Game Second Autumn - 36 The raising tower.

Back to the present, Aki presented some other new ways of using already known magic and proposed a new map of the elemental planes.

That is related to other kind of magic, one that asks for help from the powers of the elements, not really important right now.

While being the medium of the transmission of knowledge between humans and elves and being the first to make the trait copying spell gives some points, it’s not like he presented information obtained by himself alone, so it was not enough to get him the title of maister.

The new elemental plane map actually gave the  same amount of contribution to it, but it was all necessary.

It did go halfway through and that was exactly what he needed to get it. It’s not like he could publish his research his research on souls and sociology is regarded as an entirely different field, so before this “random monthly family reunion” Aki had no way of getting it before…  somethings happened.

-So I can go back? Asked a marveled Guilda.

-Al contrair! It means that we will get you to be leveled to 200 faster so we can set you as a the major example I can use to get us a tower. That made Guilda’s face darken and she even wanted to push him for making her so excited. -But! After we set a self sufficient tower of demonology we will be free of this conflict and only need to participate on the final battle. Or get a bonus if we cooperate further. And that made Guilda go all the way back up.

Seriously, she should look into these mood swings, or whatever you want to call being so gullible as.

Anyway, it was now, or more like fifteen minutes later, that these two really started their “crusade” of one man and woman.

OK, what the fuck was that sentence just now?! Those fuckers literally went to look for entrance to the Grand magical academy and studying, quite obvious which was done by each fucker.

You see, one of the reasons it was supposed to take longer for them to make this tower, is that each tower needs at least a hundred apprentices.

The resources and teachers for said students would not be a problem to obtain, but actually receiving applications would be impossible.

Unless Aki went to convince those innocent children with unexploited potential, of course.

Thankfully maisters can’t be denied access to educational and scholarly facilities.

They also receive some political power together with some rights and responsibilities, even though the title could be revoked and/or thrown away.

That is why Aki is now fervently arguing with some maguses while being expectated by some mages and apprentices.

-Do you think leaving idiots with the power to conjure flames that can melt skin off around is a good idea then? Aki berated one of the old man.

-Fire doesn’t have a consciousness to tell it to directly cause caos and havoc all the time. A magus who was obviously a fire mage retorted.

-And how do you think the rest of nature reacts to fire, genius!? Besides, it is the essence of magic to command and shape the energies of the arcane while giving it a meaning and direction, why would it be any different from any summon with natural instincts to feed? Aki gave yet another point to ponder over.

-Summons naturally need their contractors if they wish to show their powers and won’t be able to break rules if ordered to. Demons can do all that plus killing their caller in the most unex… A man with sagely appearance tried to say.

*THUNK*

-Why do you think I brought this mountain of books then? To have them used as toilet paper? I need masters that will disseminate the art through generations, not corpses. Getting a hundred of the former is so hard we will offer twice the normal resources to all of those able to pass the six months try and five to those that can summon their own demon.

You thought this was plot armor, but it was Aki! Using mind magic on the tea the teachers drink to make them impulsive to debate.

That impulse is already high on mages, so it was not that hard to get a troupe of screaming old man to come and give him the best opportunity to present demons to the students around the canteen.

At the time of the discussion, 10k of students were on break. While obviously not everyone would stop to listen and even less would go around spilling the beans, you really think Aki can’t use magic for that either?

He could, but instead he chose the even more direct approach. Hot stuff being carried by hot stuff.

The direct translation would be: succubus walking around with trays of food that would help develop your magic talent, affinities and restore mana. It also tastes good by the way.

Every now and then you could see a succubus sitting on someone’s lap and kissing them or someone sitting on their lap while being fed. Women too.

While the security guards would certainly not approve of such acts in the school premises, whenever one tried to intervene he or she would be approached and diverted by yet another succubus.

Of course, it wasn’t just that kind of show. There were battle rings where you could pay the entrance fee and would be allowed to compete against a fiend. Whoever won would receive ten times the bet money.

There was also a place to ask questions and yet another betting place where you could try and best beholders with your knowledge. The same results applied.

Hellhound were being showcased over races, combat and petting, while stalkers were shown through their web, a product with very good mana conductivity and durability.

At the end, there were thousands of applications. Thousands of tests later, a third of the candidates were admitted for the probatio period.

…

-So what now? Asked Guilda with a serious look on her face while looking at the full seminar. Students from their fifteen to twenties in front of her awaiting for their words. And more

-Watch and think of something to say that is short. Aki said and walked to the front

Hitting a little hammer in the wood, Aki made the whole room fall silent and waited a little before starting.

