Since the class was starting Calvin had the courtesy of rising a small part of the ground to create a platform where there was no snow to function as a bench, of course he did the same for the teacher.
Everyone took seat and focused their attention on Aliya, which right now rose two of her left hand’s fingers.
“I previously taught you about how to reduce casting time and the way to “boost” the power of a spell, without causing it to become unstable right?”.
Seeing her students nodding, she pointed at Calvin and then continued with her explanation.
“The way of a mage is to always look for an advantage over its enemy, preparations are the golden rule, never forget that, taking Calvin’s fight for example, earth element does counter lightning element, but it’s only to a certain extent”.
“An amateur mistake I bet you all have noticed on the young generations of the Jolbaris you have seen or fought so far, is that they tend to depend on long range attacks”.
“If that kid would have concentrated its lightning in a compact form, maybe around a weapon, cutting down Calvin’s rock armor would have been possible, other way to counter it would have been the “hit and run” tactic”.
“Never take for granted that your affinity gives you an unbeatable advantage over your enemy”.
She then focused her attention on Michael and spoke.
“I was going to wait a bit before teaching you about this, but I guess after Michael’s fight, there is no need for that”.
,m Aliya extended her hands, above one of them a fireball appeared and a small amount of wind twirled around the other one.
“I don’t have a second affinity, but basic spells like “breeze” are available for everyone and when you use them at the same time like this”, Aliya joined her hands and then threw the result against the lake.
A small patch of the ice light up on fire before the exchange between heat and cold put off the fire leaving behind a hole on the ice surface.
Aliya recovered her breath for a second and then explained what just happened.
“A fireball is an impact type spell, although the contact point will be affected by the fire, there won’t be flames appearing unless it falls on certain materials, like dried herb or other highly inflammable things”.
“But then right now you saw fire appearing on ice, which isn’t inflammable, the reason is easy, breeze stoked the flames of the fireball causing that spreading effect even if there was nothing to consume”.
“Elemental Resonance, using different spells which complement each other at the same time to produce a better result”.
Everyone looked Michael, that combination among a wind self-boosting spell and an explosion caused by a fire spell, produced an acceleration which overwhelmed lightning which is the publicly recognized “fastest” element.
Michael had a proud expression on his face, and it was understandable, the principle behind elemental resonance is easy to guess, but extremely hard to execute as it requires both a high experience in the use of the two separate spells and a high precision over at the moment of launching them.
Calvin looked at the sufficient expression in Michael’s face and he grinned.
“I don’t think you should criticize privileged people if you are a dual affinity mage though”.
Michael shrugged, “Even then, not all the people with more than one affinity can use elemental resonance, it’s a matter of hard work… besides it’s not exclusive to dual affinities anyway”.
Aliya smiled and pointed her index finger at the lake before a dazzling line of fire was shot from the tip of her finger, a small hole appeared on the ice and then the surface exploded releasing lots of ice shards around the area of the impact.
“Michael is right, elemental resonance isn’t reserved for those with more than one affinity, believe it or not, that was a one star ranked spell, but it’s the result of using both “burst” and “fire dart” at the same time”.
A flash of curiousness flashed on Daimon’s eyes.
“That attack was comparable to a three-star rank spell, so the result is not as simple as adding one plus one”.
The reason of why Daimon was interested in elemental resonance was that it somewhat reminded him of demon light, but there was a fundamental difference, demon light created something totally new based on different elements, while elemental resonance was ultimately only two spells used at the same time.
In a rare occasion Daimon rose his hand to ask something.
“Teacher, is it possible to completely fuse two different spells of two different elements?”.
Aliya’s eyes illuminated.
“That’s a good question Daimon, and it’s also one of the greatest unknowns of the current mage community “spell fusing”, giving a bit of context, dual affinity mages are rare to come by and even then, among those who manage to become Arch ranks not all develop a dual element domain”.
Daimon stole some glances at his mother who was happily hugging his right arm, Aisha was included in that category, since her domain used to combine metal and lightning.
“Unfortunately, as of right now, the only way in which fusing two spells of different elements is possible, is a domain which is created naturally without the mage interfering and no one has been able to “artificially” fuse spells till this day”.
Aliya noticed Leslie and also Loren seemed to be confused and she further explained.
“An easy way to see it is that elemental resonance is only synchronizing two spells to produce a better result, and to be considered a “fusion” of spells, a totally new effect should be produced by it”.
Daimon nodded as he was lost in his thoughts.
“Well, that explains why I got a nice reward when I created demon light, but it wasn’t enough to unlock the grimoire… fusing elements is probably only “impossible” in the wonder myriad stellar chart I guess”.
“Mm?”, inside of her private space, Evangeline felt Daimon’s mood sky rocketing, although she couldn’t read his mind, as the administrator of the system she was there to be his advisor, so she more or less could know how he was feeling.
“I guess he deciphered something new about the system, this host of mine is really something else”, she said as she giggled.
By the time the first half of the class finished it was midday, everyone was getting hungry so they all went to the restaurant of the academy, surprisingly Aliya didn’t go upstairs to the teacher’s floor and instead accompanied her students to eat.
So, she and Irina also took seat at the table reserved for the first ranked of the elite class, Irina of course sat next to her daughter, with the excuse of supervising she was following a healthy diet.
Aliya on the other hand sat next to Aisha which was at Daimon’s right side, after using spells for a variety of examples during her lesson, her face was a bit pale, even when she drank her medicine, she still looked a bit sick.
Daimon which was about to order his food, noticed it and he sighed.
“Are you really sure you don’t want to take a rest at the infirmary, I don’t want the old man to get mad at me?”.
Aliya shook her head before saying.
“I just need to eat something rich in mana… mana gathering is almost impossible for me, but I can still replenish it ingesting foods rich in mana”.
Daimon nodded and they finished their orders.
While they were waiting for their food, Calvin looked at Daimon and doubted before asking.
“We were too far and that alfear spoke in such a low voice I couldn’t hear, so why did it attack Aisha?”.
The Risha sisters, Michael and also Loren looked at Daimon waiting for an answer, at this point they knew that Aisha was his reverse scale, so seeing him breaking that alfear leg and arm wasn’t that shocking.
But that didn’t mean they weren’t curious about why an alfear would just attack a student of another academy and a member of the elite class on top of that.
Daimon shrugged.
“Apparently, he was offered a spot for the exploration in the team of the Ascott family in exchange of messing with me, or something like that, according to that Clarens guy, that alfear is related to their royal family so I guess that’s why he was offered that”.
“Because Leir thought I would not be so heavy handed when I dealt with it”.
Calvin had a weird smile on his face as he drank from his cup.
“Well, that guy clearly misjudged our class rep”.
The food didn’t take long to appear on the table, so everyone focused on eating their own meals, until an announcement sounded on the restaurant.
“Daimon Licht, please go to the office of the principal… Daimon Licht please go to the office of the principal…”.
The message kept being repeated for a couple of seconds before it stopped, Daimon didn’t care and just kept eating his food until he was full before standing up.
“I’ll return in time for the physical training part of the class”, he said before leaving, surprisingly Aisha and Liz didn’t go with him.
What they didn’t know was that Daimon already knew what was happening, because he used the mental connection to speak with Aura.