“Ingraving spells? Do we have to ingrave the spell to use them?” A girl who had entered barely a minute ago asked.
“Yes and no, depends on what your definition of spell is. You will learn all about the related topics when you join the classes.”
“Enough on the questioning now” An old lady, maybe in her 70’s entered the room.
She silenced anyone who was talking and said,
“We are ready for the ritual. Everyone sit down on the floor and bite something in case you are afraid of pain.”
I thought they will be taking us to some solemnly lighted room with candles and circles and stuff.
Everyone who had been standing including me sat down .
“We will be exiting the room now, best of luck” The man who had been answering the questions till now said and exited the room with the old woman in tow.
*Buzzz* a weird buzzing sound started coming off from the walls and the floors.
I felt a small amount of pain in my head and say many children start putting handkerchiefs in their mouths.
Honestly, its not that b-
*BUZZZZZ* The sound intesified and suddenly it felt like my head was about to fall off, There’s pain that can make you scream and then there’s pain that doesn’t even allow someone to scream. This was the second type.
I felt that my head was about to burst and then everything went blank.
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
“How is the process going” Edward asked after suddenly appearing behind the old women who was incharge of this whole process.
“I swear to god Edward I will kill you someday if you don’t improve your habit of suddenly materializing behind me!”
“you can try, It won’t be a very successful attempt but you can try.”
The old lady was about to curse but took a deep breath and said.
“Three people fainted, 2 had legendary classes and 1 was born with a condition that makes her more susceptible to pain. We will have to increase the potion injection dosage for the 2 kids who had legendary classes. Other than the presence of someone with legendary classes here everything else is fine I guess”
“Start the dosage and double it for candidate numbers 78 and 69” she shouted.
“What was the reaction of the kid I teleported in?”
“That kid? He one of the kids who had legendary classes. He could have enjoyed a great life under the gods but now he ought to suffer with us.”
Edward suddenly fell silent and then started laughing.
“I thought this kid came here because he had a farmer class! I grow more and more intrigued every second.”
The old women, knowing that the current demigod of the mage faction is half crazy, didn’t say anything and watched as the awake kids were made to stand in lines and injected with the potions.
As for the kids that fainted, a single examiner went ahead and injected Eric and the other boy with the legendary class with a a dosage that was twice that of other kids. The method of injecting was also quite suitable for a magic academy. A snake like contraption that was filled with the dosage and clamped on the wrists which then injected the potion.
A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.
“The creator of this potion was truly ingenious, to use the body as a filter to figure out what the most suitable element is and then letting the potion overload the soul with the same elements to change the soul space” The old lady commented.
After about 10 minutes passed a metallic orb which was connected to a needle was brought in.
The kids were once again made to stand in line the examiners, the examiner jabbed the needle straight in the skull of the kid first in line, the kid shouted a little and then just stood as if it didn’t result in any pain.
Suddenly his left hand glowed a little and a little blue flower appeared on his hand.
“Water element affinity” She took out a the needle and weirdly enough there was not even a mark on the his head.
The kid walked out of the line and the girl just behind him nervously walked forward. The examiner jabbed the needle in her forehead, this time nothing happened even after 30 seconds. The examiner took out the needle from her forehead.
“Mana storage talent”
“Umm sir?” the girl said.
“Yes?”
“what about my mana affinity?”
“Your guardian didn’t tell you? Oh wait you are from the town right?”
“Yes sir”
“That explains it, you remember that I said that anything less than 100 percent mana storage is useless? Its because if the mana storage unit is not 100 percent then that means the kid doesn’t have affinity with all the elements, which automatically meant that they couldn’t become even a tier-1 mage, The initiate mage rank solves that of course, simply put you have all element affinity” while saying this he pushed the girl to the side and continued with the tests for other kids.
There were barely 3 or 4 people with the mana storage talent and the rest mostly had 2 element affinity, with some people having 1 or 3 elemental affinities.
Different types of patterns appeared on all kids, some had tattoos and some had hair color changed, there were 2 kids whose eye color changed!
The examiner quickly tested almost all the kids and soon only the 3 unconscious kids were left.
=====================================================================================
Uhh, what happened? Oh right, I lost consciousness from the pain.
I opened my eyes and…
“AHH!” I jumped and landed on my feet, away from the needle that was dangerously close to my head.
I looked at the person holding the needle and found the man who was lecturing us earlier looking at me with a dumbfounded expression.
“HA HA HAA!” I heard a loud laugh which sounded suspiciously similar to Edward’s voice. Soon all the kids started laughing and even the man who was about to do something with a needle started laughing.
“It’s a test kiddo, All the kids took it and I promise it doesn’t hurt” He said.
I just looked at him with suspicion. He went towards another unconscious kid and jabbed the needle in the kids head.
The kid didn’t react at all, soon his head started glowing and his hair turned a mixture of red filled with little bits of brown.
“Earth and fire affinity”
He took out the needle and there was not a drop of blood, nor was their anything else that would imply that there was any damage done.
He looked at me and beckoned me to come closer.
And I did, he didn’t say anything and quickly jabbed the needle in my head before I could react.
This actually didn’t hurt.
For a few seconds I felt nothing but then I felt a warm sensation travelling from my head to toes. I noticed my forehead was glowing.
“Fire, water and wind affinity” He said and moved to the last person still unconscious, I wonder if everyone went unconscious.
“How cool man! Your eyes look so cool!” A girl who was standing nearby said.
Perhaps seeing the confusion on my face she took out a mirror from a small purse she was carrying.
Truly a women’s purse could have anything inside. I remember seeing my younger sister’s purse once and she was carrying a bottle of cooking oil, and she just shrugged when I asked!
I took the mirror from her and the first thing that caught my attention was that a small red flame mark was visible on the right side of my forehead. Next thing I noticed was that my eyes had turned multicolored, One eye blue and the other red.
I looked at my reflection dumbfounded while the girl continued rambling about how she only got a little 2 color flower on her finger.How she didn’t have a mana storage talent and how this talent basically meant that they had all element affinity.
I mean, I don’t hate the change, I love it actually, I look really mysterious right now and I fricking love it.
What? Old men can’t love such things? But I am a youngster right now!
As for the girl, I thanked her for the information and started looking around.
I noticed one girl whose hair had turned completely red. She was looking at a girl with a depressed look on her face.
“Mana storage talent” The examiner declared after testing the girl who was still unconscious.
“Congratulations kiddos! From now onwards you are free from the system, Any knowledge you learn is yours, any power you earn is yours, You are, from hence forth, the successors of the glory that ancient mages have commanded since the dark ages!”
The kids started clapping and I joined. I touched the shirt I was wearing and mumbled
“Appraisal”
Nothing happened, “Fireball” Nothing happened.
I felt a little empty knowing that this washed away the effort I had put into that fireball spell but felt excited about a new beginning.