Training

There's a reception desk so in all due likelihood we need some sort of permission to train, don't we?

I head to the counter and ask the first receptionist I see.

"Hello, are we suppose to book visits before coming in here?"

"Good afternoon and that's not necessary. All I'll need is your phone and I'll be able to designate a room for you."

"Alright," I say as I hand my phone over.

Really, a lot of shit goes through this phone it's pretty ridiculous. Does that mean that they are also tracking us through our phone? Everything within the academy needs this phone in order to serve its purposes. So basically they are able to track all of our transactions by looking at the history of the cellphone, right?

"Here you go, you have 1 hour in room 233."

"How do you get to room 233?"

"Just take a left from here and head up the elevator, if you keep on walking you'll find it on the left-wing of this place. A map is also provided in case of future visits," she says as she points to the wall on her right.

"Alright."

I walk away and look at the map. This place has 4 floors, each floor's left-wing has room numbers 0-49 while the right side has 50-99, an elevator goes down the middle and some emergency staircases are located every 10 rooms. I go up the elevator and walk to room 233.

I put my phone on the scanner and go in. The room has one touchscreen tablet on it and a glass window that looks into an adjacent room. The adjacent room is completely empty with nothing on it so far, I'm guessing it's for training inside of and these controls do the settings? There's also a door in order to go into the room.

I walk towards the touchscreen and click it. I see 6 different settings. "Gravity," "Type of training." "Training duration," "Oxygen levels," "Temperature," "Rate and speed." I can guess what gravity oxygen levels and temperatures do, but what about the other three?

I click the Type of training, Woah, that's a lot of settings. Each with a small explanation. "Ball tossing" Balls are thrown onto the target and the target has to either dodge or destroy them. I see this sounds simple, I'll select that. Another sub-menu? 'Select object breakability," the options are Magic Glass, Magic Wood, Magic Iron, Magic Iron alloy, and Magic steel. I'll select magic wood, I still can't break common Iron and glass sounds way too easy.

The other settings Gravity and oxygen levels. I know that normal gravity is 9.8 meters per second square but I'm not sure what normal oxygen levels. It does have a base setting of 190,000 ppm so I'll leave it there. (Normal oxygen levels in ppm within 25km of the atmosphere is 209,500 ppm)

I'll make the gravity 13 meters per second and as for temperature, I'll leave it at the base setting (50 degrees Fahrenheit.) Now as for rate I assume is the number of balls thrown and this is measured per minute. I'll put it at 120 so I get two balls every second as for speed I'll make it about 30 km/h. I think that's all...nope. There's still training duration. I'll put it for 15 minutes since it's my first time and I only have an hour.

Alright, I head to the door and there's a place to put my phone on before entering. So, I am allowed to leave this here then? I place my phone there and the door opens, a message display on the center, 'walk to the center to start the training'. Alright, time to head in, oh shit before that. I place my bracelet next to the phone, alright now I'm ready. I walk to the center and the door closes.

The next moment I feel a large amount of magic surrounds all around me, where do they get all of this mana from? The next moment I feel heavy and it becomes harder to breathe. Shit! This was sudden. The gravity isn't that much of an issue but I feel breathless right now.

"The training will start in 3..." Alright, let's see how it goes. "2...1...now."

A ball is thrown at me followed by another half a second after. I dodge the first and second one but the third comes straight at me. I send a fireball towards it and it doesn't break, the hell? It gets closer and I punch it with fire fist, it broke but it still hurt my fist. I sense another one coming from behind me and more coming right after. Shit, this is going to be difficult.

After 15 minutes of pure dodging, breaking and getting hit I finally ended. I definitely have way more magic, I can feel that I'm nowhere near depleted and yet I'm tired, I have no idea how my fatigue relieving magic didn't keep up but I guess it didn't. I guess this is what she means by magic output and magic control. I feel so out of breath, I focus on fatigue relieving magic until I'm finally able to get up.

This will definitely make me stronger, I can feel it. I use the same setting again and start all over until the hour is done. I have a lot of magic left and I don't feel fatigued due to fatigue relieving magic, I wonder if I'm allowed to do more training.

After the hour is done I head back down to the reception an asked about it. Apparently, you're allowed but it's not recommended since there's a good chance you'll run out of magic halfway or/and you will feel too fatigued to continue. All of your magic usually takes about 1-2 days to recover apparently. Two things which I don't really have to worry about that now.

I can't get fatigued as long as I have magic and my magic pool is huge. My recovery rate is also 2-3 hours so I don't have to worry about that. I guess I should get back to doing the daily assimilation. I got a pass for 2 hours, I played around with the temperature, gravity, rate, and oxygen concentration settings until I finally was close to running out of magic power.

I feel so sluggish, I head back to the dorm, it's 5:00 pm and I'm already tired as hell. I get back to the dorm at 6:00 and again this kid is hunched over some papers. I guess he's the ideal roommate since he doesn't pry too much. As soon as I got onto my bed I blacked out.

I woke up again at 11:00 p.m., 5-hour nap huh. I already feel refreshed physically and I can feel that I have all my magical power back, as for my mental state... I still feel sluggish. I get up, this guy is still on his research, I look around. There's a bag with what looks like uniforms inside of it on top of the drawer. The upper shirt is white with some designs while the bottom is plain dark blue. Are these our uniforms?

I walk over to Andrew and tap his back.

"Hey, Andrew, are these our uniforms?"

He turns around startled.

"Um... Yes."

So these are our uniforms then? There's no issuing of uniforms in America though, I mean maybe a private school does that but here? Wait, now that I think about it. If that's the case is the class structure different since it's a magical school?

"Is class structure different here?"

"...As in?"

"What is the usual schedule here?"

"Oh, um, usually from 7:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. we have regular classes about history, math, science and stuff like that. From 11:00 to 12:30 comes the magical theory part of the day. Lastly, from 12:30 to 5:00 there are special classes.

These classes are usually practical training of our elements and we don't necessarily take them every day. They are usually held at any of the arenas or in the training facilities the teachers will implement certain settings onto the computer.

You don't have to take every class but you are required to take at least 3 classes of these types a week. The reason why it's only three times a week it's because usually you're depleted on every class and you need to let your mana recover.

There are also special one-on-one classes that you can take if an instructor takes interest in you, these classes also count towards your requirement. I'm an exception to these classes since my type of power is geared more towards support rather than fighting. In that case, I'm required to go to the Research facility every day. Well, I enjoy going to the training facility since-"

"Alright, thanks for the information."

He looks dejected again but quickly forgets it, turns around and starts with his diagram again.

If I don't shut him up now I get the feeling that I'll learn more about alchemy than I plan to. Now, onto what started this talk. I walk to the uniform bag and open it. I take out one of the uniforms and a note falls out of it.

I open the note, 'Hello Luis, this will be your uniform and you'll wear it starting next Monday. If you have any questions about classes ask Andrew. Next, on the first day of school, you are to report to the Principal's office in order to get oriented. From: Principal Robinson.'

So I have to report to her office on the first day? That's not really a problem I guess. I'll continue training for now.