Within the pool I could see Jörg growing. He was steadily getting larger and larger. His height easily exceeded what was the norm for his age yet now he was over the height of the average adult. After around 5 minutes he was probably the same height as the depth of the huge pool. This meant he was probably 4 times the size of a regular adult now. He then started shrinking incredibly quickly until he had returned to his ordinary form in almost an instant.

When the shrinking process stopped Jörg quickly awakened. I was going to congratulate him but the examiner quickly stepped in front of me and shouted, “Congratulations! You have jotus blood!” I was greatly confused by this as everyone in this continent usually has more draconic blood which always overpowers jotus blood. Jörg didn’t appear to care about that as his face just showed pure delight on it. The examiner gestured towards us to follow him towards yet another room.

The interior of this room appeared to be made of a special stone. I thought it to potentially be a toughened room for training and my suspicions were confirmed when I heard the examiner say, “In here I will examine your bloodline abilities. You will then both fight each other.” He continued on and explained that he would tell us to do something relating to our bloodline and then we would do it. It was both educational and a test in one. The teacher said Jörg should go first.

Jörg went directly to the centre of the room while the examiner and I went to the side of the room. The examiner started by telling Jörg to imagine his body many times the size that it currently is. I could see Jörg thinking before he suddenly increased in size dramatically. I also noticed his muscles were many times the size they would be if he had just increased in size normally. When I looked towards Jörg's face I could see that he had an expression of pure joy because of the power he now had. The examiner then told him to imagine his body being as it was originally but before he could finish his sentence Jörg was back to being normal.

The examiner then told me that he would examine my bloodline’s abilities now so I walked to the centre of the room while Jörg walked off feeling pleased with himself. The examiner said he’d need to check my breath, my draconic transformations, my presence, and then my scale armour. I started by breathing out a destructive beam of frost. The teacher appeared dissatisfied. He explained that because I have proficiencies in every element I should be able to use every breath type. I tried using a breath of earth which felt and looked like a huge collection of stones being thrown out of my mouth. The examiner’s expression changed to one of satisfaction this time.

After the breath test the examiner told me to try and picture wings forming from my back. I concentrated and conjured an image of the wings from a dragon growing from my back. I suddenly felt pain, intense and deep pain. The pain was originating from my back at the point where I was wanting my wings to originate from. I questioned the examiner to determine if the pain was normal and he simply said that no transformation should cause pain. The next minute I felt my wings leaving my skin and opening up to the air. Both the examiner and Jörg looked at me in amazement. I turned around and saw my colossal wings which were at least twice my arm span. I tried to move them and it felt just like controlling any other limb. The wings looked like a normal dragon’s wing but the end had three talons on it which glowed in the same manner as my tail. The scales along the outer part of the wing looked particularly tough. I then noticed the strange glowing orbs on the outer part of the wings. There were three of them on each wing and they had the exact same appearance as the orb I had consumed. When I looked at Jörg he appeared to have realised the same thing. When I looked at the examiner he was still in the same position as he was before. He was quite evidently shocked at something. After another second he seemed to suddenly return to life as he walked over to me and asked which dragon bloodline I had. I was confused by this question so I asked him to clarify. He just told me told me to say my surname so I told him I was from the Karrilion family. He was more confused afterwards because he had never heard of the Karrilion family. He just took a small note and then continued to test me.

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To test my presence the examiner asked me to try and mentally dominate everyone around me. I let my mana assist me in feeling the presence of the two others in the room. I could feel their mana leaking out of their body. I then tried to forcefully push this mana in and hold it in place. I only succeeded for Jörg but I was incredibly close in absolutely dominating the two of them. When I looked at Jörg I could see that he was able to hide his fear well but sadly his legs shook an absurd amount for someone who wasn’t supposed to have been scared. The examiner asked me to try and use normal magic now. I made a simple ball of fire and then noticed that their presence had returned to normal. He explained that until I get to an incredible level of power I will not be able to oppress others without thought.

Content with what I had accomplished I asked him to explain scale armour. I had heard my father previously mention it but he said I might not be able to do it. The examiner responded to my question by saying, “Scale armour is effectively the most powerful thing you can do. It covers your body in an armour of scales as you would expect from the name. These scales are different however. They are made of focused magical power and as such require an absurd amount of power to create and maintain. They do provide the benefit of not getting hit because while normal scales are tough many things can break through them. These scales also have more magical resistance than regular scales due to being made of magic.”

Due to me wanting to focus on magical attacks I didn’t think too much of the scale armour but I decided to attempt it anyway. I simply thought of a knight with plate armour made of draconic scales. The instant after that thought I felt the majority of my power drained and I could see the armour that I had summoned upon my body. It was of the same blank white as always yet because it was made of my magical power I could see small imperfections in the colour. I told Jörg to try and smash me in his giant form. He happily obliged by trying to smash me into the floor like a nail into a piece of wood. In this example his attack would be an ineffective hammer. I couldn’t feel a thing despite knowing that I could die if I took that same attack normally. I removed my scale armour and started to feel my magical power rising again. I then immediately prepared to fight.

Jörg realised what my intentions were and didn’t shrink. I used a quick attack of fire breath to obscure his vision but something unexpected happened. His skin suddenly grew huge spikes of ice. These spikes blocked the attack with no problem and quite evidently could take an almost infinite amount of them. I looked towards the teacher to express my dismay but before I could vocalise a complaint I was smacked over the head. I instantly spread my wings and used them to stabilise myself. Jörg was obviously overjoyed at potentially having more power than me but I wouldn’t let jotus blood overpower my dragon’s blood. With a quick beat of my wings I rose to Jörg's face while concentrating a large amount of magical power in my hands. As I neared his face I let loose the magic I had been storing in the form of a huge blast of wind. After the attack I hit the non sharp end of my tail off of him to bounce me backwards away from his attacks. Just as I started accelerating backwards I felt my organs travel half way around my body. Jörg had grabbed me and was trying to squeeze me.

Instead of panicking I instantly remembered one of the things I learned today. I focused all of my thoughts on oppressing Jörg. His hand steadily grew weaker and weaker until I was able to easily pull it off of me. The moment I escaped I lost my domination over Jörg. I quickly jumped back while launching an earthen breath attack towards his face. The attack proved only effective as a distraction. The second I landed I started trying to produce what was effectively a fire tornado. I pictured wind in the form of a great tornado and I pictured the fire as sprouting from an eternal bonfire which let the fire slowly spread up the tornado until the area around it was completely eliminated.

The instant I had enough magic power concentrated within the attack to make it effective I cast it. In front of me was a grand tornado filled with a brilliant red colour indicative of its fiery nature. The instant it was created it started moving towards its target. I then saw Jörg's own magic forming. He had created the exact same thing as I had. The two tornados moved towards each other slowly while leaving all of us in the room sweating because of the heat. The moment the two tornados were going to touch I saw the examiner appear within the centre of the room and instantly dispel our magic.

Although the examiner was quite clearly trying not to display any obvious joy he was quite clearly overjoyed at how well we done in our fight. Jörg and I moved to stand in front of him before he quite clearly said aloud, “Well done you might have a decent chance in this school.”