4: Invitation from the Chinese Military Academy

A few months after Tom Curi's awakening at school.

Tom Curi found himself in the Magic Training Room of the Curi Family Residence in Buenos Aires.

Stars of different elements behave differently, so the cultivation of fire and earth element stars has to go through a different process for each, and Tom Curi was surprised to find that in these months of cultivation, having slightly changed his approach to his earth element stars, they became much more obedient.

One... two... three... four... seven! SEVEN!

The earth element constellation looked very simple, but the charred brown glow gave it a special charm!

The glow reached its limit, and at the very moment Tom Curi opened his eyes, his green eyes were literally filled with black light with a brown tinge, it's as if hell itself was seen in his eyes.

"Hell wave, Delay!" came out of Tom Curi's mouth, he even raised his hand for this!

A charred brown glow shone from the wizard's hand, and a wave rushed in front of him, underneath the training room he was in. The next moment, this wave was literally covered by a tide of charred and muddy earth at the same time, completely submerging and burning everything above it!

In front of Tom Curi's tide of muddy, charred earth was a space in the room that contained several pieces of training equipment made of iron that were semi-submerged in the earth and were melting at a chilling speed, after a few moments, there was no training equipment left on the tide of earth.

"How can this be?" "Am I seeing right?" "Such terrifying power" "Not for nothing is he the grandson of the head of the family" "No doubt the geniuses are on another level" "Looks like the family was once again blessed with unparalleled genius" These were all some of the comments from the Curi family members watching the show Tom Curi had put on in the training room with the release of his earth magic.

"This is amazing Tom, to think that your awakened earth element, would have such incredible ability!" shouted ecstatic and amazed Ai JiangTu a member of the Ai Aristocratic Family, a noble military family in China that has many business dealings with the Curi family in Argentina.

Tom Curi looked at what he had done and, scratching his head, thought that this must be the most lethal earth elemental wave in existence in the whole world!

"Well .... .you saw it yourself, my earth elemental seems to be a bit special" Tom replied.

"Yo-Yo-You...! A little special, no earth element I know of has that effect man and you say just a little special!!!

"Hahahahaha Really a genius my boy! To think that you used the common earth wave, which only creates muddy earth tides that slow down and submerge mages in the earth a bit to slow down their movements, but in your case it not only fulfills this function, but also acts as a lethal move that consumes little by little whatever is in the tide, no doubt you are my grandson" complimented Sir. Curi being very pleased with his grandson, despite the fact that at first he was worried and found the idea of him awakening his first element with a low level awakening stone(he is Tom Curi's grandfather and current head of the Curi family very irrational).

"Thank you grandfather, but I really didn't think much of using the earth magic form at the initial level. When the stars took shape in the constellation, I found they were completely brimming with a warm energy that I then released into the magic. I didn't think it would all come out like that! But looking at the destruction of my primary magic, level two ground wave "Delay"(the name of the magic), I have to say it's great" said Tom Curi in good humor.

"Yes Tom, imagine your earth magic combined with my curse magic, nobody is going to be able to stop us!" Ai JiangTu said enthusiastically.

"Well, we'll see at the academy if it's so brother Jiang" replied Tom.

"I have no doubt brother that we are going to make history as a team, there is no better combination than ours, it's going to be just like it was when we were younger" commented Ai JiangTu confidently.

That's right, since they met at the age of 7, Ai JiangTu and Tom Curi kept meeting and talking, so they became good friends quickly, to the point that when Tom Curi decided to continue his studies in China from the age of 8 to 12 so he could also apply for multiple citizenship, both China for his father and Argentina for his mother, the Ai Family offered and allowed him to use their facilities to stay in the country and avoid problems with other big families in China by using the name of the Ai family, which is the number one power in the northern part of China and anyone who wants to cause problems would have to think more than twice before offending them.

So it was that in those 4 years living in China he became quite familiar with the Ai family, although he did not stay to live with the Ai family in the northern part, because he decided to go to the city of Bo to familiarize himself with the place where the whole plot of the world of Versatile Mage begins, it can be said that whenever he could he visited them and in the middle of these visits was that the friendship between Tom and JiangTu was strengthened, This was because between the two of them they took care of the children who bothered JiangTu's little sister, whenever they went out for a walk, tour or play in different parts of China, it resulted in some unpleasant encounter with a spoiled child from a rich family that ended up being taught by Tom and JiangTu, as to why adults do not intervene, it is because in China the problems of young people are solved among young people and it is not up to adults to intervene, so it was that Ai Tu Tu not only had an overprotective brother, but now she also had her brother's friend to take care of her, although in JiangTu's opinion, Tom tends to spoil little Ai Tu Tu too much and she as a very smart little girl tends to take advantage of this to drag him into doing many things she knows her brothers would not do, after all, she knows Tom can't refuse her pouting, he is too tender to resist.

"Damn, these training kits were made of iron! How did your barely awakened entry level earth element magic manage to melt them like nothing? I think something is wrong with the glow of your magic!" said an elated and very surprised well dressed man who had been invited by the Ai family from China to go to Argentina to see what Tom could do, the man stood examining the melted fragments of the kits which up to a moment were perfectly fine.

Tom Curi also had strange feelings, somewhere inside his soul he realized that his earth magic was different from the ordinary magic of the same element of the magicians of the primary and intermediate levels.

"Unbelievable, is-is this perhaps really... a natural soul seed? No, no, there is no such seed in the records, but perhaps it is a unique unrecorded soul seed, a unique natural celestial seed, yes that must be it..... " thought the man invited by the Ai family, he as the deputy director of the Chinese Military Academy had a lot of experience with little geniuses awakening some spiritual seed, but never a unique natural celestial seed, those were incredibly rare in the whole world, it could be said that there were only a small handful of people who awakened with such a natural soul seed, after all, the natural soul seed is a very powerful magical gift, if a magician actively cultivates it, it can even surpass the power of high-level magicians.

