Chapter 4

I wake up at six am and get out of bed. The first day of school is today, I wonder what it will bring. I think to myself as I get dressed in my first year fire mage robe. Why is it I am the only one awake? I think as I quietly get the books that I need for Magic basics out of my cabinet. I look over to a figure in the bed right beside mine.

My other roommates showed up together yesterday. They are twins, the slightly older boy is named Yuki, while the other younger girl is named Lumi. They are almost identical besides the fact that they have different hair lengths and different colored robes. They both have blue hair, green eyes, the girl is about five foot six, while the boy looked to be six foot tall. Yuki had a green robe signifying wind, while Lumi had a purple robe on signifying lightning. They took the last two beds last night and fell asleep.

Maybe I should wake them up? I ask myself as I put the books I just grabbed into my bag. I shrug inwardly, open the door and go through it, closing it behind me heading to class.

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I walk through the huge archway into Magic basics class, walking to the nearest desk and sit down, taking out my books. I wait for about ten minutes and the teacher walks in, five minutes after that about thirty students came into the classroom one by one or in groups of five. Once everyone was seated and there were no more chairs open the teacher stood up.

"You can call me Mr. Spooky, I am your magic basics teacher." Spooky said, walking to the board. "Today's lesson is about mana." He said, drawing a small blue circle, filling it in. "Magic is all about Mana, the more mana you have the more powerful you are. The more magics you have, the more mana you need. For example," he said, drawing a stick figure using magic to summon fire. "For Fire you have to have a lot of mana because fire is hard to control." He said turning back. "And if you have multiple magics you need a lot more mana, for each different element requires a certain amount of mana to activate." He said turning back to the board.

"The more elements you have, the more mana you need to stay in a fight, which is why we cultivate." Spooky said, drawing someone sitting down eyes closed. I watch fascinated as he explains about the art of cultivating. "If you focus your mind you can see different colored orbs floating around you, if you fuse them into a ball then bring them to you, it replenishes you mana. Depending on how much magic you use, you can last a long time if you have a grade D mana pool." He said, erasing everything that was on the board and drawing six circles, each one larger than the last.

"Mana is divided into six categories called Mana pools, It goes from largest to smallest S, A, B, C, D, and finally E." he said pointing to each one in turn. "The Larger the mana pool, the higher level of the spells you can cast. All of you, besides Wolf here, are at Grade E." He says, pointing at me. Everyone in the room turned to look at me. I kept staring at Mr. Spooky, waiting for them to turn back.

"What grade is Wolf's?" Asks my roommate Nina, blushing as several faces turned towards her. Mr. Spooky looked at me and I shrugged. What's the point? I don't even know it myself so mine as well find out now. I think to myself.

"His mana pool is grade B. Which is the highest any first year has ever joined with." He said, turning back to the board and pointing at the third biggest circle. The rest of the class went by in a blur. Soon I was back in my room, waiting for my next class. I lay there on my back thinking. Is the reason I have such a big mana pool because I have five different elements under my control?