First of all, a boy wearing glasses approached William. William asked him to put his hand on the white ball and concentrate as hard as he could to muster up his zi and channel it through the white ball. The glow of the ball would determine his current zi level.

The white ball glowed faintly even at his maximum concentration.

“Nice try. It’s only your first day. It is a long race so don’t let it dishearten you.

(As expected of someone without any previous experience in zi. A normal living creature I would say.) Next…..

Next was Esla. Esla made her way to William sensei and put her hand on the white ball while having a smile on her face showing her confidence in her skills and her hard work until now.

" You seem confident……………… Confidence is good but don’t let it spoil you. Try to concentrate. Concentrate…And it will….”

William was interrupted and what caused the interruption was the intense glow that filled the whole room. All of then got stunned; even William hadn’t expected her to be that good.

Although her zi was dormant the intense glow proved that she hadn’t lived just enjoyed her life until then.

“White ball is glowing brightly”

" Esla made the white ball glow this much”

“She is so good at this”

“I am jealous. I want to do like that too”

“I don’t know if I will be able to do it” all those voices in the praise of esla made her happy.

“(Even for a starter, she has the incredible amount of inactive zi. So this year has got some promising students. It will be interesting if any other student performs the same feat too)” That’s what William thought.

William: Bravo. Well done esla. You did a good job. Can you tell everyone here that how you did it? I know everyone wants to know too.

“I just concentrated. That’s all there is to” esla bragged thinking of that no one would be able to do that much and that she had a good impression on sensei on the very first day.

Esla went back to her seat. After her 9 to 10 students came, tried and tested their zi. But none of them made it glow to the esla’s level.

Esla: (I don’t expect anyone to be at my level. Well not that I want them to be)

“So, the next student is…..Xeron”.

Xeron, with his hands in his pockets, approached the white ball and put his hand on the white ball.

" Concentrate and you will…..”

William had to stop once again. He couldn’t complete his sentence due to…

“Wow. Another time.”

“Same glow. What a feat?”

“I didn’t think anyone else will be able to.”

Everyone especially esla was taken aback on seeing the same intense glow again.

“Way to go Xeron” Mike shouted.

“Incredible…So did you just focus too? William asked out of curiosity.

Xeron: Yep.

(He did it on the same level as I did. I thought it would be boring but this class seems not to be free of my rivals. Xeron! But it’s okay” Esla thought, “If there would not be any challenges on this path then how will I grow stronger. If that’s all he has got then it won’t be a problem but I shouldn’t underestimate him either. The first rule of battle: Never underestimate your opponent)"

" Next”

“Now it’s my turn. I have to do well too. Here I come” Mike was trying to encourage himself with those words.

He took his time to concentrate but no good. A faint glow was seen.

“Very good Mike” William tried to cheer him up but it wasn’t needed because he didn’t take it to his heart.

Mike returned to his seat and all other students also got their zi checked but all of them got only faint glow.

“Just one student left. Please come and get your zi checked”William said.

A boy wearing a black shirt with a skeleton head pic and tight jeans made his way to William.

“What’s your name?”

“Rei…Rei Halmes” he replied in a dead tone as if he didn’t want to come to college. He wasn’t excited or enthusiastic even a bit.

William: So Rei it’s your turn. The focus is the key to glow so try to ……

Same interruption. It was now third time so that William was not surprised at all.

The intense glow but something was off. It was steadily increasing in intensity and then it exploded. No one got hurt but everyone was taken aback.

“My bad…. I tried to hold but…. Sorry”Having no other words to say, he turned and went back to his seat; leaving whole class including William stunned.

William: (He is the real deal and I thought Esla and Xeron were somewhat special but on seeing him they don’t seem close to him).

Esla and Xeron diverted their attention to the boy sitting on the very back seat; watching the sky outside the window, beside his seat.

The one named Rei

“Now all of you, go back to your seats”

Esla sat on her seat. Her seat was adjacent to xeron’s seat; on the right side of him while Mike sitting behind Xeron and Rei sitting at the very back.

The door opened and a servant holding books in his hands entered the classroom.

“These will be your books from now on so take good care of them”

Servant distributed the books among the students and left the room.

William: “As you can all see knowledge is an essential part of a skilled warrior so sorry to disappoint you but besides learning practically, you all will be studying these books for a whole year. So try your best to understand them and…………… Good luck to all of you.

Let’s take the roll call. You all are assigned roll numbers on the basis of the timing of your administration forms”

“Roll no. 1 is Dale

Roll no. 2 is Kaller

Roll no. 3 is Falis

Roll no. 4 is Excer

Roll no. 5 is Esla

Roll no. 6 is Lee

Roll no. 7 is Kelin

Roll no. 8 is Klaus

Roll no. 9 is Vestin

Roll no. 10 is Xen

Roll no. 11 is Mavis

Roll no. 12 is Ash

Roll no. 13 is Wally

Roll no. 14 is Kora

Roll no. 15 is Xeron

Roll no. 16 is Mike

and now the last but not the least. Roll no. 17 is Rei”

After finishing the roll no. issuing thing William asked the students to open their history book Chapter 1. He asked esla to start reading.

Esla

“Long ago; the time when there wasn’t any concept of kingdoms. Whole humanity being very few in number lived together in a single place called Callon. They were kind-hearted and caring people. Life was easy and everything was as perfect as it could be imagined. But as they say, nothing lasts forever. The same thing happened to the peace. One day, a dark force rose. Where did it come from was not known but one thing was sure that it wasn’t good. He began his rampage. Without feeling any pity, without difference between old and young, men or women, he started bloodshed of anyone who went against him. He began at that time what we all know as the “Dark Age”.

But as every night has a fall so did happen that time. To free the people out of their misery, to put an end to the evil rampage and to give people hope; some people with the enormous amount of power joined the battle against that evil known as Norex.

Norex, also known as the Black God was standing at the summit of power. It wasn’t easy for even those mighty warriors to win against him let alone kill him. Having no choice left they were forced to seal him. How did they seal him, where is that seal, no one knows about it. The black era ended. Peace was restored. Life went back to its usual routine but one thing was still worrisome. Norex wasn’t dead. It is said that Norex is still alive inside that seal and will wake up the day the seal gets broken. If that happens then that day will be the last day of humanity”.

With that esla stopped reading as she was interrupted by William sensei. William asked Mike to continue reading, from where esla left.

Mike

“This planet in which we live is filled with some mysteries that no human should ever know about. After sealing Norex, warriors took their leave. People started their normal lives again and as generations passed, people started to forget about that incident and began talking about it as if it was a fairy tale but believe me, it would have been better if it was all a fairy tale.

As time passed the people started living apart and thus the kingdoms came into existence and so did the wars that have happened so far. To fulfill the greed of money, empire and desire humans fell to such depths that they could be called “Norex”.