Chapter 13:New

Aldin Randell

Normally to accumulate mana one had to concentrate and draw it in, even as one advance they would still need to concentrate in order to accumulate mana. But now I could clearly feel as mana begun accumulating within me without the need to concentrate since nothing bad had happened I let it be and when my mother arrived I showed her the wolf I had killed.

"This will be great to in crafting an armour, I'll have it ready tomorrow just tell everyone not to bother me as I'm working on it."

After taking the corpse to her work area I satin my room and sat on the ground as I begun to accumulate mana. It felt relaxing and I was to focused to notice the moon rise.

My father came late today and according to what he told me it had to do with some bandits that had to do with bandits that had been attacking carriages and robbing them.

My mother joined us later for dinner and after which we all went to bed the next morning my mother woke me up and gave me my new armour I was happy and couldn't help but put it on. It felt warm inside but still firm but extremely thin. I was thankful to my mother and went to the adventurers guild after breakfast. Ian was there waiting for me and we left for a boar hunt we were able to get a huge group today and after taking back the carcasses to the guild I received my reward and after dismissing Ian went back to the woods it was time to test how much my abilities had improved after my advancement.

After some practice I realised that now I had a better perception of my mana which meant I could easily cast spells and the range of their casting had also increased and when I cast radar I was able to detect a large area using it and that was how I found the bandits. But I chose to ignore for now since I had to practice. When I finished my self assessment it was time for the show to begin.

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The bandits currently had there camp deep in the woods and were enjoying some beer they had robbed from a merchant who had been passing by. In a few days they had planned ro move but that would not happen as a kid walked into there encampment. When the bandits noticed they were ready to kill him and one of there strongest members approached the child and placed his hands on the kids shoulder, non of them expected him to get frozen but in that instant his entire body was encased jn ice some tried running away and the would have succeeded only that when they never got fat from his range before being frozen as well.

Aldin went back to the city leaving them there and arrived back with knights who arrested them as Aldin unfrozen them.

'I'm finally ready for the academy now' Aldin thought to himself as he walked back home. For the next few months Aldin would hunt for the guild and go back to the woods for some training and devouring, he grew greatly and honed those skills within that period.

Meanwhile Ian and his sister had been enjoying life more than they would in the past since Aldin would take care of their expenses allowing Vale to study hard and Richard had finally made a full recovery and was back in office.

And back at the academy the second years gad departed for their school outing and among them was Darvin and due to training he had grown bigger, he now had a tall lean physique.

Darvin Talor

After joining the academy we had undergone training in the arts of magic and had been taught on various specialisations of magic. The magic academy had been a very competitive place and thanks to the vast knowledge I had thanks to the Randells had been of great help. I excelled in all my areas of study and had gained great knowledge. The academy was a great place to be bur it was not like home, and what j missed most was my best friend bit contact with the outside world would be forbidden for the four years of our stay and soon Alsin would be joining the academy, I couldn't wait to see how much he had grown into the two years.

Aldin Randell

A few weeks to my departure for the academy I had to sort out a few things, first I visited Richard and informed him of my approaching trip.

"Farewell then, it has been quite the year with you here." He said with a tinge of sorrow in his voice.

"And could I asked for a favour, would you be able to take care of Ian, once I leave it will go back to being hard for him to get income and he really needs it to take care of his sister." I said. 'I just don't want to leave him in a bad position, he has been of great help to me.' I thought to myself.

"Of course, it is the least I can do for all you have done for us." Richard said.

"Farewell for now then." I said as I left his office.

After the long wait it was finally time for us to depart. As we were about to leave a group could be seen at the entrance of the city. They were the captives i had saved and some people who had benefited from my actions at the guild and in that group were Ian and Vale. I got out and bid them and got back into the cart so that we could proceed with our journey.

In a week we arrived at the capital and throughout the journey I kept on accumulating. When we got to the capital we stayed at the inn until it was time for the trials to begin and my parents dropped name at the academy where he trial would begin. After enlisting we waited in a large training hall and for the first test we had to got through was attribute manifestation and each of us would have to manifest our attributes. I manifested all my three elements, this immediately shocked all those there since other than me most of the others were only single attributed.

For the next test we had to focus on precision and due to my training j was able to take down all the targets with ease and for the final test on had to be able to manifest our attributes for an extended period of time.

I held mine for a long time and was able to qualify for the final round. By now I had gotten everyone's interest. And due to my experience with jealousy j chose to keep quite and waited for the next battle.

For the next round we would be taking part in a combat assessment and we had been grouped up into groups of two. And just before a group of four approached me and the one in the middle, a boy who had blonde hair seemed to be their leader spoke up.

"Hey, dirty commoner drop out or the little pit you came from will burn."

The group behind him begun to laugh at his comment and others begun to join.

"I'd like to see you try." I said looking their leader straight in the face.

The laughter died our slowly after that comment and whisper tan rampant.

"I'm from the Eddy family and you just made an enemy you'll regret!" He said out of anger before walking away followed away by his little group. The battle begun and when everyone else had taken part, it was time for my turn. My partner turned out to be the bratty kid who had come to threaten me and he was William Eddy and was wind attributed.

Due to the restrictions of the academy we were not allowed to come with any weapons or armour and so I was unable to bring my armour although I would not use it. When the battle begun I chose not to waste my time with the kid and immediately froze him to his neck and get it over with. The crowd of mages were kn shock of the great performance that they stood silent before loudly cheering.

When all the finalists had been read out we were assembled and stood in the middle of the arena and sadly the arrogant brat had proceeded as well, I could almost feel they year lengthening due to the fact we would be in a class together for a year.

An old man with flowing white hair had come forward and from the respect the other mages have him, he seemed to be a big shot.

"Welcome students to the Lorne magical academy, you are the finalists of the trials and will be here for four years we hope for you to grow greatly and leave this institution as great mages. Titles and power have been left in the outside world and within this walls all are equal."