In the past few days, our teacher, a busty lady, barely covered on top, with a ponytail and glasses, in her twenties, showed use basic lightning combat spells, as well as the general knowledge on magic itself, and lightning magic as a separate topic, and basically thought us about how magic was a great tool, could technically replace fire in some ways, and how its the rarest of the five basic magic elements. The teacher was just trying to make us very grateful for this blessing.

On a certain day, we are finally sent to another room, which does not look like a classroom, but a training room instead. The room was so damn huge, the room itself was almost as big as my castle.

“This room is filled with multiple different types of barriers and protective material and is shared amongst all of our classes, so please do not fight with other classes which join in…”

“Why would we do such a thing teach?”, asks a random student.

“Well, from past experience, apparently some students have something called pride and honor towards their own class. Please do not gain such a thing for just a classroom, it will cause a lot of trouble for both of us.”, many of the students started giggling and laughing.

“Anyways, feel free to test out what you have learned in the past week in class, today. Do not, by any means, point your magic to another person, just to the ceiling or walls.”

“Yes ma’am!”, said many, but it worried me that a very few select did not say it. Everyone takes their own space within the room, barely taking up a quarter of the whole room itself since no one can bother with walking too far. Students start to attempt to channel their magic. Some just raise their hand, some close their eyes, and some just look like their are in the toilet and are having a hard time to shoot a load into the bowl. None of the people using the last method were able to achieve magic for the time being, but a few people were actually able to channel a small spark and such. Luna was one of them, I noticed that a few kids that either have not succeeded at channeling electricity and even people that have succeeded, were giving her an evil eye. I walk closer in order to see what's going on.

“Damned countryside commoner, it's either a fluke or she is somehow cheating”

“Yea yea, lets show her where she belongs later.”, well… I am pretty glad I came to listen.

Everyone was still practicing, I on the other hand was not attempting to channel anything at all. Reason? There was no reason too in the first place, I was not a lightning affinity user to begin with. But I should probably use this time to my advantage, I hide from the others and use the channeling method to use either dark or light magic. I have been practising, but nothing is appearing. What exactly does light and darkness magic do? Does it just turn the lights off and on in a certain area? Some students notice me in the corner, at this time, everyone was at least able to summon a spark or a flash of light while I was actually trying to use dark or light magic, they were mistaking me for trying to attempt to use lightning magic and failing to do so, so they started to laugh at me. Luna was worried about me, since she knew I couldn’t use lightning magic.

“Hey what was his name again”

“I think it was Keith”

“He a noble?”

“I don't think so, his hair is odd, and no one mentioned his last name, usually they do not do that with non nobles.”, people continued to gosip and make up rumors about me, but I paid no mind, I needed questions to be answered. I notice the teacher try to approach me in order to lend a hand with my failure.

“Keith, try doing this, think about a single dot of light, and as quickly as you can, expand that dot of light into a large strand of light, but focus well into the thought.”, she wouldn’t let me go so I sigh and I do as I am told. I close my eyes and think about what she just told me. Since its lightning, I was forced to think about it in a different way, from a dot, to a large zig zag compressed strand of electricity, splitting into many other strands of lightning, turning into a storm of lightning bolts. My eyes are closed the whole process, and I do not feel anything until something wraps my whole right arm, is this was it feels like? Am I actually surging lightning through my arms? I open my eyes and long and behold, many temporary magical seals were placed on my arms, by none other then the teacher herself, who seems to have been broken into a sweat.