I really didn't expect to be ambushed that way by the headmistress or that she knows about my eyes, I think I underestimated how much I've revealed my sensory abilities but I still think I'm in luck the headmistress doesn't seem to want to screw me.
"So, when did you think it would be smart to demonstrate your eyes' abilities to force you out of a rune matrix? If I hadn't turned off the mirror that would reflect your group you would have been discovered by that real piece of shit."
"Who?"
"Avia a real agent overseeing the test, he's an idiot who's here to get me in trouble, but if he had seen what you did on the test, he would have focused on you and after the test was over an investigation would start and it wouldn't be difficult for him to realize who your mother is, and then it wouldn't take long for your father's identity to be linked to you and with all this information your special eyes will be discovered."
"It may seem like a lot of work for an investigator to do for an average student, but you've forgotten the purpose of this test, all students will pass an investigation and any talent, skill, affiliation and attitude that catches the attention of a member from the army or one of the royal family scouts will make a thorough investigation take place. Both the army and the royal family will not let a student with a past or attitude that could harm them in any way join the elite teams that are being formed for the next war, remember that team members are seen as potential candidates for important positions in all areas of the army and even in the administrative arias of the kingdom."
I really didn't think it could be exposed so easily, I have to stay out of sight of the people involved in the test or I might end up being used as a bargaining chip with my dad's family I doubt a stranger will keep my identity secretly why he thinks I would have potential as the director seems willing. It looks like I don't have much choice now, I'm going to have to confiscate and be loyal to the Headmistress until I have better survival skills.
"Ulric, you made a big mistake during this test, but you're lucky to have me as your guardian angel. I won't play silly games to manipulate you, Ulric, I'm a very direct person when it comes to my subordinates."
"Let's start with what will happen if you refuse my help, I will not sell the information on who your father is and that you inherited his eyes, he was quite famous in academic circles not only in our kingdom but even some churches and bigger organizations showed interest in him, if he hadn't disappeared, he would have been recruited by someone else. But even without my interference your past will be revealed because students who go to the next test will go through a light level of investigation and after that you will go through a thorough investigation, even if you try to run away you will be investigated because running away would make you unlock. "
I really don't even have an option. Even if I try to run away now, I will be labeled as a dangerous element and investigated, participating in these tests was the biggest mistake I ever made, I should have failed the first test and so I would have avoided all these problems.
"Your second choice and become mine, relax I don't even have a bad plan for you Ulric. And I'm not even going to sweat your secret like a trade coin, even though your father's family would pay me a huge amount of money, political favors and rare items they have stashed in their coffers to find out that your father's eyes didn't disappear with it, but I ended up liking your personality and I think you can become a great warrior who would be very loyal and if I help you now with your problem, there is also a good chance that your mother will start working with me when she finds out I saved her. you."
"As I told you before, I'm a very direct person with my allies and protégés, I'll help you not only by covering up your secrets so that others don't find out who your father is saying you're my student, but that won't be a lie i will really make you my protégé and help you in your training. When I present your file to the idiots in King's City, they will see that you and my student and your detailed information will prevent you from being investigated, your father's identity will be hidden, but you will have to avoid taking action that will spoil your tracker identity.
"Balder is here not only because he is one of my friends, he is a sensory type warrior and he teaches you everything you need to know about warriors with sensory abilities. So, the chances of you looking different from the other trackers is nil, but you will probably have to restrict yourself during the next races and when you are serving with one of the elite group members. Remember, the more people who know about your eyes, the greater the chance that you will be attacked by your father's family."
"I'm not going to lie to you that you're probably screwed if they figure out your eyes' ability because I'm not entirely sure what they'll do to you, but I doubt they'll welcome you with open arms as a member of the family, your eyes are too important to them to let any chance of losing you happen, at best you will be arrested and studied without suffering any harm and if they succeed in replicating your eyes you will be absorbed into the family, but at worst if you don't go from your family's territory, you'll be stuck for the rest of your life and they'll do everything they can to replicate your eyes no matter the consequences of their methods."
Although I suspect that the principal may be exaggerating a bit, I don't doubt that this scenario is possible, I have no intention of taking any chances with my father's family. Trusting the director is the only viable option for me right now.
"I don't seem to have a better action than trusting the principal, I just hope I don't get too screwed up doing it"
"Relax, I don't need to make up many excuses for having accepted you as my student because you overcame the difficulties I imposed on you during the last part of the test, but I would never openly protect you because it's not my style. From now on you are my personal student or protégé, but of course this will only be known to the teachers, a few royal family officials and a few nobles who have a positive relationship with me, so don't be surprised when someone says they know I am. your master."
"From now on you'll be training with Balder three times a week at night and on the weekend I'll take an hour or two to see your progress and teach you some tricks, you won't have to worry about Frey either won't I Get involved in my apprenticeship with him, but I'll let you know that he probably won't try to make you his assistant even if I tell him I'm fine with it, although my relationship with him is good and stable he has several friendships with people who don't like me, so he won't risk showing up that he's leaving his neutral position just to have you as his assistant and student."
"Don't be to upset about it, Ulric. I know some runemasters who would love to have you as an assistant but unfortunately you can only try to focus on your rune studies after the war is not before obviously you passed the test and got a good grade and with your new identity you will be accepted as a potential candidate to join one of the elite teams that acted at the start of the next war."
"Not only will you have to participate in more tests, you will also have to go to a training camp that will teach you and test some survival skills, infiltration, intelligence gathering and combat skills. You won't have much difficulty because you already know a lot about these arias and have a big advantage in your course, as a warrior with high sensory skills and special tests are focused on this aria and you have a good chance of being the leader of a team, but it is not uncommon for the tracker not to be the leader of a team, in fact many people think that trackers are not good leaders because their position is dangerous."
"I think that's just it for today, but if you have a question or doubt about the future, you can ask me anytime like now that I still have some time before I have to go back to solving the problems from the last test. Any questions?"
"Well, I don't even have an important question to ask right now, but I have some doubts about a lot of things like the war itself and about how these elite teams are going to work and how long they're going to work, but none of that is very urgent. So, when you have free time, you can tell me about these matters."
"Ok, to explain everything to you we would have to talk all day to many people involved in these matters, so let's leave it for another day, this week will be very difficult for us to have a lot of time to talk, but after all these obligations are over, we will to be able to have a good time to talk and get to know us better, my dear student."
"Then I'm leaving, goodbye teacher Balder and Master Grimalkin. Just send me a message with the time and location of training later."
As I left the room, I barely heard Balder mutter something to the Headmistress and after I closed the classroom door, I could easily hear the Headmistress chuckle. She seems to be in a good mood after solving this matter.
I really didn't expect this ending, I thought I would be forced to be a subordinate of the principal and not her student. I just hope this position isn't too risky, the headmistress seems to have a lot of enemies and it seems she has much bigger ambitions than being headmistress of one of the kingdom's institutes.