Talentless Extra Of The Legendary Hero Academy-Chapter 96: Mad Instructor II

Ardent led him through the forest in silence.

Severin watched his back warily.

The man’s mood seemed to change so fast it was hard to keep up with; sometimes he would be moody, and the next moment he could be smiling and pointing out different trees and their benefits for him.

They did not speak much, but Severin was guessing that the man was not quite right in the head. In the book, he did not have much of a role, but he was called "wasted potential" by some people.

Severin did not want him to fight for him or anything; he only wanted him to train his team.

Soon, they got to the instructor’s place.

It was a wooden shack, and when Severin was invited in, he was surprised to find it clean. The first room was covered with wooden chairs and a table, and to one side was a shelf filled with different books.

The man entered a room and came back some moments later in a clean black robe.

Although his hair was still overgrown, his appearance had improved.

It left Severin wondering if the man was also a pretender.

Ardent noticed the look he was getting and shrugged. "I had a meeting with the Head Instructor."

And that was why you dressed that way?

Severin did not say that out loud.

Ardent sat on one of the chairs and gestured for him to take a chair as well. He rubbed his hands together. "You have a drink for me?"

Severin nodded, and then he produced a card.

It was an equipment card and a rather expensive one; it could store a small space for small things. The space was not much bigger than an average backpack.

Severin activated it with his Etherion, and then a drink appeared.

It was an alcohol that he had specifically bought for the occasion.

Ardent grinned when he saw it. "I said it! You students are far richer than all the instructors!"

With a gesture, two cups flew from the top of the shelf and landed in front of them.

He poured himself a drink and nodded in appreciation. "This! It has been a while since I have had something like this. If all the students brought this over, I would not have settled for robbing them."

Severin did not know if he had ever met anyone so shameless, but he nodded along, avoiding the urge to point out that if he took his instructing job seriously, then he would not be so broke.

Ardent drank two more cups before he relaxed and poured Severin a cup as well.

Severin took a sip and nothing more; for him, getting drunk might be the worst decision he could make. "You wanted to tell me something."

Ardent blinked, and then his face cleared. "Right! You are right. Well, I will tell you how I keep my presence and how I was detecting you."

"When you entered the forest, I was already in it, and then you entered my space."

Severin sat up. "Your space?"

Ardent nodded. "I can create a space around me, something like a domain, I guess, and I pretty much have control of anything in it."

Severin stiffened. His power was something like that? Was that not too powerful and dangerous? Especially for someone who appeared to be a madman?

Ardent sipped his drink. "When you entered my space, I still could not detect you, but do you know exactly what that means? You were the only thing that I could not detect. You were like a moving void in my space, and that was what gave you away."

Severin sat there in silence, and he contemplated what he had just heard.

Ardent could feel anything except something that he could not.

He nodded his head; he would have to take that into account and improve his technique.

They did not say anything for a while, and Ardent drank while Severin merely held his cup.

Finally, Ardent said, "So, what do you want from me? Let me guess, you need me to tutor you because I am expected to be cheap! Or some hidden master or bullshit like that."

Severin watched him. "You are powerful."

"And experienced. Let me introduce myself; I am Severin Reignhart, Leader of the House Chains."

Ardent raised his bushy brows. "A weak bastard like you is a House leader? I guess the Academy is in its regressing era."

"Leader and Founder of the House Chains."

Ardent froze, and he drank more. "Well, shit."

Severin nodded in agreement. "I have created a new House to join the twelve Houses."

"You know, I attended this Academy as well and wanted to create a House where you could drink without the instructors standing above your head. It would have been the perfect House and would have been the most popular if I had created it."

Suddenly, he leaned forward. "But even I, who was the strongest in the Academy at that time, could not create a House. So tell me, how did a puny thing like you manage to do it?"

Severin smiled. "I just gathered the credits for it."

"Ah!" Ardent slammed the table with the cup. "What an interesting guy, but no! As much as your situation amuses me, I am not going to do it."

He did not even wait for Severin to state what he wanted. But Severin did not mind; he continued as if he had not heard him. "I want you to be a patron of the House. You do not have to do much; I will supply you with all the drink you want, and just one day a week, you can instruct the members of my House."

Ardent went silent, and his eyes gleamed. "That is an interesting offer, a very tempting one, to drink all week without having to worry about where and when I would be getting the drink. I almost want to sign the contract right here and now!"

Severin did not say anything to that.

"But I have made a decision to not fight or train anyone to fight until I die. And as a man, it is only normal and natural that I provide the drink I drink!"

"Do you get it now? Normally, I should have robbed you by now, but you gave me a very interesting drink and your very interesting technique. You can go now before I change my mind."

Severin raised the card. "We still have not had the snack."