”So you all here think that she needs to be shown her place in society?” Heinrich Tablos shook his head: ”You are disgusting. But that is something that could be dealt with. What is not, is that you are also extremely stupid. What is the one thing that governs the magical society at an apprentice level? You, over there, tell me that you know the answer.”

The boy the Archmage was pointing at visible shuddered and went white.

He seemed, to Tablos at least, as someone who simply tried to stay in high social standing to some of the more nobly born children, who seemed like the instigators of the whole thing.

He also had realized, that Tablos was not only angry, but that they did something that might have serious consequences that could not be dealt with by changing the school.

So he carefully answered the Archmages question: ”Honourable Archmage, it is power. Talent is not considered to important until the later stages of training, when the future mage has already gained the status of a Junior Mage.”

Tablos continued: ”Great and correct answer. But you seem to have not grasped the implications of that. Admittedly, most of yeh others here where even worse with grasping that, and more importantly, grasping what it actually means. But I will help you understand. The most powerful, in relation to raw magical power, even if the familiar can be, in certain circumstances, be counted towards that total, is the one everyone else should now to. Even if we do not count Jonathan to her total, and every single one of your familiars to yours, she still would be more powerful than you. I fact, you are damn lucky that she did not instinctively attack you, because she has more raw power than you all combined. I am the only one in this area right now, who is able to gather enough power to defeat her in a pure power duel. And I find it likely that this will soon change. And she is able to access the affinities of her familiar. One of those is for corruption magic. Do you want to have nearly my power in corruption magic in your face?”

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The last question was meant for the teachers, which got smaller and smaller as Tablos monologue continued.

Tablos was quite happy with himself. Although it was fairly unlikely that Elise would have been able to access the corruption magic of Jonathan, especially because she needed her familiars permission for that, it was still fairly possible, that she might kill them all with a massive fireball or something, especially considering that he needed more than five minutes to realize that something was wrong and the only reason, why he realized that was the beginning buildup of raw mana in Elises system.

Because of her power, he installed a ward that warned him if she would ever use more than a tiny fraction of her true power.

He sighed internally. He really hoped that the school concept would work out if opened for commoners, but it did not seem like it.

But before he took her as his personal apprentice, which would bring some problems with it, he still needed to decide what to do with everyone here.