“Have you not been told that using magic within 30 meters of any buildings in the garden is banned!”

  “No?”

  As far as I could remember no such rule had been mentioned by anyone to me.

  “I will make sure you are expelled from this academy and your guardian is made to pay of my staff” Saying this he took out a snap-able bracelet from his soulspace(The making things appear and disappear was actually just putting them in the soulspace or taking them out of it) and slapped it on my wrist before I could react.

  An immediate sense of dread and pain overtook me, I tried to remove the bracelet but couldn’t do so.

  I made a mana circle…

  Why is nothing happening?

  I paid attention to my mana and realised that all mana that was outside my soulspace was chaotic.

  The mana that usually stayed near the brain when I made it exit the soulspace was now chaotically running around my whole body and causing a lot of pain, Even though I tried to control it even the smallest portion didn’t listen.

  He waved his hand and a sudden gust of wind picked me up.

  “I was never told about this rul-hmph” He had waved his hands again and no matter how a spoke no legible words escaped my mouth.

  He took me inside the hut, which only had a furnace and a wooden staff broken in half.

  Taking out a chain he snapped it shut on my ankle and tied the other end to the roof by floating.

  “You better wish sir Edward is in a good mood today otherwise this crime would not result in a simple expulsion”

  Saying this he exited the hut and flew away.

  I continued trying to use my mana, but the mana that usually obeyed me in a 5 meter sphere around my body didn’t listen at all now.

  The pain was bearable, but I had become so used to being able to use mana that not being able to use it felt like I was amputated.

  I swear to god I will give him a good beating if I ever get the chance.

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  “What happened?” Edward appeared in his office and asked the middle aged man who had been waiting for the last 5 minutes.

  “Some 2nd or 3rd year kid used mana near my place, and the staff I was working on broke in half.”

  “You asked the name?”

  “No but I can project the face”

  “Then show the face to the teachers for 2nd and 3rd years and try to find out who his guardian or parent is.” Saying this Edward went away in the Edward style, disappearing from his chair.

  The man went around, Going from staff room to staff room, for half a day, but he couldn’t find out whose student he was, this left only the personal students of Sir Edward.

  But he couldn’t believe that his students could ever violate perhaps one of the only rules mentioned in class each month.

  They were after all personally taught by perhaps the greatest demigod of all time.

  Still he could only ask him who this kid was.

  “Sir?” He said after reaching Edward’s empty office.

  After a while Edward appeared in the room, somehow without a tea cup In his han…

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  Nevermind he just took it out of his soulspace.

  “What happened?”

  “He is not the student of any teacher in the institute, only you ar-”

  Edward suddenly frowned, seeing his expression the man suddenly bent 90 degrees and said.

  “I am not implying that he is your student, I just wanted to know whether you knew him”

  About 5 minutes passed, Edward suddenly sighed and had him stand up straight.

  “Just look if he is one of these” He waved his hand and a bunch of multicolored mana left his body.

  The mana took the shape of 3 batch of students, and the man shook his head after watching each image.

  “if you talked to every teacher our institute don’t have any other students above the first year.”

  “But he made a mana circle at his finger”

  Edward suddenly looked at him with a look of realization.

  “What did he look like”

  The man waved his hand and mostly blue mana flowed out of his fingers. While not as beautifully or smoothly or as fast as Edward he completed a veiwable portrait of Eric in some 10 minutes.

  “He is Eric Evelyn, one of my students”

  The man was about to say something but he couldn’t as Edward continued.

  “He is in the first year-”

  “But th- He is in the group of the 3 reincarnators?”

  Edward nodded.

  “I apologize for the inconveniences caused sir, I will release him now.”

  He bowed once more and exited the room.

  The reason why he decided to forgive Eric is because he is in the first year, all the teachers follow a set pattern of teaching evolved over time by thousands of different demigods of the mage faction.

  In that curriculum, First year are not told about any magic related rules as it has been seen as a distraction from actually making a mana circle from mana.

  This resulted in some talents and some obsessed people achieving the task in the first year and not knowing the rules.

  As for the normal students, even though they could make mana circles on the ground it was slow enough to not cause any damage to any delicate research equipment or in his case, equipment research.

  In short it was not Eric’s fault, it was kind of on the teachers that they forgot to tell him about the rule, Though he couldn’t help but feel sure that Edward had some plan in this, maybe he wanted him to meet Eric.

  As for why?

  Who knows? He is a demigod, a invincible demigod if the man’s calculations were right, Edward could do whatever he wants to whoever he wants.

  He reached his hut exactly 3 hours after he left.

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  I had grown used to the pain these bracelets caused, it was not that high anyway, and I think my pain tolerance is much higher than the usual person. After all I had been tortured by the North Korea’s military when I had tried to contact some ‘miracle’ people that lived there.

  Luckily after about 3 months I somehow got to talk with a guy from the royal family and he told me he had ordered them to not disable me as he didn’t like torturing people but could not stop it fully.

  He let me go free. I later realized that he wanted me to be caught by the military again so that he could watch me fully break but he underestimated my skills.

  I was young enough to build a small raft and sail to Russia within a month without getting caught, its not as if North Korea had radars back then to track me.

  But the pain of not being able to use magic left me wondering how I could grow so used to something I had barely had for 3 months.

  After I had used all my strength to try and use my magic I just sat on the single chair in the room and started trying to open either the bracelet or the chain.

  Just as I was trying to bite the chain to open it, which has surprisingly worked for me once before, The man entered back in the room with the anger in his face gone.

  He silently came up to me, waved his hand through which the chain and the bracelet both disappeared.

  I immediately made a light spell, explosion one of course, and after sending it outside the gate let it explode, which made a lot of dust fly up.

  “Eager to use magic huh? Sorry about that, It seems you truly didn’t know about the rule” He said and took out 2 cups of steaming hot tea, one of which was handed to me.

  As I took a sip and restarted my exercise of making circles appear and disappear on my finger I noticed it was somewhat easier than before.

  “Say, do these bracelets improve mana control?”

  “Yeah?”

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  “You should be sorry for what you did right?” I talked comfortably knowing that most probably he had a talk with Mr. Edward, and he should now not treat me as a kid but a old man he had wronged.

  He looked at me with a awkward smile.

  “Just tell me what you want”

  A smile came up to my face.

  “just a few questions first, if the mana control is strong enough can you magic while wearing the bracelet?”

  “yes”

  “And if someone decided to wear a bracelet that is lets say 1 fourth of the strength of this one, slowly start using magic in that one, and shift to half the strength, would the mana strength training be much faster”

  “Don’t even think about it, the chaotic mana slowly results in the body adapting to the chaotic mana, which for some reason doesn’t lower the bracelets effect but it slowly become much more painful.”

  “Are the bracelets stackable?” I asked ignoring his words, I could handle pain, but I could not handle the feeling of not being able to use magic. I don’t want to experience this ever again, Even if it meant staying in pain.

  “Yes”

  “Give me as many of the strongest you can build, and one each of gradually lowering strength until you reach a bracelet through which I can extent my mana out of my body but can’t control it well enough to make mana magic circles.”

  The man didn’t want to hand over mana restriction bracelets for a student to use on himself but through gradual convincing and me telling him the training program I thought of he agreed with these words.

  “You fucking madman”