Beast Evolution

Ray's hands were back to normal and his strength was higher than it was, and he also infused Ki in the first attack and swung the sword with all his might.

Ray jumped back as soon as Jake blocked the first attack and infused Ki again planning for the second attack when Jake stopped him.

"That's okay" Jake spoke stopping Ray in his tracks.

"Huh! but I didn't do anything..." Ray said in disappointment.

"That's not why we are training, I was told you were injured that's why you are not taking part in the upcoming tournament"

"Yes Sir, but I can fight comfortably now, my hands are okay" Ray declared immediately.

"I can see that, I'll tell Authur to let you participate in the tournament," Jake said and Ray's face lighted up immediately.

"You would do that, thank you Sir, thank you Sir" Ray yelled.

"I want you to do something for me, it's an easy task," Jake said.

"I'll do anything, just name it" Ray spoke almost immediately.

"Are you that desperate, why didn't you tell me what happened, I would have talked to Authur"

"I was told not to tell anyone about it, and the knights told me that even though my hands get better I shouldn't think of joining the tournament"

"You are my student, I have the right to tell you to join or not as long as you are capable of participating," Jake said.

"Thank you Sir, so what did you want me to do?" Ray asked.

Now that Jake was going to talk to the senior knights, he didn't need to stress himself with learning the spell, he would learn it gradually instead of trying it in a day.

"I want you to win the tournament..."

"Y-You want me to win? I don't understand? To win I have to beat the second-year and third-year students, is that possible?" Ray asked with a questioning expression.

"Yes, I want you to win...among all the first-year students, some of you are exceptional so I believe that is possible," Jake said.

"But why me, I'm sure there's Gabriel, Leia, and the rest of them"

"You are not the only one I told, I told five other students"

"So you want us to win against the upperclassmen, is there a reason?" Ray asked.

"I have a debt to settle," Jake said seriously, Ray had never seen Jake so serious so that means this is really important.

"I'll try my best Sir" Ray concluded.

"Okay, I expect to see you in training this afternoon, I was told you went outside the city"

"Yes Sir, my magic instructor took me out for training," Ray said.

'But we didn't train at all' Ray mumbled inwardly.

"Okay, you can go...get ready for training," Jake said and Ray left immediately.

'Selena spoiled my chance of checking that Knight's room, I know I would have found what that knight was hiding, the system told me it was dark energy same as an infected beast'

'Does that means humans can also be infected, but a knight of Avalon wouldn't make a deal with the enemy... except it's someone impersonating a knight'

'That bastard that attacked us on our way back to the academy' Ray cursed inwardly.

Ray stopped in his tracks, he remembered the mage that transformed into one of the mages and lured the senior knights so that a beast could kill them.

Immediately Ray turned around, he was on his way to his dorm but this matter requires urgency, he didn't know if the senior knights were around and Selena had left the academy so he ran back to the swords class training ground.

'Shit...shit why didn't I think of this the first time, I should have told the knights, they would have checked it out' Ray cursed inwardly as he ran.

"What's wrong," Jake asked as Ray ran in.

"Something is wrong" Ray spoke with urgency in his voice.

"Calm down, what is the matter?" Jake held Ray's shoulders as he asked.

"I think there is an intruder in the knight academy" Ray spoke.

"An intruder...are you sure about that? where is this intruder?" Jake asked calmly.

"I'm positive there is an intruder, it's one of the knights, it's someone disguised as a knight"

"Disguised...you mean a mage, how did you find out?" Jake asked.

"That's not important, he had a potion bottle filled with a strange liquid, we have to find it now," Ray said with urgency.

"Do you know the knight or where to find this potion bottle?"

"I tailed the knight to his room, we should check there, you have access, right? we have to hurry"

Both of them left the building immediately and ran towards the knights' dorm.

'This must be really important, but how did he find out when none of the other knights knew' Jake pondered.

They arrived at the knight dorm quickly and walked in, the knights greeted Jake and looked at him surprised that he came with a kid.

"It's upstairs," Ray said and Jake led the way.

All the knights they passed stared at Ray wondering what he was doing in their dorm but he didn't pay attention to any of them.

His mind was somewhere else at the moment, worst case scenario the mage opens a portal and summons beasts to the knight academy.

They quickly arrived upstairs and went straight to the knight's room, Ray saw the room the last time he was there.

"This room?" Jake asked.

"Yes, this is the one" Ray whispered.

"If I'm correct this is Darwin's room, how would he be an intruder" Jake mumbled to himself before opening the door.

The room was empty and it wasn't locked, there were two beds on each side of the room and it was larger than Ray's room.

Two tables and two chairs were on both sides of the beds, and each room in the knight dorm was shared by two people, the knights living in the knights' dorm were knights that had graduated from the knight academy and work as guards to protect the city.