Harbinger: The Four Knights

Different Method

 The weekend passed by and the students from Marcus, Amon and Abel’s residence casually after spending their entire weekend full of surprises and engaged themselves in excessive training after seeing how the three are different from them. The headmaster sees this and is left with nothing but gratitude towards the three who somehow influence the others to be like them.

“Today is the start of the special class right? I wonder if I can learn anything new since we have been digging ourselves too much in search for proper books as our foundation of new knowledge.” Amon wonders with excitement and doubt as he ask his big brother who is also curios if they can learn more. [That is what I thought as well, we have been reading all kinds of books that involves magic and it’s theories but all of them are not enough. The more I read the more that I want to learn. I think it is quite difficult to quench this thirst. These two are feeling the same as well, they also sigh in disappointment when they learned that the last page or part of the book was torn. It was exciting as it is but for it to end up in that state, we are the ones at loss.]

Marcus ponders how they will be able to quench their thirst for knowledge and just hopes that the lessons in the special class would be different than what they all learned until today. “Let’s just think about if after we get into the lesson itself. There is no use in thinking about something that we did not even experience or heard beforehand.” Abel suggests as the two figured that he would say something like that. “You really are different Abel you know that? And that calm tone, its soothing.” Marcus admires his tone of voice and smacks Abel’s back.

“Yes thank you for the admiration but why is that woman sticking to young master like a leech. Her actions alone is infuriating me.” Abel’s calm composure immediately disappears as he mention Nana who is locking her arm on Amon’s arm. “What are you talking about Abel, Amon promised to play with me just to break off that fight, did you perhaps forget about that?” she said with a cheeky tone as Abel gets infuriated even more. “I promise you, I will get you one day just you watch.” He said as he grinds hi teeth.

The princess herself is also infuriated by the scene that she is looking at while her brother, Japeth stops her from doing anything rash so she has not choice but to hold her anger within. “Sis, please control yourself. There are people watching you, don’t you feel embarrassed?” Riri reminded her sister that they are inside the academy and people are watching them march towards their new room. “Why should I care? They are all just jealous for all we know.” Nana disregards her sister’s words and continues to lock her arm but then they saw Amber on the distance looking at them seriously with a stern expression on her face.

“Hello big sister.” Amon greets Amber who immediately greets him back. “Hello again little brother, nice to see you again. I want to talk to you but first things first.” She then takes Nana’s arm off Amon’s arm which gave Abel a glorified and delighted face. “Take that you woman! Miss Amber does not allow things like that! Hehehe!” Abel cried in delight as she breaks off Nana from his young master. “Heh~ I think I will be great friends with miss.” Everyone around him is surprised that he is able to make a villainy expression.

“You should not act like that with so many people looking Nana, your attitude really never changes.” Amber scold Nana who is tired of hearing scold that she rolled her eyes in protest. “You never really change at all.” Amber added as Amon thanks her for her help. “Let’s just enter the room first before we attract too much attention here.” Marcus suggested as they all enter the room and settle down before going back to their business.

“I have not been this room before. Looks like this is renovated for our class.” Marcus thought after settling down on his chair. “The headmaster personally asked to build this room for us.” Amber explains as she sits beside him. “You’re in this class as well so why aren’t you in our residence?” Marcus asked. “Well, we were on a tip during the weekends so we did not get to move there but this afternoon, Ember and I will move there. I just hope that he will like it there. He is a little picky in places to stay you see.” A few drops of sweat fell from Marcus head as he thinks of the things that will happen if they were to see Ra happily playing in the living room.

[Just the thought of it is making me want to run away.] Marcus thinks as Amber continues to talk to him but then the instructor in charge of handling them entered the room and they all sat properly. “Hmmm, at least you are all educated.” The instructor said after seeing them all behave but his remark made some of the nobles agitated. “You dare speak like that in the presence of the royal family?” one of the nobles said but then the instructor added. “Huh? I don’t care if you are royalty or not, all that matters are results. So if you can’t live up to what you claim to be then your existence is pitiful.” The instructor said as he stares blankly at the noble without interest.

The noble wants to protest but Nolan stops him. “Don’t engage in a useless chatter. That instructor clearly doesn’t care about titles or whatnot. You will only taint the name of the nobles and royalty if you keep it up.” The noble then followed Nolan’s suggestion and stops uttering a single word.

