The first thing i saw when i woke up was the white ceiling. My fingers dug into the soft bed below me as i push myself up into a sitting position. As i look around ,i could see that i was in the infirmary. At the corner of the room was an mature woman in a doctor's attire looking through files.
I was still in my uniform which i had just used for the fight.
“Errm, what happened?” I asked her.
“You had exhausted your entire mana pool, your body couldn’t handle it and you collapse. However, you shouldn’t have anything to worry about, you have no physical injuries . It seem to have been a very tough fight.” She replied
“ Your body should be fully healed and rested by now, you were out for 4 hours. You should go find your examiner, he told me to tell you to find him after you woke up, he is in the arena” She said.
I left the infirmary to search for the examiner, I followed the signs on the hallway to the test arena. When i arrived, i saw my examiner surrounded by a number of adults. They all seem to be looking at a projection of my fight with the examiner. One of them looked familiar though i couldn’t place where i met him before. When i entered the arena, all of them looked at my direction.
“Ah! The battle genius has awaken.” One of the adult said.
“We’re impressed, young girl. It’s the first time in a decade where a student manage to beat the examiner. Not only did you beat him, you beat him with your meager aptitude. If you had an S in any of the other tests, we would have been more accepting.”
“However, looking at your results for the other tests, we saw that you had a B grade for mana pool, A grade for mana usage and C for element affinity. With those grades, it’s almost impossible for you to win. So how did you do it?” Another adult questioned me.
“ I don’t know, that was my first fight i ever had in my life. Everything just came to me during the moment” I answered.
“Moreover your swordsmanship,it’s unlike anything i’ve ever seen before. It looks like as if you’ve been using a sword for twenty years.where did you learn your swordsmanship from?” He questioned me again.
“I honestly have not used a sword in my life before, That was the first time i ever used a sword.” I answered.
That was not a lie as i had never been in a fight or used a sword before. Even though i had memories of how to fight and use a sword, I had physically never done any of them before. So in essence, i did not lie.
“I can testify to that. She has never been in a fight nor used a sword before.” The familiar old man said as he winked discreetly at me.
As i set my gaze to him, he got more familiar. It felt like i knew him but i couldn’t figure out who he was.
I used my spirit energy to view what his mana aura looked like. This was one way to differentiate one person from another, everyone had different mana signatures. As my spirit energy entered his body and show me his mana, i felt a chill down my back. My instincts and spirit energy screamed at me that he was dangerous.
Dammit ,i felt this before! It’s the guy who sold me the knife! Wait! How come he’s not blind now.
“I know her father and i have visited their house before. I know for sure that she has never fought before” The old man said as he winked at me again. As he winked at me, the pupil in his eye that closed turned white for a few seconds before turn back to black.
Dammit he tricked me! He’s not even blind! I guess by the way he’s winking at me he must be the person my father was talking about? The one i met before and the one who would make sure i don’t get into trouble in the academy.
“If what you said is true then i think we have an unprecedented genius in the making. She’s is born for battle and the sword. If she’s already this good when she never trained before, how good will she be when she is fully trained! I want her in my advance battle classes!” one of the adult said.
“From her result before the fight, even if she got S grade for the battle test, at most she will get is 14 points, meaning that she would be in the lower classes. But since she won the fight, it would be a waste if we place her there. I think we should put her in the first class” another person said.
Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation.
“I agree” another person said.
“I agree” another person said.
“Me too” another person said.
“Then we have a consensus, she will be in first class for now.” one adult said as more people agreed.
========
The next day, If one were to enter room 4-13 of the girls dorm in Skyrin Academy, one could see a beautiful blond girl in her underwear putting on her new school uniform. She started by putting on her white button up shirt with red edges. Next, she pulled up her red plaid skirt and tucked her shirt in. Followed up by donning the school blazer which was black with red trims and edges. She then tightened her red and black tie around her neck. Lastly, she pulled up a pair of knee high white socks and placed her feet into a pair of black shoes.
If one looked closely enough,one could see that underneath her skirt and around the top of her socks was a white knife holster with a black knife sheath in it. Seeing that black knife, one would realised that that girl was me.
On my body ,one could see that i had a few cheap jewellery on me . A silver necklace with a small shield, a silver anklet with feather patterns, a gold coloured hairpin that blend into my now blond hair and a bronze coloured obsidian ring with the Iranda Insignia around my right middle finger.
