
The Fire Dragon Lord Academy. It was the Academy located in the southern part of the continent, far beyond the imperial territory, where there were magnificent towering skyline buildings connected to each other. Close to the mountainous region on the west side and the ocean on the east side.
The place where the Fire Dragon Lord's followers were trained. As orphans like the Bearwood brothers, Kai and Liona, living in the Academy when they were little was not too different from anywhere else, no, it was actually much better.
Although it is located in a place where road access is lacking. The giant academy of followers is well maintained without any economic problems, because the east wind brings clouds making rainfall there high enough, plus the presence of fertile soil volcanic ash makes agricultural problems resolved.
It is not a problem for administrators to care for some child victims of war, victims of robbery, or children who have lost their villages and families. Even though nobles generally viewed children without families as nothing more than a financial problem, but for the Academy Professors, this was a great opportunity to add followers.
There was no second choice for Kai other than to rely on the kindness the Academy offered.
Year one. When Kai and Liona were four years old, eating and playing and growing up every year, they lived a normal childlike life, their manager is a professor who teaches how important learning is to survival.
The years passed very quickly, until when Kai started going to elementary school where he could feel sitting on a chair while blowing the smell of a book every morning. Even though her classmates had known her since she was in the orphanage, the only difference was when she looked at the private room of the Academy dormitory with a small laugh as Liona did something stupid.
Learning is not a problem from the beginning, even before they start school, children are actually very good at reading. If only the age is not taken into account, maybe they can get administrative work in the manor mansion, nobility, of course, with the fact that most people in every country are not taught to read or write, it is a major factor in the need for educated people. Studying at the Academy is a luxury for ordinary people.
Here Kai and Liona are taught the basics of being a true follower. Just as when the habits of the community when done continuously will eventually become a culture, the habits that a person does from childhood will eventually become their personality. Something that if viewed from a general point of view would be considered Irrational, it would be Rational in their eyes.
Such a powerful doctrine, has taken deep root.
Kai was very fond of practicing swords since childhood, and fortunately there are professors who want to teach. However, survival skills are very important for a follower, either because talent or other things make Kai sword skills increase very rapidly.
Kai at first thought that he was indeed very suitable to become a knight.
Where the final exam is held. It was a test in which professors drew conclusions based on what they sowed and observed for a long time, without being noticed by the students, if the professors stated directly in the end it would be a failure from the very beginning.
The goal is clear. To find potential students who are able to think in a structured, systematic, and logical, and think based on the law of cause and effect.the ability to reason accurately while preparing a prevention plan in a relatively short time.
Not only magic and sword skills, but also the power of reasoning that is able to connect it to one perfection.
A human weapon of the followers that ensures their future survival, a weapon capable of pursuing and destroying its target with terrible efficiency.
And Kai is one of the few children who fits when the professors know the potential of his magic abilities, although not as big as Liona, but Kai has the ability to become a witch.
A person like Kai is a perfect match for the Magic Swordman. Unlike a pure magician or Swordman who could supplement the flaws with teamwork, the Magic Swordman was able to do so alone without teamwork. At least the professors looked at him like that.
In addition, Kai's thinking ability is very far above students his age when the test results are announced to make many eyes glance at him. Liona looked at Kai as an admirable kaka, soon after which they separated. Kai becomes one of the special class students to become a true follower of the professors' eyes.
The learning method is like hell, where the things that make human abilities are pushed to the end of the last limit, squeezing the contents of their heads to get solutions and utilizing what they have to survive. Blood drops and peer sacrifices are just the way to gain strength.
Almost every month, Kai's colleagues are lost one by one, to the point where Kai looks at a colleague who has no more than a bunch of data from a piece of paper. Like how a lump of iron is polished to be used as a sword, Kai grows into a person who does not have the feeling of thinking rationally without morality.
Years passed in training. Kai fully understands how the surrounding environment acts, and what the professors really want him to do, so Kai gets his plans for the final exam.
The day of the exam. That place is a monstrous labyrinth near the Academy, Kai and his partner are assigned to eradicate the Chimera Drakness Dragon Lord.
