New Found Aspirations

"Are the people who killed my father still alive?..." The old man sighs, "Yes, yes they are" fire is ignited in James's eyes. Now he has a new reason to get stronger. To kill his father's murderers. The old man gives up looking at the fire in James's eyes, 'those same damn eyes' thought he. Now he could do nothing more but watch.

"Could you tell me where they live?" "Kid you can't beat them now, they beat your father one of the strongest men of his time, you'd be desimated by them." "I know, of course I can't defeat them now. But I once I am able to, I will" said James with the same fire in his eyes again.

The old man smiles a little this time seeing his face. He remembered the face of marquis, that same fire would always burn bright in his face. How great friends they were. Such memories he had with him. And now he was looking at a mirror image of his friend.

What a luck he had. It was like seeing his friend once again through his son. Anyways the old man reached into his drawer and picked up a file, after that he closed the drawer and sealed the file with magic.

He gave to James and said "I have put a lock on this file that you can only break once you have become strong enough to beat them. Make sure to train hard and avenge your father child." James smiled and took the file from his hands. He said "Thank you Mr.." "Its Shubashkar but you can call me uncle shubh" "Thank you uncle shubh. I will make sure to get stronger"

James left the penthouse saying so leaving shubhaskar alone in the hall room. As he reached for the bottle of wine beside him "I know you will child..." He smiled at his own words and took a sip of wine he poured a moment before saying so.

Meanwhile, James went to his room and tried to open the file immediately. Of course he did... Unfortunately the seal put on the file was too high of a level for him to open, guess he really had to get stronger. He really would have liked to know the homes of his father's murderers now, but I guess he himself knew he could not be trusted with such information without attacking them.

He finally gave up on the file and went to sleep for the day. The next day he was woken up by a ruckus outside the hotel he was staying at, he had rented a hotel room near the center of the city in order to be one of the first to get latest news.

"A message so early in the morning?(yawn) what could it be?" James thought. He listened in on the ruckus and he the message was as follows, "LISTEN O' PEOPLE OF DECCA. THE MAGICAL ACADEMY ENTRANCE EXAM HAS BEEN SHIFTED TO TODAY BECAUSE OF OTHER PLANS TOMORROW. WHOEVER IS DECIDING TO JOIN MUST GO TODAY AT 12 PM. THAT IS ALL"

Hearing this James got excited a little, he had already explored most of the city or at least the most important part of it, the market and he had gained a lot of information about the people of it. So he really had nothing to do for the next day, so it was exciting news that he'd be go and try out today.

[At 12 P.M]

After waiting for an hour as James had arrived an hour before, finally the gates to the magical academy were opened for all for tryouts in the magical academy. He stood in the longest of lines the looks of which he only saw outside of Gucci stores in his previous life.

After waiting for about 3 hours he had finally reached the counter to ask for entry. "What is your name?" The guard at the counter asked "James." "What is your specialty?" "Lightning and Air" "Hm.. okay here's your ticket" the man said skeptical of James's words. Afterall lightning specialists were hard to come by so understandable of the guard.

Nonetheless James entered the room full of candidates, so many people had gathered just to enter the academy, as it was the greatest academy in the continent. Truly it was surprising that they still let in commoners. But the prides of their academy were all commoner folks so it makes sense.

Soon an old gentleman with a bald head and white beard wearing a white robe with flower embroidery came to the main hall, he had wrinkles all over his face and was very skinny. He at first looked at all of them and said "I am the principle of this academy. Do you all know why we let commoner folks are allowed to join the academy that too the best in the continent?"

Everyone shook their head not knowing so "it is because most of our prides, most of the students who turned out to be one of the greatest if not the greatest in their respective fields were commoner folk like you. So I wish you the best of luck to get into the academy. Those who do not get in. Don't be sad, the universe has something else in store for you. With that I announce the admission tests start."

The principle of the academy left after that speech being escorted by two body guards as he looked and was so drained of energy. After that the teachers escorted them to the training facility of the academy and said "Now... All of you shall fight each other. And the the ones who win will be the people chosen to get into the academy. We believe that bookish knowledge is nothing if you can't use it properly. That said there are some rules of the fights.

"They are as follows

1. You are not allowed to kill

2. You are allowed to use both magic and meele but magic must be involved nonetheless.

3. Once the fight has been stopped and the winner has been decided no more fighting nor talking back. All results are final.

"If all of you have gotten that good. If not you will find out in the battles. May the best of you win." The teachers paired up two people to fight and then started Selection of who would fight first. James was paired up with a big man who was of a chocolate color.

His muscles were so big that it felt like he wouldn't even need to use magic to defeat James. But he still had to, that man was what you'd call a monk. A master of magic who liked to use fists and enegry blasts instead of traditional ways of mage fights like wands or spells or something.

Anyways they were chosen to fight first against each other. Oh the sinister smile that appeared on the man's face. He got a child an easy target, today was his lucky day he thought. They both went up onto the fighting ring.

Unfortunately for him, James was truly stronger than he looked. He had defeated shadow beats when he was 9 and bores bigger than the man when he was 7. His physical prowess was also nothing short of talented. He didn't use brute force rather used technique and his opponents body weight to defeat them.

The teachers expecting to see a fairly fast game. Didn't even bother to go over the rules once again. They just expected James to be on the floor either kneeling in pain or unconscious so they just said "GO!"

As soon as that word was uttered the man jumped in the air aiming at James. Some looked away in fright, some looked intently for the outcome. But what was sure of was that no one expected what happened next.

A loud *Thud* was heard by all. Expecting to see the unconscious body of the child the ones who looked away looked back. Only to see the unconscious body of the man. The boy.. the boy had won? But how? What had happened.

Only the teachers watching knew what had happened and they too were shocked even though they saw. Once the man had reached at arms length of James ready to strike him from above with an enegry blasted fist. He was hit by an enegry ball himself but not used by the hand but travelling through the air.

The boy had created a enegry ball capable of...