Reborn 7

Kyle got up the next morning and went to eat breakfast. It was there that he gave the 800 coins to Florianne as repayment for the 'things' and now he would be able to pay for himself. When she asked what he was doing with the things she got him, he told her he used healing magic on people and he got paid for that. Florianne accepted that and they ate breakfast without any major happenings.

That was, until Beth arrived. As if a dam had broke, endless questions were aimed at Kyle about what he did with Florianne on Saturday, and once Micky learned Kyle spent the whole day with Florianne, he joined in too. Jocelyn wasn't going to be the only one left out so she also joined.

The four classes for the first day of the second week were about focusing directional orientation of cast magic. Fire magic came from a finger for small spells or the palm for large ones, Earth spells came from the palm but could be changed with the fingers, and healing came from the palm with no use of the fingers. The fingers could hold a bone in place while it was being healed though, so they were still useful when healing.

At the end of the day, Kyle put on the brown cloak and could not think of something to get for Beth, so he got her a wand. It ended up being 1,200 coins, but it was still a cheap wand. It was made from the bone of a Gloomhound, which was a wolf with very large fangs. The fang would have made a better wand, but much more expensive. As Kyle went around the city, some people were talking about Master Blaster the master level magician. The stories were he killed a monstrous beast horde and brought the entire thing to the city using ancient magic and was now going to live in the city with the profits, or at least people wanted him to. Kyle did not go out in the black cloak so he was fine, and most people could tell between a black cloak and a brown cloak.

Kyle was not going to risk running into someone at the girl's dorm and not being able to get into Beth's room, so Kyle waited till the next day to give her the wand. 7,000 coins remained in Kyle's possession. Ethics was second stage sleeping, Healing was listen to Florianne talk about things, and Alban do the best out of everyone, lunch was how can make Kyle unable to eat his food. Earth was Micky and Jocelyn time, Fire was Micky and Placide time, but that wasn't going so well for Micky. Kyle then went with Beth to get food and gave her the wand. She was very happy with it and they practiced for a while before Kyle left, determined to not get trapped by Kristen, but he still passed her in the hall.

For the next 7 months, Kyle's week went as follows.

Weekdays:

1. Wake up.
2. Get Dressed.
3. Meet Micky.
4. Get Food with Micky, Jocelyn, Florianne, and Beth.
5. Ethics class with all 4 of them. 7:30
6. Healing Class with Florianne. 10:00
7. Go to Cafeteria with Florianne. 12:00
8. Eat lunch with all 4 of them.
9. Earth with Micky and Jocelyn. 1:00
10. Fire with Micky. 3:30
11. Walk with Beth to girl's dorm. 5:30
12. Sneak into Girls dorm with invisibility. 5:40
13. Enter Beth's room. 5:45
14. Leave Beth's room. Whenever Kristen gets there.
15. Sneak out of the mage school with the black cloak.
16. Wear the black cloak.
17. Complete a Monster Slaying Guild quest or two.
18. Return to the mage school.
19. Wear normal clothes.
20. Go to sleep.

These were the certain things about Kyle's Monday to Friday routine. He had diner with Beth some times, and sometimes got it himself after leaving her room the other times. If he did eat with Beth, they first went to her room to drop off her stuff and hang out for about an hour or until Kristen got there and then they would go eat. Kristen had still not yet met Kyle, and every so often Kristen would invite Beth to something, but Beth would decline. That still did not stop Kristen from asking. Kristen seemed like the kind of girl who wanted to be friends with many people, and she certainly was because she was gone from the room most days until it was dark. The school grounds were very safe when not climbing clock towers, so it was find to stay out after dark as long as you stayed inside the school.

Doing quest for the guild was certain, and now Kyle was at a B rank Monster Slayer. He would have been able to rank up again if there were more quest, but there were none for him to take. Kyle brought back scores of monster corpses from the lands outside of Vegivile, but he did not leave Vegiland County. It must have been an agreement between guild halls or something, because only the capital cities had guild halls in them and quest were only taken for inside the same county.

Master Blaster was a living legend. Everyone knew him, even Beth and Florianne. Florianne asked Kyle if the rumors about Master Blaster had anything to do with his cloak she bought him a while ago. "You got me, I change the color of my cloak and go out every day to kill monsters." Kyle said as he stuck out his wrist for Florianne to make a stone restraint over. She never actually did though, because she was not an earth type. Florianne just laughed and dropped it at that. Kyle later told Beth that he was using the cloak to go around the city and heal people to earn a little money so she would not having to pay for him. Florianne was getting money from her family every week, so she naturally tried to pay for Kyle's things.

