A new voice in my head… that wasn’t something that happened a lot.

“Who are you?” I asked, it only seemed polite.

“I’m a Guardian, I’ll tell you all about that later though because the mages are waking up and your spell has been undone, you certainly don’t want to be expelled from school when you’re not even a student yet, do you Farren?”

It seems it knows my name and what’s going on, since he’s in my head it’s only appropriate to guess that he can see my memories. It could be a she, the voice is androgynous which is all kinds of confusing.

“Thanks for the warning” I say and take off, everyone seems to be passed out still. I pick up Enn on the way out and look around the hallway, I could see a courtyard through the arches and a sign saying Clinic across the greenery.

I always hated flowers and plants, nature in general really, mainly because all the plants I looked after died, although the blood I fed them probably wasn’t a good for the roots.

I walked leisurely over to the Clinic, I don’t want to be running and looking suspicious. I entered the weirdly modern room and found an empty bed to dump Enn on, she only groaned and remained in basically what is a catatonic state.

I looked around the room properly, it was like a modern army hospital with unfolding white beds with white sheets and white screens separating the beds. Of course, there were no heart monitors or other machines but looking around I could see nurse’s glowing hands held over patients and writing down something after retracting the hands.

I knew it was a form of healing magic where you can see the condition of someone’s body, I should remember that too, it’d be very useful for torture.

“We’re alone, we can talk now” I thought in my head, the voice did not reply for a couple of seconds. Although I wasn’t speaking out loud I knew that if I sat here

“Indeed, let’s begin, I am a Guardian which is a spirit or animal that has reached a such a level that the High God of this planet has chosen us to protect it, the High God cannot be here at all times and has enemies which would gladly see this planet dead, so far there are 5 Guardians that are ranked by age, I am the 1st “

“What does that mean? The first in power or in age, or is it ranked on who was chosen first?”

“For monsters of this world power corresponds to how old we are, I am the first Guardian because I am the oldest and therefore the most powerful”

“So how old are you?”

He chuckled, or maybe she, I really had to ask…

“Almost 2 billion this year, it is a good age, I remember when I used to figh-”

“So are you male or female?” I said, I wasn’t going to listen to an old… something, talk about the good old days.

“I can tell that is the question you are dying to ask, but the species that I am has no gender”

“And what species is that?”

“My species is extinct so you wouldn’t know but we were called the Friyt, and we looked like this…”

As he said that an image appeared in my head, a beast like a dragon and a shark’s lovechild, it had the body of a dragon from books, sleek and muscled with pitch black scales with red tips, it had a tail like a shark with black curved barbs and much longer than any fish would normally have. The Fryt had four legs with webbed feet and claws that could cut through metal like butter, it’s scales gave off a fume that was like a black smoke, like its shadow was trying to escape. Its face was the most horrifying part about it, the beast had no eyes and its whole face was a massive mouth with rows upon rows of teeth, anything put in that mouth would be grinded to mincemeat in an instant.

“Awesome…” I whispered aloud, this thing would have made a great pet, maybe it already is my pet considering it’s trapped in my head.

“Most run in terror when they see my kind, we are as tall as 20 men and wide as 10, although I suppose you are not like most, I have seen your memories, the High God has chosen you for a special purpose, that purpose was hidden from me it seems but I will work with you, those mages were trying to summon me and make me become their pet for this school, their Guardian but you interrupted the layout of the circle and provided a host for me to retreat into so they would not find me”

“So you are hiding from them?”

“I could easily kill them all, it’s just that I swore an oath to protect them and never harm the inhabitants of this land unless they truly deserve it, somehow trying to capture a Guardian still doesn’t allow me to kill them” I could tell it was probably grinding its many teeth in frustration.

“You may have taken an oath but I didn’t, I will gladly kill them for you, I haven’t been able to kill anyone is ages, my urges are getting so bad my eye keeps twitching”

“You would do that then? I have seen your mind, I know how capable you are but I have seen your plans too, since I have agreed to help you I shall give you some advice, when you are at the start of a game you don’t make risky moves”

“True… I like you, when I overtake the Empire you shall be my advisor”

“Well actually I wanted to get out of h-“

“Truly wise too, it is certainly expected for your age not that you’re old or anything well actually you are I feel like you have gotten to the age where it is acceptable to say that”

“You just have to re-“

“A trusted advisor indeed, also I need to ask some questions about something”

“Oh god”

“Yes actually, that is who I wanted to ask about, why do you call him the High God?”

