Supreme Magus

assumed that after his fight with the wyvern, he was eager to accept her offer to train him.

”Who do you take me for? Some battle maniac? Thanks, but no thanks. I had enough for today. I was more thinking about taking advantage of the lack of homework to take you out for dinner. ”

Invigoration or not, Lith felt the need to rest. Phloria was the only person beside Solus with whom he was able to lower his guard. He wanted to go outside the academy to relax and talk freely.

Lith also used the assembly to have Solus scan the students for the mysterious items. He suspected there were more involved in the poisoning who Linjos hadn ’t managed to smoke out.

He was right. Solus spotted four more.

”Really? I mean, sure. ” She replied with a dazzling smile from ear to ear.

”I still need an hour to make myself presentable. ” Phloria drew on herself hateful looks. Most of the girls of the fifth year hated her guts. How such a plain looking girl managed to date a pin wearer was a mystery to them.

From Lith ’s dating experience on Earth, one hour was an optimistic estimate for an improvised date.

”Sure. I ’ll go visit Yurial in the meantime. Call me when you are ready. There is no rush. ” He wiped a drop of sweat that was streaming along her cheek with his thumb. All the bruises on her body healed, her muscles and joints stopped aching.

Instead of getting tired because of the light spell, Phloria felt her fatigue disappear.

”How did you do it? ” She was amazed. Lith hadn ’t used any sign or magical words.

”We are inside one of the great academies, so I ’ll go with magic. ” He shrugged.

”What about me? ” Friya hadn ’t missed how Phloria ’s breathing was back to normal or that she had stopped sweating.

”Sorry, three is a crowd. Find yourself a boyfriend. ” He said taking off before she could give him the finger.

”I meant the healing, jacka*s! ” She yelled even though Lith was already too far.

Yurial was pleasantly surprised to see Lith too. It was rare of him to seek Yurial ’s advice or help, which made him happy to oblige.

After the fight with Gadorf, Lith understood he needed a better grasp of the power of arrays. Since he was still stuck with Silverwing ’s Hexagram, Lith decided it was time to ask the opinion of an expert.

”Can you check if this is an array? ” Lith asked after materializing a small golden hexagram between his hands.

”Sure thing. It ’s unlikely though. ” Yurial ’s array detecting spell begged to differ.

”I stand corrected. This is an array and an impossible one at that. ”

”What ’s an impossible array? ” Lith asked.

”Arrays are spells that require a long cast time and that can be placed in a specific spot for a time. This one defies all the above. It disappears as soon as you stop spending mana and appears relatively quickly. ” Yurial explained.

”There are several recordings of impossible arrays like this one, all left by past Magi. They are only used as training material for multi casting, though. They have no practical use and are considered nothing more than magic tricks. ”

”How so? ”

”Because they come with no explanation, no hand signs, nor magical words. Even if they had a decent effect, they can only be used with first magic. Turning them into real arrays would require to study their properties and then find signs and words to match.

”It ’s much easier creating a new one from scratch. Also, what use could possibly have an array that requires constant chanting and mana expenditure? The mage couldn ’t even move, being forced to become an easy target. ”

”Maybe. Maybe not. ” Lith pondered.