Jewel as identity.

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While the sky was clear and there were breezes of cool air scurrying and circulating among the students, the area around them was shrouded in fog, making anything in front of them invisible.

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Lydan was feeling ridiculous because it was his first time being in a place with so many people and because of the horrible response he received from the Nobels of his realm.

He was deep in concentration when, exactly like in his dream, he felt a touch on his waist.

Lydan abruptly turned around as he noticed Ophni standing behind him, grabbing him at the waist with one hand while raising the other high in the air.

"I am here professor" Ophni holloed.

Ayrton was about to burst out with rage again as he saw Ophni standing behind Lydan, but before Ayrton could see Ophni's hand on Lydan's waistline and would eradicate the rooftop as a result.

Lydan stomped on Ophni's foot and liberated himself with a sickened look on his face while Ophni just simpered back.

"Even prince Ophni is with Lydan"

"what do you expect? they're relatives"

"You're saying it like you do not know his highness Ophni's temper"

"You're right, he does feel different today"

"Prince Lydan seems special"

"Prince Ayrton is fond of him too"

Catching a glimpse of prince Ophni, the Nobel ladies in the crowd jovially started muttering with each other as he was popular among Nobels and aristocrats, not only ladies but Nobels in all the twenty lines were talking about him.

"There's my favorite student," Edward said, laughing "Your highness, you're just in time, please come here. I need to borrow your powers"

"How did he become a favorite student on his first day?" Lydan's notion muttered.

Ophni stepped forward toward Edward as he suddenly looked back while grinning in Lydan's direction, ignoring Ayrton, who was shooting daggers at him with his stare.

"What's his problem?" Lydan's notion muttered with ferocity as he saw Ophni.

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The Fog which was covering the forest started to vanish from one side in the back of the academy.

It gave an astounding surge to all the teachers in the academy who could control fog including Gage.

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"What was that?." Gage's notion muttered.

Ophni Noded at both Edward and Gage as a greeting, in return, they did the same as he came and stood beside Edward.

"The royalties class with me will be starting tomorrow so make sure to come after reading something from the library," Gage said as he dissolved into the Fogg, which he made from his spell before his announcement.

"Where did he run off to?" Edward's notion muttered.

"Let me explain what Gage just said, every odd number of students will be assigned to two preceptors, Gage and I are the preceptors of royal heirs" Edward explained.

"You'll meet your preceptors according to your assigned colophons that will be given to you in a short moment but first I have to see what are everyone's power," Edward blazoned.

"Everyone's power?" Lydan's notion muttered

Students started grunting with each other as Ophni started looking at the students while standing beside Edward.

A red smoke flared from Ophni's eyes as he kept gaping at all the students who were now looking at him with admiration.

"What kind of power is that?" Lydan's notion muttered.

"He can see other people's power with his eyes," Ayrton whispered in Lydan's ear.

Lydan suddenly jumped back with a horrible expression on his face, Ayrton was dumbfounded to see his reaction.

"Hey, what happened? are you okay?" worriedly, Ayrton asked "I didn't mean to startle you"

"Do not!...ever..." fuming Lydan signed with ferocity "Don't ever whisper to me again"

Ayrton who was dumbfounded seemed shocked, he gave a nod snappily as a response because he couldn't relatively process such a harsh response from Lydan.

"I am sorry." Ayrton eventually let out, Lydan who was putting up with Ayrton already had reached his limit, he trudged away and stood far down from Ayrton.

"You did it again" Internally pummeling his forehead Ayrton grunted as Lydan fled down.

"Was it too much?" Lydan's notion muttered.

In all this, an unusual group of five nobles seemed to be warily bruiting about something dubious, but it wasn't noticeable.

Flaring red smoke from Ophni's eyes was quite intimidating for some of the Nobels, Ophni's stare wasn't in one spot–he was examining every Nobel from afar until his gape stopped on Lydan.

"How can this be?" Ophni's notion muttered.

"Is there a problem, your highness?" Edward asked" You appear to be puzzled"

"Was there ever an exceptional case of black smoke?" Ophni asked, the red smoke from his eyes faded as he looked in the direction of Edward.

"What do you mean black smoke?" Edward asked as his eyes started flaring a purple smoke–he turned toward Lydan.

"How can this be?" Edward's notion muttered as he looked in Lydan's direction.

While Edward was looking at Lydan, his eyes suddenly met with Lydan's, making him blench.

"Edward's eyes are the same as Ophni." Lydan's notion was grunting, but it stopped as he saw Ophni behind Edward, signaling at him while smiling.

Edward turned back to look at Ophni–while dispersing his purple smoke, he gestured to Ophni to keep it a secret, to which he nodded as a response.

Ayrton noticed that Lydan was double-checked, which made him eager enough to know the reason, he sauntered toward Ophni and Edward.

Before Ayrton could reach them, a small amount of smoke appeared in front of him–he suddenly glanced at the others and saw that they were also in the same situation as him.

"Place your hand in the smoke and take out your colophons" Edward blazoned "Your assigned preceptor will be wearing the same emblem as you and your fellows who'll be practicing with you in the future"

Different kinds of jewels came out of the smoke for everyone–Lydan was holding a blue gem in his hands–Ayrton got a red gem from the smoke, and Ophni had a diamond in his hand.

"Is this a colophon?" Lydan's notion muttered.

"The jewels in your hands have your blood in them, which you all gave at the door," Edward said.

Everyone was astounded to see the gems in their hands, while Ophni was boisterous to have a diamond as his emblem because it was different from all the students.

"I know what you all are thinking, this is the ability of your lazy head of this academy," Edward said, "who can not even attend this orientation"

All of them were paying attention to Edward as the gems in their hands changed into brooches, pendants, studs, and earrings of different shapes and sizes.

"It is amazing" Lydan muttered as he saw his gem changing into a droplet shape earring.

All of them were amazed. Ayrton without minding much, moved toward Lydan forgetting what he was doing before.

Ophni saw Lydan smiling beautifully while gaping at his earring as he started ambulating toward him–the ground suddenly started shaking.

Everyone on the rooftop suddenly bends down as they heard the sound of the blast coming from afar.

To be continued...