Part I – The Css of Eternal Snow

  The cssroom was dark. Not due to ck of light, but because Snow’s presence absorbed all warmth. Her crimson eyes scanned the students with a mix of indifference and surgical precision. No one spoke. No one moved more than necessary.

  The css of "Multi-Attribute Magic: Advanced Control and Nullification" was about to begin.

  “Close your eyes,” she ordered. Her voice was barely a whisper, yet as clear as if it thundered inside their heads.

  The students obeyed. Immediately, the air shifted. An invisible cold bnketed the room, and a faint scent of damp ice and burnt paper floated among them.

  “Most of you believe that using multiple elements means casting fire and then ice,” said Snow, walking silently between the desks like a shadow. “You’re wrong. Mastering multiple elements means learning to extinguish one with another. It means understanding harmony… and contradiction.”

  At the front of the room, Snow raised a hand.

  “I was born without color. Without a single dominant element. So I took them all.”

  She snapped her fingers. A white orb floated before her, then shattered like a mirror into seven colors: water, wind, earth, fire, lightning, light, and darkness.

  “The key is that none must dominate. All must obey.”

  Suddenly, the fragments spun and merged into a bck sphere that began to vibrate.

  “This is the ‘Heart of Mist.’ A spell no one here should attempt. It’s unstable. But it proves one thing: there is no chaos if the center is stable.”

  A student timidly raised her hand.

  “Miss Snow… how do you stabilize the center?”

  Snow looked at her. Her face was unmoving, but for an instant, her eyes seemed to shine with a veiled emotion.

  “With intention. With conviction. Or with a direct order from Aria.”

  There were a few nervous ughs, which vanished instantly when Snow pointed to the front.

  “Now. Show affinity with at least three elements. Anyone who can’t—leave. I don’t have time for theory without practice.”

  One by one, the students stood. Some managed to conjure fire, ice, and lightning with difficulty. Others barely summoned two. Snow said nothing… she simply watched.

  But one, a small boy with gsses, trembling, did something different. He began with an aura of water… then summoned earth… and finally, created a barely visible orb of light, almost transparent, but real.

  Snow approached him.

  “Name.”

  “E-Eliott.”

  “Don’t fall,” she said. It wasn’t a warning. It was a promise. Eliott nodded, sweating cold.

  Then Snow turned to the rest.

  “The problem isn’t whether you can use multiple elements. It’s whether you dare to carry them.”

  And with that, the css continued… beneath the icy silence of the snow.

  Part II – The Time Twins: Yui and May

  The next css was very different.

  The outdoor training field was surrounded by a reinforced multi-yered barrier. It only opened for very specific events.

  Today was one of them.

  Yui and May stood at the center of the circle. Each carried their signature eight hammers: four each, floating like heavy satellites around them.

  The students were already warned: this css wasn’t about theory. It was about survival. And time.

  “Welcome to ‘Applied Temporal Impact!’” said Yui with energy.

  “Or as we like to call it… ‘We hit you so fast the universe gets confused!’” May added with an innocent smile.

  A more experienced instructor gulped.

  “Please avoid killing the students.”

  “Only if they survive the first blow!” the two sang in chorus.

  In front of them, several training dummies were lined up. Each magically reinforced, made of materials that would usually withstand a natural catastrophe.

  May raised a hammer.

  “First lesson: ‘Deyed Temporal Impact.’ What that means is that the hit won’t be felt until it’s already too te.”

  Yui nodded.

  “Watch.”

  She struck a dummy. Nothing happened.

  Five seconds ter… the dummy exploded.

  “The energy is stored in a micro temporal pne. Then, it all comes back at once,” expined Yui, while May nodded.

  “It’s like the universe refuses to accept the hit… until it’s too te,” added May.

  The students stared open-mouthed.

  A volunteer stepped forward.

  “Can I try something? I have a time-reversal technique…”

  “Sure! But with a warning!” Yui took two hammers. “If you don’t reset the consequence, resetting the moment is useless.”

  The boy nodded, confident. He ran forward, activated his time spell, and managed to deflect one of May’s strikes. Everyone appuded.

  Three seconds ter, the ground beneath him colpsed as if struck by an invisible meteorite. The boy ended up buried in a soft crater.

  May leaned over and looked at him.

  “You did well… but you forgot the ‘impact echo’ also travels through time.”

  The student raised his thumb from the ground.

  “I… I’ll keep that in mind…”

  ?? Maple, as always, present

  Maple had arrived to observe. She was sitting, eating cake with a spoon that changed color.

  “What an amazing css! Can I try too?”

  “With our hammers?” Yui asked, scared.

  “No, no! I have my own,” she pulled out some ‘Explosive Love Hammers’ with floating hearts. “They have… magical properties.”

  May stared at her.

  “Do they also travel through time?”

  “I don’t know… but once I hit someone so hard they turned into an egg,” said Maple very seriously.

  Snow, who had silently joined, sighed.

  “And that, children… is what happens when physics and common sense give up.”