Beth asked him about it, but even when Kyle said he had no relation, Beth just got mad at him for lying. Beth knew him better than anyone, and had seen his unique magic, and being able to use it without a call, even though she did not ask him to see it without the call. Beth knew that she could not use magic without making the call, so if she brought it up it would just make her feel like she wasn't good enough.

There was now only 2.5 months of school left for that year, and there would soon be a tournament for the students to participate in. It would not be students fighting students, but students hitting targets or trying to get specific things to happen with their magic. Distance, size, speed. These were the 3 things mostly tested in the tournament. Basically, every student who wanted to would have the chance to sign up for as many events as they wanted, and then everyone would test on the same day. Half of the people testing would be removed at a time until just one person was left and they were named the best in the grade. Every spell was given the chance to be ranked, except healing spells for obvious reasons and a few other spells that were difficult to measure like bog. The final part of the the tournament was the one the mage school was most famous for, the teamwork testaments. For the teamwork testaments, teams of any amount of people could be made to produce something magnificent from magic. Last year's winner was a group of 7th years who used Bog and Flame at the same time to make high quality roads.

"What tournaments are you going to sign up for?" Micky asked Kyle as they looked at the board for the tournament sign up.

"I'm not going to sign up for anything this year. I'm going to focus one what to do for the teamwork testament." Kyle said. "Beth, will you be able to help me with it?"

"Yeah!" Beth said, who was nearby picking things from the table. She was at the lightning table and choosing spells she wanted to try out her ability with. Beth had been training with Kyle and was now almost an expert on long distance lightning.

"Will I be able to help too?" Florianne asked as she stood next to Kyle. She was not as good with magic as Beth for what could be shown in the tournament, but her Healing was going well. The current standard for healing magic to be going well though was being able to heal surface wounds. Something like a cut tendon was probably still too much for them.

"I was thinking of something that used Lightning, sorry, but Beth is the only one her besides me that has that type." Kyle apologized to Florianne. She wanted to help because she did not have any tournament spots she wanted to enter.

"Well me and Micky aren't going to me entering the teamwork testament, so you don't have to do it either. We'll show Kyle and Beth what is up when we ace our finals and have fun in town while they brainstorm how to make a good show." Jocelyn had been on alternating sides for the past 7 months. Sometimes helping Florianne, sometimes helping Beth. Try as hard as he might, Micky could not add Placida to the group, so for now Jocelyn was the only girl for him. For now.

"I'll take long term Frost." Florianne said as she picked a paper from the bin. The Ice magic signup paper was blue and was held onto till the day of the test. The test takers would make the lowest power spell they could and make a material cold than 50 degrees. The material warmed quickly and would ring if over 50 degrees, so the test was measured as for how long someone could keep the material from ringing.

Florianne was not very good at anything other than Healing, so she was probably not going to do well in Frost, or Fire if she took one of those, but she just wanted to have something because Micky and Jocelyn were both doing Earth and Beth was doing Lightning and the teamwork testament with Kyle.

"I'm going to do distance Shock and Frost." Beth said, picking up a paper from the lightning table and one from the same bin Florianne took one from. Because of her private lessons with Kyle, Beth had very good magic. She was probably at the medium brightness now for all her types, or even Bright with lightning.

"We should all practice at the range after school." Florianne said to everyone in the group. "I don't know about everyone else, but I know Kyle has nothing to do." Everyone thought Kyle did nothing after the final class of the day and walking Beth to the girl's dorm. It was unheard of to sneak into the hallway, and sneaking into a window was only possible with someone who had a first floor room. Beth was on the 2nd floor and Florianne was on the 3rd. Beth was able to keep it hidden that Kyle comes over every day.

"Yeah, that's a good idea, but I am going to have to decline. I have to get started on making prototypes for the tool I need for the teamwork testament." Kyle said. He was not going to be participating in any tournaments, so he did not need to practice. Even if he was participating, he was a master spell-caster in his past life. There was nobody stronger than him with magic other than Akira who was around 3,000 years dead.

"Come-on, you never do anything with us." Micky said, waving the papers he had in his hand.

"That's because I don't like going around the dorms and beating people up." Kyle said. Most of the times Micky wanted him to do something with him it was teaching a kid a lesson because they didn't move at lunch or they looked at him funny.

