Elizabeth couldn't remember when she woke up that early before but there was nothing to be surprised about. Last evening, when she ended unpacking her stuff and arranging her new room it was only 8pm but after sleepless night and such a stressful day she was exhausted. She managed to fill form that was given to her by Ms.Bereshinkov and after that she fall asleep. Form was needed to create her week schedule. In Holy Spirit Academy students got some freedom to chose what they wanted to learn. Of course there was obligatory part of subjects not connected to magic and covering at least part of normal highschool program but it wasn't big. Elizabeth had to cover given amount of hours by chosen subjects. As additional rule was that she have to chose at least two subjects connected to using magic as weapon. When Church took control over country military training form magicians became obligatory. Holy Spirit Academy was deeply connected to military and Holy Knight Order but it wasn't focused only on fighting techniques. Almost half of subjects were connected to psionic technology development and other types of magical research. Elizabeth didn't have much trouble with choosing subjects for her. When it was sure that she will be studying in Holy Spirit Academy, she got long conversation with her uncle about which subjects were best for her. As since type she choose Use of Psions Research, Psionic Control and Open Research Time. Two first were focused on improving students control over psions and the last one was as name says opportunity for students to focus on their own ideas and theories with support form academy staff and with use of academy facilities. Problems have started when Elizabeth was about to choose her battle training but with help from her uncle she was able to choose obligatory two. She decided on Psionic Detection, subject focused on searching and scouting with use of psions and Magic Swordsmanship. Elizabeth wasn't realm sure about the second one but her uncle urged to choose it. He wanted that she could learn, how to protect herself. Magical Swordsmanship may sounds funny but with development of magic, firearms became less and less effective and real revolution came when scientists discovered two type of alloys. First of them was called Psionium, mix of gold, silver, aluminum, iron and few more metals. Discovery of Psionium was in pair of discovery of bronze. Everything because Psionium could conduct psions. With new alloy first concepts of magical devices were created and finally it was possible to for magicians to use all kinds of magic freely. With that, firearms became useless against magicians in most cases and normal humans couldn't stand a fight against magicians. With technology development concept of fight between magicians changed. There were two options to fight in distance with use of long range magic or close combat. And that's when swords and other melee weapons came back to life. With magic  and weapons created with use of Psionium, Magical Swordsmanship was created. While Psionium got huge amount of ways to use it, the second newly created alloy got only one and simple feature. Adamantium created mostly from platinum and gold was like sponge for psions. In range of about 1m from small amount of Adamantium all psions were sucked in. With use of adamantium creating restrictions for magicians was possible but most importantly Adamantium could help people that couldn't control their inborn magic.

After she got out from bed, Elizabeth took a long shower and prepared herself for school. Today instead of normal lessons, which will start next day, all first year students got magic power tests. Elizabeth couldn't understand why, because when she was still only candidate, she took that test twice with rest of candidates. With number of magicians increasing in fast pace, magic power classification was created. There were seven basic magic classes form the weakest one F-class to strongest S-class. In theory above normal S-class there should be SS and SSS classes but officially there wasn't magician to reach that level. After magic explosion 5 years ago, theory that SSS-class magician caused this tragedy, was created. But Church like always was silent about things like this.

Elizabeth felt a little bit bad about this tests because she will have to take off her glasses. With addition on Psionium and Adamantium her glasses were blocking her psionic vision but to get best possible score on test she need to take it off. Lack of glasses wasn't that bad, in her opinion she even look better without them but real problem would be that she will able to see other students auras. Elizabeth felt bad because for her seeing other's auras was violating their privacy.

After eating breakfast Elizabeth headed out to area where sports facilities were located. She she arrived at the entrance of testing facility  there was Ms.Bereshinkov waiting specially for her.

"There you are Ms. Hart."

Elizabeth was very surprised by her teacher.

"Good morning Ms.Bereshinkov is there anything wrong? Why are you standing here ?"

"Oh don't worry it's nothing wrong but I am afraid that you need to leave your glasses behind."

After this words Elizabeth day became much worse.

"Why? I thought that it will be alright if I take them of before my tests like the time when I was candidate."

Without thinking Elizabeth acted a little rude towards her teacher. When she realized that it was already to late.

"Haha, you are exactly as William told me.  You know earlier tests were very basic due to high number of candidates but today we want to measure your magic powers accurately so there can't be any Adamantium in nearest area."

That makes sens but who was this William guy? She couldn't talk about her uncle, right?

"You know my uncle?"

And once again Elizabeth said something without thinking.

"Ah yes, we were serving in one unit, I am surprised that he didn't told you about it. He knew that I will be your teacher, we had even meet and talked about it."

So, her uncle knew her teacher and more importantly he went out with a women. That topic needs further examination.

