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After 6 months of attending the magic school Max and his new classmates learned how to Control mana better and learn even new spells that Max hadn't learned when he had the book of magic, with infinite magic spells, the exam came close, after doing the exam, it was nothing very special, just a test to see if they had gotten better control of the mana and some medium powerful spells.

In the class, while Relik was teaching, Hjalmar raised his hand, "Well that's unusual for you to raise your hand, the question is not even on the subject! I assume ", Relik was teaching them how to use a spell, that requires an amount of mana but also strengthen it with extra mana, so it can be more powerful.

"I wanted to ask, when will our ranks go up, after I questioned our roommate, he did not answer and said I shall ask you?", asked Hjalmar, then answered Relik, "And why would you wanna know this? What is the rush?", "Cause the same roommate told us to successfully leave this school, you must earn the world tier and only then will you be able to leave and meet his majesty".

"That might be true but it is not so easy, to move up the ranks you must fight in the finale exam after three or four years of learning magic, you must prove yourself to be of that tier and never mention this anywhere else, cause this should be top secret information-", Interrupting Relik, Holger asked, "I have also a question when will the next final be held?", Relik with an aggressive expression looked at Holger, "How many times have I told you, raise your hands before talking and don't Interrupt me next time, the answer is when more than 10 students reach the continental tier by the end of a school year and how long will that take, I don't know".

Max was observing the whole time, "Thanks to those two who don't care about asking questions with valuable pieces of information, I must look forward to the future, if they are waiting for 10 candidates then it will have to be a fight, I must ask the question if there is anyone in this school, who has reached that level, there must right?", Max raised his hand and Rilek thought, "The quiet kids are starting slowly to talked", "Yes Max", "I had the question... has anyone ever reached the continental tier?".

Relik sighed, "We have for now two students who have reached a tier above that, their mana are currently equal to multi-continent", "Multi? Who are they", "Holger how many times will you speak without permission," said Relik angrily, "One is the noble son of Thorsen House, Ivan Thorsen and the other is Axel Morch a peasant or what you call normal human".

The class was stunned, "So someone is awaiting us at the top!", Said Jesper in the back, while his friends were smiling the girl before him [Helga] turned around and asked, "Are you scared Jesper, don't worry, I am sure he will have mercy on your disappointing loss", the girls next to her started to laugh and Jesper answered, "You sorry Axx, I can at least fight him, what can you do beside boosting his ego, you useless bxtch!", Eva and Laura were nervous, "How could he had been so strong", "He always looked so weak, I better become his girlfriend and my life will be assured".

William thought, "I must ask for his forgiveness", William throw water on him once when Axel was flirting too much and being annoying to him.

Robert, "I am on good terms with Axel but who is the other guy, I should find him soon and become his friend as well, thus I will have the chance to change sides whenever something goes wrong".

Holger was thinking, "That bastard, I knew something was off about his aura, he gave a creepy aura, I couldn't feel any mana from him", on the other hand, Hjalmar was smiling evilly and thinking, "I will kill you in bed, you son of a Bxtch".

Hjalmar turned to look at Max, only to see the face of terror, "Ivan is here and he is stronger than me...".

As if the weight had increased, the mana around Max increased, with each bad memory he had with Ivan Thorsen, within Max a Rage was hidden and suppressed by him, even though he had avenged his past suffering, the memories still angered him and unlocked those rage, the students of the school felt the presence of this magic pressure.

Relik looked at Max, "Calm down...", Max's indignation expression was visible to all, "...Calm down Max, if you have grudge against one of them, then strive for a higher position, you have the potential, just don't let it go to waste", Max calmed down and the class was silent, "Maybe I should let him go, or maybe the whole class".

Relik's stern expression changed to a smiley expression and said to the class, "You can have today off, I will call the whole school off, you can have today", Max looked at the smile of the devil on his face, "You bastard, you want us to met him, what kind of teacher are you monster, I will kill you, just wait".

Max left the room, followed by Holger and Hjalmar, on their way everyone was looking at Max, he is the next target for them, on their room door Axel and Ivan was standing, Axel was smiling as usual and Ivan with a stern expression, they were having a conversation.

