Mana

*BAM*

"For the last fucking time you little shit you best start paying attention otherwise I'll personally kick the fuck out of you!" Screamed the tall yet amicable looking class tutor. He was a very polite and caring man before he started tutoring these two teenagers but one of them has pushed his patience to the limit and has caused his hair to grey just by dealing with this dipshit.

"Sir? Can I have help with this equation?" Asked a cute girl who is trying her best to hold back her laugh.

"Of course you can my star student. I'm glad you're here otherwise your friend would have died countless times by now." The tutor replied.

"Cedric? why do I need to learn this can't I just use firebolt or thunder fingers to fry my enemies why do I need equations and what not?" Asked Leon.

"Cedric? who the fuck are you to call me by my name? (sufjan stevens plays in the background) You're a little fucking piece of shit calling it Thunder fingers you're a dumb fuck I swear to Leonidas man one of these days I'll bust your teeth and personally take my own life and enter the arms of the afterlife with a big fucking smile on my face. One more word that's not constructive out of your mouth and I'll throw you out the window." Roared Cedric. Cedric was a man who was the best scholar in Herculean, the city in which the country of Sparta Leonidas ruled from. Although he was the brightest scholar he was also a formidable warrior and had personally been a crowned champion of one of the Spartan games. In short he was not one to be fucked with... however one certain little prick has pushed his buttons so far he's shown a side of himself only enemies will see.

"Sir it's not that I don't want to learn but it's rather I struggle to find such things interesting. I'm more of a visual then a theoretical learner." Leon replied with his head down, being shouted at by someone Cedric's level would make any person cower.

"Listen Leon I know what you mean and most people feel the same but if you don't learn the theory now then it'll never work without practice even if you can get the basics down it will be a massive help you don't need to be an expert even your father isn't so just please try harder and stop staring out of the window and saying stupid made up shit." Cedric replied earnestly.

Astarte looked at Leon and wanted to offer her help but it was forbidden to receive help other then from his tutors and up until now he has mostly been fine which such a system but it seems there is something he can't quite grasp about magic.

Cedric clapped his hands to gather the attention of his two person class.

"I'll go over it one last time. In the atmosphere all around us exists on an antomic level certain elements that regulate our planet and allow us to breathe however in this elemental make up resides a small portion of energy that we can manipulate to enhance ourselves, heal ourselves or cast certain magic.

Although it is a renewable energy that comes from nature and when people die it is then re released the amount in the world is not such a large number so it's believed the best use of this energy is to consolidate it within ourselves to create our own Mana Source and the higher the affinity with mana we can then either store a lot or a little depending on how gifted someone is, there is no proven way for us to increase our threshold so it's truly up to the gods how much we can have and how much we can use at any given time.

We only know when someone awakens what this amount is and we record it with certain class distinctions are graded as Common, Warrior, Mage, Elite and Magus and say if a person with common talent could hold 2x their oxygen limit and could manipulate it at a degree we can only call basic, such people could only become low level warriors or people who work day to day jobs which there is no shame in they are people too and everybody holds their value in this society no matter the role they play.

A warrior can hold 3x as much and has an intermediate control and can be skilled enough to serve in the front lines but that's not to say they can't be much more it all depends on attitude.

Elites are a tailored few who can have 6x as much mana as others and excel at fighting and usually hold positions of Commanders.

Magus is the pinnacle of our society such as me and all your other tutors. We are usually scholars who try to better our world via research after we have served our time in the army. We can store mana as high as 10x our oxygen capacity and use it to a level that comes as easy as breathing... of course if we have the right foundations Leon." Cedric finished his talk about the basics and proceeded to inform the two on how to first intake mana and how to store it which is something all people have is essentially a separate organ that was made when this world was first made. Leonidas already had this organ even when he was a King of Sparta however he was cut from different cloth and was one of very few who ever had such power in the old world.

Schooling continued for the two until they reached the age of 17. For the final year of school they would enrol in a public highschool to take official tests and also learn people skills as they only rarely interact with others given the twos special circumstances.