24 Doehring Cowart's Worries

Doehring Cowart was known in this magical world as a Supreme-level Magician who specialize in the Earth element. He currently was also the headmaster of Havian Academy.

He too had a secret that he doesn't tell most people. In his past life, his name was Doehing Cowart as well. But in the world of past life was a bit different to this one. There were no twenty ranks, instead there were only nine ranks, then being a Saint and then being a Deity. There were also Sovereigns and Overgods at the highest peak of that large infinite universe.

Doehring Cowart was just a mere Saint. He lived the life of an expert. He was only able to postpone his soon original course of his death, by sealing his soul into what he had called the Worldring. Thousands of years later after that, the ring found a new owner and was blood bind by a youth named Linley Baruch in a mere accident.

The name of the ring was called the Coiling Dragon Ring which Linley Baruch had personally named and called it.

Doehring Cowart became a lingering ghost attached to a ring. Unable to change his predicament. He had mentored and watched Linley Baruch grew through his youth until his adolescent age.

To Doehring Cowart, Linley was no different from his own personal grandson.

In the end, Doehring Cowart had to ignite and burn away his soul to save Linley's life from the hands of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal's Executors who were a specific elite group relating to Radiant Church.

Doehring Cowart doesn't know what Linley had experienced next in his life. But Doehring had hoped for the best for him. He had hoped Linley wouldn't die with a short lived life by being hunted by the Radiant Church. He had also hoped that Linley would have find love and lose his virginity. After all being a lone eternal virgin expert is a sad life to live in his opinion.

In this new world where Doehring Cowart came to for some miraculously reason. He was given a new life and a new identity. There was also a new yet somewhat similar power system compared to his past life here.

In his new found youth and his second chance at living with a new life. He was known through his youth with the name Weed. Who later became a world-renown famous sculptor.

Doehring Cowart with his new found sentiments from being together with Linley Baruch. He had gained the desires to seek and form a family for himself. And he did.

They were all alive and well until ten years ago. When Doehring Cowart had killed a dragon. Later that dragon's family member came and killed all of his family members.

The other dragon was too powerful that Doehring Cowart was helpless against it. He didn't even know why that dragon even spared him. Maybe it was to spite and enrage him.

Doehring Cowart had realized his place in the world. The strong are domineering and can do whatever they want, while the weak are helpless against the strong. Doehring was of the latter side, even though he was a Supreme-level expert. This world was like the previous, there were just people some can't afford to even offend.

Eventually afterwards, Doehring was recruited into becoming the headmaster of Havian Academy.

There was ridiculous reasoning on how he was recruited. The people who recruited him just told him that he gave off an impression of a Dumbledore or a Gandalf.

Doehring did not know who are those people at all at first. Even in the history books of this world, there was a person named Gandalf but he was a famed swordsman, while this Dumbledore was known to be a famous thief.

Doehring Cowart didn't know whether to cry or laugh at first for being compared with those two. He was quite sure he was a decently strong elderly magician who gave off a grandpa-like feeling and a hint of wisdom.

When it comes to this current once in a century tournament. The tournament that was called the Battle Under The Heavens.

Every single chairman had no interest in babysitting and watching over a bunch of pointless fights. Tournaments are not as amazing as one might think. There was many weaklings and a few strong. That's how tournaments usually are. It's nothing exciting to be about.

So every chairman drew lots. Doehring Cowart pulled the shortest straw of the lot, therefore surprisingly the headmaster of this very academy was actually the announcer and referee for this tournament.

Doehring Cowart was actually interested in this Linley Arthur person. His name was Linley and he was supposedly at least dragon-related by the virtue of being a Dragon Contractor. He was also a warrior as well.

When Doehring Cowart first saw this Linley Arthur in the arena. He felt quite a bit of shock.

Linley Arthur has strong striking resemblance with Linley Baruch. Doehring even felt a hint of nostalgia at looking at him for some unknown reason.

Linley Arthur does have some points of difference with Linley Baruch in appearance. Linley Arthur was actually quite a bit more handsome. He could actually fit the profile of a lady-killer.

Doehring Cowart had hope that this Linley was and wasn't the same old Linley he had mentored before in his previous life.

It would seem like a good thing if Linley too came and experienced a new life and face the same situation like Doehring himself. But that would mean Linley too had probably died as well. Doehring doesn't know how he died whether it was naturally or caused by something or someone else.

It would have been better if the name and similar-like appearance was just a coincidence.

Doehring Cowart felt quite the disappointment once he saw Linley Arthur didn't even use magic at all in his fights.

Doehring Cowart had never expected out of this Linley Arthur to have a magical beast companion which was a small black mouse named Bebe. Naturally it would be quite stupid to expect such a coincidence. Especially when changing lives to different worlds.

If Linley Arthur were to use Earth magic. That alone can be good enough justifiable for Doehring Cowart to kidnap him and take him as his student with some good excuses sprinkled along the way.

Doehring Cowart felt just by looking at this Linley Arthur is a good enough reason to mentor him.

'Maybe my purpose in life is to guide Linleys across the worlds.' Doehring internally reflected.

Without the assistance and mentoring of a grandpa Doehring, a Linley probably wouldn't normally learn to use magic even though he probably has the potential for it.

In the fight of Linley against Eris. When Linley called her out on not being a virgin. Doehring knew for sure this couldn't be his old Linley at all.

In Doehring Cowart's understanding, Linley Baruch was too dense and inexperienced when it comes to the expertise of romance. Being able to tell whether or not someone was a virgin would be beyond his capability.

Since Doehring Cowart had know that Linley Baruch would follow the path of revenge, he would be going down the road of reaching a peak expert who only knows how to fight and not socialize. Thus Linley Baruch would be someone with this lonely mentality and would clearly lack an intimate companion by his side. Since he would be too focused on training rather than practicing the art of love with someone.

Doehring Cowart begin to speculate many things once Linley Arthur had called out this Eris girl on her lack of virginity and then chased after her.

Doehring himself came to the final conclusion that this Eris girl was clearly in a relationship with Linley Arthur like the case of Alice and Linley Baruch.

In Doehring's process of thinking, he had felt history had probably repeat itself. Linley Arthur and this Eris were in this half baked romantic relationship. Then Eris cheated on Linley and then left him for another man but didn't even told Linley about it. As Linley chased after her with his heart in worry. Eris with her mysterious man was confronted by Linley and therefore the truth was spoken to him outright.

Linley Arthur's heart fell into deep despair after facing such a betrayal. Being an innocent, earnest, and young lad whose affections and heart-felt emotions were sincere and honest. His mental state became so disheartening to the point, that Linley would be coughing out heart-shape blood spurts somewhere in the academy by his lonely self.

Doehring Cowart could only shake his head at what he had believed to be that was the truth of the matter here.

Doehring Cowart felt the need to help this poor boy out. Maybe even teach him the his own personal way of sculpting as well. The specialty of the Stone Chisel School of course.