Prodigy of Thunder by Bronny Sever

Author:Bronny, Sever
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: magic school academy college university epic fun quest warlock wizard teen tween teenage ya sorcery female protagonist lead 14 fourteen year old girls young adult fantasy
Publisher: Mighty Quill Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2021-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Alms

With Anna’s home life in turmoil, she threw herself into her studies anew, vowing to become the best warlock she could be. She ignored her sister—and what had been written about her in the herald—completely, choosing instead to focus on the upcoming Academy of Arcane Arts Sword and Sorcery Tournament and training harder than ever before between her regular studies. What haunted her was getting kicked out of her mother’s house, a source of private embarrassment, anger, sadness, and regret.

With her father’s disinterest in the necromancer clues, she lost her motivation to dig further, and only shrugged whenever her friends asked when she would pick up the chase again. Life in the academy developed a steady rhythm, punctuated by the occasional student death, always mourned by a Memorial Ceremony. The school held academy-wide assemblies, put on plays, hosted banquets and informal tournaments, and celebrated Solian days of tradition such as Givethanks, the fall equinox, and Elements Day.

Meanwhile the necromancer’s experiments slowly got bolder, with the town of Milham reporting that four occupants of its graveyard had dug themselves out of their plots and attacked the locals, forcing the local warlock constabulary to deal with the problem. Another town, Tarington, had been besieged by a cloud of pestilence. And the little village of Willowbrook had even seen a wraith.

And while Samantha and William grew a little closer, with the friends throwing the latter a surprise birthday party, Anna kept Thomas at arm’s length and refused to say why. He gave her space after that, and although part of her was grateful, another part hated herself all the more for being so inept with people.

And so it was that on the twelfth day of the eleventh month, a day Ordinaries marked as Hunter’s Day, Anna settled into her usual seat at the front of Arcane Servitude class, the last class of the day. As she readied her desk surface and floated her satchel underneath for her usual Telekinesis training, the bell rang out a single gong, marking the first hour of the afternoon.

“Welcome, class,” Arcanist Deranda sang to the group of thirty-some students.

“Good morning, Arcanist Deranda,” the class sang back. She was a plump and ebony-skinned woman with thick gray hair and a perpetual smile, a compassionate woman who gave more than she took out of life.

She rubbed her hands with glee as she paced before the class. “Today—” She pushed round spectacles up her wide nose, drawing out the tension. “—we are going to shove you hatchlings off the branch for the first time!”

The students exchanged giddy looks, for it was a day they had been waiting for.

“You are going to spend the remainder of the day applying everything you have learned so far about service to your kingdom—” She opened those hands. “—by finding work in the city!”

The class loosed a collective “Yessss!” with some even pumping their fists, for everyone knew this wasn’t Ordinary labor the arcanist was talking about—it was warlock labor.

“You are to depart the academy and raise as much money as you can working odd jobs, logging each task.

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