Though the jewelleries were not grand or exquisite looking, they were certainly powerful. They were the only magical artifacts that i was allowed to bring along to protect myself. They were normal looking and one would not think they would cost hundreds of thousands of points. They were not as beautiful or shiny as my other jewellery in my closet.
In times of danger, the necklace would automatically summon multiple layers of mana shield to protect me. My anklet was enchanted with a wind spell that would increase my running speed when i’m in danger. My hairpin would glow brightly when mana is supplied and blind people in an area around me. My ring was a mana storage ring that contained ten times my mana pool. It was enchanted to only show the insignia when i want to.
All these artifacts were enchanted to only work when i was in times of grave danger. They were suppose to protect me, while also making me not reliant on them.
It was 8.30 in the morning, school was going to start soon. I left the dorm and walked towards the large white building.
Fuck!Why is this skirt so short! I can feel every eyeing me. I feel so naked!
The skirt wasn’t really short by normal standards, It was a few centimeters above my knees. However, due to my growing nervousness for my first day of school, my fears were amplified. I knew i had to do the whole new student introduction to the class thing. Even though i had already done it a few times before at my old school whenever i skipped a grade, i still felt nervous.
I always had a fear of standing out and getting ostracized. This was one of the reasons i wanted to do this mission, to overcome my fears. In my old school,i was ostracized by the rest of the class. Not only was i younger and smarter than them, i was physically weak as well. This made me an easy target for bullying. That was where my fears had manifested from.
I viewed my timetable.
Time\Day
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursaday
Friday
9-10 Element training Advanced Battling Mathematics Language Advanced Battling 10-11 Element training Advanced Battling Mana control Magic casting Advanced Battling 11-12 Element training History Mana control Magic casting Study of the enviroment 12-1 1-2 adventuring studies warding formations enchanting 2-3
Study of spirit beasts
adventuring studies warding formations enchanting 3-4 Study of spirit beasts magical artifacts crafting enchanting 4-5 Study of spirit beasts
magical artifacts crafting
I saw that my first lesson of the day was language as it was a thursday. In my memories was the full language dictionary of Iranda language. This meant that this subject was going to be a breeze for me through. I noticed that the compulsory class were all in the morning too. This was so that the class could bond together in the morning everyday while seperating into their individual class in the afternoon.
I went to find my class teacher before going to class as instructed.After meeting him, he took me to the classroom to introduce me to the class.
“ Hello class zero, today we have a new student,Ariana please come in” The language teacher said.
From conversing with him on the way to class,i had inquired a lot of details about class zero. Normal classes were like class 3A,1B,2C and more. The number referring to the year and letter referring to the class. However, class zero was the class for the best students of year one. Only those with S grade and had more than 16 points could enter the class. I was the exception.
“Hello, it’s nice to meet you all, my name is Ariana but you can call me Ari. I hope we can get along well.” I introduced myself to the class. This was the same introduction i have said many times before but with a different name.
A few of the boys were immediately interested and started to ask question about my life before the teacher asked them to stop.
“ Why don’t you take a seat Ari” the teacher said.
I looked around the room, the seats and tables were divided into a few sections. There were 8 tables and each table had 2 seats. There were only 15 students in the class. Everyone was sitting in pairs except for the one girl at the back of the class who was alone.
She had long raven black hair that reached her shoulder blades. It was a huge contrast to her glowing, porcelain-like skin. Her eyes, framed by long lashes, were a cold dark black attract my full attention. With a straight nose, full lips, she seemed to be the picture of perfection. Had she smiled, it would have been a beautiful sight but her sad frown and lifeless eyes turned the picture dark and sad. Using my spirit energy i could see an aura of pitch black darkness around her. It was like a mist of gloom that wouldn't rise. A state of depression that she couldn't see herself through.
She had the exact look and sadness that i could remember clearly. It was the look of a child feeling the weight of the world on her shoulders. It was the exact expression, the exact aura that i had before when i was in school. Just alone in the world, no friends to share sadness and emotion with. Seeing her brought up hidden emotions inside me.
I walked down the row towards her and sat down beside her.
As i was sitting down someone said “Don’t talk to her!”
“Yeah, she’s cursed, if you interact with her, your beauty will be gone.” a girl said.
“Her element attribute is Death, if you talk do anything with her, your body will start rotting.” the same girl said.
“I heard that during one routine inspection by the guards at her house, they found her alone with her father dead body rotting” another boy said.
“I also heard that when she was born,she killed her mother with her magic” another girl said.
“Enough! It’s time for class” the language teacher said.