Noah glanced down at the exam sheet again.
He exhaled softly, a faint smile on his face.
'You want improvisation? Fine,' he thought, lowering his head as though rereading the paper.
Under the desk, his fingers moved ever so slightly, the spell formation for Devour appearing above it.
He'd modified the spell.
This one wasn't the powerful version.
This one was just strong to irritate, and not consume. After all, he had no idea what his spell would meet.
And so, he cast it.
The spell tunneled downward, bypassing the classroom completely.
Far below the classroom, deep under the Academy's foundations, Devour appeared in a different space altogether.
A dark, reinforced room filled with iron cages and containment seals.
One of the monsters in the underground Beast Pen, a mid-sized serpentine creature with translucent scales and a dozen glowing eyes, stirred from its sleep.
