Chapter 319: It’s a handful

Chapter 319: It’s a handful

The bolt hit its mark, punching a fist-sized hole through the flying students abdomen.

Two more students coming from the sides tried to get the jump on Sofia, but the high-priest skeleton waved his staff and a golden shockwave sent the new ambushers flying. Summoning Bookie and ripping off a page, Sofia turned around.

Everyones alright?

Were good! En confirmed, completely unfazed by the sudden chaos, unlike the four other kids.

Pareth will escort you five to your dorms or your next class, just tell him where to go, I have some business to take care of.

A flock of skeletal crows appeared behind Sofia, splitting into five groups of ten, one for each attacker and two more to seek any more troublemaker nearby who might be inclined to join them. Sofia flew up to take a better look at the situation.

The student she had bolted was currently struggling to keep flying away, the crows would be on him soon. Looking at the damage done to the classroom and the nearby building, the magic had probably been some kind of shockwave. Just a distraction for the other two to hit. That probably wouldnt have done much damage even if I didnt cancel it. The debris could still have hit my students though. Did they not hear the Emperor when he explained what would happen if someone died because of the competition?

Sofia observed as one of her skeletal crows caught up with the fleeing student and threw itself into the gaping wound opened by the bolt. The student completely lost track of his flight.

Thats a bit much. Catch him before he crashes.

The other crows caught the falling student, their beaks and claws digging into his face and arms.

Did I teach you all to be so vicious? Anyway, bright him here.

Below, the high-priest and the other crows were already taking care of the other two. When the crows carrying the unfortunate attacker reached Sofia, she got to see his face. He was just a random Exidian she had never seen. He looked like a man in his thirties and seemed terrified as Sofia flew closer to him. The crow let go of him and Sofia caught him by the hem of his uniform instead.

Im sorry! Dont kill me! I-

Sofia gave him a smile and a friendly tap on the cheek, Im a teacher, I dont kill students, not even ones older than myself. Dont be ridiculous.

Just as the tense expression of the man seemed to relax ever-so-slightly, she let him go, and he fell with a scream.

The high-priest caught him with his slow-fall spell at the last second, and dropped him onto the other two attackers who were being pinned down by a bunch of crows. Sofia let herself fall too. There were quite a few onlookers who had come flying to check the commotion out, but there were no other students in the corridors of the SP classrooms section. Either they all fled or our three nice guys cleared the place in advance before blowing it up. A quick check on Pareths position told her he was already quite far away with her class. She looked back down at the three people sprawled on the debris-covered floor. Just to be sure she also checked that her token pouch was still there and intact, which it was.

Happy?

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That would be nice, wouldnt it? Well, I shouldnt keep you here too long, dont you have your class to get to?

Yes. You should go too, Sofia, I sensed a presence at your door when I left; someone is waiting for your return.

Any idea who?

Not a professor.

That does eliminate some people. Well, Ill go check, then, have fun with your class.

Eternam nodded to Sofia and flew away, in a single wingbeat he traveled hundreds of meters toward another part of the academy, leaving Sofia with the last few onlookers who still had yet to leave. Not giving them a second look, she flew to the teachers tower.

Sofia climbed the stairs to her floor of the tower, fully expecting the person waiting for her to be another student in ambush despite the announcement that this tower was now off-limits. Pareth happened to teleport back to her as she went, so he went ahead with Sofia looking through his eyes.

She sighed with relief when she saw the person sleeping against her door. Quickly jumping over the last steps, she gently shook the sleeping princess.

Having a small nap, Saria?

Oh, hey, Saria yawned as she struggled to wake up, I couldnt get inside and neither you, Asty or Zerei were there so

Ah, sorry, I was out teaching my first class of the year, Sofia explained. She reached out, grabbing Sarias hand to help her stand up.

Nice! How did it go? Are your students good? Any hot guys?

My students are nice, surprisingly polite. It all went very well up until the part when the class ended and three unrelated pricks attacked me out of nowhere.

Sofia brought out her key and started to unlock the door.

So that's why you have all the birds out? I hear every teacher is going through the same thing at the moment, but I dont think any got their tokens stolen so far. I managed to get a few anyway, Saria said, shaking a small leather pouch that clinked with the sound of multiple tokens shaking inside. I have like fifteen already.

Duels?

Yep. I spent all day dueling other level 249 students, theres quite a number of them, and I haven't lost to one yet.

Wasnt there a need to have a teacher supervising the duels? Who did that during the mess that was going on yesterday?

That Saint Tartaros guy was at the same spot in the underground arena all day organizing duels since after the announcement. Im willing to bet hes still there now.

Oh, I hoped to use that place with my students later Doors open, come in. The others didnt want to come pay me a visit?

They had classes this morning. Cinthia is taking a multicasting lesson and Alith said she was going for alchemy I think. Dunno about Joah, hes in the male dorm Hey, is that a statue of me?