All Chapters of VIREMONT ACADEMY:THE SEALED HUMAN CLAIMED BY THE FOUR SCIONS: Chapter 11 - Chapter 17

"A few rogue shifters decided to ambush my ride on the mountain highway, and then the Archon decided to throw me down here for breaking his favorite rock," I explained while pulling the dry shirt over my head."I heard the rumors flying around the dorms, but nobody actually believed a human could shatter the sorting crystal," she said, and she leaned against the edge of her desk while watching me turn around."I didn't mean to break it, and I swear I don't have any secret magic hiding in my pockets," I insisted, and I rubbed my temples because a dull headache was starting to form behind my eyes."Well, the Archon definitely thinks you are hiding something, because he marked you as an Unknown on the official roster," Saskia murmured, and her friendly expression slowly faded into a grim frown."Is being an Unknown worse than being a regular human servant?" I asked, and the heavy knot of dread in my stomach twisted tighter at her serious tone."It is a death sentence, Liora," Saskia said

They were waiting for me to break, so I locked my jaw and maintained a steady pace right past their expensive table.Just as I passed the edge of her chair, Phaedra casually kicked her long leg out into the aisle right in front of my shins.My boot caught hard against her leather shoe, and my stomach dropped as my momentum pitched me violently forward toward the hard stone.I stumbled and dropped to one knee, but the brutal years of dodging Lachlan's cheap shots in the mud ring kicked in before my face could hit the floor.I shifted my weight backward at the last possible second, and I caught my balance with a harsh grunt while somehow managing to keep the oatmeal from sliding off my tray.The elites sitting around Phaedra let out a collective groan of disappointment because they really wanted to see the human stray eat dirt.I slowly stood back up and brushed a speck of dust off my gray trousers while a massive surge of adrenaline flooded my veins.I didn't keep walking, and I didn't

LUCIUS POVI pressed my palm against a hidden runic carving near the baseboard, and a low hum vibrated through the floor before a section of the wall slid silently open.The hidden alcove housed a sleek, glowing data terminal that the professors used to monitor the ambient magical output of the entire student body.I sat down in the leather chair and typed a rapid sequence of commands into the glowing blue keyboard, easily slipping past the Archon's secondary firewall within a few seconds.Malakar thought his security wards were impenetrable, but he always underestimated how much time I spent dissecting his network just to prove I could do it."Let's see what you really are," I murmured to myself, and I pulled up the raw telemetry logs from the sorting arena.The screen flooded with complex lines of code and shifting energy graphs that recorded the exact millisecond the ancient crystal shattered into dust.I watched the lines of code cascade down the monitor like a digital waterfall,

He didn't wait for the professor to signal the start of the match, and he simply lowered his heavy head and charged straight at me like a runaway freight train.I didn't try to block the incoming attack because his sheer weight would have snapped my forearms in half on impact.I relied on the brutal street-fighting tactics I learned while surviving Lachlan's temper tantrums in the Varric mud ring.I waited until Garrick was just a few inches away, and I dropped my center of gravity before diving hard to the left.His massive fist swung through the empty air where my head had just been, and the force of his missed punch generated a rush of wind that ruffled my hair.Garrick stumbled forward from his own momentum, and I spun around on my heel to drive a sharp kick directly into the back of his thick knee.My boot connected solidly with his joint, but hitting the troll felt like kicking a solid brick wall.A jolt of pain shot up my leg, and I had to scramble backward as Garrick let out a