Episode 14 – Homeschooled (1/2)

Kiel took off his sword and bags He started taking off his arm protectors when Elaru stopped him

“Don’t take it off Your brand will be visible”

She was talking about the mark of the Aetherneal Bond

Kiel alot about the mark Well, he would have re only after seeing the brand would be unacceptable in the future Who is to say someone else wouldn’t be in the room with him?

I should learn soht ic that specializes in the ht, which can be used in a wide variety of ways, such as changing the color of things,them invisible

“How about I teach you how to hide the brand?” Elaru offered hi for his response “Pay attention”

Elaru slowed down her spell casting intentionally so Kiel could catch every movement of her mana

When she wasn’t concealing her presence, she was like a bright sun – countless tendrils of light formed by her mana surrounded her and danced a slow, chaotic dance

When she started casting the spell, theaile spot It was like the mana drops were snowflakes blown by the wind, they layered on top of each other, for a curvy pattern

The attraction force ravity, it pulled at them harder and harder until individual drops of aseous particles into a liquid ribbon of bright light If mana drops were little stars, then that ribbon was theelse dimmed

The forht was “the spell” The association of Magic defined “a spell” to be a reality altering phenomena And just like its definition foretold, a soft pulse ofa distortion in reality

After the initial pulse, the spell started revolving around Elaru’s arm on its own in a periodic dance This special movement of the spell continued to distort the reality around her arm

Kiel saw that spell in a book covering the basic types of ic spell

As Elaru exerted control over the spell, it startedthe black s on her arm to fade out until they completely disappeared

Technically, a spell was still made out of Elaru’s mana, and she could exercise her mana control to deform the spell However, if drops of mana were like drops of water, then a spell would be a block of ice If she tried shi+fting theit, it would break and fall apart

Once the phenomena forms, the pattern and the fore as if it was an extra limb and the caster can innately control it as a whole This control over the spell is exactly as known as “spell control” It is an entirely different concept from mana control

The spell Elaru cast wasn’t a solid-state spell, which meant that the distortion of reality would be detected as an anomaly and reality itself would reject it, continuously atte to revert back to its previous state

To keep the new color of herback to black, the spell would need to keep distorting the reality And that continuous distortion would use up mana The moment that the spell ran out of mana, it would attempt to feed on the mana it is made out of, which would cause it to deteriorate until it fell apart and dissolved into nothingness

Since this was a e-sustained spell (as opposed to self-sustained spells), that meant Elaru had to constantly feed itThis process was like breathing, she could consciously control it, but it usually came effortlessly and didn’t require her to dedicate her attention to it

Kiel grabbed Elaru’s arm and looked at it closely The place where the mark used to be, turned into flawless skin Her spell control was so fine that she s the exact color shade of her skin

In his as were supposed to be The skin was sn that it was black a second ago

Well, the skin didn’t reveal any sign, Elaru however, did She gasped softly and pulled her wrist out of his grasp

Kiel looked up at her face, surprised by her sudden motion A beautiful reddish tint covered her cheeks

He stared at her in wonder It was the first ti That reckless, headstrong Elaru that was unperturbed by the world, was blushi+ng like a little girl He couldn’t believe his own thoughts, but this flushi+ng Elaru had an irresistible charm to her

At that moment, she looked pure, even vulnerable That color suited her, ly adorable

Seeing her like this brought incredible satisfaction to Kiel

Elaru was a rare speci her blush was even rarer It was rare squared!

“What’s wrong?” He asked her He had to knohat coulda weapon of mass destruction It was imperative that he learned about it!

“Don’t touch s” She responded in a soft tone Her voice sounded so pleasant to the ear Kiel was sure that if he were an elibu, his ears would have perked up

“Why?” Was it an elibu thing? Were they sensitive about their s?

“It feels weird when you touch it” She responded

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Kiel frowned “Who is afraid of cooties here?” He s on her So he could use in the future This was an excellent day!

“I’ll need to engrave the details of that pattern into my memory before I am able to cast it”

Elaru nodded “You can work on that after dinner” The color of her face returned to normal quickly

Before going down to dinner, she moved towards the desk where they left their equipment She reached into one of the pouches on the desk and took out so wrapped in thin metallic paper

It was a fist-sized s on it, shaped in a fors This egg was a puzzle that had urations It was near is

Elaru twisted them one by one in various directions When she twisted the last one, the egg clicked softly The engravings started glowing and a spell spread in two-meter radius around the table

As she placed it on the table, even though it was round, it stood stably on it without any signs of being unstable

Is this what I think it is?

Kiel’s eyes glittered He had always had a high interest intheh e could become an arrayist

He considered beco an arrayist, but he would need to invest a lot of time to it for it to become useful And since what attracted him to that profession wasn’t the profession itself but the product, he felt reluctant about pursuing that path

It would be like a swords reatest blacksreatest sword for himself

Kiel reached out his hand towards the table, but his hand stopped midair as if there was an invisible wall in front of him The spell that the artifact activated created a protective barrier that locked down space on the borders of the barrier preventing anyone other than the original user fro in or out of it

He nodded in appreciation Even though Elaru seemed to lack common sense and not pick up some obvious clues, when it came down to quest seeker related business, she was a pro Even though the rooh

This protective barrier ensured that no one would be able to steal their items unless the thief could break it And the people who had the capability to break it wouldn’t be interested in robbing the into a peasant’s house to steal food Ridiculous and utterly pointless

Kiel looked at Elaru from the corner of his eyes She seemed reckless on the outside, but actually, she was pretty careful about things

He found her rather hard to understand Her personality see to take things seriously or not She wasn’t like Kiel, who had a bad personality and pretended to be a good guy She seemed to be true to herself It was just that that “self” was hard to define