“Now that its been 3 months since we began our classes, all of you, as my students, are allowed to request materials, knowledge and help for reasonable academic related requests.

  Half of you have yet to manage to use a magic circle for more than a few seconds. You should try to focus mana out of your hands instead of throwing out of the whole body like an idiot.

  As for the people who did manage to control their mana enough to only focus your mana out of your hands you should try to control the mana when it exists your body.

  Adiel, Delsa and Theo”

  Adiel, delsa and the kid who had asked Edward why study maths stood up.

  “You 3 managed to control your mana after it exists your body. I can see you worked hard.

  You next goal is to try to make mana circles from the mana that exits your body.”

  The three sat down.

  “And Eric”

  I stood up.

  “Just why?” Edward looked at me with a dumbfounded expression on his face.

  It is commonly believed that it takes anywhere from 1 to 2 years of practice to manage to make a magic circle out of mana alone.

  During a conversation with Eleven he had revealed that he knows a magic circle that can let not sleeping at night be harmless.

  I had him teach me the circle and then sat all night while reading books and controlling mana to go in circles after exiting my body and using different magic circles.

  My mana also gradually turned a little red after 3 months of continuous fire mana circle use.

  “I am not saying that you are doing something wrong but there’s no need to go that far? Make sure it doesn’t negatively impact you” He asked me.

  Of course, he being a demigod will know what I am doing.

  “no worries sir, it has had zero impact on my health, mental or otherwise”

  I spoke the truth. While I had a little headache during the morning I slept on sundays to relieve my brain and had some fun discovering ways to explode mana circles (Which I am ashamed to say had become the favourite past time of mine)

  Which resulted in my health not worsening in any way.

  “Just do whatever you are doing, it is clearly effective. Try to make the circles faster.” Saying this he ended today’s class.

  For the past 2 months he had been focusing on the theory behind magic circles, and now I could design a simple magic circle like light or heat on my own.

  “You should sleep man, you might just end up becoming a vampire otherwise” Adiel commented as soon as Edward vanished.

  They of course knew about this spell, both of them tried it too but Delsa decided that it was not worth losing her sleep and the spell was not compatible with Adiel so he could not do what I did.

  “Did you finish the Basics of mana circles? Give it to me as soon as you do.” Theo asked.

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  “Yes, Here you go”

  I passed the book in his hand to Theo, who exited the class while reading the book.

  As for how I knew him?

  He found the place I usually sit around in the garden. I was drawing the circle for sleep prevention on the ground for practice and he asked what it was for.

  Upon knowing what it could do he immediately pestered me to teach it to him.

  I did and as far as I am aware he only sleeps once every 3 days, the rest of the time he is reading books.

  He has the same fascination with magic I carry, and since I am a little ahead of him in the magic circle study he sometimes comes to the garden to ask me questions.

  I wonder if this is what having children feels like, I pondered as I went to the garden.

  I saw Theo sitting in the spot I sit in with a bundle of books no doubt borrowed from the library.

  “Probably not”

  “What?”

  “Nothing nothing, what is your doubt now?”

  “I don’t understand what the disconnected lines with 2 parallel lines in between are supposed to do” He asked while showing me a page in the book I had given to him in the class.

  “It is meant to keep the supply of mana in the circle constant and allow the circle to operate for a few seconds more after the supply has been stopped”

  He nodded and then sat down near me, I still remember the way he had jumped when Eleven had first appeared behind him.

  I also picked up the next book I wanted to read while I made a mana circle that I had edited to explode around my index finger and absorbed the mana back in my body just before it exploded. I had tried to make 2 of these repititions work continuesly but discontinued that thought as it made my head hurt a lot more in the morning, and I was certainly not a masochist.

  The stars

  It was about the workings of stars like the sun.

  When I came to know that we will have to design our own paths after we become quasi-mages I decided to have some ideas in my mind before hand.

  And I am sure about what I want to do.

  Tomorrow was Sunday, and I decided to roam the garden

  The thought seemed a little funny to be honest, Tomorrow is Sunday and I have a gun in my jacket.

  Would have been a fun dialogue for a novel for sure.

  Anyways another fun activity I liked doing was trying to find the hidden places in the garden on Saturday afternoons.

  I had found 3 so far, but sadly all three had students already sitting in it, I wanted to find some silent place.

  *Brrr* The sound of water hitting rocks suddenly ecoed in my ears.

  Is there a waterfall here?

  I walked towards the sound, and just before I reached the place I decided to shout warnings 3 times just in case someone was bathing.

  “I am walking towards the waterfall! I am about to reach it! Its not my fault if someone decided to ignore the shouts and is still bathing!”

  After waiting for a few seconds and receiving no reply I went ahead. Climbing the boulder that blocked my view from what I believed was the source of the sound.

  What greeted my eyes was a small waterfall, barely 5 meters in height that originated from a small plateau like structure, that fell in a pool that was about 20 meters wide.

  The lake was crystal clear, perfect for a dip.

  I looked at the sun that was about to set.

  I decided to come back here tomorrow, I was not in the mood for a bath at this time.

  Retracing my steps I slowly walked towards the dorms, but I slightly detoured like always to fully explore the garden without spending too much time on it.

  Today and went slightly east, after walking for a while I turned toward the dorms and started walking.

  *Scratch*

  I turned to the origin of the sound and saw a small wooden hut in the distance.

  As people say, curiousity is the greatest boon and the greatest curse of mankind, I decided to check out the hut.

  As I neared the hut I noticed that the surroundings were clean, as if someone had very recently cleaned it.

  There was no window, just a slightly open door and the sound of something scratching coming from the inside.

  I opened the do- nope.

  I turned back and started walking right back.

  No need to tempt fate, I myself had written quite a few stories about dumb people who entered places that very clearly seemed haunted.

  I was not going to be stupid enough to do that in a place where I am pretty sure the existance of ghosts and what not could be proven.

  *Baam* A sudden sound of explosion came from inside the hut, just as I was feeling lucky about not entering the place I heard the door open with a loud noise behind.

  “WHO IS IT!”

  I turned around and saw a middle aged man walking towards me with a very angry look on his face.

  After glaring at me for a few seconds he continued.

  “Do you understand what you just did young man!?” He thundered.

  “You just ruined all the work I had put into the staff for the last 2 months!!”

  “But I didn’t even do anything!” I had not even made a single sound since I was near the hut.

  I noticed his gaze was on my hand.

  I slowly turned my head and saw a mana circle floating on my finger.

  Ah,..

  Fuck.