Ch.6 Potential Unlocked?
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With a Violent and noisy impact, Professor Aslaug slammed on the table
Looking at the other two teachers, he had a slight smile on his face, as if he let off some steam by striking the table.
"Now, it's time to discuss the S-Class." He said, as he sat down, the other two sat down as well.
"This time's S-Class consists of Mitsu, Spher, Yerisa, Artiria, Syvish, Carmen, and Ivish.
All of these students are of great status, or recommended by an important noble…
We will now list what sparked our interest the most.."
A woman spoke up, she sat in the wooden chair to the left of Aslaug, while Judo sat to his right. Her name is Kyra, Kyra Cobnisu. Weapon Martial Arts instructor of the S-Class, and also a knight serving Denora.
"The one who piqued my interest the most is…"
"The one named Spher."
"The girl that participated in the exam for no reason."
"Spher."
It was said by the three. They all smiled a bit, they expected nothing less of their colleagues, who work on the same level as themselves.
"So, the general information about the student called Spher that we currently have is..
She has never practiced anything above basic magic and doesn't know how to use her magecraft. She has never tried the sword, nor has she tried fighting something barehanded.
Quite mysterious, which is what I'd say."
The other two nodded, a key for Aslaug to keep going.
"I'll get to it, during the magic exam, Spher tried casting a spell, and to the common eye, she failed to do so. I'll start describing what I saw."
Aslaug put his arms on the table and held his hands in front of his face, leaning on it a bit.
"When Spher closed her eyes, she began glowing, a small orange aura surrounded her.
She slowly started emitting Pure Mana particles. Continuing the spell unconsciously, the aura exploded upwards, into the sky.
Striking the multiple protective arrays that surround the academy, luckily it did not affect them, yet, there remain traces of her magic around the array core. Although I believe I was the only one who could see this happen, certain.. outsiders could've noticed something too."
"That is all I have to say about it, her time here will most certainly be interesting. Especially under my guidance."
Judo nodded. "What interests me is her full capabilities, we are not sure of her potential yet."
"We'll find that out today, even if it's just a bit." Kyra said as she walked to the only door in the room, leaving. Judo and Aslaug also left shortly after.
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Birds chirping outside, a slight feeling of warmth coming through a window. I opened my eyes slowly as my body instinctively stretched, giving me a fresh feeling. But along with that fresh feeling came a slow feeling of sorrow, as I touched my face. It's.. wet?
I got out of my bed and walked towards the mirror. Tears flowing down my face, I can remember what happened faintly.. My head was in a twist, I was simply forced to watch everything happen, helpless each time… But for what? What happened? I..
"Yo!"
A happy figure put her hand on my shoulder, it was Syvish, my replacement roommate for Yerisa, someone who actually doesn't want to murder me.
Syvish pulled me over to my bed and made me sit down. "What's up with you? This is our first night together, but just look at you! Crying on the first night. Is it that terrible that I'm your new roommate?"
She chuckled, in an attempt to cheer me up. Well… It worked alright.
I smiled at her. "Well, actually I dreamt of being stabbed by elf ears, so yes it is your fault that you gave me nightmares."
We both chuckled.
"Oh, would you look at the time, we should get going, we only have fifteen minutes till class!"
"Ah." I looked at my alarm clock, did I really forget to set an alarm? Sigh..
Syvish and I quickly put on our uniforms. As I walked outside our dorm and started the walk to our classroom.
"Hey! Wait up! I still need to grab something from inside." Syvish told me, so I awaited her outside on a nearby bench.
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Alright.. There! I found it! My notebook…
I stood silent and still as I looked at Spher's bed behind me.
Spher.. What are you going through?
Last night, I went to go pee. A stick hit the window of our toilet, so I got spooked- Wait that's not what I'm supposed to be talking about.
When I returned from my toilet break, I saw Spher rolling about as she was shivering. She called out the names of our instructors and the other S-Class students. When I tried waking her up, I was surprisingly blown back by an invisible force, into our wall. So I gave up and simply wished for Spher to stay strong.
