Decision

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory. ~Isaac Marion

Today is 20th July, 1988, if I am not wrong then schools letter should have arrived by now. It's very frustrating to wait for the letter, the schools semester will start in close to 40 days. I think I shall have talk about this with grandfather.

As if waiting for the clue I heard my mother calling me. I arrived in the study of my mother, and there are two unknown wizards sitting with them. I think one of them shall be Minerva McGonagall by her looks and strict face. All of my relatives were sitting discussing something with them.

When I arrived and sat on the empty chair, my grandfather asked me "Well Aizel we are discussing about which school should you join? There are four letters that have arrived and so we are discussing about the same. First look at these letters." And then he passed me four envelopes.

I turn very excited that there are four schools that want me to join, I slowly look at them one by one, the first envelope is from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Scotland), the second envelope is from Beauxbatons Academy of Magic (France) where my cousin is studying, the third envelope is from Castelobruxo (Central Brazil) and the last is from Ilvermorny (Eastern North America). Of the four schools I have only heard about Hogwarts and Beauxbatons, the other two are new to me.

I turn away from letters and look at my mother and ask "Mother what do you think?"

"I think it will be best if you choose Hogwarts", Aresta

I nod at her and look at my father, "And father what about you?", Aziel

"Well I want you to go to Ilvermorny in America. It provides total of 12 NEWT subjects including warding and healing. But I also want you to choose Hogwarts as it is near us and we also have a seat in board of members at hogwarts.", Andreas

"Ok right now Hogwarts has highest votes and Ilvermorny has variety of profession options. Then grandpa which one you want me to choose?" I ask looking at my grandfather

"Well I want you to go to Beauxbatons as your cousin is there. I don't want you to go to school alone. So Beauxbatons is what I want, but even if you choose Hogwarts it's still awesome as your friends Cedric Diggory is for going to choose Hogwarts.", replied Brian

"Ok and Grandma?", I ask looking at my grandmother

"Well definitely Hogwarts. I have some secret information for you to cause trouble I mean to enjoy your school life there, but I will let you choose.", replied Tiffini with a grin on her face.

I got excited after hearing about secret information, as it will come in handy. I have already created plans thinking that I will attend Hogwarts, if I change them then to choose some other school then it will all go to waste. So I get up from chair run towards grandma and hug her saying, "Oh yes grandma knows me the best. Ok then Hogwarts it is". I announce with a sheepish grin on my face not hiding any of my excitement.

All of my relatives laugh at my reaction. My mother also smiles at me lovingly. Then I hear stern warning from father "Aziel, I know you like pranks and fun but if I get a letter from school that you are not at the top of your class then you will have no fun times when you are at home."

I look at my father with cute puppy eyes like I am about to cry, and then he walks towards me picks me up in a warm hug saying "Oh my dear, don't give me that look. You know what I take it back, unless you are in top ten then no fun"

And then I shout kissing my fathers cheek "Horray, dad I love you"

Everyone laughs at that, then my grandfather tells me "Ok now come here" then he looks at the lady that I suspected to be McGonagall and tells her "She is Minerva McGonagall, transfiguration professor at Hogwarts. I dont want any complaints from her.", then I give a sheepish grin to my grandfather and introduce myself to McGonagall, "Hello Professor, I will try not to cause you too much of trouble" and before grandpa could say anything I run away to mother only to hear grandpa and professor laughing and him saying to her "Well Minerva he has choose Hogwarts then. Well good luck for the next seven years, he is very handful. You have full rights to give any detention as you like. What you just saw him doing to his father, was just a small demonstration. When he is at it, things tend to get blown up."

And then my mother starts nagging me about not staying up until late at night and all the motherly stuff. Though it is irritating but I still quietly listen all her instructions. It was after quite some time that my father told her "Aresta you still have more than one month with him. Now lets go to some fancy restaurant in muggle world for a party. Miss Minerva will you like to join us?", he asks McGonagall

"Oh I would love to, but I have to go to some other appointments. You can carry on I shall also now take my leave." and then after saying goodbyes to everyone else she and the other wizard apparate away.

Then father tell me that we will go shopping for school stuff 3 days later.

Then I return to my room to practise the cultivation technique, as I feel myself very close to my first major breakthrough. So first I should tell you about cores. For a normal wizard, a core is like a single vessel where he first absorbs magical power from nature, then convert it to gaseous state and completely fill the vessel to the brim. The second step is to compress this gaseous state magical power and convert it into liquid state until the vessel is full. Then to convert the liquid to solid state form the solid core. For normal wizards, there body converts them without there knowledge passively. Each breakthrough is termed as magical maturity.

My cultivation technique allows me to actively convert the magical energy to required energy. I have a total of seven vessels inside my body. Which happened after I started cultivating, this should be the effect of Heaven Defying Cultivation technique. Murasakino can observe other peoples magical cores, so till now I have seen people with max second magical maturity which is liquid state core and they have only one core. My guess is only Dumbledore and Voldemort should have reached third magical maturity. And maybe Merlin but he is dead since long ago so I don't care about him. Now coming to my cultivation, I have all my vessels filled with gaseous state energy. After I breakthrough I will start to create liquid magical energy to fill my vessels. So I should have reached second state of Magical maturity after my breakthrough. So lets focus on breakthrough.