It´s Monday. Ilza had, again, a nightmare but calmed down after I hugged her.
We got dressed, ate breakfast and I said.
“Ilza it would be the best if you don´t leave the orphanage alone, at least until we have started the training.”
“I understand, I´ll help Hira and Alina with the children, have a nice day.” Ilza
“Thanks, I´ll be back around afternoon.” I said and left.
I was stopped by Malinda, as I walked in my class.
“Morning, miss Malinda.” Me
“Morning Clair, I´m here to bring you to the headmaster.” Malinda
“Lead the way.” I said and followed her, some students began to whisper, but I ignored them.
We went to one of the administrative buildings and to an office with a receptionist woman.
She wore glasses and suit like clothes.
“Hello Viri, I´m here with Clair. Is Arthur there? “ Malinda
“Yes, you can go inside.” Viri said and we went inside his office.
It has a desk in the middle, with two chairs in front of it. The headmaster was sitting behind the desk.
The furniture consisted out of bookshelves and a world map.
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Name: Hellbring ArthurProfession: Headmaster at Turon AcademyAge: 624Class: ArchmagusTitle: Gifted Magician, Headmaster of Turon Academy, Legendary AdventurerLevel: 184Health: 86.000HP regeneration 226/secMana: 300.000MP regeneration 300/secStrength: 14702Intelligence: 33534Gender: MaleAgility:12668Wisdom: 30351Race: HumanThis man was once an SS-Ranked adventurer.
He archived feats, which are seldom under humans,
like killing a lesser fire dragon or being able to cast
spells till the 10th Tier in fire, light and wind magic.
and retired with 500 years. Now he´s one of
the four Magic Academies headmasters.
Skills:
Mana Manipulation LV 7
Mana Sensing LV 4
Enchanting LV 4
Bodyenhancement LV 3
Casting Time Reduction LV 5
Reading LV 4
Martial Arts LV 3
Memorisation LV 3
Management LV 2
* So that´s one of the strongest humans? I thought humans were around lv 30, he´s over 150.
“Ah hello, we haven´t had the opportunity to personally introduce each other. My name is Arthur Hellbring, headmaster of the magician course and headmaster of the Turon Academy, nice to meet you.” Arthur said as we opened the door.
“My name is Clair, likewise.” Me
“Please sit down.” He said and we sat down.
“I´ve heard many interesting things about you, most of them unbelievable, some more than other.” He began and I smiled wryly.
“The teachers said that you are far above their lessons, some even say that you are far above their own ability.
I heard from Mrs. Toufee that you enchanted the piece of wood with your second try, is that true?” Arthur
“Yeah, but I only made the wood hard as iron.” Me
“You underestimate your feat. Mrs. Toufee gives this task every new class, but they mostly finish it only in their third year. She wants to show her students the hardships of enchanting. And here you are, enchanting this piece of wood with your second try.
And then, there is the spell casting teacher Mr. Steinfield. He says that you´re able to cast every flame spell up to the 6th Tier. I think you are not the small 13-year-old girl, which you want us to believe you are. Who are you really? And what do you want here?” Arthur said. I could see that he releases some of his mana and Malinda was frantically looking between us.
“Well, I´m faster than most of the people and can easily learn many things.
I´m Clair and I´m 13 and I want to learn. Especially the magic Tiers.” Me
“A little faster? You´ve read the book for the spells from the 3th to the 6th Tier in under 30 minutes.
That is hardly a little faster and which affinity do you want to learn?” Arthur.
“All.” Me
“All?” Arthur
“Yes all, I want to learn every spell up to the tenth Tier.” Me
“So you want me to believe that you have every affinity?” Arthur said while releasing more mana.
I just conjured a stone, a flame orb, a wind orb and a water orb in front of him and said.
“Yes I have, so what do you want in exchange for the spells?”
“Hm.... The spells we´re speaking about are extremely high class and destructive beyond believe.” Arthur said, still trying to do something with his mana.
Malinda was now seating and her breathing got heavier.
* Is this mana supposed to intimidate me?
“You know my imagination based magic can be fairly stronger, than every Tier 10 spell?” Me
“Yes, but you need enough mana for that. And one Tier 10 spell can easily consume 50.000 mana.” Arthur
“That´s kinda cheap.” I muttered softly, but he heard it.
“Cheap?!” Arthur asked, in hope that he misunderstood me.
“Ah yes, I have more mana than I would need for such a spell..” Me
“How much more?” He asked cautiously.
“Is that important?” I asked.
Malinda to my side was now really hard sweating and looked like she could barely breath.
“Yes it is, I have to know if you´re just talking for good, or if you´re speaking the truth.” Arthur
“What could happen if I leak mana?” Me
“Why?” Arthur
“Well, you´re doing it since we´re talking and miss Malinda looks like she´ll faint any moment.” Me
“So you noticed,” It was more a statement than a question, “You can weaken the mana field from the people around you, you can suppress them and weaker people might even faint.
