Chapter 104: The Spark That Was Lit (2)
Day 61! Nothing suspicious is still visible! That’s all for the report! Now for the question!
Is there a way to inconspicuously mix Flewd into a single elent? Assuming a situation where fire has to pierce through water, a way to overco elental affinity without being found out. Since vacation starts tomorrow, you must reply! Then, please enjoy your vacation!
I stopped by the secret room connected to the library in the morning and checked Banshi’s note.
Banshi marked each note with “Day X” like that, reporting to as if she were writing a diary.
Up until now, the 61st day, she said nothing particularly suspicious had appeared, which was reassuring.
‘Co to think of it, even in 5th Class, I only felt Sylarid’s presence on the day I advanced, and after that it disappeared completely.’
Life in 5th Class was just as peaceful.
Whenever Banshi left a note like this, I would check it and burn it on the spot.
An action taken just in case, for security.
However, today was the day Banshi asked about magic for the first ti in 61 days, so I couldn’t burn it.
I picked up the pen and left a reply to Banshi.
You’ve been like this since 1st Class, but why do you keep putting Flewd inside a single elent? Do the opposite—coat the surface of the single elent with Flewd. That way, the elental affinity disappears, and people who see it will just brush it off thinking you’re simply strong.
I finished writing and placed the reply back into the bookshelf where it had been.
Starting tomorrow, sumr vacation would begin.
The reason she asked this was probably to practice in her hideout cave in the Underworld.
‘Well, you can’t exactly practice Flewd at school.’
Perhaps her duel with Sparkle had ignited her motivation, because the note she left showed an especially strong will.
Leaving the note behind like that, I vanished without a trace.
A few hours later, a man stepped into the secret room.
It was Draco Forr, the Vice Headmaster of this school, dressed entirely in black.
‘I knew about this place, but this is my first ti coming here like this.’
It was a place whose existence he had known through Headmaster Etar.
But today, due to business, he had co personally in this unusual manner.
Specifically, to retrieve a spellbook to give to Rezi at the tavern in the Underworld.
After moving the injured Impel to the tavern’s basent, Forr and Etar prepared an alternative plan.
To foster Rezi, who had newly beco a Sculptor, into a more complete mage.
He was a Fire Elentalist.
Thanks to Vise, he had achieved dazzling progress, but he was not yet perfect.
However, Etar couldn’t stay by his side to guide him, and it was also impossible to assign that role to Impel.
Impel was currently in a state where his life was not in danger, but he was unable to recover the consciousness he had lost.
Thus, Etar decided to deliver the Ed Family’s spellbooks to Rezi so that he could develop on his own, and instructed Forr to bring the book to him.
“But this place is a ss…….”
Etar had said that the last ti this place was used was about 100 years ago.
That much ti had passed, so dust had piled up heavily, and there was no sense of organization at all.
“Hm?”
Forr suddenly looked down at his feet.
“…….”
Clear footprints were imprinted in the thick dust.
Wondering if they might have been made when he entered, Forr checked the entrance he had co through, but the sa trail of footprints extended in front of the other entrances as well.
The place Forr had descended from was the library of 6th Class.
Yet identical footprints were stamped in front of the entrances leading to 1st Class, 2nd Class, 4th Class, and 5th Class as well.
More precisely, except for 6th Class, the paths leading to the other entrances had been used so frequently that the hazy dust had disappeared, leaving only faint impressions of footprints.
‘Strange. They said it hadn’t been used since 100 years ago. And yet 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Class?’
The only people who would use this place would be mages of the Ed Family—in other words, teachers or professors of this school.
‘How odd. Well, it’s not sothing to worry about right now.’
Thinking that, Forr picked up a single Ed Family spellbook to give to Rezi.
Forr himself had never seen an Ed Family spellbook.
He had lived in the Draco Family, and unlike Impel, he hadn’t separately learned the Fire Elent.
So when he heard that it was a book written personally by the family head, Etar, a very long ti ago, a sudden desire to read it welled up inside him.
And then.
Chwararak.
As he quickly flipped through the pages, just to check the condition of the book.
Flutter.
A thoroughly folded note fell from the book onto the floor.
“……?”
Forr quietly examined it.
Day 61! Nothing suspicious is still visible! That’s all for the report! Now for the question!
Is there a way to inconspicuously mix Flewd into a single elent? Assuming a situation where fire has to pierce through water, a way to overco elental affinity without being found out. Since vacation starts tomorrow, you must reply! Then, please enjoy your vacation!
You’ve been like this since 1st Class, but why do you keep putting Flewd inside a single elent? Do the opposite—coat the surface of the single elent with Flewd. That way, the elental affinity disappears, and people who see it will just brush it off thinking you’re simply strong.
That was what was written on the note.
At that mont, Forr’s eyes expanded enormously.
“Flewd…… Elentalist?”
An Elentalist already extinct in this era.
To be precise, officially, they had disappeared with the exception of the surviving mbers of the Emt Family who were hiding in the Underworld.
In truth, they undeniably still existed in this era, but they never revealed themselves.
The mont their existence was discovered, what awaited them was nothing but black death.
That was why they could be called Elentalists who did not exist.
And yet…….
