As soon as Oswald entered Room 305 of the Social Studies Building for his History class, he spotted a blonde middle aged woman, Mrs. Carol Lee, sitting at her desk waiting for her students to come into the classroom. Oswald took a seat in the middle seat of the back row of the classroom, put his backpack down, and rested his head on the desk. Oswald then closed his eyes and his mind began to wander all over the place.
Is there a difference between Magical Energy and Mana? I mean when I feel the flow of Mana, I feel people use up Mana, whenever they use magic. People still think I can’t use anything magic related, but I can replicate self-buff effects using Mana, but one has noticed. When they test my Magical Power and Magical Energy, I always get the results that I possess none. Why does no one else feel the Mana or know it exists and why am I the only human with no Magical Power? I should be able to replicate Elemental Magic soon using Mana. Oswald’s thoughts were full of how the world’s magic worked, but they were interrupted as soon as the bell rang. Oswald noticed that now the classroom was full of students and he noticed Mrs. Lee was now in front of the smartscreen. The screen had the slide of a presentation that read as “Magic Revolution.”
“Good morning, class.” Mrs. Lee's voice had a calm demeanor. “Today we’ll be talking about the most important modern event, the Magic Revolution. As everyone is aware this event began in the year 2020 A.D. or you can also call it year 0 After Magic or 0 A.M. During the first few months many people awakened magical powers and everyone that awakened in that time said they had a video game-like interface that displayed their stats and abilities. Then little by little dungeons began to appear all over the world, many of the awakened people ventured into these dungeons where they battled monsters, yet they were unaware of the danger lurking. On the year 1 A.M., the dungeons experienced Dungeon Outbreaks where the monsters inside the dungeons invaded our world and killed many people. The people that had awakened powers became the beacon of hope for the majority of people that had no magical powers. Guided by their interface, the Awakened were given the mission of conquering the main dungeons. As the Awakened conquered dungeons they began to realize that conquered dungeons remained open, but outbreaks stopped.” Mrs. Lee noticed that one of her students had her hand raised. “‘What is your question Lola?”
“Mrs. Lee, are the dungeons that the Awakened conquered the same ones Adventures from today explore? Then why are we going into them if they are conquered?” Lola asked her questions.
“That is a good question, Lola. Yes, no new dungeons have appeared in the last 1500 years. We go into the conquered dungeons because we extract resources such as magic stones from the fallen monsters and also because the dungeons keep expanding and we still do not have an answer as to why or how they expand.” Mrs. Lee explained. “Alright, back to the lecture. Where was I? Oh yeah. “On the year 520 A.M. the last main dungeon was conquered by a man whose name was lost to history. And after the last dungeon was conquered a wave of magical energy was blasted all over the world and everyone that had not awakened yet, awoke their magic powers and the video game-like interface disappeared and the guidance it provided was gone as well. The most unfortunate event was that the wave of magic energy destroyed all electronic technology and that combined with all humans now being able to use magic sunk the world into chaos for the next few centuries. Because of that magical wave, we have almost no records of the years 0 A.M. to about 1050 A.M. and we have little to no records of anything before 2020 A.D.”
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“So even now in the year 2017 A.M., we have no way of knowing what happened?” Adrian commented.
“Well Adrian, we have some books from that time, but we do not know how reliable they are, so we can just make inferences about those time periods.” Mrs. Lee pointed out. “Staying in the topic of the dungeons. After the main dungeons there were still extra dungeons that needed to be conquered before the dungeon outbreaks stopped. The last and hardest dungeon to conquer was conquered by Duke Leon Deus in the year 1520 A.M. thanks to his great power and his transformation known as the Deus State. Ever since, the Deus family became a powerful and influential family as the Deus State is a hereditary power. Now since we have a descendant of Duke Deus here I would love for him to share with us some information about the Deus State. Oswald if you would, please?”
“Yeah … no problem.” Oswald snapped out of his thoughts. “Well where to begin? I know. The average age of the descendants to obtain the Deus State is 22 years old and the youngest to obtain it at 20 years old is my father, Joseph Deus, and current head of the family. When using this transformation the hair turns white and the eyes turn blue, but for my father the eyes stay the same, since he has blue eyes. In terms of power, they are able to go beyond their current limits. If I have to give a multiplier I would say 10 times more powerful. Although the Deus State is powerful, it has a time limit. When someone first obtains the transformation they only last with it at most 5 minutes, as they get more used to it they can extend the duration. I would say that after 10 years most of them can use it for 3 hours before they need a 5 hour cooldown. My father is a genius and he can last about 15 hours before he needs a cooldown, but Leon Deus was documented being able to use the Deus State for 24 hours before going into cooldown. That’s about all I know. Because of my lack of Magical power, I might not be able to use the Deus State. Heheh … ”
“Oz, when do you think your little sister will be able to use the Deus State?” Lola bluntly asked.
“I believe Carmen should do it at 20 just like my father. She is a genius, even now at 13 years old she is incredible at magic.” Oswald answered.
“Thank you very much, Oswald. That was a wonderful explanation.” Mrs. Lee was grateful to Oswald for his insights. “Class, since we are talking about impactful events, we must not forget about the arrival of Lunaria. As you know Lunarians are humans that come from another world that is more advanced than ours, but unfortunately was destroyed by a powerful being and some of the survivors managed to escape in a spaceship capable of multi-world travel. They arrived in this world in the year 1993 A.M. But as you know in the year 2008 A.M. Some Lunarians known as the Lunarian Rankers or Otherworld Rankers started attacking us causing many tragedies, including the discrimination of the Lunarians by the people that fear the Rankers.”
I’ll make you pay Number Four. Oswald clenched his fists as he thought about the Lunarian Rankers. I’ll find a way for you and the rest of the Rankers to pay for your actions. But first I need to learn how to use mana to mimic elemental magic.
“I got sidetracked from my Magic Revolution lecture.” Mrs. Lee said. “I will finish that lecture next class. Now it’s time for the test.”
As Mrs. Lee passed the paper test, Oswald’s mind was preoccupied on how to become stronger in order to be able to defeat the Rankers. With his mind thinking of his future plans, Oswald began to answer the test. Some of the questions were a challenge for Oswald and he struggled to recall the information to correctly answer those questions. Five minutes before the lunch bell rang Oswald turned in his test and patiently waited for the bell. He was looking forward to eating his remaining pieces of bread from Bakery Kim and spending time with Hannah.