Prismatic Education 46
Waiting around when you know something was about to happen was a stressful experience, so it was fortunate that there were things to do in preparation.
“How did you learn all this stuff?” I asked Benjy, watching as he linked spells to the map on the table.
“I used to work in the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes,” He answered, taps of his wand causing glowing spots to appear on the parchment. “We kept an ...
2025-10-14 18:47:08 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 45
While this plane was just as rich in magic as the one Winding Circle Temple was on, here it appeared to be more malleable in terms of reality, which explained some of the things the magic users here were capable of. They had spells for just about anything, even for something as mundane as stirring one’s tea. I was honestly amazed by some of them, to the point that I wondered how many of these spells I would be able to replicate on other planes.&...
2025-10-12 16:45:26 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 44
With a murmured word and flick of my hand, I retaliated against the attack with several of my own. To my attacker’s credit, he did try to defend, but my spells shattered his magical shield easily, putting him down in an instant.
Almost too easily… I blinked as I remembered the artifact I received from Theodorus. Yeah, I gotta see how it holds up against a Crystal Mantis next time I go to Orario. Whoops, not good getting dist...
2025-10-12 04:28:32 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 43
The giants spread out, intending to flank our group. Likewise, we divided our forces to meet them, which pitted me and two nagas against a lone giant.
“Dumb dullard, in a daze over your defeat!” I insulted, sending a quartet of ink spears.
They struck the giant’s bare chest, making him stumble back slightly. However, it wasn’t the expected effect, as the giant just sneered at me.
“They’re immune to mental spe...
2025-10-11 05:15:30 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 42
I could feel Planar Link slowly working as I trudged through the snow, allowing me to adapt to the terrain. As I finally crested the small hill, I caught sight of my destination, which had been practically blazing to my magical senses for the past hour. I could have approached faster, but that would probably have been a bad idea considering the feeling of being observed I was having.
Compared to Orario or Strixhaven, the city of Cloudspire w...
2025-10-10 00:42:36 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 41
The staff spun around in my hands, before I lashed out with several swift strikes, the blunt weapon whistling dangerously through the air. Despite that, my opponent easily parried or blocked them with his blade, firing back counterstrikes of his own.
Sliding my hand down the length to adjust my grip, I knocked a thrust away, then went for a low sweep that he leapt over.
Now!
Planting the tip of my weapon into the ground ...
2025-10-07 15:30:59 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 40
For a moment, the giant humanoid teetered, then fell over to crash onto its back, bringing its upper body into range for our melee fighters.
[Prismatic Magic: Red Marked Alert]!
I cast the spell for the umpteenth time, finally feeling the strain of doing so. The rest of the familia scattered, moving away from the multiple red circles that appeared on the ground. Moments later, the Goliath’s thrashing smashed those areas, but failed t...
2025-10-05 08:51:53 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 39
My hand trembled, then stilled. Carefully, I set the point of my quill onto the paper once more, and completed the final character. The final raise of my arm wasn’t the flourish I had in mind, but a jerking action desperately reaching for the finish line.
A glowing magic circle appeared around me, and the words on the paper blazed into light. Unlike the sparkling lights of before, it was now glowing streams of energy that flowed into my bo...
2025-10-04 18:55:35 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 38
“Alright, it’s done,” Baldr announced quietly.
He let me see my newly updated Status, once again transcribed onto paper.
Roy D. Staff
Lv. 1→2
Strength: SS-1132→ I-0
Endurance: SS-1199→ I-0
Dexterity: S-999→ I-0
Agility S-999→ I-0
Magic: SSS-1469→ I-0
Mage: I
Skills:
[Lightbearer] - Increases the effect and efficiency of all light-related abilities.
[Plana...
2025-10-02 16:17:34 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 37
“You sure this will work?” Zald asked me, eyeing the potion in his hand.
“As far as I can tell, it will.” I met his doubtful glance with a deadpan stare. “Would you like me to describe the experimental process that went into-”
“No, no, I believe you,” He cut me off, almost too hastily. “I’ll drink it now.”