-I will say this now, but if you believe that just because you passed the first test you are qualified to stay here, know now that we only need two hundred good students, not one more. If you think you can buy your way up, than you’re right though. It is just going to cost a lot. Don’t  get me wrong, this isn’t corruption, it’s demonology. Greed is powerful after all, but I shall warn all those fed with gold spoons since birth… Aki started smiling and some people were shocked, for he was being covered in gold from head to toe and it was spreading to the stage. – You may not be ready to pay the price even if you sell your soul while in the way for power. His voice was deeper and reverberating as if it was an echo and not something out of a human’s body.

Fear and shock appeared on the face of those that thought this was a simple magic trick. After all, how could they not fear for their life when a terrifying beast showed it’s fangs and stared them down with obvious hunger?

*Ssshhhh*

That was when the sizzling sound came. Thanks to Aki’s mind magic, everyone knew that was the sound of the gold melting.

-I am sorry, it’s an effect from a newly advanced skill I got this very morning. As compensation, please feel free to get some of gold I made. Remember kids, as the vice-headmaster, I know of everything happening in the tower I helped found. My advice is perseverance and ambition put together by carefulness. No benefits are worth it if you die for them. That is all from my part, now, applaud our beautiful headmaster as she says some words for the founding of the tower.

No one dared to not clap the loudest possible. When Guilda came up though, she had to ask for silence like she was the president because of the volume.

I may have forgotten

-Test, test. Hello everyone, I am Headmaster Turley and would like to express my happiness about the inauguration of my own tower. This wouldn’t be possible without dedication, talent, luck and the help from various marvelous people. While I may enter in history as one of the youngest to accomplish such feat, I’d also like to leave behind the memory of someone who actually helped society and not just a pawn of some greater force.

That, actually made Aki laugh his ass off over the place people couldn’t see him, for he understood that she was taking such speech from someone else or just from the baseline. And also because that was a perfect way to put how a school of demonology should be.

The shorter version of what she ended up saying is something like this:

“We are not good or evil, just mages. This is school with many responsibilities for the practicer, so it’s use will be restricted. It is you who press the button, not you that are pressed by the button. Demons are summoned to serve. A warlock is responsible for their demon. Etcetera.”

The fun part is that she obviously demonstrated to be new at this and talked some meaningless things during the speech for the simple act of buying more to to think on what to say.

She had spent so much time doing all the paperwork and dealing with legal stuff that the whole day she had to prepare was spent on it instead of thinking of other things.

After all, no matter how many demon assistants they summoned, she had to take a great part of the decisions and make sure everything was working. Aki was functioning like a computer server while at that just to allow for the processing of all the documents. It wouldn’t be too surprising if some holograms appeared around him and he started spouting technical shit.

The reason  for all this was quite simple really. They had two options, either get the tower ready by today or do it six months later.

While Aki can certainly guarantee that the hero of diligence would be useless for some more time, it would be impossible if he somehow found a time distorting treasure or some grinding spot perfect for mages, which he was quite sure was coming.

That actually caused an excellent impression on the young mages watching over the transmission magic tool at the end though. The general population only actually understood that a new tower had been created and that it’s headmaster was a very young woman.

Though the opinions were divided, the tower was overall seen in a good light and demons were yet to be judged. This is a republic after all, they preach equality all around.

The tower of necromancy and the dark related attributes are accepted for the same reason.

While they may sound like something that can only cause death and destruction at first sight, those were the towers responsible for finding the cure to many diseases, finding the weaknesses of the dark forces and furthering the non magical field of medicine since their founding.

The government couldn’t do more than spread rumors all around exactly because they’d open ground for questioning on themselves.

That wasn’t so effective, after all, they’re dealing with Aki.

While demons are certainly a disposable fighting force, they’re also huge spenders, incapable of committing most crimes. Stalkers can produce high quality materials, beholders ate floating libraries, devils are excellent secretaries, hellhounds are very good as pets/bodyguards, fiends spend a great deal of their time looking for something to fight and allow for more monsters materials to flow in the market, succubi… djinns are perfect to look for metal veins, devourers can dig while eating rocks, so on so forth.

That’s why Aki had no problem with having a marathon of series over Sara’s with her wife and Mi after getting everything done.

Well, it took 18 hours for something to happen and get them off the state of not even winking in front of the TV screen. By the way, it’s been two weeks of training full of doping in elixirs before he came here.