Chapter 63.

PART 1.

“You got the overview of the wars in the magekind’s history last year. This year, we will delve deeper into some of those wars, starting with the first-ever worldwide conflict after this dimension was created.” Explains Professor Amrita, changing the monitor's images with a flick of her wrist.

The monitor shows various mages in the newly created magical dimension. “This dimension was created after many years of hard labor. But once it was finished, it didn’t take much time until the mages started to display the same tendencies as the kings of the other side, that being occupying and dominating a large swath of the population. Names are very important as an identity, so the ambitious people of that time wanted to name this dimension after themselves, or with the names with which they thought of it.” The scene changes to devastating battles.

“Over time, people abandoned the ambition to name the world, and the conflict devolved into a series of civil wars, where mages fought to name the part of the land where they lived.” The images shift to Subcontinent. “In our case, we failed to agree on a name, despite the wars, and thus we call this land Subcontinent, which is a literal description of it.” she finishes the lecture.

“Now, please do write an essay on these five figures who participated in the name wars.” The five names glow on the screen.

“Once we’re done with that, we’ll talk about the attempts at creating large empires in the Mage Dimension.”

PART 2.

Hatori is coming from his room after changing his clothes and having a shower. Today is a humid day; the training made him quite sweaty. As soon as he is out of the section for the second-year students, he is surrounded by the first-year students. “Ooooohhh. Look isn’t he the hero?” said one of them.

“Yeah, summoned like the one from Chronicles of a demon mage!” said another one.

“I’m not a hero!” denied Hatori, blushing from all this attention.

“He even denies it!” said another first-year.

Hatori counts, and he finds a total of five firsties surrounding him. “I’m not a hero. Though I would like to read Chronicles of a Demon Mage. It sounds like an interesting story.” Said Hatori.

“Yeah, you should read it. but we’re not here to recommend books to you.” Said the first boy who spoke to Hatori. “We’re here to introduce our friend Suraj. He can’t see just like you.”

“Where is he?” asked Hatori, keeping his interest at a minimum.

Each time he has met other blind people, he has not gotten along with them in his world. A boy walks up to their group slowly. “There he is.”

“Hello.” He greeted him shily.

Moving to the boy, Hatori grabs his hand and shakes it while returning his greeting. “Nice to meet you,” he said.

“Wow. You just knew he extended his hand, didn’t you?” asked the first boy. “Anyway, my name is Govind, I’m his cousin.”

“Yep. I’ve gotten quite good at tracking things.” Said Hatori.

“Yeah, but I can barely work with the Radar spell,” said Suraj sadly.

“Not to worry, you’ll improve soon enough.” Said Hatori. “Anyway, you are free to meet with me whenever you want. Now, I must leave for my evening magical training. Master Zeko will not be pleased if I neglect my training.”

“The life of a hero is tough.” Said a firstie.

“I’m not a hero!” Denies Hatori hotly, firing a Stinger after the fleeing firsties, who were also towing a confused Suraj with them.

PART 3.

Raven is playing chess with Suresh, the champion of the previous year’s school tournament. Raven helped him in preparation, though it was a small amount of help in his opinion. “Good move.” Said Suresh, after analyzing the board. “This is why I kept you as my sparring partner. Speaking of which, you will do that for me this year, wouldn’t you?”

“Of course.” Said Raven, while Suresh makes his move.

“I’ll be leaving with my master soon enough. All sixth-year students have to do that unless they are lucky enough to get an apprenticeship from professors.” Said Suresh, responding to Raven’s move. “But I’ll be back for this year’s championship in the twelfth month.”

“I’ll wait for you.” Said Raven, making his next move. “I learn a lot from you whenever I play with you.”

“Good.” Said Suresh. “But don’t always learn, apply things you’ve learned. You have the chance of becoming a champion one day, you should prepare for it. You’ll be able to participate in the competition once you’re in the fourth year.”

