Cassell College

Cassell College (卡塞尔学院) is a university located in the outskirts of Chicago, in the Great Lakes district of Illinois, United States. The school was founded by the Secret Party, a European hybrid organization dedicated to the eradication of all dragons.

For a student to be admitted, they need to pass a 3E exam, which assesses their blood purity by evaluating their reaction to the Draconic Language. After passing the exam, they will be ranked, the S-rank is the highest and rarest, with the A-Rank usually considered to represent the elite.

Students also receive credit cards with differing limits. An S-Rank student can spend as much as $100,000 US dollars.

## Installations

The campus was wide and the installations luxurious. It was usually referred to as "the school at the mountaintops" despite it being located in the middle of a valley. The only way to access the campus is by boarding the CC1000 train. Rejected students have their memories of the school erased.

The cafeteria runs for 24-hours and students can request luxurious dishes to be delivered right to their bedrooms.

#### The Ice Cellar

The whole campus is located on top of an underground complex known as the Ice Cellar. The principal's office has an elevator that leads straight into the cellar. It contains the most secret, valuable and dangerous items related to the dragon history. It also has an aquarium, laboratories and archeologic findings. The school even managed to dismantle and re-build a whole pyramid.

#### Amber Hall

A luxurious complex used as the living quarters of the Student Union. Every year, the students decide who gets to control it with a Day of Liberty competition.

Other important buildings include the Norton Hall, The school Church and the Hall of Heroes.

## Organization

The college is organized by numerous departments:

### Institutional departments.

#### Execution Bureau.

It is led by Professor Schneider. Most students join this department after graduating. The bureau is a paramilitary organization that performs missions for the Secret Party all over the world. Their missions are classified (in order of most to least important) as SS, S, A, B, C & D. The bureau is the modern equivalent of the Party's Action Team.

#### Gear/equipment department.

They develop alchemic equipment and weaponry. They provide the Bureau's agents with the necessary tools for their missions. They're known for their recklessness and lack of responsibility when choosing projects and performing experiments, being responsible for daily explosions and life-threatning accidents. Akadullah Ahmed Mohammed Farrug is the current leader of the department.

#### School Board

A group of seven influential members of the Secret Party, notable members include Pompeii Gattuso, Anjou, Elizabeth Laurent and Beowulf. The school board has the right to vote on all issues of the college, including but not limited to deciding on the punishment of students who violate disciplines, who is the principal, choosing whether to approve students’ marriage applications and Dragon Slaying Action Plans.

#### Disciplinary Committee

Led by Professor Manstein, it enforces the rules of the school and punishes disobeying students.

#### Information department

They keep and protect the student files and monitor the world wide web for information on the Dragon Raja's activities.

### Student associations.

#### Lionheart Society.

Originally a league within the Secret Party, the Lionheart Society is the oldest club in the school. They are the holders of the Blood Rage technique. It is currently led by Babru.

#### Student Union

The Student Union existed under the shadow of the Lionheart Society for many decades, until Caesar Gattuso was named president. He annexed numerous clubs as departments within the Union and soon made it grow into an international affair. it is currently led by Lu Mingfei.

#### Freshmen Association.

An alternative to the pre-existing societies in the school. Shilan named Lu Mingfei its chairman, but the young S-Rank rejected the offer. Other notable members include Bradley and Xia Mi.

## Traditions and activities.

Every year, the college enters numerous competitions with other prestigious universities.

#### Day of Liberty

A festivity exclusive to Cassell and encouraged by Anjou. The students are exempt from punishment for breaking the rules, as long as they don't access the Ice cellar, involve outsiders or cause a student's death. Traditionally, a free-for-all competition is organized, including shootouts with Frigga bullets. It is notable for being extremely costly.

#### Soul Doves.

Every time an agent from the Execution Bureau dies on a mission, the college releases doves from the church and the students light up candles in their honor.

## History

The school was originally proposed by Manecke Cassell, as a place to research dragons and train hybrids to become dragonslayers. This idea was greatly opposed by Beowulf, the leader of the party's action team, who considered that true dragon slayers could only be born from the battlefield.

At the start of the 20th century, the Lionheart Society was attacked by followers of the Dragon Raja, with Anjou being the only survivor. In the following years, the school opened in partnership with the University of Chicago. Anjou eventually became a teacher and the school's principal. In the following years, Cassell developed branches around the world, including Japan and South Korea.

In 2001, a mission in Greenland ended with the death of every student and a teacher being gravely injured by a dragon embryo.

In 2009, the campus was attacked by a group of mercenaries hired by Lu Mingze. The students successfully defended the school from the attackers, only to realize that they were being distracted while Constantine was awakened and liberated from the Ice Cellar. The event culminated in Constantine's death and the awakening of Norton, who was later slayed by the students.

In 2010, Anjou was put under investigation by the School Board. They also put a student named Chu Zihang on trial for his use of Blood Rage. The trial was interrupted by Fenrir's awakening and students were deployed in Beijing to find him. Fenrir's defeat marked the college's second slayed dragon in one year and the board released both Zihang and Anjou from suspicion.

In 2011, the college sent three commissioners to Japan in order to investigate the awakening of a dragon embryo at the bottom of the Japanese trench. After the mission failed, the Japanese branch decided to break away from the Secret Party. After personally trying to retake control of the Japanese hybrids, Anjou and his students fought against a reborn white dragon king and managed to defeat it with support from the Gattuso Family.

Through the following year, Cassell performed various missions around the world. In 2012, After Chu Zihang's disappearance, Lu Mingfei escaped the campus on the same night of an assassination attempt on the principal. The school deployed its best agents to hunt Mingfei down, but most of them were killed by an amnesiac Chu Zihang.