MYTH University

Chapter 04 - First Lesson

"Nah, I'd rather sit somewhere not crowded." I said to which the larger brown wolf whined, "Awww come on Tom! please?" He beg, I sighed, "Alright fine."

I start walking towards Ian and Ray, as some of the students in this room looked at me with curiosity. 

"Isn't he the guy who defeated that holographic beast?" A human whispered towards a fox, "Yeah, I've heard that it was a Chaos Rank beast..." The fox whispered back.

"How is he able to defeat the beast? He looks weak though..."  A she cat whispered to her friend, to which her friend nodded, "Maybe there's a trick to it?"

Ouch... My feelings, but I really don't care, I just want to finish college and became an adventurer.

I also noticed a shark from my side, who was looking at me with a smile, I think I've seen him from the entrance test.

I just shrug as I continued walking, when I arrived to where Ian and Ray seated, some of the students move away for me to sit, I swear I heard some girl click their tongue.

'I can smell jealousy in the air." I said in my mind, before I could even take a seat Ian stops me, "Don't sit there, sit between me and Ray." He said, "Why? Can't I sit here?"

He then whined again and beg once more, "Please Tom?..." While Ray only chuckled as he watch us.

Oh my god, so annoying.

I then move a bit, As I take a seat between them, "I hope your comfortable~" "I'm not." I said to which he whined slightly in response.

"Stop whining..." I said, He chuckled, "Right my apologies." Ian said.

He sure is still the same guy I use to remember, I'm glad he hasn't changed.

"By the way Thomas, Why did the dean called you?" Ray asked, "Oh uh, he had something to talk with me on about, it's nothing important really." I said to which the panther stared at me for a while, before shrugging, "If you say so."

Few minutes later, our professor then arrived, causing everyone to go to their proper seats. When he entered, we all were quite surprised that our professor was a Cerberus, He was huge and quite muscular at that.

I noticed the left head was sleeping, while the middle one wore glasses, as for the right one, Jeez he looks scary with that huge scar on his face.

"Alright everyone, before we begin our class, we will first introduce ourselves." The middle head said, he then flick his finger as their name started appearing on the chalkboard.

"We will be your Gift Professor, we are mainly focused on teaching you to control your gifts." The right head said.

"You may address us Professor, The left one is Professor Razif, I'm Professor Razin, and the right one is Professor Razier." The middle said, "Now then, who here knows the history about the gifts you all posses? I'm sure that you have learned this in your high school years"

No one raised their hands so I'm assuming some of them doesn't know, before I could even raise my hand, the red wolf raised his hand first.

"Yes Mister Nicholas?" The right head said, so his name is Nicholas.

He stood up and responded, "It was about 45 years ago, the first two known heroes that possesses a Gift and an Artifact, they were also the first two who fought the beast bravely, and their name were Druven and Rosari."

They clap their hands as the red wolf then sat down, "Very well done mister Nicholas." Professor Razin said with an impressed smile.

"So yes, Mister Nicholas is correct, it all started by those two well known hero, Druven is a beastmen and he was the most powerful artifact user, while Rosari is a human, she was the most powerful gift user, they were the ones who fend of the beasts 45 years ago." Professor Razin explained as everyone nodded in understanding.

"Moving from our current time now, as more years goes by, the gifts and artifacts spread in our community, to which people started inventing 4 split powers called 'Roles' and those are Offense, Defense, Support, and Domain. Could anyone explain what are the purposes of each roles?" Professor Razier said as everyone raised their hands.

"You, Mr. Ian." Razin said as Ian stood up, "Offense role is where most artifact and gift users focus on attacking, using offensive skills and spells." Ian explained as the professors nodded, "You're correct." Ian then sat down.

"Anyone else care to explain the other roles?" Razier continued as everyone raised their hands once more.

"Mister Ray?" He called to which Ray then stood up, "Defense role is where most of the users focuses on increasing  others defenses or defending yourself or them from certain attacks." Ray explained to which the professor nodded again.

I just don't want to raise my hand, since I can tell everyone seems to know the answer, "Mr. Thomason."

Oh of course... 

"It's seem you aren't raising your hand, so I would like you to explain the two remaining roles." Razier said, I slightly groaned as I then stood up.