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Raven smiled. “And what, you plan to remain champion until then?”

“Hah! I plan to hang on to this title until I’m no longer eligible to defend it. By that point, I’ll graduate, one of the rare students who went undefeated.”

“Dream on.” Said Raven. “I’ll have that title one day.”

“That’s the spirit!” said Suresh, putting Raven in check.

PART 4.

Hatori’s friends are trying to perform their spells without foci, and before this, they were doing a physical workout. Before that, they were meditating. And before all of that, they were sparring with each other, after doing some warm-up exercises.

“How can he do this every day?” asked Shin, trying to transmute the needle into a matchstick. “This is exhausting!”

“Likely because he doesn’t have any other options.” Said Josh, levitating rocks in front of him. “Remember, we know why he was called to this world.”

“Yes, for some undefined purpose.” Said Raven. “I swear, I honestly think that they’ve made a huge mistake.”

“Why is that?” asked Josh.

“They won’t be able to control Hatori, not the nobles, not Porus and his supporters. He’ll do what he wants, on his terms.” Said Raven.

“But Porus is so strong.” Said Josh. “We’ve seen his strength from close ever since we were children.”

“We’re still children.” Said James drily.

“I meant younger!” clarified Josh.

“This isn’t about strength.” Said Raven. “It’s about the personality of people.”

“Oh, I get it. They do something happily as long as they decide to do the thing by themselves.” Said Josh. “Sort of like you can bring the horse to the water, but you can’t make it drink.”

“Yes, exactly that,” said Raven.

After their training is done, they all leave with their nutrition potions for dinner, where Hatori is already waiting. Since his friends are behind him in terms of the training they’re doing right now, Hatori has to do his training by himself. He is still focusing on elemental magic; more specifically the fire element.

Still no fireball. But he has gotten good enough to produce raw flames and uses the element to keep his body warm. After the dinner is done, Corvus has an announcement, so he gets up from the table. The silence spreads in the mess hall, for no one wishes to anger Corvus by interrupting him.

“I do hope you’re nourished. The news I’m about to tell you is going to be very exciting and energy-consuming.” Said Corvus. “Aside from the various activities we run each year for everyone, there is a special activity for the second year this time.”

The second-year student's exchange looks between them, while the older students crow silently. Let those spoiled children suffer. “You will go out in the forests near the Academy, in groups of five. Each team will have a ribbon in these six colors.” Corvus shows the ribbons in the colors of black, blue, red, yellow, green, and white. “Whichever team collects a complete set of these ribbons will be the winner of this small competition. Combat will be allowed, and if some of you shuffle off the mortal coil, rest is assured: none of us will shed a single tear. That is all.”

“Dammit.” Cursed Raven. “We’re going to be divided, I just know it.”

“Well, I won’t go easy on you guys.” Said Shin. “Though I promise not to hurt you too badly.”

“As if.” Said Hatori. “I’m the strongest out of all of us. You’ll have to worry about facing me.”

“Such arrogance!” said Josh, never the one to take the taunting lying down.

“The competition hasn’t even started, and they’re already at each other’s throats.” James shakes his head.

OMAKE: THE ESCAPE FROM THE JOB.

The narrator is out here, trying to get a better job. That author is too demanding; Therefore, he feels that he needs to switch.

After explaining his skills, it is time to learn about the responsibilities and the pay.

The Interviewer: Since you have shown some developer-related skills, we will hire you as a developer. But you will also have to handle the sales. Your time will be divided between these two responsibilities. What is your salary expectation?

Narrator: What is your range?

The Interviewer: We are a startup—

‘That phrase never means anything good.’ thought Narrator.

The Interviewer: Therefore, we can only offer you 10000.

The Narrator barely kept his temper in check. They want him to do the job of two people, with the pay of half a job. Why the world has to be filled with such scumbags?

Author: Everything went well?

Narrator: Shut up. Just give me the next chapter.

(End.)