Chapter Sixteen: Chaos Bringer
Layla tried to understand what Alexandria Feloncia had said. There's bound to be a little accident? But she got distracted when Nephis returned to her and fell on her body.
"Should I heal your exertion, young lady?"
Nephis shook her head. "I worked for this, and since when can you heal exertion? Isn't it only external injuries? And not perfectly yet, right?"
Layla glared at her and Nephis chuckled. There weren't very good programs for Healing Mages because most of them learnt on the job where they were mostly people who needed to be healed.
Also, Gaden High favored combative magic and elements because of the war, it'd take a while to prioritize other programs and add them for future noncombatant Mages.
"Go, Alexandria!"
Layla snapped from her thoughts when she heard Lilian yell. She moved away from her, worried for how much her ears could take.
Alexandria raised his palm as response to Lilian's cheers. He pointed at the metallic board that Nephis had hit. "That'd be my target too."
"Suit yourself…" Zenith looked at the target and felt something was off but the sparks growing in the air took his attention from it. This kid had a Lighting element? Or did he harness electricity?
"There's no cable here." Zenith huffed, impressed. "The mischievous one really has a Lighting element." He guessed from the sparks he did at class that it was electric related but he assumed he used a cable at class to harness the electricity, not having the main deal.
Being able to produce elements from nothing was a different gift on its own. Manipulating the element was the easiest way. For Nephis, she was Guandan so water had always lived around her.
The sparks around Alexandria grew to small orbs, scattered at his sides. Zenith noticed he didn't make any hand movement to control their placements and moved them telepathically. The kid already had such control of the element he created from scratch?
"I'd follow the path already created." Alexandria glanced at the teacher for a refusal but got none, he smiled widely and snapped his fingers.
That's when Zenith realized, that's what was off.
He knew Alexandria had an electric related magic, and electricity and water didn't match. He shouldn't have performed after Nephis or they'd be accidents.
"Wait—"
It was already late, as an explosive sound erupted from Alexandria's side and the Lightening orbs sped through the path the waterspout had made, dancing and cackling as it moved.
Sparks of blue lightening rolled on the ground and some flew upwards attacking the electrical appliances on the wall.
The wetness on the ground further elated the sparks to be violent and it'd worsened if it reached the metallic board which would conduct faster.
The student thanked their stars that they were far away from, but Nephis' could see how it wouldn't matter their distance when the sparks would hit the metallic board and explode. "This Alexandria is trying to cause a fire, right?"
It clicked and Layla understood that's what he had meant by causing an accident for her. She pulled Lilian backwards and Nero, as well. "I want to heal people, but not by creating problems."
A sadistic smile grew on Alexandria's lips as the sparks grew violent and bigger as they reached the metallic board.
From the corner of his eyes, he could see Alez low-key anticipating the explosion that'd happen when it'd make contact with the metallic board.
At the second before the sparks made contact with the board. "Freeze." And they stopped moving.
A betrayed feeling consumed Alexandria and he fell to his knees, pulling the grass in frustration. Alez looked away, to hide his disappointment, while the other students exhaled in relief.
The spark looked like a work of art stopped in motion with its wild neon blue claws itching towards the metallic board. Zenith stepped towards Alexandria and resisted the urge to smack his head.
He had taken off another band that'd let him use Word's Will to stop the sparks. The sparks acted like their creator, wild but with purpose. This must be a different side to Alexandria Feloncia, chaos bringer.
To say he wasn't impressed would be a lie, but Zenith would prefer if his mischievous ideas didn't bring harm to others and that wouldn't have been the case in this scenario. "I've seen that you are good at long ranged attacks, so you pass."
Alexandria looked up with a pouty expression, he left the ground and stomped back to the rest.
"Disperse." Zenith commanded and the frozen sparks scattered to oblivion. He returned the band to his arm and took his rolled-up sleeve down.
He turned to Alexandria and saw him being patted on the back by Alez. That Alez supported his craziness, didn't he?
Zenith somewhat admired it, he always admired friendships because that's something ten year old him till now couldn't fester. It was always less important when he could handle himself.
When the dust settled, he signaled the students to get closer. Nero had been in a daze while watching the display of the students, especially the last one.
It clearly screamed trouble yet the white haired boy had a sadistic expression. Nero instantly felt at home with him. He wondered if he'd be allowed to practice since he hadn't register but when the teacher called them back to the field, he knew he wouldn't be given the chance till he registers.
"Oh? Do you wish you had finished early enough to register before class?" Layla teased him.
Nero clicked his tongue. He didn't delay because he wanted to, the ID scan just took longer. "I will be part of the class so I can always try it. No problems."
They were given sheets of paper that had their scores written in red ink and Sir Zenith's remarks in green ink. As always, he blessed them with an autograph.
"Name and rank?" He came before Nero.
Layla stepped away from them, feeling out of place as she didn't get to be scored. She turned to Dexter Esther who seemed to not be bothered. She hadn't spoken to the girl before so she inched close to try.
"Um…hey…"
Dexter Esther turned to her instantly and said. "I don't feel bad. We all contribute in our own way, don't we?"
Layla was speechlessness. The girl could tell what had been bothering her? Did her pathetic feelings reflect on her face?
Before Layla could reply, Dexter Esther left to the backbenchers and began chatting about Alexandria's act, speaking of how exciting it'd have been if it happened without anyone getting hurt.
Layla tried to remember what Dexter Esther's magic did but pulled a blank, she shook her head. "I really know nothing about my classmates."