The class finally ended, leaving a mix of excitement and disappointment behind. Some students looked proud of the creatures they had summoned—flames in the shape of wolves, winged serpents, glowing familiars. But others just stared at their empty circles, unable to bring forth even a flicker. Not every student was born with mana, after all. And for them, today had only proven what they already feared.
Lack of mana.
Magic, they say is what completes a human. Before the present time, people without magic were seen as unworthy. Till it was abolished in the imperial law.
Celina rose from her seat calmly. She didn't try to summon anything after the summoning of a manticore. She's not sure she'd like to do that again. She didn't even infuse a lot of mana into the circle. She thought she would summon something small, simple and weak, but something that huge.
