The next morning, he woke up with a wide smile on his face, to the point that it seemed as if he was trying to touch his ears with the corner of his lips. His roommates were particularly curious about what had gotten him so cheerful that early in the morning when he had practically stumped into the room the evening before, complaining about a class that had been scheduled out of the blue.
But since he was an outcast in the room there was no one that was going to ask him why he was so cheerful that morning, so they did the usual off taunting him, but he did not even spare them a single glance and just got ready for his first lecture that day.
The person that will be teaching them that morning was the same professor that had embarrassed him the day before, this left his roommates even more confused as to why he was excited about that. but Rex was not able to make it to the class before he noticed that some people were following him from behind. When he stood waiting for them to pass, they also stood as well, confirming his suspicion.
But he decided to waive them off they were probably just gossiping behind his back as usual well they would really have something to talk about after he showed off his skills, as he was heading for his usual sit in the back the people that have been following him work forward brushing him aside and going to sit there. if Rex had not quickly balanced himself at that moment he would have fallen on his face.
"Hey, fireball freak you don't mind if we take the seat right?"
The person who said that was a boy with blonde hair that was one of the best water enchantment users in their year. There were even rumours that he had been able to stand his ground against people of higher levels with ease, he was followed by two other boys who seemed to be way less popular and way less strong as well.
"Actually this might surprise you a bit..."Rex said as he tightened up his hold on his books.
"but I mind quite a bit this is actually my seat if you get what I mean everyone knows I sit here so maybe you can go and sit somewhere else-"
Rex was not done talking before the blonde guy interrupted him by looking under the desk and then around it brushing the surface with his hands then he told his millions that were by his side to do the same thing and Rex was becoming more irritated by the second.
"what are you even doing?"
Rex yelled at them as he slammed his book on the desk, almost on the finger of one of the minions who quickly swiped his finger away for safety.
"Can you chill?" said the water enchantment user.
"It's just a stupid desk you can sit anywhere else-"
the blond suddenly covered his mouth as if he had said something totally wrong.
"Oh I almost forgot you don't have any friends, come on guys let's not pick on him many more..." he said getting up and his minions immediately followed after him but he had barely gotten anywhere when Rex reached forward, grabbing him by his shoulder and making him turn around.
"You might as well just go ahead and sit in it. I'll find somewhere else to sit..."
The boy immediately slapped Rex's hand.
"Who the heck do you think you are to be shouting orders at me?! I'm going to squash you, you little fireball freak...!"
Rex had had it up to his neck that woke me up this morning with expectations but then there was always someone like this guy who was always trying to ruin his day but he was going to show them a big surprise.
"Please everybody knows that you are all talk, there's nothing that you can do to me..." he said to the blond male, the boy looked as if he was all but about to strangle him at that moment.
"What did you just say to me? ok then why don't you put your money where your mouth is? Let's meet at the training Hall later for a little sparring session. It seems that you need to be taught your place in this university...."
After that, the professor walked over.
"are both of you about to fight?"
He said his old eyes were practically glittering.
Both boys nodded in unison.
" Then there's no need to continue with this class now you will both settle the sparring session immediately,"
This was exactly one of the reasons why every professor found it hard to keep up with his curriculum and was constantly borrowing more time. Jared magical University was one that deeply supported competitiveness today. Only the best were supposed to survive while the weak would be weeded out.
so in a few moments, Rex found himself in the training Hall while the rest of his class did not look at him they were all focused on the blond boy somehow everyone had become his personal cheerleader and they were encouraging the blonde one to really teach Rex a lesson that will send him packing out
of school.
As both of them walked into the open sparring ring they had not even gone 10 seconds when someone was suddenly wrapped up in a water chain enchantment immediately trapping that person, however, everyone was blown away when they realized that it was actually Rex that used the enchantment.
his professor came over ignoring the blond boy as if he was not even there then walked over to Rex.
"My boy, have you finally unlocked all the enchantments as well?"
Rex shook his head.
"no sir it's still just this one and my fire enchantment..."
The bubbling excitement on the professor's face immediately calms down but he just tells Rex to work harder.
"You still have a long way to go."
