Sup, I am Magnus Firewood and I am about to become a wizard, somehow, I had a dominant blood of being a half-blood than being a demi-human, thus I do not have a talent in a martial way. Mr. Julius had said that I am more talented in wizardry and my mana capacity is twice of a normal half-blood at my age could have.
It was an idea and the feeling had the urge at my feelings as if it made me feel important, kinda arrogant right. But being haughty is a problem of mine… Along with being impatient of all times. I don't know where I got this terrible attitude but even if I am aware of it, I can't seem to control this.
But anyway, after Mr. Julius had explained everything to me on what should I do and warned me like hours long and yada yada. But finally, yes, finally! I would be recruited by the mages, but I would be trained by attending the witchcraft and wizardry Academy on an isolated island on the west side of the continent. It's like attending the academy on martial way above the clouds, but for mages, we are attending an academy that is located on a huge chunk of an island.
Kinda suck, but considering that we are being hunted down; it is better living on the ground than the skies where you could be easily detected by those three powerhouses in the continent.
However, before I could go to the island, Mr. Julius had magically produced a set of clothes, but more like a set of robes. They are school robes and a uniform for underneath the robes. On the collar of the robes, there are two colors green and red, and on the right chest of that robes, there is a logo of a beast. I don't know what those are, but it seems that it wasn't a beast from this continent.
"Magnus, you won't be taking exams as you would get directly accepted right away due to your talent and considering the fact that you live on the outside continent you would be still accepted, so you would be attending on the freshmen grade." Mr. Julius explained as he started chanting spells. On his foot, there is a circle of magic, with strange language circling around him.
But I did not focus on that as I quickly wore my uniform since it's just a white polo shirt, black pants, and a nice green and red stripes necktie and shiny black leather shoes. After that, I finally wore my student's robe and looked at Mr. Julius who has finally finished chanting his spells.
"Now, wear this necktie clip, it would allow you to enter multiple barriers once you get inside the academy, but before that, you had to drop your blood on it so you could automatically fill up requirements and your forms back there on the academy." He gave me a long green necktie clip, and I wore it perfectly.
Despite having everything, I feel something is missing. Like a long stick. Right, the stick!
"Mr. Julius, I think I should need my stick!" I asked.
"Boy, this thing is called 'wand' and the academy and the colleges prohibit the use or carry and even purchase their own personal wands to those young witches and wizards unless you have the permission to use by the deans and the grandmasters. You are legally allowed to have your own wands when you reach eighteen years old, and when you successfully had reached sophomore class and lastly when you could successfully control your mana output… Meaning you are still not allowed to have one." He explained with his brows arched upwards, that it made me think that he is a strict type.
But wait… I think I remember the word wand? Right, it was the ring that my father had given me! Well, originally it came from my mother… So that ring is a wand, but considering that it was prohibited, I better make my mouth shut about it. No wonder why my mother wants father to give it to me on my eighteenth birthday.
"If someone violates that rule?" I asked.
Hearing this, Mr. Julius arched his brows once again as he got interested in the topic and looked towards me intently. "A very strict penalty would be given, like putting you in the jail for ten years in the first offense, and the second offense is cut your pinky fingers and the last offense is to rip your arms off, using wild beasts." He said very coldly, even his eyes glints with cold intent.
This guy sure knows how to scare children.
"Well, that's sucks." I said as I put both of my arms on the back of my head waiting for Mr. Julius to tell what to do.
"I had already prepared a teleportation magic for us to take on the secret island… The only thing that we should do is to jump. Right here." He pointed his wand on the magic circle below, and soon enough. An image was created.
It was a beautiful island, big enough to sustain million population and many cities could be seen here, however, the view from here is from aerial it means, that we are going to fall once we jumped through it.
"Follow me."
"Wait!"
Unfortunately, Mr. Julius had already jumped down like it was nothing a big deal. But at this height jumping at it and the fact that I don't know how to fly, much less use spells that I haven't even learned how to do it.
I looked down, and seeing that the magic circle is slowly disappearing I quickly held my breath and 1.2.3
I jumped.
When my body entered the magic circle, the wind had blown my body upwards and somehow, due to my position spread apart it felt that the speed of my fall had drastically decreased.
I looked at the horizon; I saw the sun on its golden hours. This scenery made me remember what my mom once told me.
"Magnus, if there was a day that I couldn't return or died somehow and if you missed me, you could always see the sun at this moment or at this hour to remind me, your stepmom."
Geez, I feel I want to cry remembering her, but it was a good memory. I had always remembered you mom, and you will always be my cool and awesome mom that I ever had.
Okay, I think remembering her at this altitude is bad, I mean, really really bad. I should solve the problem I currently had, and that is how to freaking land!
"Craaaaaap!!!" I screamed like a baby, but hey. Everyone would be the same in the same situation.
When I was about to crash and be like a smashed egg, I closed my eyes. "Father, I want to punch you in the face when I see you up there." I prayed like a good son.
