Chapter 44: Demonstration

Master Wun stared at the two of them. "You know her?" He asked master Gon.

"Yes". Master Gon replied and laughed heartily. She's my niece.

Master Wun smiled at that and turned to look at Zoe. "Academy?" He asked.

"Firefox". Zoe replied.

He nodded. "Name?"

"Zoe Reeds". She replied.

"Level?" He asked.

"Level Two". She said.

"Element?" He asked.

"Air". She replied.

Master Wun's eyes scanned her file and he smiled. "You're a remarkable talent". He said simply and handed her the card. "When you get out of the tent, go to your right and keep walking till you see a series of wine colored tents, enter the biggest one and give them the card, they'll sort out your accommodation".

Zoe nodded and left, it was now my turn.

I walked up to the table, Master Wun shuffled through the files absentmindedly.

"Academy?" He asked.

I swallowed, this was the moment I'd been dreading slightly. "None". I replied.

The room went quiet as the three masters stopped what they doing and stared at me.

Master Wun's brows furrowed in confusion. "What do you mean?" He asked.

"I have no academy". I repeated. Searᴄh the NôᴠelFirё.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

"How is that possible?" Master Wun looked at the other masters at the table, he then turned back to me.

"How old are you?"

"18". I replied.

"Then you should be registered in an academy by now". He said with a frown.

"I recently just discovered I had magic". I explained to him.

"Just discovered magic at such an old age?" Master Gon muttered in confusion. How is that possible.

"I don't know". I replied.

Master Wun's frown deepened. "Element?" He asked.

"Air". I said.

He stared at me impassively. "Could you demonstrate for us". He said.

"Yes, but I've never been taught any techniques, I can only coat my knife in air". I replied him.

"Go on then". He said.

I brought out my knife and controlled the mana till it covered the knife completely.

"He really is a mage". The third man whose name I didn't know said breathlessly.

"I'm curious, when did you discover you were a mage?" Master Gon asked me.

"A few weeks ago". I replied.

"And why didn't you go to the academy?"

"My friend told me the academy wasn't admitting more students for the moment, so I didn't bother". I explained.

He nodded before scribbling something down, Master Wun gave me a card.

"Go to right and find the purple tent". He said.

I nodded and collected the card, then I stepped out of the tent.

Emily, Zoe, Aaron and Liam were all standing outside the tent, waiting for me.

"What took you so long?" Emily asked when she saw me.

"They wanted to know why I wasn't in any academy, they also wanted to see me demonstrate my magic". I explained to the gang.

"Yeah, yeah whatever, let's go get our accommodation now". Liam said and started walking off.

Emily scowled at him but she and Zoe walked off the opposite direction, Aaron and I shared a look, he shrugged and started walking after Liam, I followed suit.

"Wait!" Emily suddenly shouted and we turned back to look at her.

"We all meet back here at sunset". She called.

"Okay". Aaron said and we continued walking.

We soon got to a cluster of tents, the biggest one was easy to spot at the center, we entered and inside there were two men who sat at a large desk. One of the men drummed his finger idly on the table, he looked up when we entered.

"Hi, we were asked to bring this here". Aaron said and gave him the card.

The man looked lazily at the three of us. "Bring yours too". He said to us, Liam and I gave him our cards.

He checked the cards and gave them to the man sitting by his side. The second man wrote something down and gave us a tag that had the number 33 written on it.

"Look for the tent with that number on it, the three of you will be staying together". He said and went back to writing.

Aaron, Liam and I shared confused looks and went out, the men had not told us how to find the tent.

We stepped out and started walking downwards.

"The tents are arranged in ascending order". Liam noted.

I looked at the tents and realized he was right, the tent closest to us was numbered 10, the tent after it was 11, then next was 12 and it went on like that.

We followed the order till we got to the tent with the number 33 in front of it, it was a medium sized tent like the rest of them but it would do just well, after all the only I'd gotten in two days was in a moving carriage.

We put in our load and curled up to sleep.

It was exactly sunset when i woke up, I took one look at the crimson sky and hurriedly got to my feet, if Emily and Zoe waited for too long without seeing us, they might start to get worried.

I tapped Aaron and Liam, they both woke up grudgingly but I didn't let them go back to sleep.

"It's sunset". I said. "We need to go now".

Liam grumbled, then he got to his feet and stepped out, Aaron followed suit, I stepped out of the tent last and closed it behind me.

Neither Emily nor Zoe was at near green tent by the time we got there and I worried slightly that they might have come and decided to start searching when they didn't see us.

After a long moment of waiting, two female figures appeared in the horizon, their faces and bodies became more visible as they got nearer and they turned out to be Emily and Zoe.

"Hi guys". Emily greeted when they got us, Aaron and Liam were still grumpy from being woken up and they mumbled their greetings.

"You guys were already here before?" I asked, I wanted to know if they already got here and left when they didn't see us.