It was Sam's first time taking the plane because even thought he had a happy youth with loving parents and a good big brother they still lived in near poverty, most of his clothes were things his big brother didn't wear anymore, their car was an old occasion they had since he was born, they lived in a small apartment where he had to share his room with his brother until he went to live in his high school's dorm.
So he never left his city, it will be the first time. After getting on the plane where they had seats in the premier class, Ottar and Sam started to speak about everything and after an hour the later fell asleep, it was still 5AM at the moment and he couldn't sleep the night before because of excitement. When he was woken up by Ottar they had spent 5 hours in the plane and had made it to Stockholm, from there they would take the car to the north for a few hours a make it to his high school, the Kraken's depths was located on an isolated island in the north of Sweden so before Sam can get to his high school he'd have to drop by there and meet the higher ups that had already been informed and wanted to meet him, before getting on the road they went to eat a little bit, it was Sam's idea since he was dying of hunger.
Soon they got in the car and went on the road, before they even arrived at the Kraken, someone in front of the ferry was staring at Sam ; he was a middle aged man, long blond hair, tall, bulky and the most remarkable part of him were his cold blue eyes. When Ottar saw that man he bowed and said " Vice-head, I heard that someone was coming to pick us up but I didn't expect it to be you personally" the man nodded at him, Sam expected them to speak in Swedish since they lived here but then recalled that half the students of the Kraken were taken from places that spoke other languages so here, everybody spoke English.
Then the man continued staring at Sam, when Sam was with Ottar he felt a bit of pressure being emitted by him but when this man looked at him, he felt at least 10 times the pressure. It was like he was deep into the water and his chest was compressed and giving him a hard time breathing, the man finally extended his hand and said
" Nice to meet you Sam, I'm the Kraken's vice head, there are two vice heads so you can call me Olson to make it easier, the headmaster of the Kraken left 2 months ago to visit an old friend somewhere in the world and there is no way to contact him at the moment but he'll take the first flight back here when he'll see in the TV that we also got our first S grade student."
Vice-head Olson seemed even more happy than Ottar, during all the journey on the ferry he kept on smiling and talking about a few things related to the Kraken's depths to Sam, Sam kept on remembering all the informations because he'll need them in a few years time when he himself will become a Kraken.
Very soon they arrived in a small island surrounded by huge rocks that looked like tentacles or teeth coming out from the water, the only way in the island was a space between two of these rocks.
After passing through the rock barrier Sam could see a white ice land, there was snow everywhere and in the middle of the island was an enormous complex, it almost looked like a little city with habitations, roads, cars, shops, restaurants and even a tramway line going through the city : this was the Kraken's depths.
Actually the college with the most students was the Dragon's gate, then came the Roc's nest and finally the Kraken had the less student ; like this the size of their campuses could be imagined. After disembarking the ferry they took back their car and got into the city, after only a few minutes of driving they could see an all white palace at this moment Olson said
"This is the campus, 50 years ago the Headmaster used a powerful magic spell and built this in one night. Would you believe me if I told you that all the building is done in ice that cannot melt ?"
And he glanced at Sam with smugness in his eyes, he was obviously proud. Sam looked at the building and felt coldness coming from it even though he was in a car, he asked
" It really cannot melt ? What if the first dragon used his fire magic ?"
Olson looked at Sam and laughed
"You can't compare our headmaster with the first dragon, our head is 400 years old and even though he is his era's genius he isn't comparable to the first generation."
Sam understood what it meant, in the youngest generation the distance wasn't big between the three giants but if a war broke out the Dragon's gate would have a huge advantage as they had the first dragon backing them.
After going out of the car and getting in the ice building he started to feel cold sleeping inside his bones, it was really an uncomfortable feeling but he could do nothing about it as he'll feel cold every time he came here since he didn't have any compatibility with water or ice magic.
Walking by the corridor he could see students having classes through windows, after a bit of time they arrived in a room with lots of chairs around a big table and at every chair was a person sitting.
There were 3 chairs left, one in the middle right side where teacher Ottar went to sit, one was at the front right beside an old woman, Olson went and sit while everybody else stood up and bowed except for the old woman that only nodded at him and the last one was at the end of the table, before going to his sit Mr. Olson made sign to Sam to sit there. When everybody sat the woman looked deeply at Sam and asked a young man standing at the door
"Bring the diamond"
Everyone waited in silence during a few moments and then came de diamond the old woman put it in front of Sam
"I want to test you again to make sure you coming here isn't a mistake"
Saying this she looked at Ottar with a bit of reproach in her eyes. Sam did as asked and put his hand on the diamond and injected his mana, even though he knew what the result will be he was still a bit nervous. The light rose, rose and rose until everybody was stunned and then a strong purple color began to infuse slowly from the diamond.
After the shock came the happiness everyone was happily discussing how they're school will rise soon except that old woman who didn't seem happy at all, she even had a bit of enmity in her eyes which Sam didn't miss, he thought
'Why would she look at me like this ? Did I do something to her ? I'll have to ask Ottar later, i can't have an enemy this high in the ladder this early…'
Soon Sam was given the book by vice-head Olson, the book seemed very old as it was broken on a few places and the pages had a yellow hue, on the cover was a lightning bolt that took the full page and nothing else, in the first page the owner had started writing and left lots of insight into lightning and thunder, the thing was that these insight will be useful to Sam for only the first few years since the person that left this book behind was an A grade, with Sam's talent he will learn everything inside it in less than 3 years and will have to build his own road.
After being given a few informations and instructions Ottar was said to bring Sam to his new school and help him get registered. When they got into the car Sam couldn't take it anymore and asked
"Mr. Ottar why was that old woman looking at me with enmity, I've just came her I can't have provoked her right away ?"
Ottar looked very serious and said
"That old woman is the second vice-head of our school, she's extremely strong so she won't trouble you… directly at least, she probably hate you because you took the place of her daughter as the youngster with the most talent in our school, she came here to be a teacher and because her daughter had a talent for water magic, her daughter's name is Roxanne and she's a water grade A+ talent. She's the most famous person in our school and even outside of the school. She's 18 years old this year and already the best of our school."
She was only 18 so it meant right after ending high school she was already the best amongst people that have been in the college for years, but Sam didn't think much about it as he believed he will soon overtake her, he wasn't being arrogant but it was common knowledge that no S grade talent was a normal person as all of them stood on the top of the world or are standing on it right now, a good example was the first dragon which was an S grade talent and still stood on top of the world since the first generation of Hunters.
After taking the ferry again and staying in the car for an hour and a half or so they finally made it to Sam's new school, the place wasn't as snowy and Iced as Sam had expected it to be, it was actually green hill surrounded by mountains, the only way in was a little road.
On the top of the hill was a big building made of blue stones surrounded by a few flats which should be the dorms, first Sam was led into his room by Ottar and dropped his things there. He didn't see anyone in the dorm as they all should be in class in the beginning of the afternoon, he was then led to the principal's office where he really soon got registered as a student, the principal acted very respectfully towards Ottar, got his job done without delay and called a student to take Sam to his classroom while Ottar left after saying goodbye.
The student came really soon, he was a bulky black guy with a beard dressed in the school uniform if you saw him outside of the school you couldn't guess he was a high school student.