27 Everything is abnormal

A white coloured barrier surrounded the blast area. The barrier wasn't very thick but sure was very strong. The barrier was created by Riana who reacted quickly and generated a barrier rather than trying to stop the person in question. There were at least a hundred to two hundred students surrounding the area who were stunned witnessing the turn of events.

"I was right about you seven. You seven are bad news." Riana said with an angry face as she removed the barrier while glaring at the girl who almost blew away a dozen students.

The dust cleared displaying a frightened Erina who was waiting for a lecture. The six stared seriously at Erina with a 'What are we to do with her?' face as Riana approached Erina and pulled her by the ear.

"Ouch! I am sorry, let my poor ear go. Please!" Erina cried out as she tried to free herself from Riana's grasp as the other six stood beside Erina as if they were standing in a line to lecture her next.

'Did you see that girl.'

'She was about to blow them up.'

'Who is she? Let's stay a little away from her.'

The other students around the area started to chat among themselves as Riana started lecturing Erina.

"I was just following what the professor said."

"He wasn't teaching you, he was teaching the other students! So, why did you do it?!" Riana tried to kick some sense as the other six heard what the crowd were saying.

"That's bad. We will become famous in the opposite way than I wanted us to become." Sai mumbled in a voice only audible to their group and Riana.

"Let's get out of here first, follow me." Riana sensing the situation the seven were facing, immediately led them towards their next spot.

The group soon reached their next spot which was the same wooden arena they were led to before the day. But unlike other parts of the academy, this place had no students.

"You seven might have it rough with the other students if the word got out about you blowing up stuff on your first day." Riana took off her hood as she let her hair fall freely to her waist.

"We are extremely sorry about what she did. We will try not to repeat it." Leo apologized in Erina's stead as she bowed before Riana.

"Alright. But I am curious about you seven. What is wrong with you bunch?"

"One is intelligent. The other is dumb. While the next one is nut lose and so on. How on the earth did you seven even come together?" Riana pointed at Leo, next at Erina followed by Sai.

"Long story Professor. But headmaster knows it. You can say we seven got kind of forced to group up." Leo explained as he looked around at the other six.

"Whatever the reasons, I am not going to let you seven run amok."

"I need to fix your problems with controlling Qi. And I am intending to do it right now, I don't even want to think of the consequences if you blow someone off."

"What are you going to do professor?!" Sai asked excitedly as his brain stormed through a no. of thoughts.

"Just stay still."

Saying those words, Riana knelt down and started chanting some spell.

'Everything has a twin in this universe.'

'Even the divine light itself.'

"What the heck is she reciting? Is that a nursery poem?" Reeva mumbled slowly to which Ian and Sai glared at her who were previously excited seeing Riana chant.

"That's a spell. Can't you tell?" Ian said in a low voice as he tilted his head towards Reeva to which she gave a look as if saying 'Whatever'.

'Let the darkness come forth.'

'Come forth, nightless sky!'

With those last words, a barrier, pitch black in colour expelled from Riana engulfing the seven and herself. The barrier was only a few meters in diameter but was powerful enough to absorb all the light inside it. With light unable to enter the barrier, the interior of the barrier turned as dark as it could.

'Ouch, get off my foot.'

'Don't grab me there. I am going to kill you if you are a guy.'

The seven were rattled by the sudden appearance of the barrier which made them bump into each other inside the barrier.

"Silence! Stay still!" Riana shouted in an attempt to calm down the lot.

"Professor, what is this about?" Leo unlike the other six asked in a nonchalant way as he stood in the same spot.

"You will see in a minute."

"Now, you seven concentrate on the feeling in your head once again and channel it into your body. I am sure you can keep your eyes open this time. It won't be that hard."

"Okay." The seven replied slowly but they weren't without fear of blowing up again.

Unexpectedly, what they saw was beautiful in contrast to what they were expecting. Threads of golden Qi running through the body was what they saw. All of the seven could see the golden threads of Qi running in the body of the other six. The threads started from the brain and split into a number of directions as it ran down.

"And this is mine." Riana said slowly as her body showed a similar kind of Qi thread with the only difference being that her Qi was white in colour and thinner in size.

"I don't know what this is, but it sure is beautiful. It is as if we are trees with roots." Erina giggled as she flipped around.

"Why aren't we blowing up?" Leo did like the view but he couldn't run from sounding his thoughts.

"You are not blowing up cause the barrier is absorbing all the Qi that is being emitted by your body. It can't absorb the Qi inside you because of which we can see your Qi."

"So, did you find anything abnormal, professor?" Leo asked as he knitted his eyebrows together.

"Everything, Leo. Everything." Riana's voice was very slow as if she was answering absentmindedly.

"Ian?" Sai called out slowly to which Ian pulled Sai's shirt as he followed his voice.

'Can I say that's cool?' Sai whispered in Ian's ears to which Ian looked at Sai with a blank face. But as expected Sai wasn't able to see his expression due to the darkness inside the barrier.