“Can you stop with your laughing at me?! It has been a whole week since then and the only thing you have done all this while is laugh at me! It was funny not gonna lie but everything has a limit”
“Ok Mr. Gaylord”
*Sigh*
I sighed and decided to ignore their laughing, I was not really irritated by it but it was too damn distracting when I was trying to do calculas.
“Did you manage to complete the task?” Delsa asked Adiel, This task that was being talked about was given to us 4 days ago.
Edward gave us the task to compress mana and make it spin, then continue to add mana to it until It can hold a spherical shape and uniform rotation without any external pressure.
I had managed to do this yesterday morning and Delsa did this yesterday night.
“Yup, just this morning”.
“How curious is the existence of mana, It seems like energy but we can see it and it exists in particle form, its kind of like electrons if electrons could be controlled through mental prowess”
Delsa pondered and went off to no doubt find Elen.
“She really was a scientist huh?” Adiel said and went off behind her.
I can’t help but wonder if something was going to happened between these 2, they have been staying together more and more the past 3 day.
Good for them I guess.
I went to the garden where Eleven stayed and played chess with him for a while. After all what can a old man do to quickly pass time and wait for the next day.
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“Good morning class, before we start with anything let me ask you this, how many of you are done with the assignment I gave you 4 days back.” Edward asked right after appearing on his chair.
3 people raised their hands- me, Adiel and Delsa.
“Well If by the end of the month you all have not completed the assignment then it would not be the issue of not enough mental fortitude but an issue of laziness, and I will throw someone not serious in the study of magic out of this institute forever”
A page with another set of instructions appeared in front of our group only.
“As for you three, follow these instructions to use mana in the real life. You can the diagrams of some magic circles to try out in the 1st floor library. Remember to knock before entering, the teacher their can sometimes be drawing really elaborate magic circles on the floor and sudden entry might anger her enough to make her punish you.
“today we will be learning about the flow of mana depending on the size of the place from where the mana is passing through. Interestingly enough the relation is not linear, while generally the amount of mana that can flow increases when the size of the transmitter increases, there are a few sizes where the flow is abnormal, fluctuating between high and low, Like if we take 1 unit as the size of one mana particle then the closer you approach numbers like pi, the golden ratio etc the more intense the fluctuations become, it is theorized that if you make a line with perfect pi width then the mana flow in it would fluctuate between 0 and 2 times the normal flow…
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The moment the class ended me, Adiel and Delsa ran out the class towards our house. Thankfully Edward didn’t give us any homework today.
The page had the following instructions.
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Control the mana to form a really fine needle. Preferable thickness is about the diameter of a floating mana orb in the soulspace(1 unit)
Carve a spiral pattern on top of the mana orb made in the previous assignment. The pattern should look the following way.
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The depth can be variable but the depth should not invoke a feeling of dread. If a feeling of dread comes up while engraving the pattern, that means that the engraving was about to reach too deep, discontinue and wait for atleast 27 hours before trying again in such a case.
Upon the successful carving the mana inside the soul space should gather in the orb in small quantities.
Control mana to form a staff atleast half the width of the orb and use the needle to form the following Magic circle on the staff. Depth of the carving should be at most 3 units.
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Upon the carving of the magic circle even after releasing the control of the staff it should not lose its shape.
Carve the following magic circles on the top of the staff, bottom of the orb and bottom of the staff. Preferred thickness 3 units.
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Then touch the orb with the staff.
It will connect like a magnet.
Then stab the staff in the middle of your soulspace.
“This is really descriptive” I commented.
“I would be worried if it wasn’t, as that would mean we are playing a guess game, and I am pretty sure the soul is not something we should play a guess game with.
“It would take atleast 4 hours to remember the 3 patterns without missing a line.” Adiel said
“Lets make copies of it first so that we don’t have to read from the same page. I wonder why he didn’t just give us 3 copies?”
“Maybe to help us practice drawing the magic circles?”
After a bit of small talk we copied the magic circles, Adiel and Delsa sat on the sofa and I decided to go sit in the garden while doing this.
I had become too used to sitting in the green grass in my life, so used to infact that I didn’t even appreciate it till I was too old to move too far away from my house.
Perhaps this has lead to my tendency to go to the garden anytime I get the chance.
The only thing I desired while I was waiting for death to come was a few more years to travel a bit more, maybe I was not even desiring magic that much, maybe the journey itself had become magical for me.
“What are you thinking about Eric?” Eleven’s voice came from the side.
He was sitting on a tree branch near the grass I was laying down on.
“A journey perhaps, I am not that sure”
“Do you want to talk?”
“Sure, what do you want to talk about?”
“No no no, What do YOU want to talk about” His eyes seemed to shine.
“I… Did I tell you that I have lived another life?”
“I know already”
“You do?”
“Yes, any and all staff members that might interact with you are told about your reincarnation”
“I had suspicions about that, I guess it is now confirmed”
The way the staff members and Eleven talked to us felt a little bit off from the first day, as if they are not talking to children but full fledged adults.
“So, what were you thinking about?”
“Did they tell you that my original world didn’t have any sort of magic?”
“Yes”
“So one day a demigod by the name of ignia was floating in a jungle, and me, who was just a teenager at the time, accidently saw him and took a pictu- You know what a picture is?”
“Isn’t that a still frame?”
“Exactly, So the moment I took the picture he saw me and disappeared. All I managed to capture in the picture was a still image.”
“Then?”
It was almost like narrating a story to children, but in this case the child was a super smart owl.
“Then I went on a long long journey in order to find floating man”
“Why?” I noticed a childlike wonder in the eyes of Eleven.
“To find a bit of magic in a otherwise normal world, I travelled every country in the world, almost got eaten al-”
“Explain the getting eaten part first”
“I went to this cult who worshiped the devil in order to figure out if the devil was real and could be found. Before I could find the devil they found me and took me to their lair in order to be cooked, luckily the devil wasn’t real and they forgot to lock the door of some other prisoner, who freed us all and helped us escape”
“Continue now”
“So I did all that while I continued to write stories, which was my second greatest obsession after magic”
“Really?”
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The conversation became me telling stories about myself to Eleven, who, while was a lot smarter than most people I knew, was just a kid who wanted to explore the world.
What sort of parents would make an oath to force their children to kill their dreams to serve another?
Better yet how great was the legacy of the mages that the spirits would be willing to do so?
After entertaining the owl for an hour I asked him to let me study, which he he reluctantly allowed me to do.
After spending the rest of the daylight remembering the mana circles, practicing drawing them on the ground and finally following the steps of the pages, the soulspace glowed a little and then...
Nothing?
I did feel a little more refreshed than before I guess?
Deciding that all will be answered in tomorrow’s class I decided to go home and sleep.
*Thud* I heard a small noise from behind and saw Eleven sitting on a branch with a log with a chess board carved on top in front.
I guess 2 or 3 chess games wouldn’t hurt.
What’s with Eleven’s weird chess obsession anyways?