The people, who found me lying by The Seal were a group of travelers. Like many others, they wanted to see The Seal and try to leave their mark. Instead, they found a baby, which was almost daily lives for travelers, parents leaving their kid because their constitution is different from theirs.
You are usually born of the same race as your parents with slight differences like the color of the eyes, hair, skin or scales. Some kids are born with another system, which means the parents cannot teach their child what they know. Magic systems differ from how to gather energy, which energy you can use, the way you store the energy, how you utilize it and more.
Orphanages exist to take care of abandoned children and try to find the systems belonging to each child. By the age of five the children start to show signs of what systems they belong to, making it easier to train the child. Schools, academies and associations accept children from the age of 6, at this point in life the children need to have a basic understanding of how to use their systems, and are shipped off to learn from others with systems like their own.
Schools are only for learning and the students return home when they graduate. Academies are doing a lot of research in their facilities and if you are smart enough you get to stay. The associations usually give everyone a job opportunity after graduation and they might scout students from academies and schools and vice versa.
Orphans can usually attend education for free as most orphans usually end up helping out at the facilities as they have no home.
As no one was allowed to control The Seal for themselves, no educational facility was nearby, though a city called Gate City was nearby. The city had varied in size through the centuries, it had once been a magnificent city, but as the resources near The seal were few do to the amount of people and experiments executed on the land through millennia, no valuable herbs or material can be found, and therefore the city is mostly a city for travelers.
Though just the amount of travelers in Gate city makes it worth it for merchants to bring exotic specialties to sell in the city.
The city is purposefully shaped elliptically like The Seal with a big marked square in the middle of the city, south of the city The Seal is located, and in the north part of the city is the slums for the poor, which is neither big nor small. Near the slums, to the east, the orphanage is located, and a little further east the mercenary district. The exact opposite of the mercenaries lies the red light district and the rest of the city are made of different inns in different genres and quality.
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Normally a kid would be wrapped in something like a blanket or lay in a basket, just to make sure the child does not get hurt, yet I was laying stark naked under the evening sky try to grab the stars with my tiny hands, as well as eating my boogers and peeing all over myself, which I luckily did not remember for long.
The first one to see me was a red-haired woman, she had short dark hair all over her body looking like soft panther fur, her orange eyes formed crescents. I felt water surround me as she grabbed me throwing me over her shoulder saying "catch!" in a laughing yet commanding tone.
Behind the woman stood a big man, he had a stature like a dwarf, but much bigger. He probably had a hard time with doors because of the width of his massive shoulders. Everything seemed to grow bigger as he came closer, everything from head to beard to hands.
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He had a big smile plastered on his face and was about to answer as he saw me, which made him shocked as a happy baby flying towards you was a seldom occurrence, but what was worse was that I was spinning quite quickly and ended up peeing again as the water earlier made me feel like peeing, creating something like a yellow wall of pee flying towards him.
Regaining focus, he made a quick swipe with his hand. Just the force of the move created large enough of a suction force for all the liquid to fly sideways and make me spin even more, but luckily I had no more liquid in the tank. So he just caught me with his bear-sized palms.
He gave me a quick turnover trying to get a feeling of what I am, making me burp, which made him stop and I laugh.
I am quite plain, no hair growth, 2 arms, 2 legs and no tail, which does not make me belong to any specific race a no apparent birth characteristics like scales have shown, some babies grow fur, feathers, tails or horns later.
"What is wrong with you spraying pee around like that" - ???
He said with a playful yet thundering voice while tickling me with one of his enormous fingers.
Cliiiiing!!
The woman had tried cutting The Seal with no response.
"Hmm.. seems the stories are true" - ???
"Wanna have a try Drest?" - ???
"Hell yeah!" - Drest
I was again thrown and caught this time by the third guy in the party. He was quite lean, you might think he was an elf if it was not for his eyes which seem more like a dark storm changing constantly. He had long pointy ears, a pointy nose, a gray/bluish skin and a hat that had been worn so long it almost seemed to become a part of him.
He was holding me in one leg letting me dangle. I did not try to resists, I just stared into his eyes, not knowing whether to be scared or amazed, it felt like staring at the night sky moving. I wanted to get closer so I tried to grab his nose but it seemed impossible, as I tried again, I was spun around by him, rotating the hand holding me.
I was now looking at the giant dwarf preparing for what looked like a punch, he was rotating his waist, straining all his huge muscles for one punch. I did not even see it happen, from one moment to the next I only heard a clap and then he stood upright with his fist on The Seal.
"This thing is amazing, Liana, it does not even vibrate, it does not absorb anything, it is almost like it cancels everything or transfers it somewhere else" - Drest
"So how about you Lan? I know you have your own methods" - Liana
"Hmm.. it does sound quite intriguing" - Lan
"I guess I could try something" - Lan
"Catch" - Lan
I was thrown back to Drest again twirling in circles as I was thrown up high this time.
Lan moved his palm around himself in a circle trailing a blue light and started drawing something, you could feel the air growing restless and the earth rumbling. Lan was starting to sweat, but nothing else seemed to happen. He kept drawing different thing in the air with no results and stopped after about 15 minutes gasping for breath.
"Hahaha, not even you made a response, Lan, I guess we should head back then, and find a place for this guy" - Drest
Drest grabbed Lan and threw him onto his shoulder, knowing his friend well enough to know he had no energy after that display. Liana giggled seeing the scene and Lan just grunted a little.
Looking at the scene of the 3 was amazing, Liana's one sword slash seemed to hit the whole door at once, if you had good eyes you might even notice the ground between Liana and the door had millions of fine straight lines leading all the way to the bottom of the door, every 0,01 millimeter had been sliced.
Drest punch didn't do anything to the door, yet he sank half a foot into the ground, 1 cm was caused by Liana's slicing softening the earth. The power of the punch seemed to make the earth shake, even people in Gate city felt it, it felt like everything sank for a fraction of a second, but both Lan and Liana was ready and jumped barely off the ground, avoiding the shake.
Lan used all kinds of magic systems one after the other each sending different energies at the gate while trying to sense anything different. With no response he started mixing the energies until everything he had to offer was tried. This process need a huge amount of energy to make sure it would cause a reaction as well as the amount of time he had to try. The reason nothing could be seen was him trying to send as pure energy at the gate as possible.