14 Math Class

On Monday morning part of the first-year LegendSlayers were in Math class. Math class was named after the genius magician and second king during the Gwynedd family's reign, Math ap Mathonwy. King Math was well known for his war magic and transforming two of his nephews into animals as punishment for committing a monstrous crime on the love of his life.

Out of all the classes LegendSlayer students must take, Math class was both Jaspers favorite and least favorite. Jasper had a deep love and interest in magic, but the math professors would often call on Jasper to perform a demonstration. Half the time Jasper would do a demonstration, he had to mess up when casting a verbal spell and all of his demonstrations would end with someone subtly picking on him.

James' team sat with Centra's team. Of course, Kyrie sat as far from James as he could while still sitting with his team. James and Kyrie alternated guilty glances at each other while they waited for class to being.

Liza, who was sitting next to Kyrie, eventually asked, "Okay what's the deal between you and James?"

"I screwed up," Kyrie said as he fidgeted with the ribbon on his left wrist.

Liza rolled her eyes at Kyrie, "Okay, and how did you screw up?"

Kyrie grimaced, "Well I-"

"Take your seats and be quiet. It's time for class to start," Professor Clay said as he placed his things on the desk to the side of the classroom.

"For those of you who are new here, I'm Professor Clay. I teach the high-level Math classes to those who are enrolled in the magicians' branch of the school. For most of you, this class will be useless. I would rather you didn't come at all. That way I can focus my time on the students that can actually use magic. But alas they want me to take attendance… so I'm stuck with you. You can do as you please in this class just do it quietly."

Professor Clay nodded to himself before he said, " Right, today let's continue with the Valkine technique for casting a fireball. Remember this technique is performed by clearly picturing the runes for the spell and channeling your energy into them. This is how you cast a spell faster and can surprise your opponents. But it also consumes a lot more aura than verbal or sign casting."

Professor Clay drew a dashed version of the runes needed to cast the fireball spell.

Making the lines dashed was a common method to preventing the rune from becoming active.

"Masaki, your father's a magician, show me what you can do."

Masaki repressed a grown. His father is the lead magician in charge of maintaining and updating the magic barriers attached to the inner and outer city walls. The outer wall encloses the farms surrounding Laserath. The inner wall separates the farms from the main part of the city.

Masaki, unlike his father, was very bad at magic and hated it when people assumed he should be good at it just because his father was. After all, Masaki and his father were two very different people.

Masaki went to the front of the classroom and studied the runes Professor Clay had drawn. After a bit, he gave the spell a half-hearted shot. Ignis, Sphera.

When Masaki channeled his aura into the pattern of the runes, he didn't channel enough. The lack of aura caused his spell to come out as a large puff of smoke that left him, and several of his closer classmates, coughing.

"That was… an attempt," Professor Clay said. "Jasper you should be able to do this. Unless, you've been slacking off as well."

Masaki grimaced as he re-claimed his seat.

Jasper headed to the front of the class room and cast the spell. Ignis, Sphera.

This time a fireball formed in Jasper's hand. And because this was his own spell, Jasper could absorb the fireball into his aura. Even so he'd lost some of the energy.

"Very good! Jasper, your talents are wasted as a LegendSlayer, Jasper. You really should switch majors," Professor Clay said. Such brilliance so stubbornly wasted. Just like his older brother.

Jasper gave a polite node and said, "I-I'd r-rather n-not."

Professor Clay sighed and dismissed Jasper.

As Jasper made his way back to his seat Masaki struck his foot. He put it in Jasper's way. And Jasper hadn't noticed. Until he was falling, and Masaki said, "Teacher's pet."

Jasper kept his head from hitting the floor with his hands and whispered, "Just you wait." He was fed up with Masaki's torment. A torment that had started when he was seven.

Professor Clay continued his lecture on the Valkine technique and its uses, before he moved into Ice spells and what they were good for. After a while, he asked for a volunteer to try casting an Ice spell using the Valkine technique.

After a moment of not getting any volunteers, Professor Clay was about to speak. But Kyrie said, "I'll do it." He enjoyed casting ice spells.

Professor Clay sighed and glared at Kyrie. "I'd rather have someone who can actually cast spells come up, not some hero that thinks he can do anything."

Kyrie's eyes widened and his smile fell. Weren't teachers supposed to teach classes and why ask for volunteers when you don't want them? Plus, Kyrie may not be the best when it comes to casting spells, but he could cast them when he needed to.

"Fine seeing as we don't have any other volunteers. You can give a shot." Professor Claywalked to desk and mumbled, "LegendSlayers, always so cocky."

Kyrie walked to the front of the classroom and studied the runes Professor Clay had drawn on the board. After studying the runes Kyrie held a clear picture of Glacies, Munio in his mind and slowly filled the runes with aura.

When Kyrie cast the spell, an Ice wall formed at the front of the classroom. And Professor Clay impatiently said, "Good. Can you reabsorb your spell, so I can move on with the class." At least this one could cast the spell.

"Uh. Not exactly…" Kyrie could, in a way, reabsorb most of the aura he used in casting the spell. But that would still leave a large puddle of water on the classroom floor.

Professor Clay was about to say something when the bell rang for the end of the first class of the day. "I'll see you pups next week."

"Do you want me to try and get rid of the wall?" Kyrie asked. He was fidgeting with his ribbon, again. Combat class was next. Hopefully, their next teacher wasn't like this one.

"No, I'll take care of it. Just do me a favor and don't volunteer in my class until you can reabsorb a spell properly. Also, if you want, I can meet with you outside of class to teach you how. I already meet Jasper in the magic labs, you can tag along for one of those lessons," Professor Clay said. On the other hand, it might be better if didn't teach Kyrie – a hero more.