Feltaria

Chapter 1

Meelo walked up to the giant school. It was in fact huge, but not grandiose as she was used to. She twirled the end of one of her pigtails on her finger and followed signs for the pre-entrance exam study session.

Once she arrived she found a small group of students around her age, 16. One boy with a stoic sense about him and crisp messy white hair stood out to her. She approached him and stuck her hand out to him in a downward manner, such as a lady would.

The boy looked over at her and gave her a short nod, ignoring her gesture.

A teacher interrupted the interaction, "Alright everyone, find a partner, and find your seats." the teacher pulled out a book and set it on a pedestal in front of the room.

"Uh, hello? Aren't you going to take my hand?"

He brushed her comment off and found a chair. "Let's just sit."

Meelo squinted and crossed her arms before sitting next to him.

The teacher chimed in again. "Regardless of how, you all have been granted the opportunity to take Ivywood's entrance exam, and you all took the initiative to study for it. You all have my respect for that."

The boy next to her took a deep breath in before letting it out and smirking to himself. Meelo rolled her eyes and huffed, leaning on her chin and slouching in her seat.

"The entrance exam will have three portions, the writing portion, the divine energy section, and the practical. Today I will prepare you for the writing exam." The teacher hummed with excitement.

Meelo seemed to titter in her seat impatiently.

"You certainly seem excited for this, Miss Pigtails." The white-haired boy jabbed.

She raised her eyebrows. "Oh, so you do speak?"

"When I want."

"Tch- What even is your name?"

"Cass. You?"

"You don't deserve my name."

"Good, cause I really didn't want it." He chuckles to himself.

She squints at him again before shifting in her seat to face away from him, now holding her chin in the palms of both hands, leaning on her elbows.

The teacher walks over to his desk in the back of the room and pulls out a box full of books. "Each group will once get one book, so please, no fighting over them, learn to share." He says before beginning to pass them out.

"Could this book not afford a book for each student?" Meelo snarked.

The teacher reacted, "It's not about affording, there's only so many of these books to buy" he set one of the books on the table before them.

Cass mumbled to himself, "'Go to the study thing, make friends', we're here to become fighters, not dorks." He sighs. "Alright, how do you wanna do this Pigtails?"

"Hmm, let's flip to a random page and start learning the stuff we don't know about!" She opens the book and flips through it randomly before stopping somewhere in the center. "Like this page!"

He chuckled a little "Sure, I guess that works..."

They started reading together, Meelo impatiently wiggling in her seat. The book went on about 'the ranking system; the main job source for divine energy users, with the second being educators and teachers... One's rank is related directly to power, skill, and accomplishments...'

Cass sighed again. "The basics...1. Power, 2. Summons, 3. Domains, 4. Advanced Summoning... why is this stuff in the center of the book and not at the beginning?" He flipped back to the beginning of the book and it's all common educational, non-magical knowledge. "Then what's at the end?" He flips to the back, and the last page says "...the sun will explode in a few billion years." They flip through it some more and find that it's filled with basics on all the categories they could think of.