Chapter 17: Three Mage Academy’s
Looking up to the origin of the ripples, he saw Anna with her finger still in it's tapping posture, 'This is Magic energy. She's using magic energy in the air, and her control isn't shaky and rough at all, instead it's perfect and delicate.' He thought.
The ripples pushed him back away from the center of the twins it also pushed them back. It was like a gentle nudge like a soft push like moving with the flow of water. This force wasn't aggressive, yet it was irresistible. Drake regained his footing and the twins also landed a few steps back safely.
Drake put his daggers away but his eyes never left Anna. 'With that level of control over magic energy she is at the very least a Four Star Mage, she might even be a Five Star Mage.'
Anna thought 'To think he won in such an unfair match up against the both of them. That's quite impressive!' Then she directed her gaze to the twins. "You two better have a good reason for attacking a guest, or else."
"Hehe there's no need to get angry mom, we were only checking to see if he really is as strong as Sylvia said he was."
"Haha, as expected! He really is strong."
"Sorry about that dude, we were just checking to see if you were a fake."
"Yeah, we were just looking out for our little sister. After all it isn't the first time someone's pretended to be some good person just to get close to his target to accomplish his goal."
"We wouldn't want her having fan girl syndrome for some phony. At least, even if you're not a good person you should be strong enough. But from your reaction I can tell you didn't come here with ulterior motives."
Drake immediately realized what was going on. 'so that was a test.' That made sense, 'But then again isn't this guy a bit too sure with his judgment?' he thought. So he asked, "How are you so sure I'm not an enemy with that kind of reaction?"
"That's because when we attacked, you were surprised. You weren't expecting to possibly get attacked, you were completely off guard so the first thing that came to your mind was to protect yourself, you didn't even have time to mobilize your magic power. However, if you had planned this, then you would have already been prepared for anything going wrong and had your magic power ready to go in the instant things went sideways."