This is the instructor who broke the barrier for the beasts to escape Circle 1 forest and attack the orphanage.
"I heard that the application has been pushed forward because of you and a person from regional office is coming to investigate.
You know why I should be concerned about this right?"
Instructor fish asked directly.
Viswa just looked at him without answering.
"So, I will get straight to the point. I want you to act as my witness. When the investigator comes, you are going to vouch that you have seen me when the time the beasts were released on to the orphanage."
"And why would I be doing this?"
"Because I am going to pay you.
Come on, you are an orphanage and luckily you have a great talent. Not only would I give you half of all my assets that I earned throughout the years, I can even hook you up with a noble family.
You might not know this, but I belong to a very reputable noble family from the city. Unfortunately I don't have any talent and my father sent me away like this. If you agree to my conditions, my father will adopt you.
Hell, he would even say that you are his illegitimate child out of wedlock. You can become a legal heir of his properties and you even have chance to become the next leader of my family.
What do you think? It is a great deal right?"
Viswa just stared at him silently. He didn't even speak. He had a blank face as he looked at Instructor Fish's eyes.
Instructor Fish felt naked for some reason. He felt like his soul is being read by Viswa like an open book. He had a hint of anxiety raising from the bottom of his heart and spoke once again.
"I know I made a mistake. But it was nothing personal and I didn't know that you are being targeted. I was just asked to do that to create a distraction. I did as I was told because of y greed towards money.
But now you are making it personal by pushing this case. I even heard that only one person died. How is that a big deal?"
Once again, Viswa just sat in the chair calmly, looking into his eyes. His eyes didn't even flinch and there is not a single sign of emotion.
"I will pay for the new residence. I will get a world class building to you guys with all the facilities that you might need. For the next five years, I will bear all the expenses of the orphanage. For every single kid, I will make sure that they could get into the Black Sand Academy.
You might not know this, but I managed to get admission for many noble kids in the academy. A lot of them have graduated successfully and a lot of them are currently studying in various circles within our academy.
You can even tap into all of these favors they owe me."
Silence. Still silence.
"You know there is another instructor that got involved right? He is much more sinister than me. He has many ways to deal with you and get off this case. You are already under his radar. A bunch of his students and noble kids that are trying to kiss his ass are after you.
They are even after you when you went to the forest this morning. They are trying to kill you."
Viswa stood up and looked at him while adjusting his shirt.
"I heard all of your nonsense until now. But I couldn't find a single reason you provided appealing. Let the case proceed. Or you will definitely regret how things are going to turn out.
Frankly, I would much rather destroy with my own hands, but it will take too much time and I don't want you to live your life thinking that you could get away with this.
Good bye."
*BAM* The instructor slammed the table and said through gritted.
"You orphan bastard. How fucking dare you? Do you think you can behave like this just because I pleaded you a bit? Do you think I will let you get away with this? Get ready for my retaliation if you don't agree to my terms."
"Try your best. Worst case scenario, I will die. I would rather do that than succumb to you a piece of shit like you."
Viswa left the office and went back to his daily routine.
He got a lot of dirt on this guy for now. But he didn't care much about it.
But the same couldn't be said about Instructor Fish. He gritted his teeth and angrily opened a hidden compartment within the office floor. There is a wooden box filled with a bunch of animal skins. He picked up his pen and started writing a bunch of letters.
All the letters have the same contents.
'I am about to be investigated by the Regional office because of an orphan bastard. You owe me the favor according to our contract, so I am asking you to repay it now.
Either you make the regional office stop investigating me before I get arrested or you kill the bastard that made me like this after I get arrested. If either of the conditions are fulfilled, the contract will be null and void.'
With those contents, he placed his finger print at the end of the letter before attaching them to the respective animal skins. He then placed all of them in envelopes, added his seals and sent them using a special courier service of Black Sand Academy.
Viswa went to Sir Warden after the meeting is over and gave him the details about what they talked.
"I don't know if he really helped other nobles get into Black Sand Academy. But if he really did then he might really have those connections. Just be careful for now.
Are you still training in the forest?"
"I cannot stop. I need to be there."
"Then try to be as discreet as possible. You are pretty smart, so I will leave you to it."
"Thanks."
After that Viswa had some food and continued his training. He was excited to do so, but as soon as he entered the forest, he suddenly felt a weird sensation creeping around his body.
[MISSION PUNISHMENT ACTIVATED
FOR THE NEXT 3 HOURS PLAYER SHALL BE SUBJECTED TO A NEGATIVE KARMA OF 576]
[NEGATIVE KARMA EFFECTS: RECOVER RATE GOES BACK TO ZERO.
BLEED EFFECT ACTIVATED. HOST WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO RECOVER FROM ANY WOUNDS THAT ARE BLEEDING.
SPIRITUAL ENERGY ABSORPTION DIFFICULTY INCREASED BY 57.6%
10% CHANCE OF TRIGGERING CURSE OF FATIGUE THAT LASTS FOR AN HOUR.]
Viswa was absolutely stumped when he saw the notification and the next second, he could feel the spiritual energy absorption reduction. He also became vigilant as he didn't want to get injured at the moment.
But Mr. Guide is not really that merciful.
[Go and train.]
Viswa was pushed to breaking rocks once again and in process he hurt his finger a bit. And for the rest of the time until this negative effect lasted, the bleeding from that injury didn't last.
Luckily whatever the curse of the fatigue is not triggered. But by the end of the day he felt like he was indeed got hit by that curse as was overcome with fatigue and exhaustion.
That night, a bunch of letters are delivered to a lot of students that already graduated as well as the students that are currently within the academy. Some letters are even delivered to the students of Intermediate academies in the cities.
While Viswa is sleeping soundly, a lot of seniors as well as his peers who received these letters didn't get any sleep.
The next day, Viswa went on with his new daily routine. He is looking forward to the arrival of the regional officer and was extra energetic.
Even Sir Warden warned him to be extra careful.
Viswa was so excited that he trained a bit more than usual and stayed in the forest a lot longer. When he was returning out of circle 2, he stopped in his tracks and looked into the trees before started running.
"Quick, he spotted us. Attack him."
A voice was heard from the rear and then Viswa sensed some strong threat rushing towards him.
*WHOOSH* *WHOOSH*
Arrows whistled through the air and almost hit him, but Viswa halted in his tracks and ducked, before rolling to the side and taking a diversion.
The arrows missed and landed on a tree nearby.
Viswa hid behind the tree for a moment as he evened his breath and tried to sense their approach.
But of course, he is not the only one with good moves.
*SWOOSH*
Viswa ducked as an axe flew from out of the dark and hit the tree. The strike was very powerful that it split the tree vertically into two.
Viswa pulled the axe and ran forward, while dodging two more axes before hiding behind a rock.