"Why is it Mystic Academy of Seraphel? How is this the best school?" Katherine questioned, her face full of anger as she felt scammed.
"You probably don't know yet, but your teacher is an archmage now." Fredrick pointed out as he cut the steak into small chunks.
Katherine sat in silence as she knew all the resources that an archmage could bring to any school.
"Grandma, are you an archmage?" Mary innocently asked.
"I wish. Your grandma is only a level seven mage." Ava replied.
"Miss——I mean, Auntie Amelia, what's the difference between the mage's levels?" Sophia curiously asked.
"You'll learn it when you get to school..."
As everyone ate in silence, Amelia broke it again by speaking up.
"Hey Alex, are you planning to live in school dorms or your grandparent's house?"
"I don't know..."
Seeing Alex uninterested in answering the question, Amelia turned her attention over to the other two.
"Sophia, you want to live here or in a school dorm?"
"I want to live with Mary."
Amelia turned her attention over to Mary, who was extremely occupied trying to pick up the steak with her fork.
"Mary, where do you want to live?"
"I want to live back at home——I mean, I want to live with Alex!" Mary replied as she finally got the small chuck of steak onto her fork.
"They'll live with me." Katherine interrupted Amelia from trying to get another answer.
Both Fredrick and Ava smiled as they didn't try to convince the three kids to live at their mansion a single time, which surprised Alex a little.
For some reason, he thought Ava would at least plead for Mary to stay, as she had been spending a lot of time with her.
"Ahem, I'm full now," Katherine stated before getting up from her seat with the three letters in hand.
The other three kids quickly followed, leaving the house with her as they didn't try to ask them to stay for a night.
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The three of them headed back inside their wagon, with Katherine going to the stable to wake the horses up.
After attaching the horses and wagon back together, they began heading towards Mystic Academy of Seraphel.
As they arrived at the front entrance, Sophia and Mary were amazed by the amount of light nearby.
Except for Alex, who felt a little disturbed by how similar it felt to the light pollution in the cities back on Earth.
With the wagon coming to a full stop, Katherine jumped out before a card appeared in her hand.
"Scanning complete... Please show the ID of the three living beings."
A robotic voice appeared after Katherine put the card into some sort of scanning machine.
This time, Katherine scanned the three stickers on the letter, causing the gate before them to open finally.
"Welcome to Mystic Academy of Seraphel. Please report to the front office on Monday with the letter to finish registration."
As the horse dragged the wagon past the gate, a sudden circle with unknown letters appeared on the ground.
Just in the blink of an eye, they were in a new environment completely different from what they saw from the outside.
"Mom, where are we at?" Alex curiously asked as the horses continued walking forward.
"In the dimensional magic pathway... We're going to my old home first." Katherine explained.
The wagon soon stopped, and the three kids followed Katherine out of the wagon before examining the house in front of them.
It was a very ordinary house, similar to the one back in their hometown.
But unlike the other one, it didn't have a giant grass field out in the wilderness surrounding the house with a road leading up to it.
Instead, several houses were next door, with sounds coming from the nearby houses.
"Okay, you guys bring everything inside, okay? I'm going to go put the horses away."
After Katherine opened the house for them, the three kids began carrying their luggage into the house.
As they step foot inside, a sudden familiarity hits them. They soon realize even the inside was a replica of their old house.
The parent's bedroom and the kid's bedroom had the same furniture, and even the living room had the same sofa they always sat on.
When they walked further inside, the noticeable differences were in the bathroom, which had an actual bathtub rather than a giant bucket.
But as they stepped foot into the kitchen, they were once again shocked, with Alex being the one who was caught off guard the most.
It was an actual stove with a fire switch that looked extremely similar to the one back on Earth, albeit without any pipes or wires attached.
Most importantly, the entire house had running water as Alex switched on the sink switch.
"Technology exists in this world?!"
Alex's hand began to shake as he turned the water switch off, still shocked by the amount of convenience in the house.
"What does 'technology' mean?" Sophia curiously asked as Alex spoke out a word in a completely different language.
"Nothing. Ahem, let's go carry the other luggage into the house first."
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Just as the three of them carried the last luggage away from the wagon, Katherine finally came back without the horse.
"You guys finished carrying everything?" Katherine asked as she checked the wagon.
With a nod from Sophia, Katherine snapped her finger as the wagon disappeared before their eyes.
"Let's go inside the house then... You guys are going to need to learn how to use the stuff in the capital."
Thirty minutes later...
After learning everything and all the basic knowledge about how to use every tool in the house, the three kids could finally begin unpacking.
As they began to hang some of their clothes in the drawers with a wooden hanger, Alex's face suddenly started to blush a little when he looked over.
Sophia was already starting to wear bras as she put several pairs out of the luggage and into the drawer.
Although Sophia's chest was still as smooth as a runway, seeing her have it gave him mixed feelings.
"Hmm? Alex, have you finished unpacking already?" Sophia curiously asked after noticing Alex just sitting there on the bed.
"Almost."
Alex quickly returned to unpacking his clothes, pulling out the last few socks from the first luggage before moving on to his second luggage bag.
After unpacking for almost half an hour, the three were finally finished as they felt exhausted from taking everything out of their luggage bags.
"Good job everyone! Let's go take a shower now."
Katherine snapped her finger as the empty luggage bag all disappeared before dragging the three of them to the bathroom.
As everyone took off their clothes, Alex hesitated for a second, as usual, before finally taking them off.
"This is so cool! I still can't believe water can just come out of a faucet like this." Sophia murmured as she jumped right into the big bathtub.
"You should thank Professor Derrek for that. Most of the stuff here is created by him."
Katherine explained as the three of them entered the bathtub as well, causing the water to overflow a little before stopping.
"Ooh, it's so warm... I'm getting a little sleepy just being in this."
Mary immediately lay down flat on the back of the bathtub, closing her eyes.
The other three also leaned back on their side of the corner, closing their eyes as they began to relax.
Everyone was tired from today's events, especially Katherine, who had to endure so many different things.
Although the water faucet had been turned off for a while now, Alex noticed the water was still warm.
He soon realized that a few glowing carvings around the bathtub ledges with a little bit of glowing light indicated a spell.
"Magic is so convenient..." Alex thought to himself as he started to get a little sleepy from the calming water.
The peacefulness in the bathroom made all four of them want to stay in the bathtub forever.
However, the peace was soon disrupted when Mary noticed something different about Alex's body.
"Mom... Why is brother's thingy pointing at me?" Mary curiously asked.
Everyone in the bathtub immediately opened their eyes as they looked down at Alex through the water.
But Alex had already moved his hand to cover himself, his face blushing red as he couldn't believe what had happened.
"Why the fuck did it get hard now? I'm not even turned on or looking at anything."
Alex thought to himself in his head as he tried to control himself. However, it kept pointing upward despite trying everything in his head.
"Your brother's body is just developing. Alex, it's okay. Boys can get random erection at times.
There's no need to hide it or try to push it down. Did you forget what we said last time?"
Katherine pulled Alex's hand away, letting the other two girls have a full view of it as Alex gave up trying to hide it.