《Soul Status (HIATUS)》


 Prologue

    "Mom, Dad I finished planting these crops so may I go now." When I yelled this to my parents my dad came out of the cottage in which my family called home and then he proceeded to walk towards me but he was stumbling a little bit due to his bad leg.


    When my dad stood in front of me he just looked at me from above and narrowed his eyes at me. To my dad''s stare I decided to look at him right in the eye because I wasn''t willing to back down on the decision I made.


    After a long while of us both staring at each other my dad just closed his eyes and let out a long sigh and said to me "Son I as a father must say that you must reconsider your decision you just can''t leave and stay at that school it is for your own safety because if you do go then-".


    Before my dad could say another word I interrupted him and said "Dad I know you''re worried about me and with good reason but if you think about it there is no choice but for me to go to this school because if I don''t then my life as of right now will be going downhill and you know that dad." As I said all of this my dad stayed silent and stared at the ground but then he raised his head and he said "Then son you could work at the farm with us that''s no problem is it."


    When my dad said that I felt an intense headache coming to me and shortly after I shouted at him scrunching my face at the same time "Dad are you freaking out of your mind what you suggested is just illegal sure I can help but I can''t make farming my job or work anywhere unless I go to this school for at least 3 years. That is why I''m going right now because now I only have 3 days until I become 15 which is the minimum requirement for me to be able to join any school around here. If I at least survive the school 2 years then I will be able to get a job or have a chance to getting hired you fully know this Dad as in the past both you and my mom did this yourselves and the proof of your job is magically engraved in your right hand there is no way to fake that so I need to go no matter what or else there will be no chance of me surviving in the future!".Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel.


    When I finished shouting everything I had to say I needed to gulp a huge amount of air as my breathing was ragged and I kept watching my dad who at some point had again stared to the ground. As my breath became less ragged I began to be calmer every breath I took in and out and after a long silence between me and my dad I with a more softer,serene voice said "Dad i''m going it is a 3 day walk from here to school and I have already packed up everything necessary in my bag which is in my room. Dad thank you so much for taking care of me and showing genuine love to me but it is time for me to go and i''m sorry for this."


    I began to walk to the cottage my home ever since I was a baby and when I arrived in front of the cottage my mom was waiting for me. My mom stood in front of the door but then she just moved aside and I could see her tears ever so slowly flowing down her cheeks falling down to the ground beneath her.


    The only thing I could do was bite my lip and continue on as I open the door I quietly said to my mom "I''m so sorry." I continued walking on until I reached my room and took the bag I prepared for and I immediately scurried out of my room,out of the cottage, out of the fields, and now I''m on a path which will lead me to school I did all of this while looking at the ground.


    When I raised my head up and look back I still see that my parents are standing in the same place I left them and after a little while of staring I just closed my eyes, let out a big breath and concentrated on the path I''m on and as I turned my back to them the only thought I had before walking on was "I will survive this school no matter how bad they are to me for my parents the only fortune I had these past years and for my life in the future. Even if I don''t have a name or a status due to that incident I will still withstand anything that comes my way and continue on no matter what.".

 Chapter 1

    As I started walking down the path I began to think what course of action I should take in order for me to somehow graduate the school. But the more I thought of it, the more I realized that there really wasn''t any viable solution for me to somehow pass the courses and graduate from the school.


    At this prospect I raised my hand to my hair and began to ruffle through it. I thought to myself "This isn''t the time for me to wallow around the ground and give up, first I must take this step by step.". With this chain of thought I decided to first assess my abilities because I must no matter how small my resources are make the best out of it.


    First my fighting capabilities aren''t that bad due to me helping out the farm kill the low-leveled beasts that often come to eat our crops. But I''m not a top notch fighter because at most I can only handle 5 Lv. 1-10 common beast but, there was a time that I was able to defeat a common magic beast of Lv.7 just that it took me a long time for me to kill it due to it using magic unlike the other beasts I faced which couldn''t.


