The Untold Reality

Hikari arrived home with her certificate and badge. She went to her parents and showed them. Mom said, " I am proud of you my child".and kissed her. Her father laughed and said," Hehe, I knew you could do it, you are my child". They both started talking with each other arguing who did Hikari take after more and other things. Hikari sighed and went to her room. She thought *Finally I can enter the mage district, I heard many stories and read a lot about them. General library don't have much information about the history and the outside world. Even academy library had restricted knowledge about world and various professions. Now I am finally a Mage , I am really happy. It is great Len is in my team, I hope Haru doesn't behave too crazy. My proficiency and control in magic is great level according to the interviewer. I just can't wait for tomorrow to come*. She was thinking about many such stuff, Suddenly she heard mom call her from living room. "Hikari, come to eat the dinner". *So much time past, I think I am really happy*. She ate her favourite meal, sushi for dinner along with crabs and after that went to sleep.

The alarm clocked woke her at 8:00 in the morning. Finally my first official day as a Mage. *I wondered how will it be different? How will be the mage district? Maybe I will finally find out*. She greeted her parents and went to the mage district at 9:00, 10:00 was appointed time. At the entrance she showed her mage card to the gatekeeper. Firstly she went to the herb shop in front of the gate, it had many different types of name , most of the one known by her but few different and rare ones, she wondered what they are, The shopkeeper saw her and said," You seem new here girl, Do you want to know about them? I am Nori the shopkeeper here" . Hikari said," Yes Nori-uncle, I would like to listen about them". They chatted for a while when she realized that she should go now and said" Uncle , I need to meet my team in sometime so I need to go now, I will visit back later". "Yes, miss come back again. Nice talking with you". Hikari went from shop to shop, finally reaching the appointed hotel. It was 9:45 now, Len kun arrived 10 minutes after Hikari.Hikari greeted him and Len greeted back, avoiding unnecessary comments he went back to being distant... She wondered if she should chat with him. Haru arrived 10:05 ,he seemed to have come running. Haru greeted her and tried to chat with Hikari." Hikari chan you look really pretty today, The badge suits you a lot. Len is so annoying he doesn't seem that great to me. Let us chat together". Hikari said," Thanks Haru, Let's wait till Archmage comes, Don't say bad things about Len kun". Haru said," He have bad attitude issues, he doesn't deserve your attention Hikari chan. How was your exam? Len , you can tell too if you want, not that I care". Hikari sighed at Haru's behaviour, he clearly showed great hostility towards Len kun. She said ," My exam was good, except for power test I scored good, Len kun must have scored full marks in all tests , right Len kun?". Len responded in nonchalant tone,"Nope". Hikari appeared confused. Haru said," Len, you have attitude issues, you are not that great, I will surpass you in no time. Can't you just respond properly for once?". Len ignored him. Hikari sighed and said," Haru kun, let it be we are part of same squad now. Len kun try to socialize more". A slow clap was heard from outside the window . A large figure in white robe with jewels embedded at the corners and brown hair appeared from thin air in front of them. He had some kind of jewel in his hair. He said," Well said, you are now a team , we need to understand each other better. What is a better than sparring to understand each other. Let us go to the training ground , If you all still don't know who I am I am ur leader, Archmage Yamato. You can call me chief or Yamato cap or anything you want". There was a brief moment of silence which was broken by Haru, he said," Hey Yamato cap guy, you came late shouldn't you say something?". Yamato said," Hehe, Haru you are really impulsive. I was here the whole time. You should talk nicely with elders, especially me". A hidden pressure was emitting from Yamato." Now let's go". A moment later all four of them were in secluded forest. Hikari wondered *Is this some teleportation technique? How did captain execute it so quickly. I couldn't see any runes * Ignoring Hikari's curious gaze Yamato said," I want to know the capacity of my team, I am your mentor too if you need anything you can ask me always, if you get the answer or not it depends on me. Firstly you see the earth wall? Cross it and you win simple game right?".

Haru used mana balls against Yamato, he summoned 10 mana balls controlled them with some strings.But the mana balls seemed a bit different from normal ones... they didn't just fire in one direction but seemed to be able to change direction unlike the basic mana ball spell and it even had some different rune from the basic learnt at academy to cast. Hikari observed this minute details and was a bit confused. Meanwhile Haru shot almost 10 mana balls and ran at the same time. The bright and dense mana balls reached Yamato but he didn't seem to care much. A few runes and a string wind spell stopped Haru from moving forward and destroy the mana ball spell.

Hikari understood how dire the situation was as they faced against an archmage. The trio decide to seperate and try to cross.