Tales of The Mighty Dragonair

"The new head master?!" Arthur muttered, as he realized many things happened while he was in his training. "Thanks for the praise, master Tony," Arthur replied with courtesy, while bowing his head slightly to Tony.

"Good lad, so humble that makes one admire! Now, go to be tested there," Tony said with a warm smile, as he pointed towards a place close by. "There you will get your inner demon rank tested," he added, as he tried to play the role of the good master in front of Arthur.

"Thanks for the help, master Tony, I will go now," Arthur excused himself, and went towards that test area. He knew he didn't have any inner demon, and so he didn't put any attention or hope over this test.

He would fail miserably at it, and he was totally prepared for that!

"Please stand still as I will insert a wisp of my energy into your body to test your innate talent, potentials, and the level of the inner demon."

The master who was responsible for the test said everything related to what he was going to do. Arthur noticed that this master was acting more respectful to him than other masters treating other mages.

He didn't reject the good treatment, though, and he had some speculations about why he was getting such attention. 'It seems I managed to cause a little stir in the academy,' he thought to himself, while chuckling inwardly.

He stood still, as this was the second time today someone inserted energy inside his body. as he stood still, thinking of the depressed expression over the man in front of him, he was astonished to see the expression of this mage change, as he was showing shocked expression.

"Impossible!" the master muttered with an extremely shocked expression when he opened his eyes. He glanced at Arthur with doubt, as he shook his head while muttering something Arthur didn't hear.

"What's wrong master Dern? Everything is alright?" Tony suddenly came to ask the master who was having a shocking expression after testing Arthur. "It's a bizarre thing master Tony, very bizarre. He is a prodigy with no inner demon at all inside him! it's so weird, really impossible!"

The master called Dern said with shocked expression, while Tony glanced towards Arthur with doubt, as he muttered:

"How can this be? The energy he absorbed would be enough to kill any useless common person hundreds and thousands of times already!"

Arthur heard the causal expression of Tony, and his previous good impression about him slightly changed. He didn't show anything on his face, but he started to feel some doubts towards the true intentions of this master.

Was he really kind and gentle? Or a wolf disguised in a dog skin?

"That's not all," Dern said, "he had a very high potential, extremely high potential," he added, while shaking his head.

"How can he have no inner demon and he had high potential? Isn't potential based on assessing the inner demons inside his body?" Tony asked, with much doubt over his face.

"That's why I said it's impossible," Darn repeated his own words, while helplessly shaking his head.

"Tell me, what is the rank of his potential?" Tony suddenly asked.

"It's extremely high, at least a grand master potential caliber," Dern replied without any second thoughts.

"What?!! Are you sure?!!" Tony sharply turned towards Dern, as this was something that really shocked him.

"Master Tony, I know my job very well. This lad is really something."

"But he has no inner demon, how did you test his potential then?"

"I know it's impossible to believe, but his body had such monstrous potential, without having an inner demon at all!"

Tony remained silent for a while, as his face showed a happy expression. Arthur just glanced at him, while Dern mistook this as a happiness for finding a genius.

However what made Tony very delighted was that these news would make the price tag over Arthur's head soar! He also knew many clans and guilds would be much interested in killing such a very potential threat, and that meant he would gain much more benefits that he had already received!

"Alright, you go back now, and wait until everyone has finished the two tests, and then we all will head into the pocket world." Tony then paused, before adding with a fake smile, "Just take care of yourself, as many people have their eyes already fixed over you."

'For good or bad intentions then?' Arthur muttered to himself, while he respectively replied:

"Thanks for master Tony advice, I will now retreat and wait for the competition to start."

Arthur then retreated under the watchful gazes of Tony and Dern, while Tony was imagining the huge wealth he would gain from killing this lad.

"Give me these results, I will personally deliver them to lady Amanda," Tony suddenly turned to Dern and claimed the results of Arthur. Dern mistook this as a good gesture from Tony, and he, with purely good intentions, handed the page of results regarding Arthur to him.

Tony then checked the page again, before nodding and putting them away, before adding:

"I hope you keep silent about this, until Lady Amanda finds a way to protect the kid."

"Is he in danger?"

"Sure, do you think Rolaf will let things bypass easily like this? Let's not put much pressure already over the lad, and try to help in protecting him."

Dern nodded, as he promised Tony not to tell anyone about these results. As for Tony, he knew if he wanted to keep this secret hidden, a promising word from Dern wasn't enough.

'Sorry buddie, you will need to sacrifice your life for this secret to be hidden,' Tony thought to himself, while laughing a very evil laugh inwardly as he retreated into the academy gates, vanished there from everyone eyes, before sending many bird's wings to all the clans and guilds' representatives, informing them about the news.