    Next is my magic which is mediocre at best since my mana reserves is smaller compared to others. Plus I only know water, earth, and nature magic but it is mostly related to growing crops and I only know a few combat spells. Finally I do know how to farm, dismantle, and cook these are all the abilities I know I have.


    Honestly these abilities I listed are pretty bad compared to the other people with a status, but this is all I have and I will make the best out of it. After all of this thinking I realized that a few hours have passed and that the sun was setting down so I decided that it was time for me to make camp.


    I got out of the path I was walking on and instead I began to sit down on the vast grassy plains that surrounded the path along with my bag as well. After I got comfortable I grabbed my bag and opened it and got out the rations I have prepared which was the crops from the farm.


    I began eating some of it slowly but surely to appease the hunger that I had and I also just began to lay down in the grass staring upward at the sky. It was about to be night as I saw the moon slowly coming out as the sun was setting down and I finishing off one of the rations.


    It was really peaceful to me as it was deadly silent nothing could be heard at this point I felt very sleepy and my eyelids were about close and take me to sleep. Until I willed myself not to and I scrambled taking my bag with me away from the spot I was laying down on.


    As I increased the distance I saw that there was a hazy purple smoke coming from where I was and that secondly there was something coming out of the grass where the smoke is. I moving my hands fast as I could went into my bag to get my weapon which was a dagger and luckily I quickly got it out.


    But there was a problem I immediately noticed that my movements were sloppy as my whole body felt like mush and my vision was getting all blurry and with those combined I felt like I was about to fall and become unconscious. Before that happened though I inwardly thought "No I can''t fall down here because if I do I''ll most likely die by the thing that set all of this up. I can''t just do that I must live for my parents and myself I want to still live.".If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.


    With that encouragement I somehow sustained myself and took a stance with my dagger albeit it was sloppy, but it was better than nothing. I began to see with my wavy blurred sight that the thing that was sprouting looked to be a mushroom which had a black cap and was also small in size, but what surprised me was what it had above its cap.


    <Uncommon Magic Beast Black Cap Mushroom Lv.9>


    "Damn what the heck is a beast of that caliber doing here there shouldn''t be anything that strong. How the heck am I supposed to defeat it with my weak condition the only reason I didn''t fall unconscious is because it was strangely quiet and the way I was about to sleep was unnatural. Okay calm down and look for a solution one step at a time." this is what was running through my mind at the time I saw the rarity and the level of the black cap mushroom.


    As I was focusing on the mushroom I felt that the grass below was snuggling against my ankles and that''s when I realized something and mouthed the words "Oh shoot". I immediately swung my dagger frantically at the grass below, I observed that the grass was actually moving and wrapping around my ankles with carefulness.


    Luckily my dagger was able to cut the grass and I hurriedly shuffled away from the mushroom while waving the dagger back and forth to the grass that had now sprung forth trying to reach out to me. As this continued on my whole body began to wobble and my vision began to darken around the corners and I could only stay conscious by clenching my teeth hard, but then while retreating I stumbled and fell backwards and I could only hope that I got out of range.


    I looked up and saw that the grass even though was trying to reach me it couldn''t and the reason was that the mushroom''s magic range didn''t reach that far after all there is a limit to how far magic can reach depending on the one using it. The good thing was that I could sense that it was magic due to me also having the same magic which was nature magic and I could feel how its mana was flowing to the grass controlling them to the mushroom''s bidding.


    Thanks to that I was able to cook up a plan of getting far away from the mushroom as possible so that its magic couldn''t reach me in which it was successful, and I could only weakly smile at this and my intuition was right when I thought that the mushroom couldn''t move from its spot it was currently in.


    I flipped myself over as due to that purple gas I now don''t have any strength to stand up so I began to crawl away from the estimated magic range of the mushroom and I stayed parallel with the path, while I was doing this I realized that my right hand was grasping the bag in which luckily I haven''t dropped while retreating.


