Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(1-3VOL)

Vol 3/Chapter 39 - Daring to Think, Daring to Act

"Today's magic class was specifically about how to deal with nightmares. You missed out on so much by skipping! If you knew even just a little magic, you wouldn't have let that nightmare get away yesterday!"

I sighed helplessly and lectured her, "There's something so useful like magic, yet you insist on using your sword. And now you've finally met your match with a physical-immune monster, but you still haven't learned your lesson!"

"Who cares! I just don't like magic. Using a sword is so much cooler! When we run into nightmares in the future, I'll just leave them for you guys to deal with!"

She waved her hand dismissively, still completely stubborn and refusing to take in what I said.

"What if we're not by your side? What will you do if you run into a monster alone?"

I really couldn't understand how she could be so reckless! This wasn't a game - death here was permanent. How could she be so careless with her life?

"Is looking cool more important than your life? Having another way to protect yourself can't be a bad thing! Do you think you're invincible..."

Oh right! It seemed like with Nicola's ability to travel through time to save us, she was invincible for now...

"Alright, even if you can't die, severe injuries would still be very troublesome!"

I had to amend my words. This was so frustrating.

"Just because you think you can't die means you can do whatever you want?"

Hmm, it seemed she really could do whatever she wanted...

I was at a complete loss for words. What kind of freak was she? I suddenly felt that lecturing her was pointless, so I just squatted in the corner and drew circles on the ground.

"What's wrong with you? Why are you suddenly in such a bad mood?" Nicola looked completely confused as she asked.

"Who knows!" I answered grumpily. Since she was stubborn about not learning magic, I could only let her do as she pleased. She'd have to face the painful consequences herself if something happened.

Silence fell between us for a while. Reed continued researching her books while Nicola and I idly flipped through books on the ground. It felt just like our student days back in the library - peaceful and quiet.

After some unknown amount of time passed, Nicola seemed unable to sit still any longer. She put her book down and asked Reed, "There shouldn't be anything else today right? Can I go back early?"

"Mm... OK!" Reed tilted her head and agreed after a brief consideration.

"You also don't need to come the next two days. I'll be researching some magic arrays so I'm postponing the experiment deadline. Don't try to take advantage of that!"

"Sure, don't worry. I'll keep my promise," Nicola replied with a wry smile. She then waved to me saying, "Let's go, time to head back! You wouldn't want to stay in a place like this right?"

"You're being let off so easily today?" I asked in surprise upon hearing their conversation.

"Weren't you guys going to make some kind of special knife yesterday? How come I don't see you working on it? Did you give up?"

"We have to do that! But I don't know if it's because I lack the skill or if it's just completely out of the wind element's capabilities, but controlling things on an atomic level is simply too difficult. So we had to put that plan on hold for now. Reed's decided to go back to the original plan."