Bab 153: 151: A Company of Fools: Chase Kingston, Reluctant Instructor I
"Gods help me we're here…" Baset groaned as she climbed down from Grimm-Guard.
He'd landed in the courtyard outside of the spire and let everyone off his head. There was no one around in the court yard, at least. Though I could see people looking out the windows of the spire trying to get a better look at Grimm-Guard.
"Good, Job Grimm…" I said as I patted him on the head. Grimm-Guard let out a happy chattering noise and then returned to my farm crystal. I turned to look at Baset and saw she was looking extremely annoyed.
"Everyone prepare to deal with the most obnoxious and pretentious person on school grounds!" Baset sighed wearily.
"But auntie, we deal with Damon all the time." Bo said. That earned a laugh from everyone in class, except for Damon. He turned and glared at Bo.
"Little brat…" He grumbled.
"Jokes aside, just be prepared." Baset said, then patted Bo on the head.
Baset turned and faced the steps leading up to the spire doors and started up them. Everyone in the class followed her and entered the spire. The inside of spire was a long hallway with doors to various lecture halls close to us and at the back of the space was a grand and elaborate staircase that went up several floors to floors that had smaller class rooms and offices.
We followed Baset down the hallway to a door near the end. On the door was a plaque that read 'ancient magical history and early creation of enchanted items class.' with the name 'Samura Wallik' written in bold Gothic writing below it.
"We're here. Now everyone follows after me, and I'll try and make this as painless as possible." Baset said with a sigh. With that, she knocked on the door, waited a second, then opened it and stepped inside.
The room was a large lecture hall, with the professors desk and a large blackboard at the front of the room. At the back of the room were rows of seats for students. The size of the lecture hall afforded more than a hundred students. As we stepped inside, the eyes of every student in the class zeroed in on us.
A woman in an extravagant blue dress who'd been facing her students in the class turned to face us as we walked in. She was a woman of mixed descent, Middle Eastern, and English if I had to take a guess, with long black hair adorned with expensive jewels and jewelry. Her make-up was bright and designed to draw attention to her face and make her appear younger.
"Ah! Lady Baset, you came and brought your class with you." The woman said.
"Samura, thank you for having me." Baset said with the fakest smile I've ever seen her use. She walked up to Samura's desk and shook her hand. The others in the class and I stopped just short of the desk and let Baset and Professor Samura finish their greetings.
"Chase, everyone's staring at us." Bo whispered from my side. I glanced at the right to get a look at the rest of the classroom. There were over a hundred eyes glaring daggers at everyone in the class, though to everyone else's credit, nobody else reacted to the attention.
"Well, introductions are in order." Samura said, motioning to all of us in Baset's class.
"Ah yes…these are my students, Iris Stone, Jane Yearwood, Astrid Folders, Damon Decharles, Bo Kestrel, and my top student Chase Kingston." Baset said, motioning to each of us as she said our names. I frowned and looked to her when she mentioned me as her top student.
I heard a few murmurs and grumbles from the students of Samura's class. I wanted to ignore them until one of them spoke up.
"With all due respect, Lady Baset, you expect us to believe that boy is your top student? He isn't even from a noble family." A man sitting in the front row of the student's seats asked.
"Obviously, a lot of disrespect was intended." Baset said coldly, then focused her gaze on the poor guy. He flinched at her tone. "It suggests that you think I am incapable of determining the skill and knowledge of students in my own class."
"My lady, I-I-I'm sorry if my words were seen as disrespectful…" He started to apologize, but Baset cut him off.
"I care little for what you intended. I have determined that Chase is the top student in my class. All I need from you and anyone else in this class is your acknowledgment of that fact. Not your opinion on how I should be ranking based on noble birth instead of actual ability." She said coldly.
"Yeah, I don't think anyone in our class could beat Chase in a fight involving magic or evos…" Astrid said sheepishly, then glanced over at Jane, who shot daggers at Astrid.
"Definitely not in magic, but we could beat his evos as long as we don't have to fight those transcended monstrosities of his." Damon said, then shivered. "That missive insect evo of his is an absolute monster. Why does it even need to be that big and don't get me started on that sonic viper."
"Hey! My evos aren't monsters!" I exclaimed.
"Yes, they are Chase…" Baset said with a sigh, then pinched the bridge of her nose. "…Honestly I'm sure you could kill every guardsmen on campus with just Grimm-Guard and Alpa'nagia."
"My…that's really high…praise…" Samura said sheepishly as she glanced at me and sized me up. After a quick moment, she recovered and spoke in a snooty voice as she turned to her class. "…however this class is about magical history and the early creation of enchanted items. It's about the proposed methods that ancient splicers used…methods that are obviously being revived. Something that might be a little too much for your top student."
"Oh really?" Baset said as she covered her mouth to contain a snicker. "Well, what is the subject of today's lecture?"
Samura looked as if Baset had given her the segway she was looking for as her eyes gleamed happily. She opened a drawer on her desk and pulled out a very familiar looking necklace.
"This!" Samura exclaimed, then shoved the enchanted necklace in Baset's face. "An enchanted necklace that I found here on campus. One of many that students all over the school are finding. Their origins are unknown, but it's easy to see that they were created recently! By some company no less! The Sho'lajah artifact company! The techniques that must be employed to make such an exquisite piece of enchanted item…"
"Shit…" Iris and I whispered, then shot each other looks. Jane looked just as worried as we did.