    As I dragged myself I felt all the power in my body dissipate and I couldn''t move anymore so I just flipped myself over, and watched the night sky with the moon high up and the star shining with glamour. I now began to close my eyelids so that I could get some shut-eye and rest, after closing them I instantly let my body loose and I began to sleep.

 Chapter 2

    As I woke up I slowly began to regain my senses and the first thing I saw was the glaring light coming from the sun in which I raised my arm to block it and I began to raise my body slowly. I looked around and began to check myself and after doing all of this, I was relieved to find that everything was alright and that I was still alive.


    At this realization I grinned because it meant that I was able to survive against a really strong beast in which gave me hope for the future and just a little chance of me maybe graduating the school.


    ¡°But first thing first that beast that I encounter shouldn¡¯t be near here because this area only has low-leveled beast and common rarity so to me that encounter is definitely strange, it just shouldn¡¯t be possible. Unless somehow that beast was able to increase its rarity while living there, but those cases never really happen it basically close to 0% when a beast goes up its rarity. For now when I get to town I need to report this to the soldiers because this is really a serious case, and plus that mushroom beast lives close where my family lives so I must get to the town at my utmost priority.¡±


    After finishing this thought I immediately began to stand up and looked at the endless grass plains around me and the path that was parallel to me, and finally I could see from afar the black mushroom who had almost killed me last night.


    ¡°Actually now that I think about it was I really attacked yesterday or was I unconscious for days? Wait a minute I can instantly solve my dilemma by getting my crystal gemstone!¡± I now got my bag and I put my hands inside to search for a hand-size object and then when I felt it I instantly yanked it out.


    As I put my attention on the crystal I had in my hand I injected a little bit of my mana into the crystal in which automatically it gave me an image on the crystal about the year, month, day, and time of today.


    What I saw on the crystal gave me relief because it looks like I wasn¡¯t unconscious for days and instead what I saw was as I expected. The image specifically told me that it was the year 1790 A.S, month Gustan 22 , and the time currently is apparently 11:08 T.


    Now that I settled that matter I am glad that these crystals are common and cheap because without them the whole world probably wouldn¡¯t know the exact time of today. ¡°I guess it¡¯s now time to go.¡± as I thought this I began to put the crystal back in my bag and decided to still wield the dagger in my left hand as you might never know what might happen, and with all of this prepared I started walking back in the path really hoping that nothing dangerous comes across my path like yesterday.Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation.


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    After pushing myself to walk for 2 days and resting I finally reached the town in which unlike my home which was pretty quiet and there was only a small amount of people coming to the farm or in the farm, but in here there was a bunch of people coming to and fro between the buildings and the streets.


    If I have to be honest then I felt like my chest began to tighten unto itself making a sensation of me being suffocated to death, and I couldn¡¯t help but lower down my head and watch the floor. ¡°Calm down there is nothing to be afraid of because as long as nobody knows that I don¡¯t have a status they won¡¯t do anything to me unlike I was little. Don¡¯t focus on the past and just stay in the present while looking for the future ahead of me because now its different nobody knows the truth unlike back home.¡±


    When I thought of it like that my body as a whole started to relax and the sensation of suffocation lifted and I could now raise my head without restriction or fear. It was now time for me to enter the town so I approached the guards who were in front of the very huge door and as I got closer one of the guards began to speak with vigor.


    ¡°Halt! Young man do you wish to enter the town if so then you must show your identification or else I won¡¯t let you pass these gates!¡± The guard reached out his hand to me presumably waiting for me to give him the documents.


    I went to my bag and got a rusty old spatial ringin which sure this might not hold too much inside but it was still enough to store my identification papers so I just put the ring in one of my fingers and using my mana willed the ring to bring forth the documents.


    A moment later the documents appeared in my hands in which I lent it to the guard who after getting the documents scurried inside the guard station.