"I'm telling you, it's a waste of your 6 Bright types to not participate. If you knew all of the spells, you might even be able to win every tournament" Micky was serious about this. Kyle did not pay attention in class, and when the professor got around to calling him out, Kyle would say 'what spell do you want me to cast and where should I point it?' and then the professor would say what and where. Kyle would of course get it almost perfectly every time. It had eventually become normal for Kyle to not participate much in classes, except when doing group work with any of the 4 others, and by now most students in his classes knew that he was accepted into the mage school for free by Marvin Akira personally.

Kyle did know the spells, and he knew how to shift the air to make the spells travel much further than normal, and he had a bigger mana capacity than normal. About Kyle's mana capacity, it was high before he was reborn, but after being reborn it has grown much faster and beyond what he ever thought possible. If Kyle's previous mana pool was a bathtub, his current mana was like a small lake. That was why it took so long for him to deplete his mana to find his mana core. The size of the mana pool can be felt when mana is taken out of it to cast a spell, and when Kyle cast his strongest gravity spell or used invisibility or telekinesis, which normally took a large amount of mana, he could not even feel it. Not even Akira who had a mana pool the size of the whole bathroom could challenge him now.

"Just wait, this teamwork testament is going to be the best one ever. Beth and I are going to knock everyone's socks off." Kyle said to Micky.

"Yeah, we make a great team." Beth said, coming over to Kyle's side. There relationship in the past 7 months had... stagnated. Beth was only 8 years old, what could be expected. Kyle was fine with this, as the necessary flags had been triggered and now all he had to do was wait until she got older.

"Are you sure you don't need anyone to cast ice or fire spells?" Florianne asked, going to the other side. Florianne and Kyle's relationship on the other hand... advanced slowly. Most Saturdays were spent with Florianne in the city, and whenever she got the chance, Florianne would imitate what Jocelyn did with Micky. While Beth had known Kyle for longer, Florianne was doing to Kyle what Jocelyn did to Micky, and Jocelyn and Micky had known each other the same amount of time as Beth knew Kyle. This made Beth and Florianne at about the same stage emotionally with Kyle.

Concerning Micky and Jocelyn, when they first started school at 5 years old, Jocelyn was being harassed by some kids, but Micky put them in their place, and she had been following him around sense then. "I beat these guys up all the time. Follow me and you'll be left alone." was about what he said. Jocelyn was already friends with Florianne, but Florianne was from an important family and Jocelyn was not, so Florianne did not need protection.

"If I think of something, you will be the first to know." Kyle told Florianne.

"Won't you tell us what you are thinking about making?" Florianne asked.

"Not until I am sure I will be able to make it." Kyle said.

"Just a hint." Florianne begged him, pulling on his sleeve.

"Okay, it will use lightning to make something really powerful." Kyle said with a smile on his face.

"Something even more powerful than regular lightning? It must be huge then." Florianne said. To her, lightning was the most powerful magic type.

"Yeah, it should be able to make lightning power even stronger." Kyle said.

The group picked a few more tournaments to participate in, and then they left. Thus, with 1.5 months to practice the final month of the school year came and the tournaments were on going. The teamwork testament would be happening on the final week of school.

The tournament for Micky and Jocelyn went well, and Micky won his earth magic size, but Jocelyn, even though she was able to pass several rounds, did not win anything. Florianne did horrible with her ice and failed the first round. Beth was great at lightning magic and placed first in a few categories. There was a celebration for the winners awards given. The final week came quickly and Kyle went to demonstrate his magic tool.

"Welcome everyone." Kyle said, trying to raise his voice. He was only 8 years old though, so it was not very effective. "This is a magic accompanying tool that can enhance the powers of multiple lightning mages to a single bolt that will fire very accurately." Kyle motioned over to Beth and Florianne and they both walked forward to stand next to him. "Here we will demonstrate firing this magic accompanying tool at the three targets on the other side of the field."

Kyle held up the magic accompanying tool to chest level. The magic accompanying tool was a circle with a few rods in it made from special materials. These special materials then moved behind Kyle as he held up the tool and placed it on a stand to help with the weight. The tool took a few weeks just to get the right sizes of everything and to make sure it would be able to work from any direction.

Kyle placed the magic accompanying tool on the stand that was already made in front of him and then Florianne walked to his right and Beth stood on his left. Beth put her hands up and faced them towards the special material coming out the back of the tool.

"[Lightning]" But she stopped before saying the final part. Beth had always been an important part of the teamwork testament, so the tool was developed with her help in mind.