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The news that the wonder student of the first year had learnt another spell spread across the entire university like wildfire and for the first time in over a year people were talking about him but not in a gossiping manner. For the next few days, Rex was relieved because nobody came to bother him or bully him as before, and it was nice walking along the halls without having the fear of someone setting out their leg for him to fall, or going to his seat to find little pins scatter around it as a way of booby-trapping it for him. This was because all of his bullies were cowards who were actually just jealous of his gifts and so now that you have learnt a new enchantment and had executed it so nicely for his first try they were afraid that he would continue unlocking more enchantments. but as the days passed they watched him like vultures that wanted to swoop in on a corpse waiting for him to pull out another out and enchantment but then they realize that that was not happening any
The bullies were surprised to approach them in the hallway and they were almost tempted to rub their eyes to make sure that they were not seeing an illusion because if they weren't they would not understand why she was so furious as she was marching towards them."Lyra?" one of the bullies called her name when she was finally in front of them, Lyra was the second most popular student in her first year and after that, but unlike Rex, she remained popular on a positive note because she excelled in all her classes though she was not as advanced as Rex was with his fire skill she was one of the leading students in his year.She had never once looked his way before Rex thought in his mind as she walked towards them."Don't you guys ever get tired of picking on Rex, he didn't even do anything to you!"she said to the bullies as she whipped back her brown hair that had golden highlights."Come on, Lyra, are you sure that you saw us right?"said the only girl among the bullies who had always
After he made a bet with the bullies that became the new hot topic at the University of Jared, everyone was talking about it eventually it got to the ears of the professors and then one professor took a particular interest in it, a lanky disciplinarian had graduated from the University for over three decades as the best of his year.So he summoned both of the boys to his office because he wanted to make some things clear."A wizard's word is not to be taken lightly..."he said to both of them."... and in this university, we did not only teach you how to hone your powers, but how to become responsible members of society that can handle this power... and responsible people do not lie or go back on their word..."The reason for his long speech was actually that he wanted to get involved in the bet. He had been one of the professors that had been most disappointed when Rex stopped developing.He had hoped that he would be the student that would finally break his record, so after hearing
As soon as both of them walk into the library together eyes were already being targeted at them and Rex casually looked at Lyra to see her reaction to all of this she was just walking beside him as if she did not notice the people that were staring at them and even whispering too.He could already guess what they were thinking, what was the most popular girl in the entire University doing with the biggest loser. She decided that she was going to leave eventually the moment she saw her people were going to be treating her differently so he did not have to worry himself too much about lecturing her."I've noticed you are coming often to the library these days... rather than the training hall..."she said to him as he was casually relaxing in his seat, initially, he wanted to ask how she knew his daily routine but then he waved it off and just decided to focus on studying there was no way he could get 100 gold bars so he had to pass this exam."Rex it seems that you are a very quiet pers
The professor was surprised to see Lyra sitting next to work, but he did not make any comments about it and just went home with the important announcement that he had come to tell them in the first place. "The exams have been adjusted by the higher council of wizards that run this University which I am also a member of I must note..." Rex began to feel his breathing becoming regular but he maintained a straight face because you could sense that the girl sitting next to him was staring at him intensely as if she was trying to shoot a hole through his head then his eyes remained on the professor as the man said that the decision to adjust the exams had gone through a lot of thorough examination and had been seen as the best decision. "There is going to be a group section of the exam, so if you do well in your other classes but then you fail in the group work it is seen as an overall failure..." As soon as the professor said this the entire hall was taken over by every morning as the
After both he and the girl collided with each other Rex saw stars for a few seconds before his bearings finally came back to him and then he got up he saw that the girl was still struggling to get up as well and so he held his hand with an apology."Sorry, I didn't see you there..."Immediately his hand was slapped away after you made that comment and she glared at him with eyes burning like freshly lit flames."What do you mean you can't see me? Am I some kind of mushroom that is so tiny that it is impossible for you to see me?"After she made that comment he took a closer look at her physique and you tried not to laugh when how small she was someone would have easily confused her for a child that was crossing 15 or 14 but if she was in the university she was bound to be older than that as there was a certain age restriction for entrance into the magical University."I didn't mean it like tha-""Rex doesn't mind her, that's just how she is and I could clearly see that she was the one
As Rex walked into the dorm he could feel that somebody was following him but he pretended not to notice and kept walking towards his room it became more and more of yours and it was hard to avoid. This disturbing stalker kept following him until he finally stopped and turned.He was not surprised to see that it was his bully Kelvin that had been following him all along, and he sighed."Look whatever you have to say, can it wait till tomorrow? I need to recharge my energy right now..."As always the bully had an entourage following him, Rex could not remember a single time that he had ever seen the boy in front of him alone even when he was in the washroom he would still have somebody following him like a lost familiar."You seem to be getting cocker and cocker every day, anyways I don't have much to say. I just want to wish you good luck on your duel tomorrow."The bully said with a snicker as he looked at his friends."But I guess that you don't need any luck when you have your girl
The next morning Rex woke up with the duel in his mind he knew that there was no way he could lose, for one that will make him a bigger joke in the school when he was still trying to get up his image, and also he would have to apologize to that rude small girl that had a tongue that was a sharp as a dagger. But he was still curious why Lyra didn't want that girl in their team well there was only one way to find out and that was to ask her again today, but as he was arranging his bed he hoped that it was something that could be overlooked because he was still struggling to even find a fourth member of their group and the deadline was getting closer by the day. When he was done arranging his bed he looked at his roommates and the other boy seemed as if he was going to jump out of his skin. "What do you want now?" Even though his tone was still not friendly Rex could sense that his voice was trembling as he spoke to him. "Well I realize that you changed the lock yesterday, someth