After receiving the teacher's message, I said goodbye to my friends and quit ignoring Raziel's comment that I was going to be executed, I even thought about getting back at him, but Hilda was quicker and hit Raziel with a good punch. strong while I left the room.
I walked through the deserted corridors of the institute thinking about how I can try to convince Professor Balder not to give me too bad a punishment, the problem is to find out if I'm being called for killing the idiot or for releasing that weird fire. I think that flame might be a fairy of the fire element, well that was the only hypothesis my friends came up with, Ingredi thought the fire behavior reminds her of a description she once read, elemental fairies are beings that are formed by pure elemental energy.
They are very rare and even though a mage or warrior can capture one and it is very complicated to get to use a fairy, if the mage or warrior is not extremely compatible with the fairy the warrior or mage could end up dead trying to unite or make a contract with the fairy. The most common use is to use them as an elemental source for a magical tool or matrix, and that's why Ingredi thought I released an elemental fairy, that crystal staff must be a prison for the fairy.
Upon arriving in the room, I had already used my vision to see how many people I would face inside that room, and to my dismay there were three people and two of them I recognized the core. Even though the cores are similar there are always some differences between them, they range from the intensity of the elements, aura and mana or how they flow through the person's core and body.
Inside the room I could see that Professors Balder and Frey were sitting in the room, but I didn't recognize the third person, but I can see that it's a magician with the elements of water and light from the middle stage of the yellow core. It is one of the few times I will be in the presence of a person with the light element, although they are not rarer than people with the shadow element, I ended up not having the luck to meet a community of users of the light element. the same way I got to know several users of the shadow element.
Upon entering the room, I am shot by the looks of the three people in the room, I felt that the looks were very different, I felt from Professor Frey that he was having fun with Professor Balder I felt tired and I was the cause of more work for him, lastly there's the mage I don't know she looks at me like I'm a piece of shit that spoiled her fun. I feel like I might not be able to get out of this room alive.
I sat in my living room in an ordinary chair, felt like I was in court waiting to be charged with some crime.
"Hi, everyone okay? Tiresome day, right?"
"Yeah, it just got more complicated because of you, Ulric."
"I'm sorry I made it difficult for you Professor Balder day, but I have no idea how I did it. As far as I know my test was normal." While I was blatantly lying Professor Balder gave me a dead fish look, while Professor Frey had a smile on his face and the mage managed not to start laughing.
"Your test was anything but normal, Ulric. You killed a teammate and caused massive havoc on the Illusion Matrix during your last test, you caused a lot of trouble for a lot of people."
"It went badly? If I sincerely apologize, can we pretend that nothing happened.?"
"No, you will be penalized according to the institute's rules, for your role in the death of your colleague Nicolas Gaul, you will be punished with a huge deduction of points and will be forced to do three mandatory missions for the institute without receiving even a reward. of the missions, they will be chosen by the teachers and when the first mission is decided you will receive a message with their information."
It wasn't the worst punishment I could think of, in fact it was very quiet I doubt the missions are too difficult or deadly. The only part that I found weird is that I won't be able to have even one of the rewards of the mission which can cause a terrible loss for me.
"With the minor infraction resolved let's get to the real issue, why did you do this Ulric?"
"I'm going to need you to be a more specific teacher. As far as I can remember the test, I went through a weird test and to survive a bad situation I used the environment to my advantage to eliminate my enemies."
"Shameless boy! You blew an extremely expensive level four magic tool and release an extremely rare and powerful elemental fairy, she caused immense destruction in the matrix and in doing so allowed the fairy to flee causing a terrible loss to the Eliure family, that fairy did not belong to the institute."
"Not the need to exalt yourself that way, Mrs. Clara. When the investigation is over, the institute will help the Eliure family recover the white flame fairy."
"This is absurd, not only is the institute a student and shameless! There's no way for you to find the fairy, she must have already escaped out of town, she was a holy fairy, if she hadn't been hurt before the Eliure family would never have gotten her in the first place, how would your institute be able to get her back? "
"I admit that this is a difficult task, but the institute has warned the Eliure family that it risks them using the test to test a member of their family. We made it clear that the institute would not be responsible for a negative result."
"Negative result! This is nonsense! I want to know why the brat was in that challenge, the only person who should go into that cave was Flora Eliure.
"There was a fuss at the headquarters control center, that was the reason Ulric accidentally got into that challenge, but even when he got into the test the test person who is a member of the Eliure family did nothing to get him out from there. There was no way for anyone to know that the scepter would respond to Ulric's elemental energy, it's very difficult for an ordinary person to be compatible with an elemental fairy."
I found the professor's phrase weird; I was obviously forced into that test as a punishment for killing the idiot I now know the name of, I'm going to have to research Nicolas Gaul. The teacher spoke as if my entry into that test was an accident, he must be protecting the person who wrote the messages on that origami during the test, the teacher must be hiding the interference that person made in my tests to prevent the institute from being held responsible for the loss of the fairy, how can i use this to my advantage?
"If the boy hadn't taken up that challenge none of this would have happened, it was your people who were blamed for the loss of the elemental fairy, the Eliure family won't let you escape your responsibilities! I will take all your words directly to the Eliure family patriarch."
With that statement the mage left the room, slamming the door in a dramatic way to emphasize her anger and frustration. I couldn't help but notice that all of the mage's anger and indignation was faked to show service, I don't think she even cares much for the fairy, that's my freak.
"That's it? Can I leave now or is there something else I have to answer or is there another show for me to witness?"
Professor Frey who was silent all the time finally started talking.
"Today there was a lot of shit during testing, Ulric. You were just one of the problems, and as you seem to have realized Clara didn't really care about the fairy, but as she was acting as a representative for her contractor, she had to put on this little theater in case someone got into trouble because of the elementary fairy, that's also why she waits until you arrive so she can scream so she can leave."
"Am I still going to be punished for the fairy?"
"No, Frey and I talked about giving you a punishment, but in the end, we decided to leave that aside, it would be nice if everyone forgot about the fairy, the fewer rumors about her that surface, the less chance we'll have trouble with the Eliure family, so I kept quiet about the fairy, Ulric. I guess you don't even want to take responsibility for the fairy's loss?"
"I'm a grave, not a word about the elemental fairy will come out of my mouth anymore. But why doesn't the magician care about the fairy?"
"Clara is Flora Eliure's tutor, she was tasked by the Eliure family patriarch to watch over Flora during the test, so when Flora's final test was destroyed by you, she is forced to be angry and indignant at the loss of the fairy, but she doesn't care because she will soon move to the capital, terminating her obligation to the Eliure family."
"Cool, so if it's all over I'm leaving."
"It's all over for now, Ulric. Tomorrow I want you in my lab I want to do some questions and tests with you."
"Okay, but what kind of test will I take?"
"Nothing dangerous, I just want to see if your elemental energy is compatible with some subjects. I was very surprised that the elemental fairy was able to feed on her fire element, tomorrow we'll talk more about that, Ulric."
I left the room well relieved; I expected a worse result.