I went outside as I accidentally gave Spher a cold look, but luckily she was in the middle of a morning stretch, so she had her eyes closed.
"I'm done, let's go."
We started our walk to class, which will take about 5 minutes.
During our walk, we went through the A-Class dorms. They still have an hour until their classes start. But something's not right, they were all looking at us and talking but we decided to ignore them.
*Pant Pant*
"We… are here..!" Syvish said, I looked at her as I wasn't exhausted at all, not a surprise after Veesha and I walked for so long without eating or drinking...
With a small smile on my face, I looked at my classmates, who were lined up nicely by Professor Aslaug Frye.
"Took you long enough, fortunately, I was a little late myself, so I was just about to start." Aslaug stated, causing Syvish to let out a sigh of relief.
I looked around as it was silent for a few seconds, there were some new faces, two to be exact. A girl which caught my attention, I can't explain how, but I feel drawn to her, and then there's this masculine guy who's still lifting a weight for some reason..
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"Attention," Aslaug spoke, resulting in Spher and Syvish quickly lining up with the rest, it's clear to everyone that he wishes to start the lesson. "So, as you know, S-Class, this will be your first lesson, and it will be magic. The other two after this today will be Martial-Arts and Theory."
Aslaug walked along the line of S-Class students he created, giving them his final thoughts before truly beginning the lesson. He stopped walking when he reached the middle again after walking back up the line.
"Today, we will be learning the most important part of magic, your defense." Aslaug raised his hand into the air as a massive spear of ice appeared above his hand, throwing it as hard as he could. The spear eventually rotated back around and was going to hit him at top speed, but before it hit Aslaug, we saw that he, in quick succession, made several magic layers of defense, these all being of the elemental archetype, fire, as it was an ice spear.
The ice spear disappeared, not even the water remained because of his fire magic defense layers. Aslaug turned around to face the class, "So, what magic did I use?" He asked, waiting for an answer. The person who was training his muscles spoke up, "You used multiple layers of Fire archetype defense magic." He smiled, he was confident that his answer was correct, but the person seemed to find it hilarious.
It was the girl who caught Spher's attention back when they arrived. She raised her hand slightly and looked at Professor Aslaug, "You used one layer to get rid of the ice, and two to negate the force of the attack."
Aslaug swiftly responded, "That was correct, Carmen.
Mitsu, during a battle, you should look and identify your opponent's magic layer so that you can prepare an attack to shatter it." Aslaug continued.
"It's difficult to do multiple layers back to back because they require an understanding of the attack that coming your way, and in an actual battle, you'll have even less time to think compared to just practicing it.."
He paused, looked around, and gave Spher a short stare. He let out a small breath as he continued, "It's time for you to do it yourself, you may choose teamwork with others or do it on your own, I don't care."
Aslaug stopped as he turned his head, looking at Spher, walking over to her as he put his hand on her shoulder and looked her straight in the eye.
"Except for you, I will be teaching you personally." Hearing this, Yerisa tried to speak up, objecting to Aslaug's decision, but before she could even mutter a word Aslaug spoke and released a wide area effect of his Aura, just a small portion, but it was enough to make most people there tremble.
"Did you not hear me, Yerisa?" Aslaug gave her a short look, causing her to turn around and go do it all on her own.
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"Personally? Is this because I find it difficult to cast magic?" I asked Aslaug, feeling like I was being looked down on, not that he's wrong.
"That is correct, I will be teaching you personally until you will be requesting me to stop directly helping you," Aslaug told me, with a neutral look on his face, he grabbed a spellbook and started chanting. "Do not fret, I am forcing your soul to dive into your spiritual sea."
Spiritual Sea? What's that? Isn't that only something high-level mages can ent..
I slowly opened my eyes as a small breeze stroked my hair, but as I further opened my eyes, they got heavier, and so did the wind. I could barely see, and barely stand still, it was like something was trying to blow my soul off of Its feet.
