~~A few days later at Teris~~
"Sweetyyyy I'm here for your daily dose of afectioonn!!!"
"..."
A fit redhead woman with a good body and almost 1.60 meters in height jumped inside an office trying to catch whoever was sitting behind a wood-carved oak desk, just to catch nothing but air.
Her smile froze as she slowly turned her head just for...
*Bonk*
"Ouch!"
"Why you are so meaaaannnn!!!"
"..." A young man with silver-colored hair, glasses, and pitch-black eyes just stared at her and slowly raised his hand again.
"Report." He said without blinking...
"You always ask me to do this and that for you..."
"Wheres the report, Why are you late, this is your job... Why you don't love me alreadyyyy???"
"..."
"AAhhhg fine, *sight* its right here, have it."
"Thank you."
"Now kiss meeee!!"
"?"
"Waaahhhaaa"
The woman cries a bit as the young man's eyes are fixed in the piece of paper...
~~Back at the camp~~
Multiple carts were stopped in a circle like formation with a campfire in the middle, some soldiers were drinking, some others telling stories or sleeping...
"Nick, since we are arriving tomorrow I want to teach you some things since you are going to apply for the academy."
"The academy is a place where commoners and some low nobles study about fighting technics, history, magic, blah blah blah..."
"The thing is... Since there are only three academies in the kingdom there are a limited amount of entries, technically everyone can assist the classes but the academy won't be giving resources to those who haven't gotten inside "
"There are three principal tests, a magic test, a strength test, and a written test. But since the written test is just like 5 percent of the total most people won't care about it."
"I will lend you some notes later since its good to be prepared but I need to teach you some exercises first..."
Macalister stood up in one go and acquired a weird sitting like stance...
"This one is called the horse stance, its principally used to strength the lower back, legs, butt, and so on..."
"It's important because you will need a good lower body to carry armor and equipment on the battlefield, aside from this you should know how to do push-ups, squats, and so on... You know, the basics..."
Then Macalister approached my ear and whispered
"There's also something I want to teach you but it needs to be private ok?" "Follow me."
A bit weirded out I nodded...
Macalister and I walked around the camp and went to a secluded area since it was almost midnight it was really dark so we didn't need to explore too far away but Macalister still insisted on talking to my ear...
"I will teach you this because you resemble my younger brother, this is a very weird technic I learned from a book a lot of time ago, and its what made me able to learn magic to this extent so listen carefully..."
The moment I heard those words I was shocked. Maybe I can learn to use magic too!?!
"Its a bit difficult to grasp and it took me some time to learn but it is actually really simple."
"You know how magic works?"
I vigorously shook my head since I was afraid to make any kind of noise and lose this chance...
"Ok, let me explain real quick, magic is actually the way living beings manipulate a kind of energy in our world called mana, mana has the property of being malleable, basically you can transform it into almost everything else, but when you do it a bit is lost in the process..."
"Every living being in this world can use mana in a way or another, common soldiers like Robert can only absorb it and transform it but not release it back again so they use it as a way to strengthen themselves..."
"And others like me are called magicians."
"Magicians can release mana back into the environment after transforming it in some other way, I am a light magician, which means that I can transform mana into a light source like my 'Golden Sun' or use it to heal simple wounds..."
As Macalister talked more and more both of us grew excited, me because I want to learn magic so bad, and him? Maybe because he liked to talk about things that make him passionate about...
He then taught me the way to 'feel' the mana in my surroundings as well as the secret breathing technic he uses to absorb mana easier and aid his training...
While I was silently training in the cart the next day, slowly a big city appeared in my field of view and at that moment I knew...
"We have arrived!"