Students conversing*

Davis awkwardly sat at a crowded table in the crowded cafeteria, K perching atop Davis’s head as usual could see most of the students entering and exiting the room.

The student's results are crystal clear judging by the expression of despair and enthusiasm, after all, losing their first battle isn’t something they could scoff off so easily.

“How did you do it?” said one of the students sitting at the same table as Davis, a sparkle of curiosity was shown in her eye

“Yeah, c’mon tell us how you did it, man,” another student said with the same curious look

“U-Um… okay” Davis sat at the center of the crowded table, he tried to find an excuse to get out of there but to no avail

K laughed at him in a bird-like way as he flapped his wings happily, but he was grabbed by one of the female students

“Your crow is so adorable, may I play with him, Davis?” Another female student holding the Startle K on her arm like she was holding a baby

Another male and a female student came to pet him as well, K tried to fly away but the 3 blocked him

Seeing this Davis hastily shouted, “W-wait don’t pe-… you know what go ahead knock yourself out” But before he stopped them, he remembered K’s actions earlier and decided to go with the flow

K turns to him with a surprised look, “Are you serious right now?”

Davis turns away, showing a wry smile, “let called it even” he laughs internally

While he started his explanation of what happened during the battle, K got pulled away and was being played with like a cat getting pet by a cat lover

And before long, their break came to an end…

Everyone moved to another location, eagerly waiting for their second battle, except a few students who were nonchalant about their upcoming opponent, most students showed a worried look

After all, if they had won their battle and advanced, so too would their opponent.

Davis walked to his area with a happy smile and carefree attitude, while a particular crow perching on his head with a pissed-off look

His feathers are everywhere as if a cat using its tongue to groom him, and there is a small pink bow on his head

K almost burst out laughing seeing his disheveled appearance but held himself back

“Not a word,” K said with a twitching eye and a pissed-off tone

K closed his eyes and Davis stopped in his tracks, when K reopened his eyes, he was inside Davis’s body

With a sinister smile, K casually said, “You’ve worked hard, and you did well earlier but I’ll take the stage from now on”

“Sure, sure, just don’t embarrass us” Davis who has now grown accustomed to K’s antic just accepts it without arguing

Hearing Davis reply K smirked, he thought to himself, “He slowly accepted my existence…”

“Davis, I’ll teach you how to disappear into the shadow while in my crow form… imagine yourself floating on the sea, and water surrounding you as my mana that you’re feeling” K calmly guided Davis through the process

His calm and soothing voice allowed Davis to sync with his words, like a person who never swam before floating on the sea, the moment they panic and lose focus they’ll drown

“I can feel the mana surrounding me, it closing in… I felt it covering my body, what should I do next?” Davis asked, his mind fluctuating between a calm state of mind and a panic state

K continues his guide, his calm voice reassuring Davis, “Good, now you’ve emulsified yourself within it try to balance both your inner and outer mana, and then let that mana cover your body don’t resist just accept it and open your eyes”

Davis did as he was told and reopened his eyes, he was in his body but he couldn’t move, “K? What going on? Why can’t I move?”

K chuckled, “Relax Davis, what you’re experiencing right now is called overlapping consciousness, you can see and feel but you can’t move because I’m the one who controls your body, you are like a passenger within your own body”

Davis using his mind to communicate with K said, “It felt so weird…”

“hehe, welcome to my world” K murmured as he continued moving forward

The two walked on and arrived at a testing room of sorts, the wooden doors were engraved with a protective magic.

When K opened the door and went inside, K and Davis saw a giant open ground surrounded by large trees, the inside of the room was too big compared to the outside of the room.

“How is this possible?” Davis's words came into K’s mind

K moved toward Professor Selena and his opponent his carefree walk seemed to irritate his opponent

“Spatial magic, a 6-level space magic used to separate a certain area from reality… In conclusion, we’re currently in a pocket dimension” K replied with a knowing gaze

K noticed who this man standing in front of him was, his curly brown hair, and average frame, reminded K of the student who stared at Davis during the first test with malicious intent

Then again, K couldn’t give a shit about who he is and didn’t even look at him the entire time Professor Selena explain the rule which infuriated him more

“Magic at this level is impressive but very easy to destroy, in the future if ever run out of space maybe I’ll teach you how to set up thi-“ K's words were interrupted by a maniacal laugh coming from the person standing in front of him

“God must be on my side, I can’t believe I would have the chance to beat you to a bloody pulp so soon,” The student standing across K in the room said in a crazed manner

Hearing his nonsense rambling K stopped his conversation and turned to him, K looked left and right like a toddler getting caught stealing candy by his parent

K then looks directly at this person, and with a confused smile, he points at himself and innocently asks, “I’m sorry are you talking to me? I could’ve sworn I saw another crazy person nearby as I walked here”

“Keep acting like a smartass, I know who you are and I’ve been waiting for today to come” K’s crazy opponent laughed manically as he spoke

