- As you know after the 12 years of war, the four kingdoms finally signed a peace treaty, however, the peace treaty only has one clause as long nobody steps into the other territory without permission the peace will be kept. Can somebody tell me what else could this clause mean?
{Noah}
" In the end the peace treaty means nothing. Each of the kingdoms is trying to build and amass more power. They all agreed to the treaty because they were low on soldiers, resources, and children with incredible potential were assassinated often. The treaty has created nothing but a fake and temporary peace. Four years from now and one year before the Rifts start appearing a war will break out."
Juliana raises her hand
- Go ahead, Juliana. says Andre while pointing at her
- It also means that, as long as a kingdom doesn't openly break the peace treaty by entering another kingdom's territory without permission anything else is fine, including sending spies. Of course, as long as who spent the spy is discovered then that's enough of a reason for a conflict to happen.
- Good answer! says, Andre
{Noah}
" Now that I think about it... Something big is gonna happen soon. I should probably prepare for the war. But what was the cause of the war already? Tsk, I can't remember! At that time I was a shut-in. Studying ways to break the curse that my constitution birthed so I wasn't interested in what was going on in the world."
[After the class in the Magic Specific class in the Blue dorm classroom]
Gancelot arrives in class waves at Noah and goes sit down next to him. Noah seems to be in deep thought.
- What are you thinking about, master?
- Nothing too important. You don't need to worry about it.... Why are you smiling so much? Did something good happen?
After carefully looking at Gancelot he realizes that Gancelot seems incredibly happy and excited for some reason that he, of course, didn't know or couldn't remember.
- Did you forget? asks Gancelot in shock
{Noah}
" What is he talking about?"
- Seems like I did. confirms Noah
- What! You promised me that you would teach me something nice! Did you really forget?
- Yeah... but don't worry I will still teach it to you.
- Yess!
- Did you hear that? says a student to another one
- Noah is gonna teach something to Gancelot. the other reply
Whispers start going around in the classroom.
{Juliana}
" The unofficial King's Sword list was updated yesterday and you were in it. If somebody with the potential to become a King's Sword mentions teaching something nice to somebody, obviously it will draw attention since many want to learn from King's Sword."
[Flashback to after the meeting with Telnoir in Gancelot dorm room with Juliana]
Juliana rushes inside the room
- Are you ok? she asks Gancelot while trying to catch her breath.
- Yeah. Why do you ask?
- OBVIOUSLY, BECAUSE I HEARD THAT TELNOIR CAME TO SEE YOU! she yells at Gancelot
- So you heard it, huh?
- This is all because of Noah Arcadios! I told you that it wasn't a good idea! You need to break your master-disciple relationship NOW!
- Sis.
- What is it?
- Do you know what master did today?
- What did he do?
- He did something that nobody ever did for me except for you and mom. Do you remember back at the palace? When we were younger? Telnoir used to always bully me even in front of the maids and butler but nobody ever did anything. They always only watched because they knew what kind of person Telnoir was, everybody, knew and was scared of him. Mater also knew but he still stood up to him and he made him leave, for the first time in all my life, somebody made hi back away. Mom and even you were never able to do that. I was always the one to leave but it was never the contrary.
- Telnoir... left? He... backed away? But... That's impossible.
- It's the only reason why I am fine because master did the impossible.
- ...
- I've already decided, sis. I will follow my master no matter what he does and no matter where he goes.
- Gancelot. You... Don't tell me that you intend to...
Gancelot smiles
[End Of Flashback]
The teacher, Turo, enters the classroom. He walks up to his desk put down his papers and does the attendance on his academy watch. When he's done he writes on the board "mana".
- Alright! Today's subject is gonna be Mana.
- But teacher? We already talked about mana yesterday.
- True. But last time we only talked about mana in general. This time we will go deeper into the subject. So what are the five great elements?
A student raises her hand.
- Well this is rare! Usually, it's always the same students that answer! Go ahead, Mya.
- The five great elements are; Fire, Water, Wind, Lightning, and Earth.
- Good answer! Now, what are the three categories of elements?
Mya raises her hand again.
- Again? Go ahead then.
- The categories are; Great Elements, Sub Elements, and External Elements. she says while keeping her hand up.
- You can explain, yes, keep going since you want to do it so much. says Turo while sitting on his chair
She continues
- The Five Great Elements are also called the five natures because they are the element that represents nature. Fire represents heat, Water represents the seas, Wind represents the sky, Earth represents the ground and Lighting represents the connection between the sky and the ground because it is born in the sky yet hits the ground. Teacher can I... she finishes while pointing at the board.
- Oh! You want to become the teacher? Yeah, don't worry about it just steal my job. he says while nodding in agreement.
- Thank you! she answers while walking toward the board
- She just ignored me, huh? whispers Turo
She draws a circle on the board and on the lines of the circle she draws five circles. In the circles, she draws a fire, a boulder, a wave, some wind, and a lightning bolt. After drawing these she makes a line for each of the five circles. within the circle, she makes two more circles. In one of the circles she makes rays and in the other, she simply fills it. In the line that starts from the boulder, she draws a mineral ingot.
- The Sub Elements are born from the Great elements however the reason why they are Sub Elements is that they are not purely a Great Elements. Because they are influenced by another Great Element which then results in the birth of a Sub Element.
{Noah}
" Impressive. She has a clear understanding of the different elements. But..."
- Long grey hair and black eyes, glasses, and her skin tone is brownish which means that she is a light skin black person. The more I look at her the more I feel like she isn't a native of Fayrak.
{Noah}
" Black eyes are not common in Fayrak. It's more like there is none. The only place where you see people with black eyes is in Ryoma. As for black people, they mostly reside in Valmund."
- Wait. Master, you didn't know? asks Gancelot.
- What do I not know?
- The Five Petals.
- What the hell is that?
- They are the five prettiest girls in each grade.
- So the five prettiest girls in the school?
- No that's the Four Flowers. Each grade has Five Petals but the Five Flowers are the five prettiest girls in the school.
- Such a waste of time. How do they even decide who they are?
- When you go on your watch there is a Petal voting and a Flower voting in the community section which was created by the male students. says Gancelot
- External Elements are the Light element and the Dark element. They are called External because they are not affected by the other element. finishes Mya
- Good! You can now head back to your seat.
Mya walks back to her seat. She notices Noah staring at her therefore she waves at him but Noah simply turns back to face the board.
- Are you that interested in her, master?
- What are her origins?
- If I remember right, her mother is from Ryoma and her father is from Valmund they met during the war and escaped here since Fayrak is known for accepting people from different kingdoms. After arriving here her father joined the adventurer guild and after earning enough money her mom opened a clothing shop.
- Oh! I heard that story. So her father is the Gold ranked martial artist that joined the adventurer guild and became a AA rank adventurer, Fenrax.
- Yeah, that's her dad.
[After class in the training grounds]
- You managed to reserve the training grounds but how, master?
- I used the points we got from the dorm assignment ranking.
- Right you got a 1000 points from ranking first didn't you?
- Yeah how about you? How much points did you get?
- First place got a 1000 points, second got 500 points, third got 300 points fourth got 200 points and fight got a 100 points as for the rest of the students they all got 50 points.
- So you got 200 points?
- Yeah.
- Alright! So, What I am gonna teach you is a movement-type spell. Do you remember why?
- Of course, I do! " Never forget that no matter what energy you use mobility is extremely important in a fight" is what you told me.
- Good. in actuality, I am not teaching you a spell.
- Then what are you teaching me?
- A method to use a spell you already know in order to increase your mobility. It won't be easy I am warning you right now.
- I am ready master.