Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 75

Chapter 75: Pleasure Doing Business With You
“Alright, that is for the student council of this academic year… now for the closing remarks, well, there’s not really anything that we should remind you of anymore, after all, you’re all adults now… well there is something I guess…” after the introduction of the student council, a figure familiar to everyone appears once again, the figure bearing a beast kin feature on her making her charm quite unique compared to other ladies.

“Be responsible and dauntless no matter the task, and always see to it that you’re always fair on your judgments, and at the very least, be a good person… well, in short, don’t you dare tarnish the reputation of the academy when you’re outside…” the beast kin lady said with a threatening pressure coming out of her as she voiced her thoughts, such pressure scaring even the strongest of the fourth year students as if they are in front of a beast that is about to devour them completely, and effortlessly.

“Great, seems like all of you understand, with that in mind, you can come out of the auditorium now and return to your classes for the older students, as for the new students, you can still roam around for today since there are no classes for all of you yet, not until the sections are decided…. For that, we will hold the second part of the entrance exams tomorrow, hopefully, none of you will be late since this will pretty much decide whether you’re going to shine brighter within the academy”

The beast kin lady said before she steps back into the backstage again, disappearing from everyone’s sight, signing the end of this orientation for students, that prompts the older, more experienced one to start standing up and coming out of the place.

Seeing this happening, the freshmen also start coming out as well, the number of people still sitting gradually thinning out with one among them being the emperor-like young man still rooted on his seat.

“Diluc, you’re not going?” seeing his roommate still seemingly meditating, the frail-looking Michael asked with a near mumbling voice in fear of distracting this young man, his timid approach making his roommate, who is still meditating, feel like this is going to be a long year with him being together with this frail young man.

“Go ahead first, there’s someone I’m waiting for” Diluc replied with a smile on his face causing the frail-looking young man to gaze at him in wonder, trying to figure out who is it that this emperor-like young man wanted to see, but having no idea of that, he just decided to do as the young man said and leaves ahead without it.

Meanwhile, Diluc closes his eyes once again as he plays around with the mana in the air, his previous self who can only sense a single color of mana, and just barely at that, will not be able to believe what the current him is detecting, four different types of mana dancing according to his will as he plays around with them subtly enough that no one will be able to detect its fluctuations in the air.

Should someone see how he is interacting with mana directly, even if the one who saw him is from the draconic progeny, then they will definitely be surprised by such actions, as even them, who are deemed to be the greatest race there is, even branded as the masters of mana given their affinity to it, needs to use their dragon tongue in order to do such act.

While there might not seem to be that there is too much of a difference between someone who uses dragon tongue to control the mana in the air and someone who just directly controls it, the dragons themselves know that there’s a vast, even insurmountable chasm between the two.

Just like how humans and other races need to channel their magic or even martial arts through certain magic or mana circles in order to work, the dragon tongue is also similar to that, a conduit of magic and martial arts serving as a machine to make more efficient use of the fuel being ran into it, mana, instead of just burning it in the air.

However, different from these methods of casting magic, what Diluc is doing, while fundamentally harmless currently, is something akin to just creating nuclear-level reactions from a point-blank range without any tool at all, just using his mind and its calculation power alone to manipulate ambient mana like that.

While very impressive, no one among his peers can really appreciate it given how much of a high-level concept this is, perhaps, the only other person who is aware that such a thing is possible is the lady he fought against during the fourth trial of the entrance exams, the very principal of this academy herself, Aria Frostborn.

As he continues playing around with the mana in the surroundings, he feels that there are some movements near him, causing him to stop this little exercise of his for now as he opens his eyes, in front of him standing are two blonde beauties currently looking at him with curiosity filling their eyes.

“Seems like you’re awake now…” looking at this savior and friend who just seemed to come out from a sleeping state, Alea said with a cheeky smile on her beautiful face as she reached her hand out towards him, clearly inviting him to stand up from his seat and come with her.

“Indeed, thanks to you disturbing my meditation” seeing the smile on the elven princess’ face, Diluc couldn’t help but retort as he accepted her invitation, holding her hand with his as he stood up from the seat, their previous state of him having to look up a little bit in order to see them eye to eye now completely reversing as they need to look up quite a lot in order to look at him eye to eye now.

“…w-well, seeing that you seem to have no one to go around the campus with, h-how about this princess grant you the honor of having the opportunity to accompany us for now?” remembering the things that she and her cousin talk about regarding this very young man, the elven princess couldn’t help but stutter her words as she invited awkwardly, her current state appearing even more pitiful than when he first met her somehow, making him wonder just what is it that is currently occupying this lady’s mind.

“I would love to, princess, but I do have a roommate I can join with, there’s no need for such an undeserved honor” the emperor-like young man replied with a teasing smile on his face as he turned around and waved goodbye, causing the elven princess to pout as she grabs the sleeves of his uniform in order to stop him.

“Fine, I’ll give you something as compensation for doing that to you, you happy now?” remembering how greedy treasure this young man is, the elven princess couldn’t help but sigh in annoyance as she conceded, giving him what he clearly wants for using him as her shield against courtship from other young men.

“Pleasure doing business with you”