"Come with me," Mira dragged Arad past the teachers and to the gate leading to the stairs, "Don't start any more troubles. We want a quiet school life so you can study, don't we?"
"You're right," Arad sighed as they entered the waiting rooms. She reached into her bag and pulled a towel as she sat on the bench.
"Close the door. I'm sure the students would flood here soon," She pointed.
Arad closed the door and locked it. It didn't take five seconds for people to start knocking on it, "Aron Kyomu, you in there!" A strange voice they didn't know shouted.
"Kyomu!"
"Aron!"
"Mira..."
The door started rattling as if it was about to be kicked down.
"Where did they come from? I'll go kick them out," Arad stood with a growl.
"Sit tight," Mira wiped the sweat off her face. "They are students interested in us after seeing your display down there." She smiled, ^The water here is nice.^
"We can't stay here forever. Someone needs to come out to them." Arad looked at her.
"Trust, you aren't alone," She smiled, "He said this would happen,"
"Run away!" Jack shouted in the hallway, waving his hands at the student as a four-meter-long alligator rushed toward them.
"Heh!" The students gasped, rushing away as the alligator growled after them.
"How in the hell did a gator get inside!" One of the students cried.
"I thought the swamps were far away!" A girl cried, looking back only to see the gator still chasing them.
"Being far doesn't matter! Those bastards would show in our house bath," Another cried, "They're an infestation," Another cried.
A blond girl appeared at the end of the hallway, opening a door and shouting at the students, "Here! It'll take you back to the stairs!" She shouted with a worried face.
The terrified students ran through the door like scared sheep, pushing each other to fall inside. As they looked around. They found themselves in a stinky massive room filled with monster wastes. "What's this place?!"
The blond girl stared at them with an evil smile as she slowly closed the door, "Monster waste room," She locked the door after them.
Jack laughed as patted the alligator's head, "Nice move,"
A silver gust of smoke covered the blond girl's body as she grew larger, "I know," It was Abel, "Humans are stupid. All it takes is a nice woman to pull them over,"
Arad opened the door and looked out, "Jack, Abel, and this is?" She looked at the alligator.
The alligator's body shifted back into a brown-haired girl, "Name Milla. Abel brought me to help,"
"She's a beast druid. I met her this morning," Abel approached with a smile.
"She's a woman," Jack stared at the girl, "Sorry for patting your head, that idiot only told me you'll listen,"
"Don't mind it," She shook her head, "We didn't have time," She smiled, approaching Abel, "Should we go?"
"Yeah, I'm sure one of those idiots would have a spell to unlock the door. It's better if they don't find us," Abel tapped Arad's shoulder and ran away with the girl, "Get moving." Jack ran after them.
Arad looked back at Mira, "You knew about this?"
"Lydia talked about the possibility of me getting hurt in the fight and how to rush to heal me," She stared at Arad, "Jack said that you'll burn the whole school before I get hurt, so they came up with this."
"Leave it to a rogue." Arad lifted Mira, "Let's go," He ran with her across the hallways, jumping out of the window and latched onto the frame with one hand. "On my back,"
Mira climbed from his chest and wrapped her arms around his neck as she slowly moved to his back, getting a piggyback ride.
She looked up, seeing the wall rising several tens of meters high. "Can you climb that?" She gasped.
"Worry not," With both of his arms now free, he extended his right hand and grabbed into the bricks with his nails, climbing like a spider.
Mira turned her head and stared at the horizon, seeing the span of the area around the university. With almost no mountains in sight, she could see far into the distance and spotted the large river of Saint Crow with the swamplands surrounding it to the west.
To the south, and neighboring the swam, a massive city started with sheds and farms. The large village of Croc Hut, they were known for fish, bandits, and alligators.
To the east, she could see the golden beaches of Croc Hut with people moving in and out of them. The southern part of the beach had a massive port where fishing boats landed and the sailors usually held Illegal alligator pit fights.
She couldn't see the north as it was blocked by the colosseum's wall that Arad was climbing. "We're living here for a year at least,"
"Yeah, for now, it's home." Arad replied, "I could still fly any of you back to Alina in an hour, and brother could do it faster. We aren't that far away,"
"Normally this would be a two-month trip." She giggled, "I guess we're lucky to have you,"
Arad reached the top of the colosseum and landed back on the upper stairs, looking down at the arena. Most of the students were still in their seats, watching the current fights, and none of them bothered to look back.
