As I woke up I found myself on the side of the river coughing up water. "How the hell did I survive that, I mean I'm grateful but it doesn't make any sense!?", *cough cough*, as I was shocked to hear someone I tried to jump up so that I could defend myself, but as I tried to even sit up I started to cough up even more water. I gave up on that idea. "Who are you?" I said pretty calm knowing that they could have killed me if they wanted to. "Didn't you learn any manners boy!", "Luther stop it" I heard an older women say towards an younger man "My apologies for not saying that, my name is Cathlyn Mist" as I thought of the name I couldn't think of anything, "hmmm Cathlyn Mist never heard o-wait what!" As I heard a chuckle from the older women. Cathlyn Mist was a noble women who was the wife of Richard Mist who was the most powerful dark magician. "I would gladly have bowed but due to circumstances I can't really move at the moment" as i heard another chuckle but this time from an older man who I guessed was Mr. Mist, "don't worry boy let us give you a ride home" the older man said.
As they helped me up from the ground and put me in the carriage. As I saw for a split second two large war horses dragging the carriage with them and two men sitting at the front of the carriage. As I sat down on the red seats Mrs. mist asked me where I lived, after some awkward silence I mumbled that I lived at the orphanage. As I looked up I saw that she was actually smiling, as she told the driver where to go, I asked Mr and Mrs. Mist what they were doing here in this town. "You see boy where here to look for some talent, we have a grandchild and need someone who can protect him at his school." Said Mr. Mist "boy how old are you?", "I turn 10 on the class selection day" I answered. "Well if you have an affinity for magic we could adopt you and make you a butler for our grandchild" said Mrs. Mist. As I heard her say that I regained some hope that my life wouldn't be boring after all.
The week went by pretty fast. After Mrs and Mr. Mist dropped me off at the orphanage they told me that they would be attending the ceremony next week and were hoping I would be able to have an affinity towards magic. As they left I was stuck with two thoughts in my head, one of them was that no matter what happened I had to have an affinity towards magic. And second was that I needed answers about that image that I saw when I was unconscious, but seen as I wasn't able to do anything about it I just left it alone.
As a week went by it was finally the day of the ceremony. As all the people in the town were walking towards the ceremony I started walking as well. I saw some other nobles but didn't see the Mist family.
As I arrived, I saw the section where the kids that were getting commoners were supposed to be standing in the waiting line. As there was a pretty big difference to people from noble families and commoner families.
As I stood at the end of the line I saw many more people arriving. After half an hour it was finally about to start. It was very crowded because the town that I lived in wasn't a small town. I even saw a whole section reserved for nobles and schools that were looking for exceptional talent. I even saw Mrs and Mr. Mist.
As everyone suddenly got quite when a loud voice started taking. "Hello ladies and gentlemen, this is your host speaking, as you all know this is a very special moment for the future of our country. I would like to thank all the special class schools representatives and nobles attending this special moment." As everyone bowed the host went on, "shall we begin?!" As everyone started cheering the first one was up, as the young boy walked up stage everyone was quite, as the boy put his hand on the magic ball his class was projected onto the wall behind it. "Osa Belem, class magician, element fire", as everyone started cheering, the boy came walking with pride down the podium towards the desk of the school representatives, "the magician school would like to invite Osa Belem to our school" even louder cheering could be heard this time. As the next noble went up the stairs towards the stage, he got fire affinity and an invitation as well. As nobles kept going up and getting magician as class eventually a noble got zero affinity towards any class and got an invitation towards the swordsmanship school. Soon the nobles ran out and it was time for the commoners, unlike the nobles, the commoners got many different classes, some became beast tamers other puppeteers and others became swordsmen, and even a few became magicians.
Some beasts looked cute like one got a sort otter while others got earth elemental beasts while others got wolf type beasts. There weren't many puppeteers but the ones that did got puppets that looked very cool, one got a puppet that was around three meters tall and had four arms it was most likely a tank type puppet, the boy that got that puppet even got an invitation to the puppeteer school. It was very special for a commoner to get into a school because it was mainly meant for nobles to get stronger. While most commoners that wanted to fight went to the military. And then finally it was my turn.