Loud clamor filled the big colosseum. Curse words were flying all over the place. The situation looked more like a riot that would eventually lead up to a massive fight than a place to take a trial.
"You cheating piece of shit!!!" One applicant's said while the other said, "Come fight like a man you motherfucker!!"; And even some applicant's cursed in their Scottish mother-tongue said, "Aye, ye cunt!! I'll punch yer head ye dozy cunt, and pish on yer head ye cunt!!"
Arthur, still standing alone in the middle of the colosseum. Taunted and spat out curse words one after another in his British tongue replying the applicant's rant. Adding more fuel to an already burning volcano.
Caw Caw Caw
Amidst the noise, a crow can be seen flying. The crow flew through the caged entrance towards Morgan viewing platform and perched on her shoulders. The crow twitched its head as if examining the situation.
Morgan still smiling wide noticed the perched crow and said, "Yer, here for the show?"
"You're terrible Morgan! What have you done now?" The crow spoked in a clear and pronounced British accent. From the voice, it sounded like a voice of a kindhearted young lady.
"I ave did nothing! I just wanted to test that young lassie and this happened, hahaha!" Morgan laughed, amused by the situation that started with her little game. The crow leaned her head to take a closer look at Arthur, that were still exchanged some taunts and curse words with all of the applicant's.
"Incredible! What an interesting young man." The crow exclaimed.
"Yer right, the lass was indeed interestin'. Even when he's banterin', he didn' let his guard down." Said Morgan, with a wider smile on her face. At the same time, she had some kind of revelation.
Morgan then turned her head, looked at Aileen and said, "Aye filthy girl! I'll test ye! Explain what the boy did right there! If yer right, I'll give ya a gift. If yer wrong even a just a single step...I'll filed a complaint to the organizations to fire ye!" Morgan grinned and questioned again, "What do ye think, ye filthy girl?"
Aileen that was focusing all the time for the match, heard what Morgan said. Proud by her experience in the fields of magic, she turns her head, and stared fiercely at her and noticed the crow on Morgan's shoulder and thought 'A druid.'
But she dismissed the thought completely and said, "Consider it done ye fanny!" In her Scottish accent, but now consciously.
"Hahahaha...That's the spirit ye filthy girl!" Morgan was elated by Aileen response. While the crow that watched all of that happened sighed and said, "A vile mind you have Morgan. You haven't changed a bit in the last two decade's."
Morgan still felt elated ignored what the crow said, and still have her focus on Aileen, she urged "Begin then!"
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Aileen took a breath and said, "I'll keep it short. The moment Mr. Arthur arrived there with his arm crossed hiding his hand, he already controlled the fields. Stated by the fact that the state of aether that surrounds him was slowly thinning."
"Oh, you have some knowledge didn't ye! Continue then." Said Morgan, impressed at Aileen response.
"Judging by the movements of aether. The aether was controlled subtly towards underground, just enough to keep it unnoticeable by a person that haven't acquired their class or even a person that were new to their class, basing on how clean and meticulous the control is." Aileen continued.
"Hahaha! see Margaret! I didn' gave out a test that was impossible to the person acquiring it!" Morgan bragged gracefully about her achievements. To be honest, the test that she gave out so far was indeed not impossible. But, the conditions and consequences that she gave would make even a grown man cry.
Margaret, the perched crow just stayed silent, unperturbed by her colleague bragging her vile personality.
Aileen ignored Morgan completely, and continued, "The aether that was guided underground, gathered underneath his feet, and then from there, he processed it into mana, away from the applicant's eyes; The processed mana then were guided to make a small octagon shape that covers himself at first. Knowing that the mana would not last long, on each node of the octagon, he shaped it into spell runes one by one. Finished the first octagon, Mr. Arthur then build a slightly bigger octagon but angled differently than the first one. And by repeating the process, slowly it will cover up the entirety of the fields, like a spider web."
