The first day for Northern was exhausting. After putting both the forgemasters and the unfortunate student in their place without trying, Northern was hurled away by Eleina.
And he did not like it.
He spent the entire day striking a hammer on heated steel—several of them, if he was not overstating it, perhaps close to a thousand.
Which was insane for his first day. He had thought that the best thing that could have happened to him was finding a teacher like Eleina who was a natural student.
But several students had come around to offer their condolences to him instead, many even tapping his shoulders with a look of pity on their faces. This was before he received his first task from the forge prodigy.
When he started work, that was when Northern understood what those looks were for.
Eleina was undoubtedly the most brilliant person in the forge, the best forgemaster, only that she was a student in her fourth and final year.