The world of Herunal, where various layers of reality overlap and intertwine, a fantastic place where magic is a common sight, even among the lowest born. In the far past, when magic first began developing, the royalty was worried by the growth of weak, tainted, and uncivilized magic, and thus created the Magus Academy, bringing various organized classes of magic with it. Necromancy, transmutation, elemental control, hundreds of powerful curriculums were available, and the world went through a revolution in which magic has developed into a form incomparable to anything ever before it.
Fast forward to the present, and we come to you. A fresh student in the academy. On the day of the test, you caught a cold, walked under a ladder, walked by what had to be half the black cats in the world, and somehow broke every mirror on the way. Needless to say, you were late, and your performance was at its lowest due to the fatigue. Your hopes of entering the necromancy class so you could one day become a hard working public servant were smashed to pieces. Though your performance was low, you were thankfully not horrible enough to throw out.
Instead, you were shuffled into the least populated, most unstudied, and overall worst of the curriculums: Mana Shaping. Hated for the absurdly high internal reserves it requires to be used effectively, Mana Shaping is an unwieldy form of magic that utilizes mana in its raw form. Not only that, but it has little use to society as a whole. Thus, the only other students to be joining you are an actual statue, and a woman around your age who seems to be using magic from other curriculums. Not only that, in the week since you've arrived, you have not seen any trace of your teacher actually existing.
Though the situation is grim, and you're doubting that the school actually accepted you at this point, perseverance and hard work trump all. You'll find a way to turn this bad situation into a golden opportunity, or probably end up dying in poverty trying. You miraculously found the one textbook in the school on the subject, and have spent your week vigorously studying it and hammering the basics into your head.
You decide to check out your ID to get a feel for your current standing. To make measuring growth easier, the creators of the school attached "stats" "skills" and "levels" to student IDs that can be checked at any time. Obviously, as a scrub, your everything is low. A few things stick out. Some blessing you never knew you had. Your stats which seem to have some mysterious buff. And your weirdly high mana. For most students, it's 300, so you're nearly double the average. You won't be complaining about any of this though, this just fuels your ambition to not be cursed into poverty.
The Academy is split into seven different sections. The library, the lecture halls, the classes proper, the exercise halls, the dueling halls, the student shops, and the dorms. Each section is more of a city, really, especially the dorms, so you doubt there will ever be an end to the things you can do here. Off campus, you have the Great Forest, and the three Prime Dungeons designed as testing grounds for students of the combat divisions.
School goes every day of the week, but you have the freedom to do whatever you want since your teacher seems to be some sort of non-existent embezzling scam. It's currently Monday morning. What do you feel like doing? Actually, before that, who in the world are you?
[Acquired; Student ID, The Basics of Mana Shaping(book), Academy Uniform, Shaper's Gloves, Dorm Key, Ion Stone, Class: Mana Shaper]
{Morning}{Block 1/4}
Name: Joe Everyman/Jane Everylady
Gender: Male/Female
Age: 20
Class: Mana Shaper
Level: 1
Health: 130/100
-Recovery: 1/min
Mana: 590/590
-Recovery: 10/min
Stamina: 130/100
-Recovery: 1/min
StatsStrength: 13(10+3)
Dexterity: 13(10+3)
Agility: 13(10+3)
Endurance: 13(10+3)
Intelligence: 13(10+3)
Willpower: 10
SkillsBasic Mana Shaping [Level 1] [0/100]
Unidentified Blessing [Level 1] [0/100]
Identify [Level 1] [0/100]
Academy Bonds: 1000
Student IDUniformDorm KeyShaper's Gloves.Ion Stone 
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