Zio was guided towards a platform by his own magic teacher, Lexis, since Zio performed so well in the written test, she wanted to see how he will do in the practicals will her own eyes.
Zio stood on the platform and in front of him is a fully grown plant, Zio examined this plant and noticed a lot of magic energy inside it, it was clear to him that this plant was grown through magic and not by natural means.
"You must have already noticed that the plant in front of you is grown through magic by one of the students previously during their test, now it's your turn, I want you to reverse the magic and return this plant back to its seed form!" Lexis informed.
Zio looked at her and nodded his head before focusing on the plant.
[A simple reversal magic, it isn't hard but be careful to not expose yourself]
Zio heard Asura's voice and concentrated on reversing the magic performed on the plant, after a few seconds of studying, he figured out the structure of magic that was performed on the plant and started his own incantation.
Suddenly a medium-sized circular pattern filled with sharp edges appeared in front of Zio, this circular pattern was pitch black in color as it tried to absorb the light around it, Lexis who was watching this was surprised.
She has seen black patterns before but they were nothing like Zio's, the color of the patterns was so black that even light was getting absorbed, the surrounding around Zio got darker as this happened.
'Such a unique aura, it's cold and scary!' Lexis thought as she felt it, she felt deep sadness and a strong amount of desire for vengeance in Zio's aura.
'What could have happened?' She wondered.
As she was wondering about it, she suddenly felt a sudden burst of power washing over her thoughts and she forgot everything she was thinking of and went back to watching Zio's magic.
'It's better to keep everyone in darkness for now' Asura thought.
He was the one who used his powers to stop Lexis from looking into Zio any further, Asura knows something about Zio that he decided to keep to himself and not let anyone find out, not even Zio.
It was Zio's fate that led him to Asura, unknowingly everything is intertwined and for now, Asura wants to keep it to himself as Zio is not strong enough.
The magic started to take effect as the magical pattern descended down on the plant, the pattern traveled from the stem of the plant to its root slowly starting to reverse its effects.
The plant's leaves started to shrink in size slowly, its stem started to shrink as well, soon the whole plant became a bud and went into the ground completely disappearing from Zio's and Lexis's sights.
"Let's see if you succeeded?" Lexis said and walked towards the potted soil and dug it up. She then found a small seed inside which had a very little trace of magic in it.
"Well done!" Lexis praised and guided Zio to the next platform, Zio followed her and they arrived in front of a sealed box.
"You have to find out what is inside this box without opening it!" Lexis informed.
[Tracing magic, this one should be easy]
Asura said. He could tell that this box was specially made, it couldn't be pried in by force or by x-ray magic, Zio will have to use tracing magic and force his aura into the box and examine whatever is inside the box with it. Since Magic can be forced through even the tiniest particle it shouldn't be hard for it to penetrate a sealed box.
Zio stepped up and performed a different incantation, this time the pattern that appeared in front of him was different from the one before, every magic had a different incantation and every incantation made different patterns, of course, Zio didn't need to do so as he knows how to use magic without these silly incantations, but he had to do so to make sure that he doesn't stand out.
His magical aura leaked out from the pattern and penetrated the sealed box through the very tiny gaps present in it, as his aura tried to go inside, it suddenly came across an opposite force trying to stop it.
[Looks like a barrier, it can be broken by sheer force, no need to worry]
Asura guided.
Zio's aura inside the box came together and took the shape of a lance and hit the barrier as hard and fast as it could, shattering the barrier inside, the aura returned back to a fluid state and examined the object inside.
Zio started to see an image of an item inside his head, it is an image of an apple.
"An apple!" Zio answered while looking at Lexis.
Lexis stepped forward and opened the box with a key in her hand and opened the lid to find an apple inside.
"Excellent, let's move on to the next one!" She said and picked up the apple and escorted Zio to the next platform.
Zio saw an empty pot filled with soil in front of him, he looked at Lexis and saw her cutting the apple in her hand and unseeded it.
She then handed the seed over to Zio.
"Grow a plant out of it!" She said.
It was completely the opposite of what Zio did with his first magic, this time he will have to grow a plant, this magic is much harder than reversal magic as he will have to construct his own structure.
The structure of magic is very important as the strength of the magic depends on it, the stronger the structure, the stronger the magic, the plant that Zio reversed into a seed had a basic structure so it was not that difficult.
But creating a basic structure is harder than reversing it, Zio took the seed and planted it inside the soil, and performed an incantation.
He infused his magic into the soil and started to create a structure to perform the magic, the effect of the magic started to take place, the structure Zio created was strong, it soon infused into the seed and it started to bud, the bud then started to grow rapidly.
"Stop" Lexis stopped him midway as she doesn't want a fully grown apple tree inside this room, either way, she was impressed by Zio, seeing how fast the seed budded and grew, she knew that the structure Zio created was strong.
"Let's go to the next one!" She took him to another platform, this time Zio had to perform strengthening magic, strengthening magic can be used on objects, once this magic is used, the object becomes stronger, Zio stood in front of a wooden staff.
As he performed the incantation, he failed the first time as he forgot how to shape the incantation the first time, he paused and did it again and successfully strengthened the staff.
The last magic test for him was healing magic, he was brought in front of an injured bird which needed to be healed, but Zio couldn't do it with an incantation, he failed all three of his attempt as healing incantations was very hard, he might have succeeded with his own method but he remembered what Asura said and decided to leave it alone.