Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 83

Chapter 83: Threat From the Horizon
“H-how…”

“T-this should be a dream, right?”

“Dual elemental…”

Looking at the result of the sanctioned duel that just takes place, the audiences, nearly all of them being freshmen of the academy, watches the arena with a confused look on their faces as they just saw someone who single handedly dealt with the one of the most famous group within the freshmen, and the fact that he incapacitated them to the point that they might not be able to participate in tomorrow’s entrance exam just made the result all the more absurd to them.

Meanwhile, among those audience are two elven beauties who are currently looking towards each other with surprise apparent in their eyes, the fact that Diluc manages to win within that short period of time also coming out as a surprise to them, especially since the two of them are already starting to think of ways to get him out of the sanctioned duel back when he is still ‘fighting’ with Reginald and his group/

Just a bit far away from them, Aria, along with the beast kin twins, Aeonia and Aeolia, also looks quite baffled by the proceeding event, the white-haired horned beauty really fascinated with the process of the emperor-like young man using his magic in such a way.

“I thought that using that kind of force as someone who is barely an adult is already something to be amazed, but seeing how he controls the output of that spell…” looking at Diluc with fascination in her eyes, the beast kin beauty, Aeonia, said with a hint of curiosity in her tone, most likely wondering just how is it that the emperor-like young man manages to achieve such feat.

“He’s a magic calculation monster as well.” the beast kin beauty’s twin sister, Aeolia, completes for her as she also looks towards the young man that she tested within the third trial herself, this fact making it all the more apparent to her just how impressive this young man is.

“Forget about his practical magic skills, those moves…” without even finishing her words, the principal herself reminded, causing these two aides to realize the significance of his battle awareness as well, a testament to its impressiveness being the fact that not a single one among his opponent sustains a major, detrimental injuries that might affect them in the future, only wounds and damages that will incapacitate them for a short period of time, just as he intended.

‘It’s not something that can be achieved through practice alone…’ the three ladies thought to themselves as they discover that this young man is veiled with more and more illusion than they previously thought, making them really curious towards him now as well.

While unaware of the things happening in the background, Diluc himself already starts moving towards the exit of the Orion Arena, looking at the audience and seeing both the successor of the elven duchy along with her cousin, the elven princess, both of them looking at him as if they are seeing a ghost for the first time in their life, making him smile wryly as this is the exact same expression that he thought the will have.

“Enjoyed the show?” seeing that they are still pretty stunned to speak, the emperor-like young man said as he gets closer to their current location, his powerful voice bypassing the noise coming from the loud conversation of the audience of the match, reaching their ears and snapping them out of their unfocused gaze.

Nodding towards his question, the two of them wordlessly got out of their current seat and move towards his location, the listless expression on their gorgeous faces something that made the freshmen, mostly the men, all the more hostile towards the emperor-like young man, their sharp gazes something that made him feel quite annoyed that he sighs.

After doing so, massive amount of both fire elemental and wind elemental mana starts surging in the air all the way towards him as if mana itself is excited to answer to his every call, showcasing just how much authority he has over it and scaring the other freshmen out of their wits.

After seeing that he already achieved his desired effects, said effect being scaring the other freshmen so that they will not even think of bothering him, the emperor-like young man smiles again as he walks out of the place, the two elven beauties already waiting for him right at the exit.

“Just what the hell did you do out there?” also feeling that massive amount of mana surging within the atmosphere just previously, the cheeky elven beauty, Alfia, asked with the majority of the curiosity apparent in her tone, her action showing even more so of that as she leans in while looking towards him eye to eye, almost as if she is saying that she won’t let him go anywhere else as long as he is not giving her an answer.

Seeing the looks in her face, Diluc couldn’t help but shake his head with a wry smile on his face as he urges the wind elemental mana in the air to move her away from her place, this young beauty countering whatever it is that he did as she conjures a glowing green magic circle, a color bearing semblance to the color of the wind elemental spell that Diluc is using.

As she does so, she manages to prevent herself from moving according to what Diluc wants, her wind elemental spell dispersing the moving spell that the emperor-like young man put on her, making her smile as she thought that it is already the best that this young man can do.

What she failed to notice though is the fact that Diluc himself is already past her blocking once she dispels the magic circle he created, his nonchalant attitude to doing so making her feel all the more frustrated, prompting her to pout her cute little mouth before she starts moving toward the direction that this young man is moving to as well, the three of them walking without a single care in the world no matter what sort of gazes they receives from the people that they encounter along the way.

Of course, the only one who is a subject of negative, even more like threatening gazes, is Diluc himself, and there’s nothing but adoration and favor that the two elven beauties are receiving through the gaze of the people who saw them.

After a few more time of roaming around the open ground of the academy and doing whatever it is that the want, the trio finally decided to call it a day as the sun already starts to set, the two elven beauties separating from the emperor-like young man, all three of them already going to their dormitory.

Entering inside his, Diluc notices that his roommate is still not there, something that he doesn’t really find all to concerning yet since it’s just the start of dusk, meaning that there are still plenty of time before the dormitory starts its curfew, that probably being enough time for the timid mannered Michael to get back here as well.

With this, the first day of the freshmen of the Flammenherz Academy officially ends, with some of them being occupied with all sorts of things, trainings, reading, talking and bonding, and some even entertaining themselves, while some of them already starts resting for the arduous exams that they will undergo through tomorrow.

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Within the border between the neighboring kingdoms spanning dozens of lands, a tall, attractive and charismatic beauty watches over the rising night within the horizons with a serious look of consideration visible on her gorgeous face, the fact that she held the reigns of her horse quite tightly compared than usual a sign that whatever it is that she is watching, it is something that she doesn’t like and would rather not see.

As she peers into the horizon, with the black fog spreading from where the sun falls, she couldn’t help but reveal a disturbed expression on her face since her eyes witnesses a terrifying phenomenon that will make even powerful, experienced cultivator feel disturbed as well.

The scene in front of her, who is currently in front of thousand, if not ten thousand strong cavalry units, is something straight out of things that they read from tragic records and history of the world, something that brings only plague and calamity upon its wake.

Within that dark fog, numerous twitching creatures reveals their silhouette every time that a mysterious flash of bright light appears in the heart of this fog, the silhouette they are seeing something that made the weaker soldiers to puke on the spot, seeing the dark pustules, rotting, even shedding flesh, as well as the repugnant smell of the army of the undead single mindedly marching all the way towards their position, destroying everything that obstructs their path by either trampling or devouring the obstruction.

“Archers, prepare!!!” seeing this, the tall beauty said with such fierceness in her voice that it knocks out the fear from her soldier’s hearts.