The Arks - Chapter 410

“She used a spell she came up with on the fly. Because she was bored with the same spells we trained with her over and over again. By combining Heaven’s Wheel: Justice Rains and the Alter Version of it; Blaspherous Blitz, she caused the initial explosion.”

“She merged the two?!”

“Not quite. She launched the top half of Justice Rains and the lower half of Blaspherous Blitz, causing the two spells to clash with each other. The result was the huge area that is now the Central area of the study. From there, we branched out. More clearly, Ysabeau and Mavislin expanded it.”

Raiyen was petrified as Gillian retold the story. He had clashed with Mavislin’s Monody before and the impact was not one to be messed with. And she could use put two opposing spells together to clash with each other and not die in the process. It was truly remarkable.

“You might be impressed but I had expected her to use just one spell. She was creative but not to my standards yet. She needed to combine two. And she took a while to do so. If she wanted to use that in battle, she would have been dead by the time she finished.”

“You are one strict teacher… Glad that Z was the one training me first… I might’ve died with your expectations.”

Gillian gave a hearty laugh, confusing Raiyen.

“You think I am strict? I am strict from your little standpoint. From a Valkyrie’s standpoint, I was way too nice. Mavislin knew it the best but still could not keep with my instructions or teachings. Usually, Ysabeau would be the one to support her morally.”

“And don’t ever think that Z would have a gentler way of training people. Back in the Congregation, in the early days, Old Man Pond made Z a trainer because of how ruthless Z was. Z managed to train most of the recruits to their deaths in the first trial runs.”

“All but ten out of the hundred recruits sent to be trained by Z returned. The survivors were the top of the crop and they proceeded to break the expectations of the Board. And impressed Old Man Pond. I didn’t like Z at first because of this problem but after some time, he was alright.”

“After the trial run, Z was to be the one to train recruits, causing more deaths does to overtraining. When I got to chat with him about the different types of training styles each individual, he became gentler and stopped overworking the new ones.”

“But I’ll never forget that trail. The ten of them were divided and each Mage was to follow a senior. And then, we realized, almost all of them were mentally broken. Only one of them was still sound in the mind. And guess who that was…” said Gillian, sighing.

“You sound so upset at the last standing man.”

“He was the one who was attached to me. Baldwin Noble, the Mage of Necrosis, was the last man standing from that trial. And he was attached to my sore behind…”

“So that’s why the two of them are always at each other’s throats. Old teacher and student…”

Gillian nodded and switched the topic back to Mavislin.

“But though I was slightly confused, I wasn’t disappointed or upset. She was still exceeding our expectations, just not in the right way. Her destruction was remarkable but not the method we wanted her to use. Ysabeau told me to be content with it.”

“After the full construction of the study, Mavislin often escape to her favorite chamber to read up about more spells and Element to learn from. She managed to dig out an area once because she was upset with us… And we couldn’t find her for days.”

“You must’ve said something that truly troubled her…” said Raiyen, thinking how bad of a temper that Mavislin truly had when she was younger.

“It’s not that… We didn’t scold her. And even if we did, we would never threaten her or insult her. We would scold her for her mistakes in her training for her good. She used to have an imbalance of Elements within her combined spells, making it dangerous for her as they were unstable.”

“The Valkyrie was unfortunate enough to see Ysabeau and me fighting. It was for to go after Baldwin’s case or to side with Z for the Board’s meeting. We had two options and I was still quite close to the Congregation. And Ysabeau was close to Baldwin as well.”

“We could only do one out of those two. And Mavislin saw us arguing about it. We were shouting but we weren’t physically fighting.. I guess it still scared her since she was so terrified to talk to us a week after the incident.”