Ivan saw Max and remembered, "This boy... the humiliation on that day", Max with a dejected expression looked in his eye and everyone around them, felt the Clash of their aura.

Axel asked Ivan, "You know the guy?", Ivan walked forward and stood before Max, "Long time no see old slave", Said Ivan, "Slave???", Asked Axel, everyone heard the speech Ivan said, "This man before you, used to attend my school and used to be my slave, for his luck on that day, the mana returned and somehow he had more knowledge than me about magic and defeated me", Ivan and everyone else was surprised, "He beat you... haha... So the undefeated Ivan is not so Undefeated after all", Said Axel and laughed.

Ivan reached to Max's heart and he felt a wand on his chest, "Well that has long changed my friend, I am not stronger", Max looked at the wand before him, "Push", Said Ivan and Max was pushed so far, he broke hundreds of walls till he stopped. "Eyesight boost", a magic spell that made Ivan see the miserable Max bleeding and falling on the ground, Axel standing next to him like a demon said, "You went a little too far on my roommate", Ivan looked at him with an eye to the right and said, "Sorry... I will leave now".

Holger and Hjalmar were shaking before the mana that he produced in a second, "Interesting, so that's the power of the continent tier, he is amazing", thought Holger and Hjalmar, was itching to fight, "Stop it... be patient... wait for the right time", then suddenly everyone felt a mysterious mana gathering.

"What is this power", "Who is the caster", With the boost of a magic eye everyone saw through the broken walls, a bleeding Max Standing, he had made a bow and arrow of mana, "Mana-Light Arrow", as Max shot the arrow, the arrow moved at the speed of light and surprised everyone.

Under a second, before reaching Ivan's face, Axel had caught the arrow and made it vanish, the strength of the wind of the arrow alone made great damage, "Amazing... haha...", Relik was watching through magic cameras and laughing.

"I think it would be better if you leave, I will see you later in class", Said Axel and Ivan turned around, "Well then I should take my leave", moving away Axel looked at the broken walls and said, "Oh not you, you will stay here with me".

Axel caught an Enraged Max, it was as if he was a demon hunting his prey, "Calm down... control your anger... he is no longer a concern as long as I am here... what the hell are those eyes of yours", gazing upon Max's eyes, they had turned fully white, Holger came before Max and put his wand on his forehead, "Sleep", Max was paralysed and fainted.

[LATER THAT NIGHT]

Skeleton's were standing around Max, so he asked, "Who are you?", a skeleton asked, "You kill us and forget about us, we were going to be at your school, why did you kill us", "I didn't have a choice, you attacked me, why am I to be blamed?", Max asked the skeletons, "It doesn't matter, you killed us and our souls are now on your shoulder", "But why are you so many? I have not killed so many", Asked Max, because the numbers of skeletons were more than the people he had met, "Oh son of Bellwitzs, we are from your past present and future, your road is not covered with roses and nice scent but blood and Corpses of many loved ones".

In the darkness of that world, Max saw his family and in the body of a child, he was, like a crying baby he saw his mother and reached his hand to her and ran to her, only to be rejected and woke up from the dream.

Max's eyes opened and on his bed he was, Axel, Holger and Hjalmar were preparing dinner, Hjalmar standing on the window and looking outside, "Why are you crying, Ivan is no longer here", as he looked at Axel, wearing a kitchen cloth, he was preparing and splitting dinner, "Oh, good evening, you woke up just at the perfect time, come and sit down with us", Holger looked at him and said, "Sorry for Knocking you out, it was just for the best, I promise, I meant no bad intentions, are we cool".

Max nodded and went to wash his face then came back and sat down with the others, they had completely ignored Ivan and Axel was telling them about past stories, Max was on the thought about the statement, the Skeleton had made, "your road is not covered with roses and nice scent but blood and Corpses of many loved ones".

"I should enjoy the gift of the present before I lose it, so shall do you", Said Max loudly as everyone looked at him, "Huh? What are you looking at?", Axel laughed and said, "Nothing, just enjoying the moment".