In an expensive dressing room, there stood a young boy, around 8-9 years of old, wearing almost completely white clothes, from his boots to his coat. The only thing that wasn’t white, were the golden buttons on his shirt.

On most people it would look a bit strange, but on this boy it made together an unusual picture of elegance, and not in any way was it bad looking, his golden hair and cold blue eyes with his handsome face only made it even more surreal. ‘I guess this will do.’

It is unneeded to say, that this boy was Ariel. Right now he was already 9 of age and 4 years passed since that day, when he has broken through his bottleneck and finally became an Acolyte. Since then, his training speed has increased several levels, not only because of his talent and breaking through to Acolyte rank, but also because of the water stones, that he continuously went to gather.

All the other times, after the first one, he wasn’t that unlucky and almost always had no difficulty getting them. Only sometimes did he meet a low rank monster, but even then he was able to deal with them more easily than with the wolf.

Magic stones can be used to slightly increase elemental familiarity, in Arial’s case it was even less, since water was only a part of his elemental affinity, but it was better than nothing. Most people would have to do it slowly, cultivating they’re own magic until it increased in an unknown amount of time. A lot probably don’t even know this method, since it is so unconventional and expensive, so it is unlikely that somehow will figure it out. Considering that the price for using of raw magic stones directly, outweighs the gains by quite a lot. Of course, Ariel at first only wanted to use it to breakthrough, however because he found so many of them, he decided to continue using them without telling anyone about it.

Also for those who don’t know what element familiarity is, it is basically resistance towards the magic elements, however a lot of mages at first think that they will be immune to other people magic if they increase it, but that is wrong, you will only be immune to natural elements and your own. The reason why it is like that is because Mana of different people automatically rejects each other and can harm each other no matter what. This is a law of magic that can’t be defied and the only exception, are spell’s specialized in healing and support, which are unable to injure other people.

Back to the topic, Ariel’s familiarity has increased by a large amount and it helped him train his other aspects of magic. Currently he is in Mid Acolyte rank, and very close to Late Acolyte, which is very remarkable.

“Young master its time to go to the party” hearing Derek say this, Ariel turned away from the mirror and walked towards the door. You are probably confused why he has dressed up like this tonight. Well, it is actually a party for his bother, breaking through to the Early Acolyte rank, while being only 10 years old.

Although Ariel broke through when he was only 5, he didn’t tell anyone about it, also breaking through when being 10 or younger is actually considered being a genius so it is not surprising. His own fiancée has broken through a year ago. She was 8 at the time, so it is clear that she is even a bigger genius than James, which at the time caused a huge commotion.

Evan tough Ariel has broken through when he was 5 years old, it doesn’t mean that his progress will continue being so monstrous, since a large part of the reason why he was able to improve so quickly was his talent in Mana manipulation, his experience from his past life and the magic stones he found. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have a meditation method fit for him, as well as he doesn’t have any spell to use apart his own created ones. So, maybe, at first he will train quickly, but if there won’t be any of these things in the academy, then his training will start stagnating.

While thinking about this, Ariel was quickly walking down the corridors towards the main hall. It is unlikely that he will see anything interesting apart from the many nobles, each with they’re own agenda, but he was asked by his mother and he could never say no to her.

Coming in through the back door, where he wouldn’t attract too much attention, he looked around the hall. Most of the people are yet to arrive and it was relatively empty. Finding a good place to sit next to a window, he let out a sigh and engrossed himself in watching the lonely and beautiful moon. Next to him, Derek stood like a statue making this scene look like a painting of subtle beauty that no one could express.

Many guests would cast a look in his direction, once in a while, wondering who he might be, but no one wanted to come up and ruin this wonderful picture. However, Ariel didn’t pay them any attention and just enjoyed this short and peaceful moment, before the party starts.

Coming closer to the appointed time, more and more people started arriving at the hall. They mingled together, talking and laughing, either showing off about something or praising they’re own children. Even the kids were doing something similar like they’re parents, only Ariel still sat at that window, motionless, which continued drawing glances from even more people around him.

However, this soon was noticed by his mother, who, with large steps and a smile on her face, came to stand near him. “Are you not enjoying the party Sweety?” She asked him, clearly desiring that he would go play with the kids his age, or something. “Mother you know that I don’t like these kinds of things.” Ariel answered his mother, with a softer tone, than most of the time. “I see but please have some fun. You have to make some friends or you will be lonely in the future.” She said in a worried voice. “I understand” After hearing this, his mother retuned to greeting the guests.

But this conversation didn’t escape the ears of the people around them. Soon they started talking among themselves. “Is he also the son of the duke?” “I know who he is, he is The Frozen Prince.”

“So he is the one who doesn’t have any talent.” He quickly became one of the focuses of they’re discussions.

The Frozen Prince was a nickname he was given by people who had visited his father in these past years. It is thanks to his unbelievably handsome looks and cold atmosphere around him, that he was given such a grand name. Ariel always thought it was ironic, considering what his magic was, and sometimes he had a suspicion that maybe someone secretly saw him using magic before. But it didn’t seem like the people knew he could use magic, so he didn’t really care how they called him.

As time passed, soon almost all of the people arrived at the hall and because of that their chatting, only increased. Thankfully, no one came to bother Ariel all this time, due to his rejecting aura. This made him happy, since his emotionless face was actually useful for once, and he hoped no one will bother him until the end of the party. Unfortunately for him, there are always exceptions.

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