Beast Evolution

"I already apologized, you need to calm down," Ray said and grabbed one of Leia's hands and rubbed on it so she would calm down.

"Don't touch me like that" Leia quickly said.

"Huh, I just wanted to calm you down, why is your face getting red?" Ray asked.

"What...my face, leave me alone" Leia faced away from him.

"I was really surprised at what Sir Alfred did, I didn't expect him to hit you," Gabriel said in a low tone.

"Huh! are you afraid, why are you speaking silently?" Ray asked and Leia chuckled a little and lay on her bed.

"Aren't you afraid, Leia I also saw your face back then, you were terrified" Gabriel smiled.

"That's your problem"

"Guys, I wanted to ask you something, do you know the leader of the mage academy that Sir Authur mentioned?' Ray asked.

"Yeah, she is really powerful," Leia said.

"She is usually away all the time, even some students of the mage academy haven't seen her face to face," Gabriel said.

"Really, then why is she coming here to test my abilities?"

"Probably because you have dark magic, that reminds me, you told us that you had only flame spells and healing spells, how come you have darkness and ice spell?" Leia asked.

'Damn, she doesn't forget, what am I going to say, I have to think of something quick, I shouldn't have chosen dark magic, it brings too much attention, wait...they never saw me using my [Fireball] spell'

"You can't explain, why do you hide so many things from us, you don't trust us" Gabriel shook his head.

"It's not that, I didn't want to draw attention to myself so I lied about having a flame spell instead of dark magic, but when we were fighting back then, I didn't have a choice" Ray lied boldly.

"Ohh, then you would have told us, we wouldn't have exposed your secret," Leia said.

'Woah, they really believed me, how come I could lie with such a straight face, I wish I had this ability when I was in my world, back then I wouldn't be able to look the person's face when lying'

"So the head of the mage academy is interested in me because I have dark magic, is it because dark magic is rare, or there is another reason?"

"She also has dark magic, along with others that no one knows of, but she has different attributes" Gabriel spoke.

"She has different attributes!!" Ray was surprised.

"Yes, she's the strongest mage in Avalon, but she doesn't participate in war, and she's hardly seen" Leia added.

"So she wants to see me because I have dark magic, maybe she wants to train me a little" Ray smiled.

"I don't think that's the case, I always picture her as a scary person, as the head of the mage academy she should be an important figure, but only a few people know her"

"At least we'll get to see her today, I hope she's not as scary as you make her to be," Ray said.

"She has dark magic and she doesn't like crowds, maybe she has a weird habit or face," Leia said.

"You are making me scared of her, even though she has a weird habit she won't harm us, she's just here to see my spells"

"Maybe she has the ability to steal spells, maybe that's why she wants to see you, so she can steal your spells"

"Now you are just messing with me, she can't possibly possess the ability to steal spells from other people, right...?"

The group heard footsteps approaching and the three of them quickly stopped talking and waited while looking at one another, eventually the person stopped in front of their door but didn't open the door.

"Who do you think it is?" Leia whispered as quietly as possible.

"Maybe someone came to spy on us," Ray said.

"I don't think so, maybe we should check" Gabriel stood up from the bed without making a sound, he tiptoed towards the door and opened it slightly.

"Huh! Amelia..." Gabriel said.

"So that's where you guys were, I got lost finding you guys," Amelia said.

"You were looking for us, is something wrong?"

"No the senior knights are looking for Ray," Amelia said.

"Huh...that means she's here, the leader of the mage academy" Ray muttered.

"Let's go, I would like to see her, I hope she's pretty, I would love to see her fight" Leia stood in excitement.

The three of them came out of the room and head towards the training ground, Ray was a bit nervous before of what Leia said but Leia and Gabriel were smiling brightly.

Ray stopped a few feet away from the door of the training ground, the rest of them walked forward a little before noticing that Ray wasn't following them.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

"I'm a little scared of seeing her after Leia said all those things about her"

"What...I was just joking, I haven't seen her, how will I know what she looks like" Leia quickly said.

"Who are you guys talking about?" Amelia asked.

"The head of the mage academy" Gabriel replied to her.

"What!! you mean, she is inside the training ground now, why didn't you say so earlier" Amelia sneered.

"You didn't know, I thought you knew," Gabriel said.

"The knights just told me to call Ray to the training ground, I thought he was going to train so I wanted to watch, I didn't know the greatest mage in Avalon would be there" Amelia smiled brightly.

"Let's go in, I want to see what she looks like"

"Yeah, me too," Leia said.

Ray took a deep breath and walked inside the training ground, the four of them were shocked as they saw the lady inside the training ground.

"Wow..." Ray was surprised at the appearance of the lady.

...

"You are to report only to me and no one else," Boreas said to a small group consisting of two men and a lady.

"Yes sir" the three of them replied.

"Dismissed," Boreas said and they turned around and walked away.