Ragnar enters the room just to find the principal along with Martin and another guy, waiting for him. He closed the door behind him and stood in front of the three men.
"May I know the reason for this summon." There wasn't a hint of nervousness, or humility in his voice.
"We have called you here to discuss the matter of your promotion. You have performed quite well in the test, to emerge as the first ranker in collective rankings. Hence you know that you will be rewarded as well as promoted to a higher graded class to match your talent and help it grow even further." The principal didn't mind his attitude and spoke.
"And it should be proceeding smoothly now that I gained the first rank. So why am I here?" Ragnar asked.
"Because I wanted to ask you the reason behind reserving your compete strength. Clearly you held a lot of it back during the examination." The principal said.
"No I didn't. I am sure the principal is just surprised after experiencing my results." Ragnar said.
The principal threw a bunch of papers in front of Ragnar.
"You know that one or twice can be a sweet coincidence but this many time is a carefully executed move. Did you think no one will notice how you always stopped right before you reached the highest score in every test. You must have thought that it is not too sparkly to garner attention on you, but you are wrong. It is the perfect score to gain the attention of every academy and university in the country. You have managed to show excellent performance in every single field. I hope I don't need to say why we are having this meeting now." The principal said.
"Whether or not I held back is my matter. I don't need your opinion, neither your permission to do anything. As for the promotion, just out me into the gamma class and don't bother me again in the future." Ragnar said before turning around.
Martin walked in behind him and grabbed Ragnar's shoulder to stop him, but Ragnar simply used energy to push through his grip. Martin was pulled along. Everyone watching the scene was surprised.
"Leave my shirt or else I will send you see your dear student ,Pierce." Ragnar said with an angry expression. Both of them began to radiate energy and coincidentally Ragnar wasn't affected by Martin's momentum.
"I have decided to shift you into Beta class. You will be joining after two days." The principal's voice sounded from behind.
Ragnar turned around and looked at him for some time before nodding and going on his way.
"Should I bring him back?" Martin said in a serious tone.
"No need. He is a talent who for reason has chose to hide his strength. My task is make sure my students are able to display their strength to the best if their abilities. I will make it happen, no matter how much he tried to hide it. He will have to step up and show his power in front of the world. Meanwhile I need you to collect information about their families. Do that for me?" The principal said before dismissing Martin.
"Was shifting him to beta class a good choice?" The other guy in the room asked.
"I wanted him to go to alpha class, but I am sure he would have ignored my orders and forcefully enter the delta class. Given the circumstances, his live would have been the right one as well and I would have not been able to do anything. It is better to compromise with Beta class." The principal said. " Off course I will be relying on you to make sure his talent shines and he is forced to use his abilities in front of the world. He could be the prospect we have been waiting for a long time. Someone whom the big four would die to try and recruit in to their camps."
The man nodded and left the room, leaving the principal alone.
"Ragnar Avalon, the game between us has just begun. Let me see how long you would be able to hold out." A smile appeared on his face.
...
Ragnar was back in the gym and picked up the sword. As usual, he began to execute on eart after another. The first set of training involved executing all the moves in the perfect manner one hundred times at top speed, without the usage of energy or rest in between.
Once done, he would start energy training with the sword arts. The real training will come after that. There was a long way to go and he didn't want to waste much time. There was roughly two years remaining before he had to undertake the national University admission test where his abilities will be tested. While his face would be more than enough to qualify him for the admission. He didn't want just that. He had made the mistake while doing the university in the past. He wouldn't repeat it this time.
He was going to use all the facilities available in the university to greatest possible extent. For that he first needed to excavate his energy channels and strengthen his body to the level where body strengthening would reach at least B-rank. That wasn't going to be easy to accomplish.
He continued to perform moves after moves, until he managed to to complete seven complete revolutions before depleting his stamina completely. Even though he was practicing the arts, and was performing them for seven rounds, the result was still too low for Ragnar to be satisfied. During his last life he had a body strong enough to perform these moves thirty times when he begun training. This body was far too weak to even begin with , but looming on the faults wouldn't provide him with results.
"So you were here." A voice sounded and Ragnar turned his head, just to come face in face with Sally. She was dressed in a full kendo attire, holding a sword in her hands.
"I have chosen to accept your proposal. What do you say about starting right now." Sally asked.
"I don't have a problem with that, as long as you prepared the payment for my services." Ragnar said.
"You will get it at the end of the service. It is just to give you an incentive eto give it your all during the training." Sally said with a smile.
"Fair enough. How do you want to begin? Will you be performing arts together, or do we outright jump into sparring mode?" Ragnar said.
"I would prefer if we could begin the spar immediately. Also, I would prefer for you to use Steel-Hearts sword Method." Sally said.
"Very well." Ragnar said while grabbing his sword and assuming a stance.