"Oh really…can I see that?" Baset asked. Samura smiled devilishly and held the necklace coyly.
"Well, you'll have to be careful with it, Lady Baset. It is a priceless artifact." Samura said.
"Oh, of course…" Baset said, then held her hand out. Samura handed Baset the necklace, and Baset quickly looked it over. When she read Sho'lajah artifact company on the back, her eyes narrowed, and she glared at me, Iris, and Jane. She returned her gaze to Samura and handed the object back to her. "…well Professor Samura, you are in luck. I happen to know that the most qualified person to speak about this enchanted item and spell craft in general is here on campus."
Samura's eyes widened, and a broad smile appeared on her face. She clapped her hands together and turned to the class.
"We're in for a treat class! Lady Baset is going to have The Morgan Paragon come speak today!" She exclaimed. Everyone in the classroom started gasping and exclaiming loudly. Baaet quickly doused that excitement.
"Yeah, no. After last week, the less I have to deal with The Morgan, the better." She said with a chuckle. Everyone in the class looked at each other with a common look of confusion on their faces. "I know the creator of that necklace."
"REALLY?!" Samura shouted.
"Yes…." Baset walked behind me then pushed me into the center of the lecture hall. "…I present to you Chase Kingston, the owner and operator of Sho'lajah artifact company."
There was a long moment of silence as everyone in Samura's class looked amongst themselves. I could tell even without looking at them that they didn't believe me. I turned to look at Baset and meant to ask her what she expected. However, the look she gave me told me exactly what she expected.
I sighed, then walked over to Samura's desk and grabbed a piece of paper and a pen off the desk, and started writing out a simple spell. When I was done, I held the piece of paper up for the class to see.
"Does anyone here know what this is?" I asked. They all remained silent, so I turned to Samura. "Do you?"
"A scrap of paper that you took from my desk and doodled on." Samura said, then looked over at Baset. "Lady Baset, that was an impressive joke. However, you can't really expect all of us to believe that this…American has learned how to create enchanted items."
"Chase." Baset said.
"Yeah, yeah." I said with an annoyed sigh. I channeled mana into the spell sheet and cast an axiom spell sigil. As the sheet burned away, an orb of black energy formed in my hand and then flattened into a disk that attached itself to my left arm.
"WHAAAAAAAT!" Everyone in the class exclaimed.
"H-h-how! How did you do that?" Samura exclaimed, then rushed over and looked over my shadra shield. "That spell! It's the same spell that's enchanted on that necklace! How did you cast it with a piece of paper?!"
"That's simple. I wrote a spell sigil on the paper, then channeled mana into the paper and cast the spell." I responded then picked the shadra shield enchanted necklace from Samura's hand and channeled mana into it and cast the axiom spell. A second shadra shield attached itself to my right arm, identical to the one I cast from my spell sheet.
"This spell is one of my own creations. I call it the shadra shield. It's one in a series of spells that I created called the shadra series…."
I dispelled both shields and then handed Samura back the necklace. I channeled mana into my void pocket enchanted ring and cast the spell sigil from my right hand. A veil of black energy formed in front of my hand. Everyone gasped as I reached into the void and pulled out a cheap gold ring and my etching and scribing tools. As I dispelled the spell, I pointed to Astrid.
"Hey Astrid, can you cast that enchantment spell your family uses on me again?" I asked.
"Sure…" Astrid said cautiously, then started casting an enchantment spell sigil. I quickly read the spell as she was casting it. Nine swords of light formed above my head and impaled themselves into the ground around me. Chains made of light shot from the hilt of the blades and wrapped around me and tied me in place. A second later, the whole spell shattered, and I absorbed the mana used to cast the spell.
"Thanks! Give me a minute…" I said, then walked over to Samura's desk and set out all my tools. I picked up my scribe tool and started etching out the runes that made up the spell on the face of the ring.
"Wait, what just happened? What are you doing?" Samura demanded.
"Tri-clops, LPP, can you explain while I finish this?" I asked. Without looking up, I could feel the heated gaze that Jane leveled me with, but that anger quickly went away when she realized I used an abbreviation of her hated nickname.
"Okay, but you're cutting it close Chase…." Jane said. She turned to Samura and smiled.
"Chase cast an axiom spell at the beginning of the year called the mana manipulation and conversion spell. It cancels out enchantment and utility spells. What he did was have Astrid here cast a spell on him so he could read the spell sigil while she was casting it."
"WAIT!" The same student that had doubt Baset earlier shouted and stood to his feet. "That's impossible! He'd need to know how to read the runic language in order to do that and even the worlds expert on the runic language. Lady The Morgan Paragon can't do that!"
"I'm not fluent in it yet, there are still plenty of runes I can't read, specifically more complex ones found in splicing circles, however I can read most simple runes like ones found in spells. All spells are us a long sentence of runes that outline a spells actions." I said.
I switched from my scribing too and pulled out my special rhank pen, and started filling in the runes I etched into the ring with Rhank.
"Chase's family has been enchanting items for generations. Before him, his grandmother was a master of the craft and of the runic language." Jane said. This information made everyone in the class gasp softly and eye me carefully.
"But He's American. American splicers are always trash!" The student exclaimed again.
"I was born in America. My grandmother is from a small tribe here in Africa that has been enchanting items since the ancient splicers first spliced." I explained. The student nodded slowly and then sat down.
"Your grandmother must have been an incredible splicer." He said.
"Actually, she was a normie…."
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