Feeling the first rays of the sun entering my room, my pointy long ears started twitching as I slowly regained my consciousless from my restful sleep. Finally sleeping in a proper bed has really helped me to aleviate the fatigue which was accumulating from the week long journey.
I slowly got up from my bed and glanced at the golden egg that was placed beside my pillow last night. Still feeling some sort of strange connection with it, I began caressing the egg slowly in a loving manner. After five minutes, I put the egg down and went to the bathroom to freshen up.
While gently reclining in the bathtub, I recalled the words that Mr Rudolf had spoken to me yesterday. What did he mean by no one being able to induce it to hatch? Won't it hatch like any other egg in due time? Not coming up with the answer to my question, I put the matter at the back of my mind and proceeded to wash myself.
After taking the bath and changing into a fresh set of clothes, I proceeded to pack up all my belongings including the egg into my backpack. I wasn't worried about it breaking as Mr. Rudolf assured me that the egg wouldn't break even if you hit it with a warhammer with full force. Just what sort of creature could lay such an indestructible egg?
As I left the room and reached the ground floor where the dining hall was, I saw Mr. Arnold already seated at a table waving at me. I returned the wave and directly seated myself on the chair opposite his.
"Good morning Mr. Arnold!" I said happily, feeling excited about the day ahead.
"Good morning to you too Aelene, are you ready for the entrance examination?" he asked already guessing what my answer would be.
"You bet!" I exclaimed. I really couldn't wait to learn how to use magic and learn how to fight monsters so that I could go adventuring in this world. I never learned any magic at home despite coming from an elf family. My parents told me that I was too young to learn it yet.
At that moment, a waiter came up to us and asked what we wanted to order.
"Two sets of basic breakfast along with one glass of coffee and one glass of apple juice." replied Mr. Arnold for the both of us. I had told him during our journey here that my favorite drink was apple juice on our way here, so I did not mind him ordering for us both. My love for Appy Juice in my previous life somehow followed me to this world. I didn't like the other drinks such as CocaCola, Pepsi and others that were carbonated.
When the waiter left, I asked Mr. Arnold how I should keep the egg which I got from the Beast Tamer's Guild.
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He replied, "Usually, the beast tamers infuse their mana into the egg to nurture the creature inside till it hatches. However, since no one has been able to hatch this egg till now, it must require a unique way to hatch it. You should infuse your mana into it everyday for the time being and see what happens."
"Okay." I replied.
The waiter returned to us with our food, so we set aside our conversation. The basic breakfast consisted of two slices of bread along with butter. The butter was given separately so that we could apply as much as we wanted onto our bread with the butter knife provided to us. Even though the breakfast was enough for me, Mr. Arnold found it insufficient for himself, so he ordered one more serving.
After finishing our meal, Mr. Arnold paid the money to the innkeeper and we started going towards the venue for the examination.
When we arrived at the venue, I was shocked at the sight before me. In front of me, there was a huge plaza. The plaza had an area of about two football fields combined. In it, there were at least 1,000 children along with their guardians or parents waiting there for the examinations to start. The number was clearly still increasing by the second. At the center, there is a stage set up which was probably going to be used for the examination.
"I'm really going to get some serious competition" I thought to myself as I remembered that the academy only accepts 500 students each year.
Mr. Arnold and I then went and stood in a line located at the entrance to get me registered for the examination. It did not take us long as there were 10 stalls set up to make the process faster. During the registration, they used some sort of method to verify that I was indeed 10 years old before giving me a token with my registration number 1468 on it.
When we were going to join the mass of people in the plaza, I heard a familiar voice calling behind me "Hey! Aelene! Wait up!"
I was about to turn around to see who it was when I received a smack on my head.
"Ouch!" crying out in pain, I looked at the jerk who hit me. I was surprised to see Elwin standing there with an annoyed look on his face. My surprise quickly turned into anger and I quickly smacked him on the head as well yelling "Why did you do that for? You jerk!"
Replying angrily, he said "You're the jerk, jerk. Who told you to leave without even informing me!"
"Heh, why do I need to tell you everything that I'm doing?! Besides, what are you doing here? You never said you wanted to become an adventurer!" I shouted back.
"What makes you think I need to inform you when you clearly did not inform me?" he shouted back. Both of us got angry and we began to fight.
All the people present looked at us briefly before returning to what they were doing before. Some of them even had smiles on their faces. Both of us were obviously oblivious to this.
At that time, Mr. Arnold failed to control himself and let out a few sounds of muffled laughter. Angrily, I stopped fighting with Elwin and turned to face him.
"What's so funny?! And why didn't you stop him from smacking my head just now?" I shouted at him.
"I thought it would be amusing to just stand and watch" he replied with a smirk.
Exasperated, I turned around and walked further towards the center of the plaza, wishing I had thrown him down from the Silverwinged Eagle. Behind me followed Mr. Arnold and Elwin, one chuckling to himself while the other, fuming.