After Lunch Break.
At the school plaza of Azure Sky Academy.
All the Senior High students, both Year 1 and Year 2, have gathered in the school plaza.
Ms. Vela Persiana, Mr. Xavier Kadiev, and Headmaster Flixer Niche are present along with the school faculty staffs to preside over the competition.
"A pleasant afternoon to all of us. We are gathered here today to conduct the three-stage competition for the membership of the Dragons Arise Program."
Ms. Vela Persiana started talking on the podium, her voice reverberating across the school plaza due to a magical spell.
"The First Stage of the competition would be an elimination round. We will display Ten runic inscriptions of psychic-type magical spells for ten minutes and those who masters more than one magical spell within that duration will proceed to the next stage."
The students were quite shocked by what they just heard.
"Learning more than one spell in ten minutes is impossible! It takes thirty minutes for me to learn one spell at most."
"How can this be possible, are they sure about what they're doing?"
"They must be looking for monsters instead of students, how can they be this cruel?!"
The students voiced out their complaints but Ms. Vela and the rest of the school faculty remained unbothered.
"The competition starts in ten seconds."
"Ten."
"Nine."
"Eight."
"Seven."
"Six."
"Five."
"Four."
"Three."
"Two."
"One."
Suddenly, ten different runic inscriptions hovered above the school plaza. The magic circles started rotating as magical symbols moved dynamically.
The students looked-up and started memorizing the runic inscriptions. Although each one of the magic circles are more complicated than the other, one common ground would be that all of them glowed in color blue.
Zedric, who is in one corner of the school plaza, standing beside Skydon, is secretly rejoicing. His eyes glowed brightly as he listened to a series of notification from the Transcendence System.
[Ding!]
[Detecting Runic Inscription within host's field of view]
[Scanning... Scanning Successful!]
[Downloading... Download Successful!]
[Host can now use the spell Lucid Dreaming!]
[Ding!]
[Detecting Runic Inscription within host's field of view]
[Scanning... Scanning Successful!]
[Downloading... Download Successful!]
[Host can now use the spell Thought Projection!]
[Ding!]
[Detecting Runic Inscription within host's field of view]
[Scanning... Scanning Successful!]
[Downloading... Download Successful!]
[Host can now use the spell Telekinesis!]
[Ding!]
[Detecting Runic Inscription within host's field of view]
[Scanning... Scanning Successful!]
[Downloading... Download Successful!]
[Host can now use the spell Psychometry!]
[Ding!]
[Detecting Runic Inscription within host's field of view]
[Scanning... Scanning Successful!]
[Downloading... Download Successful!]
[Host can now use the spell Clairvoyance!]
[Ding!]
[Detecting Runic Inscription within host's field of view]
[Scanning... Scanning Successful!]
[Downloading... Download Successful!]
[Host can now use the spell Precognition!]
[Ding!]
[Detecting Runic Inscription within host's field of view]
[Scanning... Scanning Successful!]
[Downloading... Download Successful!]
[Host can now use the spell Psychic Barrier!]
[Ding!]
[Detecting Runic Inscription within host's field of view]
[Scanning... Scanning Successful!]
[Downloading... Download Successful!]
[Host can now use the spell Parallel Thinking!]
[Ding!]
[Detecting Runic Inscription within host's field of view]
[Scanning... Scanning Successful!]
[Downloading... Download Successful!]
[Host can now use the spell Hypnosis!]
[Ding!]
[Detecting Runic Inscription within host's field of view]
[Scanning... Scanning Successful!]
[Downloading... Download Successful!]
[Host can now use the spell Memory Reading!]
Zedric couldn't help but feel excited. A total of ten magic spells were learned just like that. While the rest are still trying hard to master at least one spell, Zedric has already mastered all of it.
Zedric decided to pretend that he's still trying to memorize the runic inscriptions.
There are also quite a few excellent students who have mastered several spells already. Most of them are from Senior High Year 2. Frizle Niche has already mastered three spells in a span of five minutes, while Grey Lucas mastered two spells already. Skydon mastered one spell in the same timeframe and is currently trying his best to learn another spell.
Zedric is trying his best in pretending while casually analyzing his system.
[Transcendence System]
Host: Zedric Luiz
Physique:1.0
Vitality: 1.0
Spirit: 1.3
Mana: 13
Magic: Blue Psyche Magical Art - Level 1]
[Level 1: (30/100)]
Magic Spells: Telepathy, Lucid Dreaming, Thought Projection, Telekinesis, Psychometry, Clairvoyance, Precognition, Psychic Barrier, Parallel Thinking, Hypnosis]
Now that Zedric already has an array of spells, the next thing he had to do is to increase his mana pool. Each magical spell consumes mana when it is activated, thus he needs lots of mana to make sure that he can use his magical spells however he wants.
To increase his mana pool, the only way is to painstakingly cultivate the Blue Psyche Magical Art. Since he's currently at school, he'd focus on school matters first. Cultivating can wait after school is done.
Zedric now feels like heaven is helping him somehow.
"Ten minutes is up! Everyone who has learned two spells or more can remain while those who didn't can go back to their classroom."
The ten runic inscriptions hovering above the school plaza slowly faded into nothingness. Students who did not learn two or more spells left the school plaza and headed to their classroom.
Most of the remaining students are from Senior High Year 2 while only a few were from Senior High Year 1.
"The next stage of the competition for the membership of Dragons Arise Program will be a test of aptitude. The Moondragon Corp. specializes in bloodline magic, and so, only those who are compatible with the Moondragon Bloodline will be able to proceed to the next stage."
This time, it is Mr. Xavier who spoke.
He took out a crystal ball out of nowhere and it hovered in front of him. The crystal ball slowly floated towards the center of the school plaza.
"Everyone, form a line in front of the crystal ball. You will take turns touching the crystal ball. If the crystal ball glows a white-colored light then you have passed this stage. If the crystal ball does not react, you'll be eliminated." Mr. Xavier announced in a clear voice.