Before the woman could continue with the tour, Axel spoke up, "What is your name? And what do you do here at the academy?" The woman looked down to Axel, "I am Dunson. I am single so please use miss. And I am the principle or overseer of this academy. Now, if you dont have anymore questions, follow me."
The woman walked behind the main building and pointed at the door in the back of the building, "Here is where you would exit the main school. Follow the path to the next school that teaches cultivation, martial arts, combat, alchemy and enchanting. There is also another teaching area in the yard behind the second building where our arena is. There, you will take tests and learn to master your cooperation skills with other students and familiars if you have them. We also hold tournaments and small festivals there. We also have an option for students to settle their differences with a match, if you can find a teacher or staff member to ref the event."
Miss Dunson started walking again on the stone path before stopping again before the path splits 3 ways. "This is self explanatory as you read the sign here. There is a library down the left path, you can find a market for all your needs down the right path and you will find a recreational area with a pool in the middle. Also on the right side of the main school, you will find the 24 hour cafeteria. Now follow me to the arena. There will be 2 other staff members there to help determine where you stand with your abilities and what classes you will take."
Axel and Adeline followed Miss Dunson closely as they followed the path to the arena. The structure was huge from the outside adorning flags of various colors representing the elements and all of the subclasses. When they entered the outer wall, they could see concessions along it with the bleachers stacking high above them.
When Miss Dunson lead them through an opening in the bleachers, they saw the yard that was 1000 square meters in a circle. Miss Dunson chuckled at the two faces being jaw dropped in awe. She kept walking while the two came to the senses and quickly caught up to see a small crowd of children and young teens infront of a table of two people.
Once they arrived at the table, Miss Dunson sat between the two staff members. "Everyone take a seat in the bleachers behind us. We will call you by name one by one to be examined to attend our academy. Those of you who do not pass, will be sent back where you came from safely with a small convoy of others who didn't meet the requirements."
Everybody went up into the stands and waited for their name to be called. "Evan Slaughter, please come to the table and state your abilities." A tall boy with short blonde hair and petite build in a short sleeved outfit that looked to be 14 stood up and went to the table. "Hello, I am a cultivator in the second stage, first rank. I use wind." They nodded their heads to him as he walked out in the field.
Axel leaned forward as a stone golem appeared infront of the cultivator. He pulled out 2 daggers with the one in his right hand inverted. The golem charged Evan before he could get into a proper stance. Swinging his daggers, you could see small shallow cuts in the stone as the golem advance. Evan focusing, summoned a tornado to throw the golem across the field. Soon after, he chaged the golem and stabbed it directly between the crevice of its torso and left arm with both daggers, making the golem disappear.
He sighed as everyone in the stands clapped and applauded his victory, securing him a spot as a student. "Next is Kate Clover." Axel smiled to Adeline as she got up to go to the table. Evan went to the left of the crowd waiting to be called. "Hello, I am a combat mage with a familiar." Adeline said to the judges. "You are allowed to use your familiar. But dont rely on it because we want to see your abilities." Adeline nodded and walked to the spot where Evan stood before summoning Kindred from its rune.
Axel smiled as some of the people waiting with him commented showing their jealousy towards her. Another stone golem appeared and before it could move, Adeline and Kindred opened with a barrage of spells. Adeline turned the water to ice, freezing the golem in place as Kindred shot balls of fire rapidly, heating up the head of the golem till it was orange. With an earth spell, Adeline shot it at the golem's heated head and destroyed it before the golem disappeared.
She smiled knowing she passed easily and went up to the left of the crowd and sat infront of Evan. Axel gave her a thumbs up and laughed. A few more were called up before Axel heard his alias. "Izaak Elderon." Axel got up and went to the table. "Hello. I am a combat mage of 3 elements with a familiar." Miss Dunson nodded as Axel went to where the other prospects before him stood.
He summoned Clove before drawing his sword. He acivated the runes on it and made a blade of ice covering the tri edged blade and added a dark hue to it. Clove adopted the colors black, blue and white when it was summoned to match the elements that Axel had to use. Clove huffed a cloud of dark smoke like it did when Axel summoned it the first time.
Miss Dunson shocked, accedentally acivated the rune to send out a quad elemental wyvern. The wyvern was twice the size of Clove and had the scales showing lighting, fire, earth and darkness. Axel smiled at the challenge as the judges and Adeline worried about Axel's safety. Axel mounted Clove as the other wyvern took off with Clove following not far behind.
Soon dark clouds formed in the sky as the wyvern circled abover Clove and Axel. Axel smirked as Clove used sky scales to cloak itself from view. Bolts of blue lightning rained down on the field, causing small craters of 1 meter wide left from the impacts.
Once the bombardment of lightning was over, the wyvern shot massive fireballs when it saw Axel's silhouette in mid air. Clove shot breaths of frost at the fireballs causing explosions of mist when they collided. Axel used his light magic and shot a beam of light at the eyes of the wyvern, blinding it before the atmosphere turned completely dark. Axel took the advantage and told Clove to use shadow scales.
Clove turned completely black with its eyes emiting a purple glow. Axel used his beam of light as a searchlight to find where the Wyvern was hiding. When he saw the wyvern's wing below them, Clove used its frost breath the freeze the wing. The wyvern crashed to the ground, dispelling the dark atmosphere. The wyvern got enraged and threw a bolder at Clove.
Clove couldn't dodge the attack in time and fell to the ground. Axel tumbled a few meters after clove crashed and disappeared in its rune. The wyvern unleashed a lightning attack from its mouth as Axel recovered. Axel was pushed back as he made a small ice shield.
Axel then stunned the wyvern with a beam of light before summoning Clove again. Clove laid on the ground helpless as Axel ran to it. Using an idea that Adeline said earlier, he used his light magic to heal clove enough to where it could fly and help him again. As the wyvern gained its vision again, it shot an electric firebal at Axel. Axel summoned an ice spike and launched it to counter the electric fireball. Axel melted the ice on his sword and made it glow brightly as Clove took to the skies again.
Axel started to feel weak, so he wanted to end things quickly. With a quick charge in the wyvern's direction, he pointed his sword at it and concentrated the light to the tip while forming an ice spike in his left hand. The wyvern screached as it was blinded again. Clove hovered in mid air and took a deep breath before unleashing another frost attack.
Axel jumped at that opportunity and plunged the ice spike into the neck of the wyvern and slammed the blunt side of his sword in the back if the spike, shoving it furtherinto the wyvern before it disappeared.
Everyone was speechless after witnessing Axel take on a wyvern much stronger than his own and overpowering it with his strange strategy. Axel then tried the healing magic on himself as he walked over to where Adeline was.
Adeline hugged Axel and cried as Axel patted her head. "I thought you were going to lose." Axel chuckled with a feeling in his gut feeling the same way. After the rest of the prospects went through the test, only 5 were sent home while 20 got to attend the school.