Aileen not yet finished with her explanation took a breath to fill her lungs, and continued "From what I observed so far, Mr. Arthur took approximately 12 seconds to create a single spell rune, which indicates that Mr. Arthur was above the average of a genius classless caster and just 2 seconds away from breaking the current record. But— It's not fast enough to cover the entire field before the match started, and this was because of his classless status."
"To buy even just a second, he used everything at his disposal, from picking the challenger, the useless banter at the start of the match, the explosions, and this includes using you, Vice Headmistress Morgan, as a distraction to complete his scheme. Even now, his banter now with the applicant's were just a facade." She finished her explanation.
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Huft Huft Huft
Aileen took a deep breath one after another. She was carried away by her own explanation. Although today was the first day she met Arthur. She just felt that it was natural for her to be proud of what Arthur just did.
On the other hand, Morgan listened closely to the explanation. Trying to find faults in it, which were impossible, to begin with. Not only Aileen explanation was detailed, even her own observation was included to perfect the already complete explanation.
Defeated, Morgan gracefully applauded and said, "Well done, ye filthy girl! You ave some brain left in ye!" The crow Margaret that was listening at the side, chimed after, "Beautifully done young lady! And please don't be offended by Morgan use of words. It's just her personality."
"Now, yer reward." Morgan opened her palm, for a split millisecond a small magical circle appeared, replaced by a black flame. The black flame didn't last long either to be replaced by a small pendant. The process only took a second to complete.
The pendant was shaped like a clear violet crystal. decorated with a pair of small black wings on the side and it was quite beautiful to look at. Aileen took the reward from morgan palm, shocked after examining the pendant she said, "This is an artifact?"
"Aye, don't lose it! It will save ye someday." Morgan smiled and shifted her gaze towards Arthur that was in the middle of the colosseum and said, "Aye, boy! Yer not fightin' yet?"
Arthur heard what Morgan said and replied, "VICE HEADMASTER, THEY'RE NOT COMING DOWN! WHAT CAN I DO!" He yelled.
"Let's ave it ends then!" Morgan ended the trial, snapped her finger and returning the people there back to the Academy courtyard.
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Arthur was transported back to his original position and sees Morgan in front of him, but he noticed there was something different on her. There was a crow perched on her shoulders, he asked to satiate his curiosity, "Vice Headmistress? Is that your pet?"
Morgan smiled, with her vile mind, she was delighted by what Arthur said and replied, "Ye have a good pair of eyes, boy!" A grin plastered all over her face.
Margaret cawed, clearly showing that she was annoyed by Arthur question and Morgan response, "How Rude! Young man, I forgive you this once because we only have just met." Margaret scolded with her young lady voice.
Arthur was shocked by the talking crow and even more shocked by her voice. He tried to recall one of the books that he read that explained about this and thought, 'The crow talked! Or rather she talked and she was a druid! But why she's being unreasonable. I only asked a wrong question because I don't know that she was a druid. Are all woman like this, as if Ms. Aileen not weird enough...Well, whatever!'
Meanwhile, all of the applicants were feeling dejected by the results. But this wasn't supposed to be their test anyway thought some of the applicant's. Suddenly a voice can be heard from the crowd of dejected applicants.
"Vice Headmistress, technically we didn't take our test yet. So can we take the normal test?"
Morgan heard the voice and turned her body to face the applicants, her face can tell that she was disgusted and said, "Aye, all of ye jobby have no brain or even a backbone! If I accepted even one of ye, even my mum can' save my reputation. Just crawl back to yer pish, ye jobby cunt!" She snapped her finger after. Clearing the inner courtyard in just a blink away, sending the applicants to the front yard, where the guard will expel them from the Academy perimeter.
Arthur watched the whole process and can't help but to shiver and thought, 'Vice Headmistress is scary. Maybe even scarier than the old man. It's just like how aunt Phiria scolded at us for breaking her roof.'
"That released some of me stress away." Morgan smiled, while Margaret just stayed silent as if it was just like a daily occurrence. Morgan started to walk away from Arthur while saying, "Aye follow me then."