He was wearing a sky blue overcoat and white shirt. He looked really young, maybe 23 24 years old. His whole body seemed as though it was filled with power.
His eyes were just as blue as his coat, and I don’t know why but he seemed more majestic than even Ignia.
“Ignia sent me Sir Edward, in order to learn magic”
He looked at Elen and nodded. Elen brought out 2 mirrors and began setting them up at the the wall facing the table where Edward sat.
“So you are Eric… Ignia told me quite a few things about you, but I don’t trust that bastard one bit, so lets do some little tests shall we? In order to figure out whether your mentality is good enough to carry forward the mage legacy”
I nodded at him, feeling a little nervous. What if he said that I was not at all suitable to learn magic? What should I do then? Just beg and hope it works or try to find some mage willing to be my teacher?
“Stand in front of this mirror oldie, it will show us and yourself what your soul space truly looks like” Elen said to me.
I slowly moved in front of the mirror. Everything looked normal?
“Look at you eyes eric, your eyes in the mirror” Sir Edward said from behind.
I did as asked and …
A grassland as vast as the starry skies above, and the old me standing in front was reflected in my eyes.
Then the reflection suddenly glowed and expanded, the reflection of the room disappeared and in its place stood the old me with a stick in hand. Behind was the grassland that seemed similar yet different to the grassland in my soul space.
“That’s enough” Sir edward’s voice came and the grassland along with the mirror disappeared.
“Take the other test. I would still like to see the desires of the person so deeply obsessed with something that his soul became a single color”
“Is that a praise or critique?” I tried cracking a joke, but immediately regreted making such a bad joke.
“A praise if I say so myself, its been quite a while since I saw a soul filled with such purity and peace. You had been on a long journey to find something hadn’t you” Edward asked me
“Yes, I went around the world once to find magic, it was a journey of a life time, literally”
“You did find magic, better to say you found Ignia. But it seems on that journey you also found something much more precious.”
“What?” I certainly didn’t except this man to start going philosophical on me. But still I wanted to know what this man thought about the journey I spent my entire life on.
“You found yourself, I became the youngest mage demigod ever born and I still don’t know who I am, but you, you found what you are and what you wanted to be”
“so does it help in any way while learning magic?”
He face froze for a second after hearing this question but then he started laughing.
“You really don’t care much about the mental stuff do you? Perhaps only by not caring can one truly figure out oneself. And no, it doesn’t matter at all”
“The second mirror is also ready sir” Elen said.
“Take the second test Eric”
I Stood in front of the other mirror and once again looked at my eyes in the reflection.
“You have to touch the mirror for this one”
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I nodded and touched the mirror with the tip of my finger. The world in front of me suddenly changed. One moment I was in the room and the other I was in a empty black space. In front of me was the reflection of the current me.
But in the hand of the reflection was a small water drop that floated around and changed its shape as it floated. From a water drop to a cloud to a ship to a dragon.
Then I was back in the room.
“You desire control over magic eh? To see all kinds of magic and learn them too, respectable desire, you know Elen here, his desire was to eat all the delicacies in the world and m-”
“SIR! You promised you would never tell anyone anything about that!”
“Did I? I don’t exactly remember saying that I wouldn’t tell anyone that you wanted to marry your teacher during that -”
“SIR! Please sir!”
Sir Edward grinned and gestured Elen to leave.
“Funny kid isn’t he? He was 12 during that time and wanted to marry his teacher who was 29. He even proposed to her! I still laugh at the expression she made.”
“Sir, I don’t think this is very appropriate” The impression I had of him immediately lowered by a lot.
“Then why are you grinning”
Oops.
“Eric Evelyn”
He said with a serious expression, I also stopped laughing and looked at him seriously.
“Being the current head of the ancient mage faction, the demigod of water and life, I invite you to join our academy and learn the true art of mana and magic. Do you accept this opportunity and and the duties that would come with the opportunity?”
“Yes”
“It has been a while since I saw someone with such genuine passion for magic, I want to accept you as my personal student, I do accept about 50 personal students each year and the sole benefit of being taught by me can be said to be being taught by me sometimes, do you accept?”
Whatever you might say about this man, he was honest. And being taught by a demigod seemed like a opportunity you had to be stupid to not accept.
“Yes, teacher”
He grinned.
“Then welcome to the academy of magic research and mage inheritance.”
A white light flashed and the surroundings changed. From the roof of the tower we appeared in a room decorated with all kind of exotic things, from a list of names to horns and from a preserved ant to a skull.
He was sitting on a really luxurious chair in front of a rectangular table this time.
“You really like teleporting on chairs” I commented while looking at the decorations in this room.
“I do actually, other than magic as a whole the favourite activities of mages as a whole can be said to be flying and teleportation.”
“So when can I start with learning magic?”
“Well first of all we have to remove the projection of the system from your soul, which is painful to say the least considering that it has been with you since the day you were born.”
“How painful are we talking about?”
He smiled and gave me a wink, suddenly I was in a room full of kids and a single adult.
“Another one arrives for the cleansing, what’s your name kiddo?” The sole adult in the room spoke.
“Eric Evelyn”
He nodded and went towards another kid that had entered the room normally, unlike me who was teleported by half a god.
“So cool eric! Is your guardian a arcmage?” A boy about my age asked.
“Kind off” Lying was better than having to explain to a kid that the owner of this academy just became my teacher.
“My maa is only a 8th tier mage, she said she can’t become a arcmage anymore so I should become one for her”
Hoo, sweet old dream projection to your children.
“Best of luck then”
“Best of luck to you too”
Saying this the boy started talking to a girl.
After a few minutes passed the man came again.
“So how many of you know exactly what will happen inside” He asked like a teacher asking students.
About half the children here raised hands.
“So not all, no worries I will explain everything once. You are all above 12, and awakened different classes. Now, this awakening have allowed you all to access your soul space.
What we are going to do is to empty your soul space of all your mana in a controlled manner which is painful but not lethal. As the mana in your soul space is mostly system given the projection of the system will exit your soulspace. Then we will change your soulspace with a potion that will awaken the soulspace in the ancient style, basically allowing you to learn real magic and awaken mana affinities.
It will also terminate your mana core which is basically useless for humans and allow mana to enter your soul and allow you to control it.”
“My father said that I had mana storage talent, what is that?”
“good question, Mana storage is the term used to describe how many units of mana out of a 100 can someone store safely in the soul, people who can store hundred out of hundred since birth are said to have mana storage talent.”
“Does that talent affect your path as a mage in any way sir?” I asked
“absolutely, anything lower than that talent can be said to be absolutely useless as a mage, In ancient times the most common necessity to become a mage was to have mana storage talent and the ability to access your soulspace. But no worries , the master of the current dean of this academy added a special mage rank known as initiate mage before apprentice mages, anyone who doesn’t have this talent will start their journey as a initiate mage, you won’t have any ability to use mana for a year but by the time the year ends you will have the ability to store each drop of mana that enters your soul perfectly and you would also gain a additional spell slot in your soul you can use to ingrave talent spells like mana control”