It was the second time in a little while I was at one of the larger buildings in the royal academy. It was coincidentally also one of the newer ones which wasn’t exactly surprising considering we blew the previous building standing there up to hide evidence some two hundred years ago. But in the end, it all worked out and the academy got a larger place for crafting magical items!
“Hi Miss Bauer! Is Albert around?” I asked the lady currently reading a newspaper at the entrance who usually kept check on anyone entering. The school didn’t want any unnecessary students inside that building mostly because stuff could go wrong.
“Oh … yeah, sweetheart. I have seen him coming in.” She said and put up a warm smile once she noticed who stood in front of her.
“Thank you very much.” I said and noticed how her gaze went back down again. Going onwards through the only other door in the foyer, we quickly found ourselves in a large hall, filled with all kinds of creations and tools.
“I think it was somewhere over there … oh, and please don’t touch anything in here.” I explained to her because Isabelle was already looking around quite curiously.
Together, we found our way through this labyrinth to the corner where a sixteen year old boy was crafting some kind of gauntlet.
“Hey there!” I exclaimed and waved happily, starting him somewhat as he was quite engrossed into his work.
“Oh, hi Lucy. If you came for your stuff, it’s not done yet.” I could see that much as I looked over to a school uniform which was still turned inside out. Mithril fibres we’re woven into the usual cloth, forming a delicate, but unfinished pattern. I was quite eager to have it in all actuality, but I wasn’t at the workshop for my order.
“Oh, no. I merely wanted to show Isabelle something else you made. That paper arrow … can you show it to us?” I asked and gave him my sweetest smile. That magical craftsman had already boasted about this once and showed me everything, so I hoped he could go a little further than that.
“Right right. What Lucy called paper arrows was originally an idea by the grand mage of Neversummer. By interlocking two objects with each other, it is possible to form a sub space connection between the two which would usually cost a lot of energy depending on the mass of the object. But experiments in a zero gravity field at the archon lab showed there is in fact a way to entangle subatomic particles which react to mana infusion.” I nodded along, even though I understood only around two thirds of what he was saying. Isabelle probably understood nothing as she looked completely confused while the brown haired boy continued his lecture. “We can therefore interlock two objects, or rather two subatomic nearly weightless particles with each other without much issue. We can then use these as some kind of targeting system to guide other magical circles which work on the principles of standardised calculative algorithms.” The teenager stopped and looked at Isabelle in anticipation with me following suit shortly afterwards.
“… sorry, I couldn’t follow very well.” She said meekly, probably not feeling too well about the whole situation. Well, it wasn’t her fault to begin with as one had to be a genius to understand this guy at all. And … he wasn’t very good at conveying what mattered.
“He said there is a way to give certain magical circles a predefined target. Sadly, the target cannot be used more than once because abrupt ending of mana infusion terminates the entanglement … you can look at it like a bridge crumbling behind you. You will always get where you need to be, but you cannot turn back.” I explained, hoping I did better than the boy.
“Precisely. Problematic is also the distance between the entangled particles which means mana requirements grow linear with the distance once the finding algorithm has been started.” The teenager explained, but Isabelle kept glancing towards me. She still didn’t get it.
“Look at it as of it were a fireball spell. If you are further away, you need to put more mana into the spell so that it can cross the distance. The targeting itself isn’t more costly, but what we are talking about it more a means to an end. Thus, we need more mana to do whatever we want to achieve with our targeting.” I explained, which didn’t make it much better to be honest. At this point, the teenager also understood it and opened a drawer to pick out one of his creations. A simple piece of paper with a rather convoluted magical circle on it.
“I still don’t get why we are here.” Isabelle said, but opened her eyes wide as the teenager filled the circles with his own mana. The dust from mana stones in the ink stored the mana within a few seconds and thus, the rest began to work as well.
The paper folded itself a few times, forming some kind of triangular structure with a little body underneath its wings. As far as I remembered it, the boy called this thing a paper plane.
Said plane left the boys hands on its own immediately, scooting towards a target hanging down from the roof and hitting it in the dead centre.
“Woah…” It wasn’t just Isabelle who was amazed by the results. The first time I saw it, I reacted broadly the same, even though I was thinking about appliances right away.
