Beast Evolution

Ray walked a little then he saw the two senior knight panting and trying to catch their breath after the battle.

Authur sighted Ray and quickly touched Alfred and pointed towards Ray.

"it's seems their boss is here" both of the knight held their swords tightly.

'What are they doing, don't they recognize me' that was when Ray remembered that he had transformed to a beast earlier.

Ray quickly turn back and dash into the forest, Authur and Alfred chased him into the forest, Ray ran at excellent speed and was far ahead of the knights.

The knights were tired after the battle with the wolves so Ray could easily out ran them.

Ray was getting to the end of the forest, he stopped and hid behind a tree. [Transformation] Ray changed back to his human form and heard foot steps approaching.

Authur and Alfred dash towards the tree that Ray was hiding.

*shing* both of them faced their swords towards Ray, they were both surprised to find one of their students instead of the beast they were chasing, both of them quickly looked around before talking to Ray.

"What are you doing here?.." Alfred asked quickly.

Ray racked his brain to come up with a believable excuse to why he was here but nothing came to his mind.

"What is wrong, did you see the beast, what happened?" Authur asked with concern.

"I didn't see any beast, I ran away because I was afraid.." Ray spoke weakly, that was the only excuse that Ray could think of.

"If he didn't see it that means it escaped..." Alfred said to Authur.

"let's go back" Authur said and held Ray's hand and took him back to the rest of the group.

The students and the villagers were safe, luckily none of the wolves went close to them.

"What happened to Ray, do you think he's okay" Arya said.

"I wonder what made him think he could go by himself" Jack snorted.

​ "Ray" Lily called and ran towards him when she saw him and the knights coming back, the others also went with her.

"What is he doing with you, wait.. when did he leave here?" Ivy asked as she saw Ray with the knights.

"He ran away because he was afraid of the wolves, I guess he had never experience a real battle and he was clearly not ready for it" Alfred replied.

Ray just looked down and went towards the other students when he saw his friends running towards him.

"I thought he was skilled, turn out he is afraid"one of the boys said.

"Yea, that's means if he saw a real beast he would piss his pants, I mean these are just wolves"

"I'm not surprised he passed the exam by luck" the students mumbled and laughed at Ray when they heard what Alfred said.

"What happened?" Lily asked with a worried look on her face.

"He ran away, cause he was afraid that he would die when the wolves attack..." a boy said and everyone laughed.

"Is that true?" Jack asked him.

"Yes" Ray said and walked towards the carriage, the rest of the group looked at him and eventually followed him.

"Are you telling us the truth" Lily shouted at him.

"We faced wolves before, when we were coming to the capital, you were completely fearless, why would we believe that you were afraid now" Jack said and stood in his front stopping Ray from moving forward.

"What is wrong" Lily asked him.

"Okay, would you believe me if I tell you?" Ray asked.

"Yes" they all answered.

"Okay, I sensed a strange Mana in the forest, the wolves were infected by that Mana and it caused them to go berserk and attack the villagers"

"That's why you asked about infected wolves" Jack said and nodded his head, "but how did you sense it from here and none of us did?"

Ray couldn't tell them that the system sensed it and not him, because it would make it more complicated.

"You guys can't sense Mana cause you are not mages, but I can" Ray said and they all nodded in agreement.

"But do you know what infected the wolves" Arya asked.

"I don't know if it was a person or something else, that was why I went alone, I didn't want to put any of you in danger..."

"You sense Mana, are you a mage" a voice asked making everyone freeze and slowly look at the person, it was the silver hair girl.

"You startled us" Lily shouted.

"You heard it wrong, no one here is a mage" Arya said smiling.

"You know, I was behind the carriage all this while, infected wolves, sensing Mana and being a mage, I heard all that" she pointed out.

Ray sighed, "this is why I don't say anything".

"You can't tell anyone what you heard" Jack said to her.

"Don't worry I don't talk much, and answer my question, are you a mage?"

"Yes I am, but you can't tell anyone!" Ray said to her.

"Then what are you doing in the knight academy, you are supposed to go to the mage academy" the girl said.

"He can't perform magic that well, that's why" Jack told her before Ray could even speak.

"What are infected wolves" the girl asked.

"What's your name by the way?" Arya asked the silver hair girl.

"I'm Leia nice to meet you" she said to them, the group then saw all the students coming towards their carriages.

The Knights went back to the villages after bringing Ray to the join the remaining students, surprisingly none of the wolves that was killed dropped crystals.

All the wolves disintegrated and left no trace behind making the knights shocked, or maybe someone had taken them all.

"Do you think that beast that we saw had something to do with all this" Alfred said.

"I really don't know, maybe it was something else" Authur sighed.

"Do you think that boy had something to do with it?..." Alfred asked Authur.

"I don't think so, there is no way he would know about this".