Lutz 01

Standing in front of a sign that had been placed outside of the academy where those that wanted to be trained to enter into the Valia country's mage division were. This was starting point for those that did not just get immediately scouted into the mage division directly as well as like a punishment for those that have fallen too far behind the rest of the division as well. Get demoted or replaced enough and the place that person would end up would be at the academy itself. Even once there if they do not keep up and got by the division's creed even here. They would be reduced until they hit rock bottom which would be stuck as a student.

Thus the two types of students at the academy were those that took the exam to get in and those that have been demoted so far that they were basically considered on the same level as a student. This was a result of their failures to prove they were worthy of any title beyond that. The students that became that way through demotion also had huge targets on their backs as one that got in through the exam. They would target them as means of easy advance as proving they could handle them would push them that much close to becoming a member of the mage division or at least boost their standing in the academy far faster.

There in front of the sign where there were pretty of others looking up at it to see if they had indeed started their first step towards joining the mage division. The person in question named Lutz sighed as he once again failed to pass the exam for getting into the mage division once again. He knew he had the talent to be there but the standards were so high. After all, they were even willing to teach anyone who only needed experience and a good master. Expect everyone meant you already basically have the innate knowledge they desired need to know already which made sense to a degree. However, not everyone needed to be like they were already equal to the leaders of the division before even joining it.

That was why everyone that got in was not that excited as to them it was already a given they got in. Thus they were plotting their next step in their life at the academy. Another fast track way for an exam student to excel in their rate of progress through the academy would not just challenge the students there now through demotion but also the teachers and staff themselves as well.

Challenge one of them meant that the student would now become the teacher and vice versa. Though that was easier said than done but it did not stop anyone from trying it. Although in Lutz's case, he did not seem to fully realize the type of academy or division he was trying to enter into. Given that the way the mage division was promoted to him was one where one that inform them of it was doing so as means to try and get those that would fall under their command or at least have easy prey for them to use as steeping stone for their own personal advancement.

'If everyone was at the same level as their leaders then would that mean in a sense everyone was a leader? Making it hard to promote teamwork at the time and if everyone had the same strengths then would not be harder to find the weakness they all possessed' Lutz thought

Lutz did not realize that the mage division he wanted to join was one where it was survival of the fitness. Where the weakness of the division was found by leaders being taken down by those under them. If they did not want to lose their spot as a leader they would prove they were better than everyone else. This made teamwork harder as to why work with someone that just uses that chance to pull you down underneath them.

As Lutz was walking away next time determined to pass the exam and get into the academy. Others were watching him go and they were sighing as they did so

"How many times has he managed to fail the exam now," one teacher asked

"It's been so many times I not only lost count but have lost the ability to care anymore" a second teacher replied

"Guys really knows when to take a hint as the reason he can not pass the exam is because he is driven enough to do so" the first teacher stated

"Sure he has the talent we are looking for but why would we waste time trying to bring it out of him though" the second teacher replied

They were not there to bring out or help them locate their talent. The teachers at the mage academy were there to merely refine people that have already brought their talent or at least have located it. Also, there was the fact that Lutz did not do anything beyond the tests that he was given. Others that had gotten in did so because they tk out their rivals through any acceptable means to do so based on the surival of the fitness idea that was the creed of the mage division after all.

So Lutz continued to walk off not aware that he was constantly being set up to fail the exam since he was not doing the entire thing just the surface level part of it every time