The 1.000 year Great Sage ---> COMPLETED STORY

The Royal couple followed Seya while discussing what they remembered. Seya told them what Aria described to him, of the events of last night. They all agreed that it was better not repeating that, any time sooner.

Along their way, they stopped in the Entertainment Room, where some servants were cleaning the room and the Dwarfs were restrained, imprisoned in Magic Crystal until their necks. After some apologizing, Gaya set them free and let them follow Seya for breakfast. When they arrived at the Dining Room, Seya went to sit near Ryn, waiting for his friends to finish so that they all could go to school. Ryn caressed his face.

- Are you feeling better? Because last night was weird!

- Yeah, Aria told me what happened and what I did. It seems that I'm also the reason why Lionelia looks so angry with Hina.

- Yeah, she wasn't expecting that Hina was so fast. It's always the same, people tend to judge Hina by her looks and then they get in trouble. Lionelia will eventually forget it. Otherwise, she will be knocked out again, if she tries to pick a fight with Hina. Don't worry, I already talked with her and warned that it was better for her health to not mess with Hina. She calmed down a little, but her pride is still hurt.

Seya nodded and he looked at Zak that was staring at him with a serious face while eating.

- Sorry, Zak, I got a little out of control and because of me, everything went down the drain.

- Yeah, I know that I'm good looking and very kissable, but try to avoid repeating the same mistake, or Hina will take your head. And I'm not going to stop her, I don't want to suffer the same fate.

Everyone at the table laughed by hearing that, while Zak was looking like if he was talking seriously. Even Hina choked with some bread and Lionelia coughed the tea that she was drinking, that came out from the nose and did a mess over her dress. In between the laughing, Hina apologized to Lionelia and received a forgiving hug. Seya got up and opened a Gateway directly into the back yard of the school.

- I'm going ahead, I need to prepare some things for a special class. Don't be late! My Queen and King, I bid you farewell.

When the Gateway dissipated, John pours more tea in Heiji's cup while smiling.

- I don't know about you guys, but even after having Gaya scolding us for all that mess, I had a lot of fun with that fight! Until yesterday, I never fought a Dwarf, those guys are tough! I punched the head of one while he was slapping Heiji and he didn't even flinch! It looked like if I was just a bug, and I hit him hard!

They started to laugh again, only to hear a very angry Gaya scolding them and warning that next time that they fought outside the Training Room and endangering the other residents, she would expel them. They made an effort to stop laughing and John apologized.

- Sorry, Gaya, it was a little reckless what happened, but what can I say, it was also fun!

While they started to laugh again, Gaya was mumbling inside their heads.

- …||… Strange Humans, making a mess and laughing after it. I thought I was the youngest of them, but they behave worst than me! …||…

While everyone was still laughing because of Gaya, Seya was placing four big Light Crystals around the training field at school, to make his protective dome. After that, he made many rock walls of one meter tall on one side of the field, to be used as targets. He went to the other side at twenty meters distance, the same distance of the Examination Day, when he started school. Smiling, he threw into the air a Crystal with his Announcement Magic.

- 'Hello, students, Principal, and Teachers. For this morning Applications of Magic Class, I want to repeat the Magic Test that we all made on our Examination Day. I have everything prepared in the back yard. After that, the class will continue in the Auditorium. I hope that our kind Janitor can join us with his Phoenix birds, the field will for sure get some damage. As soon as everyone is here, we will start.'

The Crystal descended again and landed on his hand. It didn't take long, for the arrival of some students. The Principal, Teacher Chris, and Teacher Fitz arrived along with his friends. Even the students from the 3rd-years rushed to get there and they quickly went near Seya, asking him to attend. Seya agreed, as long as they didn't forget that it was a special class for the 2nd and the 1st-years.

When the Janitor arrived, Seya noticed that there was a group of ten adult Phoenix birds and five little ones, following him. He went near them and the Phoenix made two lines, facing Seya. The Janitor smiled, while Seya was dumbfounded by so many Phoenix birds.

- Hello, Milord. I was as surprised as you are now, the first time I saw them. I don't know why, but over the past days, it started to arrive more Phoenix birds. I had to quickly make more open hens for the new ones. The terrace on top of the Auditorium is full with hens! And they more or less became our school mascots.

- This is amazing… I thought there were only two or three in the entire world! I wonder why they chose to live here. Either the Goddess as something to do with this or one of your first Phoenix went in search of others and brought them here!

- I don't know, Milord, but here it's only my first couple, their offspring and eight males. I have eight females hatching eggs. If I do everything right and nothing goes wrong, very soon we will have more Phoenix birds than space available for them to live!

