Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 56

Chapter 56: Academy Mascot
“As you command, Miss Aria” hearing these words from the lady she served for a long time already, the lady in the shadows, Aeonia, answered in a hurried voice, knowing completely well that this horned beauty means what she said, urging her to move fast to warn whoever it is that might have developed interest towards this exceptional young man in order for them not to experience the harshness of this ‘great fist of justice’.

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After a while of waiting, the white-haired youthful beauty finally landed on the place she wants to be, having descended within this spatial domain where she will meet this young man who piques her interest the moment she saw him within the grounds of the academy, her mind hoping that this one wouldn’t disappoint her like all the other geniuses she met before.

While she waits for this young man to arrive on this place though, her expectations are completely exceeded as she finished checking him out with her own strength, and feeling his senses coursing through the mana in the air, she couldn’t help but feel like this young man is far beyond what the other geniuses she witnessed before can do, quite possible someone who can fight on equal grounds to the rumored monsters of some high level forces that she heard about when she travels outside the confines of their kingdom.

What piques her interest the most it the atmosphere around this young man that seems to just somehow pull her into him, an aspect not too effective given the vast difference between their strength, however not at all useless as said aspect made her somehow more amiable with him compared to how she is to other people.

This amiable doesn’t really last for long though given that she saw a gaze that is all too familiar to her coming out from this young man’s eyes, a gaze of wonder most likely due to her short stature and her baby face, causing her to feel really irritated that she blurted something out with a crass tone in her voice.

“The fuck are you looking at me like that for huh!?”

As the words comes out from her mouth, the horned lady couldn’t help but assume a stance, preparing to tackle this young man and teach him a lesson afterwards, something that she decided to go for even more the moment she heard the next words coming out of the young man’s mouth.

“Little miss… how about we calm ourself down for a bit for now?” seeing the aggressive expression on this horned youthful beauty’s face, Diluc couldn’t help but feel an urgency a bit more than he expects towards his opponent for this last part of the trials as every fiber of his entire being screams that this lady is nothing but danger, his body urging him to pull back, but he himself urges his own body to stand its ground without falling back, something that he didn’t really notice as an improvement even though this is not something he will do before he has the Dragon Herding System.

“Little… Little miss!?” hearing the words coming out from the young man’s mouth, the youthful beauty, Aria, repeated the words with a violent smile on her beautiful face, the nerves starting to show itself on her temple as a proof that she’s really triggered by the words spoken by the young man in front of her.

“I’ll turn you into a little miss!!!” the horned beauty shouts as her figure disappears from her previous position, soaring through the air with unrivaled explosiveness before frost starts to appear all around her, some of it eventually congregating into ice below her feet, creating a platform that prevents her from falling back into the ground, all while the remaining ones forms spikes purely made of ice, her magic appearing to be completely different from a normal human’s magic given that she doesn’t even require a magic circle to do hers.

“Frost Spire” she mutters as she points towards the location of the emperor-like young man, before raising one of her hands up, following the movements of her hand are multiple spires of solid ice rising from the ground beneath the young man, seemingly eager to crush him but failing to do so as he manages to avoid them in time.

“This is…” feeling the way that mana behaves with the spells that this horned beauty is casting, coupled with the horn jutting out of her head, the young man starts connecting the pieces and managing to know the identity of this lady’s bloodline.

[Indeed, that individual possesses dragon blood, it’s not pure but it is high in concentration and quality nonetheless]

All of a sudden, the floating gray screen appears on the corner of his eyes showing these words to him, enabling him to confirm his speculation and allowing him to prepare more as he already knows the nature of this lady’s spells, they are dragon tongue, the very same type of magic casting technique that Yggdrasil, Argenta and even Seraphina uses whenever they spar, a magic casting technique that he is also completely capable of.

“Can I scan her information?” he mutters towards the system, the reply causing him to frown as he thinks that given how powerful this lady is, he will find it quite difficult to meet the requirements for him to know her information.

[Given that the individual is currently not a part of the Draconic Realm, adding to the fact that the individual is not of a full draconic progeny, you are required to initiate a physical contact with the individual before the system can scan the individual’s information]

“Well that’s annoying” reading this, Diluc couldn’t help but complain but knowing that there’s really nothing he can do about it, he decided to just go with whatever might happen, already preparing for the worst and readying himself to enter the Draconic Realm the moment he felt that something is going south.

“Why are you so offended, miss?” the young man shouted as he tries to calm down this raging ball of anger, his words gaining a reply but not the kind he expects.

“I am a full-grown, good lady and a functioning member of the society you fucking bastard, and you have the guts to call me little miss!?” despite the distance between the two of them, the shout of the youthful, white-haired beauty resounded loud enough for him to clearly hear each and every single word of her sentence, and that is all while he is getting bombarded by ice shards forming from beside her and directly coming down from the sky.

“I am sorry about that miss!!! Can you please tell me your identity if you’re not a little miss?” Diluc said with an apologetic tone that causes the white-haired, horned beauty’s expression to soften a bit, but due to him saying that word previously, it causes her to want nothing but to make him suffer for a bit more in order to teach him a lesson.

“Why don’t you take a guess?” the lady currently in the air said now with a trace of playfulness on her tone as she continues to attack, causing the young man to feel frustrated as he couldn’t really do anything to reach her, given that all the spells and techniques he knows doesn’t really allow him to reach her, and even his self-developed air stepping technique might have a problem given how this lady seem to predict each and every movement he makes with the ice spikes raining down from her location.

‘Damn it, just what sort of wars did this girl had gone through for her to be able to fight like that’ thinking that this lady had gone through war as just a sort of a joke to himself given how difficult it is to fight her, who seems to have an extreme amount of experience in the battlefield, Diluc wouldn’t really expect that this joke of him is something that is really true to the lady’s life story.

“I don’t know! Could it be possible that you are the academy’s mascot?” having to defend from all these attacks coming from all directions, not just from front back left and right but also from above and below, the emperor-like young man doesn’t really have any more spare mental capacity to care about guessing something, causing him to just say whatever it is that is in his mind, something that he will definitely regret the next moment once his words reaches this white-haired beauty’s ears.

“Mas…cot… hehehehe….” as she hears it, the youthful beauty starts laughing to herself, her attack stopping for a while causing Diluc who is currently struggling to think that he guessed it right, only for him to feel even more danger as this beauty looks at him again, now with a modest smile on her face and her eyes appearing to be completely emotionless, her mouth opening as her words resounded the place.

“You’re in for a hell of a treat from me~~”