The Tales of Draconic Warlock

"Good morning students. It's good to see you again. For those who don't know me, I am Angela Blazewood".

Angela is the class teacher for us again this year. It looks like the first-year teachers would continue to be the class teachers of the class till graduation.

Of course, if the students can't keep up their scores, their teachers would change between the six. Each of the six classes has its own class teacher, who would be responsible for every aspect of the class.

Though Angela was our class teacher during our first year, this time there were some new students.

At the end of the first year, not all thirty that were chosen from this academy for the secret realm were from class 1-A. There were students from 1-B and 1-C who were able to enter the secret realm.

Now those students belong to class 1-A.

In the secret realm, there were a few casualties. So the ones who were supposed to be in 1-B got a chance to enter 1-A.

I learned that a total of five students from the Royal Academy died in the secret realm. Except for Dorian, the remaining four are noble children. When I returned, I heard rumours regarding their deaths.

Normally noble children carry life-saving items on them. There was no restriction on how many items one could carry into the secret realm. So everyone should have stuffed a lot of food, water, clothes, equipment, potions and life-saving items if possible.

If there was anyone that's dead, they probably belonged to a commoner family, not the noble family.

So someone started rumours that someone broke the taboo of killing fellow students. There was a rule between the academies that students can't be killed by other students. It was said that someone from one of the four academies killed someone from the royal academy.

Though there was no proof, the rumours about this spread across the academy. Even the new students who just entered the academy heard about this.

It was not a rumor as someone did kill students in the secret realm. The problem was that there was no evidence of such things happening. It was not the first time students died in the secret realm, but I don't remember such rumours spreading last year.

It means only one thing. Someone was deliberately spreading this.

Who would want such a thing?

If such rumours spread too much, the students might openly kill each other in the next secret realm opening. It would not be good. The kingdom would lose many of its talents and future pillars.

This is not a good thing.

Whoever spread this should have great plans but who could do this?

It should be either one of the students or the staff of the academy. No one should have access to the academy to spread such nonsense.

Well, if I think that the world revolves around me, I would think that William or Elisha did this. There is a chance that they did this but they should have known that if the academy finds about this, they would be severely punished.

It's not the only thing that makes me think that they were not behind this. It was insinuated that students from other academies were the ones that did this. If they wanted to insinuate me, there was no need to drag other academies or is there?

Hmm, if the academies were dragged, there was a chance that they would try to find out about the deaths of the students, just to disperse these rumours. At present, they are not much of a problem but that won't be the same in the future.

If the academies see that there is a possible clash between the students of the academies, they might hire some Death Seekers or Seers, to know who was behind the deaths.

If the deaths were caused by the monsters, then there would be no problems among the students. With an official declaration, the academy could wipe out the rumours.

The problem would arise if the results deem that the deaths of the students were in the hands of other students. There is no way that the academy would let the students go after breaking the rules.

It is a perfect way to get me into trouble and damage my image. I would be expelled from the academy and there is a possibility that the Siren family could break away the marriage contract without paying any compensation or face any consequences for doing so.

I prepared well. So there was no reason for me to fear that. I can produce the evidence and exonerate myself. Let's see if they really planned something big like this for me.

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"First things first, let's congratulate the students who were able to enter the secret realm. These students would have a chance to reach a higher stage in life", Angela said and everyone clapped their hands.

"Secondly, let's spend a minute in silence, or the dead students", she spoke and the class went silent and everyone stood up with serious faces. There is some sadness on many faces.

Three of the five dead belonged to this class since the start of the first year.

We had spent a year in the academy, so there would be some sadness over their deaths.

I wonder how Dorian's parents were doing. With things becoming hectic at home, I had no time to see how they were after learning about their son's death. It wasn't that I am insensitive, I didn't find a chance to send Inari home either.

I should check on them when I find time. Though Dorian tried to kill me, his parents probably had nothing to do with his stupidity. He deserved it but his parents didn't.

"Okay, now it's back to your studies and training. You should already have this information. From next year, you could do missions for the academy and to do that you have to leave the academy and it could be dangerous outside. So whatever the safety training time that was left is this year".

"After this year, there would be not much safety for you. So use the time you have to train in the coming year or you may face death sooner than later".

"Now, let's go to the training hall", she said and walked away from the class. We went through this twice, so we know what to do. We followed her to the training hall.