    After a few minutes of waiting the guard got out of the station and gave me back the documents in which got sucked back into the ring and the guard said ¡°Okay you¡¯re good to go inside but first give me your hand before going in I first need to register you¡¯re entry.¡±


    I followed suit and gave him my hand in which he proceeded to slap something like a tattoo into the back of my hand and it began to sizzle, but then after a while it calmed down and stopped. The guard looked at me and said with strength ¡°Welcome to the town of Verona!¡±

 Chapter 3

    I was now in the town but to be frank I am right now totally lost because due to many people just moving around the streets and the buildings around that look similar to each other, I was just too confused.


    This map that the guard gave me also makes no sense to me since I don¡¯t even know where the heck I even ended up and I look around to see if there is anything that would let me know where I am currently, but that finished as a failure.


    At this result the only thing I could do really was ask one of the locals that live here in which at this prospect I could only release a deep sigh because I didn¡¯t want to do talk to anyone due to me being bad at public speaking.


    But there was no other choice so I tried to muster the courage I had deep inside of me and I started to shift my legs towards a young adult who was just leaning against a wall, and as I got close to him he began to stir.


    He then proceeded to look directly to me and just asked lazily ¡°What do you want kid?¡± at this question I gulped and I open my mouth saying in a barely audible voice ¡°Um¡­ I was just wondering if you could just give me some directions¡±.


    When I finished saying this the man just scratched his head and looked at me in which with an annoyed voice responded with ¡°Okay kid where do you want to go and please make this quick¡± at his response I felt relief washing over me.


    I then started to ask him with a little bit of a shaky voice ¡°Do you know where the Verona Magic School Academy is and also tell me where the Soldier barracks are located please?¡±. When I finish saying all of that the man snorted and said ¡°Kid the school registration is ending today at 17:00 T. are you sure you can make it in time because when it ends you can¡¯t register.¡±


    When the man said this I could only show bewilderment because I personally thought that the registration would close at the end of the day not in the middle of the day and at this realization I quickly checked the time in which the crystal showed me that it was currently 16:38 T.


    When I saw this I began to panic and quickly took notes about the directions to the locations in which the man told where they were. I instantly began to ran to the magic school academy looking at my notes about it because my life depended on this I needed to arrive there on time, and after running like a headless chicken for 15 minutes I arrived at the academy in which I hurriedly began to register.


    Giving the documents to the person who is in charge to check if I¡¯m at least 15 years old in which I am today I began to shiver uncontrollably because if I had arrived minutes later then my life would have ended without a doubt right now and I thanked to god that I had arrived in time.The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    After a few moments of waiting the person in charge came and told me with a infuriated voice ¡°You now have been registered and I have to tell you kid that you have to thank your little stars that you arrived in time because if you didn¡¯t then you wouldn¡¯t have this chance of entering the school, honestly what were you thinking arriving this late!¡±


    As I heard this I really couldn¡¯t respond back after all it truly was my fault for not knowing that the registration ended at this time because of me being too excited finding out in the past that there was a chance for me a stateless person to live in the future and due to that I got careless.


    ¡°Well at least you¡¯re reflecting on your mistakes and I guess i¡¯ll take you to the auditorium right now as the entrance exam is about to start so come on follow me.¡± this is what the person in charge told me so as he commanded I stood up and followed him to the apparent auditorium of this academy.


    After walking along the campus he came to a stop in front of a door and solemnly told me ¡°Well good luck on your entrance exam you¡¯ll need it.¡± He walked away after that and so I guess that this is the time for me to enter and after breathing in and out huge amounts of air I entered in which the scene in front of me shocked me.


    The reason for this was the auditorium room was packed with many people and I think that there were at least thousands of people just here waiting for the entrance exam to be announced. This gave me a sensation of my legs turning into jelly slime and my whole body felt like it was about to break down into little parts right here, right now.


    But I was somehow able to push down this sensation deep down into me until I felt like it disappeared completely in which made me feel much better than before. I then looked up and saw that for some reason everyone here turned deadly silent and stopped being restless unlike before and I soon saw the reason why.


    There was a person up in the podium in which if I had to describe him he had really sharp and acute features and I felt like he gave a presence of dominance over everyone here after all he seemed really tall and robust with dark green hair and also with his green piercing eyes it felt like I was suffocating honestly.


