Entrance Ceremony

The following week I stuck mostly with Kira and Lina. I learned a bit about them, Lina, for example, is a Tier 3 water mage but really clumsy. She often trips or let things fall down.

Kira probably has ADHD, it´s not possible for her to sit down and be quiet.

I proposed to help Lina in her mana manipulation and mana sensing, I got a skill for that, teaching.

Skill:

Teaching

Good teachers are hard to find. This skill makes it easier for you to teach someone. But beware, everyone needs a different method. It also helps to know your stuff. You can´t teach someone over your own Skill LV. LV 0

It went fairly well with this skill on LV 10, she is now on LV 2 with Mana Sensing and LV 2 with Mana Manipulation.

I first thought, that this is too slow, but Lina said that you normally need more than a month to learn a skill and way longer for each further LV. Most say that you need a month for LV 1, a year for LV 2 and 5 for LV 3.

The 5th level and above are truly masters of their work.

We will learn more in our classes.

We also got a tradition, I cook, they wash the dishes and I only have to buy the ingredient 1 out of 5 times. They say, my food is so good that they willingly buy it and it is cheaper than eating outside.

Both, Lina and Kira, are not really good at cooking, Lina can manage it, but Kira often burns her food.

And because I got a clock with a timer, maybe for events, I wake them each morning.

I once had to splash cold water in Kira's face....

We are currently walking to our entrance ceremony, it is in one of the arenas.

They build a stage for the student council and the seniors are sitting higher.

It seems that there are sections made by the students for each course.

These are a lot of students, how many classes are here? 5 years, 3 courses, and how many students for each class and how many class C, B and A´s does this school have?

"Hey, Lina do you know how much students and classes this school has?" I asked Lina because Kira is bad with math.

"Hm, I think there are 8 C-Classes, 6 for B, and 3 for A. C and B have 35 students each class and A just 20." Lina

That would mean 8x3x5x35+6x3x5x35+3x5x3x20 so our school has 8250 students. That are many. And how many teachers? I think my old school has around 250 teachers, but there are more courses here, maybe 1.000?

"Clair here!" ???

I think I heard someone shouting my name but couldn´t see the one who shouted, it kinda sounded like a woman

"Here Clair" ???

There was it again, I looked around but could not see her. The people around me are way to tall.

I am only 1.4 m and most of them are 1.6m or 1.7m

I could try to sense them with mana sensing.

I learned that everyone has a different mana signature, like fingerprints. I am able to sense their mana capacity and affinity´s but also, who it is if I have met them before.

I tried to sense a mana signature that I have met before but I have to actively sense them one time and also memorize their signature. I did that only with Kira and Lina.

I could feel everyone in the arena, but most of them are unknown to me except for Linas, Kira.

About 14 signatures were at the stage but no one I might know...

"Ugh, let me through..." Said the voice and a girl came out of the masses, more stumbling than walking.

It was Hilde.

"Finally, if I wouldn´t have my wind magic I would not be able to find you, you are so tiny," Hilde said smiling.

"You aren´t much taller than me." Me

"True..." She said with a sad face.

"Who is that Clair?" Kira asked.

"That is Hilde, one of the student council. By the way, what do you want?" Me

"They send me to fetch you, the speech begins in a few minutes and you have to stay on the stage and say a few words to your fellow first years." Hilde

"No one said that I have to hold a speech," I said not really enthusiastic.

"We thought you might skip if we have told you beforehand," She said with a wry smile.

"I would." Me

"Now come," Hilde said and began to pull me with her.

"Sorry, I have to go," I shouted to the quickly disappearing Kira and Lina.

Kira began to laugh and Lina said nothing.

Hilde pulled me to the stage.

Malinda greeted me with a smile and it seems like she holds her laughter back.

She knows my discomfort...

"You're late." Said Ley.

"No one said I have to hold a speech." Me

"You just have to say a few words, we´ll amplify your voice with wind magic." Ley

We had to wait a few more minutes until everyone was sat down.

We were standing on the stage, 20 other people were with our class teachers and us.

An old man with a long gray beard walked to the front half of the stage, and an old woman, as well as a middle-aged man, followed him.

He cleared his throat and the students became quiet.

"Good morning, my name is Arthur Hellbring and I am the headmaster of this school, as well as the magic course. The woman to my left is Rebecka Lirontil and the man to my right is Phillip Mariti.

Mrs. Lirontil is the headmistress of the warrior course and Mr. Marti the headmaster of the engineering course.

I know none of you want to hear a long speech from me, so I´ll make it short.

Have a nice year, learn much and make a lot of friends. That´s it. Ley our student council president will say a few more thinks. " Mr. Hellbring said, took a step back and let Ley in front.

The students began to clap and Ley had to wait a minute until it was quiet.

"That really was short Mr. Hellbring." Ley said with a smile and turned to the students. "Most of you already know me, but for those who don´t, I am Ley our schools student council president and currently the strongest student. Our job is it to guarantee you to let you study peacefully. And punish those who want to hinder you.

