"Is he doing it right?" Lillian asked Alfred.
"He's not controlling it, he's just pooling it in his stomach, I'll step in if it goes out of control," Alfred said.
"It's in his body, how would it go out of control?" Lillian asked.
"He doesn't know how to control Mana yet, Mana isn't supposed to gather at a location for long unless it gathers in his Mana core, worst case scenario, his stomach would burst open," Alfred said with a smile on his face.
"What!! then stop him, why are you standing there" Lillian shouted.
"I said the worst-case scenario"
'I'm doing it, I should try moving it around, oh...I didn't know Mana was this easy to control' Lewis muttered as he moved the Mana towards both of his hands.
"Alfred, you didn't tell me Mana was this easy to control," Lewis said as he finally opened his eyes.
"Ohh, I did know you would grasp it so quickly, it seems you have a natural affinity to magic, but why are you gathering the mana in your hands, don't tell me you are trying to replicate my technique," Alfred said.
"No, but I want to try summoning Xavier to see if he would be stronger," Lewis said as he placed both of his hands on the ground.
"What!! Lewis stop!!" Alfred shouted.
"Come forth..." Lewis didn't complete the sentence and stopped as he heard Alfred shout, "What's wrong?" Lewis asked but the look on Alfred's face was horrifying then Lewis turned around.
>ROAR!!<
A large creature the size of a medium-sized elephant with bright red eyes stood in front of Lewis. Its roars were deafening and Lewis couldn't help but look helpless as the creature walked towards him, its mouth emitting smoke and when it finally come in plain view Lewis saw that it was a skeleton.
"That is..."
"The Bone Tiger" Alfred muttered as he placed his hands on the ground and quickly drew a small seal on the ground.
"Wha...whaat the heck is this?" Lewis who was on the ground slowly dragged his body backward as the tiger advanced slowly, its body was made entirely of bone but unlike Xavier it didn't have a mark and its body was covered in dirt.
"It's going to attack anytime now, stick to the plan," Alfred said.
"Okay," Lillian muttered as she brought out two daggers.
[Mana Transport]
Alfred mumbled and the ground on which Lewis was seated shone brightly and when the light died down he was nowhere to be found.
"Now" Alfred shouted.
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Elyria Kingdom - Mage Academy
"So tomorrow is the day, I'm really anxious and nervous, and a little scared" a boy spoke as he and his friends walked through a hallway.
"Why are you always like this, when it's time for a battle you chicken out, it's going to be fine, we have trained for this, and we aren't heading far, and some instructors are coming with us" a blond boy spoke.
"I'm sure you have nothing to worry about, you have a rare element and come from a family of mages, but most of us are just commoners, and I've never seen a beast before" a redhead girl muttered.
"My rare element isn't a blessing, it's more of a curse, I'm sure you guys know that, but we'll be safe, we are just going to the wastelands for our final test, we won't go too deep before..." another boy hit the blond boy and he turned around.
"Get out of my way, you bastard," the boy who hit him said as he walked away.
"Why are the second-year students always this harsh, it wouldn't kill them to treat us with a little respect, it's not like we offended them or anything" the other boy spoke.
"Let's just go, it's not like it's their fault, you know what happened during their first year" the blond boy spoke.
"I hope it doesn't happen to us"
"It won't, okay we're here, let's train," the blond said.
"Mind you, flame magic first, then air...and then we can try water" the girl spoke.
"I suck at flame magic, I suck at magic, you guys know that right?" the blond boy said.
"That's why you need to learn it, using your rare element is stressful for your body, then you need to find alternatives, Lucky for you am good at flame magic, so it'll be two against one" the girl smiled.
"Martha, aren't you being too smug about this, I'm not that bad at using flame spells, you know that right" the other boy spoke.
"Then try to defeat me Pete," Martha said, she was the redhead.
Martha was the redhead, Pete had black short hair, and Gabriel had blond hair and an extremely rare element, All three of them were inside one of the first-year students' training rooms in the mage academy.
"Is this distance okay, you know we'll be working with flames?" Gabriel asked.
"Yes, you guys can start, try not to make it easy for me" Martha shouted back as she took a battle stance.
Elyria kingdom is one of the strongest human nations with a large number of soldiers, both mages and knights.
Mages are able to control more than one element given they have an affinity to the element, but all mages have an element to which they have the highest affinity, so that becomes their primary element, they are also rare elements which isn't common to all mages like holy magic, dark magic, lightning magic, poison magic and many more.
Children from different villages are taken at the age of five to cities to be tested to see if they have a high aptitude for magic, even a mere commoner with a high aptitude for magic is taken in by Noble families, so everyone wanted to be a mage or wanted their children to be mages.
Commoners who have no aptitude for magic have no choice but to train to pass the knight exams and become swordsmen, or they could be farmers or storekeepers.