    After a while of the atmosphere being like the man began to speak with an ominous voice ¡°Hello everyone my name is Dargon and I am the principal of this school and I will be the one setting up the entrance exam everyone here will be taking right now.¡±


    After a slight pause he again started speaking again ¡°The exam is simple if you want to get in to the school then bring me with the spatial rings I am about to give to you 300 worth common magic beasts corpses by the end of the day.¡±


    At this statement everyone around me began to act outraged and were shouting at the principal about this request he was giving and as for me the only thing I did was have a thought of ¡°How the heck am I supposed to get 300 worth of common magic beast corpses in under 7 hours!¡±

 Chapter 4

    Even after a while of staying in the auditorium many people were still outraged and some people were so fed up with this that they just exited out of the auditorium with fuming faces.


    I could understand why many people¡¯s reaction would be like this, but as for me I didn¡¯t dare to show the same reaction because when I calmly began to think this through his request actually began to make sense.


    After all this school is supposed to be only where talented individuals are supposed to go and not just some place where any individual can go in.


    When I thought of it like this I felt ashamed of myself to even think for one second that I a statless person could have a sliver of chance to somehow getting in this school.


    But in a short while I got out of this stupor thinking to myself ¡°I can¡¯t have that type of mindset because once I do then that means I have already failed without trying in which that is not an option for me because even if its hopeless I still need to try or else I won¡¯t have a chance!¡±


    When I was having this pep talk to myself it appeared that Dargon¡¯s patience was wearing thin and just out of empty air got a large box in which shortly rings started to fly out of the box.


    The rings appeared to fly to the people in here and with due time one of the rings began to fly towards me with rushing speeds and the ring with efficiency just somehow slipped into one of my fingers on an instant. When I looked at the new acquired ring an image appeared in front of me all of a sudden and showed just a big fat ¡°0¡± on it.


    At this occurrence it startled me greatly without no end, but when I looked away from the ring the image in front of me just disappeared and then when I looked at the ring the image again showed up in front of me.


    This is where I realized that the image only appeared when looking at the ring and I inferred that this is what were supposed to put the corpses inside of.


    ¡°But why does a zero show up when I look at the ring? Mmm¡­ this probably shows how much common magic beast corpse worth is inside this ring, that is really the only thing I can think of.¡±.


    That is what I personally thought in regard to the image with the ¡°0¡± on it and when I looked around to assess the situation it looked like the people here were still grumbling against Dargon who was just standing still in the podium without saying anything.


    I also saw that some people were exiting the place when they got their rings which when I thought about it was the decision that I shall follow suit due to it seeming that staying here wouldn¡¯t do anything.


    When I exited out I started to see how much time I had left in which now I only had about 6 hours to finish the entrance exam and seeing this I began to think of ways to defeat that many beasts in that short amount of time.


    ¡°I can¡¯t go to a beast area i¡¯m still too weak and even if I could it will still take me a few days to arrive there so I can¡¯t go with that option. Should I just go out in the plains to hunt the beasts that are wandering there? No I can¡¯t do that there won¡¯t be enough beasts for me to kill, plus the other entrance exam candidates will most likely do the same. I can¡¯t think of anything else other than these 2 options, how am I supposed to defeat 300 beasts? Wait a moment¡­ Dargon just said that he needed corpses I don¡¯t have to defeat them necessarily. Let¡¯s change my viewpoint then, where can I find corpses near me that won¡¯t take much of my time? Magic beast corpses usually after extracting their magic core inside of them will rot faster than normal so where are those corpses put in the meantime? The answer that comes into mind is a place that is really easy to dispose in and one that won¡¯t cause much ruckus due to the rot in there in which the most probable location will be on the trash dump of this town. After all it is a place where a lot of trash is dumped in and adding corpses inside won¡¯t really make that much of a difference plus many magicians come to burn that trash monthly according to what I¡¯ve read so adding a pile of corpses wouldn¡¯t hurt them at all instead people could just label that pile of rotten corpses ¡°trash¡± as well.¡±The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    When I logically thought it out I got the town¡¯s map immediately and since I knew where I was I can easily find the location of this town¡¯s trash dump and at this prospect I couldn¡¯t help but to grin to myself.