“This will revolutionise the way we communicate with each other.” The boy exclaimed proudly. And to be honest, he had all reasons to be proud of himself. As far as I was aware, he didn’t have any help from others on this project which could turn out to be groundbreaking. For that he would need a lot of money for further testing and refinement though. But for that, I had already introduced him to a few good – or questionable – investors which made his whole work easier.
“So … could you target me and give her the corresponding paper plane?” I asked nicely. I hoped to solve her fears of being stalked with that. If she needed any help, she could always call for me this way. “And is it possible to automatically sent the location of the sender?”
“Give me two days and I’ll have it done together with your other stuff.” He explained and looked towards the now empty target as the paper plane had sailed to the ground already. He was probably thinking of ways to improve his creation already, and not how someone might swoop in to use it for their benefit. That’s what I seriously liked about him.
“Thank you so much. Isabelle, you can always ask me for help this way and even better, I can tell my sis immediately. If I can’t deal with whoever is following you, then she will definitely be able to!” I told her with a bright smile on my lips.
“A-Alright! Thank you so much …” Isabelle started, but stopped as soon as she realised she didn’t know his name at all.
“Albert.” He said and bowed crudely. As the son of a baton, he should know how to bow correctly, but he wasn’t even here because of his nobility, but rather because of a stipendium.
“Alright … we’ll be back in two days if that’s okay with you.” I explained happily, but I could see he was somewhere else already.
“Yeah … yeah …” He said an scratched the back of his head until he suddenly had an idea and started to rummage through the drawers.
“That’s our signal to leave …” I whispered into Isabelle’s ear and gently guided her away from Albert. We even found our way out of the labyrinth after several minutes and parted ways shortly afterwards. I still had my biology lesson to attend, even though they turned out to be incredibly useless.
But first, I rummaged through my backpack and found my compass in it. As soon as I held it horizontal, it directly pointed to where I just came from.
“They keep popping up everywhere.” Like rats they were getting more and more, especially in higher up places. But it didn’t surprise me that Albert was originally not from this world. He was talking about topics this world hadn’t even remotely explored yet.
This much was obvious once I listened to my biology class once more. They were talking about why healing magic usually didn’t work on ill patients even though the answer should have been obvious. It was because they weren’t hurt, but rather because they were infected.
Some of these reincarnators managed to hide their knowledge better than others though. Sofie for example knew very well not to boast with her knowledge. Albert in the other hand lacked a necessary common sense for that completely.
Still, all of them knew much more than the rest, which made them stand out quite a bit. Schwarz for example thought he was superior to others, Albert crafted crazy stuff, Sofie could heal wounds nobody else and Louis and his brother … well, that remained to be seen.
Still, each and everyone of them had the potential to change the world based just on the knowledge they gained during their previous life which was good and bad as well.
If I could steer that development I would benefit, but it could also get out of hand quickly. Which was why I needed a plan to find each and everyone of them as fast as I could. After that I could thin out their numbers based on who was beneficial and who wasn’t … but until then I needed to keep them alive if they weren’t too dangerous for me.
“Lucy, your homework looks really similar to your neighbours …” But before saving the world from these idiots, I needed to get past this biology lesson. Sometimes I wondered if I shouldn’t just stop going to these classes altogether, but that would drive a wedge in between me and Luna, and the reincarnators I knew about.
“We worked on our solution together.” I explained and smiled innocently.
“Is that so?” Yeah, it was so. At least she believed me somewhat and so I could enjoy my time in relative peace.
Sadly though, the goals as to why I picked biology classes weren’t fulfilled that day either. I had hoped to learn about demonic biology, but that wasn’t taught to first semesters. I apparently had to pick an advanced biology course for that, but I would need to finish this one first … and somehow, I had my doubts I would be spending more than a year at this place.
Well, at least another project of mine had progressed a lot. Mole had dug out a rather big room underneath the teachers lodging. It had everything I needed, including a secret way out of the academy.
This was the place I spent most of my night life whenever I didn’t sleep with Hannah. And this was also the place I intended to visit right after saying goodbye to my ‘friends’ in the biology class.
