Serial killing maniac

In the midst of numerous people, a lady with jet black hair, dressed in a navy blue outfit and a witches hat, she held a wand in her fair skinned hand. She looked at the buildings of the academy afar, she smiled.

"I'm back, it's time to fulfill our promise... Iode". She said with a smirk, brimming with confidence.

A loud horn bellows to gather up all the aspirants to give a speech.

"Good day witches and gentlewizards, I am Magus Bradford Nicolson, the man by my left is Magus Graynold Hagin and the woman with us is Magus Sara Baryan".

"Today, we will be your examiners, today's assessment is divided into three parts, Magus Graynold Hagin would be in charge of the first part, Magus Sara Baryan will take charge of the second and I'll take the last part ".

"Up to you Magus Graynold ". Bradford, a man with gray hairs and beard, dressed in in blue tower's uniform said out loud using a magic device to make his voice more audible.

"Alright, as said by Magus Bradford, I am the administrator of the first assessment, in this stage, each one of you would imbue mana into the one of these magic balls, the pass mark is 10,000 points". Graynold said.

He pointed to 100 magic balls placed in sets of twenty, he called on aspirants who are willing to give it a try.

' this first test is different from last year, at the time, we were asked to cast magic spells and hit a device, however, the cutoff scores are the same ' the lady thought.

Staying in the midst of the crowd, she was about to move, to participate in the first sets, however, she spots a familiar face, a face she has not seen for a long time.

The individual sat on a fence afar, he waved at her and smiled innocently. The young man said with his lips, or rather the lady thought the man said: "good luck".

She smiled and gave a thumbs up.

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It was evening, Olivia, the lady with the aforementioned characteristics got out of a building, she stretched and yawned.

A brown haired young man, dressed in blue gown stood at the entrance, seemingly waiting for someone.

"I did it, I did it! Iode, I did it!!!". Olivia said cheerfully.

"Yeah, congratulations". Iode said and embraced Olivia.

He smiled softly and looked at Olivia in the eyes.

"No longer are we the weak one star mages of a year ago, let's go to a restaurant and celebrate ".

"Thank you Iode for not forgetting me ". Olivia said and smiled.

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In a remote forest covered area, a group of people, who are law enforcers of the wizard tribe, dressed in green uniform, they were the Green tower brigades. They were inspecting an incident that occured in the place.

Uninformed, a guest arrived and joined the inspection. The Green tower brigades were surprised to see the visitor, they gave ernest respect.

Dressed in highly decorative purple gown, with long backward facing hair that reached the nape of the neck, he smiled at them.

"Your eminence, you need not come over, with the number of work you do, would this not be a little more stressing". A member of the Green tower brigade said.

" No captain Harold, it not stressing, infact, this incident it what's stressing ". Archmage Averay said.

He walked into a shack that was in the remote place, getting inside, he frowned seeing what lies in it.

In the shack was a large magic circle drawn on the ground with five candles placed at specific ends of the circle and at the middle. Near the candles are mauled wizards and witches, their bodies were pale, dry and thin, like they were entirely drained of blood.

The Archmage bent down and checked the neck of one of the victims.

"He is cold dead and the rest too...".

"Yes sire". Captain Harold replied.

The Archmage clenched his teeth and fists and stared at the roof of the shack.

" I'm sure you are aware that this is not the first report of cases like this, infact, mysterious rituals like this one has been going on even before my tenure, whoever has been doing this is deeply rooted among us ".

"Year after year, we are always trying to uncover the mastermind behind these rituals, but all we've gotten so far is that these rituals takes place once every ten years, and where it would take place are very random, this as made catching the culprit very hard".

The Archmage turned around and walked towards the exit.

"Take the bodies to the Blue tower to carry out autopsy, whatever the results, we'll find something to work on... I'm sick of this, it's high time I catch this serial killing maniac". The Archmage frowned in anger.

[End of first Arc...]