Marco The Priest!
When this word started getting famous around the school people asked, 'Who's this guy? What did he do?' the answer to that question was 'He's the Main Character!'
Marco was the second coming of the Anomaly, everybody knew it, everybody felt it, you see that guy, you know he's meant to do shit, he's meant to be something normal people couldn't reach, now it's true that he wasn't very high in the ranking, he was the 4th, but it's because the top 3 monsters, are the children of that same Anomaly, and not just some child that's believed to achieve what he achieved years ago.
He just had something, something that attracted people, the amount of fangirls and boys he had? Ohh Great Mother Above! he's by far the most popular in the school! But aside from his devilish handsomeness his smile that can cause one's soul to ascend and and his kindness, he also had some not seen before intellect.
Sit with him and he can make you believe whatever he wants, he knows his stuff and knows exactly how to make an argument and make someone believe him.
Thankfully this world doesn't have the concept of religion for a much greater reason, otherwise, Marco would have definitely without a second of doubt become the Arch-Bishop and the pillar that could help Humanity stand above many races and even possibly stand side by side with the Beastmen and Dragons.
for your information, a Priest is essentially a person who has a connection to the elements, especially the healing elements and spirits connected to said elements and he can use that same connection to cause many supernatural phenomena in exchange for Mana.
but whether Churches and religions existed or not, it didn't matter since Marco would reach what he was meant to reach what he was meant to no matter what happened, but the Method could always be different.
Indeed, there were Celestials ruling and watching over the world but their causes and reason for they were doing were directly related to their rise of power, and they didn't work with faith but the achievements of those they've blessed, this was directly connected to how high they would rise later on but, this was something far from us currently.
This and a lot of other things made him rise in the view of the Academy, Instructors, and the entirety of the Human race since everything related to their dear Emperor is a hot cake for them, and obviously the students, but such a being would look like a wall to not be crossed, especially since he's HER lover.
No one crazy enough would even come close to him, but what they noticed was that SHE wasn't the one in charge but he was, and he was slowly changing her, which made them start questioning some things, THAT girl acts like a child when she's with him? this was hard to believe...
At first, they were only those two, but slowly more and more were added, it's as if the guy was a magnet, a special kind of magnet only attracting the best and most unique, but its effects on more normal people were still frightening nonetheless.
they just set boundaries, especially HER, any girl coming 10 meters close to him ends up dead, if any girl wanted to get chummy with him she needed her approval first, no questions asked.
The problem was, Marco was no noble, no prince from a fallen kingdom, he was but a slum boy rising from the rubbles, not the Empire's no, but from a part of the continent where the Empire was still renovating the land.
Yet it changed nothing in this world if you were a commoner, a noble, or a king, if you're weak you get stepped on, if you have no redeeming qualities you get killed, if you don't achieve something worth the while of the strong no one's giving you a second glance.
Not the academy, not its students, not the Empire, or even the Anomaly himself.
Draco knew all this, and he was setting his goals high, he was sure, his guts told him, no matter how high his stats got, that guy called the Anomaly who stood at the top, or maybe even those above EX-Rank didn't rely on stats to fight, he had an inkling of what it would be from his experience and knowledge, however, it didn't stop him from using still loose ends to infiltrate deep inside the Empire.
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