"Ok, Elizabeth leave your glasses to me and will give them back you you after tests. I won't be present at test so I can hold it for that time."

Without hesitation Elizabeth took off her glasses and gave them to her teacher. Without glasses aura immediately appeared around her teacher with waves of grey light. So Ms.Bereshinkov had inborn air magic but the thing that catch attention of Elizabeth was prosthetics of Ms.Bereshinkov right hand. It was glowing brightly from psions inside. And once again Elizabeth acted without any tact and was staring at Ms.Bereshinkov.

"So you can really see psions."

With astonished look on her face Ms.Bereshinkov was looking at Elizabeth. Realizing her mistake Elizabeth quickly started to apologize her teacher.

"Oh, I am really sorry but after taking glasses off, I need few seconds to adapt."

"Do not worry, I am not angry, instead of scolding I will tell you something. It's thanks to William that I lost only my hand. If he didn't helped me that time I would be probably dead."

Her uncle have saved Ms.Bereshinkov life? Elizabeth never heard of this before. And once again she called Elizabeth's uncle by his name. In her whole life Elizabeth  have never heard women calling her uncle by his name. That was so suspicious that Elizabeth decided to interview her uncle on Sunday dinner.

"Ok, that's enough chatting you should hurry up if you don't want to be late."

Without any more interruptions Elizabeth has entered the building.

After walking through entrance and wide corridor, Elizabeth found large room with her whole class gathered in. At beginning she was overwhelmed by auras of her colleagues but after a while she got used to it. Most of her classmates were talking to each other, seeing this Elizabeth decided to start socializing. She noticed that black haired girl who was sitting next to her in classroom, was standing alone. Around her deeply blue aura was gathering. Without hesitation Elizabeth approached black haired girl.

"Hi, my name is Elizabeth we are sitting next to each other in classroom."

 Girl looked at Elizabeth.

"Hi, you can call me Natasha."

And that's where Elizabeth "make friends" failed because she didn't have any idea how to begin conversation. After staring for few seconds black haired girl broke the silence.

"You are not wearing glasses."

It didn't sounded like a question but Elizabeth felt obligated to answer.

" Ms.Bereshinkov took them from me before I have entered this building. There was some Adamantium in them."

 Elizabeth was hoping that she avoid telling about her Psionic vision but Natasha asked obvious question.

"And , why are you wearing  glasses?"

"Ehh... you see I have something called Psionic vision. You know, I can see auras and it's pretty tiring, so I wear glasses."

Natasha eyes became big and round from surprise.

"Are you serious ?"

"Yes."

With surprised eyes Natasha was staring at Elizabeth but Elizabeth noticed that deep blue psionic energy started gathering over Natasha's head. While she looked at sphere of whirling energy, Natasha opened her mouth.

"Holy shit, you serious can see it."

Sphere of Psionic energy seemed to be test for Elizabeth. It was pretty clever and Elizabeth was impressed how well her new classmate was controlling psions. After Natasha was sure that Elizabeth was telling the truth she released gathered energy. After she has done that, they heard loud yell from other side of room.

"Who have used magic second ago?"

A short figure appeared between machines used to tests.

"I have spend half an hour on calibrating those things and you just casually use magic in this room. Don't you see signs all over the place?"

Short man with incredibly bright hairs and short beard started to scold students.

"Who used magic ? Tell me who wasted 30 minutes of my precious time. And you better got good excuse."

Rather funny than dangerous, little man was yelling at students.

"I am sorry profesor Hipkins, I did it."

Natasha confessed to this stranger person.

"Oho, we found criminal. And why you did it."

Apparently Natasha decided that her relationship with acquaintance with Elizabeth isn't that good and she simply sold her to profesor Hipkins.

" I am sorry profesor but Elizabeth told me that she got Psionic vision and I had to check it."

With little grin on her face, Natasha looked at Elizabeth. She  the only one, after hearing about Psionic vision whole class started to glare at Elizabeth.

"Dear God, is that true?"

With little disbelief in his voice, profesor Hipkins asked Elizabeth.

"Yes."

With glances from whole class on her she could only confirm.

"I see, you got very rare taken young lady, it seems to that new year isn't as boring as I thought. Alright give me ten more minutes and we can start our tests."

After that profesor disappeared behind machines once again. Natasha with wide grin spoked to Elizabeth.

"Uff, that was close. My elder told me that he can be serious pain in the ass, if you anger him."

"Natasha, tell me something, have you thought about asking me, before you told everybody about my Psionic vision?"

" Oh come on, it's not such a big deal and there is no point in worrying about something which already happened. You better put smile on your pretty face, whole class is looking at you."

Natasha was right, Elizabeth has cached attention of her classmates and it made her feel really awkward. Nobody was staring directly on her but she noticed many quick glances. Fortunately profesor Hipkins has ended calibration of tests devices.

