“Professor, what are you going away?!” – one of my students ask me that, I turn around, and look at the faces of many of my dear students.
“The King needs a new Royal Court Mage, and I was giving the position.” – I said.
“But… who will teach us?”
“Hm, my dear students, there are a lot of great magician teachers in this school, I leave you in good hands.”
“But you are our professor!”
I smile at that, feeling graceful for the words of my students.
“Don’t worry, I promise you that I will return from time to time to see have much you improve, and to even teach you something new, it is a promise, that I, ######## make to all of you.”
And with those words, I leave the Royal Academy of Mages, and went to the castle of the King, to serve as his new servant, the Royal Court Mage, a position of equal political power as the Director of the Royal Academy of Mages, and the Mage’s Association President.
A truly honor for every mage to obtained.
<<<>>>
It’s been a month since Yra starts training Logan.
In the words of Yra, Logan didn’t possess an extraordinary talent, it was more like a decent above-average talent, but he was a diligent and honest kid.
Still, in this month, Logan was close to complete the first circle.
It was Sunday night, when Alyssa entered the living room, and was shocked to see Yra and Logan playing with fire.
“Whoa, so we can still maneuver a fireball after throwing it.”
“Yeah.” – said Yra. – “But it will also need mana to maintain it, still, you can make your enemy believe you fail your attack, and then strike from behind.”
“Impressive!”
“Indeed.” – said Yra, and then, finally Yra notices his wife presence. – “Oh, Alyssa, I didn’t expect you until the evening.”
“It’s seven o’clock.” – said Alyssa.
“Eh?!” – he checks his Identification Bracelet, seeing that clearly it was 19:03. – “Whoa, time really passed quickly when you teach someone.”
“You idiots! What are you doing?”
“I teaching little Logan magic.” – said Yra.
“You are a mage?” – she asks.
“He is, you’re a lucky person to marry a magician.” – said Logan with pride in his eyes.
“Yes, both of you are idiots.” – said Alyssa.
“Eh? Why?” – asks Logan.
“You don’t know that using magic is prohibited.”
“What?!” – Yra was in shock to know that. – “Why?”
She looks at both of them, and then said.
“You know about Sakura Clan?”
Yra nods, and Logan says:
“Is one of the two clans that are part of the Great Council of Sakura Island.” – he said. – “Together with the Great Lady of Sakura Island, the Marshal of the Military Order, the Superintendent of the Police Force, the Three Mayors, and the President of the Deputies Chamber, they conform the Great Council.”
“Indeed.” – said Alyssa. – “Together with the Commander of the Magical Warriors Division, the President of the Commerce Union, the Holy Mother of the Holy Mother Church, the Pope of the Aishera Church, and the Cardinal of the Heaven Church.”
“What? Magical Warriors Division?” – Logan asks. – “Also, the churches have power in the politics of the island?”
She nods.
“Indeed. Before I explained you, what is important, do you know who the current representative noble of the Sakura Clan is?”
“Yes, Diane Phoenix.” – said Logan.
“My grandmother.” – said Alyssa, and Logan then starts laughing.
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But seeing the serious looks on both Yra and Alyssa’s faces, he understood that she was talking seriously.
“You’re part of House Phoenix? That House Phoenix that is part of the Sakura Clan?!”
“My name before married was Alyssa Phoenix, granddaughter of Diane Phoenix.”
Logan starts getting nervous.
‘I’m in front of a noble?!’
“She is no longer a noble.” – said Yra who quickly notices the rising nervousness of his friend.
“What?” – Logan doesn’t comprehend, after all, he doesn’t read the newspaper or watches Sakura’s News. – “Because she married you?”
Yra shakes his head, and Alyssa is the one who answers.
“I was exiled.” – she said.
“What?”
Yra let Logan in his own little world and looks at Alyssa.
“Prohibited? Why is prohibited if you have you own… what did you call it? Magical warrior division?”
“Yes… is, not entirely prohibited, but more like a secret.” – she said.
Then, she starts explaining.
<<<>>>
Long time ago, even before Sakura Island civil war, and even before the Great War, an event occurred that change history forever.
Centuries ago, warriors capable of destroying giant rocks with only their fists, and fragile people with the power to wield the mana, existed free around the world.
It is said that thanks to them, the “monsters” were extinct, and now, only humans live and rule the world.
But, one day, a mage so obsessed with achieving greater heights in his magic path, did something terrible, he uses a spell that he couldn’t control, and that cause his death, and the total destruction of his own country.
Since then, the diverse nations around the world notice the dangers of letting anyone wield mana, and so, the Worldwide Organization of Magic was created, and with that, a new law worldwide, the Secret of Magic.
So, that only few could know and use magic.
People under the country, working for the country, with rights, responsibilities, and restrictions.
