chapter 5

Feeling a vibration on my wrist, I woke up. Slowly rubbing my eyes as I sat up, taking a moment to notice my surroundings I stood up and looked towards the staff of the kog and waved towards them and walked out.

Stretching as I walked out, I covered my eyes as it was bright outside 'I guess they made the glass dim the light not to disturb my sleep. How kind of them.' After fully getting my bearings, walked to Ignatius.

Juniper has a lot of attractions, as the city of freedom a lot of those who don't belong to a house use juniper to show the rest that they don't need a house to thrive, though there are obviously some that see their efforts as stupid but is them as remarkable, even though I am young I have gone through several problems, but the struggle is what made me who I am, so I commend them.

The walk to Ignatius was quite bland. Juniper is better at night than day in my opinion, with all the city lights that really draw me in, though it's noisy its harmonious noise, I think. After 15 minutes of walking, I finally reached Ignatius.

Ignatius is big, very big, bigger than the house of space. The amount of land just the main building alone covers is half that of the house of space, and I'm not using space to estimate it. Just my sight, I can see the entire main building from the gate.

'When you have funding from the 4 main houses making something like this should be easy'. Looking around, I begin to notice the number of children that are flocking into the school like sheep, and it's just amazing, snake looing kids, scrawny stick like kids, kids with the bodies of power lifting adult men just so many facial expressions and builds, some to tall to be called a child and some too short.

Ignatius has two forms of admission. The first is only available to the houses, in which a maximum of 2 children coming from the same house don't need to take the admission test, their enrolled straight away. The second is for all, just pass the tests presented to you and you shall be enrolled. Of course, the tests are hard and irritating, I enrolled through the second option. Even though I could go with the first, I wanted to see the house's 'less important' children, since even the main 4 can only enroll 2 max the rest have to do the test.

Walking into Ignatius, he first thing I noticed was the mana purity and amount, then noticed its gate. Forget the fancy design, the gate really didn't have anything special on it, but the metal used to make it is what's amazing. The metal is called 'Nako' it's as heavy as steel and two variants, the kind that can absorb and the other that can cancel.

Nako is kind of like diamond in terms of mining, but it can also be found close to surface level, only problem is that its very impure and has none of its properties, but further down is purer Nako with stronger properties. Nako affects the mana in its surroundings if it's pure enough it can even cancel out mana 150 meters around or absorb the mana 200 meters around it. Nako is used for containment of creatures and humans, the kind of Nako that cancels out mana is able prevent the mana flow in creatures if touched only that affected region if it's impure, but pure Nako can fully cancel out the mana in one's entire body. Nako has several uses in this era unlike when they discovered it, at this point in time it's effects can be controlled and manipulated to a certain extent and the fact that this school uses pure Nako in its gate is amazing though this one is modified to produce, spread, and contain it in the school.

'No wonder the mana here is greater and pure', though the number of children here is high due to Ignatius's size there is no overcrowding. As I was about to walk away someone's child stood in front of me, he was an inch taller than me with brown hair and a big build, he had very big muscles that his shirt couldn't seem to hold, 'I bet his smile would piss me off'. With a grin that did piss me off, he placed his hand on my shoulder and whispered "from now on your to be my lackey and do as I say, or else – "before he could finish his boring threat he as no where to be seen. Everyone around lagged for a second then noticed that he spontaneously disappeared, they all looked at me with confused eyes "where did he go?", "what happened?", everyone stopped and looked at me, "Don't look at me, I don't know what happened to him" I shrugged and said with my tone also confused, "H-He was trying to threaten you, you must have been the one who did it, what did you do?" some kid behind shouted, he looked kind of happy, confused and scared at what happened. 'he's probably a lackey of his by his scare face.'

Of it was me who did something, teleported him one of my labs, since he isn't enrolled yet like me I can kill him with easy here, but I decided to torture then kill him, I forgot to mention I have some mental issues, looking at the lacey I said with a confused defending tone "can you prove it? I am as confused as you, yes he was trying to do as you said but he just vanished." I am considering killing this guy but two bodies on my first day is a no.

With that said everyone around just begun to leave, since the exam will begin soon no one wants to be late, I looked at the kid and said, "you and him, are you from a house?" he looked at me for a moment and said with such rubbish confidence "y-y-yes", 'that's a lie, so I can have two bodies'

Slowly putting my hands down, I formed the outline of a cube around him and made our space transparent, it's a low leveled invisibility but it works for stupid acts like this, "what element do you have?" feeling something off he slowly backed away from me and didn't respond 'idiot, no one can see you.' With that thought I teleported him into the same lab as his 'friend'. 'I actually no longer want to do this test' looking at the main building I used space to enhance my eyes, as such I became able to see inside the building, slowly looking around 'found her!' I said as I spotted the principal of Ignatius looking directly at her, she slowly looked back at me.