If some of you have problems, with other students or teachers, you can come to us and we will help you to solve said problem.

I hope all of you will diligently learn and participate in the coming tournament. "

A few students began to shout in agreement and Ley had to wait until it was quiet again.

" I wish all of you the best luck and a happy time in our school.

And now the representative of the first year, Clair, will say a few words. She is a bit young and might not be up for the coming tasks, but I hope that we all can help her. Please come in front Clair."

She finished her speech and threw me into the pit...

I walked to the front and could, thanks to eavesdropping, hear some of them saying:

"Hey, that´s a little girl." Man

"She is the representative?" Man

"Look, she is an elf. " Man

"How could this elf bitch be better than me." Mr. Chubby

"I want to cuddle her." Woman

"Her dress looks so good" Woman

I waited, but they don´t become quiet so I said.

"Ähm, Hi,"

But now they said.

"Kyaa her voice is sooo sweet." Woman

"I want to pet her" Woman

"She looks good maybe we could enslave her later" Man

Oy I heard that, bastard.

"Could y...you please be quiet?" I asked timidly and more woman began to scream in kya sounds...

It took them 5 minutes to become quiet.

"Thank you, I am Clair.

You might have noticed that I am an elf and some of you might not like this.

But this shows us how wonderful this school is.

We are one student body and everyone of us is able to become someone in a high position.

It doesn't matter if you are an elf, dwarf, beastkins or human we all can become someone here.

It doesn't matter if we are elfs, dwarfs, beastkins or humans, we all are students of this school and I hope that we all can live together,... in friendship.

Some will be against this, they think they are better than others and trample on your hope,... our hope.

The hope to archive something, to learn and to live.

But I,... I think that our hope is something that we can´t let be trampled upon.

That it is possible for everyone to archive his hope.

My hope is to live with each other, without discrimination and I think that most of you would agree with me, that it is more fun to learn and to work together than to hinder each other from archiving our hope.

Ley already said that I might not be old enough for the coming tasks, so I´d like to ask you all for support. " I said while bowing and many of the students began to clap.

After they quiet down I continued.

"So I wish all of us a good school year with many new friends, a lot of new things to learn and maybe you´ll help me reaching my hope." I finished my speech and most of the students were now clapping.

Ding!

Skill:

Orating

Capture the hearts of the masses and encourage them with your words. The higher this skill the more people you can touch with your words. Hitler was equivalent to LV 6. LV 0

The headmaster came back in front, gave me a nod and said.

"Ok, that´s it for today, those of you who are in the first year, please come down and order yourself in groups of your classes.

The rest is dismissed, you have no school today."

The students began to stand up and were leaving.

"That was a pretty decent speech." Said the headmaster to me.

"Thanks, but I am not as good as you say, no one informed me that I have to hold one." Me

"If that´s so, then it was even more impressing. " He said and left.

Ley came with Hilde and Piri.

"Wau Clair, we what kind of speech would you have hold if we had informed you?" Ley

"Jup, that was great." Hilde agreed. Piri was just nodding.

"Here you´ll need this badge. " Ley said and gave me a red badge with an emblem on it.

Crossed on it were a wand and a sword. A hammer was in the middle of both.

"Is that our school symbol?" I asked.

"Yeah, our school believes that we first need wisdom if we want to fight or build something.

The emblem of Malindor is a golden Lion for their nobility.

Ecus has an armor who holds a sword and shield, for fighting.

And Odys has a furnace with two crossed hammers on it, they believe in their crafting." Ley explained.

"You have to go to your class, we´ll summon you with magic if we have problems." Hilde said and pushed me to my class.

About 1650 students were left, gathered in their groups.

And Malinda was already standing next to my class. The students whispered.

"Look, that´s the elf from before." Man

"So she was in the A-Class of the magic course." Woman

"Her speech was good, I am really hyped for the coming year." Man

""Yep"" Two other.

"There you are Clair, you´re the last one, come. " Malinda said and began to walk out.

"Sorry," I said apologetic and followed her to our classroom, where I sat down at my desk. Pia was next to me.

"Hey Clair, I didn´t know that you are the best student of our year." Pia

"I don´t think I am, what is with the warrior and engineer class? " Me

"It is said that a Tier 3 magician is stronger than a Tier 3 warrior and engineers have most of the time no fighting potential. And because the student council has to fight it´s mostly out of warriors and magicians." Pia explained.

"So warriors also have Tiers? " Me

"Yeah, the same as magicians but they have to finish an exam from the country if they want to rank up, we have to cast the spell of the Tier if we want to rank up.

It is harder for us to cast the spell because we have to understand our magic, that´s the reason why it´s said that magicians are stronger than warriors. That and because we can burn whole armies..." Pia

"Okay, quiet please!" Malinda

"You all have handed in your course sheets and also paid your fees so from now on you are full fledged students.

