Chapter 76 Enrollment 1 (2/2)
Mars took a seat and soon a man with a blue mantel on showed up and looked at Mars with examining eyes before he asked
”your the one that want to register?”
”yeah, is there a problem?”
”no not really it just depends on your skills, you need to take a little test before I can register you”
”that's fine”
”okay follow me then, I'm professor Steven you can just call me Steve
”okay, my name is Mars”
”okay then Mars follow me”
Mars stood up and followed after Steve out of the building and onto a empty practice field that was covered in formation engravings
”normally anyone can register at the start of a new year, but since it's mid year now you need to be at least a combat class mage to sign up”
”combat class?”
”here at the academy we classify mages based on their raw magic output, form basic, apprentice, combat, strategic and finally tactical”
”I see, then I need to cast a spell?”
”yes your strongest spell, aim in the middle of the field please”
”okay step back...”
Mars confirmed Steve stepped back before he summoned a small flame a tip of his index finger
”now for the real thing...”
Mars took a breath and raised the flame into the air where it rapidly expanded to the size of a carriage before it suddenly started condensing and getting smaller, meanwhile the heat the flame gave off rose exponentially as it's size got smaller and smaller until it was the size of a ball
”that's one... now for the rest...”
Mars summoned another 2 flames that, like the first first got larger before they condensed
”now for the hard part...”
Mars had learned this spell from Chloe, but had never managed to figure out the last hardest part which was to fuse the 3 fireballs together into 1
”let's give it a try...”
Mars raised his hands and gradually the 2 outer fireballs started to fuse into the middle one, meanwhile Steve looked on in half horror half expectation
'he's at the critical point now, if he fails then the formation might not hold and half the academy might go up in flames'
Steve started to sweat, but the expectations on his face kept him from running away
'I am the one that pushed him to use his strongest spell so I might as well see it though to the end'
as Steve was praying Mars finally managed to fuse the fireballs together, now only one bright white fireball was floating in the air
”go!”
Mars pointed ahead and sent the fireball flying as he himself fell back just as the fireball hit the center of the formation and exploded with a deafening roar
*BOOOOOM*
the shock wave moved out form the explosion but was stopped and contained by the formation as a transparent dome seemed to form with the explosion in the middle, that is until the dome shattered but luckily it was replaced by a back up dome as the safety of the formation kicked in and ensured the explosion was contained
”well, how is it did I pass?”
”...yeah”
Steve looked at Mars with a weird face before he asked Mars to follow him as they both went back to the administrative building where Steve stopped and asked Mars with a awkward face
”can you pay the fee?”
”sure, no problem”
”okay good... wait here I need to go get someone”
Mars waited and soon Steve showed up followed by a old, frail looking woman that wore a triangle pointed hat and a golden mantel, seeing Mars's confused face Steve quickly explained
”this is the vice principal, she is also your new teacher”
”nice to meat you, I'm Mars”
”...follow after me I'll show you to class”
”sure”
Mars said goodbye to Steve and followed after the vice principal that remained silent until they reached the classroom where she walked up to the blackboard
”...introduce yourself Mars”
Mars looked around the mostly empty classroom and saw a total of 4 other students, 2 of them seem to be a young pair of beastmen twins
”well then, my name is Mars I might look human but I'm not... also I'm a steel ranked merc, I use fire and darkness magic”
”good now take a seat, now where were I..? oh right”
Mars took a seat in the front
'wait where did Victoria go..?'
Mars suddenly realized Victoria had stopped following him at some point and got a little nervous
'hopefully she's with Hanna or one of the others...'
unaware of her new student nervousness the vice principal started speaking while she drew on the blackboard
”formation, or arrays if you will are in essence what drives most of the advanced tools in this world, they are often drawn with magic beast cores or molten down mana stones, but more ancient cases has shown us its possible to use metal, although we don't know how... some examples of formations are simple amplification formations in wands and staffs the academy's clock tower is also powered by a formation witch draws in od form the surroundings and converts it to mana witch powers the timepiece other examples include---”
Mars did his best to follow along and as he did he got more and more interested in formations, he even started daydreaming about carving a formation on his armo