Aethernea : Soulbound [Book 1]

Episode 136 - Core Principle of Spell Breaking

Previously:

It's Friday, the last day of Muni entrance exams. It is time for the last exam of the day – Special exam. Kiel and Elaru make their way towards Sapphire Quarters where there special exams will take place. Kiel shot himself in the foot – as it turns out, the Spell Replicating exam was not designed to test Kiel's spell replicating ability, but rather, to test for a special talent that can only be revealed through the process of spell replicating. Meanwhile, Elaru is confronted by three old geezers who are acting high and mighty.

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"So, you do know a thing or two about spell breaking!" Beard exclaimed, his voice revealing pleasant surprise.

Yeah... a thing or two... Elaru's mouth twitched. More like 12 years of hard work...

"It is quite impressive for a young lass of your age to be able to compress your mana to this state." Eyebrows looked towards Elaru's hand, as if looking at her fingers would be able to tell him how she managed to break the enchantment. The three were not paying attention and her actions were too fast, so they didn't see it at all.

Episode 136 – Core Principle of Spell Breaking

"Even breaking two spells simultaneously! Impressive!" Mustache's voice sounded queer. Trying to come up with something to praise without revealing the fact that he had no idea what just happened was an arduous thing.

The remaining two nodded their heads in agreement before producing another magical artifact. This time it was an intricate looking red sword. The rosy glint reflecting the bright sunlight was almost as sharp as the adamantite blade itself.

Such a finely crafted blade deserved only the highest quality of enchantments. This was probably exactly what the enchanter who enchanted the sword was thinking at the time. For the enchantment on the sword was weaved with very dense mana making it difficult to break.

In fact, the density of mana used to weave it was so high it was probably the reason why the enchantment ended in failure. The enchanter wanted to create the highest quality enchantment that he could and ended up miscalculating. He spent the majority of his mana weaving the main spell and ran out of mana before he could finish forming the spell roots. Thus, the spell roots had gaps, not covering the entirety of the sword. Making it so that there were many spots not covered by the enchantment.

"I'm afraid this one won't be as simple to break." Beard sighed.

"The mana density of the main spell is too high. Simply too high." Mustache nodded gravelly.

Eyebrows anchored his acceleration spell where the enchantment spell roots couldn't reach and sent the sword floating towards Elaru once again. The entire time he nodded his head slowly, agreeing to the words of his colleagues. "This enchantment is rather unusual as well. I doubt you've had the opportunity to see it before."

Elaru ignored their words, instead intently staring at the sword, or rather, staring at the enchantment on the sword.

Her Aethernea of Sight could see many things, but critical points of a spell weren't among them. She could see no glaring red lines, or any other kind of sign marking a critical point. Sometimes there would be a slight, difficult to catch, distortion in reality, but most of the time there was nothing at all.

If she could simply see the critical points of a spell, would she have almost lost her life in the incident 12 years ago?

If she could see them so easily, would she have needed to spend her childhood studying theory of magic?