God of Tricksters

It didn’t take too long for the teachers to begin selecting their students. As expected, Ruby and Eric were the favorites for different reasons.

Meanwhile, some of Theo’s students decided to go together with Grace while feeling ashamed. They convinced themselves that Eric was the cause, not realizing the fact that they had fallen into the situation Eric described. The loser would always convince themselves that it was fine to fail.

This was why Theo picked Grace as the first one. It seemed that he didn’t make a wrong decision.

Not long after that, the students were distributed evenly. Of course, seven people from Theo picked him because they couldn’t get into any other groups. In other words, there were only thirteen students who picked Theo out of their own choice.

Surprisingly, two out of them were actually monsters. If they distributed themselves evenly as well, there would be twenty monsters in this class alone. And if he calculated the other classes as well, then he was expecting a hundred monsters to infiltrate their place.

“Since you have chosen your own teacher, then you’re free to hold your lecture. There are a lot of rooms you can use as your classrooms, so please pick whatever room you like.”

The teachers nodded their heads while Eric immediately declared, “I’m going to use this huge hall! So, all of you leave this place right now!”

“!!!” The people were dumbfounded by Eric’s action. Even Grace narrowed her eyes, only to stop because one of her brothers was actually among the students under Eric. Even Theo patted her shoulder to stop her.

“Follow me to the field,” said Theo while walking away from the room.

“Hmph. I’m going to show them that the people who chose you have made the wrong choice,” said Eric in contempt.

“Yeah, yeah. At the very least, I’m not like a dog. Isn’t there an idiom for it? What is it again?” Theo chuckled. “Haha, that’s right. The weaker the dog, the louder it barks.”

“You!” Eric gritted his teeth as his killing intent leaked out of his body.

“Are you going to fight in front of the students? So immature.” Theo sighed in disappointment.

Eric clenched his fists. He wanted to punch him in the face, but as Theo said, they were in front of the students.

Even though he didn’t do anything, Eric shouted inwardly, ‘Just you wait, you bastard. I’m going to make you regret it!’

Theo ignored him, considering there was no one in the Salvatore Family who posed a threat to him. In fact, they should be the ones cowering in fear if they plan to fight him.

Hence, Theo simply led the group into the field outside while muttering, “I guess this is good enough.”

“What are we going to do here, Teacher? Are we going to fight?” Grace asked.

“Nope.” Theo snapped his finger. Suddenly, a fire appeared on top of the grass and burned them.

“This is…” Grace widened her eyes in surprise. The fire burned the grasses and created a circle on the ground.

Theo pointed at the circle and said, “I’m going to test your limit first. Since you should have heard from the conversation already that Magic Combat will need a lot of physical ability. Hence, I want all of you to run until you reach your limit so that I know how much I can teach you. Go!”

“That… Teacher… don’t you think it’s a bit inappropriate? I mean, I haven’t changed my clothes to comfortable ones.” Grace scratched the back of her head, trying to reason with Theo. She was still wearing a short heel and a knee-length skirt.

However, Theo shook his head and simply said, “No. Do you think you’ll always be fighting your enemies when you’re ready? No. Monsters will often sneak up on you. You don’t have the time to prepare yourself.”

“That’s…” Grace couldn’t say anything to refute his words. Even the others could only look at the people next to them, wondering what they should do. They even thought they had chosen the wrong teacher.

As expected from the number one student in his class, Grace bit her lips and tied her hair into a ponytail.

She lowered her knees and touched the charred ground, feeling a bit of heat from it. She bit her lips and took off her heels before starting to run. Instead of running in the circle he made, she actually ran a few inches away from the black circle.

“I’m sure you have no objection to this, right, Mr. Ary? I have to deal with all kinds of problems, but it doesn’t change the fact that I’m free to do whatever I want to cope with my situation. And running outside your circle can prevent me from burning my feet but still follow your instruction.”

Theo smiled and simply took a step back as if he didn’t have any problem with it.

Seeing Grace’s enthusiasm, the others felt like they had to do it since they were already stuck with this teacher.

They bit their lips and began to run as well. Some also took off their heels and uncomfortable shoes, while others followed the black track completely.

‘There are three people with Normal Rank, four in Elite Rank, three in Champion Rank, five in Hero Rank, and five more in Supreme Rank. Well, that’s fine, I guess, since I can also do some research here.

‘Besides, the two monsters are both Elite Rank and Supreme Rank respectively. So, I wonder what they’re going to do next…’ Theo smirked as if he had planned something evil.

He kept watching the people run endlessly as if Theo never had the intention to stop them until they dropped.

“Teacher, can I ask how many laps we are going to do today?” Grace asked.

“Run until you reach your limit. When you think you can’t run anymore, raise your hand,” answered Theo with a calm expression, watching them run. Even Grace didn’t understand why Theo wanted them to do this instead of improving their stamina step by step.