"Then we have no choice but to apprehend you."
"I'd like to see you try!"
The leader of the mysterious group jumped towards the knight captain.
He attempted to stab him using a hidden dagger from his cloak.
But to his surprise the captain effortlessly blocked him as a gust of wind pulsated through their surroundings as the mysterious man's dagger was stopped by the knight captain.
"PATHETIC!, you dare oppose the Grandfell family with flimsy skills such as these??"
The mysterious group's leader smirked.
"Did you forget there's several others here? EVERYONE GO!"
Then the other mysterious people behind him all simultaneously answered.
"W-we can't!"
Then their leader looked back at them as he saw them all being choked by a mysterious force.
"W-what is this?!"
He was baffled and horrified at the same time.
"WHAT DID YOU DO!!"
Then suddenly another man arrived.
He seemed to be a knight from the Grandfell family as well, yet he wore a mask.
"Captain, I apologize I seem to be late."
The knight had his fist clenched.
"It's fine and you can out down the mysterious men they're most likely unconscious now."
"Lance."
Then the knight took off his mask.
"I really can't fool you captain." He laughed.
"But you do know these guys were going to assassinate the young master, so them being unconscious is simply not enough."
"Lance! This is an order! Stop!"
*sigh
"Fine."
"Y-you must be Ray Grandfell's knight."
He stuttered.
"You must be their leader."
"Y-yes."
The man was terrified of Lance's power.
And right as Lance was about to apprehend him he swiftly escaped.
"Heh! See ya later!! And remember Destruction is near!!"
The man said before throwing a smoke bomb on the ground and disappearing.
"Shit! He escaped."
Lance said.
"We need to report this to the patriarch, immediately "they" have started to move."
The knight captain said with a worried tone.
"Still I can't believe that they would do something as cruel as this."
Lance said as he walked through the village with dead bodies everywhere.
===
Meanwhile back on the academy.
'This is the 3rd duel of the day, it's between Bell Grandise and that guy who threatened me before.'
"Hmph, if it isn't Bell Grandise don't think this will be an easy fight."
"But first let me introduce myself since...I know you wouldn't wanna be defeated by a nameless opponent."
"Lotus Flandenstein, you better remember that."
Then he readied one of his spells and so did Bell.
"You may start...NOW!"
Then both of them shouted.
"Unique Magic! Death Rose!"
Multiple dark roses flew towards Bell making it impossible for her to dodge.
'That's a deadly spell! I need to freeze it.'
"Absolute Zero!"
The roses froze mid air and so did the entire area inside the dome.
'That should've frozen him as well.'
"That...was close."
To Bell's surprise Lotus wasn't hit with her spell as he seemed unfazed by it.
And Ray who was observing their fight was baffled by this and so were many of the other students.
'That's...impossible I know how formidable le that spell is, there's no way he blocked all that.'
Most of the people watching were also perplexed at how Lotus didn't get frozen with Bell's absolute zero as some of them were familiar with it.
"How did "he" block that"
"Yeah I know, he must be cheating."
People were gossiping at the sight they saw.
"H-how!?"
Bell asked.
"I am not obliged to tell you anything, now it's my turn, Unique Magic! Poison cloud!!"
Then a purple cloud rushed out of Lotus's hands as they filled the inside of the dome with toxic gas.
"W-what is this!?"
Bell asked before she fell down.
'That was surprisingly easy.'
And meanwhile the professor who saw this knew it was dangerous as he immediately teleported inside the dome and nullified the spell.
And after all the toxic gas was nullified the professor immediately went to bell and healed her, as some of her skin turned purple.
And meanwhile the students watching were worried and some also blamed Lotus for using such a dangerous spell.
And the professor scolded him as well.
"Why did you do that?!! That could've been dangerous!!"
"I'm sowy professor." Lotus mocked him.
"This is serious!!"
"It's not that serious, now I need to leave this dome."
Then the Professor answered.
"Sure."
The Professor then teleported Lotus outside of the dome.
Then as soon as Lotus was outside the students threw their things at him, water bottles, cans, some even used magic on him.
"STOP!!" Lotus shouted with an irritated tone.
"You know I could eliminate all of you right this second-"
"I don't think so."
Ray said as he walked towards Lotus.
"Ray Grandfell, You're next."
Lotus whispered as he walked past him.
"Tsk!"
"He's too arrogant, it won't be long until he destroys himself."
Ray thought to himself as he glared at Lotus.
'One down.'
Lotus thought as he walked away from the crowd.
Then as soon as Lotus was nowhere to be seen several students rushed towards Bell's unconscious body to aid the professor in healing her.
'Healing spells aren't my specialty so I guess I'll just stay here, but that Lotus guy is dangerous and now that I think about it Rose has the same surname as him.'
Then Ray silently left the room as he flew back to their dorm.
And as Ray was flying he suddenly remembered as he got a strange feeling about the village him and Lance crossed weeks ago.
Then Ray stopped in mid air as he hovered above the dense forest.
"I need to contact Lance or even the manor."
Ray then opened his dimensional pocket as he took out his Cignum.
Dimensional pocket is a smaller version of Dimensional storage and Cignum's are the devices that people in Magilis use but is mostly only used by nobles or merchants due to their high prices.
Meanwhile Lance who was going back to the Grandfell family noticed his own Cignum buzzing.
*click
"Hello, may I know who I am talking to?"
"Lance It's me."
"Young Master?!"
"Yes, there's something I need to know the village."
"What?"
"The village that we crossed before, how are they?"
And then as Lance heard Ray's question he hesitated.
"W-we were unfortunately too late..."
"And the villagers and the village was annihilated when we got there, but we were able to capture some of the perpetrators, but their leader fled."
As soon as Ray heard this he was shocked as this was unexpected even to him.
"W-what?!"
"I apologize young master Ray but I need to go."
Then the call ended.
"A-all those people died??"
This was a shock to Ray as everything went exactly as he planned right when he reincarnated to this world, and this was the first thing that went wrong.
"There's a high chance this could happen again, I can't let this world end up the same as Earth."
"I'll avenge them...soon."
Ray whispered as he flew towards their dorm at a terrifying speed.
And in an instant Ray was already back.
"I have special training 2 hours from now, so I can rest-No! I need to train and practice my magic, if not something like what happened to those people will certainly happen again."
'I need to increase my stars to three.'
Ray then opened a portal to his mind realm as he entered it filled with motivation to grow his power.