With the teacher having seen Yune's excellent conditioning, him having already used his mark, and having mistaken that Yune was from one of the big families or clans, Yune was guided to the training facility in the center of the running track where the other students of the academy were.
Yune was getting some fierce glares from the other new marked that still had to run around the track, but Yune was oblivious to this as he did not have eyes in the back of his head.
Once having arrived on the raised platform, Yune's eyes darted around to look at all the training equipment that was there, some simple ones he even had at the orphanage, like dumbbells, but there was even more equipment and machines he had never even seen before.
Yune didn't have too long to admire all the training equipment, however, as suddenly around a hundred students had gathered in front of him after the teacher had apparently called for them.
"Students, this is Yune. He will be training with you from now on."
Hearing the teacher say this with a smile on his face, the students looked doubtful as they looked at each other. They were all thinking the same thing, but only one student said this thought out loud.
"Why is a new marked already allowed to train with us?"
The marking phenomenon being a monthly occurrence, the academy students saw a few new marked coming in every month. Normally they would only be allowed to run laps around the track for days to come, so they were confused as to why Yune was already allowed to train with them.
The teacher gave Yune a side-eye to gage his reaction and quickly cleared his throat after seeing Yune's deadpan expression.
"Yune is an exception, unlike the other students Yune has been trained from a young age and he has already even started using his powers."
Everyone was dumbfounded as it had only been a few hours since the marking phenomenon happened. The students became a little rowdy, coming to conclusions on their own as they gossiped amongst each other.
"Is he from some big family or clan? But why didn't he enroll in the academy at the beginning of the year than?
"He doesn't really have any physical traits from any family, just black hair, and brown eyes. So, he is probably part of a clan."
"The people from the Mujag family have black hair… That would also explain why he enrolled in the middle of the schoolyear."
At the mere mention of the Mujag family, everyone fell silent. Even the teacher's expression changed upon hearing it. Everyone looking at Yune in silence, the atmosphere got tense.
Yune, however, didn't even know what the Mujag family was, so his expression remained unshaken.
Breaking the silence, the teacher cleared his throat again, his voice this time sounding a little shaky.
"Yune will be doing some basic weapon training to start. Who will show Yune around and… spar with him?"
The room, however, became even more silent, everyone avoiding the gaze of both the teacher and Yune.
At this point, Yune was kind of getting the memo of things.
A big misunderstanding had formed, but Yune had no intentions to correct it as the students seemed to either fear Yune or hold him in high regards. Yune didn't exactly know what the misunderstanding was about as he wasn't really paying attention, but he did know that he was being treated better than before.
And Yune wasn't shy to immediately take advantage of this.
"I don't feel like doing weapon training. I have been doing that way too much already. Is there somewhere I can train my mana instead?"
The teacher didn't even take a second to answer, immediately guiding Yune to an isolated room in the corner of the training platform.
"This is a silence room where you can train your mana undisturbed."
Getting in the room, the teacher couldn't be quicker to close the door behind him. He was glad he didn't do anything that would get him fired. If Yune was really from the Mujag family, never mind a teacher, not even the headmaster would get out unscathed after offending the Mujag family.
Having closed the door, Yune literally couldn't hear anything from the outside anymore, even his own voice seemed to be deafened. It was a relatively small room around five by five meters, the walls covered with pyramid shaped foam pads that were absorbing any sound that was being made.
Having made it into the room, with no one around anymore, Yune didn't spare a second thought before quickly sitting down. He didn't want to waste any more time, immediately focusing his attention to try and recall the feeling when he was apparently using his power while running just a few moments before.
With an almost immediate reaction, a warm feeling started to form inside Yune's chest, becoming more and more prominent. This warmth was exactly where his mark had formed, in the middle of his chest.
There was no mistaking it anymore, what Yune was feeling was the mana that was inside his body.
Not letting go of this feeling, Yune kept his focus on this warmth in his chest, getting more and more comfortable with this feeling, pinpointing it more as time went by. And as time passed, this warm feeling in his chest became clearer until it finally felt as clear as day.
Even though he was never taught how to use mana, because how could he be taught if he didn't have mana, he somehow instinctively knew how to, almost a primal feeling, a sixth sense, as he concentrated on the warm feeling, the mana, inside his body.