If Kai is faced with an opponent he cannot defeat, there are only a few options one of which is to retreat and prepare a plan or go forward to negotiate. But the real problem is the fact that the Chimera is just a creature that acts on killing instinct alone, there is no choice of negotiation from the start, even more so in the conditions where Kai and his partner must fight the Chimera who from the beginning closed their escape route. Therefore Kai must carry out his plan, a plan in which Kai breaks down the enemy's power at the expense of a manipulated colleague and stabs the Chimera in the head when the creature is helpless.
The clapping of the professors with a hideous smile full of madness grew louder when he saw Kai the only surviving child. This is what the professors wanted, Kai realized early on when the piece of information he was deliberately reading carefully.
Not only energy, the ability to think is also a strength.
A person who does not realize their own strength and the strength of their opponent later, then goes to war by clinging to the magic and unfounded spirit then wins miraculously, it's only in a little children's book. Where in the end the book will be burned by the Professors for teaching real ignorance to his students.
Unlike Kai, Liona enjoys school comfortably like most Fire Dragon Lord followers. Peaceful days as always, full of happiness and teamwork.
Kai, who considers Liona as the only family, makes Kai have to put a smiley face like a normal student behind the insanity instinct that is too deep rooted, all for the sake of his sister.
After the two of them graduated, the Academy gave the two options, first whether they want to stay here and live a normal life or go out looking for information about the circumstances to be noted is then sent to the Academy.
Liona chose the second option.
Time lasts long enough. Although at first it was just a lie but if it continues to be the truth, Little by little Kai's thinking ability and madness instinct are getting thin, all because Kai always meets Liona's request.
But the memories and instincts of someone deeply rooted would never die. It's like waiting to be opened at any time.
He began to wake up and opened his eyes and looked at the darkness. The stench of blood smelled from all sides.
"Where's This?"
Kai starts to get up and walks, but the chains that tie his neck make Kai fall backwards.
"That's probably because of the beer I drank last night"
After his consciousness began to recover, Kai began to pay attention around. His hand held the chain and tried to release it.
"Wait, where is this? "
Kai began to wonder in his mind about what was really going on. Until when the glimmer of light from the corner began to shine in the darkness.
The horrible sight of a man without flesh, lying right in the other prison. The person was still breathing but his eyes could only stare without saying anything.
The only thing Kai thought about when he saw that was just someone's name.
"Where's Liona?? "
Looking left and right, there was only a person inside the iron bars. There was no figure of Liona anywhere she turned her head, instead a terrifying sight when Kai saw the other bars, each filled with human corpses.
"NO!!..NO!!!....LIONE!!"
Hands forward while chanting a mantra.
"Oh the great Fire Dragon Lord.. Please lend me your strength----"
The magic circle that started to form, suddenly shattered instantly. That's all because in the middle of the prison there is an iron pole that contains a kind of spell inscribed there.
"Cannot be. Anti-magic? "
This situation Kai never imagined while with Liona. Liona is a pretty smart girl, Kai doesn't have to think of anything troublesome as long as the two of them are together, it makes Kai's thinking instincts dull, and in return he can live like a normal adventurer.
"Chkk!!.. "
Kai clicks his tongue on him in the past, which does not rule out the possibility of Liona being fooled by an ally from behind.
An uneasy feeling filled Kai.
Magic Swordman without magic would only be an ordinary person, if only Kai was a pure Swordman he might be able to break the bars of iron with physical alone.
As if starting to despair, the magic spell Trus was said. And each magic circle began to form it began to disintegrate instantly.
"O Fire Dragon Lord-.. O Fire Dragon Lord-.... O Fire Drago - - -"
Little by little Mana Kai's magic began to drain.
"O Fire Dragon Lord-.. O Fire Dra---.... Oh Fi---"
Kai's energy began to drain and consciousness began to blur. However, suddenly a dazzling light emerged from Kai's chest, the light was so bright while forming a magic circle right under his feet.
Kai who saw that realized something.
Holding the necklace on the chest then throwing it.
DUARR!!
The sound of explosions was heard very loudly making echoes in the hallway that had been quiet. Fog began to cover the view, and a large hole from the explosion above Kai was now visible.
The chain that had tied Kai's neck was now broken in some parts so that Kai could release it.
The fire dome that protected Kai from the explosion, began to extinguish in the earth swallow..