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Magic power or ability to emit and control psions was growing  with body of magicians. So 15 years old students were about to reach a peak of their possibilities. Elizabeth knew that her magic power will be slightly lower than others and because of that she needed help of her uncle to get the spot in academy. It wasn't much problem when she was only candidate and tests were taking place in private rooms but before whole class she felt little bad about that. Of course her power was lower than her classmates but on the whole country scale she could be called as a magical genius. At the test she took earlier on summer her power could be described as a peak of B-class, what was great achievement for only fifteen years old girl.

As expected her classmates were all A-class magicians, of course there were many differences between them. For example twin blond  girls were in medium areas of A-class and Carl Rosen, son of the commander of Holy Knights Order got highest magic score yet, peak of A-class. It was possible for him to control psions almost 2 kilometers away. Of course with range the amount of psions that he could control was decreasing but it was expected for all magicians. In addition to power levels Elizabeth was getting to know their inborn magic types. With auras color she was able to guess perfectly what kind of magic was given to her classmates. Carl Rosen got red fiery aura, twins auras were gold which described rare inborn talent to manipulate with metallic substances. Her new friend, Natasha got blue aura which is normal for magicians with power to control water and other fluids. There were also few grey wind auras and yellow type. Gold and yellow types are pretty similar but yellow instead of controlling metals could only control solid rocks and stones. One girl has bright pink aura which is connected to telekinesis type of magic. Rest of class got blue or red auras.

When professor Hipkins have read her name out loud she walked  to testing device.

"Oho Elizabeth Hart, lets if what if there is something more than eyes in you. Place your hands and use your full power on that sphere before you."

Elizabeth didn't pay any attention to little rude words from professor Hipkins and placed her hands on platform. With all her might she focused on sphere placed before her eyes and released psions. Differently form using magic there was no other effects, only feeling of something sucking her power. All gets took only few seconds but Elizabeth was exhausted by huge amount that magic she used. Heavily breathing she looked at small figure of profesor Hipkins.

"Not bad, not bad. It's only very early stage of A-class but addition of you Psionic vision makes you a valuable magicians."

A-class? Elizabeth was rather surprised with her result. With happy face she wanted to walk away from testing device when professor Hipkins asked for next person.

"Next Theodor Svensson!"

Elizabeth didn't saw this guy earlier in this room, maybe he was sitting behind crowd but something was strange about this guy. I took two seconds for Elizabeth to realize what was wrong, she couldn't saw his aura. In the past, every person with even smallest amount of magic power was covers with light of aura. But there wasn't even a slightest sign of magic around his body. While staring with open mouth at this strange guy, Elizabeth realized how stupid she looked. With embarrassed look on her face she came back to Natasha's side.

"Hey Elizabeth, why did you looked at this Theodor guy with strange such a gaze?"

For a moment Elizabeth wanted to tell about Theodors aura but she decided to keep it secret.

"It's nothing, I just have remembered something important."

With disbelief on her face it was obvious that Natasha didn't believed in Elizabeth's words. She wanted to ask her again but loud yell came form direction of testing devices.

"Oh my God!"

Whole class started to looking at profesor Hipkins.

"Magnificent, this year can be very exiting. Not only we got Psionic vision but S-class student to."

With strange look on his face profesor Hipkins has left the room. Elizabeth and her new classmates were stunned. S-rank magician in their class, that was unexpected. With little grin on his face, Theodor headed out to the exit in silence. When he left the room people stared whispering.

Elizabeth didn't knew what to think about it. Such a weird guy comes to Holy Spirit Academy, he says that he likes to read fiction and the next day it runs out that he is S-class magician without aura. She was deep in her thoughts when, Natasha's voice brought her up to reality.

"Hey Elizabeth, let's find something to eat. We have plenty of time before Ms.Bereshinkov lesson."

After Elizabeth agreed to Natasha's proposition, they headed out to cafeteria. When they came back to their classroom Ms.Bereshinkov wasn't there but Elizabeth found  glasses on on her desk. The sit behind her was still empty but when she sat down on her chair, things started to getting even weirded. Twins sitting on places before her and Natasha immediately turned back and started talking.

"Hey you are Elizabeth Hart right? My name is Clair Schwarz."

"And my name is Diana."

"Our father told us to ask if you want to work for his company."

"Of course it hasn't to be right know."

"But it could be if you want."

"He proposed you to work for him after you graduate this academy."

"So, what do you think? Our company could make seriously use your rare talent and salary is great."

"Sounds good, isn't it?"

