Chapter 605 First group
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Their names weren't supposed to be there but now that they were called up to the stage already, there was no reason for them to decline this call. They couldn't do it to begin with.
The time was little already and there were many students right before them so they had to finish up the summoning process and go back so that the others could try it out.
They would only be blocking the queue ahead of them so, when their names were called, Eon and Rein, along with Alf, Prince Alph, and the others, also went up to the stage.
"Hello, students. All you have to do is stand at the pointed corners here and raise your hands before you while trying to channel the Mana or aura in the atmosphere. If you can't do that, you can also tell me so that I can help you.
Does anyone in this first group want my help with this Mana manipulation?"
She was asking nicely with a calm face even though she was sitting on the stage while saying that. But the twelve students on the stage all nodded negatively at her question.
If it was only about Mana manipulation, they all were capable of doing that since most of them were either knights or mages.
They didn't need her help so after their answer, she nodded and pointed at the ends of a large magic circle that was big enough to possess a radius of one and a half kilometers.
The stage was big in itself and so was the garden but, when the students stood on the circles at the pointed ends of all twelve corners, they looked like toys placed at the ends of magic circles that children drew, the ones that mostly contained a star, a circle, and some gibberish words they drew which didn't have any meaning... most of the times at least.
But that's the children. Here, as Eon, Rein, and others stood on the summoning circle, they couldn't help;p but be amazed at the overwhelming feeling they felt from the magic circle that wasn't even in its active state.
The mages especially Rein, Eon, Alf, and Prince Alph were amazed by the complexity and uniqueness of this phenomenal magic circle before them.
[{ "Surprising, right Alf?" }]
[{ "Hmmm? Big brother?" }]
[{ "He meant the magic circle, Alf. It's amazing isn't it?" }]
[{ "Ah, sister Uriel... yes, yes. This is, certainly special." }]
[{ "Watch it closely. Memorize the visible structure and try out calculating it later. It will help you with the research you have started recently. Tell me if you need a physical copy of that visible structure." }]
[{ "Hmmm? Really? Thanks! I will memorise it ASAP~." }]
[{ Hehe, little Alf is happy now. }]
Alfred already had Uto now so he believed the chances of him summoning or meeting someone else were very low.
He was thinking of what he should do when he fails the summoning and the other people are still in the process. The two of them knew it already. So, they gave this advice to him. And he was happy to have found something to pass his time while he looked at the other people's summonings.
[{ "Alright. Good luck everyone." }]
Eon, Rein, and Alf already had their familiars so they weren't expecting to summon anything in this process but Eon once made a bet with the vice headmaster where she claimed that both Eon and Rein had better chances to have more than one familiars than other normal people.
She claimed that according to her previous experience, those who were out of this world special and possessed something that no other being in this world, not even the gods or the divine beasts had, then their souls, that vibrated at a certain unique frequency will have an unnatural 'branching' that had a chance to be connected to some other creature that might or might not exist in their own world.
It was a strange speculation and Eon denied her claim indirectly. He knew about the Soul more than her so he knew that what she was saying about the stronger and special souls having this 'branching' was certainly true, but, it didn't particularly have any connection with the familiars.
According to him, the 'resonance' that is established between the familiar and the master is special and when it comes to the origin beasts like his Celes and her Branwen, things are even more special.
The bond is established between them and their origin and they become not only a part of their but, their origin, and their afterlife as well.
A familiar that is an origin beast is a part of the masters so, it is possible that they can be with them even when their physical bodies cease to exist or when they enter their astral forms.
They knew it was possible since the headmaster confirmed that he could summon Harry in the astral release with him, which Eon and Rein will be able to do in the future as well.
They just weren't ready yet, and this fact solidified his argument.
The vice headmaster still didn't falter from her position though. She was adamant that the two of them would have another family if they did the summoning process and that was the reason she called them in the first batch. It was better to just check and be done with her claim so their 'bet' could come to a conclusion.
The stakes weren't that high here. If Eon won, he just had to receive 'personal' training from her for a few days while if she won, she would listen to anything he wanted from her.
It was a profitable deal for anyone to receive a chance to receive something from the vice headmaster, the only known person who had mastered all weapons, and someone who had personally taught many of the heroes of the current world. And receiving personal teaching from her was also profitable... at least, one would think that way.
Only those who had received training from her personally would know just how... hellish that particular few hours are.
He knew it, and he didn't want it even though they would be profitable to him, at least for now.
It was unexpected, but as Rein believed, it was better to just be done with it quickly. It was good that they would be the first ones to do their summoning process anyway. They will be able to sit back with their bunch of cuties and watch others in their group and everyone else try it out for themselves. It was better this way so...
"Alright then. I will start. Good luck first group. Close your eyes."
The headmaster was activating the summoning circle so everyone closed their eyes and focused their Mana with their hands pointed towards the center of the magic circle.
-Ooooooooooooooooong!
The magic circle glowed up with unique colorful light and became visible to the tall ones and flying ones. It was circular, filled with complicated geometric shapes and lines of all kinds. There were many things written on it in runes and that wasn't all.
Each part of this magic circle was made with so much detail that it was hard to believe that someone actually created this large structure. But it was real, and they were seeing it.
They also saw how it had six kite-shaped points and they were standing at the ends of each of them.
The core of the magic circle, the most complicated Struve that, to most, only seemed like a nine-ended star glowing with bright light but to the mages and the people who could see it, they knew that thing... that small ten-meter shape, was more than what it seemed to the naked eyes.
Not only was it made of countless complicated smaller structures, but how everything was connected with one another and was giving birth to newer things, which themselves were giving birth to this whole core that powered the spell, was a spectacle to all the eyes looking at it.
But, to the closed eyes of twelve people standing on the summoning circle, a nee, unfamiliar sans Tino was taking over their minds and senses.
They were starting to feel something, their mana was draining from their bodies, There was something happening that they couldn't put into words but Rein, Eon, and Alf who had experienced something a little similar to this previously, could describe it as their 'souls' trying to resonate with something.
The magic circle was reading their soul frequencies and was reacting to them, initiating the process that the teachers and those who had witnessed the summoning process already were all familiar with.
It was glowing, though, at different intensities in all twelve regents, it was certainly glowing differently from before.
The color of the magic circle, which was mostly made of all colors one can think about, was turning to a certain color in all regions except the one with Eon and Rein, but the other areas certainly had their unique colors that somewhat matched with their unique color ID stars.
For Rein and Eon, these areas were colorless, but that didn't matter to them. They weren't in this space anymore anyway.
They were somewhere else, seeing something they had not expected in their wildest dreams, an experience of something that people rarely experience during this summoning process.
But even in this rare process, what they were experiencing right now was very unique...
But people didn't know that.
They were all focused on one certain person and the summoning area before him.
They called him a useless prince who somehow became the captain of the most inappropriate house.
His image in the academy wasn't positive or negative either. It was like he existed, but no one actually knew much about him.
He was as invisible to them as some of the lowest-grade pesetas who didn't even have the chance to showcase what they had yet.
He was the useless prince of the greatest empire in the West... but that image was going to change soon.
And, he will have to work hard to get back his 'useless prince' status...
There was a great brown light before his summoning area, he was the possessor of a pinnacle skill and a talent that was no less special than the future heroes of folklores.
He was special, one of the most special in this world and era.
The familiar he summoned obviously wasn't going to be anything less than legendary.