As I struggled to open my eyes and to keep standing, I heard a voice, it was not clear to me at first, but it felt extremely familiar, a voice I have heard. There is no mistaking it, it was Veesha.. I opened my eyes, on the moment I fully recognized her voice, I saw her shortly, waving to me with a large smile on her face, standing next to whom I assume is the instructor Lukas called for Veesha. Veesha looked like she was glowing and having fun, yet here I am, tearing up every day I wake up. Veesha started fading away, as something around me made noise, it was quite loud and disturbing, almost resembling the sound of thunder, but this sound was high-pitched.
I slowly looked around and looked at myself, I was in a pretty silver dress, with some black accents to the left side. Ignoring myself, I was in a beautiful landscape, with trees here and there, flowers blooming at most places. In the center of it all, was a large sphere, around it spun 4 other smaller spheres, one covered in flame, one covered in darkness, one holding 2 other smaller spheres in balance, and one covered in magical formulas. Speaking of what mine looked like, it was pretty as a flower, but it looked beat up on the left side.
Huh.. That's strange, speaking of, where did that noise come from?
I looked to the left of me, instead of the beautiful landscape of most of the spiritual sea, this side was rotten, filled with flame, broken weapons, armor, and dead plants. Above it, dark clouds, which were very slowly pushing against the white clouds of the mostly pretty part of the spiritual sea.
What is this.. feeling? It's as if I'm being drawn to the corrupt part of the sea. In shock, I was suddenly right in front of it, my heartbeat rose, my skin turned pale and my eyes dimmed, I reached my hand out to it, touching the ugly part of the spiritual sea. I quickly regained control over myself as the black part of my dress grew bigger, I ran back towards the main orb in the center, which was slightly more battered than before..
What's… happening to me..?
Something liquid streamed down my face, I quickly tasted something salty as I woke up with tears flooding from my eyes. I dropped onto my knees and slowly turned my head to look at Professor Aslaug who took a step back, it seems he was more shocked than I was, as If he released something he shouldn't have.
I wiped off the tears as I inhaled, then exhaled, to calm myself down. Furthermore, I decided to stand up, feeling lighter than before, what did.. "Professor, what exactly did you do?" I looked at Aslaug, with empty eyes, still recovering from the cost of being forced to go into your own Spiritual Sea.
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Aslaug slowly regained his cool, what he saw was NOT normal. Allow me to explain, Aslaug Frye, stood close to a primordial spirit, Spher, going into her Spiritual Sea for the first time. What is a spiritual sea?
The Spiritual Sea represents the soul of a person, their mind, and body meet at the sea, where mana & pure-mana move, releases, and is absorbed. The Spiritual Sea is the body and heart of one's magic. On the outer side, it contains regular mana, but in the center of the spiritual sea, there lies 'Pure Mana', which is often referred to as life force. People can enter their Spiritual Sea only after reaching a certain level and even when they've reached that level, they release a massive amount of mana, exchanging it for pure-mana, causing a big shockwave.
But mages of high skill level can force people into their spiritual sea, this only works on people who have not entered their spiritual sea yet, so it's never anything grand and only used to quickly boost the power of someone.
But with Spher, it was quite grand. Let me describe to you… what Aslaug saw when he forced Spher to dive into her own fate, her own spiritual sea.
To start, there was a blinding light that could be seen by everyone, followed by a rising aura into the sky, deforming the surrounding clouds, possibly attracting unwanted attention. In a span of ten seconds, this all disappeared and Spher woke up, but Aslaug was caught in 'battle'. The spiritual sea represents the soul, and when Aslaug took Spher into her own spiritual sea, he was taken along to spectate further within her soul.
To the left were dead bodies, to the right were men, half-dead and attempting to recover. What else could this be called but war? The scenery quickly changed as Aslaug was taken through time itself and was shown how war evolved over time, from magic to devastating magic devices, obliterating continents and eventually the world itself. At the end of it all, he saw Spher sitting, on a mountain of corpses as she looked at the sky as it rained. Then she quickly turned her head towards him, with glowing eyes she gave Aslaug a death stare, enough to shake him down to his very core.
