During the class,i tried to talk to her but i just ignored. I was much of a conversationalist either, i had little to no social life before. I didn’t know how to talk to her or even be friends with her. My memories only had knowledge of how to interact with adults, not a 13 year old girl.
However, my heart never wavered, i continued to try and get her to talk to me. I knew that this was what she would want. Like me, she wanted someone who would care about her.
Throughout language class I didn’t pay any attention to the lecture. I already knew everything he was teaching us.
The class i had after that was magic casting, It taught us how spells are casted. This class taught us how to improve our casting speed and how to use spells using less mana.
While we were practicing, i peeked a look at the girl beside me and saw that her weaving of mana and her element were close to perfect. There were very little wasted mana, wasted turns or movements. Every spells was casted beautifully, even with my 17 years of experience,i could see that hers was as good as mine. All the death energy particles in the air were beaming to help her while my wind energy particles were slow and sluggish.
If i were to rate her,i would say her mana usage was A grade while her element affinity was S grade. The death element seemed to be in love with her. I could tell that in the future she would grow to become very powerful.
After class was over and was lunch break my classmates turned to me.
“You should stop concerning yourself with that her.” a girl said as she points at me with a stern expression. “You are so beautiful, if you stay with her, all of it will be gone.”
I smile at her. “Hahaha. I am sorry, but I don't beleive how things like that could happen just by me talking to her.”
“Then don’t come crawling back to us asking for help!” She said angrily before leaving.
The rest of the girls followed while some of the boys stayed to convince me but i ignored them as i eat my packed lunch.
After the break, i had enchanting class.Instead of the building i was in, enchanting class was at the far end of the school. It was in a old gray building with runic formation surrounding it.
When i entered class, i had to introduced myself again. There were more than 40 students, some who i recognised. There were 6 people who were from class zero there and One of them was the black haired girl i had sat beside. Like the previous class, she sat alone at the back of the class, everyone avoiding her like a plague.
I could empathise with her as i had been shunned by my class before too. Somehow seeing her like this, my resolve to help her rose.
I sat beside her once again. This time, she look at me for a second before ignoring me.
At least i have progressed abit.
In enchanting class,we were taught how to enchant any item. The lesson started by the teacher showing us a few runic formations to practice with. We were to replicate what she was doing on a wooden stick. While the class was practicing, she came to me and personally taught me how to do it.
I had seen runic formations before but i had never weave it before. Since it was my first time enchanting, she explained every single thing to me slowly. After an hour of teaching me, she went back to the rest of the class to check on their work. I took my time to digest the information after she left me.
I learnt from her that enchanting was simply weaving an runic formation into an object then applying mana circuits from the runic formation throughout the object. It seemed simple on the surface until I found out that for the high end enchantments, it usually contain thousands of lines in the runic formation. Not only that, the mana circuits had to flow while not cutting each other off.
To draw a line,i had to use my fingers to weave it. Using my fingers to guide the mana into forming a line.
When i tried to weave the runic formation she showed us, i found that it took a ton of effort to even make a small enhancement. Every time one of the lines in the runic formation was weaved wrongly, I had to restart the whole runic formation. Using sensory overdrive, the higher number of lines in a runic formation i could reached was 48.
The runic formation that she showed us had 56 lines. After practicing for half an hour, i looked around the class to see how everyone else were doing. I could see that some had already finished the enchantments while some were writing applying the mana circuits. Those who had finished were told to practice another runic formation.
As i was looking at how everyone else were doing, i noticed that the teacher would go and check on the progress of every student except for the black haired girl.
Even the teacher is shunning her. What has she done so wrong that cause her to be treated like this? Just because her element is death,doesn’t mean she should be bullied like this!
I took a peek at her weaving and saw that she had already finished with the first enchantment. Her soft long fingers danced like spiders as she weaved one line after another. Sometimes she would even draw two lines at the same time. It was a magical sight, i felt like i could look at it for hours. Comparing her speed of weaving to others, i could see that very few could be as fast or accurate as hers.
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As i was following her fingers with my eyes, somewhere in my sea of conscious something shook. I lost all my feeling and senses. Even though my mind was in sensory overdrive, i did not realised i lost all my senses. The only thing on my mind were her beautiful fingers.
My fingers moved and mimicked her without me noticing it. All my attention were on her fingers. Every single movement she made was perfectly copied and memories by my mind. Only after she finished her runic formation did i realised what happened. I had managed to weave a 64 line runic formation without me even noticing it.
Wow that’s new, I didn’t know i could do that.
However when i gained back my senses, i was not able to enter that state again. No matter how hard i tried,nothing happened. After a few minutes of trying, i gave up and started to try making the mana circuits.
Mana circuits were a lot like electrical wires. They were a pathway for mana to run through from the runic formation to the object. The mana circuits could flow around each other but could not intersect. Each pathway could only lead one direction. Using my knowledge of electrical engineering, it became easier for me to create each pathway.
Only when the class ended, did i managed to complete the enchantment. The teacher was very happy with me, calling me a genius for being able to learn how to make an runic formation on the first day of learning. I was told that most people could only do it after a few days of practice. After that she told me to continuing practicing in my free time so i could catch up with the rest of the classes.
After i finished speaking to the teacher,i noticed that the black haired girl had already left the class.
Okay,tomorrow i’ll try again. Hopefully she will at least look at for more than a second.