However, my father seems to suddenly get scared because my body suddenly felt like a force tugging me upward causing me to slow down and with a plop, I landed with my toe area first and my hair has blown upward.
"Fix yourself up… And I will be leaving you now, just go straight to get to the academy, this is a test for me to know if you're worthy to be a Juvenis Dominus. Byee!" With that, he vanished as he turned into a bird and flew away.
Juve-what? Domi-mus? Fudge! I don't know what language is that!
…
Just like that, the start of the small adventure of Magnus Firewood had begun for his trial by fire, created by Mr. J (Julius)
At first, it was not spooky or anything what I could only hear was woods creaking since this island had a strong wind, not a problem.
When I got to the darker area of the woods, I finally started hearing murmurs from the surroundings, but there is no one to be seen, just a bunch of trees. Oh, you might be wondering: (What do trees say?) Well, just a bunch of words like "Die~" "Burn~" "Jerk" and lastly, "Hell's awaits you."
Kinda creepy, but I could still 'barely' handle… Since I am used to running on the forest for a year and being hunted down by the beasts. Nothing scary, nothing scary right.
"You there, child." A creepy but raspy voice echoed on the surrounding.
"W-who? Me?" I asked as I looked at the surrounding once again finding where that voice came from.
"Of course dumbass, you."
"Okay, whatever, see ya!" I kinda hate rude people, calling me dumbass for the first meeting. So, I just ran with my natural speed, but somehow, the voice on the forest seems not to dissipate.
"Idiot, I am a dryad and the guardian of this forest, whenever you go in my vicinity, I could talk to you whenever I want." Said by the raspy voice who seems to enjoy watching me running away from him.
"Well, that sucks. But you can't scare me, so get lost or I might bring you boredom." I warned while still running at my normal pace.
"…" "Puhaha! Interesting! You are one of the newbies that did not get scared when they met me, I haven't met one for hundreds of years had passed. But, despite their efforts, it's futile, they would still scream and call for their mommy, and you, boy, will be the same."
"Okay, try it." I was kinda nervous but I do not know how I uttered that word just now. Moreover, that response from me turned the atmosphere on the forest suddenly got colder and the visibility had turned darker.
"Trying my anger huh? You'll see boy, don't regret it." He said as his raspy voice had simply dissipated.
Sigh, that was kinda scary… I'm starting to hate this kind of attitude of mine, it brings me the danger to myself.
*Creeeeee!!!*
An intense wail suddenly echoed throughout the forest, and that scream just now had really scared me down to my bones and a cold sweat had started to appear on my forehead and on my back. I looked at my back to where the sound came from. It was as if monsters had sprouted out of nowhere nearby.
And yep, they're hereeee!
I ran as fast as I could without looking back, "Oh jeez! This is the worse!" I yelled as I kept running with all of my might.
At my back, I surely saw that the figure of monster had a shape of a tree, but they had intense red eyes and mouths wide open with their splinters as their tooth ready to maw me to pieces!
In my life, I had never seen or heard about the carnivorous tree!
*Rustle*
On my front, a figure suddenly jumped forward screaming as those similar carnivorous trees appeared right behind the person!
The figure that jumped right now was a female on the same robes; however, her collar has a different color. A gold and red pattern, she is a sophomore, when this girl saw me; she quickly held my wrist and tugged me along with her as we ran fast.
"Ruuuuun!" She screamed out of fear, that made her face extremely pale and her face was entirely covered by her sweat.
While we're running for a quite a while now, I started to catch my breath and I noticed that I don't hear any voices anymore like when we are being pursued by those carnivorous trees.
"L-let's stop." I said as I slowed down and finally stopped, due to me being a guy and this girl is smaller than me, around my collarbone's height I made her in complete stop as she catches breathe.
"W-what are you doing, we should run!"
"I think they're gone."
When I said that, she looked at my back and noticed that the surroundings had already gone back to normal, no more cold atmosphere, and no more darkness that envelope the forest. Securing that the place is already safe, she sighed gladly and wiped her face with her arms.
"That was really scary… Never did I expect it would be that scary… I kept practicing myself on the darkness to prepare for this, and yet it never worked." She suddenly said. Wait what? Did she practice in the darkness just for that?
"I'm sure it wouldn't really work the way you wanted." I replied with a wry smile.
Looking at her face, I finally had a full view of her face and it was stunning to see. Her beauty was definitely a top-notch; her hair was dirty blonde while at the ends of her hair it has a tint of dark green. It was fluffy yet also curly, she has a beautiful perky nose, and fierce brows and the color of her eyes were hazel with a tint of green, and her lips were thin but rosy red. Her skin was fair white and at this distance, I could tell it was smooth.
Adding her wet hair on her face, it made her look stunning.
"Haha, I feel stupid. Oh…" Her expression went stiff when she saw I am staring at her face with my mouth gape opened, she looked down and saw the color of my collar, and then she noticed that she was still holding my wrist.
"Hands off, Junior!" She yelled as she threw my hand away, she is the one who releases my hand not me.
Oh, she turned cute suddenly. Wait what?