Chapter 133 - Malgorious Undrax

"Now then, would the three students in the bleachers please recall their monsters?", the teacher said aloud while holding the purple monster saber and staring up to the left, "unsanctioned summons are a rather punishable offense on campus property".

Following where the teacher was gazing, I saw that my friends had summoned their monsters and were currently staring daggers at Mourga. Good to know if things ever went South for me, I could count on them to exact revenge. Seeing how Mourga had been rendered moot, Albina, Bori and Savina recalled their monsters and stood down.

"On that note, the duel has ended in Rosewood's favor. Everyone please head to your respective classes or otherwise clear out", he instructed everyone present while dismissing his own monster. Heeding his words, the gathered students began to leave one after the other, chattering all the while.

"Miss Rosewood, I suggest you also do the same. It would leave a rather bad first impression if you showed up to your first class late, er unexcused. And don't worry about Mr.Rockhummer, I'll be sure he is properly disciplined and that he honors your wager", the teacher said as he turned towards me.Now that I had a closer look at him, three words immediately came into mind: lanky, pale and dark.

"Alright", I replied with a nod, "thanks for the help, mister...".

"Malgorious. I am Professor Malgorious Undrax, at your service", the lanky man said with a smile.

[Undrax?], Voxea suddenly commented, [then that would mean...no way...].

"That being said, please stop by my office when you get the chance, Miss Rosewood. There is something I'd like to discuss with you", he said in an enigmatic tone that reminded me of Voxea. I'm not sure if I should find that comforting or unsettling.

"Okay... sure... I'll be on my way now", I replied quickly before exiting the arena to meet with my friends. What a weird guy...

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{Any particular reason why you wanted me to use our familial name? I didn't see a reaction on the young lady towards the name}.

{Oh dearie, that wasn't meant for her ears, rather it was for the listener in the audience...}.

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"Silvia! Are you okay?!", Savina exclaimed while hugging me...a little too tightly. As I was exiting the arena, my friends had come down to greet me...well, in Savina's case, come down to hug me like I had come back from the dead.

"Savina...can't breath...".

"Oh! Sorry!", she said whilst letting me go in an awkward manner.

"Uh...shall we head to class", Bori suggested. Wordlessly, we nodded and moved on.

"I cannot believe that that rotten loudmouth would try something so dishonorable!",Albina commented while palming her fist, "If Malgorious didn't get involved, I would've turned that blockhead into paste"!

"Wait, you know who he is?", Savina asked before I could.

"Yeah", Bori and Albina said simultaneously, "You haven't"?

As Bori and Albina stared at us in a questioning manner, both Savina and I shook our heads in reply. I wasn't even a binder until a few months ago and loving in the frontier, why would I know who this guy was?

"Who is he"?

"He's one of the most famous binders in the empire, Malgorius of the Grave", Bori informed us in an excited tone.

"Malgorius of the Grave?", Savina and I asked in unison.

"Aye, the reason he's called 'the Grave', is because all of his monsters carry the undead trait. Fighting him is like fighting the afterlife", Albina followed up.

[That sounds about right], Voxea suddenly commented as Savina began to ask more about who Malgorious was exactly.

[Hey Voxea, what do you mean by that], I asked while maintaining my stride. Thankfully, Bori and Albina were caught up with Savina's questions, so they didn't find it odd that I suddenly clammed up.

[Remember what his full name was? Malgorius Undrax? Back when the maji were still in-charge, House Undrax was home to the most powerful necromancers and exorcists on this side of the world], Voxea explained, [they were also the origin point of all undead majimonsters. It's honestly not surprising one of their descendants became a binder specializing in them].

[Ok that's pretty neat, but how come it seemed like earlier that you reacted like you knew them personally?], I asked her point blank.

[Because I did...well one of them anyways...but how did she survive after all this time...], Voxea replied before trailing off in my thoughts.

Ominous....great...