Chapter 46 Finally Learning How to Cast Magic Spells
Author: M_W Cancer
Grammar Checker: M_W Nomral
Just when Leo wanted to return to the house, Cassandra finally arrived.
"What are those carriages for?" Cassandra asked curiously as soon as she arrived in front of Leo.
Hearing Cassandra's question, Leo could only explain to her everything that had happened in the past and the present. Since she would find out about it anyway, then it's much better that she will get that information from his own mouth and not from someone else.
Cassandra felt greatly shocked after hearing another part of Leo's story. She only knew about his struggle and how he grew up to his present self. it was out of her expectations that he actually had a fiancée already. A short moment later, she felt alerted after discovering that this fiancée turned out to be Elizabeth Snow.
It was fine if it was someone else because Cassandra was confident in her beauty. But Elizabeth was another case since both of their beauty was at the same level.
Cassandra suddenly locks Leo's shoulder with her hand, as if afraid that someone will take him away from her.
Leo could only smile awkwardly at Cassandra's reaction.
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The next day, Leo entered Silver Mage Academy surrounded by three beautiful girls.
Everyone who sees them along the way is immediately attracted to their direction since three beauties following one guy is a rare sight for everyone.
"I'll come to school alone next time!" Leo can't help but swear deep in his mind.
Although he was already used to being looked at by plenty of people due to his status of Viscount and a lord of a city on top of that, this was his first time being stared at due to having three beauties walking along with him. Even though it was every man's dream to be able to have many beautiful girls by their side, he was different from them since he preferred a peaceful life.
A peaceful life away from trouble!
A peaceful life that will never threaten his own life!
Leo's life seemingly took a huge turn, and he was sure that he would no longer have any peaceful life after this huge turn of events.
Cassandra, Angel, and Elizabeth.
Three beauties capable of causing a war between Kingdoms and Empires due to their beauty were currently living in the same house as him.
For that sole reason alone, peacefulness would be impossible.
"F*ck! This would surely cause me an endless amount of trouble!"
Cassandra alone was already causing him a lot of trouble, and now two girls were added to his plate. If Fate was playing with him, then this is no longer funny!
Finally arriving outside the building of their respective classrooms, Leo quickly bid farewell and dashed to his room.
He didn't dare to take Cassandra to her room this time since Elizabeth and Angel would surely follow along with him.
"Yow, why are you rushing?" Alfred greeted as soon as Leo sat on his chair.
"To run away from trouble..." Leo replied while trying to catch his breath.
"Huh..."
Their conversation was abruptly interrupted as Teacher Marvin arrived.
Everyone instantly felt curious as to why Teacher Marvin strangely arrived early today. This was unusual for someone who used to arrive right after the bell rang.
"Today, I will begin teaching all of you about casting Magic Spells!" Teacher Marvin announced, which immediately made all the student's eyes to lit up.
Everyone now understood why Teacher Marvin arrived earlier than usual today.
It was simply because they were about to be taught how to cast Magic spells!
This was the lesson that they had long been waiting forever since they stepped inside Silver Mage Academy.
Every student that had learned about their affinity to become Mages only had one dream in their mind from the very beginning;
'To finally be able to cast a Magic spell!'.
What all of them were taught last week was how to adapt and survive as a Mage, and experience how to live a life in a Mage Academy. And since the first week had already passed, thus it's now time to officially start the real lesson of the Silver Mage Academy.
"We are going to the stadium in the center of the building to learn about how to cast a Magic Spell." Teacher Marvin said before motioning to everyone to form a line outside.
As soon as they arrived outside, everyone from Class 1S- directly noticed that the other students from Class 1S and Class 1S+ were also going to the stadium at the same time as them to learn about how to cast a Magic Spell.
Following the path downstairs and moving through a corridor, every student from Class 1S-, 1S, and 1S+ finally arrived at the stadium.
The stadium was honestly a lot bigger than what they could see from their rooms. Being inside the stadium instead of looking at it from above has allowed each of them to realize the difference.
The stadium was two hundred by two hundred meters in size and was made out of an unknown but surely tough material capable of withstanding powerful Magic Spells that they'd be performing over time. Also, just merely standing in the stadium, everyone couldn't help but feel rich Mana flowing all over them.
'Such a marvelous feeling!'
Everyone expressed.
Without needing to ask, everyone knows that an array with the purpose of gathering the surrounding Mana was built below the stadium grounds for such a phenomenon to be made possible.