There were some cases from dragons which could even demolish the surroundings with their mana.” Arthur
“How much mana are you able to endure? And how much are you currently leaking.” Me
“Never tried and around about 130.000, I´m curious why you´re not showing any signs, is it a magic artefact?” Arthur
“Okay, Malinda could you please go out? I don´t want to hurt you.” I said and she left.
“Why did she not question you? ” Arthur asked as she was out.
“She looks like she will faint any moment and I don´t want to hurt her, brace yourself. “ I said to the headmaster and began to leak mana.
He noticed it and smiled, 1.000...10.000...100.000, he stopped smiling, 200.000, he began to sweat a little,...300.000.
“Impressive 300.000, let´s see how far we can go.” I said and rose it to 350.000, which made it hard for him to breath and we began to hear cracking sounds from the furniture.
400.000 and he began to pant heavily, 450.000, he tried to say something but was not able to speak one word.
I thought, that this should be enough and reabsorbed my mana.
He was drenched from all the sweat and tried to calm down while I asked Malinda to come back inside.
She saw the panting headmaster and looked at me worried.
“I stopped at 450.000 mana, he should calm down in a few moments.” I said nonchalantly, but she still looked worried.
“Huf...huf...im...huf...impressive....”He stammered.
We waited for another two minutes and he asked, finally calmed.
“...So it was true that you don´t really need the Tiers, how much mana do you have?” Arthur
“Hm, why should I answer?” Me
“I´ll help you as much as I can if you do.” Arthur
“Make a blood contract and I´ll say it.” I said and he looked at Malinda who smiled wryly.
“I assume that Lilia already has one.” Arthur
“Yup, she didn´t want the contract which will erase her memories, so it´s one which will kill her in a mana explosion,” I said.
“Erasing memories? Never heard of such a blood contract.” Arthur
“Might be because it´s an LV 9 enchantment.” I said and his eyes went wide.
“You...you are an LV 9 enchanter? How?” Arthur
“First your answer, which one do you want?” Me
“Hm, okay I´ll bite. I´ll also take the kill version.” Arthur
“Give me your arm, and just for the records this enchantment will activate if someone tinkers on it, so no touchy touchy.” I said and enchanted his arm.
I finished and he inspected the vanishing runes.
“So how much mana do you have and how are you so good with enchantments, you also must be at least LV 7 in mana manipulation to absorb your released mana,” Arthur asked excitedly.
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“I´m LV 10 in both, you know the summoned hero? It´s the same for me, “I lied,” and how much do you think?” I asked with a smile.
“Well, you were not tired from this amount so I think more than 500.000, which is around the level of the royal elven Tier 10 magicians. You´re one of them in disguise aren´t you?” Arthur said.
“Nope, failed by a wide margin. I´m also not a royal elven magician, I wouldn´t need you if I were one.” Me
“So how much mana do you have?!” Arthur asked, now more excited.
“Hm, I have around nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine mana.” I said and he froze.
“Do you see that Malinda?” I asked while turning to her.
“Wh..what do... you mean?” She asked, not looking at me.
“This happens whenever I tell someone something, about my status, you even fainted.” Me
“Clair, I... I think he also fainted.” Malinda said still not looking at me.
“Huh?” I grunted and looked at him.
“You´re right,” I said while moving my hand, in front of his face, up and down.
“Let´s wake him up.” I continued and began pull on his beard.
“Clair!” Malinda protested.
“What?” I asked without any clue, but she already moved my hand away from his beard.
“You don´t do such a thing.” She reproves me.
“Okay, okay,” I pouted and continued in a barely audible whisper, “but it would be faster.”
Malinda stood up and began to carefully shake him, which worked.
“Wha...höh?” Arthur
“You fainted as you heard her.” Malinda
“What?...Oh yeah, sorry. This is unbelievable.” Arthur
“It´s up to you to believe me or not.” Me
“You´re right.... Then miss Clair what are your intentions here in our academy? It can´t only be for learning Tier 10 spells.” Arthur
“Well I grow up in a place where your common sense doesn´t work, so I came here to learn it. I also want to look for some friends who might travel with me after I graduated.” I said and looked at Malinda.
“And then what? You have enough mana, to destroy the whole continent. What are your ambitions?” He asked in a serious tone.
