“Alright! Everyone, quiet down!”

  Loudly and with an aggressive tone of voice a teacher shouts towards the students, quickly quieting them down.

  Aggressive Teacher- All of you will be doing a single one on one battle. I will be calling your names, once I do so, quickly respond and walk up to me. Everyone will be chosen at random, so do not complain afterwards, if you lose it’s your damn fault. For you to win you have to either; make your opponent surrender or incapacitate them and this does not mean kill them. If you happen to do so, be aware that consequences will arise, not that any of you would be able to do so. Well then, disperse! This whole area will be the battleground!

  With this amazing, peaceful speech, the students quickly and without any fear at all, they all leave the arena, leaving this astonishing teacher behind right in the middle. Anyway, one by one, the teacher starts to call the students names, loudly and clearly as you can guess. Once two of them are near him, they first greet each other followed by a quick and simple introduction if they so desire. Even though he is aggressive, it seems he won’t force them to do it. Once all of that is done, he quickly raises his arm upwards and with his hand pointing towards the sky he unleashes a small Pyro spell towards it, while at the same time he shouts “start”.

  Mere moments later said Pyro spell explodes mid-air, initiating the battle with it. The two individuals, one man roughly the same age as Kiana and a woman a year or so older are the first victims of this spectacle. They more than seem anxious and nervous, while the woman straight out is shaking to her boots, literally. It’s more than evident that none of them are fighters, but for some reason, some extremely odd reason at that, our Kiana is beyond excited to see them fight. Her eyes are wide open, carefully checking everything, she’s even leaning slightly forward for crying out loud! Just how excited she really is? She wants to see how they will fight, their fighting style, what type of magic they will use, spells, skills, arts, their weapons and of course how strong they are. Just the thought of it is making her shake with excitement, but as often simple reality is, she will be extremely disappointed as their battle is rather simple and boring.

  The next pair is up, one of them is using a great axe, a massive weapon for a newbie to use, it’s slow to strike with but if it hits, it will do massive amounts of damage. Nevertheless, if you cannot come even closer to your enemy, all of this firepower will serve for nothing and unfortunately for him, that’s what happened. His opponent was a magician, one that quickly defeated him with a GEO spell, Rock Spears in this case. A GEO spell that creates spears by using rock as the base material, given the situation, these spears were dull at the tip as otherwise, it would have been a complete blood bath since he got hit everywhere. It seems this man, older than Kiana at around 25 years old, putted to much trust in his firepower that he ignored any defensive measures whatsoever. Four students down, sixteen more to go.

  Without any delay at all, the next pair is up and this one, oh boy, it was worse than the first one somehow. Two women, much older than Kiana, like much older, easily above their forties. They try to fight each other with simple wooden swords, but what comes out of that, is nothing more than a pathetic attempt at such, a complete and utterly spectacle for those who are there witnessing it. To make things worse, this goes for five whole minutes, only ending when they both dropped down to the ground, exhausted from the intense battle, getting a draw at the end. Well, this sure was something to watch, but you get the idea of what will happen next, there is no point in continuing to describe these extremely well fought battles, until it is Kiana's turn of course. If something seems that interesting, then I will say something but until then, no do so. I only have a few words for all of this after all.

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  Just like I predicted, nothing exciting happens for the next five pairs, ten students in total, leaving four students to go, two battles in this case. This also means that Kiana's turn is mere moments to happen. If she’s not the last that is.

  Aggressive Teacher- Kiana Eris! It’s your turn now!

  Thank god, it’s her turn now. Sometimes the goddess of luck sure is nice to us, but moving on. She responds to his call and at the same time, she walks up to him with the biggest smile on her face. Just like a small pup wiggles his tail when he sees his owner, Kiana is just like him, with a tail bouncing sideways-wait a tail?! Ah, it was a cat behind her… Wait, why is there a cat here?

  Aggressive Teacher- Roxy Noir! You’re next too!

  When he said this name, a group of people stood up. Wait a second, what the hell is happening here? First the cat and now these people? Where did they come from?

  “Roxy! Roxy! Roxy!”

  As the girl walks up to the teacher and Kiana, said group shouts by her name, they are loud as a pig getting slaughtered, in other words, they are obnoxiously loud not only that, they also wave a few odd objects? What is that? A plastic tube with a liquid on it? I don’t know, all of them have different colours and they are shining slightly. Is she someone important? I mean, these people have hats with a drawing of someone and the same can be said about their t-shirts with the same drawing but just bigger and more noticeable because of it. Seriously, is she a celebri-

  “(Is that a Magic Core?)”

  A Magic Core? It seems I was a little too occupied with those fools to notice it, but did she really mean it? She does seem a little confused and surprised at the same time, but is she referring to the girl in front of her? A quick look at her tells me that she seems rather normal, yes, some people are way too happy to see her, but while unusual, not enough for Kiana to say something like that… A Magic Core she says… A few minutes ago, I was able to sense magic but I’m back to “normal” it seems, dammit, I can’t sense anything in this state and when I do, I have no clue why and how. I will have to take her word for it.

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  Moving on, only time will tell me what she mean by that. Right from the get go, she’s slightly taller than Kiana, I would say between 158-160 centimetres tall. She has medium size hair, styled in twin tails, with a soft grey colour to it and with a darker shade of grey at the tips. It fits her quite well and it more than seems that she takes care of it, not only from the hairstyle itself, one that does not have a single hair standing up, sideways or downwards but also from how smooth it seems to the eye and at the same time, how strong and thick it seems to be. Just like Kiana, she’s also for the thin side, but nowhere near as muscular as Kiana, not that Kiana is a beast in that regard or even big to fair, but she has no muscular tone whatsoever in her body. Don’t get me wrong, she does look nice, but in a roundish way as for example, you can easily see in the legs that phenomenon, they have more “fat” on them, making them a bit roundish, smooth and thick. However, the biggest difference between them is in fact, in the chest area, where one of their biggest assets is… How can I say this… Almost non-existent in her case.

