Leaving aside the fact that Calvin and the others didn’t do anything in the fight against the fire djinns, previously they managed quite good when they had to improvise a shelter against the snow and that was the original purpose of the training.
Besides they “found”, the things the Greenwich Sage hid in the ice, so technically they fulfilled the conditions to approve the survival class, so now there was no point in staying at this place.
Still, they couldn’t just leave, Aura came here secretly so Richard, Boris and Aliya weren’t aware of her presence and all the situation surrounding Dimas was a sensitive subject, so for the time being it will be considered a top secret.
Daimon understood Aura’s intention and he nodded as he turned to see his classmates and spoke.
“Don’t ask me about what happened here today, also we’ll keep Dimas’s existence as a secret… for everyone that isn’t present right now okay?”.
One by one all the other members of the elite class nodded, Dimas has been hidden for a good reason, if other races get to know about his existence, then a war will start, a living emperor level creature is basically a treasure.
While he might not cooperate and teach them how to reach the emperor realm, his flesh, blood, bones, claws, fangs, scales and even more importantly his magic core, were things that would make all the factions drool due to greed.
Although the magic formation will prevent them from killing Dimas, it would be a pain in the ass to deal with the ruckus that his mere existence will cause, especially the magic bests which have maintained out of the picture, will probably enter a war either to drag Dimas to their side or to consume him and evolve.
Yvonne doubted for a moment before she pointed at what used to be a mountain scenery.
“How are we going to deal with the rest of the class… the mountain mentioned by my grandfather is gone?”.
Daimon looked at Dimas which made him nod, his scales illuminated and the floor trembled as new mountains made out of ice rose to replace the ones that were destroyed due to Agramy’s flames.
Even the cave reformed as if nothing happened, of course Dimas left an opening on the roof so that they could easily leave anytime.
Liz noticed what Daimon was about to do and she called the other students.
“Let’s go, I’ll take you to the surface with me”, with a wave of her hand everyone but Daimon floated towards the open space Dimas left on the roof, the distance between the cave and the surface was about five kilometers so Daimon waited about ten minutes.
He walked towards the cages that were imprisoning the other fire djinns, of course he couldn’t let such good servant materials go to waste, especially because he was interested in getting all the information possible about their native land and how they appeared in the planet of the Caddle family.
And he wasn’t sure if the regulation lightning will kill them, so Daimon wasn’t going to test it with Agramy since he has the power of an Arch ranked, and he had a long life to atone for looking at Liz.
With a wave of his hand, screams came from the inside of the cages, as Daimon used little amounts of demon light to give them a little taste of hell.
“You captain has been dealt with by me, do you want to die or do you prefer submission, you have five seconds to choose”, he said in a loud voice to make sure they could hear him.
Considering the other option was killing them, letting them become his servants wasn’t that bad, the only problem is that they needed to fear him and Daimon didn’t want the others to think he was torturing the djinns for fun, while he also couldn’t just say “I can make them completely obey me if they fear me”.
So, Liz took the others with her, while Daimon did what he needed, that being said not even ten seconds after Daimon spoke, many notifications appeared in front of him.
[Fire djinn “Gars” has offered his loyalty, do you wish to accept it Y/N]
[Fire djinn “Dalton” has offered his loyalty, do you wish to accept it Y/N]
[Fire djinn “Samna” has offered his loyalty, do you wish to accept it Y/N]
[Fire djinn “Paindra” has offered his loyalty, do you wish to accept it Y/N]
[Fire djinn “Alesh” has offered his loyalty, do you wish to accept it Y/N]
[Fire djinn “Sagar” has offered his loyalty, do you wish to accept it Y/N]
[Fire djinn “Lasaar” has offered his loyalty, do you wish to accept it Y/N]
[New items available in the shop]
With a nod all the messages disappeared and he also dispelled demon light, then opened the shop to see what were the new things, but there was just one thing which had a yellow admiration symbol on it.
