Aethernea : Soulbound [Book 1]

Episode 62 - Elaru's Multicasting

Previously:

Kiel finished his Multicasting exam and decided to wait for Elaru's exam to finish. He sat in the main hall of White Quarters, (where Elaru was taking her exams) reading his books on spellcasting, when an uproar happened. A terrified, panic-stricken mob tried their best to escape from the building screaming bloody murder the entire way.

Headmaster Eruan Arite has received a visit from peacekeepers asking him to let them into Muni so they could investigate a murder report.

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(15 minutes earlier)

When Deora finished explaining the test, Elaru was eager to try it out first. Usually, she wouldn't mind waiting for a bit and monitoring other people taking the test, but her Aethernea of Sight caught Kiel's visage sitting in the main hall. She didn't want to make him wait for her. Therefore, she was the first one to volunteer to take the exam.

Deora hesitated a bit, the whole reason why they moved this group of examinees in the last time slot was because of the red headed jinx. Perhaps they were worrying too much? After all, she didn't break anything in the previous exam. Those accidents should have just been bad luck?

Deora looked towards Zerel. Zerel just shrugged, not caring about it at all. This nonchalant behavior finally helped Deora make the decision to allow it. If Zerel had urged him on, Deora would have felt a bit suspicious. After all, he had drawn the short stick too many times when dealing with Zerel. But this time, Zerel was too lazy to care.

That made Deora feel confident in his decision. Nothing bad would happen this time.

He resolutely nodded and stepped aside so that Elaru can come back into the room.

Elaru gave him her exam pass and approached the first apparatus made out of glass figurines.

She gave the figurines a measuring look. Her glittering teal eyes darted left and right, deep in thought.

Just when Deora was about to lose his patience and order her to start the test already, Elaru sprang into action.

Unfortunately, the kind of action she started doing wasn't what she was supposed to be doing.

Elaru jumped towards the glass figurines as if she intended to step on them.

Deora let out an involuntary screech, and his eyes almost popped out of their sockets. Zerel's lazy posture suddenly straightened up, and glitter of amusement returned to his disinterested eyes.

Elaru's lithe body passed through the air, and just as her foot was supposed to make contact with the fragile glass figurines, it stopped in midair.

Her entire body was floating in the air as if it held no weight. She paid no attention to Deora's jaw that almost dropped to the floor, or Zerel's mouth finally twitching into his almost omnipresent smile. Elaru crossed her legs and sat. In midair. Her perky butt was almost touching the glass figurines.

Cold sweat broke out on Deora's forehead, and he screamed: "What are you doing?!? Get down! Now!" Suddenly, he realized what he just said and hurried to correct himself. "Stop! Don't come down! Don't you dare touch the figurines!"

Elaru smiled comfortingly, using her beautiful features to calm down the firecracker who was about to explode. "I am changing my vantage point. If I view the array from above, it will be easier to keep track of everything. I am also closer to the figurines like this, so the distance the mana has to travel is less. Thus I will be able to activate them faster."