"What is it but a tapestry of shadows? Threads woven by gods and mortals alike, unraveling across time? It's 'Knowledge'. Magic is not science. It is the language of voids—the spaces between stars, the silence between heartbeats. To wield it, one must become its vessel. Empty oneself, and let the currents flow. And the risks? Corruption, dissolution, madness. But also illumination. There is a star for every abyss—a truth that transcends mortality."
I realize that at this point, instead of getting annoyed by the voice, maybe I should start to understand what it wants to convey. "Knowledge". "Magic is not science". Nope, it still doesn't make any sense or I am a fool. Whatever, I said to myself as I was getting ready for my first class here. So, I didn't think they would teach us here apart from how to kill those wraiths. Yumiko said it's necessary to study as It is one of the ways to live a comfortable life and I was like we have soul-eating monsters here who are everywhere, and we have to fight them with 'our' lives online, and she is saying study to live a comfortable life. Sometimes she makes sense and sometimes she doesn't. Well, we got to what we have to do, I guess.
I said this before, but the rooms here are enormous. It's like we can have a cricket match here and it is being used as a classroom. So our first class was math, I think they are taking it easy on me, being it my first class. Our math teacher is a good-looking man, who I guess is in his 30s. Our books were already on the tables, so all that was left for us was to study. He started with differentiation and I am not boosting myself but I am good at this chapter. It took me 2 years to perfect this chapter as it was one of the most important chapters of math. I was able to do the problems without any worries as it was basic questions, but others seemed to have problems except for Lisa. She is smart, I give her that, and strong enough to make you lose 1 or 2 teeth. After Math, it was time for history. What could it be? Origin of abyssal wraiths or how did our spirits originate or the founding of the BTF? But it was nothing but world history. I guess they want us to study. After studying the world wars and all, it was time for science class. We were taken to chemistry class where we were going to study about types of reactions.
After taking all the classes, I thought it wasn't that bad. It was cool. Taking classes and training to stop monsters, was like the series" Umbrella Acadamy" with a twist that we were not adopted siblings and here we don't have talking monkeys. I hope I can use my powers soon and be helpful to others. "Be a help to others"? What am I thinking? I am not here to protect the world. I am here to protect my family, I reminded myself. This place is affecting me. I have to learn fast and get away from here as soon as possible.
It was time for the evening training and I was not excited about it anymore. I have to talk to my spirit about lending me more power. I closed my eyes and looked for him, deep inside me. All I could see was darkness and emptiness. " I need more powers. Give me more". I cried. Then I heard a loud voice. It sounded angry at first but I could hear it now. " You are not ready for it. You have to be more emotionally strong and learn how to control your emotions and not let them control you. You have to be alone, that way you will not hurt anyone you care about. If you can pull all of this off, then maybe we could talk". Stupid Oracle, it thinks I will do things his way, right? Wait and see, I would do exactly what you told me to do. I watched others training with their weapons. "Are you getting bored? Want to fight Lisa again?" Yumiko was standing behind me. How did she do that? Maybe she was an assassin and that explains it. "No" I replied. " Did you talk to your spirit?" How did she know? "Yes, but It said it would not give me powers until I start to do what it says". " quite an odd answer, don't you think." she asked what does it want. I shouldn't tell others, is what I thought and I said, " It will tell me".
Then suddenly a fireball came in our direction. I jumped up and covered Yumiko. The moment it touched me, it vanished. " Vanished?" as my body absorbed it. Others saw it as well and I could tell, they were as surprised as I was. Yumiko was shocked as she saw a ghost. Can't blame her, she almost died if not for me. But wait a second, Why did I save her? Why didn't I dogged the fireball? "Your powers," Yumiko said. " It is something which we haven't seen before." The one who cast the fireball came and apologized to me and Yumiko and It was Lisa. I didn't think of her as a person who could apologize.
" We have to study it. How did you stop the cast without putting up the barrier? As per our past research, Thalassa uses the water present in the atmosphere and surroundings to create a shield. It's something new. It was like you absorbed the fireball." And here I was thinking how the hell did I do that? Well, this means I am getting somewhere and I think somewhere better. " We should test it." What am I? A guinea pig? Let me rest for a bit and it became dark.