บท 4: A King is born

King. King shall be my name he thought, King then wished what his friend would have said about his name. "My name is King" King said invigorate about his new name. "Well King…." his thoughts wandered off from him and stopped mid-sentence. As King noticed this he started to study the man. This was his first proper look at the stranger, the stranger had almost no hair except the patches of red on the side of his head along with his beard and his skin along his arms and neck had big red spots on them. It took a second for King to realise that the red spots were actually burns. That's when he noticed the biggest burn the man had, it covered the entire front part of his neck and almost gave the appearance that his neck was just red. If not for the fact that the stranger turned he would have never of seen the non-burned part of the back of his neck. King now uncomfortable started to twist his ring on his finger and asked "is it rude of me to ask what happened with those nasty burns"? The stranger looked at him for a moment before laughing. It was a half-hearted laugh even with the whispers it was amazing quiet. "Not at all lad. I was in-, nay had a incident when using my magic. I pushed myself to far and burnt myself with my own flames, but now from that intense training I can withstand over 100 times the fire that had burned me, which is good considering my flames have increased 20 fold. King nodded trying to follow and after wrapping his head around someone harming themselves when training he said "well my name is King, what is your name"? "Oh sorry lad you can call me Ignatius". It was then that King had a clear view of Ignatius' right hand. On it there was two rings, one had a symbol on it that matched a symbol on Kings ring, the one that glowed red. The other had an engraving of a castle with a book in the middle, on what looked like a drawbridge. Both rings excited King and he desperately want to know what they meant. "So.... what do you the symbols on your rings mean"? King asked somewhat impatient. "Oh this one means I am an elemental user of fire and the other means I am a credible of graduating the school of truth and magic but really only foreigners call it that everyone else call it mage college because of its students can only be mages and are college age majority of the time". King had heard of the magic school and once thought of applying there, but the practices magic was banned at his home Empire, and he could not bring himself to abandon his friend in pursuit of knowledge and power. But look where that has brought him. Thinking this King then said "where are we going"? "Are yes… about that. Um. Ah. You see… I am taking you to the mage college to study there because it is obviously you have magic. "How would you know I have magic" King asked try not to sound like he did but as a random question. "The look on your face tells it all lad. Now I would like to see your ring please". Seeing no harm in this King gave his his ring to Ignatius to look at. Accidentally King had fallen asleep just when Ignatius' face flashed an expression of alarm then a wicked grin when looking at King's ring....