Errol

Looking at Susan, who seemed much more comfortable around her right now, Beatrice lightly smiled, and such, after two long years of waiting, Beatrice's journey into this magical world has finally begun.

...

Three months later,

Looking at the endless ocean in front of her, Susan felt electrocuted, even though she was mentally prepared for what she was about to see, but still, the sight of the clear water mesmerized her.

After looking at the ocean, Susan turned her head towards the beach, and the encampment that was set up on it.

But even so, looking at the over two carriages that were visible next to the encampment, Susan felt some apprehension.

"Those people are the same as us, you don't have to worry," said Beatrice as she looked at the carriages that obviously came from the other kingdoms on the continent.

But as she counted the number, and looked at the different styles of carriages present, a light flashed in Beatrice's eyes.

"So our group is quite a bit above average in number," thought Beatrice as she counted only around two hundred carriages for the over twenty kingdoms on the continent.

Even though this information had no use temporarily, Beatrice still kept it in the back of her mind, as it could posibly be useful.

As Beatrice was still caught in thought, the convoy of carriages from the Lyon Kingdom had already finished traveling down the hill, it then began traveling towards the encampment.

Just as their convoy was halfway there, a black light suddenly flashed in front of the first carriage, causing Beatrice to nearly be thrown off.

"Is everything alright Beatrice?" asked Susan as she looked at the friend she made over these past three months.

"It's nothing," said Beatrice seeing that the light was gone in just a moment, if she could see it, the mages must have seen it as well, as such, Beatrice paid no further attention to it.

...

Looking at the decrypt old mage in a white robe, Lesley swallowed his breath.

"Have all of the children from your group been accounted for Lesley?" asked the decrypt mage, that looked much much older than Lesley, who already looked like an old man.

"All the children have arrived, completely unharmed, Lord Errol," said Lesley as he looked at the official mage before him.

"Good, the school needs new blood, hopefully, some disciples with suitable talent can be found," said Lord Errol as the decrypt bones in his body creaked.

Noticing that the Official Mage was satisfied, Lesley breathed a silent sigh of relief.

Suddenly, Errol turned to look at Lesley, a smiled appearing on his face.

"Lesley, for how long have you been at the Pinnacle of the Apprentice level," asked Errol as he tapped his fingers on his chair.

"Thirty-four years lord Errol," said Lesley as some excitement appeared in his mind.

"Good," mumbled Errol as he handed a thick notebook to Lesley before dismissing the latter.

As he sat alone in the empty room, Errol's body began shifting, his bones moving, and horrifying sounds appeared as Errol's organs shifted places before revealing their true form.

If any non-mage looked at the monstrosity that covered the room, at best they would die, and at worst, both their body and soul would rapidly mutate beyond repair, becoming a mindless monster only interested in one thing.

After a while, the entire room was covered by exposed flesh as Errol's true twisted form revealed itself to the world in all it's glory, after this, the monster's mind began looking out of it's body, searching for something, or rather, searching for darkness.

And after a long time, Errol found what he had been searching for.

...

As the group of potential mages from the Lyon kingdom gathered around a campfire, a dark shadow seemingly stared at them for a while before moving on.

Unaware of what had been watching them, after three whole months of tiring travel, even the noble of the group relaxed themselves.

"It's very good," mumbled Beatrice as she took a bite of the meat that was being roasted on the campfire, even Beatrice did not prefer it to the one made by her chef, it was still very good.

"Thank you," said Tom Wesley, a minor noble whose magic talent was also discovered.

Even though the nobles had relaxed, for them to start a conversation with one another was something else, as not leaking information about potential weaknesses took precedence.

"What does everyone want to do at magic school?" asked Susan, but the response to her question was total silence.

"I want to learn Magic, anything else can take the back stage," said Beatrice as she looked at the group before with a smile on her face.

"That's what I plan to do as well," said Jennifer, the daughter of one of the Three Archdukes of the kingdom as she looked at the person next to her expecting his answer.

"That's good and all, but you need to make friends, you can't be alone all the time," said Bradford, the son of a duke as he took a bite of meat as well.

After Susan's question, which tried to bring the group of children closer, it seemed like the group of children split into two sides, those that wanted to study magic, and those that also wanted to make friends, but most ironically of all it seemed that those that said they wanted to study magic seemed much closer.

At least compared to those that wanted to make friends, which seemed weary of each other.

"Good thing I didn't involve myself in that mess," as she looked towards Prince James and the other two teens that said they wanted to make friends, the three of them seemingly maintained distance of each other, having somehow managed to become wary of each other.

Suddenly, Beatrice sat up and turned around, her mouth them became open as Beatrice did not know what to say.

Looking at the majestic flying ship that was arriving on the horizon, Beatrice felt shocked out of her mind.