Three months have passed since his arrival at this new world. On this three month, Rex passed his time by studying magic with the help of books.

One week after his arrival Rex face a problem, food. The food on the magic boxes is empty, so he must go out there in the forest to find food. Luckily he already knew how to use magic. So the food problem is taken care of when he uses his wind blade to slash a boar from the distance.

After the problem with the food, he got no more problem except for boredom. He already finished reading all the books inside the cabin and all the notes left by the archmage.

On day 91 since his arrival, he decided to go out there and explore the world. Before he does that he loot the cabin and all inside the dungeon except for the archmage that he left on touch inside the dungeon, surprisingly the corpse is still fresh without a sign of rotting.

With a bag full of provision, another little bag full of gold coins, face beaming with a smile, hearts beating of anticipation and souls full of determination. Rex left the cabin that he called home in this 3 month.

"Now where should I go?"

Rex decided to go where the sunset, after walking for about 4 hours while juggling a ball of fire on his hand. Rex finally encounters his first exciting event, a pack of wolves.

"Hehehe perfect timing. I need to test new thing I was just thinking about"

From the bottom of one of the wolf, there's a rumble to be heard and suddenly a spike made out of earth rises straight through the wolf head.

"Hmmm, so it's like that"

Whoosh a strike from one of the wolf almost hit Rex head. "Whoa, watch out, you almost hit me" Rex throw the ball of fire from his hand towards the wolf that just attacked him.

"Now that my theory is confirmed, playtime is over" Rex spins while simultaneously releasing a continuous wind blade from his hand.

After butchering and cooking the wolf, Rex resumed his journey to the west. And when the night came, Rex unpacks a small portable tent from his backpack. The sun cames out just the moment Rex wakes up, he unpacks his tent and stores it inside his backpack then continue walking to the west.

7 days of monotonous journey that is setting up his tent when the night came, eat when he's hungry, wash when he feels the urges to and when some fool animals attack him he eats it. Over and over and over again.

He thought that he will get attacked by some mythical creature or something like a goblin, orc or even some animal that have unusual feature but ever since he started his journey there's not even once a creature that looks different from the earth can be seen. If he cants use magic he will think that he's still on earth.

But after 7 days of boredom, he finally encounters something interesting. A bunch of bandits is attacking a caravan.

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First, he only watches as the battle is already started. 'Nice, a fellow Mage' Rex think as he looks at an old man throwing a bunch of coal that transform into a fireball when he throws it towards the bandits.

'Nice thinking old man. By converting coal to fire he saves time and mana. The only downside is that he needs to carry a bunch of coal with him at all time but still nice thinking on his part.'

When Rex is tired of watching he decided to help the old man kill the bandits. He spreads his mana from his body to his foot to the ground until it covers all the area of the battle.

When Rex mana that is on the ground reach the old man, he the old man is startled and start to look for the source of mana. He is afraid that it is from a magical creature like a dragon but when he the source of the mana, there's no dragon to be found instead he found a 20 years old boy, with black unkempt hair, eyes red as a blood and plastered on the boy face a vicious smile that send shivers down the old man spines.

The ground below grumble like an earthquake and not even 1 second has passed spikes start raising from the earth stabbing all the bandits. The guards and all of the people in the caravan is left untouched. When all of the bandits are dead, the spikes start to crumble one by one leaving chunks of earth together with the bandit's corpses lying all around the ground.

When the spikes are long gone, the old man digs out a bunch of coal from the pocket of his robe and start taking a throwing pose when Rex shout.

"Hey! Easy there, old man I mean you no harm"

"Who are you and what do you want from us"

"I'm Rex and I want you to calm down"

"No can do Rex, I'm responsible for these people safety and the last time I check someone who can do what you just do is not exactly safe to be around"

*sigh*"Listen here old man, I just want to go back onto civilization before being bored to death"

"How can I know you will not attack us?"

"Really? After I save you all from those bandits you ask me if I want to attack you? If I want you to be dead ill just let them do those works"

Hearing what Rex just say the old man lower his stance and spoke "Yeah you are right, I'm sorry about that and thank you for saving us"

"Umm, Rex right? How about we talk in my carriage while the guards clean this up?"

The old man still wary of Rex, lead them inside one of the biggest carriages in the caravan.

"Um Rex once more I'm truly sorry about all that, but you must understand that these people are very important for me, they are the new student at GMA"

"Whats GMA?"

"It stands for Genda Magic Academy"

"Why do you build your academy so far from the capital?"

"What? We do build the academy on the capital"

"Wait What? Then why are you in the middle of nowhere instead of going to the capital?"

"I'm just finished picking up the new student, we are on our way to the capital when those bandits attacked us"

"Ohh, so you go around the country picking up the student for the academy?"

"yes"

"Why not order all the student to go on their own?"

"What? GMA is an elite academy, only those who show a promising future can go to GMA for those who are like to become a mage without a big mana pool they can go to the other academy"

"So how you differentiate those who have a talent and those who don't have talent?"

"We measure their mana pool with these things" The old man shows Rex a crystal ball.

"What's that?"

"It's a tool that we used to measure the mana pool of an individual. When someone touches it the stone will glow from white to red to dark red. GMA wants someone who can bring out the shade of red when they touch it" To demonstrate what he just said the old man touch the crystal ball until the crystal glows bright red. He explains that the darker the red the bigger their mana pool.

"Hey old man, can I test touching it?"

"Sure I don't think why not oh and before you touch it my name is Regin so stop calling me old man"

When Rex touches the crystal ball it glows bright red before its start to darken and continue to darken until there's a crack on the stone, the moment the crack start forming on the stone, the carriage is moving making the contact between Rex hand and the crystal ball broken.