I´ll now hand out your Point-Cards, each of them have 1000 points and because you are in the A1-Class you´ll get 1500 each month for free.

And yes the 1 means that you are the best of our current first-year magicians.

But if you neglect your study's, you´ll get relegated to the A2, 3 and then B-Class.

So be diligent and learn for your tests.

Tomorrow we´ll choose a class representative. We have three ways for this.

We could choose democratically, we´ll hold a test or we´ll fight it out in the arena, what do you want?"

Malinda said and some begun to shout their opinion.

"QUIET!!, if you want to say something then raise your hand." She shouted and it went quiet.

Some were now raising their hands.

"Yes, Malte? " Malinda

"I would like to choose to fight." Malte

Some other students stated their opinion and it was clear that most of the students wanted to duke it out.

"Good, then we´ll go to the arena and don´t say you don´t want to fight or I might die.

That won´t happen. An old technology out of a dungeon, an enchantment that heals you completely, is integrated within our arena. It is one of the greatest things we´ve found in the last 300 years.

It is sad that we don´t know who or what created it and we can´t replicate it.

Each school has one of them and only students of the A-Rank course are allowed to use it.

You can buy the right to use it once, but that´ll cost 10.000 points. Now follow me. " Malinda said cheerfully.

Seems like she likes to fight.

We followed her to one of the arenas and saw the other two classes.

"Hey Malinda, is your class also on of the battle hungry ones?" A male teacher.

"Yeah, might be fun." Malinda

"Okay, make some groups and Clair, you might fight but are not allowed to be the class representative.

You´re already a student council member and it would bite each other. Please come here for a moment" Malinda

I walked next to her and she said.

"You can fight. voiceless incantation is rare and most mages are not able to learn it. Without many years of learning their element.

I for myself am only able to use it for a few spells up to Tier 4." Malinda

" I thought it is extremely rare by your reaction yesterday." Me

"It is rare especially by one as young as you, but it is nothing you´ll have to hide." Malinda

"Hm, no I don´t want to look brutish." Me

"Really? Well who does not want it, already has it." She said with a smile, then looked to the other students and said" we´ll hold a small tournament. " Malinda

A Pia raised her hand.

"Are we allowed to use other things than magic. " Pia

"Well sure, why not it is not like you would be restricted in a war," Malinda replied.

Pia took two daggers out of a weapon rack.

She went into the middle of the arena to her opponent and said.

"Let´s fight." And went in a fighting position.

"Hahaha, someone is eager to shed some blood. Don´t let her wait." Malinda

The other went to their groups. Pia had to fight a skinny boy with pale skin and dark hair. He does not look like a fighter.

"Sorry" Pia

"Why?" He asked.

Malinda shouted "Start" and Pia rushed to the boy, he tried to cast a spell, but his head was cut off before he could end his first word.

She is fast, as expected from a cat.

The students had an open mouths and Pia was sulked with blood.

It seems like the aorta pumps a lot of blood after a beheading....

"So bloody..." She said and went to the sidelines.

"Pia is the winner" Malinda

The body of the dead student began to glow and his head regenerated.

It looked like the time was set back....

They continued their little tournament until Pia and one other guy were left.

He is a human, with some muscles and blonde hair and also uses a weapon, a sword.

"You´re good for a girl," He said.

"My thank you. " Pia replied with a smile.

"Begin" Malinda shouted and she rushed to him.

He stood still and waited for her to get in his reach.

And she did him the favor. He slashed upwards, trying to cut her stomach, but she blocked his sword with one dagger while piercing at him with the other one.

He ducked and tried to kick her at me kneecap, but she simply jumped up and pierced with her daggers down.

He tried to evade by jumping to the side but was too slow to completely evade her weapons.

She was able to cut his left calf.

Now bleeding, he tried to get some distance but she didn´t let him and chased after him.

She was again piercing with one dagger at him and he tried to deflect it, but she got to close and he couldn´t use his sword properly, he managed to deflect one but was not able to do something about the second dagger.

Pia pushed the other dagger through his jaw into his brain.

He was immediately dead. And was soon after regenerated.

"Pia is the winner, she is our class representative and Ricko will take the place of the second in command." Malinda

The class clapped and Ricko said to Pia.

"That was a nice fight, let´s redo it some other time."

"Sure," Pia said with a smile.

I walked next to Pia and said.

"Ew, you have blood all over your body."

"That´s a side effect from using daggers." Pia

"Could you teach me how to use them?" I asked

"I did not expect you to like fighting,"Pia asked surprised.

"I´m not bad at it, I just don´t do it normally." Me

"I teach you later, for now I have to clean myself, dried blood is a real hassle to get off," She said.

We were dismissed and had the rest of the day free. Tomorrow will be our first lesson in Mana Manipulation and Magic Theories.

I went back to my room and ate with Kira and Clair before I went sleeping.