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Aslaug looked me up and down, checking as if he was not sure what was in front of him. My eyes steadily regained their glow as I wiped the remaining tears off my face, not spending any time to think about what just happened. I feel… different, it's as if my body is outside for the first time, I can feel the flowing path of mana, it feels nice.
Aslaug readied his voice, putting his hand in front of his mouth in the shape of a fist. "I put you into your spiritual sea, to see if this would allow you to use magic more prominently." He said, probably talking about me being able to use magic besides household class magic.
"Shall we get started then?" I said as I looked at my hand which I opened and closed, I felt like I could do anything.. Aslaug nodded and just when he was about to speak, a few of my classmates ran over here. It was Artiria, Syvish, Ivish and Carmen. But Aslaug was quick to send them away.
"Let's start with the basics of magic. Start with a mana ball and feel your mana flowing to your hand, forming a sphere." He said so I followed, I closed my eyes like last time, but compared to next time, it doesn't feel like I'm drowning, it feels like I'm standing on the beach with complete control over what I do with the sea. An intricate silver aura, resembling a silver softly burning flame with white vibrant sparkles residing inside of the flame. The aura slowly started to surround me, growing ever so slightly as its beauty surprised the others.
I opened my eyes, as I held in my hand a silver sphere made only out of my mana. With a smile on my face, I instantly wanted to try out things, can I change the shape to my will? I can, can I make it bigger and smaller? I can, can I make it speed up and slow down if I wanted to? I can. So this is magic! The possibilities are endless.
* BOOM *
A loud explosion could be heard not far from us, a big flame could be seen, was that.. Carmen?
It was indeed Carmen, how I knew is currently beyond me, but Professor Aslaug intervened and called it a day, we now have a short break until we have martial arts class.
Currently, In the massive cafeteria of the Royal Denora Academy, I sat on a table with the entirety of the S-Class, being looked at by most of the other classes, I tried to ignore this but this silence between us all is killing me.
Carmen started as she was pointing at me, "Your name is Spher right? What was that massive light? Can I do that too?" I shrugged as I lightly chuckled at her, what do I say? Syvish spoke, "You had us all worried, Spher! Especially me and my brother." Huh? Her brother too? "Thanks for worrying about me. But I'm here now, and I'm fine, as you can see."
I looked at Carmen, "You were the one who created that big explosion, right? How did you do that?" Carmen, with a smug smile on her face, responded, "Well anything that involves combustion is my specialty, I saw you showing off, so I figured I had to show that others can also make pretty fireworks."
The group laughed except for Yerisa and that one muscly guy that was busy talking to Artiria, he paid no attention to the other, but I'm guessing they're friends. Syvish asked, "So Spher, who else do you know besides us?" I would smile comfortably as I said, "Well, I know multiple people, Of course, Duke Gyffard both the current and the former, and my best friend, Veesha. She's the person I hold dearest to me, and without a doubt, that's also the case for her."
With that, everyone looked curious so Syvish responded, "So does that mean you like.. girls?" She asked with a smug face, causing my face to go red, do I like Veesha that way? No, I certainly do love Veesha but not that way. "I do love Veesha, yes, but not sexually." Syvish looked at her brother and patted him on the back, I looked at him as I tilted my head slightly in confusion. Then we were called to Martial Arts class, hosted by Judo and Kyra.
In the middle of the same field, we were on as before, there stood Judo, the extremely tall and extremely buff Ladd, a renowned teacher for his loyalty to Denora and for his great skill. Next to Judo stood Kyra Cobnisu, a great knight of Denora who fought alongside the Heroes and is her sword skills are the best in Denora, but she also has great control over other weapons.
We were once again lined up nicely, just like with magic class. But this time muscly classmate person was excited, honestly doesn't surprise him.. From this day on, I'm calling him.. Monkey!
