Lake snorted and said, "Your clothes have a lot of openings. The round holes are unusual, clearly made by the claws of some magical beast. The claws left round holes in your clothes without hurting your skin, so we can basically determine the length of the claws. Then, based on the distances between the different holes, we can estimate the size of the claws. Among the Iron Rank and Bronze Beast, only about twelve species have claws of this length and size. Besides..."
Lake continued, "Some of the tears in your clothes are very fine. They weren't ripped by teeth, but were clearly caused by sharp magical beast fur or tiny claws. There were already traces of claws, which means these wounds were torn by sharp magical beast fur. There are many magical beasts with fur like that, probably over thirty at the Iron Rank and Bronze Beast levels. Your skin clearly has frostbite, which means it was an ice-type magical beast. The abrasions on your skin are unusual. They were deliberately controlled, showing that this magical beast had exquisite control over its strength."
"So, obviously, only the Ice Wolf fits all of the possibilities above. Besides, Teacher Niedern specializes in ice magic, and his summoned Ice Wolf is extremely powerful. It's not surprising that he could control its strength so skillfully."
Suye stared blankly at Lake. Were they really in the same class? Studying the same lessons?
Albert said enviously, "During the summer vacation, he already put the Second Year courses into his Magic Book ahead of time. He should have finished more than half of them by now, right?"
"All of them," Lake added.
Then Lake said, "If nothing unexpected happened, Suye, you've already advanced to Magic Apprentice, right? Otherwise, Teacher Niedern wouldn't have given you special training