“Well well, things are progressing rather interestingly?” Sife thought to himself.

  He was having a grand old time watching his fellow familiar’s actions. Ever since he was summoned to this world again, he has been enjoying his life here even if it’s only been a few weeks so far. He found his newest summoner enjoyable to be around and as friendly as his previous ones. But none of them were as unique as Eugene!

  He had heard of rare cases of someone having the mana capacity for summoning more than one but to still have the reserves for this much power was unheard of.

  “I don’t think he realizes how big his potential really is?” The Beastman continued his thoughts. “Well, best I help him achieve it then.”

  As for his fellow familiars, Ryuze was a strict Dragonoid. But Sife can appreciate his commitment to his role, but he thinks that he should learn to relax a little. Sife was glad that he helped in that regard. When no one was looking he took a peek at those two playing that card game Eugene loved so much and saw how focused the ninja was.

  “He’d never admit it, but he definitely was enjoying himself.”

  Abdul was an efficient one. The robot butler always seems to be ready for whatever scenario came up. Sife could swear the robot looked up Eugene’s entire life or something. It’s actually kind of shocking to see how much he knows about Eugene’s preferences. Still, the bull doesn’t get the impression he has any ulterior motive with that knowledge and seems more into using it to better serve their summoner and seems to enjoy it too, so he decided to let the matter go for now. He's even glad to see more emotions coming out of the butler too.

  “Well boss, seems your life will continue to get more interesting. ~” Sife told himself, enjoying his time.

  Classes went as normal. Today’s lessons were more about teaching the use of the Combat Ring but since they had already experienced it yesterday, there wasn’t much to learn from it.

  It was only the next thing the teacher said that surprised the students.

  “Since it looks like everyone here already knows how the Combat Ring works why don’t we test it out then?”

  The teacher than used his pointer mana crystal and pointed it right at Eugene, who could only look on in shock before sliding himself down on his desk feeling a bit embarrassed from having the focus on him.

  “Mr. Eugene, I know you have used the Combat Ring yesterday. Since you have some experience using it why don’t we use you as a demonstration on how it works.”

  The teacher, Mr. Daniels, looked right at Eugene. There was a bit of intensity to it that the poor boy couldn’t ignore. It seems he’s not that happy about his actions in using the Combat Ring so early before he could properly explain its uses. “Y-yes sir!”

  The class with their familiars was led to the battle training area. Eugene already familiar with the place followed Mr. Daniels directions and stood at one of the designated areas. He brought out his Mana Crystal as he waited for the teacher’s next instructions.

  “Alright now I’ll need a volunteer to join Mr. Eugene. Any takers?” The teacher asked, looking around the rest of the class who all reluctant to offer.

  All except Alphonse, who nervously raised his hand. Ripley could only sigh as he came forth, casually cracking his fingers as he prepared for battle.

  “Now Mr. Eugene since this is a demonstration, I will need you to limit yourself to one familiar.”

  Sife immediately waved his hand, interested in joining his summoner on today’s battlefield.

  “Good now activate the Combat Ring and we’ll start to assess how well you utilizes the lessons you learned so far. Keep in mind that we’re only doing a practice run so there is no need to go at this hard.”

  Activate Combat Ring

  The mental command initiated the Combat Ring protocol as the familiar forcefield surrounded both Eugene’s and Alphonse’s group. Both readied their Mana Crystals for battle, though neither seemed interested to be serious in this fight.

  “Alright now let’s start by having you both using your Mana Crystals first.” The teacher instructed.

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  Both students nodded as they activated their Mana Crystals, Eugene drawing his starting hand and quickly examining what he had to work with.

  To Eugene this seemed like a basic starting hand, though he noticed that he didn’t have any defensive means so decided to activate Frost Breaker and equipped himself with the familiar ice gauntlets and readied his fist for Alphonse’s first move.

  The fox Demihuman unlike Eugene was nervously trying to write. Struggling to come up with something on the spot.

  The teacher and the class looked on. After many of the students had gotten to see Eugene in action before it was given that he was more easily battle ready. On the other hand, Alphonse was still the nervous wreck as always. The students talked amongst themselves though they kept their voices quiet to avoid their teacher’s wrath.

  “Yeah, he’s definitely going to lose. Look at the way he’s shaking.”

  “Eugene was surprisingly competent. Compared to that. Then again, he is just a Demihuman after all.”

  “Only thing he got going for him is his familiar. Lucky him, wish I had gotten a familiar as strong as him.”

  Hearing the peanut gallery, the hellhound who had his arms crossed waiting for his turn to action glared at the crowd. The intensity of his glare got them to shut up and look away, afraid of the demonic prince.

  Eugene tried to ignore them, instead focused on his friend. Watching this he couldn’t help but try to encourage him, despite them currently in battle with each other. “You can do it Alphonse! Don’t forget you did seal Ripley’s powers before!”

  Ripley simply grunted as he looked down at his summoner. He still intended to behave as a proper Familiar as per their agreement, but it didn’t mean he wasn’t going to say his piece. “Listen to your friend of yours. If you were such a weakling you wouldn’t even have a chance to even accidentally summon me. Only those that have such power to match mine could ever hope to make a Familiar pact with me.”

  The hellhound then extended his hand out, spreading his fingers to show off his sharp claws. “Now stop trying to embarrass me and let yourself go wild!”

  Hearing both sides encouragement from both sides Alphonse nervous look started to die down as he started to focus with a small smile starting form. “Ok! I’ll do my best!!”

  The fox man then started to write. His fingers are rapidly penning down his thoughts as he processes the situation. Eugene readied himself, not wanting to interrupt his friend’s current determination.

  Soon enough, the air around them started to heat up. Eugene started to sweat as the heat continued to rise till suddenly a fire started to form in front of Alphonse

  “… and at that moment they began to shape into flaming arrows of flame. More fire started to gather into these arrows as the concentrated heat built up. They suddenly fire at its target.”

  At that instant, spurred by Alphonse’s written words, the flaming arrows shot at rapid speeds towards Eugene. He just barely had enough time to slam his ice fist at the ground and conjure up a wall of ice to stop the fires in place.

  The teacher looked on; his expression unchanging as he focused on his students’ skills in action. On the other hand, the students were baffled at the Demihuman’s abilities who only moments ago were panicking.

  Once their exchange of their abilities was finished the teacher gave them further instructions. “You may now callout your Familiar for help.”

  The second he heard the ok Ripley came forward. Extending his claws in ready for the pursuit of the hunt.

  “Now let’s have some fun. ~” He announced, a wicked smile plastered on his face. It seemed he was itching for a fight after his display of power the other day.

  “You’re only going to fight with your powers still sealed.” Alphonse reminded him, the tone on his voice serious.

  Ripley didn’t reply, simply conjuring up some of his power he still had access to. Hellish chains conjured up around his body.

  As for Sife, he flexed his muscles and clenched his fist with a huge grin in his face. Power swelled in his body. Both Familiars were ready to clash.

  “Impact: Cross Punch!”

  The power building up towards his fist began to release as he gave a straight punch at the same time the conjured chains thrust itself right towards the bull Beastman. The two powers clashed as they connected.

  The battle between both sides truly began.