Mira began to explain the basics of the spell, how to apply it and keep it active.

'To activate the spell, chant behind me and imagine this shape in your heads at the same time.'

She uttered a few words of the runic language, which were incomprehensible but clear, after a few attempts, the first of them succeeded in activating the spell and after half an hour the last of them succeeded in doing it, after which it was Dante's turn to complete the explanation.

'Listen carefully, after we learned the mana’s multiple storage centers technique, I realized something very important, you can activate the spell as soon as you familiarize with it just by thinking about it and it can be activated and deactivated in just moments compared to the traditional method.'

'Wait, wait.... You're not really joking or making fun of us...'

Mira tried, she activated, and deactivated the basic fireball spell several times in just a few seconds. Her face was overshadowed by the expressions of a shocked person, someone who had been alienated. It is a feeling of treachery; the teacher did not tell them about it deliberately and left the discovery to them to know their new limits by themselves. She became frustrated immediately after verifying the information and then raised her head again and asked Dante to continue talking.

'You have to compose this spell to do what Mira just did.'

The penultimate stage of learning to sneak in and not leave traces began.

An hour has passed and the spell is becoming familiar, most can activate it without uttering the words of the spell, but controlling the activation takes time. This was enough to do the next phase and improve efficiency comes later in field training.

It was now half past six and training was going at a good pace, they might be able to succeed before eight o'clock if they tried a little harder. Dante hurried them even more as sunset approached.

'Let us hurry up a bit, time is running out from us guys.'

Orion, who noticed the progress of time despite the incomplete training, alerted the others.

With greater concentration and better efforts, the last stage of infiltration began by applying shadow expansion and removing-friction, coordination between the two skills is a bit difficult but not impossible, their presence began to diminish little by little until they became hidden enough to avoid monsters and partial integration with the surroundings. They did not even get anywhere close to Dante but enough to ensure their survival tomorrow.

It was almost eight o'clock and darkness began to cover the ground like a dark garment, bringing with it cold, calm and tranquility...

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Everyone went to bed early to wake up early for tomorrow, morning came quickly and everyone was on standby. Everyone waited for each other in front of the entrance to the dormitory and then all moved towards the training grounds.

The morning breeze was breathtaking with the sun that began to loom from the horizon, illuminating half the dome of the sky in a pale blue color; it was often calm on the atmosphere. The lowest sounds were audible, one of which was the sound of the nightingale that wakes up with the first ray of light.

Teacher Maximus was late for more than ten minutes and there were no signs of him coming so far, the team did not wait any longer and started running around the field so as not to be late for their appointment. Time passed and they completed the twenty courses in a little less than twenty minutes, a week ago, they could not complete them in less than thirty but the improvement began to appear little by little and the results are clear on the horizon.

They then moved on to the second stage, climbing the rope ten times and the results are better and better than the previous times. Therefore, they completed the rest of the things and there was almost an hour left, so they used it to hone the skill they learned yesterday. The countdown has begun, the teacher is yet to come and the atmosphere is starting to get a little turbulent. With less than ten minutes left until exactly eight, Maximus appeared out of nowhere and began to applause.

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'It seems that you did not laze or leave training for me not attending, this is the required spirit!!'

Maximus gestured his hand to follow him and took them instantaneously to the eighth special training room.

'Since your performance has improved to this degree, you should start looking for your weaknesses yourself and finding solutions to them. Let's first continue our usual mana training.'

'Understandable, Master.'

Each of them sat in place and began to collect mana from the air and expand storage centers throughout the body. Maximus was impressed by the progress they have continued to make over the past two weeks. He began to think deeply about ways to develop his plan, one of which is to expand the scale of preparation for the disaster, not as if eight people would carry the burden of the world on their backs alone.

"The future is in good hands as long as we continue like this; I won't rely just on the kids this time. We will mobilize all the forces of the world to support us this time; I will talk to Albus about this later."

The two hours passed quickly and the students were focused but somewhat around them, they paid attention to the change of the surroundings around them but it was too late. They are not in the room anymore.

The place is dark and cold, not really cold but a feeling of chill from the ominous atmosphere. Each of them was isolated in a place by themselves, what was the feeling? It was as if you were sinking into a deep, endless ocean, helpless and unable to move or resist. Trying to speak did not work, not a single sound came out despite their screams. In a black place where you cannot see, hear or move, the only thing left was to think... After a while, you will lose the sense of time and then time will stop. Thoughts became more and more dark and thoughts began to dissipate until only this sentence remained:

"Where am I? Who am I? How long has passed? I do not know. I don't want to stay in this sinister place."

This was the only sentence that remained stuck in their memories after they lost the sense of time, it is the brink of a neuropsychological breakdown and they are still unaware of the situation they are in.

Suddenly, the sensations began to return little by little like a light at the end of a long tunnel. The light began to grow with seconds until the entire field of vision was blurred and the senses returned to normal.

"It's a feeling of pain as if I fell out of bed. But how did I not feel like I was falling?"

Thoughts began to clear, the children regained their sight, and they were all lying on the ground and groaning in place, the situation is still strange as it is not clear what happened until now. Just like someone who was hit in the back of the head, lost consciousness and then woke up in the hospital days later, he is unaware even of being beaten and unconscious. The only tangible thing is pain at the site of the blow when touched, nothing more, nothing less.

'What happened? Is this an illusion? I don't understand anything.'

Dante was the first to speak and raised his head to find Maximus sitting on a wooden chair while sipping a cup of tea; Maximus noticed their awakening and waited for minutes for them to gather their thoughts and realize the situation they were in.

'I didn't really expect you to hold out so much.'

'What happened earlier?'

'How much time do you think it passed inside?'

'So they weren't just fantasies. I don't really know but it's at least ten days.'

Dante who was the first to start answering the question and his answer prompted Maximus to laugh. From their point of view, there was really no reason to laugh and the surprise was after Maximus finished his words:

'It's been three months and you're inside. 90 days: 129,600 minutes. Let's get over it, how long do you think it has been here?'

'My senses are confused and I can't really guess.'

'It's been a quarter of an hour, Dante. A quarter of an hour.'

Dante is still catching up his thoughts and trying to understand what just happened.

"Is the teacher kidding? Is this a hoax? Nevertheless, what I felt was real. Is this some kind of illusion or what?"

'What you have done is called {Accelerating the Thinking of the Great Magician}, a process that allows you to speed up your thoughts and messes with the user's concept of time. I was surprised that you held out and kept conscious for three months inside. This surprised me too. You passed my test, boys.'

Conflicting thoughts after hearing such words that cannot enter the mind of a healthy human being. No matter how much they tried to get rid of it, they could not, and the feeling they felt was realistic, it was a living nightmare by all standards and they could not find a word to describe the teacher. Perhaps he is really experimenting with them, the balance of good and evil of Master Maximus was broken before their eyes. They can no longer determine his true nature, is he really a good person or is he a deranged and deceitful?

Each adjusted his sitting while waiting for Maximus to speak who was staring at the ceiling and thinking about his next move...