Judging by the contents written on the note, the Flewd Elentalist—believed to have vanished—existed in another place unknown to the Sculptor.
Forr examined the contents of the note even more carefully.
“Day 61, nothing suspicious is still visible……. What does this an?”
The first sentence sounded as though soone was monitoring sothing.
It looked like a briefly written journal.
And beneath the writing left by the mysterious person was a reply explaining how to use Flewd.
Which ant that two Flewd Elentalists were currently present at the Ed Branch School.
“Who left a note like this……?”
This was a matter that had to be reported to Etar without condition.
However, since he did not know who the parties involved were, Forr decided to lie in wait in the secret room to find out their identities.
Forr put the note back into the book and returned the book to the bookshelf where it had originally been.
Then he once again closely examined the footprints leading to each class’s entrance.
‘No one ca through 6th Class. Those footprints were made when I ca out.’
After reaching that conclusion, he hid behind the entrance connected to 6th Class.
After finishing her afternoon duties, before heading down to the Underworld, Banshi stopped by the secret room.
“Mm-hmm-hmm!”
Humming to herself, she pulled an Ed Family spellbook from the shelf.
Out of her entire daily routine, this was the happiest ti for Banshi.
Because it was the ti she communicated with Arkis Air.
Moreover, today she had left a question about building up Flewd usage from the basics, and it was ti to receive the answer.
“Oh! It’s here!”
Looking at Artel’s reply contained in the note, Banshi nodded her head.
“Mmm, I see. Ah, now I get it. Why he said to apply it to the surface, too. Why couldn’t I think of sothing so simple?”
The aning of the reply Artel left was truly simple.
Up until now, Banshi had put a trace amount of Flewd inside the Fire Elent.
But when it encountered the opposing Water Elent, and if the opponent was stronger than her, that flaw would be exposed.
Since the surface was Fire Elent, the Fire Elent disappeared, leaving only Flewd inside.
If the spell she cast vanished yet still pierced through the opponent’s water, it would undoubtedly seem suspicious.
On the other hand, if she covered the surface with air and filled the inside with the Fire Elent, she would be attacking with a spell that had no elental affinity, so there would be no reason for the Fire Elent to disappear.
What was visible was a single elent of fire, but in truth, its outer layer was Flewd, which had no affinity.
She completely understood why Artel had written, ‘people who see it will just brush it off thinking you’re simply strong.’
Affinity was sothing that could sufficiently be overco through sheer capability.
He ant for her to take advantage of that.
“As expected, Lord Arkis. How could I not fall for you when you’re like this?”
Humming again, Banshi left a reply addressed to Artel.
She wrote it directly beneath the reply Artel had left.
As always, though it was a short note, she put her heart into it, carefully forming each letter while softly voicing the words as she wrote.
“Lord Arkis, thank you. I’ll go practice and co back. And please enjoy your vacation! When this vacation ends, you’ll be going to 6th Class, right? It would be so nice if you waited there for !”
With a bashful smile, Banshi tucked the reply containing her small wish into the book and left the room.
Drreuk…….
Imdiately after Banshi departed, one of the doors opened.
It was the entrance connected to 6th Class, where Forr had been hiding.
Forr wore an expression as though his soul had completely left his body.
“Just now…… what I heard…… was that really right……?”
The four letters, Arkis.
It was undeniably a na that had co from Banshi’s mouth.
Yet, as if in a dream, Forr doubted his own ears.
Because he had never imagined, even in his dreams, that he would hear that na here.
The Clear White, Arkis Air.
A man Etar had desperately searched for traces of, even staking his life to form the Sculptors.
And yet that very person was, out of the blue, currently at the Ed Branch School.
Especially since Banshi had spoken aloud while writing her reply, Forr had heard everything she said.
He was also able to easily deduce that Arkis Air was currently in 5th Class.
On top of that, when Banshi left, he confird which class the entrance she used was connected to.
The entrance leading to 4th Class.
With that, all the footprints left in front of the entrances to 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Class were fully explained.
They were the classes Banshi had passed through, and 5th Class was where Arkis Air was.
“I have to…… tell him……!”
Clutching the problematic Ed Family spellbook to his chest, Forr hurried out like a man who had lost his reason.
Even as he left, he did not forget to thoroughly check that the note was still left exactly as it was.
“……This, this…… really…….”
Forr imdiately delivered the Ed Family spellbook containing the note to Etar.
That was after explaining everything—the contents of the note and the fact that the student who left it was Banshi from 4th Class.
Etar’s hand holding the note trembled violently as he gradually began to lose his composure.
At the sa ti, the scenery outside the headmaster’s office also changed.
At least one fortunate thing was that it was the backdrop of a red moon that appeared when he was in an extrely agitated state.
“Then…… does that an the Artel…… the student we were so eager to expel…… was actually Lord Arkis……?”
Figuring out who Banshi had been in contact with was not difficult.
From 1st Class onward, the only person who had always been stuck to Banshi’s side was Artel.
“But Headmaster…… hadn’t you already noticed sothing about Student Artel before? That…… when Mihael and the Nohill family heads lost their mories.”
“Uh…… that.”
Only then did Etar calm down slightly and begin to explain.
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