"Wear something," Mira poked Arad's chest, "You can't walk around shirtless here. You'll attract eyes."
With a smile, he pulled a black T-shirt from his stomach and wore it. Mira stared at him, "I doubt such a tight shirt would help, but at least better than nothing," She then looked around, "Let's go there," She pointed at a door.
"What's in there?" Arad asked, his void eyes couldn't sense any magic coming from there, it should be a normal empty room.
Mira tapped her chest, "I want to take this off," She still wore her heavy chainmail armor and had weapons on her. "It's heavy and I'm sweating,"
Arad nodded, "I have your clothes and some water, we could use a room," He walked with her toward the door. Reached for the handle and tried to open the door. It was locked with a 2-
tier lock spell, but it immediately shattered upon touching Arad's violent magic and he opened it feeling a faint sting on his palm.
As he walked inside, he saw the teacher from earlier bent naked over a large bowl of water, washing her underwear. "Me of all people…" She growled, but then slowly turned around as she sensed the breeze on her butt.
Arad stood there at the door, staring at the crack with a passive face, "Hello," He said.
"You!" The teacher turned as fast as she could, pointing her palm at him, "Stones of the ever…" She started chanting and a spinning stone started forming ahead of her.
Arad extended his hand forward and crushed the stone in his palm before the spell could finish construction. The teacher gasped, and before she could scream, Arad already jumped behind her and held her in place with her mouth closed.
Mira closed the door and barred it with a barrel before turning to the struggling, naked teacher in Arad's arms.
Mira lifted her hammer and pointed at the ground, shooting a nail through the stone. "Look," She approached the teacher and pointed to the smoking hammer head to her forehead, "This was a mistake. We didn't know you were here, so we just walked in. Make a fuss, and I'll blow your head up,"
The teacher's body started glowing blue, and magic surged from her body. She wasn't going down without a fight and had decided to blow Arad's guts out of his back.
"That tickles. Stop it," Arad giggled, unfazed by the beam of compressed magic she discharged at his stomach. To him, it was like a gentle water spray.
"Listen here," Mira tapped the teacher's stomach with the shaft of her sledgehammer, "Was that a spell? I guess you wanted to pierce his stomach. Shall I cut yours here and now? No, it's better to let him blow your back with a kick," She pointed the hammer head back at her, "You know he could've already killed you if he wanted. Calm down. This was a mistake, and no one wants it to blow out."
Seeing that her magic didn't even phase Arad, the teacher concluded one thing. This man had more magic and physical might than her, enough for him to tank her sixth-tier spell with ease.
She nodded to Mira, agreeing to remain silent.
"You better not scream," Mira looked at Arad with a nod, "Release her,"
Arad slowly opened his arms, letting the teacher go.
She fell on her hand, panting for air. Mira stared at her for a second that pulled her by the ear, "Don't point your naked butt at him,"
"Let me breathe, and you're the ones who got here. The door was locked," She growled.
"It wasn't," Mira replied and then looked at Arad, "It wasn't locked,"
"You two liars," The teacher growled and pointed her hand at the door, [Detect Magic]
"Get your naked butt out of his face!" Mira kicked pushed her aside. And walked to the corner of the room where the teacher kept her robe, brought it, and threw it back on her.
"The spell wasn't broken," The teacher gasped, "It melted." She turned toward Arad.
"Melted?"
"Like a candle. Breaking a spell is akin to snapping a candle in half with your hands. What happened here is that extreme heat melted it. In this case, it's magic." The teacher looked back at the door and then at Arad without bothering to wear the robe.
"Mages are like candles. They emit heat and light as mana out of their bodies. If my spell melted when you touched it, that mean you're a vastly hotter candle than I am!" She approached him crawling on all force, "I can I see you cast a spell?"
"Come with me!" Mira grabbed the teacher from the legs and pulled her away, "Wear something, you naked teacher!"
"Well," Arad stared at her, "This would require a trade,"
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