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  • October 31, 2025
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QUEEN AND THE KINGDOM

Shyne felt a negligible mana connection ,his eyes went straight at a corner beside bed, saw a cockroach, and looked at him.

Cockroach ran towards the darkness of bed at full speed,
Maya spits a spray of acid poison, cockroach instantly melted and disappear.

Standing straight , he rotated his right hand in clock wise, completing one circle said in seriously low note
" memorial silentus"

A invisible barrier formed that block sound and person mana from coming and going from it.
He sat down on a wooden chair and looked straight in maya's button round eyes for a few seconds then said

"you ruined my initial plan, I wanted to be in a low profile and not attract unnecessary attention"

Maya said in a cold tone " Is that so "

Shyne looked at her with a pissed face " what do you mean 'is that so' , now i will face unwanted attention, now its official that you made contact with me, Jenes and others will surely do background check and will spy on me for the time being"

"So don't talk in public that you know me instead act as a guide in front of others like you want to make me an  excellent mage, so that I can lift your curse or something like this excuse  
Understood!"

Maya nodded in agreement.

He got up and went to bed and said " now go, let me sleep"

Maya flew out of the barrier wall like a ghost.

"Aah.. what a troublesome partner"

He snapped his finger and the invisible barrier disabled.

Next day, Monday 23 September 1746 in
Horgon's University first year students mage classroom

Shyne who was wearing his University robe entered into class.

The scene of the classroom was the same as other regular classrooms, some were chatting, some were whispering about somebody, some laughing and some were playing cards.

Shyne looked at the last rows of seats, and found a two seater bench empty.

He sat thinking inwardly                    
" while there are many empty seats in the middle and first rows, it's best to sit in the last seats At least I don't have to talk face to face with faculties"

After some time while shyne was looking outside the birds flying.

Curolion  entered the classroom and scanned the whole room, it was like he was looking for somebody.

His eyes locked on shyne who was looking outside, he smiled and started walking towards him.

Shyne felt a surge of uneasiness, looked beside found Curolion walking in his direction with a mischievous smile.

Shyne got a cold sweat and many thoughts coming in his mind" why he is coming here?, there are plenty of empty seats, shu shu , i want a low profile here, go sit on the first row or second "

Curolion with a leather bag in his hand and a mischievous smile said to shyne " can I have a seat"

Shyne nervously said with hesitation
" please, sit comfortably, I will sit elsewhere "

Curolion with the same smile replied " no there's no need for you to go ,I just need a small space, it's two seater we can both sit here"

Shyne fell silent with no other excuse in his mind saying " ok "

Curolion put his bag on table shelve and then sit straight with smile and without looking at shyne , who was just beside him said in low tone " you have more secret than imagined, you sense the cockroach's negligible mana frequency in a instent, on the top of it , ancient archmage maya choosing you  is not coincidental, she is not some brainless magic beast that will go with anyone without a reason "

" He is the one , who sent a cockroach for spying "
He thought and said
   I don't know , she might have her own reasons, as you see i am just a factory worker's son , I don't have anything special and also not talented like you"

Curolion still looking in front said " it's a good lie to tell others and deans, but I am not like others , that will believe in the last minute excuse"
" But you don't have to worry, I also have my reason to come here and I have no ill with you, i am a person who believes in partnership and helping out each other so I won't tell anyone."

Shyne felt a little relief.

Then Curolion added" but it's not like I don't like to know other secrets and use things to my advantage"

Shyne in serious low tone " oh then let's be good classmates at least but don't expect me to believe you that easily, you are a puppet master, you can use any pawn and piece of information for your profit but not me, try to fit that in your mind.

After a few minutes of silence and first class about start He asked " but your magical creature's power has been sealed off mostly , so how do you send that puppet cockroach to my room."

Curolion said " you are really not bright in thinking do you, it's simple they sealed  his mana to negligible but what do you think how much is mana of a small insects, answer near zero so he can use few small insects atleast in his sealed form,"

Shyne who was thinking and then said " oh that's why"

Then a half bald old man came in yellow mage cloak for their GK class.
While he was lecturing about the gk of this world.
Shyne was feeling sleepy.
He yawned " what a waste, i already know all those things but still have to read gk for 6 months."

Then we moved to the deacon mage who was explaining general knowledge
" we will first start with the ranking system of our kingdom's army.
We have five ranks in the military of the Britainian Empire ,
Most in number and common are wolves They are normal mages with one or two magic powers but not mastered it properly or normal knights who know how to swing a sword but not master any battle form and don't know how to integrate elements in swords

then we have deacon mages like me , who have three or lower elements and are master of them or deacon knights who are master swordmen but don't know how to integrate elements powers in sword, you all are at atleast deacon level as you are in Horgon which only takes students power level of deacon but you are not experienced yet and don't know thing about world that is the thing i am master of and here to teach you "

"and then we have Archmage and Archknight like both of our deans.
Archmages are masters of four or less basic nature elements and have a special element and Archknight has mastery of swords and can integrate an element in their swords to make attacks more powerful.
Then we have Arcane knights they are rare and powerhouses of a country there 24 currently in empire and grand dean sir Jenes is one of the 24 arcane knight they had to master all five basic elements and have one or more special elements and also master of sword Play with integration of elements and special elements, you say that they are masters of both magic and swords"

"Then the final and most legendary ranking of the angels whose power transcends our imagination and only an arcane knight can stand against them for a few minutes, their abilities are unknown but many say they have a blessing of god .
They are known as " Messiah"

There are in total four in our nation, all of them are more than 200 years old and serve under the great Empress of wisdom and embodiment of peace " Queen valentina"
The creator and ruler , goddess of Britannia who has lived since the birth of this nation.

Curolion got nervous and uncomfortable by something that the teacher said, He then moved his eyes to the desk.
Shyne looking at him and thinking
" What happened to him, why did he get nervous and get a cold sweat '
but in the end  shyne  did not ask him anything.

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