A powerful voice yelled, "ATTENTION! STUUUUUUUUDENTS!" It was Judo who had crossed his arms and looked down on all of us, inspecting our bodies for some purpose.. "Alright then! Today will be your first martial arts lesson! We will be working in groups and at the end of it all I will be fighting your group, or you will fight Kyra if you choose the path of a weapon."
Judo said, which made me raise my hand and ask, "What if you wish to follow both?" Judo laughed, "As expected of one who's gotten that Frye's interest!
You may follow both paths if you so wish to! I won't stop you."
Judo said with a large smile on his face, happy to hear that Spher isn't incompetent.
"This first class, like your previous, is mostly self-study, except with a test at the end! Work together in groups or alone if you so wish to, you may ask me or Kyra for advice if you want to.
First things first, choose which path, be it both, or none at all. If you wish to only study magic, go ahead, I recommend at the very least you learn basic martial arts."
Judo walked along the line and started to ask everyone which path they wish to walk. "Spher?", I responded with both. "Syvish?" She responded with "The bow." "Carmen?" She responded with "Martial Arts." "Artiria?" He responded with both. "Ivish?" He responded with martial arts. "Yerisa?" She responded with martial arts. "Mitsu?" He, monkey man, responded with martial arts.
"Everyone get into groups or stay by yourself. Artiria and Spher are a fixed group together." Judo said, officially starting our martial arts lesson.
Everyone started splitting up, while Prince Artiria and I didn't move from our spot. Kyra approached us with a chest, when she opened the chest there was a dark void, this chest is one of Denora's royal treasures, If you grab something out of it, the perfect weapon for you will come out.
Artiria went first and pulled out a holy sword, a new one. Holy swords have nothing to do with actual gods or religion, but they are called holy swords because they have a powerful soul inside them. While Artiria was out of it and probably speaking with his new sword, I walked forward and put my hand inside the chest.
* Crack *
The chest looked like it was about to implode but didn't, as I pulled out a long steel rod, known as a Bo staff. As I pulled it out I felt the ground underneath me shifting a bit, noticing a crack in the ground, I guess this thing is a little on the heavy side?
Kyra closed the chest and looked at me, slightly confused. I inspected the staff as I started playing around with it, I could definitely feel its weight, but I feel like I could decrease the weight if I wanted to.. I closed my eyes as I stood on the beach again, I was in a bikini and looked to my left where I saw a Bo staff lying down on a chair, chilling in the sun. I ran over to it and took it with me. I opened my eyes and dropped my staff, it sounded like any other metal bar dropping, and it was lighter.
Let's try doing it on the fly.. alright! no closing our eyes this time, I picked up the staff again and started letting my mana flow through the staff, generating a small silver outline around my staff as it continually got heavier, up to the point I struggled to hold it in place. I quickly reverted the process as it got lighter to the point where it was in a nice balance. I should practice with this so that I can change it pretty much unconsciously..
I started twirling my staff around, perhaps I should give it a name? Something with a V.. Because of Veesha.. Vesh… Vsher… Uh… Boveesh..! I threw the staff on the ground in denial and put my hands on my hand, in denial of my shitty naming sense. "Your name shall be… Vel." I heard an explosion behind me at the exact moment I named Vel, but that was just Carmen blowing herself up, to which I laughed a bit.
I looked at Artiria who was looking at me, meanwhile, Judo and Kyra had moved over to somewhere else and were simply chatting. "So, 'Prince' what do you say? Let's have a spar." In response Artiria nodded as he readied his sword, I bumped up the weight of Vel as I twirled it around to show off, generating shockwaves due to the speed I was moving it and because of Vel's weight.
Artiria dashed towards me as I swung Vel towards him while making Vel extremely heavy, expecting him to come head-on. Despite my low expectations, Artiria flipped over me, attempting to slash my back as I struggle to change Vel's weight. "STOP stop stop!" I yelled out, signaling Artiria to stop as I finally made Vel lighter again, I need to practice with that. I then took a few step backs as I twirled Vel around as fast as I could, making random weight changes that work along with the momentum generated by Vel's weight. But then Judo decided to approach us saying, "Time's up, martial arts it is now."
