Even though it was the first day of school, Max had maintained his studious personality. From the first day of his life until now, he was regarded as a genius, however Max knew that the only genius in him was the ability to learn. He would study every single hour of the day, learning concepts in every field.
In fact, he was even better than the professor with the amount of knowledge he had. He was just in this university for its name: Higgins University. A university created by the person worshiped for introducing mana to the world. A genius scholar.
Max had revered Higgins as the center of his own life, and he was overcome with an insane thirst for knowledge. Of course, Higgins was alive more than 500 years ago. It was 2590, and people had already come a long way since the discovery of magic, but Max was still obsessed with Higgins.
Humanity had learned ways to manipulate Arsentinium (or mana), essentially gaining the ability to create, destroy, and manipulate every element to their will. They called these manipulations spells, since they had to be casted with very intricate formulas. Later, people had even discovered that certain people had affinities towards different parts of mana.
Max was studying these affinities in the library currently, learning a more detailed understanding of affinities towards specific elements. It was still unknown why people had certain affinities, but it was possible to determine which affinity a person possessed.
A system to divide these specialties was introduced, and it was very simple. There was a circle of elements that included fire, earth, water, death, then back to fire. Max was studying the categorization into detail, exploring the concept of life being connected to earth, because earth was the element on the opposite side of death.
Max was simply a fire mage, with his strongest affinity for fire. Whether unlucky or unlucky, he had a pure affinity for fire, meaning it would be close to impossible to use the other elements, but his fire manipulations would be completely superior. However, he did not care for this, since he was purely a scholar.
Hours later, he got a grasp on how specializations worked, he finally felt as if he was able to experiment into the unknown sciences. He had studied all these 20 years, and was finally at the pinnacle of the magical understanding of the world.