As rat boy reached out his arm to touch Max's shoulder, Max stood up quicker then people's eyes could comprehend and sent his palm that moved quicker then light towards the wrist of this prick who dared to piss him off. Following behind the first strike was a fist that was moving with the power of a sledgehammer and smacked the face of the boy so hard he hit the floor and cracked the stone and began to bleed from his mouth as he was completely knocked the fuck out!
Due to Max's intense training with such a heavy spear his movements were incomparably fast when he didn't hold the spear, even when he held a lighter weapon he was faster the most men.
The whole canteen was stupified by what they just saw, Ratboy who was actually the 3rd son of a Magus was laid out unmoving not only that but since this was a private school violence was a rarity as know one ever wanted to offend someone they couldn't afford to.
Max had just ruined the whole status quo on his very first day but what shocked people even more was it looked as if this was absolutely nothing to him and didn't even give the Ratatat boy a second glance. Max sat down casually and began to eat his salad and Astarte just looked at him with an annoyed gaze. Sasha on the other hand was like everyone else and wanted to leave these two people to themselves and keep her out of trouble.
Before Sasha could even consider moving away Max spoke with his commanding and deep but soft and caring voice "It's okay, I know I went too far but I don't like the way he looked at you and no one is allowed to touch me. Sasha I apologise for you having to see that, I hope you don't think less of me however now that I consider you my friend then be aware that I'll protect you too."
Due to the peculiar characteristic of his voice that even he and Astarte was unaware of everyone in the canteen heard his words and suddenly just like that Sasha was untouchable and Astarte and Max the two weird transfer students where considered as people to stay the fuck away from. Of course some boys wouldn't get the message thinking they still had a chance and some girls only got my excited thinking of how ruthless Max is.
Ratboy however was moved away by his friends and taken to the nurse but before they all left one of them spoke a final warning.
"You don't know what you've done or who you've offended. The boy you just beat to a pulp was Richard Lime, who's father happens to be Magus Lime, A General in the army! You're fucked pretty boy." His voice trailed off as he was almost running away after making his threat.
Astarte looked the most displeased with Max, She was annoyed that he used violence when words would have been enough to take him down and she was upset due to the punishment Max would receive for being rash. Before they left this morning they had an audience with the King and his only rule for Max was to not use violence against these ordinary people and if he ever did then he would be sent to the Labyrinth.
The Labyrinth was not the one from Myth, although that did exist and was a dungeon this particular one was a gruesome training method used to train elites and some warriors. Max had run it in the past but only made it to level 3, If he broke his promise and used violence against another kid then he would have to run it to level 5, which was something that only elites fully trained in mana could achieve.
Hence why even tho Astarte looked at Max with an annoyed expression her eyes betrayed her sorrow for the pain he will put himself through.
Sasha saw this brief interaction and realised that something much more then friendship was between these two.
Soon they had to go back to class except this time it was a physical lesson. The way the school worked was Theory in the morning and Practical in the afternoon.
Astarte and Max where placed in the same lesson this time as it would benefit Astarte to be with him. In their class which was considered to be of future Elites or Magus, there was 12 people in total included Astarte and Max.
When the rest of the class saw the physique of not only Max but Astarte too their hearts sank as suddenly they didn't feel very Elite anymore. Max was tall for his age and when he wore his training unifrom which was just a pair of running shorts they saw his Godly body which could only be described as muscles in every location however they weren't big but just toned and perfectly packed as if he each one was full of a calm powerful energy, he had 0% body fat and looked like a true Elite.
Astarte was tall too for her age and stood around 5ft 7, with her hair tied into a small pony tail and showing of the curves of her face with a cold beauty being unleashed. She wore a sports bra and shorts too, but her defined torso could easily be seen, her arms although thin showed no signs of being just skin and bone and looked as toned as they could be.
What was most shocking for the other 10 classmates and even the Teacher was the scars that covered the body of Max and some even on Astarte. Yet Max especially looked like he was a veteran of war, each one looked like it could have killed an ordinary man. The only thought they had for Max was sorrow but soon he unleashed his tempered battle hardened aura causing everyone to gulp, Astarte included.
Soon they didn't feel sorrow only they felt like submitting to him. The only word to describe this suppressing and thich air that now surrounded the room.
Domination.