The new girl was bubbly. Moreover, she knew Albert.
"Hey hey, Prince Albert, I told you I'd follow you here, didn't I?"
Sitting just a row below us, the girl couldn't stop talking about and with Albert over and over. Even though Luka and I were just next to him, she didn't even bat an eye at us.
The teachers that came in and out of the classroom with their different topics all told her to shut up but...
"Ahaha! I apologize I just don't know much about the class and the school yet."
Saying that, she would always excuse herself.
What a sly person.
This Marissa girl was supposed to be a sub-heroine, huh?
But Luka had no idea.
With the rate it was going at, we would never get a chance to talk about this. During one of the class breaks, I picked up Albert by his collar and tossed him a seat ahead.
Marissa seemed to have taken offense at first but then gave me a wide grin and a thumbs up.
Who said friendships needed words to be exchanged?
I scooted over toward Luka as the last class before the electives started.
"Woah, what the heck?" Luka whispered in my ears. "Is this the Rizzler Rizz?"
"Who told you his last name?"
"Irina, she said she wanted to embarrass him in front of everyone."
That woman was a menace everywhere.
"Alright whatever, why don't you know this girl?"
"Irina never told me?"
"No you cunt, why don't you know her from before?"
Luka hummed and shook his head.
"No idea, I've never met her."
"Did she transfer to a different class the last time around?"
"I doubt," Luka said. "She is from Pinot and this interested in Albert. If it was the one from my old timeline then he would have definitely been too fixated on her for me to not know about her."
"That makes sense."
Does that mean...
The class came to an end.
The electives started.
We left without saying much since these guys were afraid for their lives when it came to Rio's classes and because Marissa had taken up the same elective.
I thought of talking with Hoya or Noa, but there was a completely different problem which was that other than a general gist of things I knew nothing.
The one who played this game was no one but Albert.
In that sense, I had zero idea about the details.
With no other choice, for now, I went back to the library and met with the wizard heir of the east.
"Sir!!"
"Ikuro Asahi, how have you been?"
On the forty-ninth floor of the enormous library, I met the person that was single-handedly responsible for saving a lot of people by bringing me a lot of ancient stuff.
Unlike before when I would simply order him around and make him fetch me books, this time, we both gathered a bunch and sat together in the library on a desk.
He seemed strangely giddy with me.
"What did you manage to revive your spells?"
"Sort of! We made a lot of progress all thanks to you, my lord!"
Hah.
"What kind of magic is it?"
"It's called chantless spell casting."
Hm?
"Isn't all spell casting chant-less if you're proficient enough."
He laughed at my words. It was thanks to my decryption that he was able to make a lot of progress, but neither of us was at a level where we knew his family's ancient spells completely yet.
"It's similar but quite different. Let me explain."
Please do.
"Basically, sir, what you call chant-less spells still require you to form a mana circle and perform the spells' formality, albeit, rather quickly and most of the time in your mind."
That was right.
"What this aims for is different. Instead of using the same old sigils and circles to define the properties of a spell, you can instead store it in your gestures."
I wasn't sure if I was understanding it right.
To make things clear.
If mana was like a blank canvas, then circles were like a black pen that could trace an outline, and sigils and markings were colors that filled the outline.
In that sense, with more practice, one could draw the outline faster, and then with even more practice, they could fill in the colors and highlights as well.
In that case what this aimed to do.
Was to make something like a stamp already outlined and colored. You just had to press it on the canvas, and the drawing would take its form.
"If I fling my hand, I can make a small ball of fire without thinking about it."
"That's pretty much it."
"And how does this work? How do you interpret it?"
"That… I still do not know. But I am certain we can figure it out together, my lord!"
"Bring me whatever books you can still find. As for that, let's keep looking at other places and hope we can find some clues."
"Yes!" Ikuro Asahi nodded and got to reading.
It was about to be time to go to the east soon, I would be taking him along so there was little to worry about anyway.
If need be, I could just raid his entire house for the information.
"I think I should focus on other aspects too…"
The way I could control demonic energy and get a better hold on spirits instead of just getting drunk, both of that was important.
"Did you say something, my lord?"
"Nope, not at all."
Ikuro Asahi and I got back to our reading. We had already familiarized ourselves largely with the methods of artifacts, so spreading our expertise was the way to go now.
"Oh, by the way, that book you asked for always, my lord."
The BL?
"It got a new volume."
"Hm… Bring me it if you can, I'll pay you for it."
"Hahah! You don't have to think about it at all."
Noa would probably like it.
Soon, the electives ended and the time to go back to the rooms came around.
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