This is why the deputy director is convinced that such power in his primary earth magic indicates that Tom Curi has a natural soul seed, which makes him not only a genius, but a diamond in the rough.

"It's actually more like a specific accompanying effect given by my first awakened magic the fire amaterasu, which apparently integrated a small part of its blessing to the earth element because they were so close to each other in their spirit world, after all I have two mid-level fire element nebulae with the amaterasu blessing, so it is possible that the earth element has absorbed a small part of the blessing in these two nebulae" said Tom Curi in his mind, after all he could not tell anyone about his other element, because he was likely to get into a lot of trouble, he preferred to keep some secrets than to expose himself too much, that is why he decided to use in public only the earth element from now on.

"So what do you think, does my brother meet the conditions to enter the Chinese Military Academy?" confidently asked JiangTu to the vice principal.

The vice principal only nodded his head half-stunned still by what he had just seen.

He felt that this boy's earth element was too unreal, being the earth element usually has an advantage against lightning element mages, but they are weak against other elements like plants, but now that this boy's earth element has the ability to burn whatever it touches, it has an impenetrable defense that can burn whatever touches it and its ability as support is just as monstrous, to think that earth magic that should only be used as support now also acts as an attack due to the added effect of burning, no doubt unique and lethal.

"Great brother, now we are going to be able to hunt monsters as a team constantly, imagine the mess we are going to make, I already feel sorry for the poor bastards" commented Jiantu happy seeing the deputy director's nod, he really wanted to team up with his good brother and go out to hunt monsters, but his family told him that as much as they have a lot of power in the academy, they could not intervene much in the selection of students and they could only ask the deputy director to evaluate Tom Curi and decide if he could enter the academy or not.

"Well, it looks like that's the way it is brother Jiang. Grandpa, it looks like I'm going to go back to go live in China for a while" he replied to his good friend and then said to his grandfather.

"I understand brat, it seems fine to me, we can't compare the magic academies in Argentina with those in China and the resources you can get there are several times greater and if you add to that those of the family, I have no doubt that your progress will accelerate drastically, but if you get to have any problems in China or the academy, don't hesitate to come back right away, I don't want your talent to be wasted because of a bad training in China, if you go it's because I trust that your progress will only accelerate in China, not like here it may take you longer to progress, if you see it's convenient to come back, don't hesitate boy" said his grandfather, the head of the Curi family.

"Oh you don't have to worry Sir. Curi, I promise you that the academy is going to provide you with everything you need to become a powerful mage in the future, besides, with the earth element he awakened with such a promising effect, no matter the place I am sure your grandson would be well received by any academy, it is our pleasure to have the privilege of having such a genius in the academy and I assure you that we take very good care of promising talents" said with confidence the vice principal, after all Tom Curi was a natural talent, an innate spiritual seed, a spiritual seed: this is a small list of what you can find! and it has an unparalleled effect within the same element.

"You heard him grandfather, no need to worry, I promise to impress everyone in a short time, you will see what your grandson is capable of" said Tom Curi confident that in a short time he can bring his earth element to the middle level and awaken a new element, so he has high expectations about himself and is excited to try other elements, after all, he only used the fire element amaterasu since he was two years old and it always caused him great physical, mental and spiritual fatigue, now that he knows he can have other elements he is happy.

"Well I have to go back to China, in a few months the academy starts, so in these days I recommend you to take advantage of your last months in Argentina, they are not so close to be able to visit them often, see you at the academy Ai Jiang Tu and Tom Curi, Sir. Curi if you excuse me I'm leaving, have a good day" said the deputy director.

Once the vice principal left, it was Sir. Curi's turn to leave:

"Well it seems that's all, brat, go and tour the country a bit with JiangTu who I'm sure doesn't know much," he said and left.

"Well brother JiangTu, looks like it's just you and me, what do you think if...." Tom began to say.

"No, no and a thousand times no" JiangTu interrupted him.

"Oh come on my good brother Jiang, you didn't even let me finish what I wanted to say."

"You think I don't know you, I know very well what you were going to propose to me and it's a resounding no, you already dragged me too many times in your amorous pursuits not to know what you think" said angrily JiangTu.

"Come on, it wasn't that many, it hurts me to hear you say it like that, besides we didn't have a good time bro?, I don't think you had any complaints at the time" commented Tom Curi.

"Pfff, that was before, I'm no longer interested in going out for the sake of going out, we are already more mature brother, we can't go on with those things" sighed JiangTu to the shameless Tom.

"How can that be, if we are still young, we have to enjoy ourselves a little, I know several good places that will surely change your opinion brother, let's go one last outing together before we enter the academy is not much, it's to celebrate our brotherhood."

"This....." JiangTu did not know what to say

"Come on JiangTu, if I go alone it's harder to pick up a partner, if it's the two of us it's easier to make conversation with two or more beautiful women, if I go alone maybe they will think that my intentions are not good"

"Oh and tell me brother, when were your intentions good when dating beautiful women?" asked JiangTu amused.

"Come on, you know I am a gentleman, I only offer what they are looking for, I never lie, then you come...please for your dear brother" replied Tom.

"You really are the most shameless person I know, I thank God my little sister knows how to control you so well."

"So ... yes??" insisted Tom again.

"Ufff alright, alright, one last time, but just a few drinks and no more Tom" sighed defeatedly and agreed JiangTu.