Episode 63 – Out of Control (2/2)

It would have been fine, it wouldn’t have ht spells denser than norht spell were less dense than the enchantht spell to suffer the consequences Yet she knew from the start that the task in front of her wouldn’t be si her own control over the Light spells, she weaved them especially dense

And those dense Light spells, like hot knives through butter passed right through the enchant them in half

Luckily, active spells were resilient entities with a high degree of self-recovery Breaking spells wasn’t an easy task at all One had to know exactly where to aim, for only if the weak points of the spell were hit would the spell be daed beyond repair

The first cube, which got its enchantment split into two, dropped almost to the floor before its enchantment recovered and it stabilized, several centiround

Even the second cube and the third suffered the sa and slowly drifting to the ground

The fourth and the fifth cube were even luckier – they weren’t affected at all; the wriggling Light spell fell apart before it ed to come into contact with the enchantments

This unfortunate incident would have been resolved without any da would have been perfectly fine, and Elaru would have gotten full points of the exam If only there were 5 cubes

But there were 6

Perhaps it was just bad luck, or perhaps it was fate, but when that 6th Light spell wriggled and twirled, it sliced through a very peculiar point on the enchantment spell

It sliced through the bridge between the ment whose purpose was to limit the maximum movement speed of the cube

The wriggling Light spell was already falling apart, its reality-altering effect was chaotically pulsating between releasing no light and releasing an extreht However, the cutoff limiter evaporated into smoke much faster

It took only a single moment, before any of the present people could react, the already fastcube turned into a blur It shot out of control like an arrow and collided with the floor with a loud resounding crash

In only a blink of an eye, with speed hardly discernible by the eye, the cube rebounded off the floor, and like a bouncing rubber ball alternated between hitting the ceiling and the ground Leaving craters in its wake

By the time a 4th crater was smashed into the floor, the hard corner of the cube had broken off, altering theonce again, it lodged itself straight into the large glass tank filled with the red liquid standing in the corner of the room

The sharp sound of breaking glass didn’t even register in everyone’s ears when the cube once again rebounded and crashed through theabove Deora’s head

Deora’sto the floor when a sound of a soft yelp and a thue in the courtyard and caused it to unceremoniously fall over

Deora’s jaw alh the cracks of his fingers, that were protectively shi+elding his face, at the floor, where several conspicuous craters had for violently, especially when he noticed that a bright red liquid started pooling inside those craters

His eyes followed the rivers of red until they landed on the big hole in the glass tank, froe quantities

Since the hole in the tank was actually in the lower regions of the tank, the pressure of the liquid above the hole caused the healing potion to spray out of the hole in jets as if it was a fountain

Elaru stood rooted to the spot with her htly into a line Her few crystalline sweat drops suddenly turned into a river Herup with many disaster recovery plans

This situation had surprised even Zerel, and his usually nonchalant and relaxed expression was nowhere to be seen His eyes ith surprise but unlike the horror that was slowly showing in Deora’s expression, Zerel’s mouth twitched into a smirk He found the entire situation incredibly funny, or perhaps, satisfying in soe way?

He looked at Deora’s cohtly He then proceeded to scribble down a score next to Elaru’s examinee number

That’s when a miserable scream finally broke out of Deora’s throat

That as so soul crushi+ng that anyone would feel deep sympathy for the poor lad

Well, anyone but Zerel His srin

Deora’s eyes darted between Elaru and the glass tank, between murderous intention and panic After a few short moments of indecisiveness he finally made his choice and like a lass tank

He slid to the floor and tried to patch the hole with his fingers, like a desperateshi+p

However, his efforts onlyliquid It splattered over his shi+rt and pants ht to behold

“What are you waiting for?!?! Quickly! Morph the hole away!!” He screeched at Zerel All he could think about was thepotion that was literally slipping between his fingers

Zerel, however, showed no intention to get over there and have his expensive clothes soiled He even gave hi: “You can’t be serious? Do you kno hard it is to clean a potion stain? There is a reason why alchemists wear lab coats”

The first one that couldn’t bear the sad sight of Deora was Elaru She s, but she wasn’t heartless, and she felt extreuilty to have caused such an incident

She coarded her own “safety” and made her way next to Deora

She placed one hand on the glass tank and grabbed Deora’s hands with the other, re so she could morph the hole away

Deora yelped from the touch as if he had been seared by it, quickly snatching his hand away

It didn’t take Elaru long to shi+ft the glass around and patch the hole, but by the tih her white shi+rt and puffy sleeves