It was the second time in a little while I was at one of the larger buildings in the royal academy. It was coincidentally also one of the newer ones which wasn’t exactly surprising considering we blew the previous building standing there up to hide evidence some two hundred years ago. But in the end, it all worked out and the academy got a larger place for crafting magical items!
“Hi Miss Bauer! Is Albert around?” I asked the lady currently reading a newspaper at the entrance who usually kept check on anyone entering. The school didn’t want any unnecessary students inside that building mostly because stuff could go wrong.
“Oh … yeah, sweetheart. I have seen him coming in.” She said and put up a warm smile once she noticed who stood in front of her.
“Thank you very much.” I said and noticed how her gaze went back down again. Going onwards through the only other door in the foyer, we quickly found ourselves in a large hall, filled with all kinds of creations and tools.
“I think it was somewhere over there … oh, and please don’t touch anything in here.” I explained to her because Isabelle was already looking around quite curiously.
Together, we found our way through this labyrinth to the corner where a sixteen year old boy was crafting some kind of gauntlet.
“Hey there!” I exclaimed and waved happily, starting him somewhat as he was quite engrossed into his work.
“Oh, hi Lucy. If you came for your stuff, it’s not done yet.” I could see that much as I looked over to a school uniform which was still turned inside out. Mithril fibres we’re woven into the usual cloth, forming a delicate, but unfinished pattern. I was quite eager to have it in all actuality, but I wasn’t at the workshop for my order.
“Oh, no. I merely wanted to show Isabelle something else you made. That paper arrow … can you show it to us?” I asked and gave him my sweetest smile. That magical craftsman had already boasted about this once and showed me everything, so I hoped he could go a little further than that.
“Right right. What Lucy called paper arrows was originally an idea by the grand mage of Neversummer. By interlocking two objects with each other, it is possible to form a sub space connection between the two which would usually cost a lot of energy depending on the mass of the object. But experiments in a zero gravity field at the archon lab showed there is in fact a way to entangle subatomic particles which react to mana infusion.” I nodded along, even though I understood only around two thirds of what he was saying. Isabelle probably understood nothing as she looked completely confused while the brown haired boy continued his lecture. “We can therefore interlock two objects, or rather two subatomic nearly weightless particles with each other without much issue. We can then use these as some kind of targeting system to guide other magical circles which work on the principles of standardised calculative algorithms.” The teenager stopped and looked at Isabelle in anticipation with me following suit shortly afterwards.
“… sorry, I couldn’t follow very well.” She said meekly, probably not feeling too well about the whole situation. Well, it wasn’t her fault to begin with as one had to be a genius to understand this guy at all. And … he wasn’t very good at conveying what mattered.
“He said there is a way to give certain magical circles a predefined target. Sadly, the target cannot be used more than once because abrupt ending of mana infusion terminates the entanglement … you can look at it like a bridge crumbling behind you. You will always get where you need to be, but you cannot turn back.” I explained, hoping I did better than the boy.
“Precisely. Problematic is also the distance between the entangled particles which means mana requirements grow linear with the distance once the finding algorithm has been started.” The teenager explained, but Isabelle kept glancing towards me. She still didn’t get it.
“Look at it as of it were a fireball spell. If you are further away, you need to put more mana into the spell so that it can cross the distance. The targeting itself isn’t more costly, but what we are talking about it more a means to an end. Thus, we need more mana to do whatever we want to achieve with our targeting.” I explained, which didn’t make it much better to be honest. At this point, the teenager also understood it and opened a drawer to pick out one of his creations. A simple piece of paper with a rather convoluted magical circle on it.
“I still don’t get why we are here.” Isabelle said, but opened her eyes wide as the teenager filled the circles with his own mana. The dust from mana stones in the ink stored the mana within a few seconds and thus, the rest began to work as well.
The paper folded itself a few times, forming some kind of triangular structure with a little body underneath its wings. As far as I remembered it, the boy called this thing a paper plane.
Said plane left the boys hands on its own immediately, scooting towards a target hanging down from the roof and hitting it in the dead centre.
“Woah…” It wasn’t just Isabelle who was amazed by the results. The first time I saw it, I reacted broadly the same, even though I was thinking about appliances right away.
