Chapter 43: Library of Mages (4)
Travis. It was a long time since I saw him, but he didn't change much. Previously he was surrounded by five beauties, and it looks like his luck with women is still there. A little bit behind there were three women, waiting for him, different from the previous ones.
"Thanks, Travis, its good to see you too."
"How did you enter the university? Entrance exams are still a few months away." He said.
"My Master helped me. I just joined today."
"And you picked up a sword. Want to spar?"
"Sure." we started exchanging attacks, but with Travis's strength he couldn't get near my speed." You can use your martial technique." I said. If he does it, his speed would increase maybe increasing to my basic speed.
"Are you sure about this?" he asked mid-swing. But in that swing, I felt his strength increasing. He wasn't channeling his martial technique yet, he was ready to it though.
"Do it." When my words fell, the strange of his swings increased, surpassing even my basic strength by a small margin. His attacks filled with power, fast and accurate. Defending became harder with each second that passed, but I persisted.
"Should we stop now?" Ten minutes after the fight started, we were still going at it. I got used to his higher speed and defense became easier. But Travis was already drenched in sweat. His stamina was relatively low when compared to mine.
I lowered my stance and stopped the fight. "It was a good spar," I said. Around us, there were people starring. Most of them looked astonished by the fight that just took place. Even the teacher looked surprised.
"Let's get water," Travis said. We left the room and got water from a vending machine. "So, what brought you here? People don't usually join in the middle of the year."
"There were circumstances. How are you doing since we saw each other last time? Did you win?"
"We did. Overwhelmingly. You were right, I still need to thank you for that. If not for your help at that time, we would've failed spectacularly."
"There is no need to thank me if you see someone like yourself that time, help them. That will be enough."
"I sure will. Look I have classes, why don't we meet later? Today at six?"
"Sorry, I have plans. But I will see you in the next swordsmanship class."
We talked for a while, at one point Travis started talking about swords, and got so into it he was late for his next class. While he was rushing for his class, I checked the timetable and found that the Seals class will be starting in two hours.
I went back to the special class building, and there started to train. With not being able to use the symbols for long range attacks, I started practicing more with the Gliding Blade. While it orbited around me, I practiced shadow punching.
It was difficult, every few punches or when I lost sight of the blade for too long, I would lose control of it. Maybe I was doing this too fast. I stopped moving and sat down. I started by moving the Gliding Blade behind me and trying not to lose control of it while I couldn't see it.
An hour and a half later I was able to keep it under control while not seeing for a longer time. But there was no more time for me to practice now, the seals class starts soon, so I left.
When I found the class, to my surprise, I saw someone I was already familiar with. 27! It turns out he is the teacher of seals class. I approached him, and when he saw it was me, there was a slight trace of panic on his face.
"Dominique, what are you doing here?"
"I want to study seals of course." Some part of me wanted to ask him about the Library of Mages, just to see if will run away again. But I couldn't do that to him. 27 seemed to be slaking off, as the class was reading on their own, or working on some blueprints. He was just sitting behind the desk with his feet up.
"Really? Why?"
"Curiosity. I had some contact with seals, so I wanted to learn more. Maybe I could use them somehow to supplement my fighting style."
"Why would you do that? Ah! Right…" 27 doesn't seem to have the best memory. Or he just can't be bothered to remember anything. "Give me a second." He said as he started going through the drawers in his desk.
He took out a piece of paper and passed it to me. "This is the most basic seal, at the end of the classroom, you will find Instaurare Core's as well as basic manuals about forming seals. Since you are in S class, I don't think you need me to help you right?"
He was just lazy. Not saying else I grabbed the manual, Instaurare Core and sat down in an empty spot.
The manual talked about forming seals, comparing it to making machinery, with elemental essence as the fuel. You would use elemental essence to build 'cables' that will conduct the elemental essence, to fuel different constructs.
In my case, I couldn't make cables with my soul essence, but what I could do, is to make a 'pipe.' Looking at the blueprint for the 'most basic seal' I saw how I would need to rework a part of its network to make it work.
I believed it should be possible for me to complete the task, so first I tried to charge the Instaurare Core. It was a success. Next, I tried to build the part of the seal that will minimize the rest of the seal so it will fit into the Instaurare Core for storage.
Following the blueprints, I created the different pieces and connected them to the Instaurare Core, and as the soul essence form it supported them, I didn't have to hurry. Instaurare Core could fit massive amounts of soul essence, so if it is just sustaining the parts, it could probably work for a few days.
The way I build the parts was very simple, first I would meticulously shape the part using transformation, then separate it and attach to the rest of the parts. This way I finished the first part of the seal that will store the seal inside the Instaurare Core.
With anticipation, I activated it and observed the results. The bright soul image surrounding the Instaurare Core started to contract until it was no longer visible inside the Instaurare Core. I picked it up and focused on the inside trying to feel my soul essence.
Everything I built was now swimming in the see of soul essence, not needing any more power, held together by the power of the seal, it was not draining any more soul essence.
But I knew that if the soul essence that it was swimming in disappeared, the construct I created would disappear.
"That's not hard to fix, you just need to make a secondary section that will hold the seal, while the rest will fuel the seal." 27 appeared behind me and said. He was looking over my shoulder and starring at the Instaurare Core in my hand.
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