- Well, if needed, they can live in my mountain. There's food and also plenty of free space in the Hill at the back. However, they can also chose to live anywhere in the world, I'm sure a lot of people will love to see these beautiful and intelligent birds living near them. Have you faced any kind of problem, with so many birds?

- None what so ever, Milord. I already read the entire book that Milord gave me and I'm following the bits of advice in there. As you can see for yourself, their tail feathers are shining, as a sign of good health.

Seya was kneeled, caressing the heads of two of the Phoenix.

- Yes, I see what you mean. You are indeed doing an outstanding job. And considering that they were following you, they consider you as their friend.

- I hope so. They are helping with everything about my job, either taking care of the horses or cleaning the fields, cutting or watering the grass or fixing some damages. I work alongside them, I don't like to sit on a chair while they do all the work!

- I see. Maybe because you treat them so well and respect them, it's the main reason why they like you. I hope you guys can help afterward, we are going to have a very special and quite destructive class, we may need your help in fixing this field.

The Phoenix birds made a deep bow, like if they were confirming. Seya smiled to the Janitor while still caressing the Phoenix.

As soon as Seya said that, one of the Phoenix rested his head on Seya's shoulder and surrounded Seya with his big wings in a sudden embrace. Seya hugged the Phoenix while caressing its feathers. Then, a lot of girls screamed, but one particular girl was screaming more than the others.

- So beautiful!... Me too… I want a hug!...

Ryn rushed to get near Seya, only to face a very angry Phoenix with his wings open, that stood between Seya and her. Seya smiled when Ryn suddenly stopped.

- Careful Ryn, they may think that you want to attack me, running towards me like that!

- But… I just want to hug them…

- They are not a toy, dear Ryn. They are very intelligent and very proud. You must conquer them first so that they can accept you near them. Well, my beautiful Phoenix, let me start the class, you are too beautiful and distractive!

Ryn turned around to get back to her place near Lionelia and Hina while pouting.

- Not fair! I want a hug from those beautiful birds… Stupid Seya, even Magical Birds like him…

Seya shook his head because he heard her mumbling. He went to the middle of the field and addressed the students.

- Well, I need some volunteers to go to those Crystals around this field to activate the Light Dome, so that the damage that we are about to do, be contained.

Four students run to the Crystals, and as soon as they activated them, the Dome surrounded the entire field. Seya waited for those students to return and continued.

- Well, last time, we had a nasty being to practice with, but today, I want you to shoot those walls that are going to be our targets. When they are destroyed, I will make new ones. This will serve for you to see how much you have improved since you started to train your Magic Control. But it will not be as easy as you may think, I want that you use Earth, or Water, or Light, or Dark, or Fire to make a small marble. Or a Wind tornado. To do that, you need to concentrate your Magic as much as you can, into the shape of a small marble, but one so compressed that it may look solid. In the case of Earth Magic, the marble will be rock solid, but it has to be very strong. I want that you target those walls but instead of just hitting them, I want that you pierce those walls and that your marble stop on the light Dome behind. It's very difficult to do that, but I want to see how many will be able to do it and how many will need more training.

A lot of surprised voices were heard mixed with some that were screaming that it was impossible. Zak was silent, thinking. He gathered Magic in both hands, concentrated it and he quickly formed a shining rock marble in one hand and a small tornado, on the other hand, one that was turning so quickly that it really looked solid. He looked at it for a moment and he increased the compression of the Rock marble and the Wind tornado. Hina was looking at his hands, with her mouth wide open. Seya also noticed the increase of Zak's Magic and he shouted.

- Zak, since you are ready, do you mind being the first? And like that, redeem yourself of your poor and laughable performance in the Examination Day?

- Yeah… don't remind me of that one, that was really bad…

Zak took one step forward, to face the targets. He chose one, threw the Rock marble by using Wind Magic to push it and right after, the little tornado, also pushed by Wind Magic.

Puff! Puff! Bum! Bum!

As soon as those marbles hit the wall, there was just a muffled sound of them going through the walls and exiting at the back. And an explosion when they hit the Light Dome. Zak looked at the walls, looked at his own hands and when he faced Seya, gulped.

- This… is very dangerous… If I hit someone with these, I will kill him…

Seya nodded while being completely serious.

- Yes, you will. This exercise will also make you realize that you must be responsible and very careful with your Magic. Now you know that you are on a different level from every Mage in the world. Besides me, the Goddess, some Elfians and the Magical Races, no one can make that kind of Magical Attack. Now, who's next? Let's see if there are more dangerous Mages like Zak! Remember what I said, be very careful with your Magic. I think that after all the training that you have been doing, many of you will be able to do the same as Zak did. Or even more than him…

For the next two hours, every student, the Teachers, and the Principal shoot against the targets. When the walls were destroyed, Seya cleaned the field of the debris by making them disappear inside his Compressed Dimension and he made new targets. As he suspected, Myra, Hina, Ryn, Lionelia, Duncan, John, and Heiji, were the ones that pierced the walls.

