The surroundings once again turned black and a man materialized where the lady who had been recording the war had been.

“To all the future generations” The man began

“This man is the first demigod ever, the epitome of human will, the best mage that the world will ever see.

He is Grand mage Thomas, His name shall be remembered for as long as even a single man can use magic.

The path that this man opened up will be eternal,

Humanity will be eternal!

Magic will be eternal!

MAGES WILL BE ETERNAL!”

He shouted and I saw a tear drop fall down his eyes

I... I was quite shook, When the blackness receded and the view of the class once again became clear I saw that every student had tears in their eyes

“This is the legacy you carry, the legacy that started from the first person to harness the energy in nature for their own use. The legacy that was saved by the grand mage thomas, the legacy has been protected by the lives of uncountable mages for the hundreds of thousands of years.”

Edward said after looking around the class.

“So straighten your backs and work hard, because the sacrifices that have to be made for this legacy will be made by you from now on.

And now the previous batch students will continue with the introductions and the tour of the institute premises” He said and with a somewhat sad smile on his face and disappeared.

The class remained silent, I turned my sight over to Adiel and saw him deep in thought.

I had wondered a lot about the history of this world but never expected this. Though the possibility remained that all this could be fake as well I was willing to believe it to be real.

The raw emotions in the voice of the announcer after the recording had ended couldn’t be faked.

“Hello freshers?” a girl around 15-16 years old entered the room, maybe expecting to see exited faces but her gaze became confused after seeing the many tear stained faces.

“Did he show you the recording?”

A boy nodded.

“All’s not sad in their stories, you remember the couple that got separated in the beginning? Turns out the mage who was torn in half had a spell in place that would transfer his soul into a parrot. Both of them lived a weird but happy life together, and the Grand mage Thomas? His wife gave birth to his daughter 3 months after his death and she was became the first mage after her father to reach a level of power beyond legendaries.”

“So she became a demigod?”

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“Yes, In fact the teacher of Sir Edward is the direct descendant of The grand mage Thomas”

“Soo cool!”

Ah children, so quick to forget and move on, I wonder if I had been their age and watched the same recording what my reaction would have been.

She gave little titbits of information for a while before the gloomy faces of the children lit up again.

“Now should we move ahead with the introductions? My name is Ari,I am in the 3rd year and am a Half-mage.

You should introduce yourselves to each other sometimes later, for now let’s go and I will tell you about the premises of the school as we move along”

The class stood up and we slowly exited the building.

“This is the school building where the classes for all the students take place.” She said as we started moving in the direction of the dormitories.

“The school building is in the dead center of the entire place. And while we are in the eastern ranges you would not be able to find your way out of here as the entire place is covered by a huge illusion and materialization spell that from the outside doesn’t allow people to discover this place easily and people from the inside makes sure that no kid who hasn’t become a half-mage would not be able to exit.

The entire school premise is a huge circle, about 2 km in diameter, in the south west is this dormitory”

She said when we arrived near the buildings the had had been assigned to the students.

She took us to the east which she pointed out can easily be told by either paying attention to the sun or the huge cloud in the sky that always stayed in the same place because it had been made by magic.

Their she showed us the buildings that looked the same as ours which as it turns out were the teachers dormitory.

Then, in the north was the huge garden that was used for recreational purposes and training purposes. It also had some really cool hidden places which were made by the current headmaster.

To the east of the garden were a bunch of huge buildings where the principal’s office and the other official buildings that also served as the mage headquarters were located. After showing us around she went off.

Some of us went around looking at stuff while some decided to head home. Adiel and Delsa decided to head home while I decided to roam through the garden in order to look for someone practicing magic. My hands were really itching for some magic.

The garden could barely be called a garden, it was basically a jungle but with somewhat less trees and a lot of flowering plants. Most of the trees had flowers too.

I had seen a lot of beautiful places on earth, But maybe the presence of magic made moments such as these feel breathtakingly amazing.

I wandered aimlessly, thinking about the recording that had been shown today and the sheer brutality of the scene and the sheer presence of the Grand mage Thomas.

I wonder if he would have been happy at the moment of his death if he knew how grand his name had been after his death, most probably not I guess.

“Enjoying the peace?” A somewhat familier voice sounded from behind me.

Turning around I saw the owl whose clones? Body doubles? Whose something woke us up so brutally.

“I am, But I don’t mind company”

He sat down on a tree branch and I climbed the tree he was sitting on and sat down on a branch directly next to him.

“What’s your name”

“Eric, yours?”

“We don’t get names, I am called Eleven as I am the Guardian no. 11. You can just call me that”

“Were the little birds that woke us up your clones?”

“Not exactly, i used a spell to put a set of commands in little pieces of mana that materialized as birds.”

“What exactly were the commands? Cause they way we were woke up was brutal”

“But that was hilarious wasn’t it? I did the same thing last year and there was one kid who liked to sleep naked, he ran around the whole dormitory without looking back naked!”

I looked at the deadpan expression of the owl and a chuckle escaped my lips.

“Isn’t this a little childish?”

“Doesn’t matter, I am barely 2 years old anyways, I got almost a hundred years of life left as a spirit and as I would be spending almost half my entire life here it has to be atleast entertaining, You know how hard it is here? It has been 2 months since I last ate a monster core! I have been living off of air currents since birth!”

I took out the goblin core I had stuffed in my overcoat just in case and saw the gaze of eleven get fixed on it immediately.

“Soo… how about a favor in exchange for that?”

I just threw the stone at it and as the stone approached the bird it slowed down and slowly eleven opened his beak and swallowed the stone