New Era Aphorix, year 2000.

"Ares!!! Wake up!! You'll be late!! This is your first day in the academy!!"

"Okay mom!!!!!!"

Ares wakes up in a lazy way. This was his first day going to the academy. But for him, this was torture. He hates doing complicated stuff. He even hates it when he had to walk a few feet just to take a sip of water from his mug on the table.

After taking a bath, he changed into his new uniform.

'Man this uniform looks weird, I don't want to have a job like mom. I hate doing jobs to begin with.'

'Heheh, you might be wondering why I'm monologuing like this. The truth is, I have always liked story books and novels. I also like the monologuing parts.'

'I wanted to be like the main characters in those stories. Like Xenonus the empe- eh who am I kidding. This is real life, I can't do awesome magic like Xenonus. And it's not like I'm in a story.... right? I wish though.'

'The only magic I can do is bending shadows a little bit. Because of that, I can't go to the academy's magic division. I can only follow my mom's footsteps and go to the scholar division.'

The truth was, even though scholars get much more money than the average magicians, the magicians above the average level get loads more. You could say that Ares's mom is rich, but when comparing her pay with the pay of a good magician, it's like comparing an ant to a beetle.

As Ares keeps monologuing, he arrived to the front of the academy. The name of the academy was Rogue academy, named after the town it resided. The town was originally a normal village, but it got famous because it was the place where emperor Xenonus made his War rings.

Even though this town was in the Magicless continent, it had many magicians. Magicians travel to this town to either learn or teach magic. Some people even consider this town as a tourism place.

As Ares enters the gate, he saw many students around his age. He was 15 years old, but his height was below average. Because of that, people thought he was a wannabe student.

Ares then entered his designated class. As the main attraction was the magic division, the scholar division didn't have as many students as the magic division.

The scholar division was a division for people who sought to learn about how things work and how to do things, like math and science. A scholar can usually be many jobs, such as a teacher, an architect, a tax collector, and jobs that would require intellect.

Ares's mom was a scholar, she had money to get a tutor to teach Ares during his early toddler to pre-academy age. He was also smarter than the average from the start.

'Oh wow, this class is tiny. I wonder how many students are in this class.'

'This is somehow familiar. Did I have a past life as a student here??'

Weirded out by his own thoughts, he decides to go to his seat.

As the day went on, the learning hours were done for the day, and so he went home.

He felt bored as he did when his tutor teached him. Even though he was smart, he wasn't at a genius level smart. He was just the average level smart.

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Months passed, Ares made friends and studied normally. But occasionally, he had an ominous feeling of familiarity to his way of life.

This sense of familiarity got his nerve wrecked. He got annoyed because he couldn't remember where or when he experienced these things. And soon, he got plagued by these thoughts daily.

During these abnormal days, he often dreamt of a familiar place. He dreamt he was on a world called "Earth", studying in class with friends. Doing his daily routines and exploring this "Flat" world called the Internet.

But these dreams had now occured every night. Strangely, he could remember almost everything in those dreams. It's as if those dreams were real life.

Day by day, his knowledge of Math and Science got better, his logical thinking also got better. It continued even when he actually surpassed the teachers. But this was due to Aphorix being a world of magic, people did not sought comfort from science. It was easier to use magic.

But seeing this boost of intellect, the teachers gave up on teaching him. The teachers, who studied Math and Science for years and years got jealous.

His intellect was actually normal. Ares who was actually a highschool student in his dreams couldn't help but ace all of the Math and Science studies. Those studies were on an elementary school level on Earth, and that's why it was pretty easy.

But this wasn't the case for the teachers, for them this was a level where normal people would consider hard.

Set with jealousy on their heads, the teachers decided to boycott Ares. One teacher even pretended Ares didn't exist when in class.

Ares was mad, but deep inside, he was sad. He asked his friends to help him, but they couldn't do anything. If they helped Ares, they would get low marks and restart a year.

One quiet night, Ares sneaked outside of his house. Driven by his despairity of being mistreated, he decided to break into the Magic division's magic laboratory. Rumours said that there was one War ring contained inside of the lab.

The reason for this was that he wanted to leave the Academy and become a 'Venturer', venturers are people who explore outside of the barrier. They earn money by mapping the outside world. The outside world of his continent's barrier that is.

Every entire football field size of area, a venturer maps, they earn almost as much as a full fledged scholar like Ares's mom. But those jobs are dangerous, creatures that are also dangerous lurk in those lands.

And that was why Ares needed a War ring. He needed power.

SMASH!!!!

The glass window outside of the lab broke. It was Ares, he entered the lab in a sneaky way. Ares saw that the ring was in a glass container.

'How does this open, okay just break it."

BANG!!!

'It won't break??'

Suddenly, a hand choked Ares, and he passed out due to not breathing.

To be continued....