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In a complete white space which knew no bound, two figures lacking any colors akin to black waved like blazing flame and appeared to grow bigger and bigger till the whole space was black and giving an ominous feel.
pant * pant * pant *
Oliver breathed heavily with sweat painting his whole body. He could feel his body shiver uncontrollably. Oliver gulped, before sighing ' that nightmare again ' under his breath.
He checked his watch and he had slept only for 3 hours. Oliver washed his face and wiped his face. He began to ponder again about those black figures.
Whenever Oliver had this nightmare he could just wonder, are they my family?
For all that Oliver could remember about his past, these two black figure were the oldest of his memory beyond which he had none. In fact he could only remember 2 years back where he was first brought to an orphanage under joint core family of Azure and Ruby.
Orphanages where built to support children of fallen soldiers since in many occasion a child may lose both of his parents. It would also help build a public image for the core families as a benevolent patrons who deeply cared about society and their fellow comrades.
For most of his life he remembered, which is 2 years in this case, he didn't seem to be interested in forming friends even if encouraged to do so by his warden in his orphanage.
Oliver never felt attached to anything or anyone, he could not explain why nor did he feel it as a necessity to find out, to go on with his life.
For Once though Oliver was thankful to Azure and Ruby family for the orphanage as he wasn't sure that he would have survived alone without knowing a thing about the world.
In fact this was the reason for Oliver to be so curious about this world and its societal structure and its inner workings which enabled him to see through the purpose of many actions taken by authorities which to public would seem selfless but Oliver could somehow understand their true purpose which was nothing if not selfish. But Oliver did not despise them but rather was intrigued by the importance of politics and public image, for which even the most powerful mages would seek for a good public image.
But one thing which intrigued Oliver more than politics was the so called mages with their elemental forces.
He was excited and intrigued about elemental forces and how they could control them to do as they willed. In fact after reading many books he could discern that there are mainly two types of mages, one being a 'research' mage and the other being 'battle' mage.
Battle mage were mages who used 'spells' to fight beasts or enemy races where as research mages where the ones who would design and experiment with various 'spells' and they would create new 'spells'.
But that was all he knew about mages since the knowledge pertaining to the mages and elemental forces were scarce and heavily controlled by the core families. The only other way was to join a school which, again, was under core families and sign a contract to work for certain duration under them.
The contract was only issued if the student had a decent potential and passed the aptitude test or else they could straight out refuse to take them in. Oliver was not bothered about the contract since it would serve as experience if taken in positive way that is.
Oliver returned from his thoughts and looked at his watch again and he still had to some how pass 3 more hours before beginning his daily scheduled since he didn't want to mess up his sleep cycle, since nights were quite complex in this planet.
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At the same time, many professors where sitting in a meeting hall with absolute silence adding a heavy atmosphere to the hall.
An aged man, dressed in black suit, and wearing an eye catching belt which had a single gem embedded at its center glowing like a blazing fire, who looked to be in his 50s entered the meeting hall and briskly walked to an empty chair and sat, he signaled all the professor, who stood up as he entered the hall, to sit down by waving his hand. Prof. James with a serious expression and tense voice asked the aged man sitting next to him, "Head master M..", he was quickly met with a frowned face, realizing his mistake James said, " Ahem, Sir Mike Opal, May we know the reason for this sudden meeting".
Mike glared at James which seemed to say 'If u didn't interrupt me just now then I would have started to say the reason', but Mike quickly regained his calm and serious composure and stated, "Well, this meeting was called for a very important matter which would very well affect our academic progression"
Mike scanned everyone to get their reaction but all of them had little to no reaction to his news, which amused him a little ,' Did the professors switch with some clone or something'.
He continued, "We will have to conduct the aptitude test a little too soon ....", as he was about to continue James interrupted him and said, "When would 'too soon' mean?".
Mike ones again wanted to glare at James for constantly interrupting him but he just sighed and continued, " We will have to conduct the test within next 6 months and we can't say no to this request". As he finished his say he could now see visible confusion and tension within the hall intensify. Before anyone could say anything especially Prof. James, he continued again, " And there is nothing to be debated about it, the meeting is over", saying so Mike quickly left the hall, leaving only a buzzing hall room and cries of professors, hearing which Mike put on a smug face for unknown reason.
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In his dorm room Oliver still had to pass two more hours before his official day begins. He thought for some seconds before touching his watch again to press the
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OBSIDIAN Family:
Affinity:
----------Base Affinity: Earth elemental force(C - B)
----------Evolved Affinity( Rare ): Mineral elemental force(A - AA)
----------Dual Affinity( Very Rare ): Crystal elemental force(S)
Specialty:
----------Solid Defense power (B - A)---Earth
----------Solid Attack power (B - A)---Earth
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EMERALD Family:
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