After taunting us, without saying another word Clark walked out the stage and gestured for us to follow him out of the arena to go someplace elsewhere in the academy.
Seems like the evaluation is not going to happen in the arena and the old man must be leading us to evaluation grounds.
Not speaking a word entire class followed him
No one raised a single question, we all silently followed behind him, the entire journey remain the same except for a few murmurs and whispers.
The journey actually remained calm not due all of us agreed with him but mostly because the people here were sacred and had no guts to refute while the remaining few like me, were just curious to see the true power level of our so-called 'veteran adventurer cum-teacher'.
Because I am sure that the authorities won't let him hurt us in any way, we might as well see what he is up to.
We slowly made our through the academy's outer perimeter and entered the inner section, Man the deference was really comparable to heaven and earth.
The inner section of the academy was filled with luxury and lavishness, the entire area had the feeling of a real otherworldly feeling. The entire area was painted in gold, from the floors to walls to the guards.
Everything was like it had been sprayed or dipped in gold, Wow these Fantasians seem to really do not flinch when it comes to flexing. Look at all this stuff almost all of them are either gold or gold coated.
Just as I was evaluating the ethics of the Fantasians, Clark led us into a corridor that was heavily guarded by a group of elite guards in front of a huge door.
Whatever the thing that's on the other side of the door must be luxurious for it to have so much security.
As soon as we stepped into the corridor the guard immediately blocked our path and questioned Clark, And when Clark briefed them about the situation they glanced at the Captain to affirmation, and only when their Captain gave them the green light did they let us pass by.
Seeing the arrogant old bastard all bent and polite in front of the guards, all of us was taken back. Most of us were actually disgusted by the behavior of the old man.
He is your typical example for the quote " Bully the weak, fear the strong". The more I see him behave this way the more he reminded me of my father.
Under the watchful eye of guards, Following Clark, we walked further into the corridor and entered a High tech room with a 'fingerprint scanner' that blew our brains out.
Man, the entire room looked like a scene from a steampunk sci-fi movie, with a Gaint monitor, reinforced walls, weird RGB lighted machines, and coffin-sized capsules connected with thick wires and with all those gas leak effects and stuff.
Seems like this world has more stuff than just your random fantasy worlds that the weeks had told us about.
As we were admiring and evaluating the room, Clark with the same shameless smiling face stepped forward and tried respectfully greeted another caped old man who seemed to be having an important conversation with a scientist who likes a spitting image of 'Rick'.
[ Author: You are surely going to get me sued for a copyright issue soon. ]
[ Isaac: Just tell them Rick just made a Cameo here ]
[ Author: 😳]
Anyway leaving the stunted author aside,
Even when Clark went and greeted both the old man and the Cameo Rick. They didn't even bat an eye at him and gestured to him to stop and move away and to not interrupt them.
Looking at Clark being ignored more than twice by two different people made me giggle at him.
But to my bad luck since the entire group had been watching the event unfold as soon as I giggled everyone started laughing out loud.
Which earned us a hateful glare from both Clark and the duo. As soon as everyone noticed the murderous glare we received from Clark all our laughter came to an immediate halt.
Even after we had stopped laughing Clark don't take his eyes off us instead he showed us we are dead with a gesture like slitting the throat.
Whatever the hell he had in plan for us, just leveled up a few notches by our laughs.
But there is no use in moping about it since we have to go through it anyway we might as well as go through it all the way to the end.
Leaving this stupid old man aside I honestly want to know to hear the conversation between the duo, which seems to be of great importance that they told a teacher to not interrupt them.
while the duo was talking I continued to check out the room and the coffin-like pods, these pods to me looked more like the pod from the Captain America movie, the one they used to soak him and beefed him up but this one was a little more of a steampunk version.
And if you ask me how was I able to see movies when I'm poor, it's easy because my school has a mini-theater inside it and I have bribed the operator there with my pocket money (Yeah the money Owens throws at me for entertaining him ) to let me watch movies from the theater's operating room.
Soon after a few more minutes of serious talks, the capped old man left the Cameoed Rick and walked toward us. And as soon as Clark saw him he went forward and once again greeted the old guy like he wasn't going to mind his prior embarrassment.
(Oh by the way I forgot to mention unlike Clark, whom I refer to as an old man this caped bald dude is an actual old man in his seventies, and for the record, if you don't remember Clark is actually a burly middle age dude )
He immediately brought the old guy towards us to introduce him to us, I'm pretty sure this guy must be the judge who the authorities must have sent to watch over the game.
And my guess was right the old man really was sent by the authorities here to evaluate us, After fawning as much as possible Clark immediately called us over to greet the old man
" Come over here you idiots,
Is this how parents teach you to behave in your world?
you stupid maggots.
Don't you guys have the decency to greet elders when you meet them? "
'Aren't you the stupid one here? How are we supposed to greet him if u hadn't introduced us?'
Really wanted to say this out loud but since we have already irritated Clark more than enough for today and I don't want to escalate things even further
" Meet Mrs. Leonie one of the greatest Heroes of Fantasia and the Elite Commander of the greatest empire on our continent Mystia, a researcher and an Elite class instructor at the academy.
She and her research have saved more lives than your entire world. "
You can feel the worship and respect Clark had for this just by the enthusiasm in his voice while he introduced her.
Hearing his introduction everyone was taken back by the new revelation, you can the shock in everyone's eyes.
If someone actually read our minds right it would have been great because all of us were on perfect sinks.
The words may vary but Just by the look of disbelief in the eyes of the group you can comprehend that all of us are having the same thought,
'Wait, the caped baldy is a woman'!!!
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At the same time when Isaac was about to go through his first Life or death battle, A group of powerful people were having a meeting at a round table in a luxurious & ancient-looking Castle. All of them were wearing strange animal masks.
While the others were seated in their respective seats a Fish masked woman who looked rather young than the rest of the people at the table was being questioned by the rest of the group.
" Aquarius, are being serious right now? You tell us that you have been using one of the best men from our league of assassins just to spy on a group of otherworlders just because you had a hunch."
Just when the woman was about to explain herself another man in a lion mask interrupted her and said,
" That's What happens when you expect from a child who is pretending to be an adult playing house."
The man seems to be not fond of the woman and their hostility can be seen in his words.
The woman immediately turned to the man and glared at him to which he replied with a smirk. Bit suddenly a man in a bull mask interpreted their glares and said,
" Aquarius age is not the issue here its none of your concern, Leo.
And as for you Aquarius, We don't need your explanation, we need results."
After saying so he got up and left the meeting which was soon followed by others, leaving the woman and the man called Leo behind.
When almost all of them were out, the man named Leo also got up and neared the women and said,
"Let me see how long they will save your ass"
with those words, he too left the hall only to leave the woman called Aquarius who was standing there all alone biting her lip in frustration.