°Hey, hey! Listen!° The voice had an extremely annoying tone right now.

°Stop ignoring me!° The voice shouted and Mor sighed, why won´t it shut up, he has already enough problems, and schizophrenia should not be added.

°Great, if you don´t want my fucking help I will leave. Stupid crybaby holding me up from doing my stuff.° It huffed and Mor wondered why it sounded so pissed.

°So how do I get back... Hey Depresso! How do I get back to earth?° It asked

Mor instantly sat up, surprising the healing Adept, bringing his food and almost dropping it.

"You shouldn´t move so suddenly, you are still hurt." she chided him and Mor sheepishly apologized and took the food, but his Mind was already working overdrive. The mind said something about going back to earth, so it worked! But why could the headmaster not detect it?

°Hmmm, seems not that way. Oh no! Don´t tell me I´m stuck here! Hey, intelligence allergic answer me!° Mor felt a splitting headache as something in his mind wanted to break out with force and finally focused his thoughts to answer it.

°Ouch! What did you do?° He moaned.

°Finally... What took you so long, I want to leave. Because someone is just ignoring me, instead of explaining what is going on.° It answered him annoyed.

°I´m sorry.° Mor apologized and was countered

°Shut it with your sorry and get on with explaining, or I really will leave!° it said

°Yes! I´m sor... You said you were from a place called Earth?° Mor questions.

°Yeah, as I already told you, but what has that to do with anything?° It countered, leading Mor finally into his explanation.

°I wanted to get stronger, and because my magic affinity is only basic I won´t be able to cast the high-level spells. So I did a ritual to bind myself to the soul of an earth elemental to get the earth affinity and a boost in magic energy, I thought it failed, but now you are here. So if you would please share your magic power with me and your earth affinity, I would be eternally grateful.°

°Magic? Like in fantasy? How would I do that?° It answered and Mor got thoughtful.

°Huh? How do you not know that? You are an earth elemental! According to the stories, it should be obvious to you!°

°Me? An earth elemental? How did you come up with that stupidity?° It told Mor who was slowly getting furious.

°You spoke about a place called Earth!° and somehow felt it nodding

°Yes, Earth, as in the planet Earth. You know where all humans live? Are you retarded or something, spouting something about magic, elementals, and souls. Get back to reality!° it chided him.

°But our world is not called Earth, we call it Kinscradle.° Mor answered

°Huh?° Came back from the voice.

°Huh?° Mor answered.

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°Oh no!° Both exclaimed.

°Ok, ok. Let´s slow down. We need to get our facts straight. First please explain to me, what you are if you are no elemental.° Mor asked.

°I told you I´m a human... and my name is....? I can´t remember. Why can´t I remember? What is this shit? The last thing I can remember... I was on my way somewhere, then there was a light, and then nothing.° The voice pondered.

°And you did not think it was strange that you just somehow ended up here and could talk to me?° Mor drilled further.

°Everything felt like a dream, you know? Wandering somewhere forgetting some things, but there was no fear, no pain, no nothing. I was like "Huh neat, lucid dreaming. Get to have some fun", then I heard a voice cry out in despair, and when I stopped and looked something pulled me, and just like that the dream got this whiney human with strange eyes in it. But dreams are dreams and don´t always need to make sense so I just ran with it.° It explained.

°I fear, I might have died, and while my soul?, mind?, whatever did the things it does, when you die, you pulled me away from that and to you. It´s strange how calm I am with this, but maybe another safety feature from leaving your body and moving on or the strangest dream ever.° The voice continued.

°Well for now, I think we just roll with it. Human will do for a name for the moment. Which leads me to the most important question. Do you need assistance? Why did you cry out for help, what did those four clowns have to do with all of this and what exactly got I into? In detail, please.° The human asked.

Mor took a deep breath and a sip of his drink before collecting himself and answering.

°Starting at the beginning would be prudent I think. I´m Mor Agaton a member of the soul-kin and enrolled only a short while ago in the Grand Academy of magics, but it seems nothing will go my way. First, it was revealed to me that I had no aptitude for any specialized magic, which is bad in itself.°

°Why?° The human interjected.

°Because, even if you can use every spell, as the base magic affinity allows, every spell costs an amount of magic energy depending on the grade and effect of it. But if your, for lack of a better description, Soul as an affinity, magic of the same type is greatly reduced in the need for magic energy. I wanted earth affinity like my father has, and this was why I tried to bind myself to an earth elemental to get it. But well as you know I somehow pulled you into my mess, sorry for that.° Mor explained.

°So if I get this right, you wanted this specialization because if you don´t have it you are stuck with the basic spells which will probably put you at a disadvantage in pure power. After all, the high-level spells are too expensive for the magic energy you have. Then why try something like this stupid soul thingy and not just, you know train yourself to have more magic energy, level up, or something?° the human asked.

°That is not how any of this works! You can not just have more magic energy, by some "training" your magic reservoir will grow when you grow and that´s it. Because of that the elders are always the strongest. The only other way is to do this "stupid" ritual and bind your soul to someone who also has a magic reservoir, those then will be combined into one. But ours did not grow as we soul-bonded, which should not be possible.° Mor told the human.

°Well, it does make sense, because in my world there is no magic, so I probably did not have that "reservoir".° The human pondered.

°What do you mean NO magic?° Mor was shocked, how could anything exist without the magic powers that make up the world? °I should have tried for my mother's wind affinity.°

°Your mother has wind affinity? And your dad earth? Cool, then they have like polar opposite powers and probably complete each other pretty well.° The human exclaimed and in that moment Mor cursed his luck.

°I hate my life. Yes, my father has earth, but my mother is especially gifted and has water and wind affinity, therefore giving her a double affinity called ice affinity. She could have easily married into high nobility but chose my father for some reason, and gave up her previous title to be with him. I got into this school because of my potential as her son. And even if it is just a guess now, you have a good chance to get your affinity from your parents, so probably I was lucky enough to also get a double affinity like my mother but unlucky enough to get her wind affinity and my father's earth affinity which in turn canceled each other out.° Mor now really wanted to cry, his life would have been so much better with a double affinity.

°Shit, that is some serious unluck. But no point crying over something you can´t change. So as we are stuck with each other now, let´s turn this around. Maybe you just need a little bit of human audacity.° The human told Mor to cheer him up, which almost worked a little bit.