Knock, knock, knock.
-I'm coming! -exclaimed an enthusiastic female voice.
A young woman with shoulder-length straight blonde hair opened the door, her complexion was beige and her eyes were blue, she had a white horn on her forehead and the edge of her fingernails seemed to glow just like the edge of a sword when the light hit it, she was wearing a baggy cream-colored sweater and pants of the same color.
-Young Sevec! Iris, your boyfriend is looking for you! -the young girl with an enthusiastic voice did not hesitate to shout with enthusiasm and some mischief.
Iristel came out, she was wearing a black blouse and blue pants that showed her white thighs.
-Mart, you wanted to see me? -Iristel asked mischievously, looking at Mart who was looking at her with a smile.
Mart sighed he approached her, hugged her and lifted her up as he hugged her, and her face was higher than Mart's as they looked at each other, then they kissed deeply for a few seconds, when they finished Mart handed her the box with the slice of cake and said:
-If I get the chance, I'll bring two next time.
-Don't worry, I can share. -She said, smiling.
[Demon God's energy has been detected]
[Warning: rank 3 to 4]
Mart, kissed her and whispered:
-If anything happens, go to my room without delay.
She nodded and Mart walked away, but that warning that came up in Iristel's sleeping quarters annoyed him.
[Anger trait activated]
[Trait anger was deactivated]
••••
Upon reaching her room Mart marked the female bedroom and the maids' bedroom with a hook.
"Is the director aware of this?"
"This couldn't have happened overnight?"
At that moment Mart remembered that Iristel had told him that the Academy had items coming from demons.
"Are they after those items, or does someone want the headmaster's job?"
Mart sat down in front of his desk, and began to write down possible situations that could occur, and then create countermeasures.
A few hours passed, and after writing down everything he could think of, he put the notebook away and started thinking of the worst possibilities in his mind, finally asking himself:
"What if Director Persec is part of the conspiracy?"
"I've heard his nickname, they call him that because he's a curse expert."
Mart leaned back in his chair thinking that this was the worst possibility, because no matter what the reason was, this decision would lead to the fall of the Academy; Mart did not know what was happening with the rest of the country, but what he was sure of after the attack was that the Academy was one of the targets. The other possibility Mart thought of, and which he considered almost as bad, was the possible death of Principal Persec, because without the principal the academy would lose its strength and in the instability it could fall into the hands of a conspirator.
Mart went into the bathroom, bathed, and after drying himself with a towel, dressed in a black coat and black pants, then sat on the edge of his now more comfortable bed, because Iristel had gotten a better mattress from the Academy's supplies, remembering that made him laugh a little.
Mart lay down, he began to stare at the ceiling of his room, as he imagined spell after spell, the demonic formulas and possibilities; Mart practiced his spells until the sunlight disappeared from his window and three hours later that.
Mart got up from his bed, grabbed two spiral-tipped blades and left his room.
••••
Mart started to run very carefully or so he was trying to, he headed towards the maids bedrooms, the lights were already off, which indicated that most of the maids were already sleeping; Mart breathed and exhaled, he was containing his demonic energy to avoid being detected, he entered the building of the maids bedrooms, he started to walk through the corridors. "System, detect demon god energy in the building," Mart started walking very carefully, he passed in front of rooms and sometimes notifications appeared.
[Demon god energy detected (01)]
Immediately Mart would write down the room number and the number of people corroded by demon god energy.
[Demon God Energy Detected (02)]
He reached the third floor of the building, but he preferred not to go up to the fourth floor, his intuition told him that the probability of being discovered was high, as he had not yet mastered his abilities completely, in the end he decided to write down in his notebook:
"On the fourth floor there is a person partially contaminated with corrosive energy; he is probably in the fourth rank."
••••
After investigating as much as possible, Mart headed towards the outdoor training grounds, he meticulously went through the entire environment and the system did not show any notification, he made his notes; then he went to the buildings that made up the training grounds behind closed doors, while investigating and inspecting he had not found anything; however, he stopped investigating when he saw that one of the spacious gyms still had the lights on and someone could be heard brandishing a weapon, a sound that Mart had heard before and that he could recognize immediately.
Mart decided to observe and saw on one of the training arenas a student wielding a golden scimitar that seemed to contain a powerful energy, the student was tall and athletic, he had golden hair like gold, tanned skin, red eyes and on his forehead he had a black gem, he was wearing a sports uniform in which his right sleeve was swaying with the movements of the young man due to the absence of his right arm; that handsome student with a solemn look was Meleic Asfent, the prodigy who sacrificed one of his arms to protect his classmates.
Meleic stopped wielding his scimitar, put it away in his demon ring, looked at the bandage on his palm which was bloody, sat down in the training arena, and a few seconds later said in a firm voice:
-Now you like to spy on men. Mart Sevec?
-Of course not; I can't believe you'd joke about that knowing my reputation. -Mart expressed in a relaxed tone the moment he appeared.
-What are you doing here? -Meleic asked, then removed the bandage from his hand with his teeth, then pulled a clean bandage from his ring.
Mart who was watching, snatched the bandage and bandaged Meleic's hand who was surprised, after finishing bandaging his hand, Mart said with his characteristic kind attitude:
-Tell Miss Sara Veniac, that now you owe her a favor; Meleic, you are the coolest demon of second year, don't change.
When Marc had already left, Meleic muttered in bewilderment:
-This individual must have hit his head.