I am the Phoenix Lord

Chapter 12: Briefing

A lot of body bags followed today's line up. All the wounded Mages and their painfully broken bodies to tend to somehow made it back to the Magus academy.

No two ways, it would be the deed of the Sabogo guy.

Hart who was the confused one placed a hand on his chin while laying on the sickbed covered with a lot of bandages sat wondering how he got there.

He remembered the Sabogo guy placing a hand on his head and him falling asleep before he knew it he was here in the Magus Academy hospital.

Not just him but all the remaining recruits all bandaged in the specialized ways to be.

Koran was on his left deep in thought on what happened bin the tunnels.

Hart felt bad for him and the amount of beating he acquired from this single mission so he attempted a conversation, "what's up? Sorry for the glorious defeat."

Koran spat a sigh, "I wasn't even of any help, I did was take beatings from left to right." He smiled bitterly.

Hart knew what it felt like to be weak and have people look up to you now because of a strong rank.

This would pummel the hopes of those with lower ranks.

"Men we are pretty weak for some S Rank they gave us!" Hart rolled his eyes in exasperation.

Hart quickly took his eyes from Koran, he wasn't the kind of guy to get all sappy with people, come to think of it he pretty much grew up alone so being in a group was still something he was confused about.

Creak!

The doors opened up to reveal a man in white garment wearing a weird strawhat followed by other people alongside Sabogo dressed in the uniform he wore before.

This put a lot of tension in the room as everyone gulped at their appearance, all but Hart seemed quite plagued.

The men in the room first stared at their poor state before the oldest in white spoke up.

"As you all know I am Mahoga the fifth lord Magus, and the leader of our village, I took permission from the headmaster to skip your studies," some of the students were gratified to hear this other ruefully cried within.

"As you all know, you are originally supposed to go to the academy for four years or know all you can about being a Magus then pass the test that will make those that graduate to become grade two Magus," the Lord Magus Mahoga grinned, "I will be cancelling the academy part and giving you all three months before the test to become grade two Magus."

"What the hell, is that possible?"

"It's never happened in history before!"

"We'll automatically become the first people to become a grade two Magus in history."

"I can't believe it."

"Don't be stupid those months will be extreme training and sweating."

The lord Magus nodded, "yes, you will be put into some quite grievous training to make you stronger in no time, that's why we are here."

"As we all stand here, we have different ranks of Magus, ranging from C to B, B to A, and A to S, not to forget an SS-RANK Magus," the Lord Magus glare fell on Hart.

He could tell he expected greatness from him already.

"Right here we have grade four Magus to train you so hard that your bones will break, not to forget you will go on missions with them and your mortality rate will probably increase," the utterance of this sentence out a large lump in all their throats, things were finally getting real serious.

"According to your ranks we will give you a trainer, C ranks will pair in three and join the C rank trainer and so on to the S rank," the lord Magus walked up to Hart and sat on his bed, "there is no current alive SS-RANK here so you will train under the only alive S Rank, which is Sabogo, and Koran too, I will also have someone else join you by the end of today."

"Their training under Sabogo, man I feel so jealous."

"Damn why did I not get a S Rank?"

"You all worry of your trainers, unfortunately do not have an idea of what is going on to make this contingency happen," the lord Magus Mahoga's voice suddenly transformed cold and scary silencing all of them.

"The entire world balance is about to tip off, the terror beasts are evolving faster than before, gaining more strength and dangerous intent," the Lord Magus stood up from where he layed, "you all experienced the show of shame from the beating thay group unleashed on you, they threaten to end our existence...."

"To bring a race of new terror beast and wipe out the Magus race, they have threatened to kill you all and take our SS Rank Magus, they won't stop at that fact, so be ready for the end of all your life's."

"What I am trying to tell you is to train as your life depends or you. That will be all."