Farnus made a wave with his hands, and a screen revealed the training room where Xander was standing could be seen.
He wanted to know what sort of monsters Asher had fought to come out of the C Rank alive.
Farnus guessed that it was around 20 D Rank monsters, and Asher got injured while running towards the portal.
He had assumed that this Yellow Gate dungeon was a bit special, as the portal would have appeared somewhere in the dungeon, forcing them to explore and hide from the monsters. Even in his wildest thoughts, Farnus did not assume that Asher had fought all the monsters inside the dungeon.
And the fact that it was a special environment dungeon was still not known by anyone other than Asher and Alyssa.
As Asher entered the training room built for Professors, he saw Xander standing there in his formal clothing.
Xander was already aware of the Dungeon Defect, but due to Farnus and the mana oath he took for the secrecy of the World Academy, he could not take action until Asher disclosed this fact.
The mana oath was a simple contract-like spell that informed the other party whenever the pact was broken. The moment Xander told anyone, he would break his oath.
“Do you know why you are present here?” Xander spoke out, looking at Asher.
Xander was a strict man, and even though he favored Asher for some reasons, he would not be biased in his evaluation. This was one reason, despite being part of an elite family, Xander was respected as the Vice Principal of the World Academy.
“I just need to provide enough proof of the monsters I killed?” Asher asked while he took out his spatial ring.
If he didn’t have the dead bodies of the monsters, Asher would have to prove his strength in other ways. It would then be up to Farnus and the evaluation team to give him his rankings.
“Yeah,” Xander nodded as Asher wore the ring on his index finger.
Asher paused, wondering if Alyssa had stored the boss monster or not, but only she could answer that question. His mind had numerous thoughts, but he was not too worried about Alyssa; he knew she was capable enough to handle the mental drain she experienced.
Asher put his mana into the ring, and many huge dead bodies started to pile up in front of Xander, who was looking at the increasing number of monsters with an amused expression.
Bit by bit, more than 25 monsters appeared out of his spatial ring, but they were all D Rank Monsters.
“Hmm, your result is remarkable,” Xander said while looking at Asher.
But he noticed that some of the monsters had dagger-like cuts on their bodies.
“You used a sword, right? So who killed those?” Xander was confused but didn’t want to believe an E+ Rank Hunter had killed a D Rank monster.
“There were only two of us there, so it’s quite obvious, isn’t it?” Asher said.
“But there are more,” Asher said, making Xander look at him with a confused expression on his face.
‘Did he kill even more D Rank monsters?’ Xander thought in his mind.
But Asher brought out a few corpses of four-eyed monsters with wide jaws, and as soon as Xander’s eyes recognized the monster in front of him, he was surprised.
For a moment, he could not believe that Asher had managed to kill a C- Rank monster like a Vialmir, and what was even more shocking was that he had killed more than one.
“How?” It was Farnus who could not believe what he was seeing.
Watching from the screen, he had also expected a few more D Rank monsters, but seeing a Vialmir shocked even an old man like Farnus greatly.
‘Did I make the wrong decision?’ Farnus was rethinking his decision to give Asher that token.
“You can see rest of the monsters when she wakes up,” Asher looked at Xander, who was still looking at the Vialmir.
From the sword wounds alone, he could see that Asher had defeated it, but despite seeing it himself, it was something he had a hard time believing.
“And then you can leave for now, I will give you both your evaluation according to your results,” Xander said, knowing that Farnus was watching.
It meant that he would take control over the rankings, and Farnus didn’t mind it either. He was right now thinking about how Asher managed to get hold of the information he presented in front of him.
Asher turned, but he was still feeling a bit weak; he knew that he still hadn’t recovered properly from the usage of that skill.
After 15 minutes, he reached outside the medical facility after taking a trip to the Rankers Dorm for a bit.
As he reached the floor he was on, he saw one of the Junior Doctors talking with a nurse. The nurse noticed Asher immediately as she signaled the man who was talking with her.
“Ah, did you need something?” The Junior Doctor asked respectfully.
“Where is Alyssa Astaria?” Asher asked, but his indifferent face made it difficult for the doctor to judge what he was thinking.
But the doctor didn’t have enough authority to refuse Asher, and how the principal had given them strict orders, he misunderstood Asher as someone favored by Farnus Calmort himself.
But he was wrong; in fact, far from being favored, Asher was probably the one human Farnus would have killed if not for his mana oaths he himself made in front of the High Council. His oaths had various restrictions that didn’t even allow Farnus to try and hire someone to kill Asher.
It was simple: why would Elite families send their own children to someone who could potentially become their enemy without any sort of safety mechanism to protect them?
This was one of the reasons Asher used the one threat he had to corner Farnus even further. Not only was this the worst time for the World Academy because the news about the compromise in Asher’s safety would leak, which would turn almost two-thirds of Somaria’s power against the World Academy, but if Asher also leaked the secret he used as a bargaining chip was big concern for Farnus.
The old monster could not even make a mana oath with Asher because of his restrictions. But Asher himself knew that he had no benefit in leaking that information right now. Why would he give someone else the chance he could have for himself?
“It’s the room on the left,” the doctor said as Asher made his way past him.
Asher stepped in front of the door as the door opened up and he saw Alyssa still had the previous appearance due to the artifact. The mask was almost undetectable, but it also had a fatal flaw: if someone attacked her face, and if the power behind the strike was enough, the mask would break.
Fortunately, none of the medications and the tests the doctors did required them to strike her face.
With his indifferent face, he sat beside Alyssa as he looked at her.
Bringing a potion out of her spatial ring, which was a bit more special and something only he had, he poured it inside Alyssa’s mouth as he used his fingers to open her jaw.
Asher sat down on one of the seats present in the room and closed his eyes. He was tired as well, and the potion he used would also take some time to help Alyssa.
He leaned back on the seat as he closed his eyes.
There were many things that were pending; he still hadn’t asked the system about the Curse of Fate, he didn’t even know about the whole Violet energy breaking out. Even the fact there was a strange black tattoo on his back.
He was up for a big surprise tommorow, but right now, sleep took over the Asher, but a certain someone in Soran was tiredly working inside a dark room that was illuminated by the dark screens.
Cups of coffee and other snacks were on the table; overall, the room was cluttered with similar things.
“When will the boss come out of the World Academy?” Tom said as his tired eyes and dry fingers kept working.
He was currently working on one of Asher’s plans, and honestly, he would have escaped, but he knew that he would die either way, so he chose to work for Asher and get paid a lot of money instead of running all his life to die in some random corner in the world.
“Still, no changes. Why do I need to check these spots?” Tom said with a tired voice.
He kept checking on various live footage of random places in the world; some were in Somaria, some in Desmar, and other continents as well.
He was checking the next image when he got a certain notification.
“What? They are extending the date?” Tom frowned, but he needed to inform Asher about this quickly.
Two days later in the World Academy.
The tension was high, as most of the first-year students were anxiously waiting for the results of their rankings.
In the big seminar hall, all the first-year students were filling the seats.
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“Oh, they are about to reveal the Top 50s!” a girl spoke with her fingers crossed.
Many eyes were on this announcement because things were about to start in the World Academy, and all of them began after the Rankers Ceremony.