With dumbfounded look on her face Elizabeth was flooded with words from twins. She tried to find some help form Natasha side, but she was just sitting there and trying to not to laugh. Apparently Diana's and Clair's father was CEO of the biggest company manufacturing devices for magicians. Even Elizabeth's device  was made by Schwarz Company. It was almost military grade device  which she got from her uncle. It looked like a little wide bracelet and it was letting her use other types of magic.

"I am grateful to your father for this proposition but I don't look for work right now."

"You see Clair? I told you and father that it wont work if we ask her so straight forward."

"Ech.. So don't want to work for us, father won't be pleased."

Seeing their worried faces, Elizabeth decided that it maybe a good idea to left some path open if anything goes wrong.

"Girls, I didn't told you that I don't work for your company. I just said that now, I don't need any job. You can assure your father that in future, if I will be looking for job, Schwarz Company will be first on my list."

Twins couldn't react to Elizabeth words because they weren't paying attention to her anymore. Everything was caused by entrance of two persons. One of them was Ms.Bereshinkov and second one was Theodor Svensson. Elizabeth was wandering why everybody act so awkward around him, it was true that S-class magicians are truly rare cases but their are all A-class. Seriously, for some ordinary human, all of students in this classroom were monsters. When Theodor has sat down on his place Ms.Bereshinkov started her lesson.

It took almost two hours for Ms.Bereshinkov to explain all rules of Holy Spirit Academy. After that all of students were free. Elizabeth decided that she will visit library. As a student of Holy Spirit Academy she got access to some publications restricted for normal people. Library  was located near the main building. It was another modern facility full of glass and steel. Library was divided by two sections one with paper copies of books and one equipped only in computers. Elizabeth's goal was to find some more documents about use of magic in medicine and maybe something more about her parents research. Unfortunately with her parents death most of their data got lost. Everything what was left was only early stages of their research. Elizabeth decided that she will try search traditional book section. When she described what she was looking for to librarian. She was surprised when she was told that all publications that were fitting her description were rented. Librarian advised her to check reading room because person who took books, often use it. When Elizabeth has entered reading too she was surprised with view. It was ordinary room filled with chairs and desks but actually nice looking place with sofas and armchairs. Of course there were some tables to work but most of room were filled with comfortable pieces of furniture. There was only one person, reading on one of sofas with pile of books next to him. It was one of her classmates, that weird guy Theodor Svensson. Elizabeth got serious problem with deciding what to do. After a while she decided that this could be counted as a part of "socializing with new people" plan but to be honest, she was insanely curious why, guy like him is reading books about such a topic. When she approached sofa which he was laying on, he finally noticed Elizabeth. With little grin on his face, he sat correctly and greeted Elizabeth.

"You must be Elizabeth, right?"

"Yes, I am and you must be Theodor?"

"You are correct."

Grin on his face was getting wider with every word. Elizabeth was wandering why all her introductions were so strange. First was Natasha, next those company twins and now this guy.

"So Elizabeth why are you here?"

Seeing that Elizabeth wasn't good in communicating with people Theodor started conversation.

"I was looking for some  about medicine and magic when librarian told me that all of them were rented by someone. He advised me to look for this person in reading room and you are only one here."

"I am afraid that librarian was right, as you can see, I got books which you wanted. But don't be sad about this I got everything I wanted you can take them."

Elizabeth was little surprised, he wasn't here for a long time.

"So what was you looking for?"

As always she said first before she thought about it. Fortunately Theodor wasn't bothered by her tactless question and only started to laugh loudly.

"Haha, I guess I should tell you. Since yesterday I was wandering where I heard Hart family name before. And that magical medicine I was very curious. So your parents were pioneers in this topic?"

Elizabeth was feeling awkward. It was almost like he was stalking her. In that moment she wanted to end this conversation quickly.

"Yes they were. So I can take this books? I got something more to do today and I need to get going."

"Ah yes, I will tell librarian that you rented them. It was nice to meet you Elizabeth. See you tomorrow."

And with wide smile on his face, Theodor Svensson has left the room. Elizabeth didn't wanted to meet this guy on her way to dormitory so she hurried up and left library building. It was lie that she have something to do this afternoon but with those books she found herself some work. When she arrived to the dormitory, she found some package for her in dormitory keeper. When she unpacked it in her room, it turned out that was present from her uncle. He bought for her weapon for her Magical Swordsmanship lessons. Hidden in elegant sheath was curved blade with one cutting edge. Letter form her uncle said that it was replica of 17th century saber called karabela which was used by polish nobility at that time. With beautiful design on its handle and it's light weight, Elizabeth fall in love with her saber.

Elizabeth spend the rest of a day on reading books which she brought with her from library but there wasn't anything she didn't know earlier, in them. With little disappointment she  went to sleep thinking  about tomorrow and her first Swordsmanship lesson. She couldn't wait to try her new weapon.