After class,i went to the cafeteria to have dinner. Due to me only having around fifty thousand points in my crystal card to spend for the next four years, i did not buy anything fancy. After having dinner i went back to my room in the girls dorm and started practicing weaving runic formations. I practiced the runic formation i memorised for a few hours before going to bed. I had no friends to hang out with as it was my first day of school. And even if i had friends, it was not my style to hang out. I had to catch up to the rest of the class and i didn’t want to go around doing girly things with girls four years younger than me.
The next day i had advance battling. This class was held in the battle arena. The battle arena had 3 sections, the one we were at was the dueling arena. The instructor was called Instructor Stone and he was the man who said he wanted me in his class.
I was wearing a black tight black sleeveless shirt with red edges and a black leggings with a red line running down the sides. The female academy battle uniform hugged my body leaving no room to the imagination. All the girls were wearing the same thing. All the girls in my class were to a certain degree could be described as hot. However seeing the black haired girl in the uniform, i was mesmerised.
I could see every inch of her perfect body. Her perky immature breasts jaunting out,her slim waist not allowing an inch to slip by and her wide hips gave her a body of a goddess. I could not keep my eyes off her. If only she was not ostracized, almost every guy would be clamouring to her.
“Okay, so u guys must be curious about how skill Ari must be to have defeated her examiner” Instructor stone said.
“So we’ll have a duel like usual,who would like to have a go at her?” Instructor stone asked.
Everyone except for the black haired girl raised their hands.
“Lulu you’re up” Instructor Stone said.
“Ari go up the arena and go to one corner. Go all out, if there is any danger, i will jump in and stop the fight.” Instructor stone said.
I went up the arena and stood on one side while Lulu went on the other side.
“Three,Two,one, start !” Instructor Stone said.
I instantly casted wind run and wind predict while she surrounded herself in an armour of lightning. There was a loud sound of crackling as the danced around her body. Lightning was one of the more dangerous elements affinities one could have. It was highly destructive and powerful. Though it is strong,it has negative side effects. It requires a lot of control and mana.
I went into a defensive posture as i tried to tire her out. My plan was to dodge every attack and wait till she used up all her mana.
After surrounding herself, the lightning storm around her started shooting lightning bolts at me.
Fortunately for me, lightning made from mana was a lot slower than natural lightning. However, It was still fast enough to make it very hard and dangerous for me to dodge. For every lightning bolts shot at me, i had to used two wind blades to block.
After seeing that her lightning bolts didn’t work, she made the lightning storm around her to start whipping. Tentacle like whips of lightning started to strike me.
I knew that if i were to get hit by anyone of those whips, it would cause a lot of damage to me even with my mana shield.
I narrowingly dodge an attack as the whips stuck the down where i was previously at. The arena not taking any damage.
As i dodge more and more attacks, Lulu split her whip into four. Sweat was pouring down her as she tried to control the four whips as best as she could.
Even though her control of her whips decreased due to that, the fact that there were more than one whip pressured me. I tried to not use my spirit abilities to the best of my abilities as i wanted to see if i could beat her without it. I just continued to dodge and block any attack that i couldn’t dodge.
With just my heightened senses,wind run and wind predict, i could just barely dodge all her attacks.
As my mana reached 10% , i could see that she was about to fall. Her mana seemed to be running out. She continued to feverously attack me hoping for me to make a mistake while i charge in.
I ran towards her as i used wind blades and wind walls to block and deflect the whips while wielding my dull practice sword. My dull practice sword glistened in the lightning storm as i got near to her.
The lightning around her buzzing as her mana was almost depleted. When i got a meter in front of her, i threw my practice sword at her using wind blades to increase its speed. I was immediately hit by a few lightning bolts when i did that but i didn’t take much damage as she had very little mana.
My sword flew and rocketed through her lightning storm, hitting her squarely at her chest, knocking her down to the ground.
“Stop!” Instructor Stone shouted.
The healer by the side immediately ran forward and started to heal both of us. Neither of us were severely injured. I only had minor burns while Lulu only had a cut on her chest. It was nothing light mages couldn’t heal in seconds. However i noticed that my clothes had tons of burned holes and cuts from the fight showing the world explicit amounts of skin.
I covered myself up with a towel given by the healer while the boys cheered. I didn’t know whether they were cheering because of the fight or because at the explicit sight.
“Good tactic Ari, It was smart of you to try to exhaust her out her mana before charging in” Instructor Stone said as he gave me thumbs up. “ Go take a rest and see how the others fight.”
I went and sat down by one of the chairs from the fight while i tried to recover my lost mana. I watched as my classmates went up the arena to battle one by one. Some had enormous mana pools, casting high tier spells one after another. Some had strong and rare elements like iron,lava and sand. What more, one guy was able to cast two spells simultaneously, i was sure he was an S grade in mana usage.
After a while if resting,i had fully recovered my mana and was sent to fight again. My opponent was a guy who had the water element. He used a spear and tried to fight me in close combat. He used his water element to increase his fluidity of his spear. After ten minutes of fighting him with my sword, he messed up and showed me his weak point. I took advantage of that and managed to get a clean hit, winning me the fight.
I went back to the bench to rest and watched the duels. While watching who were sent up to fight, i noticed that the black haired girl was never called up to duel another person. She was alone at one arena just practicing her spells. She had a sad expression on her face as she launched one deadly spell after another at the training dummy.
After being taught by Instructor Stone on how i could improve my spells, class was over. After he dismissed us, i noticed the black haired girl walked towards the cafeteria. I chased after her.
This time,i’ll eat lunch together with you!