Chapter 34
Arne felt Katharina’s irritation slowly morph into apprehension and distress. Even their two fellow students were nervously shifting in their seats.
“...You’re a sorcerer,” she finally said. It was not a question, but a statement.
Professor Nowak smirked. “Not wrong, but not entirely correct either.”
“A shaman, then,” Arne mused, eliciting a raised eyebrow from the teacher.
“Oh? Have you met a shaman before?” His aura gave off a strangely distorted feeling of curiosity.
“Well, I wouldn’t say ‘met’,” Arne replied evenly. “Of the four I’ve encountered, I killed three.”
He had expected to unsettle the strange man with such a blatant threat, but his curiosity only intensified. “Oh, were they from the steppe folk?”
“...Indeed.”
“Fascinating. Unfortunately, I never got the opportunity to study their practices directly. Do you happen to–”