"Support role mostly focused on increasing your allies Power, Vitality, Inner-Focus, and so much more, but they are also capable on making the enemy weak. Domain is one of the hardest roles to control, since a person needs to control their mentality and sanity, but if one manages to create a domain, they will be able to control the surrounding, treating its as their own domain." I explained, to which the professors nodded quite rather impressed.

"And here we thought you do not learned anything." The middle and right head chuckled, "You may sit down" I nodded as I then sat down.

"Now then, as all of you heard their explanation, those are correct. Some are actually capable on two roles, for example, Offense combined with Defense, It's a common role combination compared to the other roles, such as Offense combined with Support, or Defense combined with Support." Professor Razin explained to which everyone nodded in understanding.

"But sir, what about the Domain role?" The shark asked, "Oh umm, that is actually hard to master, but their are a few people can manage combing Domain with different roles. Like the current powerful gift user, Alexander Raygrant." Razin said as the shark made an 'ooooh' expression.

Yeah, my old man is strong, I'm really impressed he could able to cast a domain, back then I use to think that I will be able to cast a domain just like my father, but that shit is hard...

I sighed, when I look at my right side, there was a panther who was looking at me, with a slight confused expression, "What?" I asked.

"Wait... your full name is Thomason Raygrant right?..." Ray whispered, "Uh.. yes I am?" I whispered back.

His expression then suddenly changed and was about to shout, but before he even could I covered his mouth with my paw, "Shout, I dare!" I whispered while glaring to him, He shook his head.

I then removed my paw from his mouth, "Dude! Why didn't you told me you're the son of Alexander!!" He whispered excitedly.

"You never asked... and plus I don't want people crowding me." I whispered back to him, to which he nodded, "Ahhh, fair enough. But seriously man! I would like to met him someday! I'm such a big fan of him!!" Ray whispered, "Yeah I can tell." I whispered back, "Please Thomas!! Please!! Please!!" He whispered again as he beg.

I stop and think for a moment, before I sighed, "Fine I guess, I'll try asking my father..." I whispered back, as he gleamed from excitement, accidentally shouted yes in the class.

"Mr. Ray, Is there something you would like to share with us?" Professor Razin said as he glared towards the panther.

"Oh uh, Nothing professor, my apologies." Ray said as he chuckled, while scratching the back of his neck.

The professor glared one last time to him, before continuing the lecture.

Everything was the same as you would expect from a college, learn and learn, but stuff are way more advance I'm gonna admit that, you need to learn on about Mana Gauge, Mentality Control, and so much more.

Well yeah, I still remember that time when I first got my gift, the first time I used it was idiotic, it made me cause a nosebleed and same goes to my eyes, every gift has limits and there's always a side-effect.

The first class ended and it was alright, but there's just this panther, Ray, who won't stop asking me about my dad, his really a big fan-boy towards my dad.

"Ray... you should give Tom a space to breath, you've been asking him a lot in the class already." Ian said towards Ray, "Oh! right, sorry Thomas." Ray chuckled.

"Nah, it's fine." I said, "By the way Thomas, can I also call you Tom?" Ray asked, to which I shrugged and replied, "Sure, why not."

When I glance at my left, I notice that Ian was glaring towards Ray, I slightly tilted my head, "Something wrong Ian?" I asked as he look at me and shook his head, "Oh uh... nothing." He responded, I raised my eyebrows before just shrugging it off.

Few minutes had passed, our next professor then arrived, He was a black wolf and his seriously jacked up, I can also noticed our professor has a lot of scars on his body, so I'm guessing his our artifact professor.

"Good morning everyone, I'm Professor Derick Gruvert, your Artifacts Tutor, for our first lesson, we will be doing a Weapon Wielding exercise in the gym." Professor Derick said, "Wait professor, isn't a bit too early to do that?" Ian asked.

"It's better to prepare Mr. Ian." Professor Derick responded, to which Ian nodded.

"Now everyone, I want you all to head to the gym and change to your PE uniforms in the locker room, I'll catch up, I need to get something first." He claps his hands commanding everyone to start as all of us head towards the separated gym's locker room.

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I started unbuttoning my uniform as I then remove it revealing my decent built body and then placed it on the bench, when I turn around I noticed that everyone was staring at me, "What?" I said.

