Ragnar looked at the incoming figure and decided to hear him out.
"Where are you going?" The teacher asked.
"Out of here. I suppose the answer was quite obvious given where we are standing." Ragnar said.
"Behave like you are supposed, Mr.
Avalon. I suppose you know who I am." The teacher said.
"Is it mandatory for me to remember the name of everyone in this school." Ragnar said. " I am sorry that I don't know you name, and I don't care to know it either."
He turned around to leave, when a hand grabbed on his shoulder and grilled it tightly before a annoyed face came right on his shoulders.
"Quite fiesty you are. Good. You live up to the remarks that Martin gave me. I am Henry Garner by the way. The teacher of the beta class of your batch. I don't suppose you have reported to me after getting promoted." The man's face was akin to a horrifying clown as he smiled and looked at Ragnar.
For some reason, Ragnar felt a shiver running down his spine. He was not scared of open confrontation, but somehow he was affected by this teacher's vibe.
"I am sorry." Ragnar said.
"No need to be. It is your first day in beta clas after all. You seemed to have adjusted to it quite well given your thrashed a student so badly and decided to leave the academy when your heart desires after failing to report to me." The teacher said.
His smile was getting more and more severe and Ragnar's nervousness was growing.
"Come with me to the principal's office." Henry dragged Ragnar with him.
....
"Do you have anything to say in this matter?" The principal asked.
"The same thing I said earlier. It was all just in self defense. He came at me first so I returned his favour with a slam to his head." Ragnar said.
"A slam would be an understatement to what you did. You literally bashed his head again and again into the table till his jaw broke. We have witness who could confess to your crime. So tell me, how are you going to reason for your actions?" The principal waited for Ragnar's opinion.
"The same way I do everytime. I am not the on who instigated the fight. Once the fight starts, I don't stop until I feel that I am safe. So it all his fault for being like this." Ragnar said.
The principal looked at him with an angry look but then signed upon seeing no change in Ragnar's expression. He held the same blank face since the beginning.
"I can't overlook the situation. The parents have requested me to give justice to their child and I will do so. I will not take any of your bullshit regarding what I should do and what you are supposed to do." The principal sounded serious about he situation.
Ragnar sighed and waited for his sentence to be delivered.
"You are going to take a forced promotion test two months from now for promotion into the alpha class. Fail that , and you will be expelled from the academy with me making sure that you would be unable to join in any other organization." The principal said.
Ragnar as well as Henry's expression changed when they heard this.
"But sir, asking him to take a forced promotion exam in two months, is." Henry wanted to say something, but the principal raised his hands to stop him.
Both of them held a surprised expression. Henry was shocked since he thought it to be impossible for Ragnar to pass the examination given the short deadline. He would have been able to do so given an entire year, but two months was quite small.
Ragnar on the other hand wa surprised to hear the punishment. To him it felt like an attempt to encourage him to work harder. To him, this was as challenge worth taking for and he wa confident in completely modifying his body within this two month gap with Sally's help and his methods. He even felt that this was just a ought punsihment for him.
"Fine. See you in two months." Ragnar said. He then turned around and left the room.
"This is unfair sir. No matter what he has done, it was Rein's fault to have approached him with malicious intent."
"The situation is never so simple, Henry. Do you think the Carter's are a bunch of pushovers. They wouldn't stop until they made Ragnar pay. This way, I took the steps to punish him in a cruel manner which would lead to justified expulsion of he is unable to improve. With this, I manage to deliver a blow that was satisfactory for them since they no way believed that someone who barely managed to qualify for beta class would be able to reach alpha class in two months. For them, Ragnar's expulsion is a confirmed result. This will lower their lust for payback while giving Ragnar an opportunity to show us a miracle." The principal said.
Henry understood why the principal had to what he did. The Carters, Rein's parents, were on the board authority as well as a good patron to the academy. He had to provide to them with a justified move that could satisfy them.
In a sense, this might just be the best outcome possible for the situation, given Ragnar is able to live up to the principal's expectations and show them a miracle.
"I hope he can do it." Henry didn't want to see a blooming flower wilt due to unfortunate situations.
....
Ragnar went back to home and found it to be empty as usual. Their parents were busy with their matter, which provided him with the perfect oppurtunity to use stones to collect mana and excavate his energy channels. After today's fight and the punsihment cum chance, his spirit of competiting with other was re-awakened. Ragnar decided to perform another procedure today and cotinue doing so until he can reach the stage where he could use Intermidiate stone to perform prolonged excavation( approximately ten percent of overall blockage). He was almost halfway there. Around four more tries and he should be able to reach that stage.
Ragnar sat in the meditative position and began the breathing method to first reach his peak stage. Once done he grabbed on to the low grade stone and began to carry out the excavation process.
Each subsequent excavation came with an enhanced amount of pain, but Ragnar's body was growing strong as well and his mind itself had been tempered from two lives. Pain wasn't the problem. The problem came at the end of the process itself.
While he mages to excavate and expel a lot of toxins and wate product previously blocking his body, he suddenly began to shake and felt extremely exhausted.
"I have to control it. My channels are not yet strong enough to experience continis excavation." Ragnar clenched his teeth and did his best to breath in more mana while clenching on the sheets below him and trying his best to stabilize his body.
His initial plans were to wait for some time before the next usage of low grade Qi stones, but today's incident reignited the flames of competition and tenacity.
His nails pierced through the sheets into the foam below as his body was slowly starting to come into his control and the shaking was reduced.