Arthur stomped his feet down and pieces of the earth were pushed up. Using this to my advantage I leaped from rock to rock and conjured twin ice swords this time. Taking another leap I exited her line of sight, behind another rock.
Meanwhile Arthur threw one of the rocks towards her. She responded with a wind barrier that blocked the rock.
Insta-casting huh. Interesting.
Let's go Zeke
Right!
Zeke came out of my shadow and positioned himself in front of me. I grabbed him and mentally shouted. NOW!
Instantly I was taken to a world of shadows holding on to the small body of Zeke, which surprisingly was strong enough to pull me along. On closer inspection his body emitted a faint white glow. So he's augmenting huh?
I couldn't ponder any linger as we came out of the directors shadow and I proceeded a twin diagonal 'X' like slice, fully expecting to get her.
What I didn't expect was her noticing me and blowing me away with a wind tornado.
"So, your bond is a shadow wolf." She said.
Giving a nod I looked around the courtyard.
I could see Arthur coming in a tornado of wind. So I decided on the same, creating a maelstrom of wind mixed with particles of ice conjured in it, and charged her.
Within this short timeframe she managed to chant another spell. The mixture of our three spells absolutely annihilated the paved ground but barely harmed either of us.
"Impressive," she said, "try to stay conscious."
She pointed her fingers at us and blasted us with magic. Sound magic.
My eardrums felt like they would be torn any moment and my ocular fluids vibrated at such intensity that I feared my eyes would burst. So I took a risk, I tried augmenting.
I know I almost killed myself back then, but that was almost four months ago and I've broken through to light red stage since then.
From the corner of my eyes I saw Arthur admitting defeat, suppressing his pride. But my pride wont go down that easily, not until I have tried everything, everything other than using my beast will that is.
I conjured a cloak of pure mana around me and allowed my body to absorb it. From the outside it would look like I was bathed in white flames before they formed a layer over my body.
Looking at my arm I saw it covered in a white film of mana. But I couldn't be excited about this achievement now, not while my ears were still ringing, eyes still unsteady, albeit at a much lower level.
Reluctantly I sat down admitting defeat, much like my brother.
Looking up I saw the shocked faces of everyone, other than Arthur who only grinned at my achievement. In the heat of the moment I didn't really have it in me to be excited. But now? Now I had a ear splitting grin plastered on my face and many, many more moves in my arsenal.
"That should be enough of a demonstration right?" Arthur broke the silence.
"Y-yes....It was quite sufficient." Director Cynthia managed to regain her composure in time.
"Y-You two can use more elements?" The baffled voice of my Father cut in.
"What do you mean 'more elements'?" Director Cynthia asked with a confused face.
"Th-they used fire magic yesterday, a-and lightning, burning down my lawn. That's why I brought them here." Vincent spoke with an equally baffled face.
"S-surely you jest... you mean to tell me that both those boys can manipulate 3 elements and at least one to its deviant form?" She lost her composure once again.
"Four actually, the two of us control all four elements, technically." Arthur said displaying his control by manipulating said elements on the palm of his hand.
"What he means to say is that, even though we have the affinity for all four elements the extent of our control varies. While Arthur has his highest affinity in Fire and Water, and average in Wind and Earth, I have my highest in Fire and Water, same as him, decent affinity in wind and absolutely abysmal in earth. We are also deviant in Fire and Water although with me having more control over their deviant forms, probably as a tradeoff of having such low Earth affinity."
Silence followed, no one spoke. The only noises being the distant chirping of birds.
Cliché.
The leader of the most prestigious school in the continent was barely able to stumble to the chair. Then she started chuckling, much to our confusion, which soon turned to a full blown laughter.
After managing to get a hold of herself she turned towards us, "If I may repeat, you're both quarda-elemental mages with control over two higher forms?"
"Correct," Arthur replied.
"Demonstrate," She demanded, and the once friendly grandmother turned to a veteran killer with a menacing glare as she raised her hand causing the ambient mana to fluctuate.
A vacuum of wind started pulling us towards her, and an invisible sphere of wind formed in her other palm.
This woman!
Arthur reacted first, forming fire in one hand and water in the other he mixed the two, cloaking us in an explosion of steam.
I formed a javelin of condensed ice, supercharged it with lightning and threw it at her. At the same time Arthur created his own lance to throw, although he didn't infuse lightning.
She blocked both of them!
I tried to form [Ember Bolt] but on a much larger scale, but before I could do she launched Arthur towards me by a sound wave.
"Phew. I have to say I'm very impressed. You pass, both of you."
Getting back up I realized just how weak I am compared to the elite mages of this continent. If all the professors at Xyrus Academy are as strong my magic is bound to skyrocket.
"Sorry for hiding this from you." Arthur said turning towards them.
"Well they never did as-OW! Sorry! Definitely sorry." I was corrected by a not-so-subtle kick in the shin from Arthur.
"Please you two, just no more secrets." My mother smiled wryly with concern still etched on her face.
Sorry mom. I cannot promise you that. Maybe someday, but not today. Not while I'm still so weak.
"Are Bruhders strong, mama?" Ellie asked, not quite understanding the gravity of the situation.
"Very strong, little one. Perhaps the Strongest duo in the future." Director Cynthia said patting her head.
As they started talking between each other on what this could entail Director Cynthia created a sound barrier around us. Shocking the others as they tried to enter but with no avail.
"They cannot hear for the duration of the spell, so speak your mind." she said.
"Truth is, we revealed our abilities because there are two things we need. Power and Influence," I began.
"Keep our family safe until either of us become strong enough to protect us themselves and we'll attend your school and consider you our benefactor." Arthur continued.
"Hah! Even the king and Queen wouldn't propose such a one-sided dead, what makes you think I would agree to establish such a relationship with mere children." She responded laughing incredulously
"Because said children have the potential to be the strongest duo in the future, you said so yourself." I shot back.
"Although our end of the deal will have to wait until we actually attend the academy." Arthur spoke.
"Hmm?" She said, puzzled at what Arthur said.
" We plan to attend the academy at a 'normal' age, after our twelfth birthday." He continued
"Goodness! that's over 3 years from now! What do you plan to do until then?" I expected she wouldn't be so compliant.
"We would like to become adventurers,"