“It seems your understanding of this world is limited, and since you have designated me to be your advisor I will comply"

“I assume this will not be fun for me”

“Not even a little, let’s begin, I can see you are already familiar with the continents on this world, so let’s move on to the people, the main races count themselves as the superior beings, they are the Elves, Beastmen, Humans, Dwarves and Mer-People”

“But the other races? The Fae and the Juareven? And others I probably don't know about...”

“To know about that you must know about those races specifically, the Fae are beings created by magic and are essentially shape shifters, but they can only take on specific shapes. You would be familiar with their human shapes, Raf I believe his name was? He has an abnormal ability because of his genetics, his internal mana has mutated so instead of him, like all his race, to be highly adept at magic, he became incredibly strong, in fact his body’s mana is dedicated to making him stronger every second”

“What does that mean?”

“Farren, do you know what happens to a human magician when he runs out of mana?”

“He becomes comatose or best case scenario he dies”

“I think you meant worst case”

“Nope, don't think so”

*ahem* “Anyway, Raf’s body keeps feeding itself mana, he gets stronger by the day but he has no control over it and since he is made of mana…”

“He’s slowly absorbing himself? How does that work? Isn’t it just like recycling?”

“The body is taking the mana he is made up of and changing it into the mutated form giving him his strength and his form is just pure mana, when he dies, and he will, it will not be a slow process, he’s a walking time bomb, one day his body will suddenly combust and he could take out a lot of things with him, perhaps even this entire Academy”

After the Guardian finished Farren thought about Raf for a second, he was dangerous and he could either ruin her plans or be a part of them.

“Excuse me little miss? You’ve been sitting there a long time are you okay?”

I realised I had been sitting in the Clinic staring at nothing for a while now, a nurse with a kind face was staring at me while smiling a plastic grin,

“nurses have always seemed to master the art of the fake smile no matter what world you’re in” I mused to myself.

“Yes sorry, I was daydreaming, I was just taking her” I nodded to the mess of a body on the bed next to me “here because of her current state, I got a bit too serious in a fight” I put on a regretful look, the nurse was young, probably in her mid-twenties, and she was susceptible to children, especially adorable ones like me.

“I’m sure it wasn’t your fault, go get back to wherever you were before, we’ll look after her”

“Thank you, I hope you have a good day!” I say while jumping off the chair and skip away.

I saw that the nurse had smiled and held a hand to her cheek while watching me skip to the door, I may hate children, but I most certainly like the child I am right now, this body is incredibly useful for manipulation.

I walked out of the burses office humming a random tune, I felt like today was going to be a good day.

"I assume we shall continue our discussion later?" said Fryt, I had decided Fryt was going to be its name considering that the way its species worked it probably didn't have a name, I couldn't be bothered to ask what it wanted its name to be anyway.

"Indeed, don't speak for now, I'll talk to you when I am alone"

I felt its presence recede inside my mind and walked the hallways to where I heard chatter.

They were making the announcements for who passed the test for getting into the Academy and who got into the special classes, obviously, I was on both list.

It seems the special classes or ‘Elite’ classes had 3 parts, one was solely for mages, the other for warriors and the third was the one everyone wanted to get into, the one for people who were the best of the best no matter what year you were in if you were good enough and lucky enough then you got into this class and your whole future was guaranteed to be an easy ride to the kings side.

I heard a voice from behind me, “Congratulations, I saw both your matches, it’s no surprise you ended up in the Urian Class”

The Urian class is the class where Urian’s go, a Uerian is both a mage and a warrior, the other classes are just called Warrior or Mage class. I smiled at Raf who was the one that spoke, he ended up in the Elite Warrior class, one of the youngest ever it seems, so was I. shame that I was actually going to have a future compared to him.

“Thanks, Raf, you did pretty well yourself, I will see next week when school starts, I have to pick up the uniform now so bye” I walked away, but I heard him call out to me.

“Wait! I’ll come with you” I turned and looked at him, he looked shy. Honestly it was adorable, I could only help but smile, all was going to plan.

“Okay Raf, I hope we can be friends by the way, I feel like we can use each other” I smiled my sweetest smile, he beamed and ran to catch up to me and we walked to get our uniforms.

When we got to the shop at the back of the school we were greeted by a man who has smiled too much in his lifetime, he had crow’s feet that were so deep it was like a crow weighing 3 tonnes had stamped on his face and indented his skull, I hated him right away.

“You kids new?” he looked up and down as if sizing us up. Raf was the first to speak to him.

