Episode 143 – 5 Stages Of Grief (1/2)
Episode 143 – 5 stages of grief
Previously:
Friday, the last day of Muni entrance exa exa ability, but rather, to test for a special talent that can only be revealed through the process of spell replicating Kiel is tasked to spell replicate several artifacts, including Clay Mines Unfortunately, an accident happens while testing his Clay Mines and an explosion occurs Exa with each other They give Kiel a final artifact, whose enchantment he doesn’t need to replicate but to just draw it out However, Kiel finds that the enchantment is too small and he can’t sense it clearly with hisout, Elaru can feel his panic and wants to help hined prevents the
All she wanted to do was to e it in warmth
Yet she couldn’t
The anti-cheating n stood like a thick wall between the in thedeeper into the pit, slipping like grains of sand between her fingers, unable to be grasped no ! She wasn’t willing to stand by helplessly! She wasn’t willing to watch hiht
“Anti-cheating contract” She felt herself saying with steely conviction “This is the last exaer No matter how you look at it, it is the hardest spell to break out of all of your suggestions So how about it? If you givedue to breaking the anti-cheating contract, I’ll break it right now”
Episode 143 – 5 stages of grief
The trio of oldas if they would pop out of their sockets at anycontract was a h production quality Neither the density nor the quantity of h for the exan, as well as the quality of h any of the top-ranked spell breakers were capable of breaking it, the ae in weeks By that time the exam would have already ended And even if that wasn’t the case, it wouldn’t matter Every exa contract active on their mind at any moment in the exams would be disqualified
The trio of old e to break the contract in less than a week’s time However, this little redhead was all alone, so even if her skills were on par with theirs and she had been studying the contract for days, she shouldn’t be able to break it
If she had the help of a spell breaker in studying the contract, the anti-cheating contract would have prevented her fro it as a part of the exa outside help
Naturally, this suggestion of the little girl itated Wasn’t this redhead ht of their decades of study? Fine, they had to ad They would be idiots if they couldn’t tell that ht of the entire spell breaking profession!
If a little girl could reach such a level in her teens then all of theo and die
And so, the faces of the trio went through all shades of color, black, white, green, purple, finally settling on an agitated red The healthy flush contrasted sharply with their pure white facial hairtheir faces seem even redder
Eyebroas first to speak out and the other tere quick to follow:
“Lass, don’teven we can’t break!”
“That’s right, that’s right It is the highest form of a limiter spell the Arite family can produce”
“Don’t biteas before, Elaru would have still been able to endure their antics However, right now, time was of the essence, Kiel needed her And thus, her patience evaporated into thin smoke, her previously pleasantly polite tone turned soleive me your word that you will take care of any future proble contract would cause?”
The abrupt change in the war and majestic aura that commanded obedience thening
Mustache grit his teeth and juainst the table “If you can break that, not only will I take care of the proble to hail you as my master!”
Worried that he would be outdone, Beard slapped his chest with enough vigor to cause hihs “Ha! Not only will I hail you as my master, I’ll even throw in a tuition fee! Cross my heart and hope to die!”
Eyebrows also stood up and exclaimed with fervor: “Set your heart at ease! I promise all that and I’ll double his tuition fee! If I break enerations of s!”
Elaru almost choked on her spit Who would want you three old men as their disciples??
She shook her head but had no intention to waste any more words with the trio Time was of the essence
Like an endless ribbon, her Mind unraveled around her, just enough to reveal the anti-cheating enchantment placed on her mind
The arcane enchantment spun around her like a silver hallo made out of countless intricate symbols, connected into a dense pattern The symbols were decorated and stylized to the point where their original shape was unrecognizable
Her eyes scanned over it, her , to calculate the position of the critical points So many variations, so many combinations Herout every other thought
Like aover the possibilities one after the other with the highest speed she coulddeeper and deeper into the darkness, her mind would speed up
She had to be faster, faster!
What was the purpose of her spell breaking? Why did she study it so hard?
It was all for this! To remove all limits and chains from herself and those she loved So that no one would be able to control her fate and the fate of her loved ones!
The ticking sound of the clock turned into a slow beat of dru ears The beats synchronized with her heart, or perhaps it was the other way around Even the revolving halo see beats
It went slower and slower, until it coht stood still
It was not shi+fting, rotating, dripping, writhing, nor flickering
No It stood completely deathly still
And as the entire picture stood in place, those fluctuating defects in reality showed themselves clearly like black ink on white paper
Elaru’s ar a song
The coat of ible, turned inwards on her, ai for the center of her mind Ten pikesthele collision And the exquisite silver brand fell apart like glass, showering her with beautiful silver snowflakes A cage around her