Aryan's gaze remained centered on Water gauging the demon's reaction even after the library's grand floor was nearly filled with demon students exposing him to a large audience. Whatever issue that arose with his discovery was, after all, the academy's problem not his. Thus, even though the bald spectacled demon seemed to glower at him, he simply stared at Water's face examining his changing expressions.
At first, the remaining three demons had stared at him in shock from his display of power. Their attention was however momentarily diverted to the library entrance when the doors burst open and their instructors as well as a throng of students came trooping in.
Water's expression morphed from shock to fear to panic and finally, when a wave of recognition hit him, to excitement. His eyes looked between an irritated Heinz and an eerily quiet Aryan. Despite his implicating words, he still couldn't help the slight tremble of fear that wracked his body as Aryan's empty gaze was trained on him and no one else. It was as if he was a specimen under magnification and Aryan was the giant that couldn't help examining the pathetic creature.
'No! Professor Heinz is strong AND a stickler for loyalty. I'm sure he can deal with the mixed race' he thought in a small effort to comfort himself.
He accurately guessed that Heinz would have a problem with Aryan but he didn't expect that the demon instructor would charge at Aryan with full power. His index and middle fingers came together in a gesture (like Itachi's), black smoke surrounding it as he begun to summon a teleportation slip. Erik and Galdot could take care of themselves and even though he would be questioned on where he got such a slip, at least he would be alive.
Before he could complete his summon, Water found himself on the other side of the library in the hands of the strange instructor that kept watching Aryan. His eyes traveled up to look at the instructor's face before it was drawn back to Aryan as a loud explosion occurred.
The room was filled with black smoke as books caught fire and now, even more instructors were running into the room - half of which were pushing the students out of the room to their dormitories. The other half assembled at Ysur's sides to examine the situation.
"Professor, what the fuck happened?!" a particularly busty female instructor with long red hair that covered half of her face yelled from Ysur's side. Ysur's eyes were however still trained on the smoke in front of them, brows furrowing as if he saw something displeasing.
"Eldra, watch the kids!" he yelled throwing Water and the other two at the female instructor before rushing into the smoke. Eldra caught the three instinctively, right hand grabbing Water, left grabbing Galdot and right knee holding up Erik who coughed from the impact.
"Professor!" she yelled after Ysur as she let go of the three letting them fall to the ground mercilessly. Erik coughed even more while the other two sat up almost immediately. 'Why me?' the poor demon thought, tears pouring down from his eyes in self pity.
* * * *
Heinz's eyes widened slightly as he stared down at Aryan's hold on his wrist. 'I was right to charge at seventy percent' he thought, his second hand going to strike Aryan in the next millisecond.
Aryan's dull gaze brightened as he stared up at the instructor in front of him. It was his first time being exposed to mana in a fight and he as overcome with excitement. He was fighting solely with instinct as he was never successfully taught martial arts. His physical strength was too great for the instructor that was supposed to teach him.
'It looks so cool! How does it feel to control it? Hw does it feel to be hit by it? How does it work? Would I be able to channel it? Can it kill me?' Aryan's lips curved upwards into that disturbing smile showing his sharp teeth. The buzzing black half of his hair lifted higher, the charges in them increasing as if in response to his excitement.
Heinz pushed against Aryan and Aryan released him allowing the pressure from the push to throw him backwards through some shelves. His back collided with the last shelf before he fell own onto the ground head bowed and covered in smoke from the burning books.
Heinz landed in front of Aryan, a satisfied look in his eyes as he lifted his fist to land a finishing strike. "It worked" Aryan's voice made him pause.
Aryan's lips curved once more now even wider than normal as he looked up at him, hands now outstretched and open to reveal the small electric current that buzzed in his palms. "I conducted your mana" he spoke as if he was telling a secret, his voice low and like a whisper. The undertone of suppressed excitement was, however, unmistakable .
Heinz frowned, his fist clenching tighter as he amplified the coat of lightning mana that surrounded it. The strange boy smiled in a way that shook him leaving him feeling a strong sense of danger. 'Better to kill any source of trouble' he thought charging his attack with 100 percent of his power.
Aryan's excitement shot up in anticipation and the sparks in his hair spiked. Immediately, everywhere froze, the environment taking on a monochrome hue. The pin drop silence was ironically so loud Aryan automatically knew- time had stopped.
He rose to his feet slowly as he still felt the effect of the black lily powder. His eyes scanned the room; books were suspended in the air, the smoke that filled the room no longer flowed towards the open windows and were as stagnant as the unmoving flames that engulfed the shelves. The black, gray and white color of everything made it seem as if he was no longer in the real world but in one of those ancient human literature he had read about.
'Something like transmigration' Aryan estimated in his mind, eyes travelling further around the room. His excitement from earlier slowly calming down as he observed his surroundings, the slight buzz in his hand the only indication that he was in the real world and not some dream scape.
Aryan's gaze scanned towards the right of the room before resting on a sight that startled him. There, from the entrance of the library amidst the unmoving frozen environment, the carefree instructor from earlier was flying towards him. Although it was in a slow manner, even a slug monster would be faster, the fact that he was moving at all was shocking.
The surprise Aryan felt disrupted his mind and time resumed moving as if it never stopped.
Ysur's stood between Aryan and Heinz, hands holding the outstretched hand of each of individual. He felt a drop of cold sweat run down his back as Aryan's eyes, wide and filled with amazement, stared straight at him unflinching and unblinking. He was like a child that just discovered a new fun toy and discarded the old one.
'What the fuck did I get myself into?' Ysur wondered with a deep, exasperated sigh.