Episode 138 – Bad Luck (2/2)

Unfortunately, the three old o, so they just looked at her coly and reassured: “Don’t worry We don’t have anything scheduled after this”

Elaru’s face fell You give them an inch and they ask for a mile…

“I know you, three esteemed experts…” Elaru squeezed out “…just want to test me to the best of your abilities…”

The three nodded their heads appreciatively, showing absolutely no sign of sharet

Faces thicker than the city walls! Elaru’s eyebroitched, yet her voice still remained pleasant as she continued: “But since I’m sure your time is very valuable, I can’t bear to waste it” She didn’t dare to give theht after “So how about you pick theto break you have and I break that?”

And so…

“How about this one?”

“No, no! This one is better!”

“You call that difficult?? Not only does this one have higher ments!”

“Tsk! The quality of her than that one!”

“I’ll stuff mana density and ic that no one has seen before!”

…Elaru’s vision turned dark

Meanwhile, Kiel’s professors were finally finished athered together to see the results, however, before they could inspect therandma’s eyes flashed and she folded the paper “Patience! Let’s inspect the mines first”

And thus, another apparatus was placed on the table – a silver box

“Clay Mines are an ie arsenal with strict quality control A non-functioning e check the quality of every randma patiently explained “This device… is a modified version of the apparatus used to inspect Clay Mines It is enchanted with an enchanther in level than the enchant spell interference with Clay Mines” While the old lady continued her explanation, the ed man placed the example Clay Mine inside the box and closed the lid

“When the apparatus is activated the two sides of the box will flatten the Clay Mine, and thespell interference, the temperature increase caused by the activation of the mine won’t reach the required level to ed man twisted a switch under the meter on the front face of the cube and activated the apparatus As the meter jumped and settled on a number, the old lady elaborated “The temperature of the mine will still increase, and the box will measure this increase to calculate the quality of the enchanted man deactivated the apparatus and opened the lid of the box However, instead of re the mine, he placed both of his hands inside the box and kneaded the flattened clay mine back into the shape of a pebble Only then did he remove the mine from the box and place it back into the briefcase

As the professors busied the the quality of his Clay Mines, Kiel sat in his seat deep in thought Why were they interested in the quality of his enchants? They checked the quality and speed of his spell replicating as if this was nothing ! Weren’t they supposed to be testing for some special ability? Did they really need all those numbers? What could those numbers really tell them about the presence or absence of a special power?

If such a special power n of it Like glittering lights, pulses of power, or anomalies in the fabric of reality

Yet, ere they doing?? Datafor some kind of anomaly in the data? But what kind of ano time and spell quality

Well, whatever, they would probably explain these things for hiot a zero on the exaive his to enchant, it shouldto a close

And so, the last Clay Mine was put inside the ed erly awaited for the end of this exao as planned

For just as the box was activated…

BOOM!

The ground shook and Kiel alments of the box flew everywhere like snowflakes

The hourglass on the table crashed on the floor, spilling sand on the carpet

The professors rolled on the floor, their faces black, their hair all over the place

White,the furniture and the floor

As Kiel stared at the chaos, his mouth dropped open, his pupils dilated and his mind stalled

…fu! Don’t tellup in the next episode:

The professors disliked hi their time… and now… he just hoped they wouldn’t expel hi to expel…!” Kiel’s blood chilled, beco colder and colder with each word

His heart thu like a drum inside his head He had no way out They never left hiin with

He was alone He had never stopped being alone

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