With the room now silent after the brief exchange between the instructor and the noble, the instructor then tells them what they are going to do. “I want to grasp all of your abilities and capabilities toady so that I can figure out what I need to teach you all. Otherwise we are all just going to waste our time learning and teaching something useless.” The instructor said as he reads all their names written on a piece of paper. “How are you going to do that?” the female noble who follows Nolan around ask and interrupts him. “Don’t be stupid. It would be hand to hand combat of course. Are you seriously going to ask a question as stupid as that?” the instructor said with an uninterested tone as he reads back to their names and embarrass the noble girl.

With most of the nobles got pissed of the words that came out of his mouth, some of the students inside his room was excited about their course of action for this day. [I can feel that this instructor is seriously strong, I’d say that he is as strong as my father as well as the other knights if they were to go all out. I wonder what his identity could be?] Amon smiles as he looks at the instructor with an enthusiastic expression. Marcus looks at Amon and figures that he is excited to fight with an instructor.

[Well, I can’t blame him. We hit a wall just a few months ago. He is sure to be happy when an opportunity like this appear before him. I myself could not contain my excitement. I want to see how much I have grown.] the corner of Marcus’ lips rise as he thinks of the possibilities of his improvement getting far ahead than what he thought. Abel shares the same thought as he masks his excitement with a calm demeanor.

[I have been feeling this after my announcement but I guess there are weirdos where ever you go. But sometimes, those weirdos are the ones whom you should look out for since they tend to be more talented than others. Every time I announce something like these from my past class, they all tend to show their agitation and doubts, some even voice their disapproval of my method and I have yet to meet students that are more willing to fight with me until now.] he thought as he found the three staring at him with excitement. [Looks like this year will be different.] a smile appears on his face as he puts down the paper.

“Now lets all head to the arena, I will personally see your capabilities but if you feel and doubt yourself. You can freely go to the headmaster’s office and ask him to assign you to a different class. I don’t want people who only drags others down.” He declared as he stares at the students intensely hoping that one of them might submit to his words but none faltered.

“Very well, then let’s go and have your abilities tested.” He lead the way to the arena and made the students fall in line for testing. “Then let’s begin the test, I will call out your name and move at the center. I want that person to do his best in attacking and defending from my attacks. That way, I can see the extent of your abilities.”  He instructed as he calls out the first person.

A few seconds later

BAM!

The first student fell and lost consciousness after a few seconds have passed. “Done, I have analyzed the extent of your capabilities.” He said as he let’s the doctors drag the student out of the arena and treat him. “That was hella fast, Juno just fell on the ground in an instant.” One of the nobles sounded afraid but the scene just spice things up in the three’s eyes as they can’t wait for their turn.

“Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.” “Done.”

The instructor takes down most of the students and secretly clicked his tongue in disappointment. [What the hell? I was happy when non submit to my words earlier but is this all they’ve got? Nobles? Nobles my a*s! They just fall like trees! None of them are capable of defending themselves completely!] he thought to himself as he bit his lip in disbelief and writes off something in a paper and then calls on to Nolan’s name.

“You better show me what a noble is capable of.” He said as Nolan reassures him that he is different from the others before him. “You better.- start!” Nolan then did not waste time and attack the instructor with everything that he’s got with a explosive air bursting around the instructor.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

“I told you right? I am completely different from them.” A smile on Nolan’s face appeared thinking that the instructor is down but to his surprise, a voice came from behind him that somehow belongs to the instructor reached his ears. “Yes, you are somehow different to the others. But do you know what makes you still the same as them?” his voice sent shivers to Nolan’s body after realizing that he failed his large scale attack.

“You let your guard down without knowing what could happen even before the battle ends.” He said with a cold tone as he appeared behind Nolan and takes him down in an instant.

BAM!

               Nolan falls to the ground unconscious as the doctors carry his body to the others as the instructor writes off his view of his ability. “Better my a*s. What’s separating him from the other is his explosive magic and that is all.” He mutters to himself as he finishes writing and calls on to Amon’s name who gladly walks at the center of the arena. “Well, let’s start-!”

BAM!

               The instructor then shielded against Amon’s immediate attack as a smile rose from his face. “Well, well, well. Looks like this guy will change the image I have for this class.” He mutters as he flays Amon away from him.