Nathan

Year 2849 | Month 5 | Day 6

When I get to the first of the classes pages, I immediately find the one the instructor said was required at the very top.

Basic Magic Circuitry

Description: This class goes over the basics and fundamentals of building a magic circle, along with how to cast Tier 1 spells.

Prerequisites: None

That explains why the class is mandatory.

I walk up to the desk before searching the drawers and finding some paper that was left there for the student who takes the room – aka me. There are also some pencils, pens, and other supplies that might be needed.

After placing the paper on the desk, I write down the class itself before looking at it again and finding the times the class is being taught at beneath the prerequisites. Then I turn my attention to the list of classes that follows the required one.

Fundamentals of Wind

Description: This class goes over the fundamentals of what the wind element truly is.

Prerequisites: None

Fundamentals of Water

Description: This class goes over the fundamentals of what the water element truly is.

Prerequisites: None

Mana Manipulation

Description: This class goes over how to train and split your arcs of mana, and how to effectively insert your mana into a magic circle.

Prerequisites: None

Magical Warfare

Description: This class teaches you how to effectively fight on a battlefield of magicians and non-magicians.

Prerequisites: None

Meditation

Description: This class teaches you the effective techniques to relax your heart, mind, and mana arcs so that your arcs of mana will regenerate mana at a faster pace.

Prerequisites: None

Tactics and Battle Strategy

Description: This class goes over the basics of military tactics and battle strategies.

Prerequisites: None

…

Okay, there are a lot of classes to choose from…

I continue reading down the list for a few hours whilst occasionally writing one of the classes down. It isn’t until I hear a knock from the door to my room that I finally look up from the book and my notes to ask, “What?”

My door opens to reveal Aidan with his own sheet of paper as he walks in and asks, “Have you finished selecting your classes yet? Because I just did.”

“Just about,” I answer him whilst turning back to look at my notes. “I’m just having trouble deciding between which of these last two classes to take.”

Aidan walks up to me and looks at the list I have written out so far.

Basic Magic Circuitry

Description: This class goes over the basics and fundamentals of building a magic circle, along with how to cast Tier 1 spells.

Prerequisites: None

Fundamentals of Fire

Description: This class goes over the fundamentals of what the fire element truly is.

Prerequisites: None

Mana Manipulation

Description: This class goes over how to increase your arcs of mana, and how to effectively insert your mana into a magic circle.

Prerequisites: None

Meditation

Description: This class teaches you the effective techniques to relax your heart, mind, and mana arcs so that your arcs of mana will regenerate mana at a faster pace.

Prerequisites: None

Tactics and Battle Strategy

Description: This class goes over the basics of military battle tactics and battle strategies.

Prerequisites: None

“Those look almost exactly like the classes I chose,” Aidan says before leaning back again, “although I’m taking Magical Warfare instead of Tactics and Battle Strategy, and of course, Fundamentals of Wind instead of Fire.”

That makes sense. Most of them are all beginner level magic classes; ones that are needed to build off of for a lot of the other classes taught here, and just to get started at being a magician in general.

I turn to look at him before glancing at the two classes that I was debating over which to take.

Magical Warfare

Description: This class teaches you how to effectively fight on a battlefield of magicians and non-magicians.

Prerequisites: None

Magical Combat

Description: This class teaches you how to effectively fight a magician.

Prerequisites: None

I'm required by the school itself to take one combat class this semester. But since there are two of them...

“I was actually trying to decide between taking Magical Warfare or Magical Combat as my last class,” I tell him before looking at all of the class times and frowning, “but it looks like Magical Combat doesn’t fit in my schedule. Not with Tactics and Battle Strategy.”

Aidan nudges my shoulder – to my dismay – and says, “Then just take Magical Warfare! It looks more practical than Magical Combat anyways, since it teaches us how to fight both magicians and non-magicians.”

I agree with that logic. Although having to take a combat focused class at all makes me a little nervous about my secret coming out, but there isn't anything I can do about that.

I write down the Magical Warfare class as the last of my six classes before climbing to my feet with the paper in hand.

“By the way, why did you select six classes instead of five?” Aidan asks me with a curious look on his face.

I glance at him before walking towards the door and answering, “No real reason.”

In truth, it’s because I need to graduate as early as possible before people really begin to notice oddities about me. Specifically the fact that I’m not aging.

People have obviously already noticed my younger-than-average appearance, but that can at least be explained by my medical disease. The one that I’ve had since I was born that makes me age slower and was mutated by the accident to make me immortal in the first place.

But I’m pretty sure people would notice the difference between aging slower and not aging at all. So it would be best to take as many classes each semester as possible in order to graduate faster.

And while my reasoning is affected by how the doctor told me to graduate as early as possible, preferably even by my second year, it is also how I feel on the matter. Since if I look about fifteen or sixteen years old while actually being 22 or so by the time I’m a fourth year, it would be stranger if someone didn't notice that something was off. Even with my disease as an excuse.

The only reasons I'm not taking even more classes right now are because I don't want to completely overload myself in my first semester, and it physically wouldn't be possible to fit all of the classes into my schedule.

“Uh huh, I’m pretty sure you’re just being a workaholic again,” Aidan says as he follows me out of my room, shutting the door behind himself, “just try not to overwork yourself too much.”

Okay, that's not the reason, but It'll work for an excuse.

We continue walking through the common room of the suite before exiting our suite entirely into the hallway and locking the door behind us.

“After all, we don’t want you passing out from exhaustion like you did in your second year of high school,” Aidan eventually says, dredging up the past.

Back when I actually could pass out from exhaustion.

Or at least, from physical exhaustion. I haven’t tried it – for obvious reasons – but I think I can still pass out from mental exhaustion.

My immortality only reverts my body back to perfect condition both in time and space, so it doesn’t do anything to my mental health.

Which also means that mental attacks might still affect me. They obviously won’t kill me, but still.

Then again, it’s not like I can go around having someone test it out. Mental magic – outside of one of the Special Magic affinities focused on a type of mental magic – are almost exclusive to Tier VI spells or higher. And unless there just happens to be a trustworthy Class B magician lying around, then I doubt I’ll ever be able to test it.

“What’s this about passing out?” I hear someone ask. When I turn to look, I surprisingly find the two girls walking out of their own room on the other side of the hall from us.

“Oh, nothing much.” Aidan turns to look at them as he puts his arms behind his head and says with a slight nod towards me. “Just this guy’s habit of overworking himself until he passes out.”

I frown at Aidan before crossing my arms and arguing, “That only happened-”

“Three times.” Aidan suddenly cuts me off, holding out one of his hands with three fingers stretched outwards. “It happened twice in your second year, and once in your first year.”

Sophia chuckles at our interaction while Cyria just raises an eyebrow at me and asks, “Workaholic much?”

Deciding that I’ve lost the argument, I just shake my head and turn around towards the entrance hall. I then begin walking whilst calling over my shoulder, “Not sure what you’re talking about, but I’m gonna go register for my classes.”

I hear quiet snickering coming from behind me, followed shortly by the sound of footsteps as they begin to follow me.

That’s just rude.