His twitchy body and his eager smile make it clear to K that this person has some sort of grudge against Davis in the past

K jokingly asked, “Friend of yours I presume”

Davis answered, his words filled with annoyance, “Unfortunately yes, his name is Rily, and he’s a total bastard his favorite thing to do is bully other people who aren’t able to fight back”

Davis continues as he is reminded of his past encounter with Rily, “I was one of them… I wasn’t a great mage back then so I was bullied a lot by him and his group of goons but my friend Stella always helped me out of that situation”

Davis frowns with annoyance, “Although I don’t want to admit it he has a talent for magic to the point that he was ranked 5ft during the graduation”

After hearing this, K laughed and spoke with a friendly tone, “Hello my dearest friend, Rily, how have you been?”

“Never been better since I get to beat you up” Rily replied

Lightning magic: electric shock*

Before K could speak again, a flash of electricity came his direction and unlike Davis, K dodged the attack without even looking

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“My my old friend, it is rude to attack someone while they’re speaking, have your mother never taught you manners?” K mockingly said to Rily

Hearing this Rily was pissed, he kept on bombarding K with any attack he could cast

Fire magic: flame shot*

Ince magic:Ice spear*

K dodged every incoming attack and using the environment around him went into hiding behind the trees

“Not in the mood to for a little chat are we? Does your angered attitude come from the fact that my dearest friend Stella kept stopping you from annoying me in the past? Or are you angry that I’m better than you?” K keep on speaking from behind one of the trees

Fire magic: fireball*

The tree he was hiding behind got blown away causing a small fire to spread to the nearby tree

“Don’t call her name with your disgusting mouth” He yelled out in anger

K raised an eyebrow and kept on probing, “Oh? Why is that? How come I can't call my lovely friend Stella the way I wanted?”

K's voice echoed around Rily, Rily frantically looked left and right trying to pinpoint K’s location

“A bastard like yourself is unworthy of her love, you should’ve known your place before approaching her” He kept yelling into the trees around him

“I never knew Rily was into Stella!” This revelation shocked Davis

Standing on one of the tree branches above Rily, K showed a mischievous smile, “You? Hahaha, a mere fool who doesn’t know his limit? And what is it that you fight for? To boost your ego by beating me?”

Rily replied with pride, “Ms. Stella is someone of noble bloodline, someone like her getting swayed by a commoner like you is unacceptable, I’ll put you in your place and fight for her family's honor”

K giggles at his answer, “And they shivery is dead… fine, fine, then I’ll give you what you want”

Pinpointing K's location he launched an attack that hit the tree but not K as he came out of the tree and confidently stood in front of Rily, using his hand K mocking gestured Rily to attack him

“Come on give me your best shot, Rily, I promised I won’t move an inch from this location unless you’re not confident in your power that is” K laughed and his mocking gesture infuriated Rily

Rily didn’t attack thinking that this was a trick, after all, the Davis he knows isn’t like this, his cautious body language exactly portrays his thought

K let out a sigh* “People are so eager to achieve their goal by any means but when they’re given a chance to do so by someone else, they are afraid to do so…”

Sheesh*

K mocking scoffed at Rily, “Professor Selena please come out for a bit” K shouted out and Professor Selena appeared

“A coward as usual always calling for help when in trouble” Rily mocked K's actions to call for a professor thinking he was going to ask for assistance

Professor Selena shook her head, “Student Davis, if you’re going to ask me for any help then I’m afraid that I cannot do anything for you”

K laughs at both of them with the innocence of a child, “Of course not, I’ve called for you to bear witness to my little wager with my old friend Rily”

Professor Selena and Rily both asked in unison before looking at each other with a confused look, “Wager? What wager?”

K responded, a thoughtful expression on his face, “My wager is as so… I’m going to stand here unmoving and I’ll be taking my old friend Rily's strongest attack. Professor Selena your role is to bear witness to it all, if I were to move even an inch from this exact spot then I wish for you to fail me here and now” An air of authority surrounded K as he suggested his little game

“You’re crazy but I won’t back down from such a crazy proposal, alright I accept your proposal let's make it fair if I lose this battle then I’ll listen to any of your orders from now on” Rily confident in his ability replied to K’s taunt

Professor Selena stood there quietly and turned around with a worrisome expression, K noticed her action and said, “If you’re already here might as well come out, the more the marrier”

Soon Principal Herald Wuldor came out of the tree line, “Look like I’ve been caught… your proposal sound fun… alright, I as the principal of the Celestia Academy of Magic will be overseeing this wager between Mr. Davis Edwelt and Mr. Rily Ravenclaw, now begin”

Professor Selena wanted to oppose this but since her father had already agreed to it she could only stand there silently watching the battle

“Hehe, you have just dug your own grave Davis, don’t blame me for your ignorance” Rily smiled like there was no tomorrow, he then started to cast his strongest attack

