A fight between two teachers was nothing new. This was nothing more than a useless fight of pride and ego between two individuals. Davey could tell that Yulis’ Attending Mage, Collins, had a hand in this. After all, the man had openly shown Davey hostility since the Magic Tower conference and it seemed like he was extending it up to this point in time.
“Heup?!”
Class A’s teaching assistant was just about to scream when he finally realized that something strange, sharp, and scary had passed by his neck. Unfortunately, before he could let out a scream, Davey had already knelt down and grabbed him by the neck.
Davey grinned at the teaching assistant. His killing intent instantly plunged the cafeteria into cold silence. Those who stood by the sidelines to watch the scene stepped back and shrank in fear.
“Go and tell this to him,” Davey said, his eyes glinting sharply. “The useless fight of pride and ego between the Holy Empire and the Magic Tower is none of my business. However, this will be the last time that I will put up with your petty and mindless jokes.”
Davey’s voice was just slightly above that of a whisper. However, with every word that he uttered, the man in front of him turned a shade paler.
“My words…”
Davey once again opened his mouth amidst the heavy and cold silence that weighed down on everyone else present.
“…”
“…Do you understand them?”
The man nodded desperately at Davey. Even though he failed to answer with his own voice, his nod was enough to satisfy Davey. His compliance prompted Davey to recover the power that he had spread around in the area.
Collin, Yulis’ Attending Mage after he had been appointed as an elder of the Central Tower, was a 4th Circle Master. Still, despite only being at the 4th Circle, he appeared to have a great influence on plenty of the mage towers.
—It doesn’t make sense. Why would that guy provoke you for something so petty?
Davey had no need to think about the reason. He was related to the existence that annoyed the mages, who always tried to explain this world’s laws and principles with their own power.
Yes, it was because of the Holy Empire. The mage towers were unable to get along and coexist peacefully with the Holy Empire. Why? It was simply because of the nature of their existences. After all, the Holy Empire claimed that everything in this world was set under God’s Will.
And suddenly, a Saint acknowledged by the Holy Empire had appeared in the mages’ home turf? On top of that, he was a boy of less than twenty years of age who was suspected of being a 9th Circle mage. In fact, this same boy had refuted the theory that they had been working on for a very long time to suppress the other opposing mages’ influence and power.
To put it simply, this was not just a matter of an individual’s pride. There was a high chance that Collin was just the tip of the iceberg. Perhaps there were quite a few people who sympathized with his thoughts, egging him on while hiding under the waters themselves. That was the most likely reason why that guy had done something like this.
Davey could tell that Collin wanted to create a fuss here by throwing Class A and his teaching assistant as bait. If everything happened according to his plans, then the academy would no longer be able to protect Davey.
Everyone knew for a fact that Davey was hiding something tremendously huge. However, they appeared to be under the illusion that, as humans living on this continent, they could never live freely and break the rules that they know. That was right. They were being delusional.
—But I think it’s a bit too early to do that now?
‘That’s right. I can knock them down and turn everything over whenever I want, so…let’s just wait a bit more this time.’
At the very least, Davey would wait until he finished the fifteen days of teaching that he had promised his students.
When he looked around, Davey caught sight of the Class F students looking at him stiffly and nervously. They called out to him, “Instructor…”
Everyone was fearful as they looked at Davey’s unexpectedly fierce and cold glare. As for the Class F students, they were looking at him differently.
Davey had openly assaulted a student and threatened his fellow teacher. In fact, he was not a full-time teacher and was only temporarily filling in as an instructor.
It was obvious to everyone present how this situation would conclude once the academy’s administration learned of it. However, there was one thing that they had completely overlooked.
“Will… Will you be alright?”
Davey just ruffled one of his students' hair when he noticed the worried look on their face. He asked, “What?”
“Duke… Duke Golia has made huge donations to this school… If he knows about this, then…” the boy said to Davey as he looked at the teaching assistant and students of Class A, who were wondering if they should run or stay.
The boy spoke no further, but he had already expressed his thoughts perfectly.
In fact, this situation had been witnessed by the students of Class A, Class F, and all of the other classes.
“And so?”
