Chapter 325: Do you do weird stuff?

Chapter 325: Do you do weird stuff?

Simply sitting on the Visualizers platform, Sofia and Shaily spent a while talking about their respective childhood, they had lived though quite a different path in life, but the struggles felt similar. Whereas Sofias class had been a trap from Scripture, Shailys class had been the result of a chance encounter. The winters in Exidion were very cold, explaining the countless chimneys decorating the citys rooftops. Shaily, living alone in the small house inherited from her parents had no extra money for firewood, she would go through the winters shivering under her old blankets. She only had whatever wooden branches and kindling she managed to collect during the year to last her the entire cold season, allowing her the luxury of a rare hot meal and glimmer of heat once in a while.

One night, as she was down with a high fever during a snowstorm, dying from heat in an ice-cold house, only lit by the faint ambient moonlight, she thought she was hallucinating as she saw snow fall through her window.

The strange glowing snowflakes fell on her blanket, enveloping her body in a weirdly comfortable breeze; she felt her fever recede, falling asleep soon after. The next day she woke up feeling better, the soothing snowflakes nowhere to be seen. Her class had changed during the night. And that was the whole story of her unlocking the [sprite Caller] class at age 9.

And I woke up chained to a bed surrounded by guards, the Church had summoned me during the night.

And you managed to escape?

Thats a story for another time. We should get back to todays lesson, dont you think? I only rented this place for four hours.

Ah, yes. Do you really want to learn one of my skills, then?

Only if you dont mind.

Ill do it! Teacher Vak-, I mean, Sofia, just tell me what to do, was my guess right?

Not quite, Sofia explained, put your hand on the crystal, and think really hard about the skill you want to share, try to remember how the mana feels when it leaves your body to activate it. She also put her hand on the black crystals. Ill be the one fueling it, so dont worry about that, this should work Im pretty sure.

Shaily pressed her delicate blue hand against the black sphere, and almost instantly, beams of light shot around the room, creating a strikingly different pattern than anything Sofia had ever seen.

That was fast!

The mana patterns of my skills are all very chaotic but this is more like A plant? Like a forest of vines branching out from a central point around the heart. This should be about the same complexity as the explosive bolts, so a bit easier than the piercing ones.

You got the hang of it even faster than I did. Which skill is that? Its almost all internal so maybe [Split Focus]?

Sofia had found out that Shailys class shared that one skill with Aliths, truthfully it was probably the only skill of the girl which she could learn, the rest all had to do with using sprites one way or another. Surprisingly, Shaily shook her head. This is [Call Elemental sprite], she corrected.

What? You probably shouldnt share this one, its the entir-

No! I want you to learn this one! Shaily protested.

Nevertheless, Sofia was very satisfied. She had learned a lot, just not about skills, but about her pupil.

On the way back to her room, she stopped abruptly in the middle of a hallway.

Do I not?

Frowning, she entered the closest empty classroom, she wanted to be somewhere quiet where she was less likely to be attacked. Sitting on a desk, she searched through the mess in her storage ring.

Its got to still be around, no? Did I get rid of it?

Did I sell it? No way

Did I give it to someone?

Was it among all the shit I threw at the eye monster in the trial?

How would I even lose that?

Sofia dug and dug through her stuff, eventually finding what she had lost, buried under piles and piles of gold which she had totally not stolen from Suns space temple.

Got it! I knew it was still somewhere in there! There we go, no need to buy a storage ring! Astelia will be fine with me giving it to one of my students, right? Size of a barrel, its perfect!

Hmm That is a lot of money though. I should see with Zerei if she can enchant it with a soul-bind first Space mages like Cardinal can just take stuff from an unlocked ring without the wearer even realizing. Even Orvod has a lock on his golden tooth, you really cant leave a storage ring just like that or someone could get ideas.

I dont want Shailys stuff to get stolen. Or worse, what if someone attacked her to get the ring?

I could leave her with the black orb from the trial? That would also solve that problem until shes strong enough to defend it herself.

Or both.

Sofia made her way to Zereis room. She was not there. Does she have a class right now? Maybe she went out to eat. Right, when is Astelias class? I really need to learn that teleportation skill. I also need to get Saria and go confront Jen with her. And Ive barely even started progress on VPPV! And now I also need to work on the sprite skill

Argh, so much to dooooooo