15 The Second Step For Majin! (1/2)
Majin flipped her test over and began answering the questions. She didn't have much trouble answering them thanks to her increased intelligence gained by absorption. The questions were sometimes simple like what is an Alchemist or does Alchemy require magic to succeed, but sometimes they were really outlandish. One question even asked if the Demon Lord became an alchemist would he have an easier time dominating the mortal race or not. Strangely enough the answer was in one of those three books she read on the very last page. The answer was yes, and from this question Majin realized that maybe Alchemist were really stuck up and had a high opinion of themselves.
A few minutes later and she finished the test before anyone else. She purposely put down her writing utensil loudly so everyone could hear and grinned when they looked at her annoyed. She even made a mocking face at the two geniuses before one of the examiners took her paper and escorted her out of the room.
'Aw what? No disbelief at my finishing so fast? No throwing away my paper because there was no way I could get done so fast? I could have had an easy comedic face-slapping moment..' Majin thought slightly let down.
She was escorted to the next portion of the test. Inside the room was a purplish orb. They told her to infuse mana into it and she did. The orb then started to wildly suck out her mana and Majin nearly smashed the thing with her hand, but instead of doing that she forcefully regained control over her mana and started to make it flow back out until all her mana was returned to her. The orb shattered into pieces and the examiners smiled. They took her to the final portions of the test inside a room full of black cauldrons, like the kind you'd see from an evil witch in the forest.
”Make a cure potion, pain-relief potion, and a harming potion. Once you make all three bring your finished product to us and we will judge it. If you passed the apprentice test, we will tell you. If you fail we will ask you to leave.”
”So, if I don't make an acceptable potion but pass the other two tests I still fail?” Majin asked slightly bewildered.
”Correct.”
”So, what's the point of the other two tests if they don't even matter?”
”If you fail any of the tests, you will not be able to proceed to the next one.”
”Oooooh okay. I'm ready now. Start the timer!” Majin told.
The clock on the wall began to move as Majin filled her cauldron with water. She boiled it with a little fire magic and her pot was ready for making potions. She grabbed the ingredients for the harming potion and dumped it into her pot. She noticed the examiners shaking their heads and she sneakily grinned.
'You old coots are about to get the shock of your lives.'
Her pot immediately started shaking and jumping as if an explosion was imminent any second now. The liquid inside turned into swirling red while also threatening to spill out. Majin laughed out loud as she delicately controlled her pot with gravity magic so that even with it's uncontrollable movements, not a single drop of the liquid inside would fall. The swirling red liquid started bubbling and flowing out a red mist.
”Impossible….” One of the examiners whispered.
Majin took a wiff of the gas and nearly choked.
'That hurt my nose!'
Her cauldron calmed down and stabilized. The result was viewed as a nice beautiful rose red liquid. She took one of the vials and a spoon to pour the potion inside the vial. She put it to the side and drained the pot. Once that potion was out of the way, Majin got started on the cure potion. She refilled the pot and started the process all over again! But unlike last time where her pot had a fit, this time it was more controlled. When Majin poured all the cure ingredients inside the pot, she immediately started stirring the pot with a large spoon. She saw the examiners getting nervous as if expecting a repeat from the first potion but luckily for them the only thing that happened was another gaseous rise from the pot and a pure white colored liquid inside the pot. By this time the other test takers made it inside and got started on the same potions.
The way they handled their cauldrons was much more delicate and refined compared to Majin. Instead of dumping their ingredients in all at the same time, they threw them in at certain times while swirling the pot slowly. When it seemed things were going to go out of hand, they poured more water inside their pot which seemed to calm the pot. But this made the examiners shake their heads. So, doing that must have some sort of effect on the potion overall.
Unfortunately, Majin didn't get to see any test taker fail awesomely. Not a single cauldron exploded or caused an explosion and Majin easily finished up the cure potion and pain-relief potion before the rest. She handed in her potions and she moved to a room to test her potions. Inside the room was a single object with a hole inside of it. The examiners poured her harming potion inside before magically displaying some words.
Perfect
They expressed brief looks of shock before taking a double look at Majin. Majin just grinned cheekily and told them to continue. They poured her curing potion.
Perfect
”Impossible…..” One of the examiners mumbled under his breath while the other one poured the pain-relief potion in.
Perfect
The examiners whispered to each other before facing Majin.
”You passed Ms. Majin. You are now part of the Alchemist Guild and will be treated as such. Since you have passed the apprentice exam, you are able to visit the 0-star vault, buy materials from the guild, and rent rooms to practice your alchemy.”
