back.

"WHAT?!"

"You can't be serious, Professor!"

"If that brat is a professor, then I'm the king of this continent!"

"What has this academy turned into to accept a freshman as a professor?"

"How is that even possible? Even the best upperclassmen these days don't get picked to be professors, but that first year did?"

The various noises of protests made Arthur sigh. They were bound to find out eventually, but it would've taken the upperclassmen a bit longer to find out this news, considering they didn't get much information about the lower division classes.

"GRRRR~" Sylvie's fur stood on end as she growled warningly at the group of students.

"Now, now! Before we jump straight into complaints, we should have more faith in the director's decision. He has qualified to some degree by beating the professor that taught the class previously!" She shot Arthur a wink.