Magus Supremacy

"This assessment would be three different types and note, if you fail anyone of them, you would be told to head back. No second option so you must do the assessment properly and when done with all three, winners of all three assessments, would be displayed in front of the captains and the captains would raise their hands if they want any contestant to join their squads. Do we all understand?" Ryan asked and the whole contestants shouted at once.

"Yes sir!"

"Good! Now let the assessments begin!" Ryan smiled. "So for the first assessment!" He said and then several pieces of papers were seen floating above from the sky and as if controlled, they fell into the hands of the applicants along with a writing material like a feather of some kind but with an ink.

"You are all expected to fill out your name, what magic you use, and what star you are. It will be essential when you are being judged by the council of captains here." Ryan said and the applicants got to work all except Grey.

"Shit! I didn't know that I would encounter a hurdle on my first assessment." Grey mumbled as he saw some of the applicants lifting their papers up and it began to float towards the captains while some were still scribbling something.

'What affinities should I put here now? The logical thing is not expose myself too much so I have to put two affinities here. It shouldn't be a problem as I'm sure that some of them here would have two affinities but which one should I put now?' he thought as he looked at the piece of paper when some applicants beside him began whispering.

They were part of the first to submit and looking at him, they began mumbling loud enough for him to hear them.

"What's wrong with him?" One of them asked out loud.

"This first test is probably the simplest to perform and yet there is going to be someone who's going to fail?"

"Pathetic! Probably he has no affinity."

"Didn't someone tell him that there's no place for cripples?"

The last statement surprisingly got to Grey as he remembered that he was always called a cripple by people when he had no affinity so in order to shut them up, he quickly scribbled and filled in the paper and let it float towards the captains.

"I wonder what he wrote."

"Probably explaining to the captains that they should allow him to take part in the assessment since he has no affinity." Someone said and the group laughed but Grey just shrugged ignoring them when he saw a group gather around an applicant and no doubt mocking him.

'Well I forgot that discrimination is much in this world. Now I'm missing the elf world.' he thought with a sigh when he saw the group surrounding the bullied young boy disperse and contrary to Grey's thoughts of seeing him shattered, he could see him smiling as if the taunts didn't affect him one bit.

'Hmm! He has a strong resilience and didn't let their taunts get to him. I like that.' Grey smiled and he turned around to Captain Ryan who had finally received all the papers.

"Okay! That was assessment 1.0, now time for assessment 1.2. I want you all to display the affinities you wrote down in these papers. We want honest and truthful individuals so if you know that you don't have the magic you wrote down here, leave or else when the assessment starts, you would be punished severely before being told to head back." Ryan said with a stern look on his face while leaving a bit of mana to threaten the crowd and slowly, about thirty applicants began leaving the coliseum and when they got to the place where the gate was, it appeared letting them through.

"Are those all the deceivers?" Ryan asked and everybody began looking at themselves wondering if they were any more left but no one stepped forward. "Fine! I will begin calling you all one by one to display the affinities you wrote down in the paper."

And although there were still hundreds of papers, Captain Ryan made sure to get through them all calling everybody one by one to display their affinities which they did while does that wrote down false information, were dealt with either giving them burn marks or something before they were kicked.

"And the last but not the least applicant, Grey Dawn! Right here, he wrote that he has two affinities which are lightning and wind and he is a two star mage." Ryan said and then the crowd began mumbling while Amir who had a bored expression before suddenly sat up.

'Grey Dawn?! He came? I didn't expect he would come here. But what is it with him saying he has two affinities? By my knowledge, he has three.' Amir thought as his eyes scanned the crowd.

"Will Grey Dawn step forward and display his affinities?" Ryan asked and then Grey was seen stepping forward with a confident and an un-bothered look on his face as his hands were in his pants' pockets. He walked before he finally stood in front of the crowd while the group that called him a cripple were shocked.

'Hold on! That's not the Grey I know. What happened to his red hair and what is this about him having lightning magic? Although the last name is the same and the face is almost the same just a few differences with his hair color change.' Amir thought.

"What? This guy? Two affinities?! Ha! He must have lied."

"I can't wait to see him get punished severely." Another one laughed.

"I still can't believe he has the audacity to still come out when it is evident he lied."

"Wait! Has anyone ever heard of the family name of Dawn?" Someone from the crowd asked.

"Nope! Which means he is just a peasant trying to show off and lie his way to a prestigious academy."

"Thank heavens for the first assessment. I can't wait for him to get punished right now." Someone said and the crowd laughed.

"Grey Dawn, display your affinities." Ryan ordered and Grey just shrugged.

"Lightning magic!" He called out and in front of everybody, lightning was seen surrounding Grey's hands crackling and sparkling bright and turning his hand towards the crowd that mocked him, he shot a stream of lightning that crashed in front them almost electrifying them but the fear they felt was real as they looked into Grey's eyes.

"Wind magic!" Grey called out and immediately, a huge wind descended on the coliseum while it lifted Grey from the ground and made him hover.

"Impressive! I guess you are not a fake. You pass!" Ryan said and Grey cancelled his magic while walking back to the crowd with hands tucked in his pants' pockets as he continued walking until he got to the group that mocked him.

"You shouldn't judge a book by its cover, who knows, the book might end up hurting you." He said as he fully passed them while their hearts thumped loudly in fear.

"That concludes the first assessment! Now time for the second assessment!" Ryan smiled.