Princess Heiji did even better, she turned one wall into a sieve, with the huge amount of small Fire marbles that she threw against it. The other students were able to completely destroy the wall at their first attempt, or pierce it just until the middle, without exiting at the back.

The Principal gathered such a huge amount of Magic that he took a while to concentrate it. But when he managed to shrink it to the size of a ball and threw it, it pierced the wall and the explosion that it did against the Light Dome, was scary. He looked at Seya while looking surprised by what he did.

- That's… I can destroy a house or a city wall, with this! It's… I need to be very careful from now on! If I get distracted, I can destroy the entire school!

Seya nodded while tapping the Principal's back.

- Yes, but now that you realized how much stronger you got, you know that you need to keep practicing your Magic Control, for never losing the control of your Magic.

While the Principal was slowly nodding his head and looking at his hands, the students continued. The ones that were only able to hit the targets without any kind of significant damage, where the guys and girls of the 3rd-years. When every student completed that training, Seya asked the Janitor to call the Phoenix to help on the fixing of the field, while some students went to turn off the Light Dome and bring the Crystals back to Seya. The students stopped for a while, admiring the Phoenix that were flying over the field, while making the debris going underground, covering the holes on the floor and making the grass grow again. When they finished, they landed near the Janitor and made a slight bow towards Seya that returned the bow.

- Thank you, Phoenix. As always, an amazing demonstration of the use of Magic. Now, shall we all go to the Auditorium? I want to talk about something and make a final speech about what you did.

Seya opened a big Gateway, directly into the middle of the Auditorium, crossed it, and invited everyone to follow him.

- I know, it's stupid to use this Magic just to save some steps, but we don't have much time before lunch. Come and have a seat. Or stand, if there are not enough seats for everyone.

Seya waited for the Teachers, the Principal and the students to cross the Gateway, waved at the Janitor and the Phoenix and dispersed the Gateway. He then smiled and address the students gathered in the Auditorium.

- Well, I hope that you all realized how much stronger you became since you entered this school. As for the 3rd-years, I think you got the proof of what can be accomplished by training your Magic control. It's a pity that you annoyed me so much in the beginning, you could be much stronger than you are now. But not all is lost, you know what you must do to reach this kind of level, it's up to you to get there. As for everyone else, I'm glad that you spent so much time on your training. If you remember what you did at the Examination Day, you can compare it with what you just did. Well, in Zak's case it's easy, everyone here remembers!

A lot of laughing resonated in the Auditorium while Zak was looking down, feeling awkward and Hina was boiling in anger because of Seya's mockery. But before she could say anything, he continued.

- And today, you all saw what he did. That guy was able through his hard work, to achieve such a level that would shame the Royal Mages or those rude old Mages of the Institute of Magic, supposedly, the strongest Mages in this Kingdom. And if no one noticed, he didn't use a chant, not even a short one. Doing such a Magic Attack without a chant, with two different Attributes and so powerful ones, would easily defeat any Mage in this world. What I'm saying, even some Dragonoids, Fairies or Mermaids would get a lot of trouble, fighting him! Hina, don't you dare to let him escape, I'm sure there will be a lot of girls trying to grab him! Zak, for a guy that wanted to punch me on the first day when we bumped against each other outside the schools' gate, you became an amazing Mage!

Seya smiled and clapped his hands for a while, congratulating Zak. Soon, every student joined him, clapping and cheering for Zak. He became bright red while Hina was quickly wiping her tears. That sudden water on her eyes wasn't allowing her to see Zak properly.

Seya stopped and waited for a while, for the students to calm down.

- As for everyone else, some of you didn't chant, others used a short chant and many still used a chant. Remember, a chant is only for helping your concentration and the correct visualization of what you want to do, it's not needed if you train your Magic Control. And now, I have homework for you.

Seya threw a Dark wall of Compressed Dimension to the middle of the Auditorium and a huge pile of his special binoculars appeared.

- I have here one binocular for each of you. If you touch one of the small Crystals that are along one of its sides, you can increase the magnification of what you want to see through it. Use it to look to a Magic Crystal, analyze its composition and the way that composition is connected. Then, use Earth Magic to replicate the exact composition that you saw and the connections in one solid rock, to make a new Magical Crystal. Don't forget to infuse some Magic while you are making it, or it will only be a normal crystal. With this binocular, you don't need to use all the steps to make a Magic Crystal and you can do it all alone.