Chapter 10 and so the entrance exams begins

A single step was all it took for him.

Once he had woken up, he felt as if everything would be coming today—all the things that he wanted, all the strength he needed to fight off someone like Takashi, a way to be happy, a way to rise from being at the very bottom to rising up to be a hero, and more importantly to protect himself and his loved ones.

Yesterday had been quite anticlimactic, with him just going around the castle walls, seeing things like the plants in the windows. They looked like sunflowers, but they were moving as if they were alive, seemingly following the sun.

He had not really done anything big yesterday. It seemed to have been a really routine day, only figuring out certain places and getting more used to the area.

However, he had been quite excited for today, almost running to get to school, making him run into some people by accident thanks to how fast he had been going at.

He continued, however, as the people seemed to be quite nice and understanding when he apologized and sent him off on his way.

Arriving at school and catching his breath he panted a bit, he saw the massive building, more like a fancy decorated castle or palace. The thing was huge with many strange floating structures.

There seemed to be a nice lively environment as they stepped through the gate taking their first steps into the place, him, however… no, he did not feel that, not at all…

Taking the first step, he felt it; death, doom, despair, a deep crushing feeling of despair, terror fell on him as he took his first steps in the yard of where he would spend quite a long bit of his time, Ethos Magic Academy.

As they arrived, they had quite a bit of time to spare, something Sora was quite happy for as he had the time to calm his nerves while he entered the bathroom, he felt it and saw it.

Unlike the bathrooms of his old world, the bathrooms were similar yet different. While for his old world, people would go in, there would be stools and such, however, here it was different.

He did not know if this happened for every single place, but in the king's royal castle, including the guest rooms where he and his classmates had gone to stay, there were a few differences as the bathroom was actually a greater space-time dimension; it varied in size depending on how many people were in there as well as objects.

Each time someone went in, there was a new dimension created using the person's powers or if they did not have the power needed then it would use someone else who volunteered, which was not too hard to find as people with enough power to create many transcendental dimensions from one to twelve-dimensional levels were not very hard to find in this boundless place of existence. If that could not happen as well, then they would need to use the place's power or the original creator of this dimensional system's power.

And so, thanks to all of existence and the ability to create and use the dimensions, if someone wanted to use the bathroom, they would truly be able to use it in peace and have privacy.

And so, Sora had not been worried as he went into the bathroom using his own power to create a twelve-dimensional space before he went up against the door, sliding down it as if all the strength had left his body.

Smiling in a strange sense of relief and fear, Sora felt his entire body shaking unstoppably.

Straining himself to move, he lifted his hand to see it shaking uncontrollably.

"Man, I'm glad that I don't need to know how to make this place myself 'cause I wouldn't be able to do it 'cause I have no idea how to, even though I have the needed power to, hopefully we learn that soon," Sora said with a sigh as he closed his eyes, trying to regain his composure.

Meanwhile, Takashi had made his way towards his sister with a self-satisfying smirk on his face.

"So, sis, did you get it?"

"Yes, I got it but big brother, don't you think it's best we don't tell the others?"

Takashi quickly frowned hearing his sister talk in that overly cute, sweet, friendly, and innocent tone of hers, all the things that she was not. Ever since they had come here to this world, she had been speaking like this. Was it an act? He did not know or maybe had the summoning spell changed her in some way?

He had yet to be told or seen anything to show her being the same, yet he could not be sure as he had yet to check.

'Had she been changed and become nothing more than a stupid goodie tushu puppet? Or was it all an act and she was playing the people of this place for some reason?' Takashi thought as he thought about the kind of girl she really was back in Japan.

Scoffing, Takashi started to walk away. "Don't go ordering me around, stupid bitch, you know better than that."

Hours later, the group had been brought together into a strange room after Sora had left the bathroom, effectively destroying a twelve-dimensional dimension part of an infinite-dimensional system.

The room was massive. There were many seats which the students and many others sat in; this was almost like an auditorium with a massive stage and red curtains as well as many other things that stood out.

The red curtains soon opened as music played, thanks to drummers and such playing their instruments, building on the students' already sky-high suspense more and more.

As the curtains opened, as they started to part, a gust of wind and light came shining through the cracks before a single figure was shown.

Aruji, or better known as their teacher, stood there in his fancy clothing, his short silver hair, red eyes.

"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Ethos Magical Academy. I, the great royal court magician, will be here to explain a few things to you. As many of you know, before you are truly able to join Ethos Magical Academy, you will need to pass a magical evaluation test, one which will be telling us if you have any secret talents, whether they are awakened or not, including family bloodlines." The great royal court magician, she was a surprisingly short, almost tiny girl, standing at barely four feet eleven, pinkish short red hair, long eyelashes, long legs for her tiny size with her comically large breasts especially for her size. She also had a nice bubble butt as shown well by her miniaturized skirt.

"Using our dear volunteer here, Teacher Aruji!"

Stepping up, Aruji came from behind the stage with his spiky silvery white hair, shining blood-red eyes, and his fancy clothing.

Arriving in front of the crowd of students, he opened his arms widely. "As our dear great royal court magician explained, I am Aruji, a teacher at this academy. As many of you may know, my name as one of the best and oldest teachers here, but this year, however, as you probably heard by now, we have some special students in our ranks."

"This year in the great Ethos Magical Academy, we will be having the great summoned heroes in this very academy, learning about magic and such as well as about the very world itself. But worry not, this will not be only with the heroes; however, many others will be in this class."

"Not just anyone will be welcomed; however, only the best of you will be

welcomed into Ethos Academy, and amongst all of you, only a very few gems will be joining my class as one of the school's shining stars with the chance to be a star or even a legendary figure in the future!"

"YAHHHHHH!!!" The many students cheered and shouted excitedly, ready to do their best.

"Now then, I will show you all a simple example."

A crystal ball was soon brought out from his cloak showing the shining transparent ball.

"All you need to do is to use some of your mana in this then…" Pushing a little bit of his mana into the crystal ball, the ball started to change until it started to show.

Name: Aruji Age: one hundred and nineteen years old Gender: male Race: noble vampire Hair color: white Skin color: white Eyes: red, deep eye Height: five six Weight: one hundred and twenty Mana: nine thousand plus some And so more and more things appeared on the ball as it went down more and more. There seemed to be a big list of numbers and words going down, saying things about him such as his physical appearance, muscle mass, and much more until reaching the bottom where he was shown to have had a few special abilities. Racial ability: blood-sucking, blood manipulation, blood drain, and a lot more once again it went on showing more and more information as it seemed that he had quite a few abilities thanks to his vampire blood and much more that he had learned over his very long lifetime.