Chapter 153 - 152: Magic Thread.

Due to the large crowd, we were divided into various batches. We were assigned to Aunt Ronia one batch at a time. Apparently, she was one of the greatest researchers in the field of science. 

So her vast knowledge is better than any books provided by the academy. By the way, currently, it was our turn. We all were thirty kids and usually, other teachers tend to take warrior, mage-warrior, and pure mage houses separately. But Aunt Ronia prefers to take it according to the class, rather than taking it according to the houses.

"I will begin with a question," said Aunt Ronia as she stood in front of the class in the classroom. She sat above the desk as she continued "How do you perform magic?"

It was a plain question and for answering it one of the girls raised her hand, it was the same girl that Ulrich was talking to during the break time. 

"Magic is performed by the use of mana. A human is born with a man core ------ we not exactly born with, it gets develops in the human body over time. A normal human has their mana core developed around the age of five to ten. It is natural for human beings to gather mana from their surroundings and they usually use this mana to perform magic. But then again, mana is gathered at a certain point, and using that mana a human can perform a spell according to the elemental affinity."

Aunt Ronia looked at the girl as she said "Very good! you may sit now." she looked back at the class as she continued "What she said is correct, but there is more to magic than we think. There is various factor that affects the casting of our magic. During old times the human in particular used to use chants to perform magic, but then humans evolved and magic became natural to us. 

So natural that we just need to gather mana in the palm of our hand just think about whatever we want to do. But yeah there is various limitations such as that we can't perform magic out of our certain elemental affinity and we can also not perform complex magic without seal marking."

She stretched her palm as she said "I am sure that everyone seated here knows how to perform basic magic, or else you wouldn't have passed the test. Now, while we are at basics I will suggest you guys------ yes suggest you guys not teach, since this is my own research and it's up to you guys to use it now."

She casted a small waterfall in her hands as she said "This is how we perform a normal spell, we just gather mana in the palm of our hand, and then the spells are cast. The mana usually travels through the body like water, and that's how you guys are thought during the basics of magic. 

Well, the technique is correct and very simple to perform, but I will show you all a different way and more efficient way to perform magic."

Before teaching the way, she looked at us as she said "By the way, this technique is applicable for all the races and after a week or two there will be more people who will come here. They will be from different kingdoms and different races, but they will arrive in a week or two. Now let's get back to the technique." 

She stretched her hand, again and she casted the water ball. But this time it was a much bigger water ball than last time. The huge water ball was about four times larger than the last spell. 

"I used the same amount of mana for this water, but with a different technique but yet the result is so drastically different." 

If what she is claiming is true that it is fucking amazing. It definitely seems much more powerful than the last version.

She smiled as she looked at the intrigued eyes of the rest of the class, "The technique is simple, yet it's difficult."

"Simple but yet difficult?" questioned one of the students.

"Yes, the reason that it's simple is that it required you to only visualize your mana as threads rather than water, it doesn't require much complex method. But the reason that it's difficult is that it is harder to master, so much harder to master. I have seen many many students give up on this technique because it is just part of my research and not approved by. But there are students who were able to master it, but it took them too much effort to do it."

She took a box of thread as she said "Now---- I will hand out one piece of thread to each of you and I want you to imbue ur mana into this thread. Doing that, you will just have to visualize the flow of mana inside the thread. By the way, do the visualizing part with your eyes closed and try to block off all of your other senses and focus only on the thread. After that try to spread mana through your mana in a thread-like pattern rather than making it flow like a water."

She started walking out of the classroom as she said, "try doing this, and when you are successfully able to do it. you can come to me and I will tell you what to do next. By the way, I don't care how much time it takes, even a year or ten. Just come to me when you are successfully able to do it. Now then bye kids!" 

Just like that she went away, most of the students tried to do the thing that we were told to do. 

Grabbing onto the thread, I imbued the mana into it and it was very much easy to do it. 

Closing my eyes, this time I tried to travel the mana in the same thread-like strings. 

Clenching my fist, I gathered mana at one spot and concentrated it on thread-like strings. 

Isn't this very easy to do? I am able to gather mana as a string like ------ as I was thinking that the mana dispersed away. Quickly opening my eyes, I was huffing for fresh air. 

I was breathless.....

There was sweat gathered at my forehead. 

It is not something that should make me breathless. Why is it so tiring? I wasn't sure about the reason, but the process was damn hard!

When I opened my eyes, I noticed that the whole class was empty. Except for Aetna, Lora, Lily and Rai who stayed behind.

"Should I tell her Aetna?" said Rai, she was enthusiastic while saying this. I wonder what they are talking about.

"Yes yes! what is the thing about Grey that will shock me to the core? does his marriage fixed with another girl? or does he like guys? or or or ----- do you want to say that he is actually secretly my cousin and that's why his and my eyes are that similar? and I kind of forgot to ask about why his and my eyes look this similar. Well, I am not that dumb, but I ---- I don't want to expect reality."

What the ------ huh? eh? I mean ----- what the----- okay okay, first I will ask the basic question. 

"Where is everyone else? where did they go?"

Rai pointed outside the window as she said "Look outside the window."

The sky outside the window was painted in the color of orange ---------- it was evening. How? I just closed my eyes to ------- 

"Did the time go so fast?"

"Most of the students gave up in ten minutes as it was super tiring. But I guess your Ormr blood kicked in as most your tiredness was cured by speedy healing of your blood, that is the reason why Otis and Lora----" Rin turned to look toward Lora, but what she saw was Lora's blank expression as the light died out of her eyes.

"Ormr blood? but ---- but I am Ormr? you --- Grey--- how--- I mean it was obvious but still ---" she came closer to me as she grabbed my hand. "Our kid will be damn strong!"

What? that's so random thing to say. Don't you have anything else to say when you know that guy you like is actually your cousin? 

and why doesn't she feel embarrassed while saying these things? 

She turned to look at Lily as she said "By the way Lily, you knew about this thing right?" 

Lily looked away as she said, "I don't know what you are talking about."

"You knew right?!!"

"I knew but I didn't want to break your heart by saying that Grey is your cousin since ------ since you like him so much," said Lily. 

"Awwww, that's so sweet of you and I am aware that you are fond of Grey. But you will have to fight me for him!!"

Lily looked more away as she said "I am not particularly and my hand is pretty rough from all the training so ----- I am ready to share him, but compete against beautiful girls like you!!!!" 

"Huh? what are you talking about? if I were a boy, I would definitely be all over you," said Rai.

"Yeah actually," said Lora as she chuckled.

"I am actually in love with your chin," said Aetna. 

Hearing this, Lily was already red from ear to ear.. It was as if she would faint at any time.