Not fighting against this instinct, some of the warmth in his chest suddenly began disappearing, and in place of it, Yune could feel his body becoming lighter.
Startled by how fast things were progressing, Yune broke his concentration and lost the warm feeling of the mana inside his chest, but his body feeling lighter remained.
Yune sat still for a few moments, but ten his eyes suddenly widened as all the different puzzle pieces that he had gathered in his mind just snapped into place.
"…I have the power over gravity."
Yune himself couldn't believe what he had just come to a conclusion to, but thinking about it for a little longer, it seemed more and more certain.
Yune didn't come to this conclusion because of some intuitive feeling, but it just suddenly became obvious to him, there were just too many things pointing to this conclusion.
Yune could make his body lighter, the color of his mana is portrayed as purple, and most of all, the mark that had formed on his chest looked exactly like the symbol of the center of gravity that he once saw in an old book.
'I really have the power of gravity…'
This thought was so unbelievable that his mind had entered a state of overdrive, racing with thoughts.
It was only a few minutes later that Yune had calmed himself down, accepting the reality of the situation.
Finally having settled on the fact that he had found out what mark he had, his inquisitive nature had already latched onto something else. Now, the only thing that was on his mind was exploring what he could do with this power.
Sitting down again, Yune began concentrating on the mana inside his body, and the warmth of it returned quicker than before. Keeping his focus, Yune could feel more and more mana in his body.
Sensing the amount of mana in his body, Yune got the feeling that he didn't just have a small amount of it.
When a person first receives a mark, either naturally or artificially, they start with a different amount of mana varying between each person, and from what Yune was taught at the orphanage he estimated that he was on the higher end for the amount of mana he received.
This conclusion came as a surprise to Yune, he even found it weird as he didn't emit a lot of light at the marking phenomenon. But Yune didn't think about this for long as he was too excited about wanting to use his powers again to explore what he could do with it.
Once again, Yune didn't really know how, but his mana got activated at the thought of wanting to use his powers. As soon as some warmth of the mana left his body, he felt his body become lighter again.
Yune didn't exactly know how much his weight decreased as he didn't have a scale at hand, but he felt like his bodyweight decreased by around 10%.
With his body having become lighter, Yune started to move around the room like a little kid who had a new toy, but this new toy being his own body. He was sprinting around the small room and even jumping on the walls, finding out the obvious, he was being able to jump higher than before.
After a minute or so, Yune's weight returned to normal, which saddened Yune a little. But this emotion disappeared as soon as he once again felt the warmth in his chest.
Wanting to play around more, Yune began using his mana again, and again, and again, but after doing this a few times, Yune found out that he didn't have a lot of mana left in his body.
Yune had used up a large portion of his mana already, now only being able to decrease his weight by around 5% after using nearly every bit of mana inside his body.
Thinking that this was the last time Yune could use his powers, Yune didn't waste a second of it, jumping around the room with the same enthusiasm as the first time, smiling like a little kid. This last minute of joy quickly passed, and his weight returned to normal.
Thinking that he wouldn't be able to decrease his weight anymore, having used up all the mana inside his body in the last activation, Yune was surprised to still feel the warmth in his chest.
Enthusiastically, Yune once again used every last bit of it, being able to decrease his weight by around 5% like last time.
Once another minute passed by, Yune tried again and was surprised to get the same result, being able to reduce his weight by 5%.
Yune thought about why this was the case. His first thought was that he just wasn't able to find all the mana inside his body each time, but this thought quickly left his mind as he found the real answer.
'Mana recovers naturally… So, within a minute I can recover enough mana to decrease my weight by 5%!'
Yune was ecstatic to find this out. This meant that he could continuously decrease his weight by 5% if he wanted to.
In the last hour, one exciting thing after another was happening and Yune was quickly forgetting how he was mad at the orphanage for betraying him.
Thinking back, Yune never had a time at the orphanage where he wasn't happy. Even though they had to train their body every day and study a lot, Yune always enjoyed it.
Yune had always been an inquisitive person by nature, so in a sense he didn't have it bad in the orphanage, he just felt a bit bitter with how he parted ways. And conditioning training was exhausting!
But only shortly thinking about this, Yune's mind didn't leave room to think back about the orphanage anymore. The only thing on his mind now, was the future.
As a marked, there were many things he could now learn about, and explore, with his new power of gravity.