Soon the academy was in their sights, Thalrin looked over to gauge his friend's reaction. At first, Matthew seemed excited for his first day at the academy. But over time as they neared the academy, it became more and more apparent that Matthew was filled with a multitude of emotions, excitement, wonder, and most distinguished, fear. Though Thalrin understood Matthews fear.
Matthew was the child of a small deceased noble family which had lost all their power after the 100-year holy war. Their family was extremely lucky for Matthew to be born with mana. Though at school getting in wasn't enough to gain the other students and teachers respect. Most of the kids thought it was a disgrace to have commoners in the same halls as them. This would result in a lot of predicaments within the academy, hopefully, we can make some friends.
To add to all the insults and devious stares at school we would get. There was also quite the reputation to my name. Being the youngest kid ever to get into the school. When my family had first brought me to the academy I was only 6 years old. My exam results gained so much attention it eventually reached the headmaster who was astonished by my performance. He soon contacted my family and scheduled a one on one meeting with me.
After the meeting he disregarded the recommendations from the teachers and staff and provided me with a full ride scholarship, providing for my first class, housing, classes, food, and anything else I could need or wanted.
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After my first year at the academy, I had progressed past all their advanced and was now just taking advantage of my position and was taking all the advanced classes I could fit into my schedule just to progress my mana control and various other mana based special abilities.
Most of the teachers know about my situation and normally allow me to self-study, and experiment during class. This year would be my eight years at the academy, and this year the school was getting a fresh stock of children, most of the academy's seniors and juniors had either graduated or dropped out.
This year Matthew turned sixteen and was accepted into the academy. Under normal circumstances, the academy accepts young aspiring mages showing a great enough affinity over mana. Universally children awaken their mana around their sixteenth birthday. Though there have been a couple cases of mages awakening before sixteen, for example. My parents have said that since they found me I have always radiated a strong aura of mana. Near three I gained control over my mana and was able to contain it. Awakening before sixteen is normally a sign that the mage of question has an exceptional affinity for magic.
“Hey, Thalrin we’re almost there.”
Looking over to Matthew I could see most of his fear and nervousness had left and was replaced with excitement and wonder.
Waking up from my daydream I looked out the window to see the familiar academy I had to spend eight years of my life attending. A multitude of emotions flooded my body, ‘please just don’t die’ I thought to myself.