"Okay I'm better now" Alice inhaled and exhaled deeply "I might have an idea what happend" She thought about everything that happend. "It seems that my dryad rend became part of me and altered my body" She left the part out that she also knew why her body changed so much. "So it seems im half human half dryad now"
"It suits you a lot" Tania grinned "Now lets get ready !" Tania went off to change into her uniform and Alice went to Monika's wardrobe to borrow some clothes. She was a bit scared that she would find that it was full of lewd clothes but luckily there were normal ones aswell. She tried quickly changing but her sudden change of sizes made it a bit harder than usual.
"Alice come down !" Tania called for her.
"Yes I'm coming !" Alice ran downstairs.
They walked to the academy together. Getting there a bit before classes started. Because they had a bit of time Alice went to have her measurments taken again and her uniform ordered to be made.
"It will be ready to pick up by the end of the day" She told Tania as she walked out of the tayloring room.
"I guess you will stand out on your first day then" The dryad giggled.
The bell rang signaling them to get to the class. Their first one was applied magic which basicaly meant magic training. Tani and Alice looked in awe as the class was filled by a bunch of mages and swordsmen. Some were male some were female, some different species. They all sat down and waited for the teacher to arrive... and waited.... and waited.... They could hear a loud thud and then loud swearing. The doors opened and a familiar person appeard. It was Alice's examinator back during her Adventurer's guild exam. He took out a flask of alcochol and chugged it. His beard still looked the same. Almost like he cut it twice a month to zero and then let it grow out.
"So my name is Valen Hoogan and uuuh I actually didn't prepare anything. Just fight each other outside or something" He said before sitting on a chair.
"WHAT !!!?" The whole class erupted. All of them were pissed at his attitude and lack of care.
"Oh shut up guys. Will you let me sleep if I find you something to do ?" He looked like he was hangover. Grabbing his head.
The entire class nodded.
"Follow me then" He walked outside. Falling over every other step. "Look closely because I will only show it once" The entire class looked at him. He inhaled air. Then exhaled... and suddenly he was gone. A massive wave of air went through everyone's hair. And he was standing 20 meters ahead. "Wake me up if one of you recreates it. And no. I didn't use a rend" He went back to sleep.
Everyone's jaw dropped.
"I wonder if it was his strength alone"
"No it wouldn't make sense, why would he show us a strength feat during magic class"
"Do you think he used fire to propell himself instantly?"
"Did you feel any fire ?"
"Then what else ?"
"He probably used air" Alice said to Tania.
The entire crowd went silent. Alice looked around confused. Then heard them laughing loudly.
"Air ? Can it even be counted as an element ?"
"I don't think I have ever heard of an useful air spell"
"The best use for air magic is to flip girls skirts up"
The last comment was followed by a sound of a punch. One of the people from the laughing crowd came over to Alice.
"Listen. We are here to learn magic so stop with your suggestions if you dont have any good ideas" His voice sounded derigatory and pissed Alice off a bit. The magic that she had most utility for was being made fun of ? She really wanted to prove them wrong.
As all the students formed smaller groups to try their methods Alice started brainstorming.
"Uhm how exactly am I supposed to do this if I dont have any magic ?" Tania interrupted Alice's focus.
"Oh right you never learned how to use magic." Alice completly skipped over this fact. "I will teach you how to use it after classes then. Right now you can try manifesting any of the elements. I would reccomend air first since its extremly useful, no matter what they say"
Tania nodded "Ofcourse I will trust you over them".
"So try to imagine something related to air while focusing on the mana in your core" Alice explained while doing stretches.
Alice tried to get into the stance to make a dash for it with support of air but because of her bigger chest size and taller frame, she just fell on her face. Making Tania laugh. She tried again, this time she adjusted her stance and supported herself with air. Her hair flew all around as she made a dash. It was way faster than possible for a normal human without magic but still far from their instructor. She kept trying and trying. Cutting miliseconds off of her total time each time. Tania watched her try instead of imagining air.
As Alice was about to try again she got pushed by a wave of air. "I'm sorry !" Tania shouted.
Alice looked in disbelief "You actually did it ? What did you imagine for it to work ?" Alice was very proud of Tania.
"I just looked at you using it.... and then it came out" the dryad said.
"I guess you are a visual learner. Now the next step will be to use it while moving" Alice gave Tania her next task and she herself went back to training. Around 5 minutes before their class was supposed to end Valen woke up.
"Did anyone get close ? Let's check" He called his students to see who got the closest.
First, one of the girls tried to propell herself with fire. As she casted it she flew forward very fast but instead of stopping she hit the tree.
"Wrong. Thats not even close to how to do it" Valen said.
Next it was a guy who looked very strong. He craeted an earth ramp to launch himselff forward. He landed perfectly but it took him way way too long.
"Its supposed to be instant guys. I guess you are all not fit for this class. Dismissed" He sighed
"Please wait professor Valen!" Alice called out to him. "I want to try too"
"Hmm. Okay good luck" He let her try.
She conjured air around herself again. As she took the first step the air propelled her extremly fast. But unlike the first girl she controlled it so well that it stopped her 10 meters away. The whole thing took 2 seconds.
"That's exactly what I'm looking for ! But its still not fast enough" He clapped to praise her.