It's been 6 years since I left the orphanage, and to be honest time has flown by in the blink of an eye.
I was currently on the road to the magical capital to take the entrance exams for the academy, and by no means did I think I was going to fail.
The reason for this is because for the past 6 years I had awoken 7 elements and my personal null spell [Soul space].
What the null spell did was still unknown to me as I didn't have enough energy to activate it.
My body was currently 10 times stronger than the average demon warrior, and has the same magical capacity as a tier 17 scholar.
I was nowhere near the true powerhouses of the magical continent but for my age my strength was way beyond impressive, and this was all achieved without and magical training.
So as I travelled along the road thinking about what the capital would look like I had one thought that never left my mind that had been there since I had unlocked my null magic 'Grow stronger', and 'Remember who you are'.
The second one always confused me to no end, after all I knew who I was, I was Knull the son of Amelia.
But that never seemed to make the thought go away, it was like there was more than one thing that it wanted me to remember, like I was more than just single person.
The thought made me shudder so I just ignored it and continued walking.
As the hours droned on I was starting to get slightly fatigued, after all I had been walking at a pace that was similar to running nonstop for the past 8 hours.
And it showed, after all I was only 20 kilometers away from the capital.
So I pitched a tent and created a campfire, pulling a sent of throwing daggers out of my belt to hunt with.
Growing up training in a forest infested with magical beasts taught you a few things, one of them being to always stay alert, and another of them being how to hunt well and cook better.
I had always been proud of my skill in cooking due to the fact that I could make even the most repulsive of animals the trench rats taste like a restaurant meal.
By no means would I ever eat a trench rat again though, I only did because I had been desperate and hadn't eaten in weeks.
After an hour of hunting I had caught a few rabbits and a small magical beast called a thunder rooster to eat.
Magical beasts were known to be extremely delicious and gave the person eating them a boost in perception of the element they were affiliated with after ingestion.
Because of this they were a common delicacy that I was delighted to have after only catching another small one like this 7 months ago.
After having my meal I decided that I would turn in for the night, but before that I set up small alarm traps around my temporary home to warn me in case a beast or thief tries to sneak up on me.
The next morning I woke up to the bright sun shining into my face, and a small tingling sound. That got me jolting out of bed really quick. I grabbed my daggers and looked outside my tent to see a small caravan passing by and a few people walking over to me.
Sighing in relief that it wasn't a magical beast attack I hook my daggers to my belt palming one just in case and walked over to greet them.
I was greeted with two muscular men with rough beards and almost identical outfits, assuming they are guards checking to see if I was of any threat I said to them "I am just camping here you guys can go on ahead I won't harm you if you don't harm me".
The men looked at me skeptical and one of them asked me, "why are you camping in the middle of the forest if I may ask?" I flashed him an accommodating smile and said to him, "I am travelling to the capital to take the magical academy exam". Their eyes flashed with a glint and they seemed to look at each other for a split second before nodding.
They then said, "Why don't you come with us we aren't that far away from the capital anyways one extra member would do nobody harm." I looked at them a bit warily as their invitation came a bit out of the blue, but nonetheless I decided to accept it as I could save a lot of time and try to find a job in the capital a bit early while waiting for the entrance exams. "Ok thanks for having me, my name is knull by the way." The two men smiled at me and the one on the left responded by saying, "My name is Aron, and this is my brother Kyle." the one on the right said, "Nice to meet you" and we walked over to the caravan where I joined them until we reached the capital.
Along the way I learned that they were a merchant caravan from the bluemont chamber of commerce in the capital famous for their expertise in runecrafting and their tier 28 scholar as their guardian.
After arriving in the capital and saying goodbye to the caravan as well as giving them a few silver pieces as thanks for the ride, I walked around the capital trying to see if any of the stores needed to hire someone. Suddenly as I walked through the commercial districts I heard a small cry from a nearby alley. Walking over to see what was going on I saw a young woman about my age with torn clothing and a man looking at her lecherously.
I deadpanned thinking how cliche this kind of scene was, so deciding that I might as well help I snuck up behind the man gesturing for the woman to keep silent about my presence and grabbed one of my daggers. Then with one quick gesture I grabbed the man pinned him to the ground and stabbed my dagger through both of his hands to keep them pinned to the floor. Then I stood up dusted my hands off and asked the young woman who seemed to be in a trance if she was okay.
She looked at me with an awed look then back at the man who was currently screaming like a pig with snot and tears streaming down his face, and then asked me "How did you do that? I mean he is like 3 times your size and you took him down so easily." I looked at her and with a slight laugh poofed my hands in front of her in an exploding gesture while saying in a sing song way, "Magic~". She laughed a bit at that forgetting her previous nervousness and introduced herself, "My name is Sophia thanks for saving me". I smiled at her and said, "Hey I am knull just arrived in the capital today". She looked at me with a confused look and asked me, "Why did you decide to come to the capital especially at such a young age?" To which I responded by saying I was going to be attending the magical academy once I passed the entrance exams.
She looked at me with an excited expression while saying "Really! Me too maybe we will be in the same class! I have a double ice and fire affinity so I am really excited to finally get to do some real magic." I looked at her a bit dazed because of how fast she said that and said, "Yeah I hope so too, anyways I have to go I am still looking for a place to work for the next three months to not live on the street the entire time that would suck."
She then adopted a bit of a sheepish look and said to me, "You could always come work at my mom's inn we are really under staffed because we are relatively new." I immediately said sure and she started to lead the way to the inn that I would work for the next 3 months of my stay in the capital.