A few days have passed, Larmore, Seraph and Orpheus have met with Barbara and Igor and have began their research on reverse engineering the magic dust, coincidentally or not, they did not see Zenobios.
Presently, they are all in a large room at the ground floor, all working on formulas that can help reverse engineer the magic dust. While working, they were still chitchatting among themselves.
Igor and Barbara were quite shocked hearing Seraph's and the other two's side of the story, as well as Zenobios past deeds. The other three were also perplexed hearing Barbara and Igor's story too.
*Sigh* "creating new formulas for the dust be tasking". Larmore sighed out loud.
"Is it a coincidence that Zenobios did not show up, and Zalmore comes to visit us?". Barbara said.
"Tsk, I'm finding it hard to work here because of that Zenobios, if I catch wind of him, even the ground knows I'll attack him on sight". Orpheus said standing in front of an hologram circle writing runes and inscriptions on it.
Igor went towards Orpheus, after the magic circle Orpheus was drawing caught his attention.
"What are you doing?". Igor asked.
"I'm trying to formulate a new mana circulation formula, I'm quite sick of the old way we cast magic". Orpheus replied.
"Interesting, tell me more". Igor said.
"See, the spells we cast are always long, poetic and time consuming, we are always at a disadvantage when facing fast weapon wielding people, i want to reduce the spells words so it could be easy for a typical scholar to cast spells in short amount of time". Orpheus explained.
"Tell me it a preparation to combat Zenobios without telling me it not ". Igor said sarcastically.
"So what if it is, plus if successfull, it would be advantageous to every wizard kind and scholars". Orpheus said.
Igor scoffed then he said:
"What kind of spell are you working on, let's see if i can help".
"It a summoning spell, I'm trying to formulate a new spell that would reduce the spells". Orpheus replied.
"Hmm, how about adding a tetragrammaton of these". Igor said as he drew four runic words to the magic circle.
Slowly, the magic circle glowed red but it dimmed a few seconds later.
"What happened?". Igor asked a bit concerned.
"It a success!, you are a genius Igor, i never thought a tetragrammaton would actually work, haha, we have to work on more spells". Orpheus said out loud pulling Igor to himself
Perplexed by his own work, Igor stood with a big wide smile, reaching ear to ear.
Unfazed by their celebration, Seraph called out to them
"While I hate to be the stopper of fun, we over here are are done with the formulas for the reverse engineered dust, and we are deliberating on what test subject to use".
"Oh right, we need to talk to one of the personnel here, we can't use Theronite subjects but beasts... ". Igor said.
"Anyways, i want to ask a an unrelated question, why are we called Magical Nation, why can't we just retain our old name, Theron, or better still have a cool name like magicania, magicanium, magicia, magicalandia, magicapolis; why are we stuck with a lame name like magical nation ". Igor said.
"Why ask us, go question the king ". Barbara replied.
"Wow, what a great answer". Igor said sarcastically.
"Hey Igor, you mentioned magicanium right, did you know a new metal was recently discovered and it's called 'Magicanium', the metal is found to be a great source of mana and amplifies magic, well more of its ability are being discovered". Larmore said.
"Good for the metal for having a cool name unlike us... Magical nation, so lame ". Igor said in dead tone.
"Well stop being a gossiper, go meet a personnel and bring a beast with you ". Seraph snorted at Igor.
"Fine, fine ". Igor said.
Few hours later, Igor together with Orpheus brought an infected Diodon, an elephant like animal whose fur had been shed and is now nothing but a huge blob of pink skin, into the room and was placed on an empty spot, shackled with large chains
"We have brought a beast test subject, shall we begin the experiment". Igor said.
"Very well, everyone encircle the Diodon and use the formulas in the paper with you to cast your spells, we will begin when i count to three ". Larmore said.
All five of them went to different point round the Diodon and held a paper with them, as a reference to cast their spells.
"You are all on point? ". Larmore called out.
"Yes; Affirmative". The other four replied.
"Let's begin in three, two, one, caaast". Larmore said.
"Sparkling like a glittering dust spewing to the air, spread around the beast and transform it into our desired want, reverse the effects of it baldness and make it full of hair once more, make it as furry and strong like a matured one". All five of the group casted as they read the paper with them.
From their hands, energies unique to them, similar in color to their hair, starts to shoot out like light. Blue from Barbara, Red from Orpheus, Yellow from Seraph,Green from Larmore and Purple from Igor.
Hitting the Diodon simultaneously from different directions, it cried in pain and reared up to move away from the energies hitting it, but it was impossible, because being shackled in chains means it movement has been restricted.
Barbara and Orpheus were feeling uneasy, judging by the facial expression they made. They were not happy seeing the beast groan in pain.
Few minutes later, the Diodon starts to grow fur like how a normal Diodon should be, the five were glad and were having an inner celebration that their first attempt is a success, that's until it starts to grow big, bigger than a normal Diodon. All five of them stopped the spell but the Diodon kept growing bigger and bigger, breaking off the chain restraint.
"Everyone, what is happening?" Seraph asked bewildered.
"I don't know what is happening, but the experiment is a failure ". Orpheus said.
All five of them starts to move away from the Diodon, all with a shocked and worried expression written on their faces.