Martial arts is a type of widely used magic, that everyone can use if given training. It's used along with technique and the mana of a person. You can enhance your martial arts with magic, for example. Highly skilled martial artists are truly people of high skill and usually old age.
"Judo do you mind teaching me a martial art that would be useful for me?" I asked him, and he responded with a stance that represented a staff stance, as he is right in front of me, I copied him, so I could learn. I held Vel with one hand and had my other hand free, I can already see what he means by this. "Thank you for your guidance!" I bowed slightly and Judo looked at the rest.
"Alright S-class, Martial arts is over, I have seen plenty, and I'll say that I am pleased with what I saw. You'll get to face Kyra and I someday, right now it would simply be too one-sided."
Without any warning, the entirety of the S-Class was teleported into a classroom, this is the classroom used for theory class. Professor Aslaug Frye was present behind the teacher's platform. "I have an announcement for today, theory class is canceled due to more important matters, due to this you'll be given access to the S-Class library, but you'll be given that tomorrow. Because the day after tomorrow, we will be going on a B-Rank quest to gain some experience."
Yerisa raised her hand and spoke up as soon as she got permission to speak. "What important matters could you be talking about?"
In response, Aslaug sighed. "In less than 10 minutes, a few high-priests from the church will arrive, that is all." While saying that and preparing to leave the classroom, he gave me a short look. "You're all dismissed, free for the day."
It's currently nighttime, and I have snuck outside my dorm to go look outside, there were people in white clothing everywhere, are they from the church? I was currently located at the entrance of the Academy's park, hiding inside a bush as I looked around. I hear some talking, and I looked to the right of me, it's professor Aslaug who's currently walking with one fat guy with white clothing and 2 skinny kids with white clothing. On further inspection, the professor looks quite nervous.. Why? Is it because he's a Demon? Oh, he's bowing, and the priests are leaving, it looks like! I should definitely go talk to him.
I ran out of the bush and approached professor Aslaug, only to have him turn on me immediately, with an angry face. "What. Are. You. Doing. Here?" Aslaug said, but you can't scare me that easily, Mr. Demon. "How is a Demon like you still alive with all of these priests around?" Aslaug grabbed a hold of me and teleported me into the theory classroom.
Black wings came out of his back as his eyes were glowing red as he prepared a spell. "How do you know this? Speak before I erase your memory." Aslaug demanded to know how, I honestly don't have a valid answer, except. "Well.. I knew instantly from the introduction speech, I don't know how or why yet, but I can see the details of someone's race. But don't fret! I have two great friends who are also Demons, they go by the name of Lukas and Veesha!"
Aslaug decided to retract his wings and let out a big sigh, "If you weren't so… unusual.. I would've erased your memories by now. Wait, Veesha? Neas has a new disciple called Veesha… So that's why he told me.."
"Alright, Spher, I'll just tell you. My name is Valeyn Veleyyendra, I was a high ranking Demonia back in Azrath. A long time ago, a man, no, a monster. A monster called Asmodeus Bael popped up and started destroying what Azrath was, in fear of him, I fled to Denora and developed myself there."
Valeyn… No, I prefer Aslaug. "Were you nervous for the priests to find out your true identity?"
I asked him, out of curiosity.
He chuckled a little bit then stopped with a serious face as he looked at me,
"No, they're here because of you and me, due to me forcing you into your spiritual sea, I accidentally caused an imbalance in the churches fancy mana detector, and they also got several reports of clouds being penetrated by a blinding yellow aura that pointed to this academy.
I am nervous about them taking hold of this academy, like they already have with most of this country. They are also the reason why Null is so discriminated against, and why the Human race is the only race they care about"
Aslaug finished as he heard something outside the classroom, he teleported me back to my dorm and I went to sleep, I honestly can't wait for tomorrow.. I can master Vel, and I can learn some more from books!
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