Prologue 2: Old Faces

(Dargon's PoV)

I left the room and walked towards the combat grounds for the third-year students for combat practice. This place was so big that I got lost on my way there. I found a lot of facilities and clubs that could help with my training. I walk around for about 30 minutes until I found the combat grounds. I walk in and all I see are students practicing the flashy elemental magic and there are four people just standing at the corner doing nothing. I walk up to the group in the back and I was stopped by someone jumping in front of me.

"Why were you late? I have to test your magical potential to put you with a group to start your magic practice." Said the woman standing in front of me with her hands crossed.

"I got lost along the way since this place is huge and the signs brought me to different places." I explained.

"Lets just go to the testing chamber. Just go through that door and put your hands on the device and wait for me to activate the machine." She said as she goes to another room beside the door she pointed at.

I enter the door and I see a machine with an area where I can put my hands on. I placed my hand on the designated spots and waited for it to activate. The machine lit up and a holographic screen appeared in front of me which tells me all my magical and physical properties. The machine stopped and printed out a piece of paper that reads what was on the holographic screen.

Physical Strength: A Rank Magical Energy: SSS Rank

Fire Magic: ? Water Magic: ?

Earth Magic: ? Air Magic: ?

Null/ESP Magic: SSS Rank Other Magic: 2 Unknown

This looks like what I expected from what I know after talking with Christian. 2 unknown is probably the astral and copy magic which I haven't trained in and since the copy magic copies the element then it's only obvious it's going to have the triple question marks. Maxed out magical energy and Null magic too. I must give this to the teacher.

I left the room and gave it to the teacher who was waiting outside. She looked at it and started to laugh.

"You are the only one in this school who has no magical potential which makes you one of the weakest ones here. It doesn't matter if you maxed out your null magic you can't do anything against the more offensive types of magic. You go over there with the teachers specializing in hand to hand combat, weapon based combat, and null magic since you can't use the elements." She said pointing to the four people standing at the corner.

"Just because I don't have elemental powers doesn't mean I can't beat you. After class let me fight five of the other students then, to see if I can beat them."

"Why not do it now? We can stop all the classes and fight the top five students at this school then. We can just go to the arena right now I can just make the announcement, and everyone will be there in a couple of minutes."

"That's fine with me, I'm always ready for anything just make sure you come prepared 'cause I'm aiming to be number one or the strongest person in the world." I said as I left to find the arena.

It didn't take as long as I thought since I walked past it a couple of times trying to find the combat grounds. I entered the arena and waited for the announcement, so I trained on my own for a bit and tried to use the power of the stars as well. I tried doing what I always do when using null magic. I imagined my self shooting out stars from my hands and it worked but it didn't last very long since it disappeared only after five seconds, but I just must make an image in my head and it will come out.

I was going to practice some more but there was a buzzing sound coming from the speakers. "Everybody classes are currently cancelled due to an arena challenge. The challenger has challenged the top five students in this school, also known as the Student Council. The challenger is someone without any magical power so come and watch right now." C'mon, did she really have to say that I didn't have any magical powers, they can see it when we fight.

Everyone started coming into the arena and it was full of students. The teacher walked to the middle of the arena with five other students walking behind her. All of them are people I used to know from when we were eight years old. "Hey, isn't that the loser that talks to himself whenever he was alone." Said one of the male students.

"Yeah it is, Nick, it is the loser. Yo loser, been talking to invisible people up in the mountains for ten years." Said the other male student standing beside him.

"I actually found that a little cute so stop bashing on him John." Said one of the girls behind the two male students.

"C'mon sis, that was creepy don't tell me you're actually into things like that." Said the girl standing beside the other girl.

"Sandy don't be too harsh, I can understand what your sister found cute about it and Candy don't think that you can beat me for his love and affection." Said the girl behind all of them. She is the one I know the most since we have been together until I left for my ten-year training in the mountains. "How have you been Dargon it's been so long since we last talked to each other? Do you remember our promise that we made before you left for ten years?"

"I've been good, Sammy and it looks like you're doing just fine and of course I remember our promise that we made before I left, which is to become the strong enough to make it to the top." I replied.

"Yes, that was it, but do you remember my promise that I made to you once you fulfill your promise?"

"I remember what happened, but we didn't promise anything after we said we would reach the top. You just stated that you were going to be my girlfriend when it happened. We didn't promise anything though."

"I know we didn't promise but I was serious about that."

"Enough of the touchy touchy feely feely stuff and start the fight." Said John and Nick in unison

I walked towards my side of the arena and the other five went to the other side opposite of me. I put my bag down on the bench and sat down trying to recharge some magic energy I used while practising. I have two wooden swords strapped on my bag two BB gun pistols in my bag and many more weapons like nunchucks, shuriken, kunai knives, and smoke bombs. I put the two swords in belt loops on my pants, the two BB gun pistols in holsters wrapped around my thighs, the nunchucks tucked in my pockets and the ninja stuff in a pouch. There was a buzzing sound from the arena and the teacher walked to the middle of the arena.

"I will now explain the rules for the new powerless transfer student. In the arena you are cloaked in magical energy that gives all combatants an ability to turn into ghost like entities until your energy bar completely falls to 0 as seen on the arena screens. This means that you can use lethal attacks and real weapons. Once someone reaches 0 energy then the battle ends, and the next battler goes in or the challenger loses. There will be no rest in between and the challenger must continue to fight continuously. That will be all for the rules." Said the teacher. "Now will one contestant from each side come to the middle of the field."

I walked towards the middle and Nick started walking towards the middle as well. We were about ten paces away from each other. "You may start attacking once the arena bell rings."

The teacher left the arena and we waited for the bell to ring.

"Hey loser your going down in one hit. I'm going to burn you into ashes."

"That's not going to happen 'cause you're going to be seeing stars." I said as the bell rang and a big ball of fire flew towards me and I was engulfed in the flames.