Decades turn into centuries, and the average common folk forget about mana and the mages.
Like a myth, a tale that parents told their little children.
Many countries could create their own rules and restrictions but in general:
Rights:
1. Protection: From other countries.
2. Monetary: They are giving money.
3. Access to Resources.
4. Help in achieving greater power.
5. Access to a Magic Library.
6. Community: Connection with a community of fellow mages.
Responsibilities:
1. Emergency: Help the nation in times of great danger.
2. Secrecy: Helping maintain the Magical Knowledge from the General Public.
3. Magical Law: Follow and Respect the Magical Laws.
4. Magical Creatures: Respect and Protection of Magical Creatures.
Restrictions:
1. Dark Magic: Ban of learning or using Dark Magic (The Main Responsible of Disaster).
2. Magic in Public: Only in emergency can a Mage uses Magic in public.
3. Kill: Ban to Killed People using Magic.
4. Magical Duels: Informant duels between mages, and not approved by the government were prohibited.
5. Forbidden Spells: Were ban.
In Sakura Island, the organization in charge of maintaining order and the secrecy was the Magical Warriors Division.
Secret for the average folk, but known by the Noble Houses, the Important People, and a few more individuals who came to know about the division.
<<<>>>
“If someone of the division knows that a person can uses magic, or has naturally a great amount of mana, they are recruit or taken by them.” – explained Alyssa.
“Hm… well, it will be easy to use Camouflage Magic to occult the mana in our body, so we will focus on training magic control even more.” – Yra told Logan.
“Yes!”
“Didn’t you hear me?” – Alyssa got closer to Yra. – “If the Magical Warriors Division find about you, they will come for you.”
“I will not go with them.”
“Then, they will send a hunter.”
“Hunter?”
[Hunter?]
[What?!]
“A magician hunter, known as Inquisitors.”
“Oh… Logan, you have prohibited to use magic away from this wall.” – order Yra.
“Yes!”
Then Yra sees Alyssa.
“Do you want?”
“Want what?”
“To learn magic.”
<<<>>>
[POV Yra Draco Vanris]
In a few days, summer will arrive.
I have been training Logan and Alyssa magic.
And, surprisingly, Alyssa has talent, a lot of talent.
Not as high as the Talent of Seria… a princess of the kingdom I serve on my fourth life.
She has the greatest magical I have ever seen and feel.
I don’t know how much time has passed since I died in that world, after all, the flow of time surely should be different, but maybe by now she has completed the mythical Ninth Circle, achieving the Rank of Mage King, or Queen in her case.
Surpassing me, who only in my fourth life, I have reached the status of Elder Mage, having completed, and control my Seventh Circle of Magic.
Also, I start looking at the differences between the mages of this world and from my former lives thanks to Alyssa.
She told me, that the concept of Magic Circles is unknown, and that they don’t create a Magical Core, where the circles circulate, but actually, the mana stays inside the heart, and deep inside, a magic little core known as Stars is created.
One Star are known as Rookies.
Two Stars as Experts.
Three Stars as Elites.
Four Stars as Masters.
And Five Stars as Patriarchs.
“As I know, only in Sakura Island exists eight or nine Elite Mages, the last master died when the Kingdom fall, and there has never been a registered of a Patriarch in Sakura Island.” – She explained to me.
It was great to have her, as a member of nobility she knew a lot of information that Logan or I didn’t about it.
It was helpful.
I try to create a Star, but it collides with my Magical Circles, and not only that, but it was also erratic, finally I eliminate it from my body, preferring to keep on with my own magical cultivation system, that I teach to Logan and Alyssa.
When I stabilize the mana inside my body perfectly, I obtained complete control of my Fourth Magical Circle, and then achieve to obtain my Fifth Circle.
The only thing to obtain the fifth circle together with absorbing and cultivating great quantities of Mana, was to endure a deadly lightning strike, nothing that I haven’t endure formerly.
So, now I was an Elite Mage, capable of using advanced Protection Magic, and capable of Summoning greater Magical Beasts.
And so, I summon two magical beasts that guard the apartment and protect Alyssa.
And by that, I need just a drop of blood of Alyssa, and one of mine, and then, using a lot of power, I summoned the two magical beasts.
PUFF
Dark and light smoke appear.
“CUTE!!”
And before us, a Light Wolf and a Dark Panther appeared.
Pup and cub.
But that were capable of fighting fourth circle mages, and not normal human could be a rival to them.
She named the Light Wolf as Yara, and the Dark Panther as Lisa, and presented them to her friends as her kitty and puppy.
Seeing Alyssa smiling make me happy, although I would not lie, seeing her hugging them and kissing them… cause me to be a little jealous.
Just a little.
[Liar.]
[Cute is Justice! Cute is Life!]
Yeah, just a little.