My New Life in TBATE

Getting serious.

It's been a couple months now since the first day of school and everything has proceeded as smoothly as could be hoped for. Arthur, Elijah and Lucas were the 3 finalists in the beginning of the year tournament and each were offered a place on the Disciplinary committee. Surprisingly and I guess thankfully Lucas declined the position and was just grateful to get bumped up to a 3rd stripe with Arthur and Elijah.

Arthur and Elijah however did accept the position and Elijah was absolutely beaming as the disciplinary committee pin was placed on his uniform. They have both integrated nicely into the committee and the school has been running smoothly. Honestly it feels a little too smooth, and I do remember a big event happening at the school, but I can't remember who caused it or when it happened. I'll just have to be prepared.

Also just enjoy the time we have as the Team Fighting Mechanics class is going on a field trip to the Widow's Crypt. I won't lie I was a bit put off by the name as it brought up memories of that spider dungeon I went through. Thankfully though I was informed that was not the case it was inhabited by a different type of mana beast called snarlers, rather weak mana beasts but that's to be expected for a class field trip i suppose.

Only I got an unexpected notice coming from Alea Triscan. The day before our trip and I get a call for help from her and based off what readings I'm getting from it it a well warranted one. Beasts not dropping cores and seeming to be stronger than they should, she said they would proceed on until arrived. I had a bad feeling about the whole thing I put in a notice with Cynthia and I took off, following the tracking capabilities of the amulets I had given the Lances.

It told me their distress levels, how injured they were, how much mana they had and I could even listen in on what was happening through it if I wanted. When I was halfway there her distress levels spiked so I activated the hearing feature to find her talking to someone.

"Hehehehe, you Elf. If you want to leave this place alive then dismember your entire team right now and present them to me. If you do a good enough job I'll think about letting you escape."

I increased my speed as realization dawned on me, she was talking to a Vritra. Alea didn't speak but I could see her distress rising even higher when the Vritra spoke again.

"Or... you can try and fight." The voice oozed disdain and confidence and I finally reached the entrance to a dungeon that would lead me to them in the quickest time possible.

"Never." Was all I heard Alea mutter, before screams began to play through the amulet and I tucked it away. It would do me no good to focus on it anymore as I'm almost there. I charge through to see a scene of utter carnage. Bodies lay skewered by black spike and they coughed sputtered as blood dripped from their lips. Farther forward I see Alea trying to fight against the Vritra, when she was about to get skewered I pulled her away with mana strings.

She collapsed in a heap from the wounds littering her body and she was missing an arm, seconds later and her core would have been destroyed by that last attack. The Vritra's eyes landed on me and smiled.

"You, you're interesting, we've seen the so called Shield of Dicathen. Yet you don't make many appearances, I can't wait to see what the so called strongest mage of Dicathen can do." His slimy voice spoke out and I could see one of the 2 horns atop his head with a chip in it. A smile graced my lips as I felt my blood pumping faster at the thought of fighting this creature, but I had other things to take care of first.

I tapped into my beast will fully and enjoyed the sight of his eyes widening in shock.

"You see Vritra, you really shouldn't have left these people alive as now I have to heal them. My conscience won't let me leave them to suffer and die. Which means that you must die as I can't let word get back to your leaders about what I am, which I'm sure you've figured out now." His face contorted into a snarl and his power pulsed around his body as he shot a black spike at me, only I knew where it was coming from and reduced it to a shredded mess via sound enhanced mana strings.