"[Healing]" Florianne started to say, but stopped just like Beth did. Florianne was added to the project a while back because of certain side effects from using the tool.

"Fire!" Kyle said, and then both Beth and Florianne completed their spells. The lightning from Beth's hand came forward and into the tool, and then came out the center of it and hit the target. Florianne's healing helped to heal the burn marks on Kyle's hands and his arms, because even though the part that he was holding onto was not getting lightning shot through it, it was still got very hot.

The crowd ohhed and aahed while Kyle turned the tool to face the second target and said "Fire!" after both Beth and Florianne had made the spells a second time. Florianne was able to completely heal Kyle's hands and Beth was not using very much power so she was able to use the spell at least 3 times.

The results from the third target were the same as the other two and there were many cheer from the crowd. Some people were worried about Kyle's hands, but Florianne was healing them, and he would be able to heal them later so he was not worried.

"This is the conclusion of our teamwork. This mountable tool can take the lightning power from multiple mages to create a single blast with the power of all the spells combined. Thank you." Kyle had moved away from the tool and was standing next to Beth and Florianne. They joined hands and all bowed before the crowd.

'Bullshit!' Kyle was yelling in his head.

"I can't believe they didn't give you first place." Florianne said while walking with Kyle and Beth. "We had everything under control."

"And you worked so hard to make that tool." Beth chimed in. The reason Kyle was not given first place was because the bodily harm was too much if a healing mage was not nearby. Kyle was showing some damage to his hands after they finish used the tool, but he healed himself later. Though he did not show any signs of being injured, the judges deemed the tool to be too unsafe and thus disqualified.

"This really gets me angry, putting in so much work and not getting anything from it." Kyle said as they all walked nowhere in particular. At that moment though, Micky and Jocelyn had caught up. It was the last day of school and the distribution of the awards and celebrations for the winners. Micky was a winner and went with Jocelyn, but Beth did not go because she didn't like those kinds of things. Even when Kristen invited her to go to things with her friends she did not go.

"We can pummel a few people before we leave. They won't be able to catch us, so we can just do it right in the open too." Micky said, pushing his fist together.

"I don't think so." Said Kyle. "Let's just try to have a good time before we go back to our cities tomorrow." Being the last day, everyone would be leaving the next day. Students would go back home for two months while the dorms were cleaned, buildings repaired, and intercity magic dual tournaments happened.

"Let's go into the city." Jocelyn sugjested. Unlike Kyle and Florianne, she and Micky did not go into the city every Saturday, all day long.

"Yeah, that's a good idea." Kyle said. Kyle now had about 100,000 coins. He was averaging about 500 coins per quest now, and because Vegivile was not on the border they did not have so many dangerous monster slaying quest. The north would have many more quest because without the dwarven race keeping monster populations down, monsters were able to flourish. Further west would also have more monsters.

100,000 coins might seems like a large amount, but it was only 1 gold coin. 1/3rd of what Marvin Akira gave to Elena for Kyle to come to the mage school. Strangely, Marvin Akira had not come to see Kyle afterwards, and his status of having 8 colors in the crystal ball was not spoken by anyone.

The group of 5 went into the city and played around for a while. The story of Master Blaster was well known, but the masked healed was not as much. The masked healer used low rank healing spells and not even regrow. He also used Cure and Dispel on people to remove diseases and curses. Many people had curses for some reason, though they were mostly things like 'Constant irritation of the 4th toe'. Kyle did not have a way of knowing exactly what the curse was, he just went by what the person told him. This was how he explained his money.

The group looked at some shops and Kyle got some jewelery for Beth and Florianne, and Micky got something for Jocelyn, even though he was broke after that. While they were out, they ran into Marvin Akira.

"Hello students. Kyle Mercer, it is great to see you again. How are your classes going?" Marvin asked. The group of 5 stopped and everyone but Kyle and Beth stood in awe of the Akira descendant and headmaster of the mage school.

"Hello Mr. Akira. Classes went well, but I was a little upset when my teamwork testament was disqualified."

"Well, we can't have magic inventions that are harming people." Marvin said, speaking in a scholarly tone.

"I think with a few alterations I could get it to work without hurting the operator." Kyle said.

"If you can do that, you can re-enter it for next year's tournament. Well, what are you going to be doing after you leave tomorrow?" Marvin asked Kyle.

"I think I will.." But Kyle was not able to complete his thought.

"Hi!" Florianne said in an excited voice.

