My Soul card is a Reaper

A few hours later at Azzy's dungeon;

"Look, a student finally arrived," said the principal of Maple Academy, pointing his finger in the east.

Azzy turned in the direction and saw a familiar-looking teenager far away, walking toward them. "It's Ace…" Principal Danvary of the hosting academy let out a cry of surprise. He couldn't contain his excitement and shook Azzy's right shoulder. "Can't believe the student of 10-B would beat others to the race."

"Ace is talented. Too bad he can't fit into a team," commented Azzy in response, indicating that he isn't the right candidate for an organization like WAMO.

"No, what he needs is a good mentor," The Principal disagreed with his statement, not intending to let the scout hear such bad things about their student. He added, "Unlike other elite students, he came from a poor financial background and studied under a scholarship program. If he gets enough support, he will reach great heights in the future."

Contrary to how the principal thinks of the boy, Azzy doesn't have a great impression of him. But then again, he doesn't need to argue with him on this matter.

Hence, he didn't comment on it and simply changed the matter, putting up an act of surprise, "Oh, it looks like five students were out from the competition in one sweep. Three managed to escape though."

"Five of them?" Principal Danvary's attention was simply shifted to the energy mirror and Azzy changed the scene with a wave of his hand.

In the forest, the guardians were seen checking out the unconscious bodies as a skeletal wolf ran past them and started running in some direction.

Soon, the guardians and those five unconscious students disappeared from everyone's view and they saw the wolf chasing down three injured students. They were Navi, Bill, and Laura from 10-A.

It didn't take long for the skeletal wolf Aurora to catch up to and swipe its claws at the one running closely behind the other two. It's Bill who was trying to look after their backs.

"Ahhh…" Letting out a painful scream, Bill fell to the ground with its claws penetrating atleast an inch on his back.

*Thud*

He fell to the ground.

"No…" Laura stopped at once and so was Navi after a couple of seconds. Quite surprisingly, the skeletal wolf also stopped running and stood beside, putting one of its feet on his injured back. It looked at them as if it was challenging them.

"Argh…" Bill let out another scream of pain. With great difficulty, he raised his hand and tried to gesture for her to run away.

Navi shouted from the distance, "Laura, let's go…"

Laura looked back and then at the wolf staring at her. Pouring her remaining soul energy into her right hand, she clenched her fist and charged at the wolf.

"N… No… La… Laura… go…" Bill spat a mouthful of blood as she charged at the wolf standing beside him.

Upon reaching the target, she opened her fist and expelled her soul energy through the palm, attacking the wolf with something like an energy beam.

The surprised snow wolf acted on its instinct, blasting a beam of ice from its mouth. It was quite an instant move.

The ice beam destroyed the incoming attack and struck its target. Frozen in Ice, Laura blasted away through several trees with great force. However, she didn't crash onto the ground.

Strangely, while flying away, she hit some kind of invisible wall and disappeared from sight, taking the wolf by surprise.

Aurora, the skeletal snow wolf, blankly stared at the spot where she disappeared in confusion.

No longer sensing her presence, the undead wolf turned his attention back to the fallen human. It slowly started walking toward him with heavy steps.

The three guardians who sent off the unconscious students became alert at once as they realized it wasn't going back to its original position but toward the student. "Mr. David, do you need help?" asked a guardian named Brett.

When the huge group launched an attack on Aurora and its minions, Bill's responsibility was assigned to David. If the student was faced with any misfortune due to his negligence, David would face the consequences for sure.

Clenching his fists tightly and then releasing them gently, the high-rank-6 Arcana Master hesitated for a while before he was informed about his duty, and he rushed forward without looking back.

However, by that time, the snow wolf reached Bill. It raised its paw as if it was going to attack the fallen student.

The rank-6 Arcana Master gained its attention with a shout, "Stop it there…"

The snow wolf raised its head to look at him, "Hmm?"

Just like the other guardians, David was also informed about the grade of this undead wolf when it was alive. In such a case, it could understand his words.

Now, Azzy didn't explain how the snow wolf retained its core and its soul skills, but at the very least, they ought to believe his warnings about its strength. In Azzy's words, Aurora is said to be the strongest monster in this manmade dungeon and it takes a rank-7 expert to tackle it.

The wariness was clear on the Arcana Master as he spoke with the snow wolf, "Look, that kid is eliminated. Step away from him and let us send him out of this place."

Aurora stared at him for a few seconds before it gave a series of powerful barks that resounded in the surroundings.

David didn't understand what it was trying to convey, but it was clear that it was disagreeing with his statement considering the fact that it didn't move from the spot as he requested.

"Don't you dare…" He shouted back in a threatening tone as he summoned his Arcana.

A mutated stage purple-grade broadsword made its appearance. Grabbing its handle with both of his hands, David charged forward.

The snow wolf took it as an offense and pushed its hind legs, taking a leap at him while opening its mouth.

Just as the broadsword was about to clash with its mouth, Aurora controlled its head in mid-air, twisted it to a horizontal position, and caught the blade.

David didn't hesitate to unleash the soul skill with the intention to kill it. The sparks of lightning and the soul energy enveloped the blade but Aurora didn't leave its grip on the blade as it landed on the ground.

David was feeding the broadsword more and more soul energy as Aurora tried to take the sword from his hands with force. He was dragged on the ground for a few seconds until the soul skill was finally unleashed in the form of an arc of lightning energy.

He expected his attack would cleanly cut through its mouth and even its body in half to some extent.

However, the result was quite the opposite. The attack was launched. It struck Aurora's jaws and disappeared as if it didn't exist.

David's facial expression changed all of a sudden as Aurora successfully took away his broadsword from him and threw it away.

It then put one of its forelegs on his chest and looked at him coldly. Without giving him any chance to counterattack any further, an energy beam escaped from its eyes and struck his chest, freezing his whole body just like how it did with Laura, earlier.

At once, the remaining two guardians were panicked. One of them quickly took out his message card to send the emergency signal to Azzy, not knowing that everyone was watching them through the energy mirror.

"What is this, Mr. Danvary?" Maple Academy's Principal raised his voice as he turned around.

Principal George Danvary nervously looked at Azzy for the answer.

The latter spoke in his stead, "I gave the instructions to my Elite pets to knock out the participants that enter their respective zones. Bill was not unconscious. So, Aurora was merely trying to knock the student out, not kill him. The guardian misunderstood the situation and raised his weapon. The result is here. Nevertheless, as the host, we will take responsibility for his safety too.

I'm gonna take care of this by removing the beast with my own hands. Nothing to worry, I'll leave right away and…"

Azzy calmly defended Aurora's actions and he tried to make sure the VIPs also didn't feel like they were being lectured. So, he volunteered to solve this situation by himself and not leaving it to the other two guardians. But, before he finished the sentence, he suddenly stopped talking for a couple of seconds and changed his words, "Why don't we wait for a bit?"

"Huh?" As the others looked at him in a bit of confusion, their attention was quickly grabbed by the scene displayed in the energy mirror.

Several portals appeared in the surroundings of the snow wolf before they shot energy chains at hypersonic speeds and captured the beast in an instant.

"Archie… this student is really something…" mumbled Alan with clear shock on his face.