“Yup! We need two junior uniforms, do we have to try them on?” said Raf, the old man looked smug.

“Not at all, I can tell your sizes right now” he moved to the back room, I looked around the ‘shop’, it was made of wooden planks and smells musty, there were uniforms on mannequins and shelves full of clothing, there were scarves and even hats with the school colours. Maroon and black, it was a good choice of colour too, reminded me of the time I ha-

“Here the uniforms are, try them on if you want but I’m certain I got your sizes right” he gave us that smug look again and walked off back behind the counter, he didn’t even look guilty for interrupting my thoughts, not that he knew but still!

“I’ll take this room Farren you take the one on the right” the rooms were just small cubicle you were supposed to get changed in, all of this was so similar to earth it was confusing, but God did say he built the world off the books and movies, I didn’t realise he used the Earth in his design as well. Not that it mattered, it made life easier for me.

I went into the room and got changed into the uniform, it reminded me of my school days, it was a all girls private school so all the students were made up of stuck up comments and bitchy remarks, I loved torturing them.

They weren’t so snarky when their eyes were being gouged out and tongue ripped off while choking on their own blood. One time when I was torturing a girl before I had to go to school I had just ripped her tongue out and the blood was filling up her mouth and while she screamed she got blood on my just freshly cleaned uniform, the audacity!

The uniform for this school should cover up blood nicely though, I had a black skirt with a maroon hem and a white vest with a black overcoat and maroon outline, there was also a blazer option that I used, the blazer was completely maroon with black buttons and pockets! I never knew how much I missed pockets until I was forced to wear so many pocket-less dresses by my parents. I grabbed the grey scarf too for fashion sake.

“I’ll take these, and I’ll pay for my friends uniform too” I saw Raf come out, he had the same as me except with long black pants that had pockets, how unfair! For once I might start agreeing with those damn feminazi’s, woman need more pockets in their clothing!

“Wow really thanks Farren!”

“Well you do look rather dashing in those clothes, I have to thank you for the sight” I gave him a wink and turned back to the shopkeeper, I used and made some fake coins out of wood chips, we changed out of our uniform and we got boxes that contained them.

“Thank you for your service, have a good day” the man gave me a slight bow, certainly a fancy man but as much as I hated him I had to admit he was good at his job, the uniform fit perfectly when I tried it on.

“Hey Farren?” said Raf after we had just gotten back from buying our uniforms and were walking the hallways, touring the school now meant we wouldn’t lose our way when we started next week.

“Yes?”

“Do you want to prank the nurses’ office by stealing all of the medicine?”

I smiled, I might like Raf a lot more than I thought I would.

“That is a terribly, horribly, incredibly foolish idea, let’s try it and see what happens”

And we ran to the nurses’ office.

The headmaster was a scary man, when I was a new teacher I had met him and acted high and mighty to gain his attention, when I did gain it my first thought was "the centre of this man's attention was a very bad place to be" I was right too, he was an SS rank Uerian and the only Urian within the SS ranks, rumour has it he was getting close to becoming an SSS rank but right now, to me. he looked like a tired old man.

"Is there something wrong Mr. Ruth?" said the headmaster, finally looking up from his paperwork, I had been standing in front of him for a while now but I knew never to speak unless spoken to infront of this guy.

"Yes sir, there is a new student I have decided to elect as junior council president for certain reasons" he quirked an eyebrow.

"And who is this student you speak of? We only elect the top grade juniors to even be in the council, much less the president"

"Well this girl, she's a Urien and a skilled one at that and here is the real kicker, she's a MaS Mage"

The headmaster looked up from his paperwork and stared at me, I felt that feeling of dread once again.

"You know what happens when you lie to me so I know that what you are saying is the truth but the Empire killed all those damn mages and the affinity should be long dead" I shrugged.

"Maybe they missed someone, maybe the affinity just randomly happened, there have been cases of two commoners with no magic giving birth to mages, it's a mystery how this didn't happen sooner"

The way the headmaster looked at me, it felt like this was a lot more important than he was letting on.

"Yes... I suppose so, do you know what rank she is?"

"S rank sir" he nearly fell out of his chair, it was odd to see the terrifying headmaster so shellshocked.

"Elect her President immediatly and bring her to my office first day of school, I must speak with this girl, what is her name?"

"Farren sir, she gave no last name"

"I see, I feel like this school is going to get a little more chaotic with her around, and you know how much I love chaos"

I did, I knew very well...