Chapter: 274
Lannister could tell Norgrim was serious, he even had a hint of desperation in his voice.
“I wonder what Jay will bring to the academy.” he thought as he started writing down what he need to do: a list of rituals, ingredients and plans he would be doing over the next few days – the steps needed to head back to the real world and then bring others back to the mirror reality.
The first step was of course information gathering.
Viladore paced back and forward in his room.
“Why? why is there no change?” he wondered, looking at his cube.
His cube was slowly turning into a prototype instead of the final version.
“You sensed mana for two consecutive days in the afternoons, but yesterday and today – nothing. No mana detected and no new growth.”
The black cube didn’t respond, as it had no answers.
“What was different…”
“I was asleep one time and another I was training a student. Other than that, nothing changed.”
He looked at his black cube with a hint of bitterness on his face, shaking his head.
“I’ll figure it out tomorrow. Hopefully… hopefully this is only a small setback.” he felt defeated.
It was night time by now, and without a word he went to check his training roster.
“Hmm… Jay’s training session. We were meant to meet a few days ago but that’s alright. Let’s see… Last time I taught him how to channel a spell, and he learnt mana membrane too.. Good…”
Viladore had previously written the letter ‘N’ next to Jay’s name, and suddenly remembered that Jay was a necromancer.
It seemed like a massive thing to forget – but Viladore had his cube to worry about.
It was all he thought of day and night, believing that if he was successful, even an army of necromancers would bow before him.
“Oh right, we have to keep the training a secret too. Hmm, though I’ll train him like any other student – focus on the basics before moving onto more advanced stuff.”
“Next steps are to learn to detect, and then to channel through a medium.”
With a nod, he made a note in a pocketbook before returning it to his coat.
“I’ll have to send someone to tell him he has a lesson since I haven’t heard anything from him in a while.” he shook his head “Usually people are dying to have a lesson with me” he began to smile, still shaking his head.
“I suppose I was like that when I was young.”
Viladore usually hand-picked a few adventurers each year to teach, so he was surprised Jay didn’t come.
The students he picked were the cream of the crop..
If you were one of the chosen being taught by Viladore, other adventurers would compete to have you join their party for dungeons – you were that much better.