78 Simple, Right? (1/2)
The students broke in a cold sweat because of that technique. If it was true, then it would be scary. Extremely frightening, even. What if this technique ended up in the wrong hands? Maybe someone could have the idea to use that in a very wrong way.
”Of course,” Arima's voice calmed them down ”I'm not telling you this because I want you to use it. I will teach you this technique for only one purpose. To survive. If one day, you have no choice but to bet your life, maybe this technique will help you”
”The Berserk's Path is not really a technique that kills the user. But it has a good chance of crippling you. Of course, depending on the severity of the injuries, or the intensity of your madness, you may be able to resist all the side effects of the magic” Arima smiled and explained.
”At a later date, I'll teach you the details of this technique, but I forbid you to try to understand it alone. Unless you want to go mad and be killed as a result” He declared and his students nodded. Their choice was instantly made. They didn't want to die by doing something so stupid.
”Good. That's all for the Mind magic” Arima said ”The next one in the list would be s.p.a.ce. Before I tell you what you can do with s.p.a.ce magic, I need to explain to you what is s.p.a.ce” He declared.
”Well, 'explaining what is s.p.a.ce', it's kind of a big way to say it. I don't know exactly what is s.p.a.ce. I'll just talk about the theory which works better for me” He added.
”People tend to see s.p.a.ce in a too small way. What I mean by this is that they think of s.p.a.ce as a force that interacts with our world. That's a wrong way to see it. It's more exact to say that s.p.a.ce represents the world itself”
”For example, humans are not surrounded by s.p.a.ce, they are part of it” Arima said ”When you use s.p.a.ce magic, you order s.p.a.ce to deform and create destruction and injuries”
Arima waved his hand and the outline of a human body appeared in the air. Just after, that figure became filled with dark blue circles.
”Take these circles as s.p.a.ce within us. If I use magic to interact with it, this would happen” The blue circles gathered together. They glowed and suddenly moved at high speed from one place to another, leaving blue lines on the figure.
Arima snapped his fingers and the blue spheres disappeared. Then, the figure started to slowly crumble into numerous pieces, perfectly cut. The students raised their voices at the phenomenon.
”There's also this case” Arima said and the projection changed. This time it was a figure surrounded by the same blue circles ”These circles are the s.p.a.ce contained in the air” Arima said and one more time, a part of those blue spheres started gathering and formed a sort of blade that cut apart the figure.
”It's needed to say that s.p.a.ce can destroy and consume everything as long as it's controlled. Even air if it's needed. With s.p.a.ce, you can also create a similar effect as a black hole by creating a sort of shredder and pulling people in” Arima declared and demonstrated it on the projection.
”Well, in the end, what I just talked about is basically how to use s.p.a.ce magic as a weapon. Let's continue with something else. Transfer, or teleportation”
”Let's begin with what we call a wormhole. The concept is pretty simple on the surface. It consists in connecting two different places with s.p.a.ce magic to create a sort of tunnel. In that tunnel, s.p.a.ce is distorted and the actual distance between the entrance and the exit is something like a billionth of the real distance”
”Of course, I just said a random number. It's just to explain to you that when you connect two points, far from each other, then connect them with s.p.a.ce magic, distort the same s.p.a.ce, then, you can reduce the distance you would have to travel to only a meter or so” Arima explained and the projection changed.
Actually, two different projections appeared, one was a tunnel that looked like it was compressed in its middle* and the other had the same thing, just that the tunnel was connecting two points which were on a same surface which looked like a folded piece of paper*.
”The first one is what I just explained to you, the second one is another representation of a wormhole. Let me give you a little 'experiment”. Take a sheet and draw two dots on it, far from each other, then draw a line connecting them. Each dot represents a specific place while the paper itself represents our plane of existence. And the line between the two dots is the distance you would have to travel if you decided to go from one point to the other”
”Now, what I want you to do is to fold that piece of paper in two” Arima instructed and the students did as they were told. They followed Arima's 'experiment' as he was saying it.
”When you folded the paper, take a pen or something of the sort, and pierce the folded paper with it, so that it pa.s.ses through each dot you drew earlier” Arima said and everyone finished the 'experiment'.
”There you go” Arima declared and the students looked confused at the paper pierced by the pen. Only some of them reacted, particularly Balan, the elf who had mastered s.p.a.ce and Life magic.
”Some of you already understood. But let me recapitulate, the paper is our plane of existence, the dots are two different places, the line between is what you want to travel. And finally, if you compare it to my projection, the pen represents the wormhole” Arima explained and everyone finally understood what they had in hand.