Leonardo tilted his head, This would be interesting. The moment the electricity was stopped he changed tack, swapping mana lance for wave gun, any orc that got close got a blast of it to the face, Ward or not, since it wasn’t magical. The moment it failed to affect them, even without helm or hair he nodded. “Impressive illusion, if it wasn’t for the fact you’re against someone who’s grown up with a greater demon.” He sighed and flicked the battle axe back in to its storage configuration, slotting it on to his back he walked back past his luggage picking it up. “overzealous bunch of nitwits.” He sighed and looked at the load on his Mana lance, then did some mental calculations, drawing the pistol he dropped the clip from it, slotting a new one in he took the old one in his hands, muttering under his breath. For the most part he let the speech wash over him, He’d gotten the exact same thing last year, though he did smile a little when the obligatory ‘are you actually the headmaster’ question got asked, instead he spent the time focusing his energy down and in to the crystals, 15 seconds worth of mana wasn’t a major cost, the effort was more in keeping his focus than anything. 

Towards the end of the speech he finished the spell and looked at the small meter on the side of the clip, 50 seconds worth of mana, it wasn’t much, but it was enough. He shrugged and put it in to the slot on his belt, standing as they were dismissed he automatically started to work his way through the crowds and towards the far side of school. He’d spent most of the last year exploring and so knew a few of the shortcuts and cross passages that were always abundant in a place as big as this, reaching the far back of the school he let himself through a door, that looked like nothing more than a storage cupboard, though it led to tight staircase, jogging up it he reached the top room. Glad he’d got there before anyone else he dumped his bag down. The room itself was miles out the way, and when he’d first found it he was pretty sure it’d been forgotten about. A random door that was probably a storage closet leading to a awkward staircase that led to a small room. It was probably one of those pointless rooms that was left over from the construction of such a grandiose building, a silly little space no one had any idea what to do with, so they made It a extra dorm room. It was even obvious that no one had actually been up here since him last time, it was still in a state of utter disarray. He dumped his two bags down, the hard case hitting something metallic and sending it skittering off in to the far recesses of the room. “Hmm, I do hope that wasn’t the small important bit that goes ‘spoing’ and disappears in to the corner.” Leo commented almost cynically and gave the bed a shake out before pulling one of the umpteen books he’d borrowed from the school library off the shelves, since they didn’t let him bring his own books he’d taken to misappropriating theirs. This one was going over the use of multi-spectra goggles when confronted by illusions or mirror images. Considering what had just transpired he decided it might be prudent to read up a little. About 10 pages in he sat up and swore, he’d forgotten to lock the lower door. Grabbing the key off its hook from inside the door he scrambled down the stairs “shit. Shit. Shit. shit.” he said as he made his way down. Anyone in the rooms with a wall against the staircase would probably hear him, anyone coming up it would have ample warning of him coming down.