The Fifth Season

CHAPTER FORTY-THREE: A DUEL AGAINST PEERS

SNOH

"Ah! Snoh, you finally made it!"

I turned my head towards the direction of where I heard Leigh's voice coming from the moderately-filled classroom I had walked into. She was there along with a series of other students, a mixed gendered pack of women and men from different backgrounds who also choose to partake in organization activities apart from the courses here at Clouiths.

I smiled bashfully, realizing that the attention of the room had spun in my direction once Leigh had called me out; I was still rather shy around groups of people I didn't know, but I thought it would be nice to know people outside of the friend group Enid had made for himself while attending the academy.

"I did... I have to say I got a bit lost on the way, but I was able to navigate pretty well once I read the directions from the invitation." I stated. Leigh walked over to me, her bright golden eyes seemed to shine even more so than usual in glee from my presence in the club.

"Oh, no worries about that! We haven't even started yet... come I'll introduce you to a few of the members here." She grabbed my arm and began parading me around the room so I could meet the club officials such as the president, secretary, and the treasurer.; all of them respectably named: Wendi, Tammie, and Evarius. Leigh was also kind enough to help me get aquatinted with the remainder of the participating students who seemed to welcome me with a bright fascination.

Many of them asked me questions concerning the rumors circulating me and my powers and I did my best to respond to them without giving away too much about myself in the process. Eventually, when more students straggled into the reserved classroom, we began the formal organization meeting with the president, Wendi, thanking everyone for joining this iso.

"We have so many more students choosing to participate in this iso and we are so excited for the gathered interest! I promise you won't regret it!" She clapped her hands together in glee as she looked over the new attendees with peaked interest.

"In the Enchanting and Weapon Mastery gild you'll learn a variety of things. But the most important thing is being able to forge weapons out of the raw materials provided and your own power!" The vice-president spoke up with eager eyes before continuing her speech.

"While crafting these amazing items, it's also even more exciting to put it into practice, so we'll also be teaching swordsmanship along with it to test the vitality of the weapons created." She finished.

My eyes widened with excitement. That sounded like so much fun!

Being able to not only create your weapon but actually duel someone with them was something that you could read about in a book and now we actually got to partake in it.

"And don't forget learning to enchant your weapon with different magical abilities as well!" President Wendi spoke up hastily.

A random student raised their hands, grabbing the attention of the gild officers immediately. Tammie, the vice-president pointed to them quickly and nodded, "Is there a question you have, sir?" She asked him.

The man cleared his throat, "Ah yes... I was just curious since I'm a first-iso student here... can magical duels contain weaponry? I haven't gotten that far into my courses on that topic." He asked curiously.

That was a good question, I thought to myself.

Prince Jovian did mention wanting to duel me for fun when we spoke in the forest during the moonlight ritual, but I didn't think anything of it. Now that some of my course material was geared towards more...physical topics such as actual combat, it was becoming increasingly harder to imagine that we would be facing off against someone with the purpose of putting your opponent down.