Science/Magic

A few minutes later, Bloed and Isabella arrived at the Great Library.

As always, Headmistress Wave was waiting for Bloed on the last floor of the library. Once Isabella brought him here, she bid him farewell and left.

When Bloed entered the last floor of the great library, he saw Headmistress Wave reading several books with a frown and modifying a magic circle.

"Teacher," Bloed called out to her, making Wave realize that he had arrived.

"You are here, Bloed. Take a seat. I will finish soon."

Bloed nodded and sat down in a nearby chair as Headmistress Wave finished what she was doing.

Curious, Bloed observed the books and the magic circle she was working on, only to frown.

"This magic circle…"

The magic circle was extremely complicated.

That would have not been much of a problem if it was a magic circle for a powerful magic spell, however, it was the magic circle of the most common 'Fireball'.

Bloed was confused. Even he could see that this magic circle had too many unnecessary parts. There is no way Headmistress Wave doesn't notice it.

Moreover, there were some parts of the magic circle that Bloed could not understand. That surprised him, after all, his knowledge of magic circles was relatively high.

He had been learning about this topic from the headmistress for a while, so he knew more than most about magic circles.

After observing the magic circle for a few minutes, Bloed finally could not help but ask.

"… What are you trying to do, teacher?"

"Uh? This? Oh, I'm trying to modify this spell."

"I can see it, but why? I can only see you making this spell more complicated than necessary."

Wave smiled wryly before nodding.

"Yeah, I have not done much progress yet. I want to find a way to make my spells effective against the Blight, but I have still not found a way to deal with their ability to devour mana."

Bloed was startled, but he immediately understood.

It seemed that the headmistress had been bothered by the fact that she had been almost useless against the dragon. She could not tolerate the fact that her spells were mostly ineffective during the battle.

Bloed smiled wryly. Unfortunately, he could not help her that much.

Headmistress Wave's knowledge about magic circles was much greater than his. If she could not resolve the issue with the devourers' ability to devour mana, neither could he.

However, he knew that someone that could help her.

"You should talk to Regina." He said to the Headmistress.

"Regina?"

"Yeah. Regina knows a lot of tricks to deal with the Blight. Perhaps she can help you."

After all, Regina had information about the methods that many Valkyries used to face the devourers.

Wave fell deep in thought before nodding.

"I guess I should talk to her later then. Anyway, let me show you something." She said and waved her hand. Immediately, a parchment on a table flew towards her.

She then showed it to Bloed.

"Take a look."

Bloed looked at it curiously only to realize that it was a letter towards the Kingdom of Alterna.

On it, Headmistress Evelyn blamed them for the attack that her student suffered a few days ago and demanded compensation.

Bloed was surprised.

"What is this?"

"Didn't I tell you I'm going to be your teacher? Then as your teacher, I should do this for you. If I, as your teacher, don't stand up for you, who is going to?"

Bloed was moved, however, he did not know what to think about it.

It was obvious to anyone that Academy City was not in a good situation. He did not know if it was going to be of any use.

"Don't worry." Wave smiled as though she knew what he was thinking about. "The Church of Fate and Moonlight Glow are going to ask the kingdom for an explanation as well. Even a big nation as the Kingdom of Alterna can't ignore it when three forces of our influence act at the same time.

"At the very least, you will receive a satisfactory compensation."

Bloed shrugged and nodded.

To be honest, he did not care that much about it.

After all, he did not lack anything. Although he felt a bit elated knowing that his 'father' was going to be put in a hard spot.

However– He narrowed his eyes and stared at the headmistress.

He had the feeling that the headmistress was going to ask him for something.

Otherwise, there was no need to call him here just for this. The headmistress was just using this topic as an excuse and to make her request easier to accept.

The headmistress smiled bitterly when she noticed Bloed's expression.

"You got me. I want to ask you for a small favor."

"A small favor, is it? What favor?"

The headmistress put on a hesitating expression before speaking cautiously.

"… Your technique to make golems. What you call 'robot's manufacture'."

Bloed was stunned, but in the next second, he squinted.

… The headmistress's request was a bit too much.

"As expected, you can't accept it, huh." Headmistress Wave smiled wryly.

Bloed thought for a moment before looking at her.

"First explain the situation."

Wave hesitated, but eventually nodded.

"… As you know, Academy City is going through a rough time. Right now, I need to do everything I can to strengthen it. That was when I thought of your 'robots'. You said that they can function independently and while keeping a combat power of B-Rank or above, right? I would like to make three thousand of them."

A stunned expression appeared on Bloed's face.

Three thousand!?

That was a much bigger number than he expected.

But in the next instant, he furrowed his brows.

Something was wrong. In the current situation, Headmistress Evelyn should not need so many robots.

Unless–

"You got news that made you think that the robots are necessary, huh."

"As expected of you." Wave sighed. "It's as you said. This morning, a receive a piece of news from a friend. He told me that several human countries are readying their armies."

Bloed's expression changed.

"Are they going to attack the city?"

"Not yet. But perhaps in one year or two, they will attack."

Bloed's gaze became serious.

He did not think that Academy City's situation was this bad.

It was much worse than he thought. The city was already at the edge of the cliff.

"Then, are you going to help me?" Wave asked Bloed sincerely.

Bloed did not reply immediately and instead, he fell deep in thought for a few seconds.

Finally, he looked at Headmistress Wave with a serious gaze.

"I have another proposal for you."

The headmistress was startled before sitting straight.

"I'm listening."

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