The second familiar freshman Michael found was none other than Frederik Kolbenheim.
Michael didn’t really like Frederik Kolbeheim, but if he could see him suffer while undergoing Silverian Schild’s training course, the next 30 days would be quite fun, wouldn’t they?
Frederik had been calling out the idiot, who wanted to sign up for the Devilish Saint’s training course without knowing who he was. Thus, Frederik realized too late that it was Michael.
Jacqueline Orlando gave a startled cry when Frederik was kidnapped, but Michael ignored that. He used his strength to suppress Frederik and put him down next to Kaleb.
“I found number three. His girlfriend will probably join as well,” Michael announced, not bothering to ask Frederik whether he was willing to sign up for the training course of Silverian Schild, who seemed to be nicknamed Devilish Saint.
Kaleb and Frederik glared daggers at Michael, while Silverian, Alice Zenvoia and many other Instructors simply stared at Michael with mixed feelings.
Some didn’t know that Frederik and Michael had fought before, but even they could tell that something was amiss. Meanwhile, others clearly recalled Michael brutally thrashing Frederik to the ground during their fight in the Real Combat assessment. They had seen the video multiple times, and could clearly tell that the relationship of the two was far from friendship.
So why did Michael do that? Was he trying to provoke Frederik, and make more enemies even before they arrived in the Saphirelake Military Academy?
In fact, Michael was not sure about that himself. He had no idea why he had dragged them along. Silverian Schild’s training course seemed devilish, just like his nickname suggested. However, it was also quite interesting, and would certainly improve his foundation as long as he made it through the devilish training.
In the worst case, he would have merely wasted 30 days. It was not as if he would spend an entire semester training with Silverian Schild.
But then again, there was no apparent reason why he had to force Kaleb and Frederik to join the training course.
However, he pulled them over because he felt that it was the best decision.
It should be fun!
‘Even if they don’t like me, we can turn into each other’s grinding stones.’ Michael thought.
Kaleb was likely to awaken a powerful Soultrait soon. He was also from a very influential and wealthy family, granting him many subjects and resources that allowed him to increase his strength rapidly. Meanwhile, Frederik’s Soultrait may only be 3-Star, but his control of the surrounding wind currents, and the ability to create air out of origin energy was something that could hardly be found in Soultraits.
It was extraordinary even amongst 4-Star Soultraits!
“Bastard! What the hell do you think you’re doing?!” Frederik asked, his dagger-like eyes trying to murder Michael thousands of times.
“Will you join or not?” Michael asked curtly.
He didn’t give an explanation for his actions, forget about apologizing. Instead, Michael stared deep into Frederik’s azure eyes with a hint of ridicule.
Frederik hated Michael for repetitively humiliating him. Whenever they met, Michael made fun of him. The first time was when they met in the House of Witchery, then during the Real Combat assessment, and now for the third time.
Frederik had not even forgiven him for the first time because his father further humiliated him and his fiancè, forcing them to join the Saphirelake Military Academy, forget about the second time where Michael had spiked him to the ground with a wooden spear.
Even Jacqueline had looked at him with pity when he had been spiked to the ground during the Real Combat assessment, but it turned even worse. Oliver Zeus, his maternal uncle, sent his parents the video of his fights and actions during the Real Combat assessment, making him receive further lecture from his parents.
Frederik didn’t know why his uncle would do something like that, but it was humiliating.
And, it was all Michael’s fault! He was the core issue for all the times he had been humiliated and punished. Frederik wanted to see Michael suffer. He wanted to defeat the poor peasant!
Thus, he turned over to Silverian Schild, clenching his fists tightly.
“Let me sign up as well!!” He declared, sensing an opportunity to see Michael suffer and make him regret his decision to have ever offended him!
Now that Fredeirk had the chance to compete against Michael again, he would make use of it and take revenge. His family had given him enough resources to refine his body rapidly. Using additional weights would accelerate the refinement process. After all, he was given the Kolbenheim’s family inheritance body refinement technique, the Wind Sage’s Sacred Body Refinement Technique!
The technique was hard to practice but the benefits were tremendous. Using the resources at his disposal, Frederik was certain that he could defeat Michael and make fun of him while seeing him suffer. Simultaneously, he could grow stronger. That was a clear win-win situation!
Soon enough, he would be able to challenge Michael to a battle, and spike Michael to the ground with the same wooden spear that had pierced his abdomen!
Michael noticed that Frederik was overflowing with anger, but that was something he expected from a person like Frederik.
Frederik might actually not be as bad of a person as he first imagined. He was just a spoiled child that had never been told what ‘no’ means, or at which point their actions crossed the boundary and became offensive. Nobody had ever restricted descendants like Frederik and children like him had grown up getting very pampered. They had always been protected by their families, treated as if they were precious treasures – flowers that had to be guarded day and night.
Thus, Michael believed that people like Frederik were in need of a good beating to fix them.
It was not Michael’s mission to fix Frederik’s personality, but he would have to clash often with the spoiled brat if he wanted to turn him into his grinding stone.
Meanwhile, Kaleb was not a bad person either. The young Zenovia was just entitled, and full of himself. It was almost as if Kaleb credited himself for all of his family’s achievements and believed that it was him, who brought their family to glory and fame.
Michael felt quite amused by that. It was more interesting to have some weird-ass people around him than boring fools. Furthermore, both Kaleb and Frederik were well-trained.
Their combat prowess might be lower than his, but that was mostly because he was a Tier-1 Lord with multiple Soultraits. Based on his knowledge and experience of martial arts training, Michael was above-average using the standards of an Elite High School Class.
However, compared to the prodigies attending the Saphirelake Military Academy, his martial arts techniques were below average. He had a lot to work on!
While Michael was wondering who to pick next, Jacqueline rushed up to Frederik to see if her fiancè was fine. After reassuring herself that he wasn’t injured, she started to shout at Michael, only to end up signing up for Silverian Schild’s training course as well, albeit reluctantly. Frederik had already signed up, and Jacqueline didn’t want to separate from him.
Interestingly, a few more people chose to sign up as well upon seeing a few prominent freshmen taking up the course. They surrounded Kaleb, which was why Michael labeled them ‘Kaleb’s suckers’. They ignored Michael and gave him a wide berth while trying to become the young Zenovia’s friend. After all, he was a nobody and had also forced Kaleb to join the Devilish Saint’s training course. But that was for the better.
Michael just wanted to give his best and enjoy the fact that others would suffer alongside him.