“How was the experience Eric?”

Thomas’s voice sounded from behind me, I looked behind and there he was.

“Don’t you think that you are addicted to teleportation sir?”

“Better than being addicted to alcohol, But that is a past time for people less handsome than me, Let’s go then” He tapped the staff he carried and suddenly we were back in what I assumed was his office, but now about 40 more kids were also standing there looking confused.

The girl who had been unconscious when I woke up was here too, but now she was looking around the room, maybe trying to figure out how she got here.

“You all were selected by me as my personal students due to some unique qualities that I think makes you truly qualified to be real mages. I will be personally teaching you all.” He looked tapped his staff again and we all started floating and shuffling around the the room.

After we landed I noticed we were standing in groups with the smallest being 3, the one in which I was, and the largest being 20 something. Also, this guy just loved to show off a little too much.

“Based on matching qualities I have divided you all in groups, the groups are numbered, you can look up to see the numbers, and for the next 4 years you will be taught topics ranging from mana control to the art of explosions by me.”

I looked up and saw the number 2 engraved on the roof.

Not giving us much time to process what he said he tapped his staff again, damn god it is annoying but cool, and I found myself in front of a small house along with the 2 kids that had been assigned in the same group as me, a somewhat muscular boy with black hair, brown eyes and a small fire mark on his neck and the girl with greenish eyes who had been jabbed the last.

I Looked around and saw that we were surrounded by different sized houses on all sides. The sun had set and the visibility came from a full moon that shone in the sky.

“We should start with introductions shouldn’t we? myself Adiel, Adiel Stubborn” the boy said with a smile.

“Eric Evelyn”

“Delsa Welst”

We shook hands and started talking about small topics.

“I wonder what the similarities between us are that made Sir Edward put us together in a team”

“You all ar-”

“Ahh!” Delsa suddenly screamed as the voice had come from behind her.

Now obviously it was Edward who was standing their with a small grin on his face.

“As I was saying, You are all reincarnated from different places. You might want to talk about it as I left all the other kids in order to listen to your stories”

“Sir Edward has anyone ever told you that they will kill you if you continue the random teleportations?” Delsa said.

“Just today, barely half-an-hour ago, my answer is always the same, you can try if you want to. It will take nothing less than a god to end me for good. Now let’s go inside and have a heart to heart talk about your lives so that I can go and do something actually productive”

He started walking towards the house with lengthy strides but none of us followed. He looked behind at us as if to ask what happened.

“You can walk too sir Edward? I thought you just teleport everywhere”

“Not everywhere Eric” He said while we started to walk behind him.

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“I usually teleport if the distance is less than a hundred km. If its more then I prefer to fly in order to truly appreciate the journey” He continued as we entered the house. It had only one floor with 3 rooms and a hall with a sofa in between. No television as far as I could see, Not a huge issue but still.

He asked us to sit on the sofa and he sat on a chair he just conjured.

“Let’s start with Eric, What was your occupation in your past life?”

This guy was really serious.

“And if I choose not to answer?”

“Then I will choose to throw you out of the academy” He said with the same smile on his face.

*Sigh*

“I was a writer, used to write stories about magic”

He continues to ask questions ranging from my age when I died to the final question, what was the goal of my life. He made me speak everything about myself, basically my life’s story.

“Your life really was amazing if I say so myself, don’t you agree Delsa?” Edward commented

“It was certainly a beautiful life if I say so myself, But Eric, you lived till your seventies but still didn’t marry?”

“This I had answered to a man who had asked me why I didn’t marry when I was in my sixties, I was travelling in the mountains during that time, I said to him that I have loved stories since my childhood, I was looking around for magic, how can a man such as myself marry someone?”

“You sure you couldn’t just find a women who was willing to marry you” Edward jumped in.

I just grinned at his joke. He turned his sight towards Delsa and asked her to tell us her past life.

“You are not gonna ask questions?”

“Nope, you should understand by now that I just want to hear about your lives, It will help me better understand my students.”

“As you know my name is Delsa Welst, I was a scientist on earth in my past life and lived till the age of 57. I always wanted to understand how the world worked and the truth about it all but while I was relatively successful I didn’t figure out anything ground-breaking.

I married a electrician and had 2 kids.

I died due to a lung infection, I was thinking about how I wanted to understand so much more before going and then I was standing in total darkness for a while. After which a god read my mind, told me that the craziest truth was that this world had magic and I was going to be born in this world.

I was born to a mother who left me in front of an orphanage where he sent a demigod to me as a companion, From conversations with the demigod I slowly figured out that this world’s purpose was to serve as a entertainment house for the gods. The demigod praised me for my intelligence and sent me here with the message of ‘you could have been a chosen but due to your intelligence you are to join the truth seekers, the rebels, the mages.

Honestly it’s not that bad that I came here, atleast most people here want to know more about the world and that is wonderful”

Edward nodded and said,

“Your turn Adiel, and I am the most curious about yours because your soul space is just a graveyard of half-buried iron tools, books and a sword. What made you crave glory and knowledge so much?”

“I was born a slave mr, I used to see kids going to schools and talk about what they wanted to do when they grew up, I started sneaking into schools in my free time even though I was beaten and threatened to be killed if I didn’t stop. One teacher noticed this and, bless that lady, she secretly taught me everything she knew, from alphabets to history to calculus I was taught many things over the span of 16 years by her.

The government was about to change and I would have gained my freedom when I was 31 years old but just a week before the new changes were implemented I was sent to mine some stuff and there the mine somehow collapsed on me! You know how angry I was while dying! I missed freedom and the chance to learn more things, the chance to become something.

Funnily enough the man who used to own me, knowing that he would be beheaded if it was suspected that a slave was killed by him, tried to save me as if I was related to him by blood but I obviously died, that’s why I am here.”

Poor guy, I hope the person who enslaved him was really beheaded.

After about a minute of silence Edward said good bye and left.

“You 2 are really motivating, Perhaps if I had seeked the truth as much as you seeked magic and you seeked knowledge I might have truly become a great scientist.” Delsa said while shaking her head.

“I am choosing that room” She said while pointing at the rightmost room.

She went to the room she just choose to look around and in the meanwhile me and Adiel talked while looking around the room.

I saw a small table and 2 chairs with something that I think decided what we were going to do for entertainment.

…

“The rooms are really nice?” Delsa came out of the room but as she looked at us her tone changed from happy to confused real fast.

We were sitting on 2 chairs playing chess.

“Where did you get this?” She asked while looking at the board.

“It was underneath this table” I said while pointing at the table the chess board was on.

“Well then, enjoy I guess, I don’t like chess that much so I am going to sleep”

Saying this she went back to her room.

“You are good Eric” He commented after I threatened a royal fork if he didn’t move his pawn which would put his pawn in my bishops line of fire.

“You are too” I said after he sacrificed his pawn to put his horse in the center.

We continued to play till midnight. He won 8 games and I won 6, 3 games were a draw.

Soon we too went to our rooms, I chose the leftmost and he the middle.