Targeted?

They can't risk all their lineage of thousands of years without conforming the capabilities of the Takar family. That's why the war between the imperial family and Dukes are at its stalemate right now.

The Dukes are practically the one who was holding the forts in their own Duchies, which shows about how much the Black dragon Duchy is in trouble without it's Duke.

Reaching 6-star rank is normal for any talented mage, but going behind that is more than a challenge to the mages. That is why, it was rather hard to find any 7-star or higher ranked mages in the empire.

Kathleen's thoughts were interrupted by the students sudden murmur sounds. Since she did not listen to Instructor Aaron in the past five minutes, she wondered as to what happened. But suddenly she heard instructor Arron's voice.

"That's right, what you all heard was correct. I am asking if anyone is interested in fighting this Beast." Instructor Arron said as his gaze spanned over the students.

'Oh, that's right, I remember this part. After asking that, he selects Max to fight the tiger and Max also defeats it easily, showing off his strength to all the students.' Kathleen thought in her mind while her gaze fell on instructor Aaron.

An assistant who was standing behind instructor Arron suddenly rushed towards him and brought his mouth near Aaron's ears.

"Sir, what are you doing! we can't let anything happen to the flaming tiger cub because we are already informed the mother flaming tiger that we found the tiger cub. It was supposed to be picked up by it's mother today night sir please-

"Shut up!"

The assistant's words were cut off by Aaron's outrage.

"Don't tell me what to do, know your place!" Instructor Arron said as his gaze became sharp.

The assistant guy suddenly felt a shiver run down his spine and moved back a few steps immediately.

"Alright, it's a great honour to fight a flaming tiger because it was not usually found in the wild and was considered as a very rare beast, is no one really want to fight it?" He spoke again causing the students to become mute.

Suddenly, a lot of people raised their arms, showing their enthusiasm to fight. After all, everyone here was really interested to have a achievement of winning on one of the rarest magical beasts in the Aurora wold even if it's just a cub, Max was also one of them and Rowena and Lily also followed suit.

However, Sophie and Kathleen didn't raise their arms. The original Kathleen reached the middle level of the 2-star rank, making her one of the most talented people among the first year students. Although she didn't do any official battles until now it does not mean her combat power is low, she always makes sure to practice and improve her strength daily even If it's just a little.

However, the problem is, Kathleen didn't use any mana until now and she was afraid she won't have a smooth control over her body as the original owner does. While Sophie was not even interested in this class and she was waiting for it to end.

Since there are so many students that wanted to battle the flaming tiger cub, the instructor gets to chose who was going to given the chance to. Kathleen already know that it was going to be Max, so she lost all the interest to even watch.

Instructor Arron raised his hand and pointed it towards the one he chose, all of the students eyes darted towards the person.

However, when they saw who it was, they all fell into shock.

Kathleen who was standing beside Sophie intending to watch the show, suddenly opened her eyes wide because Instructor Aaron pointed his finger towards her totally flipping her understanding of the situation.

'Me?...Why? Damn it, I have to stop thinking everything will go as writined in the novel. Kathleen Black Dragon, a girl who was meek and usually don't talk to anyone suddenly seen having a cheerful attitude, it was obvious that people will suspect something or at the least they will be interested in me.

Wait, why Am I even cursing myself, it was foolish of me to even think that the plot will be the same just because I didn't do anything major. Now, I have to face a tiger without any prior training. Well, since i know what is going to happen in a few hours, I think I can take advantage of this situation.' Kathleen thought in her mind.

Even if she didn't raise her hand, she need to fight the tiger, because she can't come out as a disgrace to her family by telling that she don't want to fight a beast that was at the same level as her. Not only that, there are many people here that are from the black dragon duchy, it was the first moment that she can change people's impression regarding Kathleen.

After all, she was not really trying to keep the plot as it is, because she know it's really impossible.

Max who thought he was the Chosen one when the instructors finger passed through him wore a frown on his face, but his face become normal in just a few seconds.

Sophie also didn't say anything after seeing this, because whenever this heiresses or princes or princesses fight, the people will no longer see it as an individual fight but a fight that represents their Duchies or the empire.

Kathleen walked forward without saying anything, her gaze spanned over instructor Arron only to caught a small smile on his face before it disappeared in a second.

The students who saw that she was actually came forward to fight suddenly started murmuring among themselves.

"Hey, did you see that? that girl who used to be quite and have no presence in the class was actually going to fight! Cough, no matter what, her beauty can only be compared to the first princess of the empire." A guy commented in the crowd of students, but his comment died down in the sound of the murmures.

However, his head was suddenly smacked by his friend who was beside him.

"Idiot, stop talking about her figure! Don't you know who she was, she was the heiress of the black dragon duchy, so stop commenting on someone like her. Even any unlikely chance that she hears this, I don't want to get into her bad side given her high political status." The guy said with low whisper causing his friend to nod along with him.

Kathleen reached to the entrance of the barrier that was stopping the tiger cub, she entered into the cave after Instructor Arron opened it with his authority token, which was a token that was given to the special instructors who directly works under the headmaster himself.

The tigers cub seemingly found itself unable to move because Instructor Aaron forced it down with his mana.

"Kathleen black dragon, are you ready? If so, I am going to release the tiger."

Kathleen only glared at him before taking out a sword from her space ring and getting into a battle position.

"I will take it as a yes than." Instructor Arron said not minding the disrespect for some reason.

"Alright 3.....2...1"

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Author Note--

Bonus chapter will be uploaded in a few hours.....