Project: Mage - The Frugal Mage 1 Prologue - 0

In every part of the world, many said that the world would end in 2012, while others said a new era would come. One thing in common in the minds of religious and spiritualism fanatics was that something would change, for better or for worse.

But no one imagined that the changes that would happen to the world would be something like the rise of magic, or the resurgence of it.

When the clock struck midnight on December 31, 2011, for the last country on the globe, that time was the beginning of the change.

A great earthquake struck and shook the entire planet, tens of thousands of cities were destroyed, small, medium and large, and at the same time, hundreds of thousands of people died at that time.

The earthquake lasted ten minutes, but those ten minutes were the biggest hell everyone saw that moment. After the earthquake, giant wave tsunamis sweep the coasts of all countries, causing further large-scale destruction.

Two days later, at the same time, something began to change in the world.

Ancient cities began to emerge where the epicenter of earthquakes were, cities that were buried underground thousands of miles away. The dense forests began to become denser and more dangerous, the trees began to come to life and the animals became fiercer as if they had mutated.

Many forests grew and invaded the cities, this caused more destruction, the inhabitants were forced to leave the cities and live in other less inhabited places.

Four days later, one more change happened in the world.

Particles of light began to appear all over the world, and the children who were born from that day, they were born with special powers to control the elements.

People never imagined that magic, which was just stories that existed in legends and myths, could exist.

From that day on, governments in all countries began to create programs focused on children born on January 7, 2012.

The sevens that passed became known as the Seven Blood Days, that name was for the future generation to remember the misfortune that happened and the deaths of large numbers of people.

This program was called Project Mage, this program created by the government was intended to create and train young mages to protect the country and to fight against creatures that lurked in the most dangerous places of the country or against the eventual invasion of other countries.

The years went by slowly, the children grew up and received basic education about the world and magic.

But who were those who taught about magic? If the only ones could use were the kids? The answer to that question was in the books about ancient civilizations and historical ruins.

Historians read the books and saw clues about how to use and train magic.

Twenty years later, the first magical soldiers were raised and trained, but that was also their first tragedy. In its first combat mission, ninety percent were killed by the wild creatures and demons that inhabited the abandoned areas. Because none of them had real combat skills.

Because of this, countries had to create a program to train young mages before sending them to the battlefield. Many organizations were created to train new youth, and with that came the Mage Olympics, where young mages use their powers to play sports and show the world their skills.

But as the world needed fighters more than anything else, another competition was created, the Great Magic Arts Tournament, the tournament was the gathering of the world's highest high school and college students, they would come together and compete in fights to see who was the best.

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Over the years, researchers have found that magic had several different elements and there was a color that represents each element. Red as fire, blue was water, brown was earth, green was wind, yellow was thunder, white was light, black was darkness, transparent was chaos, and pink was an invocation. These were all elements known to mankind.

The other elements that existed were only subelements of the main ones, such as ice, ice was a subelement of the water element.

Another discovery that struck researchers was that a magician's innate talent was decided by his awakening at birth, that is, the sooner the magician awakens his powers, the more talented and powerful he will be in the future.

Children who awaken their powers soon after birth were considered geniuses among the geniuses of one in a million children. The limit of awakening was at ten years old, if the child cannot awaken his powers until ten years old, he will be just a normal child and cannot become a mage for the rest of his life.

But there will always be an exception, and that exception was the children who were able to awaken the magical powers within their mothers' bellies, these were the children who were blessed by the heavens, but a disgrace to the family, because the mother was ninety percent likely to die during childbirth, because the mother had no magical powers to protect her body and people who were helping had to, but not always it was possible to save the woman.

These children, who awakened their powers within their mothers' bellies, were treated as the jewels of the countries.

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Our story begins when a ten-year-old boy desperately tries to awaken his magic power, he has successfully aroused the element of summoning and summoned a girl who will change his life forever.

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