Zach POV

After walking out from the office and closing the door behind me in walk down the short corridor and turn left into the auditorium where all the loud chatter and noise is coming from.

The auditorium had rows upon rows of layered seats facing a stage at the bottom. Just from looks alone you'd think you could fit at least a few thousand people in the seats alone.

Anyway as I walked in and looked around I noticed there were still quite a lot of seats left without people in them. And the new first years all sat around in their various social groups. Not that I was interested.

I found a clear area near the back and claimed a seat...

...

I'm bored already. A thought from my brain was intercepted and activated the [Sound] array. Which was quite a simple consumer array that I created years and years ago which just lets you to hear sound from far away.

One of the bonuses of having a custom made device is that it can cut down the need for the length of activation codes from a paragraph to a word if done right.

Of course with my own implant device the verbal command can be a thought command and the activation for such a simple array can be hidden by starting the process internally.

Basically, no one saw or heard me activate the array which can let me eavesdrop into other peoples conversations

"Who's the poor kid?",

"How did he manage to get in Silyan.",

"I feel sorry for him already. He's going to get bullied so much. Pffftt.",

Eventually I deactivated the array as the conversations about me were boring. However from my array I did hear one interesting conversation about which class group people were in. From what I heard it seems that everyone has taken a few tests to work out their ability and has been put in the appropriate class group. I wonder if I have to take this test later.

Before I could think more on this topic David, I mean, the 'Headmaster' walked in followed by a group of 6 students and an old guy wearing a craftsman apron.

They walked up the small set of stairs onto the stage where the 6 students and the old guy went and sat on some seats at one side whilst the headmaster went over to a stand with a microphone.

"E-hem. Great it works... Hello it's nice to meet you all. I'm David the headmaster of Silyan High School and Magic Research Center. Now, over the next five years each and everyone of you here will be studying the necessary curriculum and magic arts at our school. We as teachers are here to make sure your time here is fulfilling. At the end of every year is the inter-high magical arts competition in which Silyan will be competing I want to see as many of your here in them and succeeding. Your class group teacher will fill you in with the rest I'm sure. Anyway that's enough from me now I'd like to introduce Mike who is the head of the engineering program.",

The old guy in the craft apron stood up and walked to the front of the stage where David passed him the microphone.

"Hello first years. I'm Mike. As you may or may not know there are many parts to the Magical Arts and the engineering program is part of it. We fix and create magical devices and try to attune them to the individual. If you have any problems with any magical device come see me in my workshop. Thank you.",

"Yes thanks for that announcement Mike. Next I'd like to introduce the student council.",

Five of the six students stood up from the front and stepped a little closer.

"If there are any problems you have around the school, look for one of the teachers, myself or these fine five individuals they will be able to help you out.",

The five went and sat down again.

"Okay finally we have the first year representatives speech.",

The final student sat on a chair stood and walked over to the headmaster. She was wearing a white-flowered patterned blue dress and her long waist length golden hair was tied in a ponytail.

She took the microphone from the headmaster.

"Hello fellow students of Silyan. I'm Lucy Improm. I hope we can all work together in order to improve ourselves to those around us and strive to succeed in the end of year Arts tournament and in our education. It might be scary at first, but if we all work together I'm sure we'll all be succeeding before you know it. Thank you.",

*Claps* *Cheering*

The various people in the room were showing their support for the student representative. Apparently the student rep is the student who scores the highest on the magic assessments before being admitted and it turned out that Richard's daughter scored top.

Of course she did.

"Yes, well thank you Lucy for that. Now I would like everyone to dismiss themselves slowly and safely. Please go to the class group and room that you were given after your tests. Follow the map and if you get lost, ask someone for directions. They won't bite... I wish you a pleasant time in Silyan High School.",

*claps* *cheers*

Well that was boring. Anyway I got to see who Richard's daughter was. I don't know how that old fool managed to actually have a pleasant daughter.

Anyway it's time to go back to that office.