It looks like the sun has risen in Brighthollow, which also marks my first day in the Ashenville School of Arcane and Chivalry or ASAC to be short. Time to wake up.
What time is it now? I look at the clock just across my bed. It shows 5.15 a.m., which is actually 15 minutes early from what time I expect to wake up. Oh well, early preparations in the first day is not so bad.
I wake up from bed, and slowly walk across my room to take a shower while pondering these 3 months of vacation, mainly my friends during that vacation. Luckily, most of us enroll in the same institution so we are all freshmen now, although we might be not in the same class. Furthermore, this institution now features a dormitory and its students are required to stay there during the years of studies, which allow us to experience a whole new life as room mates and not need to worry about being separated by our houses, for we live in the same building today and onward.
Actually, it is not because I, on my free will, want to study there. It is because of the law which requires people with the innate ability to use magick to be registered to study in their chosen magic school scattered across the country. Well since I have been living in Ashenville, my chosen school fell to the nearest one, which is ASAC, as most of the other teenagers in this province do.
The sole purpose of the law is to control and prevent any people with the ability to wreak havoc in Brighthollow. It is started because of The Great War, as the history says, that occurred twelve years ago. Back then, magic is more commonly used and displayed, and almost every people are able to use it. But the power soon to create chaos, as each province start to form their own armies of magical forces, which consists of powerful mages, sorcerers, spell-swords, battlemages, etc that the province use to conquer the other provinces, all to make there will be only one ruler of the country, which is the province that survived or stand the strongest in the war.
The Great War lasted for at least six months, when finally a province named Highmont won the war. Fortunately, people with less to none magical affinity were spared in the war, while the strong ones were either killed, imprisoned for life, or joined Highmont as the nobles, who then separated into the other provinces as their rulers and maintain orders. This resulted in people who commonly used magic now are the important people who maintained order, or people with strong magic heritage who are spared in the war.
But fearing that the Great War could be happened again the future, Highmont, becoming the capital city of a country now called Brighthollow, established a new law. The law requires that every children in Brighthollow from age thirteen to fifteen who are able to demonstrate the usage of magick are required to enroll in their chosen magic schools, mainly to control and groom themselves to serve the country later on. The law was established two years after the Great War, and has successfully groomed the young mages in five years called First Generation of Mages. Now they were sent to Highmont, to be equally distributed to other provinces to maintain order. Therefore, the cycle goes on like that for us today, who will be the Second Generation of Mages.