  She’s flat chested.

  Yep, I said it and I looked at it, quite thoroughly at that. What do you want me to do? I am a man of culture! I have to look-

  Her outfit.

  She has a shirt and a jacket on top of it, covering almost all of her shirt with it. The jacket is a little bit bigger than her upper body, covering even half of her upper legs, half of her thighs in other words. She has the jacket open which allows to properly see the front of the shirt underneath it. The shirt is rather simple looking, coloured with a soft blue colour and with an odd design in the middle of it. The jacket on the other hand is much more complex, coloured with a darker shade of blue and with an eye-catching design. It has a pocket on her left side, right on top of her small breast, while the other side is clean and smooth and with two other decent sized pockets right in the belly area of the jacket, one on each side. The sleeves on her jacket are none existent, exposing her shoulders if her shirt didn’t cover them. The sleeves of her shirt start tight at the beginning of her shoulders and loosens up once it reaches half of her arm becoming quite loose at the end.

  She’s using pants, coloured with an even darker shade of blue and to be honest, those jeans are tight as hell. It does end up showing off her best assets I will say, (I’m referring to her “rear” and legs, those do seem nice), but she cannot still compete with Kiana! Kiana is on a whole different level!

  “(Stop it!)”

  Oh, ups, getting way too excited! Tee-hee?, my bad!

  Wait, did she hear me!?

  An-Anyway, her jeans might be tight but they are simple looking, with two pockets just shy past her waist, right at the beginning of her legs, one on each side. Her boots are also for the simple side, coloured in black but with a leather texture in the majority on them, the only thing that is not leather is the sole, one that is made of rubber and at least 3 centimetres tall. They sure are good looking and fit well with the rest of the outfit. Then for last, she’s using sunglasses, ones that are way too big for her petite face, easily covering her eyes and some more. Is she trying to hide her identity somehow? A little bit weird but it’s none of my business or Kiana’s one too.

  Resuming to Kiana early comment, the one where she’s questioning if Roxy has a Magic Core. By looking at her, there is nothing that would confirm something like that and yet, our lovely protagonist has a strong feeling about it. Is she confusing it with something else? A Magic Core by the name itself is a natural device that can vary in size, shape, quality, quantity etc, that has magic inside of it. With it you can use magic spells and nothing more can be done to be honest. Only monsters have been known to have said Magic Cores, and of course those who have it, are always for the strong side as this device tends to have a tremendous amount of magic. This device can be naturally made, as the case of monsters or in theory it can be manmade, however the latter one is quite improbable, at least I haven’t heard anything of that sort. As I said before, Roxy seems to be as much a human as our lovely Kiana, so it’s odd that Kiana is even contemplating this idea. Humm, this can explain her early confusion and surprise as she thought of it and understood what she was even thinking about.

  “Hello, I’m Roxy Noir, it's a pleasure to meet you.”

  While I was questioning Kiana thoughts, Roxy slowly walked up to her and greeted her. Let me tell you something, with the most monotone tone of voice one can even think of, she said her greeting, not only that, although I cannot see her eyes, the rest of her face surely matches the tone! Not too loud, but neither too quiet. Not too fast, but neither too slow. Not excited, but neither sad. It felt emotionless. Quite weird to be honest, and even Kiana is taken back by it.

  Kiana- Erm, he-hello! I’m Kiana Eris! A pleasure to meet you to!

  Returning back to her previous state once recovered from the small shock, with a happy look on her face and tone of voice, she greets back at Roxy, while also extending her hand towards her, in an attempt of handshaking her. For some reason Roxy looks at her with a confused look on her face. At least that’s what I think, her sunglasses are, you know, covering her eyes and such, though she tilted her head slightly sideways. Then, she looks down at Kiana's silklike hand and stares at it for whatever reason. Is she appreciating Kiana's beautiful hand? What’s going through her head right now? While this is happening, Kiana is starting to get worried as she wonders if she’s disrespecting Roxy somehow. Such an innocent act and yet, this woman is doing this… What’s wrong with her?

  Just as I was about to say some profanity at her, Roxy finally decides to handshake Kiana. The moment that happens Kiana smiles at her with a bright smile, one that anyone could easily mistake it for the sun itself from how bright and warm it is. Seriously, I can’t see, way too bright! Argh, my eyes are burningggggggg!

  Aggressive Teacher- Alright, get in position!

  As loud as you can think of, he shouts this, quickly grabbing their attention. Both of them get in position, they both are at the edge of the arena, at around 30 meters or so from one another. Roxy summons a book, or in other words, a catalyst in the shape of a book. The book is thick, filled with pages, the quality of the materials themselves also seems to be high end. All of this allows the user to use high level magic spells as a catalyst is a tool that helps out the user with the magic circles, in this case, she simply needs to write the magic circle into the book pages and from there, use it. A scientific revolutionary tool for magicians, helping out tremendously as it cuts the work in more than half. But enough of this, Kiana on the other hand, she simply gets ready. She does not summon the scissors and to be honest, if she did decide to summon them, what would she be able to do? Cut the book in half? Impossible, the catalysts themselves have magic that protects them, cutting or destroying such a tool is not going to be easy at all. She can try to cut the pages… nah, same thing would happen. Seriously, what an odd choice of weapon.