Chapter 40 - The Tridents

-- Aaris - POV --

"So what is a dead criminal doing in our academy?" The young girl sitting, her leg crossed on the table from her face, it Is clear she doesn't like me being here, "Whatever the reason is, you sure got guts to walk in Academy now spit out why are you-?"

"Calm down Tara let him speak," the old man said, 

"Seriously, why is it happening to me? Isn't there any way I can avoid them?" I thought.

"Well, it's quite rude to act like this in front of a child, let's introduce ourselves first, I'll start 

Myself Edward Vangouh,

The lady on the chair is Arhen Grey,

And the young lady on the table is Tara,

We are the three Chairperson of this academy,

And since it's not every day a proclaimed dead criminal walks inside our campus to attend the Grand selection you got us curious about you

Mr. Ralkier" 

He seems like a rather gentleman than being one of the most feared enemies among the kingdoms,

The Poseidon of North, Sir. Edward Vangouh,

And Madam Ahren Grey, a summoner Arch Celestial mage, is famous for many rumors where it is said that she can summon an army of Spirits and beasts in an instant, also known as The Gatekeeper.

But who is this kid? She looks like a 12-year-old but acts high and mighty! But Edward said she is One of the Tridents'.

"Huh? Why are you being so casual with this dumb kid Ed? We need to throw him to jail this instance" Tara smacked the table in irritation gave me a cold look and continued, 

"Or it will be a huge disgrace to our Academy, just think about what will people think when they'll know we let a criminal attend the mana degree-"

"Please wai-" I wanted them to hear my side of the story too but before I could finish Tara suddenly moved her grimace to me and I felt an insane amount of Mana pressure around myself it was hundreds of times stronger than what I felt when we faced Verdos in the Temple, I was barely keeping my self conscious and on my feet.

"Don't interrupt when I talk, young boy, you are hundreds of young just to speak to me!" It was her responsible for this pressure, now it was clear to me why they are called the most powerful among the kingdom.

Who is she?

"Tara, please get hold of yourself even though you held back, It's still too much for him to handle. He is still a kid."

The pressure that filled the room vanished, and what did Edward say?

Did she hold back?

"Tch… well then tell me Aaris Ralkier what is the purpose behind you coming to this Academy and before that how are you still alive?" She crossed her hands and glared at me.

"What we know about you is that when you were in Minotaurs guild, you set up your team on a mission and killed your team leader for money. Depending on your answer we will decide whether to let you participate in the selection or to put you in jail," Ahren said.

"That's not true when we were on the mission around the village Kurg, we went to a temple where we were ambushed by a demon-like creature, we tried to run but our team leader was so full of himself he tried to fight but died in an instance"

The terrifying memories rushed through my mind while I was telling them and It was still one of the nightmares of my life that still haunt me,

"the rest of us tried to escape from there but my teammates enclosed me inside the temple as sacrifice and they left me to die but somehow I was able to kill that demon by Lineage Spell taught by mother, it a was strong spell but the price to cast the spell was my own life, but I don't know how I was able to survive that, and after I woke up I fled from this country and went to The Garden."

I can't mention Serlin or Orphanage here, if they don't believe me, they would be dragged into this mess too, for now, I told them enough of the truth it's up to them to believe me or not.

"Ha? Are you expecting us to believe this shit?" Tara slapped his desk again,

"Enough of this I am personally kicking your ass out of this academy."

"Tara wait!" Ahren yelled.