”You may leave now.” They told her after handing her a red badge with the letter A on it.
She left the Alchemist Guild and started headed straight towards Itachi Uchiha! So, she could steal his eyes in a Destiny Battle. She doesn't really need the sharingan but the Rinnegan is another thing. The ability to create chains, summon animals, take souls….
'Wait a minute….. I don't need the Rinnegan at all! I can do most of the stuff right now! I can already use gravity magic. I can use soul magic, so figuring out how to revive the dead and such won't be that hard, I can teleport and create portals but I can't summon things quite yet only go places and take things to places, and the other stuff isn't important.' Majin realized.
”I don't need those eyes at all!” Majin laughed before one of her captured souls told her about a masked figure following her. She turned into a shady alleyway and stood there waiting for her follower. The guy somehow teleported behind her and tried to slice her head off from the back with a strange sharp green glowing dagger.
Majin blocked with her antenna and took a good look at her assassin. It was another champion. He aimed for her throat after failing to slice her neck and Majin just blocked it again with his antenna. He sliced, slashed, pierced, and cut at her figure rapidly and failing each time.
”Too weak. I'm not even using magic to make my skin harder. What kind of wasteful wish did you wish for? You also should know that we aren't able to kill each other outside Duels right?” Majin conversated.
Talking to him only seemed to make him angrier and Majin was getting bored. She was happy assassins were after her though. It means nobles were taking an interest in her! After blocking more attacks from the weak assassin, she thumped his forehead and watched as he flew into the wall and dropped unconscious. Majin left him in the alleyway and started thinking.
'I might leave the academy soon after I scout out all the Champion abilities. I think I have enough techniques necessary to become great no matter where I go in this world. I have enough information about the world and no bonds keeping me here. I also have to explore the demon world! Absorbing that imp from the Devil's Scroll gave me control over blue undying flames. I can't imagine what other abilities demons could have that sets them apart from humans. I wonder if some Champions transmigrated into demons..' Majin thought while returning back to the Academy.
She couldn't get her souls to look for Champions because Champions are known bringers of destruction or change. And finding a Champion is nearly impossible without them telling you they are or one of the gods give one of their followers' knowledge. So, she would have to look all over the school for champions that weren't in the S-ranked classes. But she knew for a fact that all of them were freshmen like her.
She made herself invisible with light magic and started to dash all over the Academy.
”DUEL ME!” Majin said as she caught the mana battery girl and revealed herself.
”Huh..? No…”
But Champions aren't able to refuse duel requests and Majin soon battled her in a chess match.
'I guess not every duel would be in a combat situation. I'll have to be more careful of those I challenge then. If I try and challenge someone with the Flash's powers and he decides on a race battle, I'll definitely lose.' Majin thought.
Although the chess match took her by surprise it wasn't anything difficult. With all the people she's absorbed, her intelligence has skyrocketed from before. She won and absorbed her. Taking her infinite mana cheat for her own. The prize from the three choices she got was a Magic Helmet. She gave it to Tuff and suddenly realized a fatal plan in her current quest.
'How in the world would I be able to know what kind of wish they made with their god?' Majin thought to herself while taking a seat on the nice grassy ground.
'The only champions I know are from my class and the second S-rank class….' Majin thought long and hard before eventually giving up due to irritation.
”Forget it! I'll just absorb Daiko and then leave on my own. I think I experienced enough of the magical academy life for now. Maybe I'll go to demon school when I visit the demon world. But after I absorb Daiko, learn about rune magic, and pack some stuff, I'll go create a little monster empire that will..” Majin stopped..
”I need to choose a side… in this world. There are monsters, Demons, mortals, and gods. I'm going against the gods in the end but which choice should I side myself with.. Monsters sound fun. Demons and mortals go against each other and won't stop until one side wins or eradicate the other. Monsters just do whatever they want. The problems and trickery of mortals and demons sound a bit more thrilling than constant war and selfish desires of monsters but I really want to make a monster empire..” Majin mumbled to herself before smacking herself on the forehead and causing Tuff to worry about her.
”Why not join all three?!” Majin shouted.
She realized that she could split herself into three and do all of them! One of her can make her monster empire, the other can start a tiny village in the middle of nowhere and build it into a kingdom that towers over this one, and the last one can join the Demon Lord's army and eventually take over the Demon King's army. She laughed in glee and went to find Daiko.
She found him emerging victorious against a Champion in a duel. He looked at her with his new one tomoe Sharingan and Rinnegan. He grinned.
She grinned back.