I woke up the next morning due to a nice smell, most likely Emilia making breakfast. I got up quite fast and walked to the kitchen, not knowing I was still just in underwear. She looked at me, "Good morning, J...in...", she said while turning red. "What's wrong?", I asked her. "Look down...", she answered. I did as she said and quickly realized, I ran back to my room and put on my school uniform.
Emilia and I both sat down at the table to eat breakfast. "Pancakes? Really? I would've also been fine eating like a bread or something...", I said while eating my first bite. "No. You have a lot to do today and need energy for the whole day, Jin.", she scolded me. She was almost like my mother, she would also often complain that I'm undereating because I was too focused on training magic.
After breakfast, we went out and walked down the halls. I couldn't help but notice that in this short timespan we had really grown to close friends. That day I didn't have school but a meeting with the other DC members. I took a left and she took a right turn, when I arrived at the room with the number 005 - Disciplinary Comittee I felt an enormous magical pressure. It wasn't as if someone was testing me, no, it seemed like the people in there were really strong. I turned the knob and entered the room.
I was face to face with the 5 strongest students of this school. "Hello. I'm Jin, your new member.", I introduced myself. They all looked sceptically at me. "We can see that on your uniform... but a first year? Gosh, they accept everyone nowadays.", said the red haired boy. And with that he now let his complete magical pressure out. A normal student would've already collapsed, but not me, no, I stood there and stared in his face. I was contemplating wether I would show my own magical pressure or not, if I did, he would collapse for sure... that's why I didn't.
"You aren't half bad, I'm sorry.", he said. The boy held out his hand towards me, I took it. "Then let me introduce you to the team. The girl with the black hair and golden eyes over there is Aria.", he explained. The girl just waved her hand at me while smiling, she sat on a table, she wore the same black uniform but with a dress instead of pants. She was a 4th year student. "The guy with the long blond haired over there is Lorien. He is an elf.", he added. Lorien also did the same. He waved his hand and smiled, he was a 3rd year student. "That tall brown haired guy over there is Rowan. He might look intimidating but he's a sweet guy.", he explained. Rowan did look a bit intimidating, he was tall, had a strong build but he smiled and his smile was really sweet. "That girl with the long blond hair is Lyra. She is the strongest mage in our school and a 5th year student.". Well, she was until I came to this school.. "And now, my name is Kael. I am a 5th year student and I hope we can work together quite well.", he said while having a cheeky smirk on his face.
"And right now you're in our headquarters. So, today, we want to "test" you... you know, if you can become a member of the DC.", Lyra said. I nodded and we went to the training room. "So. We will fight against eachother. Rowan, will you?", Kael said. Rowan nodded and went closer to the arena. I stepped into it with him. "Now, there are no rules, this is a fight where you can go all out as we have some systems set in this school that absorb damage.", Lyra said as she announced the fight to begin. Rowan did something I had read about, he was an earth mage and manifested earth magic around his fists.
I used Shadow step and went behind him though his reaction time was too fast, he quickly turned around and landed a hit on me. "Shit... this won't work... Output: 110%.", I though in my head. "I have never tried this.. hopefully it works...", I tell them. "Shadows, heed my call; unleash your fury and strike my foes.", I chanted. Everyone was shocked like usual, they all thought "SHADOW MAGIC?". Multiple shadow infused bolts appear around me and flew at him, causing explosions on the ground. "Shadows, rise and veil us from sight, cloak us in your dark embrace.", I added to my chant. A veil of shadow formed around me making me invisible, I wanted to test out how good his insincts were so I slowly came up behind him, the veil got removed after 30 seconds, so there I was, landing a punch in his back and sending him flying into a wall. I infused my other hand with fire and then made it into blue fire. "PHOENIX STRIKE!", I screamed out. It was a expert class fire spell, I lept in the air and flew down to the ground next to Rowan, the ground shattered as an explosion of blue fire happened, rubble got shot up, I was declared the winner.
Everyone clapped for me, beating their most durable member in a fight as a 1st class student. Though this wasn't the only thing I've learned. I had a few things I wanted to try out. I saw Rowan use his magic as a type of weapon, imbuing it into his fists, perhaps I could make a sword out of shadow or fire. Also, I instinctivly screamed out the spell's name instead of it's chant with Phoenix strike, meaning I could possible use spells not having to use their long names but their short ones which would be really good in a fight.
The other student, Lorien wanted to fight me to. The others said he was the weakest out of the group and only wanted to become the 2nd weakest. He was a wind mage, I stood infront of him. He began chanting a spell while I just moved behind him with Shadow step. I put him into a headlock, then swept him off his legs and softly laid him down on the ground. I had won that fight in just a mere 10 seconds, he was a clear downgrade from Rowan.
The other 3 students didn't want a fight. "You know, if you ever need help with anything, be sure to tell us. You are one of us now.", Lyra said. I smiled at her. "You know, you are quite the talent, being able to use Shadow and blue fire magic.", Lyra added. "By the way, if you're ever interested in the way of the sword, I don't mind showing you somethings.", Kael said. "No, don't worry. I've already had some sword lessons.", I told him. "Really? We should spar sometime.", Kael responded as we arrived back at the headquarters.
We all sat down in our chairs, I got my own, new chair as we discussed recent behaviours. There have been a lot of racist things done such as paintings or fights that were directed at different races. Something was going on, someone was starting all of this. We decided to keep it in the eye but mainly focus on breaking up fights that happen because of it. I couldn't help but notice Aria staring at me the whole meeting, if gazes could kill, I would be dead 10 times already. Well, mainly because of my mother but 3 times because of her. These red eyes had something dangerous, I wouldn't want to fight her if I didn't have the console.
Once the meeting was over, we all left the room. I was assigned to keep watch around campus with Aria. Great. We both walked out of the building and I went up on the roof with shadow step. She got up using... Ice magic? That was certainly something new. "Ice magic? Interesting.", I told her. She stared at me with an icy stare. "It's quite strong if you ask me.", she answered. Everything was normal on campus, students having fun playing games, just everything was fine... we walked around the roof to see the hidden corners of the school. We saw some person in a weird coat talking with a student, we decided to eavesdrop from the roof... they talked about... a time coming, domination... everything that would match with an attack on the school. Aria slipped, luckly I caught her but a roof panel fell down and we were spotted, the guy in the robe quickly ran away and we started chasing him.