14 Math Class (1/2)

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.