Episode 54 – Spell Control Exam Start! (1/2)

When everyone settled down inside the classroolass apparatus in the middle of the room “Today’s first exam will test your spell control”

The testing apparatus consisted of a large vertical tube the size of a grown adult lass was littered with countless slass itself

The tube stood raised on a shorton the bottom of the cylinder

“I will now explain how the test will be conducted” Rau pointed towards the glass cylinder and cast a trigger spell to activate the artifact As soon as his trigger spell landed on it, the countless silver stars caht

The vivid rainbow-colored stars extended their tentacles until they stretched into countless thin threads creating a spider web – The previously elass cylinder suddenly becale periodicallythe layout of the web

“The goal of the test is to exercise your control over a cube-shapedit fro it in the cube-shaped indentation on the top of the cylinder”

Everyone’s eyes followed Rau’s pointed finger to see a cube-shaped indentation on the very top of the glass tube

“The artifact will need to pass through the web as fast as your ability allows, touching as few threads as possible You can think of it as an obstacle race Avoid obstacles in the shape of threads, reach the goal as fast as you can”

Rau pointed towards the lass tube, on which, one could see a strange hourglass filled with a blue liquid

“You will be able to read the score frolass”

What was strange about the hourglass was its bottleneck A slass blocking the flow of the blue liquid It looked like so from the metal stand

While the exalass, Kady Ailert, as sitting at the teacher’s desk, stood up and approached Rau In her hands, she held two fist-sized cubes – one white, one black

She passed the black cube to Rau, keeping the white one to herself Kady turned towards the exa softly The wrinkles at the corners of her eyes giving her a gentle appearance

With a flick of her hand, a flock of black and white cubes ca from the teacher’s desk towards the examinees

Each exaht a white cube The shi+ny stone surface of the cube was smooth and cold to the touch

Glancing around himself, Kiel realized that all elibu received a black cube, while all argel got a white cube

Kady patiently explained: “As you ht already know, the only way to test someone’s spell control is to have them perform a spell and monitor their control over the spell’s effects That implies that the spell is required to create direct reality altering effects –it can’t be a trigger spell

The fairest method to test your spell control would be to have everyone cast the exact sael can only cast augic

Technically speaking, the only way that would allow everyone to cast the sa artifact However, there are several thousand exa artifacts in total Therefore, this solution isn’t feasible”

Kady extended her hands which were holding a white cube so that everyone could see it ic users that responds to heat To make it move, you will need to heat it up and cool it down appropriately And to do so, you are required to use the Tementation spell”

When the words left Kady’s asps could be heard

Temperature is a perfect spell aka a complete spell A complete spell is a spell that is an incarnation of an aspect, allowing the spell to exercise complete control over it

It is said that the Gods were flawless entities, the e eleh their as just like them – complete

When the Gods wished to heat up theirspell No, the temperature itself bent to their will Whether they wanted to heat it up or cool it down –it was all the same

The perfect spells mortals picked up froic

Through research, mortals discovered that those perfect spells wereeleether canceled each other out And yet, if one could achieve a perfect unity of the opposing elements, if one could fuse them into one, they would form a complete entity A complete spell

Because achieving that perfect balance was extre those two spell fragments as standalone spells

And thus, fro were created From Velocity, Accelerate and Deaccelerate were created

Those standalone fragments wereblocks ofthe complete spells in the back of everyone’s mind

Why would anyone bother using a difficult spell when one could achieve their goal easier with a sis would be simply inefficient, even stupid