"... just go home." Kyle finished. Marvin had already been there for a little bit, so Florianne was a bit late.

"Hello headmaster." "Hello hero descendent." Said Micky and Jocelyn.

"Hello students." Marvin said while smiling, he was saying in a pleasent way that made Kyle re-evaluate his choice to kill him eventually.

'Maybe I don't have to kill the descendants...' Kyle thought.

"Those events happened a long time ago. I would prefer to be known for the time I spent as headmaster of the Vegivile Mage School." Marvin said. A good man does not rely on what is ancestors did, which Marvin was trying distance himself from.

"Young miss, what is your name?" Marvin said, bending at the knees and looking at Beth who was not saying anything to him. She had a natural dislike for teachers of any kind, except Kyle, and the only courtesy she allowed them was coming to and listing to the important parts of her classes.

"Beth Valheart." Beth said while looking at Marvin. She was not very excited to see him.

"Valheart... I think you won a few Lightning type tournaments for the 1st years, is that correct?" Marvin asked.

"Yeah." Beth said. She was being very short an to the point.

"Well I hope you can take some more advanced Lightning classes next school year, and maybe even some tactics classes." Marvin said facing Beth. He then turned to Kyle and spoke to him again. "I didn't see you participate in any of the tournaments though."

"I really thought I was going to be able to win the teamwork testament." Kyle said to him.

"Well that is alright. I am sure you would have come in first if you entered them and tried." Marvin said. "Well, I have to business in the city I have to attend to, so I will be off. I hope you find your competative spirit before the tournaments next year." And then Marvin Akira left.

The brief meeting with Marvin Akira had convinced Kyle to not kill him. Everyone but Beth and Kyle were excited to see him, and they started talked once he was gone.

"That was the headmaster Beth, how could you be so clam?" Florianne asked.

"I don't like teachers much." Beth said.

"But he is also the hero descendant. That makes him famous almost." Florianne said.

"Why was he so interested with you, Beth?" Jocelyn asked Beth.

"I don't know." Said Beth.

"It was probably just because you were with me and not talking to him. People get lonely when you don't talk to them." Kyle said.

"Only you get lonely when I don't talk to you." Beth said.

"Hahaha" Everyone but Kyle laughed. They spent a while more in the city and then went back to the school. Kyle went back to his dorm room and did not visit Beth this time because they were out the whole day almost.

Kyle already had the black cloak and mask in a case, and then put the brown cloak and mask into another case. All his other clothes were in another case. He put his sword on his waist and put the stick from Dave in the case with this brown cloak. With that, all the packing Kyle needed to do was done.

Tyler was much quieter after having been dealt with by Micky, and even called Kyle by his name. Tyler took longer to back up, so when Kyle left the next day to meet with Beth and go home, he was still packing. The room would be cleaned over the two month break and then they would move back in for the next year.

Almost 3,500 students were leaving the school for the break. A few students were staying to participate in the magic duel competitions held during the break. The duels did not happen all over the Empire, or even just the western half. Vegiland County was in the eastern half the of western half of the Empire, and a little to the north. Most mages gathered in the west and the north, so currently there was a higher than average mage population than cities in the east.

Still, 3,500 people with cases of possessions moving through the city was a big amount, especially when they all came from the same place and more or less had the same destination. The 3,500 students were split up heading to one of the 8 city gates, and from the outside of the city they would use a carriage to get home. Carriages flocked to the city this time of year and again in two months. Taking people from the city and taking them to it. It was a big business resulting in dozens of gold coins in just 3 months of work. Moving so many people was just that hard to do.

Beth and Kyle got onto the same carriage, with two other boys getting on. Kyle was able to recognize then, and they were the same ones from when he came to the city.

"How did you get to the city?" Kyle asked Beth. She did not come with the carriage Kyle took when he went.

"My parents and I took a carriage from Thornberry to the city. They stayed for a little bit before leaving the day I got accepted." Beth said to Kyle.

Though Kyle did not know it, he was the oddball that did not come to the city with his parents. The two boys in the carriage with them were brothers and had relatives in the city, but anyone who did not was accompanied by a parent or relative to the city, because sometimes people were rejected from the school and a 30,000 coin payment was needed to join. This was not an amount to be given to a child. Kyle was a special case with his now 90,000 coins, after spending 10,000 on Beth and Florianne.

It took just the day to get back to Thornberry, and then Kyle and Beth entered the town together. It was certainly expected, but the Mercers and the Valhearts were waiting for them when they got there.