    After running toward the town¡¯s trash dump for a few minutes I had reached to my destination, but the smell here made me want to throw up everything inside my stomach or actually I could already feel my food inside my stomach starting to rise up to my throat.


    But I held down this feeling deep inside my stomach and kept prodding forward inside the trash dump to see if there are piles of corpses in here.


    While searching everywhere in this nauseating trash dump my efforts were awarded and my eyes brighten up when I saw the huge piles of corpses lined up orderly in which I ran like a dog toward them.


    When I came close to the piles the ring began to show some type of reaction as it began to shine an azure color and as I stood in front of the piles I put the ring in front of them in which the ring now was gleaming absorbing the pile of corpses near me like an endless abyss that could never be filled.


    Running around for countless minutes to the pile of corpses that I could see and when I was sure enough that I had absorbed all of the piles I stopped running and checked how much worth I had after all of that.


    The image appeared in front of me and the number written in front of me was ¡°247¡± at which I felt outraged at this number due to how many corpses this ring has absorbed.


    But the ring did absorb only rotten corpses and not the fresh corpses when you recently defeat a beast so this worth was absolutely accurate if you thought about it.


    ¡±Where can I get the rest of the leftover corpse worth? Wait will that uncommon magic beast I met before be enough to reach the specified corpse worth? There is no time to think about this I must act quickly!¡±


    After running with all my might to the soldier¡¯s barracks and explaining the situation of the uncommon beast that shouldn¡¯t be there the soldiers quickly turned serious as I said this.


    They sent a soldier that was experienced with teleport and strengthening magic and I of course needed to come with him since he needed my image memory of meeting with the beast to instantly teleport where I met the beast.


    The soldier warned me that even though the teleportation may seem instant time will still pass so if the distance was a few days walk most probable one hour and a half will pass in real time.


    That wasn¡¯t a problem as I had 4 and a half hours left to finish the entrance exam which gave me some breathing room and I was thankful that what I¡¯ve read was right when they said that soldiers had advance magic transportation.


    As I hanged on to the soldiers back I remembered the time where I was lucky enough to escape from that mushroom and as I thought this I felt like my head exploded and the next moment I could see the black cap mushroom was in front of me, but before I could or the mushroom act the soldier next to me moved instantaneous.


    The mushroom was cut from all directions with the soldier¡¯s sword which was whistling through the air with overpoweredness.


    At this scene I was stupefied and didn¡¯t move a single muscle until the soldier got close to the corpse and took the mushroom¡¯s magic core in which snapped me back to reality as I scurried near the corpse and pointed the ring to it which got absorbed inside.


    I looked at the ring to see how much worth I had now and the number that appeared in front of me was ¡°302¡±.

 Chapter 5

    Before I could celebrate my accomplishment and relish on it, the soldier grabbed me and we again teleported back.


    When we arrived I felt a little dizzy and I felt like the world was spinning around, but shortly everything became even and I didn¡¯t feel dizzy anymore.


    When I regained my senses I discovered that we were in front of the soldier barracks and the soldier next to me calmly told me ¡°You only have 1 hour left before the entrance exam ends, I suggest you go now before time runs out. I¡¯ll handle all of the paperwork needed to be done.¡±


    At his comment I felt startled that he knew about the entrance exam taking place, after all I¡¯m pretty sure the only ones that know are only the examinees or the school staff.


    ¡°Unless all the soldiers were told about this? But for what reason, is it to check the examinee¡¯s? There is way too many people for that, there wouldn¡¯t be enough manpower. I don¡¯t have time to think about this right now I might as well follow his advice.¡±


    Before I could respond back, the soldier had already went back to the barracks and left me standing there in which I could only shift my feet awkwardly.