[Amphora ring: Made out of a special material which can contain any spiritual creature as long as it has submitted to the user (max number of spirits 10)]
[Price: 100,000 coins]
Daimon was slightly surprised, over the years he has explored the items available in the shop, most of them were locked since he was too weak to use them, but this ring wasn’t there.
“The system has a lot of data, but just like how you unlock skills after certain actions, the shop will update itself according to the knowledge you get and your current level… you could say that the items which were available since the beginning were a “courtesy”, the rest you will need to unlock them yourself”, said Evangeline.
Daimon nodded, there were so many aspects of the system he still had to learn, but for now he bought the ring since he needed it.
“You can let them out now, he said to Dimas.
The cages disappeared letting the remaining fire djinns “free”, surprisingly they had no wounds, but their faces as lizardmen were pale, demon light didn’t actually touch them, but just being exposed to it was enough to cause their true forms as spirits a fearsome amount of pain.
Something that Daimon noticed thanks to Agramy separating from the body he was possessing, was that the lizardman was only a mage lord when it was alive, so apparently the body didn’t affect their strength.
“All of you leave the lizardmen bodies and enter this”, said Daimon to the djinns as he pointed at brown ring, he was now wearing on his left index finger.
The djinns obeyed they separated from the lizardmen, unlike Agramy they had no solid form and just looked like wisps of fire, which was the basic form for the fire djinn race.
The amphora ring glowed and the seven djinns entered it, leaving behind the corpses of the lizardmen, Daimon confirmed his previous theory since they were all star ranked members of the Caddle family.
“I guess this is convenient, the death of an Arch ranked would have attracted a lot of attention, but one mage lord and a few star ranked disappearing is not that uncommon considering all the magic beasts that live underground in desert planets”, he thought.
Needless to say, but Dimas was surprised, he had no idea of why the djinns suddenly decided to obey Daimon, to the point that they discarded the bodies they possessed, as he ordered.
But ultimately it wasn’t his place to ask about it, everyone has its secrets after all, and Aura was still giving him a cold sharp gaze, so he only said goodbye not without saying.
“Don’t forget to bring some nice food, also I don’t mind you taking those things I found in the ice, but also bring some books or something to spend time the next time you come, this place is freaking boring”.
Daimon smiled and Aura which stayed helped him float towards the hole on the ice roof, after a couple of minutes Aura created a small barrier around them with her mana and then said what was in her mind.
“Why didn’t you let me “hunt” that serpent… it’s been sometime since I found an interesting prey, I’m pretty sure that if I se my domain combined with “supreme radiance”, I will be able to finish it”.
Daimon wrapped his arm around Aura’s waist and dragged her into his arms, her tail wagged as she felt the warmness of her lover enveloping her body.
“If I had felt the slightest ill intention, I wouldn’t mind you eliminating him, but that wasn’t the case, even Liz’s heart mirror didn’t have a negative reaction, besides I think there is something weird going on… that magic ruin, and now this ice basilisk no one has heard of along with the djinns, it’s too much to be a coincidence”.
Aura nodded.
“I guess he can be an ally some powerful expert left behind for our wonder myriad stellar chart, before leaving that would explain that weird inscription and that magic formation I have never seen before”.
“Still the next time both me and Erin will come, I want her to confirm that serpent isn’t scheming something just in case, okay?”.
Daimon smiled, he kissed Aura and then caressed her ears a couple of times.
“Everything for my cute master”.
“Hmm ♥”, Aura let out a cute sound due to the comfortable feeling of having her ears teased by her lover, she felt the urge to jump over Daimon, but they were reaching the surface so she gently bit his neck as she whispered.
“Teasing your master, I will have to “punish” you later”.
After saying that they returned to be a “normal” master and student as they left the breach in the ice which Dimas opened for them, on the surface Liz, Aisha and the others were waiting for them.
As soon as Daimon landed on the ice floor, Aura used space shift to return to the academy, not without giving Daimon a suggestive gaze, which Lis and Aisha perfectly recognized.
“We were here freezing in the ice and you two were flirting with each other”, they both said through the mental connection making Daimon laugh at their reaction.