Chapter 23: No Longer the weakest! (1/2)
The morning skies of Xavier weren't the least bit bright, unlike Earth. This world had two moons and only half a Sun. It was no wonder that it didn't have summer, and winter lasted for more than half a year. The half Sun wasn't allowed to warm the world a lot. Even at this time of the day, in which students were walking to the academy to attend classes, the moon and the clouds were blocking half of the sun.
”You can attend many classes in the academy, each on a different topic and teaching a distinct subject. The most famous subjects are Combat, Alchemy, and Magic Chef. It is up to you to decide which ones you want to attend.” Instructor Leo announced to the students.
”We understand, sir!”
Classes for today weren't important exactly as the teachers only introduced themselves and talked a bit about the subjects which the students can study in the Magician Academy before allowing the students to do as they wish.
”Is that it?” Elliot felt a bit disappointed as he didn't come across anything important during the classes today.
The reason for his disappointment wasn't because he didn't learn anything useful on the first day of the academy but because he didn't come across something that will activate a trial.
Once the artifact of the Northern Duke of Dark Starlight, now a part of his body, issues trials only when certain situations present themselves to him.
Trials are issued by the artifact when someone gives him a specific task to complete or if he is in a sticky situation. For example, he was the weakest magician in history, a pretty sticky situation in a world where the weak are bullied and disdained, so he had gotten a trial that helped him to become stronger. Similarly, the following trials had only started a moment after instructor Nina announced the task they needed to complete to pass the entrance examination.
So, Elliot determined that he needed someone to hand out a specific task for him to complete to start a trial, or he needed to come across a personal situation. It could be an instructor telling him to learn something or meeting someone like one of his old bullies who would try to abuse him.
”There must be a place in the academy where someone is handing out a specific task. I should look for it. The trials are the only way for me to obtain the remaining parts of the Challenger Key that will allow me to enter God's Tower.” Elliot said in his mind as he stepped out of the classroom. The God's Tower was something he was extremely curious about, a place he wanted to enter as soon as possible. However, he needed to get the last two pieces of the Challenger Key first, and only then he will be able to create the key which will grant him entry to God's Tower.
For that, he needs to activate a trial somehow and complete it by giving it his all.
Elliot walked down the stairways, stepped into the hallways of the main building, and made his way through them in a hurry, trying to search for something or just about anything that will help him start a trial, but to his dismay he found nothing. So, he stepped out of the main building and stepped on a round pathway with many stone archways on the side and a wall on the other.
While walking through a vacant path with only a few lights on, he came across a teenage boy with a head full of dark brown hair curled up in a fetus position being kicked in the guts by his old bully, Alexander.
<Trial ”No Longer the Weakest” has been issued>
<Defeat Alexander and show him that he can no longer suppress and torture you or the other>