After the man left l slowly sat back down evaluating the point I could gain I needed at least one hundred points only to survive l walked forward to take a look at the points and how they were awarded, the royals seemed to have an advantage compared to the other students, Tatiana was the first l saw written in white after four gold name she only managed to defeat one royal,
twenty points where given for the Zect circles strength, twenty more for attendence, fifty for the Summoning test and the rest where brought forward from the previous semester, the points brought from the previous semester seemed to have no limits which put me to the biggest disadvantage a hundred negative points where brought from my previous semester, I only managed to add twenty points making negative eighty, the closest person to me had a negative twenty points,bbut I wasn't going to stress over the board a lot, I deeper my hands into my pocket and slowly walked out,
Angus and Elliot quickly ran up seeing me
" Sorry man " Angus said following a little behind
" Yeah, we will miss you a lot " Elliot added patting my shoulder
but only got a cold reply
" who said am leaving " I answered scheming a plan
" What, but !, you saw the board, there is no coming back from that, am even lucky I have zero but I have no idea how to get the thirty points " Angus said
" Cole what do you have in mind " Elliot asked, having learned a little he knew that for some reason I was always smarter than I looked, he was one of the people who careful watched the fight he noticed how care free I was, and that question still lignaered in his mind what happened after the screen went black
" if you have noticed, they were testing fully on practical skills," I said and they nodded slightly " if i had a hundred percent of all skills if it's not only the corrupted teachers watching am sure I gain favour from someone and I know someone at a high position who owes me a soul " I said taking effortless steps through the building
Angus and Elliot looked at each other with lost looks in there faces they kinda understood what I first said but got lost at the end
The next hour after I finished talking to Xavier who didn't remember much of the fight, we made our way to the old library
Stella and Eleanor where seated out side the two buildings, there heads burried in books
" Hi what are you guys doing " I asked bending a little to see what the girls where reading
" inscription cedules, " Eleanor answered " Sorry, maybe I should follow you to the next campus "
"You are willing to do that ?" I felt touched until she looked up with her lust driven eyes
" For another kiss I will, follow you to death" she teased making a kissing face
The attention we got after she made her move felt weird, they had never seen humble Eleanor do such, they had never seen Nora
I rolled my eyes at her, I made slight steps to the open ground with a tree branch in hand " if we are doing inscription cedules, let's do it right I want to crush the competition, I drew each of them watched in amazement as I drew on the ground curving lines, with I a stick I drew the biggest inscription they had ever seen, they weren't familiar with the inscription either, once I closed the inscription, they were all standing watching in astonishment
" Shadow clones, they are naturally weaker than the body but if I pour my power in them, they should be a slightly stronger " I said, there faces gave off no expressions they didn't believe anything I just said
" step in the circle, and we start training " I added the nervously walked in
" Isn't shadow magic cursed? " Stella asked looking at her feet as her long dress swept the floor
" Yeah but isn't all magic cursed " I said putting my hand on the ground and poured out some energy, the ground glowed temporary blinding everyone by the time their sights cleared they were already being attack, the first attempt was pathetic their clones seemed to fast, and quickly domineted them each person going up against their clone which were went to be weak but it looked their way round, they were slow at activating their magic, weak when it come to head on attacks and general had no fighting skills,
it was hidous to watch as clones beat their originals, the shadow spell was a rather useless spell for battle but it looked like a greater weapon than I needed to defeat the group, even Eleanor wouldn't be given time to fully build up enough energy, once everyone was a dead end I diminished the shadows and the faded in the light
" Argh, that thing almost killed me !" Angus said holding his dislocated shoulder
" Huh, I didn't give them any magic but they beat all of you that was a little to easy " I said getting up from the middle of the pattern
" They were too fast and attacked without notice, we couldn't use magic either!" Elliot snapped and Stella nodded feeling the brushes on her shoulder
"You should know they where slower than you, weaker too the only thing they had that you didn't was a little combat experience, but it was very little, I will be teaching the four of you from now on " I said and got up
" What gives you the right to be boss, you are going to be expelled after the tournament, your fate is written on stone " Angus snapped without realizing that everyone was watching,
I got up from where I was sitting dusting of the sand from my white clothes
" There is no such thing as fate, "
" What !"
" I destroyed it ten thousand years ago, no life in the demon realm is bound by the laws of fate, "
" What, are you saying?, did you hit your head or something, ten thousand years ago, haha, we are only teenagers not even at our twenties, so why are you talking about ten thousand years ago" Angus laughed
" in ten thousand years years not a single soul has been made, the ones that existed ten thousand years ago have only been divided in bits and grown in humans, if you can only conserate hard enough you will see the origin of your soul and for me, ten thousand years was only to garenty peace " i spoke Angus never got me once again
"That still doesn't give you a right to lead " he said, I looked around at Eleanor who was currently trying to cast a healing spell on Elliot's wounds
" Okay, I who should lead then ?" I asked as I grabbed his shoulder and made a fast pull and it snapped back in
" Eleanor !" he cried from the pain I looked at her and she shook her head
" no, I trust Cole " she said
" fine then, Elliot " Angus tried but her didn't accept either he never went for Stella and instead nominated himself
" Me, I will lead "
" Should we vote, but if we do that I have already won, let's duel, winner becomes group leader " I said
Angus was a pure human, his strong hold was when he had a sword in his hand, " a sword duel "
" fine, but branches should work " I said picking up a small branch from the ground "
" No magic, if your branch breaks you lose " he added terms
" Fine " I answered he quickly search for the strongest branch he could find and got ready to fight
Stella, Elliot and Eleanor took good seats to watch the fight,
" Angus will win, " Elliot judge
" Why ?" Stella let out a short question
" His branch is twice the strength of Cole, he and naturally he is a better swords man, even his body strength is stronger than that of Cole, Cole might be much greater at casting spells but Angus is clearly better at sword fights " Elliot analysed
" I still think Cole will win " Eleanor replied