“That…”
“Do you have any reason to care about something like that? Go back. Instead of worrying needlessly, you better go back to the classroom and calm your other classmates down,” Davey said, then turned around to leave.
The boy immediately grabbed Davey’s sleeve and asked, “What… What about you, Instructor?!”
“There’s some business that I have to deal with first. I’ll go to your classroom once I am done.”
***
“F*cking bastard!” Timmy shouted angrily as he kicked his desk the moment they got back to their classroom. He yelled, “What kind of teacher is he?!”
“Calm down, Timmy.”
“Do you think I can calm down?! It’s not like you did not hear what that f*cking Voshyr said, no?!”
Timmy was right that the other students had also heard Voshyr’s words and were very furious about it. They had always known that Class A’s Voshyr was notorious for having such a temper and personality, but for some reason they were angrier than usual at his antics.
After all, didn’t the bastard insult the entire class, sexually harassed Josiah, and even treated their instructor like he was his servant?!
However, they still could not understand the reason why they were so furious. This, of course, made them unable to vent out their anger.
“Stop it. Why are you making such a fuss when Josiah’s all calm?” Serend Reta, one of the cool-headed students, asked calmly.
However, the other students were unlike Serend Reta. They were still huffing and puffing in anger.
“But why did the instructor not allow us to fight?! Does he want us to act all subservient and be bullied forever by not allowing us to fight back in that situation?!”
“Come back to your senses! Are you saying that it’s alright for a student to act violently and openly fight others inside an academy?!”
The students of Class F shouted and blamed one another. They were already on the verge of fighting against each other.
“Josiah, are you alright?”
“There’s nothing for me to get worked up about.”
“But still…”
“Enough. It’s not like you haven’t heard the rumors going around the academy,” Josiah said calmly and nonchalantly. She did not care about the rumors slandering her. Then, she asked, “By the way, why are the others not here yet?”
Then, the classroom doors slammed open as the rest of the class, including Molly Saelyn, burst inside with tears in their eyes.
“Molly! What’s going on?” Timmy asked, hurriedly rushing forward to calm the crying Molly down.
When Timmy hugged her, Molly cried even harder and said, “Uwaaaaaah! What do we do?! What should we do?!”
The other Class F students were very shocked to see Molly acting so uncharacteristically and showing her emotions openly. They immediately gathered around to try and comfort her.
“What the hell is going on?! Molly, are you alright?” Timmy gently patted Molly on the back, soothing and calming her until she eventually stopped crying.
Although she stopped crying, Molly still could not stop the hiccups. She then said, “The instructor… The instructor…”
“That guy? What’s with that guy?”
Seeing that Molly could not speak any further, another one of the students who came in with her said, “The instructor said that students should not do that, but he did it himself…”
“What are you going on about…?”
“Instructor Devy pummeled Voshyr. He also threatened Class A’s teaching assistant.”
“What?!” The students, who did not see the scene earlier, jumped up in surprise. “What do you mean?!”
“He said…that they should not touch his students… Sob…”
In the end, the student who managed to share the story also ended up bursting into tears.
As for Timmy and the students who had run out of the cafeteria first? They could not hide the confusion on their faces.
“So, you’re saying that…Instructor Devy chased us out and proceeded to knock them down by himself?”
“All because of us?”
Voshyr was Duke Golia’s direct descendant while the teaching assistant was a member of a fairly influential group in the mage tower.
“I…heard…him say that he’ll kill them if they touch his students. Sto…”
Suddenly, an air of despondency swallowed the entire classroom.
Josiah, who was left speechless among the dazed students, suddenly jumped up with her eyes wide. She said, “This is…not good.”
“What are you saying, Josiah?”
“It’s a trap. Whoever it was, they set up a trap to kick Instructor Devy out of the academy…” Josiah murmured with a grave expression. She had grasped the situation. She said, “A teacher has assaulted a student and threatened his fellow teacher. What do you think this means?”
“Then…”
“It means that the instructor will be cornered.”
“But if that’s the situation, then it could be resolved quite easily…”
“Voshyr is a member of Golia Duchy, a family that makes huge donations to Shakuntala every year. It would be nigh impossible to ignore their wishes even if our class says no.”
