Undead Beast Master: Living Solely for My Desires

Bored, Zaroth had no other choice but to pass the time talking to Luna.

It was that the lecture didn't interest him, especially since it was about geography. While he understood it might be important as they taught it, he'd rather ignore the professor's teachings.

'Do you think it's wise for me to go and ask Elysia for more credits?'

'To be honest, I think she was correct. If you had saved more credits, you wouldn't have to wonder if it is okay to go and pester her for more,' Luna responded.

'Yeah, yeah, I know, but after acquiring Nightshade so easily, I want to buy more and more beasts. Plus, Nightshade would surely like to go to the arena and tear his enemies apart.'

'Can you even support more beasts?'

Luna was asking the valid question. Even though he had gotten stronger, he had Silverfang and Nightshade, both of which were Rare beasts, that wouldn't even count the four other wolves he had at his disposal. There was the possibility that his mana core wouldn't be able to keep up with them.

'But isn't this the way I train my core to begin with? I use more mana than I'm supposed to, and slowly my core becomes stronger,' he retorted.

'Well, if you want another beast, two options come to mind. One is to go and pester Elysia for more money, though if you plan on courting her, that's a bad idea. The other is to use your savings and place a bet in the beast arena.'

Zaroth's eyes widened for a moment. For some reason, this option never occurred to him.

He needed more money—what better way to get them than betting?

But of course, there was always the chance that he would lose, leaving him broke…

"Wait, lose?" he muttered as he scratched his chin.

He wasn't well informed about how the betting in the beast arena proceeded.

But what if he could enter with his own beast? Nightshade was now undead, meaning no matter how badly hurt, the panther would just get up like nothing had happened as long as Zaroth had mana.

He could always bet on his beast to win, knowing defeat was impossible, and in time that would massively increase his funds.

Not only that, but this was exactly Nightshade's desire, to dominate the arena.

So that way, Zaroth would be killing two birds with one stone—he would become richer while his beast would advance further toward evolution.

'Luna, you might be a genius,' he had to praise her.

Even though he wasn't looking at her, as she was in his soul, it felt like she had raised her eyebrow.

'Might? I am and always will be.'

Zaroth grinned a little. It seemed that she was not only immensely beautiful and deadly, but also had the confidence to back that up.

"You there, why are you grinning?"

Hearing the professor's question, Zaroth realized that he was still in the middle of the lecture.

Trying his hardest to come up with an excuse, he spoke.

"I just remembered an old memory."

At his answer, the professor seemed to grimace.

"I see. I guess my class is so easy that you think focusing on it isn't important, huh? Then how about you come up here and solve the question on the whiteboard?"

Ignoring the stares that the whole classroom was giving him, Zaroth stood up with a sigh. Not missing the fact that Zack was barely able to contain his laughter while Roran was massaging his forehead in disappointment.

Taking the marker out of the professor's hand, Zaroth stopped before the whiteboard as he read the question,

'Draw a map of the Eldorwyn continent.'

Was this even a question? he wondered.

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"This is the continent that we're on, right?" he muttered as he began to draw.

He wasn't an artist of any kind, but the answer wasn't going to be judged on beauty, but on how accurate it was.

Zaroth first drew the Draconian Empire that was next to the ocean. Then he drew the Crimson Sun Empire and how they roughly bordered each other… and then his mind went blank as he realized that he knew jack shit when it came to geography.

'Were there like three or four more? Fuck it, let's improvise,' he thought as he began to draw whatever came to mind.

Even if he upset the professor, it wasn't like Zaroth would suffer any consequences for his actions.

*****

"This was so exhausting!" Zaroth complained as he walked with his friends.

"It is every day as normal. You just feel impatient because the tournament is about to enter its main stage," Lily responded.

"But you're right, it does feel like the academy is starting to feel more and more like a chore," Zack agreed.

"If you feel so exhausted, we can quickly hit the bar, you know?" Roran suggested.

Considering that it had been about a week since the incident where they had beat up a gang, it was high time to go and relax a bit before the fights started.

"Plus, there is something that we should discuss," Roran added as his expression grew darker.

Zaroth, of course, knew what he was referring to. Before, when the tournament had started, there were 65,536 participants, but now only 128 would remain, meaning the best of the best—the very crop of the empire.

So it would be egotistic to think that Zack, Roran, and Lily would advance to the later rounds if they don't use their true powers. Honestly, it was surprising that they had made it so far without using them.

But the problem arose, revealing that the extent of their powers would mean that the emperor would see it and know exactly what they are able to do, which in the future could screw them over considering that they were with Elysia and she was planning to get rid of the emperor.

"Roran is right, we must relax a little before speaking about the important stuff," Zaroth spoke as he activated his bracelet.

He was going to spend the night with his friends, meaning that tonight he wouldn't be able to hunt Purifiers alongside Midnight, so he had to inform her about that fact.

Or at least, that was his intention until he saw, with his peripheral vision, a striking beauty with crimson eyes and hair walk hurriedly towards him.

He would have been happy to see her if it weren't for the fact that his friends were with him…

It looked like they were about to meet each other for the first time.

Hopefully, they weren't going to create problems about the fact that he was sleeping with a vampire.