Everything was great.

Jonathan had woken up naturally, no one had knocked on his door demanding that he share his knowledge with his Majesty or the Archmage, but then, suddenly Tablos decided to teleport into his room, while he was dressing.

After that embarrassment had been sorted out, the venerable Archmage had forgotten to check if he was sufficiently clothed before using his magic, Jonathan found out that it had been decided that he would join the evening classes about minor magic and its applications today.

No warning at all, which was not good on Jonathan’s already fragile mental space, beginning with his kidnapping which he still had not sufficiently accepted, and ending with the constantly changing schedule he needed to ensure, while he was someone who needed constants to work.

But there was no changing about that, so he would grumble, but not shout in anger.

Later that day, Jonathan was sitting in a room with around ten more students.

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After a while, the teacher, a young man with a friendly face came into the room: “Today we will look at some of the simplest spells, which generally are looked down upon because a real mage would not use them. The problem with that stemmet is, that in the hands of a real mage, they can become either extremely helpful or surprisingly devastating. Their greatest advantage is their low cost in terms of mana, their second greatest their low complexity. Easy to cast, as well as easy to remember is always a useful trait in a spell. If it can also be cast quickly, you have something truly helpful...”

Then the teacher wandered around a while in front of the students, preparing a few things, and all around making himself at home.

He then showed the first spell. It was a simple spell, able to cleanse water from invisible contamination.

Jonathan thought a while on the exact explanation and was reasonable certain that either all biological matter under a specific size was meant or all bacteria, maybe including viruses.

A powerful spell already, and extremely important.

Something like that could save lives if used in great numbers, but that was not the case. Jonathan noted down to bring it up with the Archmage or the king.

The surprising application the mage mentioned was its ability to kill certain magical plagues, which was not to surprising to Jonathan.