Unlike conventional wizards, who just needed to cast spells until the opponent lost. And mages who followed common classes were even rarer, who wanted to specialize in something difficult and laborious when they could opt for easier paths?
"I have no friends, how can I form a team?" Kayden hadn't talked to anyone at his school until now.
"Don't worry, we have a catalog of all available students." The two finally arrived at the training area.
It was half the space of the room, there were several training spaces with protective bubbles, and occupying half of the training space was a gigantic bubble, in this space there were two groups of 5 people fighting.
For the first time, Kayden saw group fights, it was a chaos of spells, but it was a harmonious chaos, as if each member complemented the other's spells. In one of the teams there were 3 knights, a support and a conventional mage.
In the other there were 3 conventional mages, a support and a knight. A barrage of spells came from the other team non-stop, the other side wasn't even able to get closer.
"These are one of our teams, but they are the low-ranked ones. As you can see, the teams are unbalanced, it looks like the mages are winning, but the knights are just waiting for mana exhaustion."
What she said really happened, a few minutes later the knights attacked the magicians and knocked them down with heavy sword blows. Kayden saw something he hadn't seen at school until now.
Blood. The knights attacked without caring about anything, some wizards had deep wounds, but before they could even think they were taken out of the arena by a man dressed in a white robe.
"That's Mr. Lucas, he's a healer, thanks to him no students get hurt during training, he manages to get them out before they die." The woman said this as if the fact that they had serious injuries was irrelevant.
The fight continued for a few seconds, but the result was already defined.
"Your job now is to find members for your team, each elite student can have one with other elite students or with guests, very well, if you have any questions, call me." The teacher simply disappeared from Kayden's vision before he could say anything.
She barely explained things properly and just disappeared. The boy was still thinking when he was approached by a girl with purple hair and a black sleeveless dress.
"Hello, you're new , aren't you? My name is Alice, do you want to form a team with me?" A voice woke Kayden from his daze.
"No, team up with me, I'm a mage specializing in healing."
"I am a 6th rank knight, do it with me."
Countless people gathered around Kayden, there were so many that he didn't know what to do.
"Silence." With a command, the entire crowd fell silent, they gave way for a red-haired boy to enter the crowd. Kayden had never seen the boy, but knew he had some respect around here.
"Hello, my name is Yan von Kitten , I am responsible for guiding new students." The boy exuded confidence in his speech and composure, and his name reminded Kayden of the nobles.
"Hello, my name is Kayden, thank you for your teachings." Kayden gave the boy a nod.
"Come." The two left towards the rest areas, the boy took Kayden to a small group that was chatting around a small table with soft drinks. As soon as they noticed Yan's arrival, they greeted him.
There were two girls and a boy.
" Hey , Yan, are you a newbie?" One of the nearly 2 meter tall young men asked. In addition to his disproportionate height, he also had giant, completely tanned muscles.
"Yes, Kayden, I'll introduce you to the team." The boy pointed to one of the girls, she was very short with red hair reaching her height, her skin tone was light with small freckles on her face.
"This is my sister, Yasmin von Kitten , she is a mage specializing in support." Kayden noticed a certain similarity between the two, the girl just looked at him and didn't say anything. She had a certain snobbish air.
"…" Yan was speechless for a few seconds. "Ah, well, that's Samuel, our Goliath." It went without saying who he was talking about. "He is our tank, a 6 rank knight."
"Hello welcome." The big man greeted Kayden cheerfully, which was reciprocated by Kayden.
"This is Luiza, our girl and together with me our firepower, she and I are conventional magicians specialized in area damage spells, my element is fire and hers is earth, we are both in the 6th rank."
The girl he pointed out was wearing a pristine white robe that hid every detail of her body. Only her blonde hair was visible outside the outfit. She gave Kayden a mixed treatment with a wave.
"Very well, this is our team, in fact I am not a student responsible for helping others." Yan gave an awkward laugh. "But I just need one more fighter for my team and since you have a katana , I put two and two together."
Kayden was already expecting something like this, if there really was a student specialized for this, there wouldn't be so many people inviting him to a team.
"You are nobles, aren't you?" Kayden had to make things clear early on.
"Yes, my sister and I are the children of a baron, the other two are normal civilians who entered by invitation." Kayden had no idea what the division of nobles was like, and he didn't care.
"I have a Class 1 innate talent." Kayden dropped the bomb all at once, first causing surprise in everyone and then... contempt, the look was evident in everyone. No matter how much Kayden proved himself, his innate talent would always give people this emotion.
"...."
He already expected something like this from the two nobles, but from the other two it wasn't so strong, his emotions varied from surprise to disgust. The atmosphere in the room became strange between them.
After a few seconds of silence, Yan finally recovered from his shock and spoke. Like a snake, he demonstrated another form of treatment towards Kayden in his tone.
"Ah, I'm sorry Kayden, but I can't accept you knowing this, I hope to progress over time and you'll just be a burden over time, I don't even know how you were able to get in here, I'm sorry, but no We can welcome you more." His speech did not have any aggressive tone, but the contempt was notable.
Kayden expected emotions like anger or shame to surge within him, but there was nothing. He couldn't direct 1% of his concern towards other such insignificant people in his life. Maybe he is a mature person.
The boy simply turned around without saying anything and left the group, behind his back he was still able to hear Yasmin saying:
"Yan! What goes through your head to bring trash like him here?" This sentence made Kayden want to go back and choke the girl, maybe he's not that mature, but soon these emotions were suppressed by his apathy