It's been 3 weeks since the group of five have been taking Antonella's lecture. At first, she was giving easy information that one could memorize, because of this the five thought that the empress and Ra were exaggerating about how bad her lectures were, boy, were they wrong. 

During the first week, they were taught the basic theories of magic.

"Imagination and concentration." (Antonella)

That was all she told the five, which, of course, made them very confused. And they asked why only this, she rebuked them.

"You all do not even have a mana core yet you want more in depth knowledge, hah! You probably think that magic is some complex thing, but it's not! Haven't you heard that simplicity is gold! If you make things very complex, you'll only be wasting your mana!" (Antonella)

"Also, people are not the only ones who can do magic. Animal, plants, fungi, etc., sometimes even inanimate objects, can as well. Their bodies naturally absorb the mana in the atmosphere and grow stronger, some just take longer than others. 

The second week, they were thought more about the worlds and it's people.

"You all know about the eight races, humans, elves, dwarves, fairies, lord, dragons, beastmen, and the fallen. I will tell you all a few more things." (Antonella)

"First, among the beastmen and elves, there are various subspecies. For beastmen, there's the dog tribe, cat tribe, wolf, lizard, etc., for elves, there are snow, mountain, forest, etc. The elves and fairies reside live within the Northern half of Trea while the beastman live in the southern half." (Antonella)

"Also, listen closely and you must not tell anyone this." (Antonella)

Upon saying that she made a serious face.

"We told you all that the Fallen is a race. That is both true and false. I will not go in depth on it, however, if you ever meet a Fallen, never offend them for if they chose to retaliate, you will suffer. In this world, there are only around 11 people who can survive if a Fallen turns into their enemy. But it is a good thing that many of the Fallen are good-natured people." (Antonella)

On the third week was when it happened. They were learning the language of the continent and Salvador's spoke up.

"Why do we have to learn this when we can already understand the language!?" (Salvador)

One must know that Salvador is not the biggest fan of things that do not interest him. He will do them if he must, but if it's is optional, then how chose not to.

"You only understand the language because of the magic spell that was cast on you by the world and it will disappear after you all go through the ceremony. If you can't read, write, and speak the language at a basic level then you will be less intelligent than a 5 or 6-year-old." (Antonella)

"Aghhhh, that doesn't matter, I don't need to read or write it, only speak. It alright if Lee learns that." (Salvador)

It was probably that that ticked Antonella off. When she glared at him, he flinched in response. She then spoke to Ra while still keeping her gaze at Salvador.

"Ra, go get the items he needs to clean the ‘Roc Mud Pits'" (Antonella)

"But he didn't mean.." (Ra)

"No buts, go prepare it." (Antonella)

Ra didn't mind that he was cut off. He looked at Salvador with a sympathetic look and then left the library to fulfill the cardinals request.

"Since you will question whether you should learn the language or not, I'll have to punish you as well as let you be an example." (Antonella)

"The lecture is over, you are free to do whatever you wish for the rest of the day as long as you all don't disturb the workings of the castle." (Antonella)

After saying that, she grabbed Salvador by the ear and started to pull him out of the library.

"Ouch, stop that you old hag!!" (Salvador) 

"Who are you calling an old hag, I am still young!!" (Antonella)

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"Young, ha, Mr. Sparda told me that you're older than him by 2 years and that your real age is, ARGHHH, SORRY, I'M SORRY, FORGIVE ME!!!!!!" (Salvador)

"I teach you to never say a woman's age out loud. And thank you for telling me for I'll have a chat with him later." (Antonella)

While she dragged him out of the library, the other four did not say anything for the felt fear when they looked at Antonella's eyes, especially when he mentioned how old she is.

Later that day when Salvador came back, he smelled rancid that even if you were more them 10 feet away from him, you could still smell it. He wasn't allowed back in the castle and had to sleep outside in a brown comforter one of the butlers gave him.

Before the butler left, he said

"You are not the first to get the Roc Pit punishment These comforters are always given to those that get it. At first, since we couldn't get the color and smell out we burned them, but since we lost many high-quality comforters because of it, we just re-use them and put them in a separate hut outside the palace." (Butler)

The other four didn't know about any of this until the next day when they met Salvador again. He, even though better than before, still stunk horribly and was forced to take consecutive baths by the four and the maids until he smelt better.

After the bath, he told the others about his experience.

"Shit, not mud, BUT SHIT!!! It's NOT A MUD PIT BUT BUT A FUCKING TOILET FOR GIANT ASS BIRDS. PLUS, THE THING I HAD TO USE FOR THE CLEANING WAS A BROOM, A BUCKET, AND MOP, THAT'S IT. THAT FUCKING PLACE WAS MASSIVE." (Salvador)

"AND THE REASON I SMELT SO BAD WAS BECAUSE ONE OF THOSE FUCKS TOOK A SHIT WHILE I WAS CLEANING AND IT LANDED ON ME. THEN HE LOOKED AT ME WITH A SMUG FACE AND LAUGHED, I KNOW IT!!!!!!!!" (Salvador)

"A bird shouldn't be capable of that…..never mind this is a different world." (Lee)

"I DONT GIVE A SHIT, I SWEAR I WILL FIND THAT GIANT CHICKEN AND FUCKING ROAST IT!!!!!" (Salvador)

After a while, he calmed down and seeing that the other four looked haggard, he asked with curiosity why they looked like that. The answer was.

"We couldn't get any sleep last night." (Lyle)

"Yea, there was this really pitiable scream that kept resounding. And not just us but the other people in the castle heard it as well." (Elizabeth)

"Yea, but it funny, the voice sounded like Cardinal Spardas." (Lee)

"It probably was, didn't you hear what Antonella said when Sal was about to mention her age and he told on Cardinal Sparda." (Marc)

Their guess was soon proven correct. When they went towards the library, they ran into the cardinal as he left his room and saw the horrible and shriveled up state he was in. When they were about to asked him why he was like that, Antonella came out of his room and looked like she was glowing. 

The two walked away from them, Antonella with her arm entwined around Sparda's seemingly not noticing them, Sparda, on the other hand, was glaring at Salvador like he would kill him at any moment.

When the two walked away, only then did the group have the courage to speak up.

"Why are in the same room, and why are their arms entwined?" (Marc)

Marc asked the others, and unexpectedly got an answer from his sister.

"Those two are married." (Elizabeth)

"They're what!!!?" (3 Boys)

"Married, Miss Antonella told us that once when us girls were alone together." (Lee)

"So the reason their currently like that and the reason for the screaming last night was..." (Marc)

*gulp* (Lyle, Salvador, Marc)

As he said that the 3 guys in the group gulped, seemingly pale. Seeing this, the 2 girls couldn't help but giggle.

Their usual days went by like this until the day of the ceremony came..