Chapter 21: Changes(2)
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Professor Eisen furrowed her brow, her gaze narrowing sharply as she looked down at the stone floor of the Class A training hall where Kai and Kathlyn had just appeared seemingly out of thin air. One moment, there was open space. The next, two students were standing there, calm, composed, like they'd been there all along.
No flicker of mana. No displacement in the air. No sound, no presence. Not even June had noticed.
She floated a few feet above the arena, her robes lightly trailing with ambient mana, still staring at the place they'd materialized from.
"How...?" she murmured, more to herself than anyone else. "What kind of spell was that?"
She wasn't easily impressed. She'd fought in two continental campaigns, trained the top ten graduates in the past decade, and once neutralized an assassination attempt with a spoon. But this? This wasn't stealth it bordered on existence erasure.
Behind her, Professor Mallet stood with his arms folded behind his back, high on a balcony. His expression remained unreadable, though the faintest curve of interest touched the corners of his mouth.
"Each class has their peculiar students," he said, eyes focused on Kai. "Even among the average... there are outliers."
Eisen raised an eyebrow, still watching the two below. "Peculiar? That was a void-step. Or something damn close to it."
Mallet only replied with a cryptic: "Indeed."
The conversation ended there, because down below, the fighting ring had begun to fill. Students gathered in a loose circle around the main arena platform an elevated square of reinforced obsidian and stone, enchanted to withstand even the highest-impact magic.