The students were completely unaware that their instructor had made a huge investment and had a share of the magic tower. They were also unaware that their instructor was a VVIP customer who sold huge amounts of moon grass to the mage tower every quarter.
Timmy was fuming after hearing Josiah’s rational explanation. He shouted, “This is ridiculous! Why are we the ones who should get punished when they were the ones who had picked the fight?!”
“Then… What do you think we should do?”
“I don’t know either… However, we know for sure that Instructor Devy would be kicked out of the academy right away and be stripped of his chances in this industry. He would either be buried or be met with countless disadvantages until he’s forced to give up…”
The furious Class F students were now given a new direction to direct their anger toward.
“I have to go and argue with them! This isn’t right! No matter how crazy and psychotic our instructor is, he doesn’t deserve to be kicked out like this!” Josiah demanded.
Timmy also clenched his fists and said, “You’re saying that those bastards are going to borrow the power of their families, right? Good. Since they want to drag their family into this fight, then we’ll turn it into a family feud.”
Timmy rolled his sleeves up and opened the classroom doors, ready to pick a fight once again. But then…
“Aaaaack!”
He tripped over something only to be lifted up by the person who was on the other side of the door.
“What are you doing? I remember telling you that you should prepare for class, no?”
The entire Class F looked stunned as they watched their instructor enter the room as if nothing had happened. They murmured, “In… Instructor?”
“Take a seat. Our lessons’ format will change from today onwards,” Davey said with a grin.
Seeing their Instructor Devy’s malicious grin, the students felt that he was acting in such a way to make them worry less about his job.
To them, Instructor Devy was obviously a psycho teacher who always wanted to beat them to their deaths. So, they could not understand why his predicament was bothering them.
“There are only a few days left to conduct our classes. Since all of you have endured the basic training and were able to do well, we will now do more in-depth lessons.”
The students could hardly concentrate on what their instructor was saying. In the end, Timmy, who was being carried on Davey’s shoulder, protested loudly, “Instructor! Did Molly tell us the truth?”
“What?”
“I heard that you made a mess for us!”
“Ah, that?” Davey grinned. “It’s not because of you. Anyone who tries to attack fearlessly like that should be punished accordingly.”
The students gnawed on their lips, thinking that their Instructor Devy was lying for their sake. They watched as their instructor glanced at the textbook that had been prepared beforehand.
The textbook was a basic one that usually accompanied mages. It had been prepared with a lot of effort. However, such an education that forced them to cram everything in their heads truly did not have much of an effect.
“From now on, we will start practicing magic.”
Hearing those words, Celvice immediately jumped up and said, “No, Instructor! There’s something more important than taking classes now!”
“That mouth… Do you want me to sew it shut?”
Celvice flinched and shrank after hearing Davey’s words.
“Why do you care so much about those things? Those complicated and dirty issues of interest should be left for the teachers to deal with. If their students have strayed from the right path, it is the teacher’s job to bring them back. If a teacher has done something that a teacher should never have done, then they deserve to be beaten up.”
As the students had nothing else to say, Davey continued, “More importantly, you are all my first disciples. What kind of teacher am I if I can’t protect a single one of my students?”
“Instructor… Sob…”
Some of the students could not help but burst into tears, turning the heated atmosphere into a mellow and warm one. However, it did not take too long for the warm atmosphere in the classroom to collapse.
“We’re going to start the class. Starting from now, the classroom would be completely blocked from the outside world.”
“Yes?”
“Huh?”
“What’s with those dumbfounded expressions? Starting today, we will be doing practical lessons. You have to think of all the hardships and difficulties that you have faced so far and bring out that anger for today’s class,” Davey said calmly as he cracked his knuckles.
As a blue aura appeared and flowed all over his body, he continued, “Bring it on. I’ll make sure to break apart those who have clogged vessels and put a stopper on those whose vessels are too open. Anyone who can successfully finish today’s class will grow to a point that you won’t be able to compare yourself to your previous state.”
The earlier confrontation was one matter, and conducting lessons was another matter.
“If you rascals think that I will lower the difficulty of our classes just because of that fight, then you’re sorely mistaken.”
Even though their instructor spoke just above a whisper, the words sounded so chilling to every Class F student that they cowered and shivered from fear.
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