"Why... why do you have a huge scar on your back?... I don't recall you having it before." Ian said, worried in his voice, while Ray look at me with a worried expression, I slightly raised my eyebrow, "Oh uh, that."

"This happened around uhh.. 4 years ago? I was out hiking through the woods to clear my minds up, but a high ranking beast out of nowhere appeared and attacked me to which the result on the huge scar on my back, I almost died that time but luckily my dad found me and saved me that time." I explained as I let out a slight chuckled as they stare at me for a while.

"What?! What were you thinking Tom!" Ian shouted, I slightly snorted, "Pfft, yeah I know that it was idiotic for me to wander around the woods."

"Did you think that was funny?..." Ian said, "Yeah Tom! you should be more careful." Ray added, I sighed, "I know and I'm sorry, I'm more careful than I was, I just had to clear my mind that time." I said as I then walk towards my locker and grabbed my PE uniform then wore it.

Both of them sighed as I hear them walk close towards me, Ian then put his hand on my shoulder, "If I was there, I would have been able to protect you." He said, "But you weren't." I responded with a slight chuckle, things went silent after I replied.

I sighed and turn around, "Look, it's fine, I'm alive don't I?" I said as I then ruffle Ian's hair, "Don't you cry, I'm bad at comforting people aight?" I chuckled, Ian chuckled back, "I'm not."

I smiled, "You two should get dressed now, professor Derick is probably waiting already." I said, "Oh right!" Ian said as he wore his PE uniform, "Already dressed!" Ray added, "Good for you." I smiled again.

"Anyways lets get going." I said as I exit the locker room as the both of them nodded and then followed me.

"Hey Ray, aren't you a  gift user?" I asked to which he nodded, "Yeah I am!" Ray replied, "Then why are you taking professor Derick's lesson?"

"Well, my gift is mostly on close combat, so I took professor Derick's lesson, It'll help me control more and learn more on close combat." He replied as I nodded in understanding, "Oh, make sense."

"What about you Tom? aren't you a gift user as well?" Ian asked, "Ian... you're not the only one here who loves wielding weapons." I replied with a smile, he stop and think for a moment, before realizing something.

"Wait... you're a gift and artifact user?" Ian asked with a still slight confused on his face, I grinned, "Maybe?" Ian only chuckled, "I'll take that as a yes then." He said while Ray look at me with a surprised expression on his face.

"I swear Ray, if you're going to shout me being one, I'll seal you're mouth with duck tape." I said, "I wasn't going to!" Ray said as he dramatically whined, Me and Ian chuckled, "Sure you won't" Ian said.

"Alright, now everyone is here, I want you all to pick a weapon that i suited on you handling it." Professor Derick started as he pointed towards a weapon rack, "Wow, that's a lot of weapons."

We all then head towards the weapon rack, as each students pick their selected weapons one by one, Ian took a great sword while Ray took a knuckle duster. I look around for a moment, as I then noticed a certain sword on the left, I then grabbed it.

"Ah, Chain Blade, are you sure  you wanna use that? that's quite hard to use." Professor Derick said, I nodded "Yeah, my father teach me to use this before." I tightly grip on the handle, causing the blade to turn like a chain, I swing it around for a bit, before releasing the grip as it turn back.

"As expected to the son of Alexander, I expect greater things to you kid." Professor Derick said, I slightly chuckled, "Don't professor, I may disappoint you, but I will try my best." I replied to which the adult black wolf nodded.

I then walk towards Ian and Ray, "Oh you picked a broad sword? Nice!" Ian said, "Uhh, yeah?" I replied.

Well, it's not actually a broad sword, but ok, "You picked a knuckle duster huh Ray?" I said to which he nodded, "Yeah, I feel suited with this type of weapon." Ray said, "Of course you are."

"Alright, I will call two names and you both will fight. That I will observe on what mistakes you did, so I can tell and teach on you how to handle it right." Professor Derick said.

"Now then, lets begin."

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:DDDDDDD Ima funni stop the gym scene for now sorry bout that haha, but maybe well see how Thomas handles a weapon later next chapter :] hue hue, anyways i hope yall enjoy this chapter :D, Ima also do Ian's POV next chapter, but ill also add thomas's a little of course, anyways thats all, i have to funni study :c

chow :D