As he headed back to the dorm returned to the dorm, everybody had already fallen on sleep so he had no choice other than head straight to bead. Early in the morning, by the time he would up the amount of people circulating the dorm was a lot more.
Seeing that Thomas had returned, the large fatty Marlon jumped up and down as he blocked his way and said with a strange light in his eyes. "Chief, I say you were back during the night! Your girl came over here yesterday to ask about you and that if you had already found the apartment."
'My girl?' Thomas froze, two beautiful faces with blonde and fiery red hair came to his mind. Upon looking around at the "Friendly" gazes his senior brothers were giving him, he understood what must have happened and saw they had misunderstood something.
Then he thought of that man that was pestering Claire and Clarisse and closed his mouth as he was about to speak up.
All of a sudden, the fourth dorm's main door was slammed open with a loud bang.
As the door was kicked open, three young men walked in from the outside. Each of them well built with bulging muscles, and the same arrogant and fierce look on their faces as they stared at everybody else in the dorm with disdain.
Thomas slightly annoyed with their sudden entrance and commotion but forced himself to stay calm.
Upon a closer look, immediately recognized they all were dressed in fancy battle suits of the highest quality.
'Rootfly's Ghost Warrior XK, it's the most expensive battle suit for close combat in the market, also equipped with last generation stealth system. As for the emblem of their chests... it's the crest belonging to the Dark Crow Union, the number one adept team of Bluewind City.'
A team with the same amount of power and authority in Bluewind as the Platinum Knights has in Dexia. Not only that as they also have a branch here in Dexia that was ranked 9th in the City Ranking and another branch here in Lakebell that was rank 22. Truth be told, just the fact they could have such high rankings in multiple cities were already amazing.
Those guys are probably from its headquarters and two branches.
Marlon stuck his chest out as he walked towards the newcomers. "This is the dormitory for Dexia City Adeps only, get the hell out of here right now! Am I right, chief?" He turned to Thomas, seeking his opinion. The other adept didn't say anything since Thomas was the only Special-Grade Trainee in their dorm so he had the highest authority among them. Either way, Thomas agreed with his words. Those guys shouldn't even be here and yet are causing trouble acting like this.
Without waiting for Thomas to speak, One of the three, an bald adept glared at him and shouted out: "Who said I'm don't belong to this dormitory?! I only came here to see how this place would look and it is indeed worse than I thought. Brothers, don't you think these weaklings look too proud, I believe it would be a good experience for their lives to be showed where is their place."
A short-haired youth nodded and turned to his friend, a young man with long orange hair stepped forward. " The only reason we came here is to offer help from the depths of our hearts. Your dormitory that only has adepts from mid to low rank teams won't be able to protect yourselves against all the geniuses from powerful forces here. So we are offering protection, during the next three months every your dorm will have to pay 600 Adept Points as a protection fee.
'600?' Thomas laughed heartily, his inner thoughts hidden deep in his heart.
Malek, who was not much far said: "And if we do not want to pay up? Whe should have the freedom to chose if we want to be protected or not, right?"
The three youths face was imposing, if it wasn't for the news of Thomas having passed the Special-grade test, they would have already beaten all the trash in here. "Of course you can, just don't expect to have a good time when running out on missions"
The three Dark Crow members shot a ferocious gaze as powerful pressures fell down upon all the adepts in the dorm. Their words were clearly a threat and it was something they all understood and felt their faces go pale.
Being from teams in the lower half of the ranking, they knew the Dark Crows could easily make them suffer wherever they head out to complete some missions or even in the camp itself. As long they aren't killed or heavily injured, the association would do nothing about it.
'I may be leaving the dorm, but it doesn't mean I can let my senior brother be bullied.' It was what Thomas thought at that moment.
Even Marlon and Malek were clearly shaken by the naked threat and felt slightly afraid, only Thomas didn't seem to be moved.
Alan, a twenty-year old adept from the Scared Frog team stepped up, saying angrily: "We are all adepts, we should be working together against the monsters, why must be bully us?!"
The orange-haired leader gave a cold humph, with disdain all over his face: "So what if I bully you? As long the strong have the power, weaklings can only obey."
All the sixty-three adepts in the dorm had gathered at the entrance and the air turned stiff.
Thomas made a sign with his hand and everybody else went silent. With his eyes fixed at the three of them, he calmly said. "Since you want it like this, then don't blame me for not playing nice. Now, leave here in three seconds or I will kick your butts myself."
"What did you say?!" The three of them were completely furious, dense anima energy surged like a wave, and the pressure from before grew even stronger, pushing everybody but Thomas away.
Some felt headache, others dizziness but only Thomas seemed unaffected towards this strange pressure.
"Oh, I didn't know there was this type of technique."Thomas could see right away, they had used some type of mental technique on the his seniors and felt deeply annoyed.
Taking an abrupt step forward, he gave a straight kick at the short-haired youth.
Instinctively, he reached out with his hand to block the incoming fist, but in the next instant, he felt as if a invisible hand grabbed him. Even with the help of his 3-star adept power he could escape this strong force that was holding him.
Pa! A foot that arrived faster than wind met with his head and smashed against his face, nose and lips in a deep and forceful "kiss".
For a split second, his pupils shone orange then his body flickered, the three adepts from Dark Crow were all sent flying through the door.
As the three adepts of the dark crows were all knocked out of the dorm, all of adepts of the fourth dorm were stunned. Everybody thought the same thing. "What colossal strength is that?!"
By the time they recovered their senses, the three seniors exchanged glances in horror as they couldn't feel any anima energy in their bodies and they weren't able to even more as well.
Other students from the several dorms had realized something was happening and gathered at the courtyard only to see the three haggard figures in rags that couldn't even be considered as clothes that revealed most of their skin.
'...' Their faces were as red it could be due to all the embarrassment.
Back in the dorm, Thomas was staring at the three silhouettes far in the distance. In his hand was a blob of three-colored light which he absorbed it into his body while feeling satisfied.
At least he was sure they won't dare try anything so soon.