“Travelling the world, be an adventurer, clear some dungeons and meet interesting people.” Me
“And?” Arthur
“And what?” Me
“This can´t be all, there has to be more.” Arthur
“Nope, I simply live for one thing. DO whatever the FUCK you want.” Me
“That might be a problem if you´re so strong, with great power comes great responsibility.” Arthur
“Might be, but I won´t start a war or kill a whole city just because I´m bored.” Me
“And what if you have a reason?” Arthur
“Give me one and I´ll do it.” Me
“What could be a reason for you?” Arthur
“You just have to hurt someone I like.” Me
“And then?” Arthur
“I see to it, that you won´t do it again.” Me
“What if he insults you or the person you like?” Arthur
“Don´t care, insults can be turned against the insulter.” Me
“Hm, I think I can trust you, for now.” Arthur said and Malinda breathed out in relieve.
“Okay, can we come to your help?” Me
“Yes, what do you want? “ Arthur
“Access to all books of the academy and you´ll teach me every spell up to the tenth Tier.” Me
“I can only teach you spells to the tenth Tier in fire, light and wind magic. The teachers can help you in every affinity to the eight Tier. And there won´t be a problem with the books, you´ll get a pass for every library floor.“ Arthur
“What is with the other affinities in spells higher than the 8th Tier, aren´t there books about them?” Me
“No, there are no books after the 6th Tier.” Arthur
“Why?”Me
“A rule, every mage has to develop his own spells or teach them to his student.” Arthur
“That´s stupid. How do you develop an own spell?” Me
“Might be, but that´s a rule. You have to study your affinity and try to form a spell. while manipulating your mana.” Arthur
“Hm, I´ll try that later.” Me
“Is there anything else?” Arthur
“Nope, that´ll be all and could you tell the art teacher that I´m not interested in meeting him?” Me
“So you´ve drawn this picture? Why?” Arthur
“It was just a scribble from me for the first day but it was removed, I lost interest in it and I am not interested in getting any attention for art. I don´t like art.
I´ll come during spell casting lessons, see you.” I said and left, with a worried Malinda in tow.
She finally asked me, as we left the building.
“Well that was something, I´ve never seen the headmaster so...respectful. What did you do?”
“I let him feel the pressure of 450.000 mana. Say which rank were you as an adventurer?” Me
“B-Rank, why? But more importantly why did you do that? “Malinda
“Because he had to see me as someone stronger. Are there many SS-Ranked adventurers?” Me
“Don´t know I think 4 active all around the human countries, why?” Malinda
“Cause he was one, his stats were in the ten-thousands and some of them over thirty-thousand.” I said and Malinda gulped audibly.
“That´s much.” Malinda
“Really?” Me
“Of course, there´s a high difference between each Rank after the B-Rank.” Malinda
“How high?” Me
“Don´t know for certain but I think most B-Ranks have stats between hundred and thousand, A-Rank have all over thousand, S-Rank has some over ten-thousand and SS-Rank has all over ten-thousand. But I never imagined that he´s over 30 thousand in some of his stats, he´s truly a monster.” Malinda
“Well, I think he´s okay. I have to go back to my class, when do I have you?” Me
“In Language, and once a month during the whole Monday during homeroom.” Malinda
“I´ll come around when I bought the land.” I said and left.
The rest of the day was rather uneventful, Pia asked where I was and I said that I´d learn spellcasting from the headmaster from now on.
I taught Hira stitching and sewing in the afternoon and played with the children in the evening.
Alina also paid the depth and the gang did nothing, they surely are in an uproar.
Tuesday:
Language was like any normal language lesson but I think Malinda tried to test me with hard grammatical questions, which I solved easily and common knowledge is like history and politics mixed, really interesting, I liked to argue with the teacher over the a needed nobility.
Wednesday:
Arthur introduced me to some teachers, who´re going to teach me the spells from the 7th and 8th Tier.
He said he´ll reach me when I´m able to cast every spell of the 8th Tier. Which could take some time, as I have to learn them directly from the teachers?
And as Arthur said no one, except me, managed to enchant the piece of wood. Mrs. Toufee held a speech about the importance of learning and the hardships of enchanting.
She also asked me how I did it, but I just gave her vague answers.
Thursday:
The tailor teacher arranged a business meeting after school and I was allowed to brew potions in the alchemy class. This is the skill.
Skill:
Alchemy
You´re not able to get
laid or can´t get "it" up?
Then brew your own
love potions, no one
will be able to resist
your "charm" LV 0
Mrs. Tifany, the tailor teacher, was present during the meeting. We managed to bargain a 30% share of all future prophets. I also got a skill for that.
Skill:
Trading
Haggle yourself through
the market, you´ll be able
to buy the last pair of
shoes from a beggar for
a ridiculously low price.
You might even be able to
buy the only child of a
loving mother. LV 0
Tifany gets 5 % from that. I did this whole thing just because I´d like to see the women with bras, especially with sexy ones.
And Ilza said that a messenger came, he said that the property seller wishes to see me.
So we´ll meet her the next afternoon....
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I didn´t want to skip the ordinary days, so I made it relatively short.
But there will be some minor time skips in the next chapters.