Dragon Riders (Academy)

Dranger Academy is a gathering place for exceptional individuals—those who broke away from the norms of medieval society and decided to join the Dragon Riders Quadrant, the most powerful army in the Destrelli Empire.

The academy recruits people of all ages, but the main thing is coordination, natural balance, and, of course, recklessness. You won't find adequate people with a self-defense instinct there.

Among the prominent figures there is Walter, a young professor feared by everyone at the academy, both students and professors. He is the former commander of an elite squad of dragon riders. His dragon, Thunder, is the most powerful in history, though Thunder is relatively small in size compared to others.

Walter became a teacher because it is now a time of peace, and he knows more about dragons than anyone else.

There are also a few very creepy students, Theodore is a tall, strong young man with a charming smile, but inside he is a monster capable of withstanding inhuman loads.

Today was threshing day

This is the day when students, first-year graduates of the five, go to the airfield and wait to be chosen by the dragon. The dragon might not choose them, in which case they'll be sent back to the first year, or it might kill them, and then... well, that's the end. Those chosen by the dragon join the academy's squads, not military ones, but the best of these training squads are sent for actual military training. Of the first-year students, there were 70 of them, only 20 at most survived the threshing.

The dragon lineup this year included a wide variety of dragons, from Abyss, a huge black dragon, to Rustle, a cute, fluffy little one.