" welcome to ZODI, young man, do you want to state why you are here or are we all gonna be kept waiting ?".I looked at all of them, they all looked built, especially the woman who spoke and then I answered her "well I passed the test, didn't I?, I didn't know that I'd have to give a heartfelt speech to get in". One of the men who surrounded the woman glared at me before saying " no one speaks to lady Diana that way, you've only just passed the first test, know your place ". "So you're the boss lady around here?" I asked her.
"No" she answered, but I wasn't surprised at all. "But my superiors are gonna like you a lot, what's your name candidate?".
"I'm Loki".
"Alright Loki, welcome to ZODI ".
She showed me to the main quarters where most the candidates are to reside in, I was to share a room with three people who came here just like me. When I got into the room, there was a guy seated towards the east of the room, I didn't bother to make acquaintance because most people who come to places like these aren't people you should become chummy with, it would be best if I just observe and keep every information to myself. I started unpacking my things and my mind drifted back to when the boss lady called me a young man, it looked like I've successfully pulled off faking my gender, I wasn't about to tell them that I was actually a teenage girl, to imagine the lady Diana's face if she found out that a mere 17 year old snuck into their facility disguised as a boy, no doubt I'd be shot dead if I'm discovered. It's not like I was doing this for fun..., well it is a bit fun but I'm here on a mission, plus the extra training would be nice, not everyone would willingly join an aeystrim without a good reason to do so.
Now this place, the zodiac commune isn't the only aeystrim in existence, but there are just three king aeystrims that is the elementals, the zodi and levindus. The elementals believe solely on mana and magic which makes combatants have high levels of spiritual force, it gives them the power to influence nature and tap from it's power, so that particular aeystrim is restricted and reserved for those who are in sync with the elements.
ZODI, which is the aeystrim I chose don't deal with just powers, they choose based on skill and intelligence and I have a bit of both, ZODI believe in the zodiac and it's signs, the twelve signs represent the higher ups and the main head of this aeystrim is Draco, the most powerful guy in the planet.
The last aeystrim and the most dreaded is the levindus clan, nobody knows anything about them and they are just 200 in number, which is very small even for a minor aeystrim, but there were many talks at the time about how they use human sacrifices to get stronger, no one has heard or seen them since the last battle between the major aeystrims, so many lives were lost.