    Staying here won¡¯t help me at all so with a goal in mind I just ran toward the school, but when I arrived unlike earlier in which the auditorium was filled with people and were bustling about instead what greeted me was just a empty, silent auditorium.


    The only one here was Dargon who was still standing in the same place when I left which was the podium.


    I don¡¯t think he has seen me though and I guess I have to give the ring to him so that he could qualify me to enter to the school.


    I began to walk toward him, but when I did that all of a sudden Dargon looked at me which to say the least it spooked me and a little while after that I felt some type of pressure from him.


    As he stared at me I for some reason began to feel queasy and everything around me began to sway back and forth, which in turn made me feel more queasier than before.


    With this sensation all of a sudden hitting me I began having thoughts inside my head ¡°I can¡¯t handle this, I should just get out of this auditorium and find a place where they could cure what¡¯s happening to me. Who cares about this school I should just accept the fact that a statless person can never beat someone with a status in any category. The only reason I got enough corpse worth was through sheer luck after all if one of my deductions was wrong then it wouldn¡¯t have worked out at all. Plus if I hadn¡¯t met that uncommon mushroom beast while walking to this town then I wouldn¡¯t have enough worth to pass the exam. Yeah that¡¯s right I only got through with luck I should just quit while Im ahead and walk out of this auditorium. I should just walk out and never come again ever no matter what.¡±The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.


    What I was thinking was right I should just walk out and never come again I can¡¯t believe I planned to enter the school just because luck was on my side and anyways I¡¯m not a talented individual I should just accept the fact that I¡¯m always going to be at the bottom of the barrel and live my life that way.


    I turned around with the purpose of walking outside and never coming back, but before I could take that step forward an intense headache came upon me in which made me hold my head and I couldn¡¯t help but groan loudly.


    Shortly after my headache initiated to fade away and then completely disappeared without a trace in which my first thought was ¡°What the hell was I even thinking! Leaving and never coming back just because I got here due to sheer luck and don¡¯t have a status? Accept that I¡¯m at the bottom of the barrel and live my life that way? Like hell I will just leave and not enter the school because of these reasons! I don¡¯t have the luxury to choose not going in to this school because my future is at stake here and until the end of time I won¡¯t ever stop trying to see if there is any way for me a stateless person to live better in this world!¡±


    I got infuriated with myself for even thinking of these thoughts which almost made me leave and ruin my last chance of getting in to the school so that I can get a job.


    But those thoughts I was having before clearly aren¡¯t natural and I¡¯m pretty sure I was feeling a little bit sick a little before those thoughts came in.


    ¡°Mmm¡­ why did I all of a sudden began to feel sick and have those thoughts? The only cause I can think of is Dargon had something to do with this, after all when he stared at me that is when these symptoms started to appear.¡±


    Well now that I think I know the cause I might as well try to run towards him as fast as I can, I don¡¯t have a choice in the matter.


    Strengthening my resolve I ran headfirst toward Dargon and again he all of a sudden started to stare at me in which I again felt sick and bad thoughts were creeping in to my brain.


    But this time I was prepared for those effects in which I just dealt with the sickness and repelled the bad thoughts away with my own real thoughts.


    As I got closer and closer though I felt worse and worse in which instead of running I now resorted to shuffling my way there.


    When I finally was in front of Dargon it only took me about a few minutes to reach here but to me it felt like hours has passed.


    Honestly I felt that I was about to faint at any moment and these negative thoughts were now really getting to me so with my last spurt of strength left I took off the ring and with a hoarse voice I said ¡°he...he...here¡±.


    Dargon accepted it, looked at it, and then all of a sudden I felt alleviated in which I couldn¡¯t help but to fall on my knees and gasp for air.


    Dargon just side glanced me and said with a neutral voice ¡°Congratulations, you passed.¡±.

 Chapter 6

    If I was in my normal condition then after hearing those words I would most likely be celebrating with joy and have a big happy grin in my face but in my current condition I can¡¯t do that.