“This will revolutionise the way we communicate with each other.” The boy exclaimed proudly. And to be honest, he had all reasons to be proud of himself. As far as I was aware, he didn’t have any help from others on this project which could turn out to be groundbreaking. For that he would need a lot of money for further testing and refinement though. But for that, I had already introduced him to a few good – or questionable – investors which made his whole work easier.
“So … could you target me and give her the corresponding paper plane?” I asked nicely. I hoped to solve her fears of being stalked with that. If she needed any help, she could always call for me this way. “And is it possible to automatically sent the location of the sender?”
“Give me two days and I’ll have it done together with your other stuff.” He explained and looked towards the now empty target as the paper plane had sailed to the ground already. He was probably thinking of ways to improve his creation already, and not how someone might swoop in to use it for their benefit. That’s what I seriously liked about him.
“Thank you so much. Isabelle, you can always ask me for help this way and even better, I can tell my sis immediately. If I can’t deal with whoever is following you, then she will definitely be able to!” I told her with a bright smile on my lips.
“A-Alright! Thank you so much …” Isabelle started, but stopped as soon as she realised she didn’t know his name at all.
“Albert.” He said and bowed crudely. As the son of a baton, he should know how to bow correctly, but he wasn’t even here because of his nobility, but rather because of a stipendium.
“Alright … we’ll be back in two days if that’s okay with you.” I explained happily, but I could see he was somewhere else already.
“Yeah … yeah …” He said an scratched the back of his head until he suddenly had an idea and started to rummage through the drawers.
“That’s our signal to leave …” I whispered into Isabelle’s ear and gently guided her away from Albert. We even found our way out of the labyrinth after several minutes and parted ways shortly afterwards. I still had my biology lesson to attend, even though they turned out to be incredibly useless.
But first, I rummaged through my backpack and found my compass in it. As soon as I held it horizontal, it directly pointed to where I just came from.
“They keep popping up everywhere.” Like rats they were getting more and more, especially in higher up places. But it didn’t surprise me that Albert was originally not from this world. He was talking about topics this world hadn’t even remotely explored yet.
This much was obvious once I listened to my biology class once more. They were talking about why healing magic usually didn’t work on ill patients even though the answer should have been obvious. It was because they weren’t hurt, but rather because they were infected.
Some of these reincarnators managed to hide their knowledge better than others though. Sofie for example knew very well not to boast with her knowledge. Albert in the other hand lacked a necessary common sense for that completely.
Still, all of them knew much more than the rest, which made them stand out quite a bit. Schwarz for example thought he was superior to others, Albert crafted crazy stuff, Sofie could heal wounds nobody else and Louis and his brother … well, that remained to be seen.
Still, each and everyone of them had the potential to change the world based just on the knowledge they gained during their previous life which was good and bad as well.
If I could steer that development I would benefit, but it could also get out of hand quickly. Which was why I needed a plan to find each and everyone of them as fast as I could. After that I could thin out their numbers based on who was beneficial and who wasn’t … but until then I needed to keep them alive if they weren’t too dangerous for me.
“Lucy, your homework looks really similar to your neighbours …” But before saving the world from these idiots, I needed to get past this biology lesson. Sometimes I wondered if I shouldn’t just stop going to these classes altogether, but that would drive a wedge in between me and Luna, and the reincarnators I knew about.
“We worked on our solution together.” I explained and smiled innocently.
“Is that so?” Yeah, it was so. At least she believed me somewhat and so I could enjoy my time in relative peace.
Sadly though, the goals as to why I picked biology classes weren’t fulfilled that day either. I had hoped to learn about demonic biology, but that wasn’t taught to first semesters. I apparently had to pick an advanced biology course for that, but I would need to finish this one first … and somehow, I had my doubts I would be spending more than a year at this place.
Well, at least another project of mine had progressed a lot. Mole had dug out a rather big room underneath the teachers lodging. It had everything I needed, including a secret way out of the academy.
This was the place I spent most of my night life whenever I didn’t sleep with Hannah. And this was also the place I intended to visit right after saying goodbye to my ‘friends’ in the biology class.