K calmly stood while humming a beautiful melody, “How thoughtful of you my friend, but you don’t have to worry about me, you should worry about yourself” his calm and arrogant attitude angered Rily even more

“Keep acting high and mighty you’ll die after receiving my attack,” Rily confident in his power said while holding his head high

The two overseers of the battle stood on the sideline watching, one with excitement about what would happen and the other with fear seeing the accumulated energy coming from the spell Rily was casting

“Amazing even in the face of such power Mr. Davis Edwelt stood unbothered” Principal Wuldor commented, his words filled with amusement

Professor Selena's reaction is completely different from her father's, “How could you agree to such a dangerous wager, he could get himself killed”

Wulder undeterred by his daughter's words watches on with enthusiasm, “What kind of defensive spell are you going to use?”

“WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?” Davis almost had a mental breakdown inside his own body

An enigmatic aura surrounded K as he hinted, “Relaxed Davis, my good friend, why would I want you dead? If you died then I would have to go around finding someone else as my vessel, it just too tiring to do so”

Wisdom radiated from K's eyes as he shared, “I’ll teach you one of the most useful skills ever, something that would help you fight even against a grandmaster magician as long as you can master it”

Davis inquired, his resolved to find out the answer evident in his tone, “Is there a magic spell as strong as you said?”

K chuckles, “I won’t tell… I’ll show you” K showed a sinister smile, his eye flashing a crimson glow for a split second

K looked at Rily's spell and started questioning Davis, “Do you know the difference between skill and talent?”

Davis quickly answered, “Well umm, Skill is developed through practice, experience, and learning and Talent is a natural aptitude or inherent ability that someone possesses right?”

"Of course, a skill can be transferred from one person to another through learning, and in your case, you can learn my skill through our soul contract," K continues, uncaring of the situation he's in.

K with a gentle smile nodded to Davis’s answer, “Indeed, the same rule applied to Magic Talent and magic skill, while a magic spell can be cast by every magician as long as they have talent and spend their time practicing, Magic skill are a bit different not by functionality but by their practicality”

“Think of Magic as building an invention, each invention has a purpose or use, and imagine the magic casting as the process of building that invention, for an invention to work the way you want you must build it to do so same for magic, for the magic to work the way you wanted it to you must manipulate the mana through the casting process or else there would be unforeseen backlashes” K continues rambling about how he sees magic to Davis

K then turns serious, “But a magic skill is different, for example using magic without casting… it is called Elemental manipulation not magic that is the difference between an Elementalist and a magician. Skill can be honed like a craft through countless practice but that doesn’t mean it’s easy”

Lightning Magic: electric dragon*

Rily finishes his magic casting and launches a 5-foot dragon made from pure electrical energy at K, standing there unflinching with a calm almost tranquil smile he raises his hand at the dragon

But for Davis and K time seems to move slower, “What going on? Why are things starting to slow down?” asked Davis

“It's not that the world is slowing down but our mind is working faster as we are in sync with one another” K answered delightfully

Davis explained, breaking down the details “Magic spell unlike elemental manipulation is created by shaping the mana around into different forms such as a dragon, a spear, a fireball... etc. but they all have one thing in common and that is the shape of their attack the essence of it move in a predictable pattern”

Seeing the attack getting closer and closer to the unmoving K the two overseers of this test started to become anxious with each passing second as they were expecting K to at least cast a defense magic

K replied, his gaze steady and unwavering, “As long as you can figure out its path and movement, and use your mana to disrupt the flow of energy within that spell, then like a building without its foundation it’ll collapse instantly and by releasing your mana at the right amount of time no damage from the scattering energy will harm you at all”

Absolute cancel*

K used his right arm and punched into the dragon’s mouth and with a blade swing motion he completely canceled the spell in 1 second, in the air were the remaining particles from the electric energy getting dispersed into its mana form once again

His demonstration shocked everyone within that room to the point that they couldn’t even say a word even after a few long seconds had passed

“That my friend is the difference between skill and talent” K spoke with pride in his voice

Using his inner voice he continues, “I have many skills I can teach you but for today I’ll show you just one of them”

K smirked at the shocked Riley, “My friend, I heard that there are many gods in this world that represent many different aspects of religion, my question to you is whether you believe in god or not?”

“If you do then good for you, you might have a guardian angel looking after you but if you don’t then you better pick one and start praying” K's sinister smile grew with each word he spoke

K then raises his arm at the shaken Riley, with a mocking smirk he murmured to himself

Lightning magic: Lightning strike*

A strike of lightning came down from the clear sky above hitting Riley and causing his veins to appear on his body as he lay on the ground unconscious

The 2 overseers of this battle are amazed by what they just witnessed, “A student casting a level 5 magic without even a single chant? How is that even possible?”

The 2 looked at K with both curiosity and fear of what was to come in the future