    Instead what was most likely happen to me right now is me passing out in the ground in which I didn¡¯t want that to happen so I tried my best to be conscious and not as I previously said to pass out.


    With this burden I didn¡¯t have the pleasantries to celebrate right now and I could see that Dargon was waiting for me to follow him and I¡¯m positive that he is not a man that likes to wait for long.


    I had no choice but to stand and walk towards him even if I felt really sick while doing this, and as I did this Dargon proceeded to walk as well.


    I had a hard time catching up to him but when I did I immediately decided that it was best for me to ask some questions about this school after all the more knowledge I have the better it is for me.


    But before I could open my mouth Dargon turn around and glared at me in which at his action the only thing I did was to just look down as I was honestly terrified with the look he just gave me.


    Dargon sternly asked me ¡°How come I can¡¯t see your status?¡± Hearing that question made my head spin because wasn¡¯t it normal that you couldn¡¯t see other people¡¯s status.


    ¡°Unless¡­ don¡¯t tell me that Dargon has a skill to see other people¡¯s status. If that is true then what am I supposed to do, should I just bluff my way through this? That is too risky because there are ways to tell if I¡¯m lying to him or not so if he calls my bluff then I will be screwed, and of course they won¡¯t let me off that easy after all being principal of magic academy means that they have a lot of power. Damn what the heck first I should confirm my suspicions maybe I¡¯m overthinking it.¡±


    I responded stammeringly ¡°Uh¡­um¡­wh-what are you talking about?¡± Damn I should shoot myself right now why the heck do I have bad communication skills.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators!


    Dargon though didn¡¯t seem to care and just bluntly told me ¡°I have a skill that let¡¯s me see others people¡¯s status, are you now going to give me an answer.¡±


    ¡°This is honestly the worst possible outcome for me at this point I should just tell him the truth after all my hands and feet are tied behind my back. Looks like I just have to hope that my confession of being statless comes along well and that I can still go inside the academy.¡±


    This is what I thought when I heard his response and I with a feeble voice said ¡°Uh¡­well it¡¯s because I¡¯m a¡­ statless person.¡±


    I could feel myself shrinking under Dargon¡¯s gaze as I finish my confession in response he did something that I didn¡¯t expect at all.


    Dargon just grinned akin to a feral wolf and then it quickly became a maniacal laughter in which I only stared at him in bewilderment as I couldn¡¯t make out heads or tails if this was a good sign or a bad one.


    When he finish laughing Dargon faced me with a composure unlike before and simply said ¡°No wonder I couldn¡¯t see your status and you don¡¯t have to worry at all I won¡¯t reveal this to anyone because I¡¯m curious to see how you will fare here at my academy. Before I forget can you tell me what¡¯s your name?¡±


    After finishing his sentence he just reached out with his hand and left the arm just hanging there in the air.


    For now it looks like for some reason the principal will still let me in the academy after all I don¡¯t truly believe the principal would let me in just because of the reason he gave but I don¡¯t know what he¡¯ll use me for so it is pointless to think about it right now and I should probably know in the future.


    As for my name I technically don¡¯t have one since when we get the status it should tell your name but I don¡¯t have a status so instead everyone decided that I just don¡¯t have a name at all.


    But my parents never believed in this so they instead decided to name me in which I was really grateful to them for giving me a name even if it wasn¡¯t truly my name as I would never know what it was no matter what.


    But i¡¯m here right now and that is all that matters because even if I am the weakest among the world I¡¯ll climb from the bottom with all my might without never stopping and I won¡¯t ever stop until the day I am dead.


    I¡¯ll continue on for my parents and myself because this world believes that I a statless person would never reach the top but I decide my own fate and I say that it is possible so I will strive for the top and when I do then that will mean the whole world was wrong about me.


    I proceeded to shake Dargon¡¯s hand and with a uncharacteristically smirk on my face, I clearly said with confidence ¡°My name is Lerato and I hope we have an eventful school year, principal.¡±