Chapter 0:

The Exam

ROWAN CLARK AND THE WORLD OF MAGIC


Rowan, a boy from India, starts studying seriously at his home to fulfill his dream of topping the college entrance exams conducted by the National Talent Search Organisation. He follows a daily schedule of studying, eating, and sleeping. This makes him fat. On the day of the exam, he gets so excited and wakes up early in the morning, but he doesn't find his parents at home. He gets panicked and searches every corner in his house, asking his relatives, friends, and neighbours for help. But none of them knew where his parents were. As he realized he was getting late for his exam, he freshened up and took a taxi to arrive at his examination center. As he entered the examination hall, he was feeling nervous and took his allocated seat. The invigilator checks the whole class and distributes the question papers and answer sheets to start the exam. Rowan starts writing his exam, and after a certain time, he finds difficulty in remembering formulas and some topics, which eventually leads him to tension. The clock started ticking faster and faster, so that the exam time had finished when he had only completed half of his paper. His brain was filled with fear and agony as he knew that his exam was gone. He was devastated and went to a park near his house. He sat in a chair and cried as his dream shattered. And while returning to his house, he fell on the ground unconsciously. After waking up, he finds himself falling from the sky into the sea. A few fishermen see him drowning and rescue him. He thanks them for saving his life. Then they ask Rowan which country he is from. He says he is from India, but the people were confused because they had never heard of a country named India.Rowan pinches himself, thinking whether he was dreaming or not. He was seeing new creatures around him, and people didn't know his country. So he asked them what the name of the country he was currently in was. They said that "We are in Andcape Gadsala, the country in the middle of the continent Percis. His brain is fully confused, and he went outside asking for a phone, but everyone looked at him weirdly, and some even asked what type of clothes he was wearing. He thought this was some kind of prank and ran away from there, but as he went away from there, he watched new beings, creatures, and tools. Then he realised the people are using magic for their work and realises that he had been transported to a magical world.