The three Class 1S's were soon gathered together in the center of the stadium.
Not long after, Teacher Marvin stood on a platform to start the lesson.
"Spellcasting is the most important part of being a Mage. One could even say that it is the very life and essence of us Mages,"
"If a Mage is not capable of casting a single Magic Spell, then that person is not considered a Mage and will never be recognized as a Mage by any Mage organization. Simply put, the moment you were all able to absorb the Mana from a Mana Stone was not yet the day you had become Mages, but only when you can finally cast a Magic Spell."
"Casting a Magic Spell is not as easy as absorbing Mana from a Mana Stone. To cast a Magic Spell, you need to gather the Mana around your surroundings and form the object you want to create using the Mana you have gathered," Teacher Marvin raised his hand in front of everyone before closing his eyes.
"Fire!"
The table in front of Teacher Marvin suddenly started burning.
"Water!"
The fire was then quickly extinguished with a sudden flush of water.
"Earth!"
The water that had extinguished the fire was quickly trapped by a sphere made out of rock that had suddenly appeared out of thin air.
"Nature!"
The rock that trapped the water was then covered with green, tiny weeds.
"..."
Teacher Marvin continued casting different Elements of Magic Spells. Different colors of Magic Circles also followed all the Magic Spells he had cast to represent the different Elements being used to form his Magic Spells.
Coincidentally, the method used by Teacher Marvin to cast his Magic Spells was somewhat the same as when Leo was trying to form his Elementals in his consciousness.
Leo could see this as he observed closely and tried his best to understand the principles behind casting Magic Spells.
In his case though, he just needed to focus on absorbing the specific Elemental Mana from the air to his right palm, and then he would soon be able to form the Elemental in his consciousness.
On the contrary, Teacher Marvin creates the specific Element Mana he needs for the Magic Spell by converting the Mana he had gathered from the surroundings.
That was different from how he does it because he had to rely on which Element Mana was rich in his surroundings to form his Elemental.
Simply put, Teacher Marvin creates different Element Mana, while he could only absorb what specific Element Mana was rich around his surroundings.
"The first step to being able to cast a Magic Spell is to know how to absorb the Mana in your surroundings. Luckily for all of you, to absorb this Mana is somewhat the same as how you absorbed the Mana from a Mana Stone; focus your spirit and control the Mana as you then gather the Mana from your surroundings to your body." Teacher Marvin said as he motioned everyone to begin.
All the students excitedly nodded in response as they closed their eyes, raised their hands in front of them, focused their own spirits, and not long after they finally began absorbing the Mana around their surroundings the same way as how they absorbed Mana from a Mana stone.
One by one, they opened their eyes in amazement which only implies that they were successful in absorbing the Mana around their surroundings.
"The Mana that you have successfully absorbed is actually called Pure Mana. Pure Mana is a form of Mana which has no element mix within, just pure essence," Teacher Marvin informed everyone.
Since everyone was already done with the first step, Teacher Marvin continued to the second step, "The second step is to turn this Pure Mana you have absorbed into a specific Element Mana that you needed in order to cast the Magic Spell you have in mind."
Everyone quickly started following what Teacher Marvin had instructed them to do.
First, they repeated the first step of absorbing Mana.
Secondly, they focused all their attention on turning the gathered Pure Mana on their hand into a specific Element Mana.
However, everyone who had not yet cast a single Magic Spell in the past failed in this second step.
Those students who had failed slowly opened their eyes as they turned to look at Teacher Marvin for an answer.
"Those that had successfully done the second step can proceed to Teacher Candice to continue, while those who failed will remain here with me!" Teacher Marvin motioned his hand as he pointed toward a beautiful teacher below the platform.
This teacher was voluptuous and tall height. She has fair and white skin, well-rounded buttocks, huge breasts, slender legs, and her beauty is only a little bit lower when compared to beauty like Cassandra and Elizabeth. Also, her hair was black and short, specifically shoulder length, and she had a black pupil.
"Everyone who has completed the second step come with me to that side!" Teacher Candice sweetly said to the students who succeeded in the second step before walking away from the rest.
Unfortunately, Leo was among these students who had failed the second step. He was used to absorbing the specific rich Element Mana in the air, so he had no idea at all on how to turn this Pure Mana on his hand into a specific Element Mana.
Teacher Marvin felt slightly confused when he unexpectedly learned that Leo had failed the second step. The latter was, after all, a student recommended by Sword and Magic, so he had a high expectation for him.