"Let's start with our first lesson on Devil magic" The teacher started teaching.
"The foundation of Devil magic was created by Lucifer himself. The basics of this type of magic is image, desire and power." He looked towards us as if asking if we understood. We nodded and he continued.
"The first part is imagining something. Having a clear image in your mind. The clearer the image, the easier it is to cast the magic. The difference between a clear and unclear image can lead to anything between a failed spell to a hundred times the cost or even an accident that could kill the user. This step is the most important. Please remenber this young lord. "
I nodded and observed that Garcia did it too.
The girl was supposed to be smart enough to be put beside me so this much was to be expected too.
The second part is the Desire. To use magic, we have to desire it. The stronger the desire, the easier we will achive magic. Desire and Intent are driving force behind the spell. A spell with just image and power can only result in so much." The teacher explained further.
" Let us take a simple fireball as an example. We can imagine a perfect fireball and add power to it to make it manifest too, but if we don't intent to harm anyone with it, if we don't desire for an intended result, the damage will alawys be held back by our own magic." The teachers explanation again shocked us, an attack magic without any acctual damage.
"The last part is the power. It is basically the fuel for the magic. The more power you add, the bigger the fire will be"
I raised my hand and asked the question that had been on my mind for a while. I wanted to verify if what I knew about magic circles is true.
"Why do we use magic circle if we can use magic without them? "
The teacher smiled and answered, " A good question young Lord. A magic circle is primarily used as a focus point. It has other uses but we will come to that later. Let's say that a clanless devil has to use a magic spell, fireball for example. He will have to imagine the spell, desire and then use his own power to create the spell. Supposedly he takes 100 units of demonic energy for it. If he creates a magic circle however, it can be programmed to reduce the magical consumption of the spell by taking many factors like the flow of power, unnecessary uses, extra wastes and other such factors and cutting them out. If such circle can be used, the clanless devil can, let's assume, do the same magic with 80 units of demonic energy and thus prevent 20% loss of demonic power. Are we clear here? "
We nodded.
" The clans however, have specialized magic circle for themselves. These circles have been refined over millennia and unnecessary uses are cut off. It is like polishing a sword scraping off unnecessary materials for the best results. The family crest that are used to mark a clan members contains the family's original magic into it. This can be used by simply pushing their magic into it. These are differences between the ones used by the family and the servants. Then the original hier of the clan or previous hiers have only access to the original magic crest. Not even family's other members can have the original magic crest. They all use the one what the servants uses. Original clan crests are family's most guarded secrets. I am proud to say my own house Bune's magic crest conserve 70% power" He sounded very proud of it.
Looks like I also got the servant one, I wonder how much this magic crest conserves.
I assume that there are safeguards regarding the runaway servants as well? "
He smiled "There are. Most of the trators remove the mark and then run because if not they can be tracked down easily. "
I felt a sudden chill running down my spine, and here I was thinking and planning for running away. I need to remove the mark before running away.
"Hahahaha don't look at it like that young Lord. The True Hiers don't have that tracking marks in their crests. This is especially true for satan hiers." Teacher Gregory reassured me but looking at Rizevim's personality, I'm not buying that shit.
"The Lucifer clan has servant clans of Lucifuge, Sargatanas, Agaliarept, Fleurety, Satanachia and Nebiros. Each Lucifer has their own aide from the Lucifuge Clan when they come of age" He said that while looking at Garcia.
The said girl seemed to shrink under the gaze so I changed the topic again to avoid her being under scrutiny.
Right now, anything would be better than the thought of Euclid and his depravity.
"Can control over demonic power be improved so that we can avoid wasting energy? " I asked again and the teacher thought for a moment.
"It can be done. It is extremely hard though. Demonic power is extremely chaotic by nature and to control it is even harder. It is hundreds of times easier to just create a magic circle that will waste 20% less energy than controlling our demonic power to do the same."
" But if we can do the both at the same time, we can probably conserve 34% demonic power instead of just 20%." I said as I have some calculations mentally.
" True. Such things comes with experience though. Anyways you are a Lucifer young Lord. Demonic power will never be an issue for you either way. By the time you are an adult, you will be at least peak satan classvery least. There will never be a necessity for you considering all the satan houses have magic circles that converse above 80% energy. "
What a fucking lazyass thinking.
The magic lesson went on for few more hours.
"Then that's all for today young Lord, little Lucifuge girl." The teacher ended the class and then left us alone in the room.