The big four academies that recruited youngsters had a huge space where many people would line up, doing aptitude tests, signing up and gathering information, there was even an area to meet certain famous magus professors! On the other side, the other academies had much smaller spaces, with a few people outside that would try and attract some aspiringing acolytes to their area of expertise.
Julien had walked straight past various recruiters, to the near the edge of the beach near the water, he walked into a tent that was pitch black. Feeling as if the tent was probing him, seeing if he was in the right place. After a few seconds that seemed like minutes, the darkness was removed and appeared an old magus with a grey beard and wearing a dark color robed that had a few runes glowing on its shoulders.
"Well well another one? This year seems to be good for us! Are you here to apply for the Endless Nights academy? The old man smiled at Julien like a dear old grandpa.
"yes sir, through my journey here i've heard that your academy is indeed the better than the twilight academy in the dark attribute! I would love to apply!" Julien doing a small bow to show his respect.
"Well! Please allow me to check your aptitude and your attribute to confirm you are eligible to join us!" The magus revealed a crystal ball and guided Julien's hand to the magical sphere.
The crystall ball immediately revealed Julien`s aptitude; although it was not great the magnus seemed satisfied and accepted him into the academy.
"Thank you lord magus! I look forward to joining your prestigious academy!"
"Now please sign this contract! After you sign it you may not change schools or you will be punished by paying a fine of 50 gems!"
After signing, Julien had received a pass that showed that he is now part of the Endless Nights academy, and to report back at the tent in a two days for the departure to the academy!
"Julien I recommend you go towards the free information near the lodging area, there is some information you young apprentices need!"
"Thank you Lord Magnus!" Julien bowled politely and left the tent and headed towards the lecture area.
The dark magnus lorded over the crystal ball. "Why do I feel like there's such a hidden potential in that boy...? Although the ball only showed such low aptitude, It almost feels like it’s wrong... Maybe it's old age.. ho ho..."
Walking to the lecture area, Julien had met up with Andre and followed the many others that were gathering around an old magus. Everyone had sat in a semi circle around a magus who was giving out information that commoners might not know. After all, many aspiring acolytes were from poor villages and their knowledge of the world is truly small.
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"Next is the topic of Magus and Magicians. Can anyone tell me the difference between the two?" a young magnus was asking the crowd. A beautiful girl with red hair stood up from the middle of the crowd and raised her hand.
"I can explain Lord Magus!" bowed to the magus.
"Please go ahead then young one!"
"The difference between Magus and Magicians is the difference between how we use our magic! A magus uses Arcane magic while magicians uses Elemental magic!"
"Very good! What are the difference between the two magics?"
"uhm... well... I believe that Arcane magic is the balance of all elements with almost no ability to summon spirits of the elemental plane and the ability to reach into more complex magic that reaches into the soul... while elemental magic as it implies... focus on elements?"
"Well done young one, you are almost correct! The elemental magicians are quite strong in a completely different way, through the ability to access the elements and summon elemental spirits, their fire element will always be 5 to 10 times stronger than our arcane fire spells! However! We magus are able to access different sources of magic such as chaos and light! These in itself are already extremely strong and the process of fusioning two of these powers together our magic is stronger than that of magicians! Each of you have different aptitudes and affinities to different elements, these decide your future!"
"Excuse me sir but are you able to combine Elemental and Arcane magic together?" a bald boy in the front row had asked.
"There has been cases of such however it is extremely rare and the time to understand only one of these schools of magic can already take many years, to have the ability to learn both will take a few hundred years! Although we magus and magicians are able to live many hundreds of years through magic, the people that have been able to combine two magic can be counted on your hands! These people are only heard of in stories and considered legends and myths! However, never stop pursuing the truth and always study to learn how to improve magic and benefit the world!"
The crowd of young students had a sparkle of respect and passion towards this specific magus, he was very different compared to others, perhaps because he is a younger generation magus. The older generations believe in not only keeping their studies and experiments to themselves but to limit the young acolytes so they will never overtake them.
"well Julien, don't you think this guy seems to be quite different from the others? I heard he is one of the youngest magus's to achieve rank 2 magus, and he's from the Dolberk Academy of earth!" Andre said to Julien with a eyes of admiration towards this magus.
"Yeah he is definitely different...but I think the other generations really dislike him for giving us this type of information! Look at the magus's behind him with a bit of disapproval."
"Hi Julien and Andre!"
"oh it's Ruth and Beth! did you two register for your academies already?"
"Yes! we both registered to join into magic science academies!"
Beth who was behind Ruth had a half smile on her face, the only smile the two of them had seen from her was from the start of the journey, but after the death of his older brother it is perfectly normal for her to have been extremely down. Her half smile also blushed as he looked at Julien.
"Why don't we all have dinner together! We want to thank you for protecting us during the way here!" Beth had suggested after feeling a poke from Beth, realizing her feelings.
The four of them enjoyed a meal near the beach looking into the sunset, discussing different magic and talking about stories of their villages. After all many students will start departing for their academies starting tomorrow, it was a chance to make friends from different academies incase they meet again in the future. Although for these four it was simply just saying good bye after a small journey together. That night as they were leaving Julien and Beth disappeared together into his dorm.