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new birth

This is the end of one life and one birth to another. I will miss my school, yet it seems as if I never left. All that I have discovered here looks the same just with slight differences. We still have history, but we also have magic classes, dragon classes, martial arts, and combat classes. 

The first day they showed me where I would be living. I was surprised I was living in a one-bed one-bath home. It was small, had a lot of kitchen supplies, a circular dining room table with five chairs, and in the bedroom a queen-size bed with a desk that had a lamp on it. But in the corner of all the rooms there were bookshelves full of books in the kitchen there were tons of different cookbooks, in the bedroom there were books for all my studies, and in the dining room, there were books on war and the history of this new world that I now called home. 

 

Then when I went to the closet in the bedroom I found a wardrobe, which opened and put me into a room full of weapons, armor, and clothing. Then I heard a voice saying to choose what I would like to have. So, then I went to the weapons section first and found a katana with a red handle and the blade was black and that was the weapon that I chose. It was light and thin, and for some reason, it fits perfectly into my hands after choosing it. Then I went to the armor section and found tons of suits of armor. Some were silver, others red or black, but the one that caught my eyes the most was at the end of the row. It was a suite of small and light armor with red metal with a design in black embedded into it again after choosing this fit perfectly to my body. In which I came tumbling out of the wardrobe into my bedroom, then I heard knocking at my door. I went to answer it but then realized that I was upside down on the floor and so I rolled over and rushed to the door. It was oddly shaped, yet I left it alone and went to answer the door. After opening the door, my friends were waiting for me and were in their gear. I let them in, and they asked me to show them around. 

 

Then I found that while I was showing them around, there was a package on my bed. Then McKenzie walked in and found that I was staring at my bed. “What are you looking at zero?” questioned McKenzie. In response, I said, “there is a package on the bed. can you not see it?.” “No, I can’t see anything there. Did you go into the wardrobe?” replied McKenzie. What do I say to her? What if it is a terrible thing that I went in so early? Sady, I responded with “yes I went into a wardroom and picked several things, but it all felt like a dream.” then open your box but be ready your items might be heavy. Then I slowly opened the mysterious package on my bed and found that it contained all the items that I had chosen in the box. I found that all the armor that I had chosen fits perfectly with my body. In that there then appeared a rectangular prism box two yards long and once opened I found that a weapon that I chose in the mysterious wardrobe was there on my bed. This was a surprise seeing how I was able to quickly find that I was able to recognize it because I thought that it was all a dream, all I could see was a white room with armor, weapons, and clothing lining all the stands and shelves like a gallery. But now in awe, I found that the weapon had been the same as it was in the wardrobe and that I could still easily weald it except the box was about a half a yard longer and I found that in the bottom of the box was a smaller box that was bigger than what it had inside of it and in that box, there was a note and a key. The note said that if I needed anything I could call the wardrobe back to my home and tell it what I wanted if I wanted to walk through its giant collection of items. Then there was the key in which I turned to see that all my friends had left the, but one and that was McKenzie and so I had turned to her and asked: “what is this key for?” 

And in response she had said “It is for your home dummy.” and so I had asked them to show me around the village since I was new to this world and so they agreed. 

 

In the center of the village, there was a crystal that both spread light and mana throughout the village. There was no electricity, and no internet, in this world those things that I knew on earth had yet to be invented. This had an enormous impact on how people lived in this world compared to how people on earth seem to rely on the internet rather than face to face to communicate with others. Then you have the fact that in this world they have not invented a lot of the machinery that we have on earth. This had an impact on how I viewed the people here because all that they had was either made by magic or by hand. This world was called Hydracon, and was a planet that is filled with magic and that the crystal that was in the town center had to be shrunk down and had pieces mined off it so that it did not crush half of the town and that the pieces that were taken off it are used to light homes and paths throughout the town. There was a forbidden place that was just at the edge of the village and that was the dragon’s cliff. 

 

Well, it was not a completely forbidden place because the dragon-taming students were allowed to enter and leave, but only if they partied with an upper-class student from the dragon training program. However, there was a way to enter without a party and that is the exam for the second year in the dragon training program. The goal for this exam is to find a partner or to train with a powerful dragon. The most common outcome is people finding partners because the more powerful dragons are overly aggressive towards humans and are well known to eat the body with the heart still beating. 

 

Zero was sent on this assignment with McKenzie since she was an upper-class student in the dragon tamer class. “So, what was your choice when you did the assessment?” asked zero. “I chose my partner Ersa she is an ice dragon, and her specialty is ranged attacks!” quickly responded McKenzie. “What should I do?” asked zero. “For your case, I would recommend training or partnering with a powerful dragon,” stated McKenzie. “Then who is the strongest here?” asked zero. “You sure are asking a lot of questions zero, and the strongest would be the golden hydra,” said McKenzie. “Then let’s go find the golden hydra, that’s what I want to be my partner!” exclaimed zero. “Ok you sure are ambitious!” stated McKenzie. 

 

They leave together and hike to the top of the highest cliff in the area. There they spotted the golden hydra. “Who goes there?” roars the golden hydra. “I am a member of the academy and would like to be taught by you and have you as my partner!” exclaimed zero “then that woman must leave.” stated the golden hydra. “McKenzie leave I will be fine!” yelled zero. 

 

“Now that she is gone, we can chat” stated the golden dragon. “So, what’s your choice?” asked zero. “Fusion” proclaimed the golden hydra. “Fusion?” said zero. “Yes, I will fuse with your body and your skin will be as tough as gold along with an almost limitless mana pool. The only downside is that your body must endure the fusion that’s why it’s never been done but since you’re not from this world your body should be able to endure through the fusion.” explained the golden hydra. The golden hydra places its main head in front of zero and begins the fusion process. They lean towards each other, and the fusion begins. The hydra slowly disappears as gold smoke covers Zero’s body and is slowly being absorbed by his skin. Then as the smoke started to dissipate zeros skin had a golden glow and his eyes changed to match that of the hydra. Zero passes out on top of the mountain. 

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