“Hold on a moment, Zald.” Maxim stopped him. “Take off your armor first.”
The redhead gav...
2025-10-01 16:27:50 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 36
While Winding Circle might have appeared idyllic at first glance, it could really kick into high gear when things called for it.
With solid evidence of deceit in their midst, various dedicates of the temple went into action, accompanied by several red-robed guards of the Fire Temple. Aside from me, Winding Circle was also playing host to several other mages, and it didn’t take long for them to be tracked down and questioned.
2025-09-28 04:36:56 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 35
“Halt! Come no closer!” The guard ordered from up ahead. “This area is currently restricted by the authority of the Duke!”
I nodded. “I just wish to observe, and I can do it just fine from here.”
Raising one hand, I drew a glowing circle in the air with a twirl of my hand, and expanded it outwards to create a lens. Within the circle, an image of the ruined watchtower in the distance ahead was displayed. I panned it around t...
2025-09-27 15:01:08 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 34
“So stay there and reflect on your error!” I finally spat out, with a spray of ink accompanying my words.
The ink landed on Huath, shaping itself into binding rings on his neck and wrists. Taking a few breaths to settle my mood, I turned away from him. While I had slight doubts about whether I had been too harsh, I couldn’t deny that I felt much better after venting on the man, even if I left him a cringing wreck.
...
2025-09-26 15:37:47 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 33
Working with Asana to develop a cure for Behemoth poison was slightly interesting, despite my usual disinterest in the potionmaking side of magic. From what I could understand, the difference between what the Orario alchemists made and what she was trying to create, was that the former had a healing effect bordering on the magical, while the latter actually was magic in the form of a potion. Given how the poison functioned, the second one was thus...
2025-09-24 12:26:41 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 32
“Are you sure what you heard was true? Because I’ve heard otherwise.”
“It’s true,” The disguised Oriq mage insisted, “They just take in mages and throw them out with the excuse that they’re ‘not good enough’.”
“I think you’re referring to Silverquill. That one is the most strict because cutting each other down is part of their curriculum.”
“Really? How do you know?” One of the other apprentice mage...
2025-09-23 07:45:36 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 31
The consequences of Cymba’s deed was felt by the whole of Orario in the weeks following the reveal. Hera quickly figured out that only a member of the Zeus Familia could be responsible, and was demanding to know who it was. It didn’t take a genius to guess what fate awaited that person.
I didn’t know what the all-male familia did in response, but it developed into a cold war of sorts, with both familias engaging in occasional due...
2025-09-20 19:24:17 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 30
“Roy, could you come in here for a moment?” Baldr called from the sitting room as I was passing by.
I reversed backwards, poking my head through the doorway. “Yes, what is it?”
“I’d like to introduce you to some of my fellow gods,” The blond deity said pleasantly, “This is Bragi, and this is Idun.”
A curly-haired bearded god with chestnut-colored hair, and a blond, wavy-haired goddess greeted me, sitting in the ...
2025-09-17 17:58:57 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 29
“So yeah,” I finished as I indicated the image I had generated from their records, “Fighting the Black Dragon is going to be very much different from facing the Behemoth or Leviathan.”
Perhaps it was their typical bull-headed style, but the Zeus and Hera Familias had a habit of confronting their enemies head on, with heavy reliance on power built through multiple Levels and super high stats. However, that resulted in heavy casualties...
2025-09-15 12:05:57 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 28
With one last careful stroke, I completed the poem. As before, the words glowed, and transformed into light that flowed into me, strengthening my body further. Releasing the breath I was holding, I set down my quill and looked at my audience.
“You two look like you’ve got opinions to share.” I pointed out, wiping off the sweat I had worked up.
Leon gave a jerky sort-of nod. “I do… but I don’t even know where to start.”
2025-09-13 16:04:27 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 27
As I was looking out the window at the port scenery, there was a knock at the door. I had to stop myself from sending Lyric to answer it. Who knows how the locals would react to the sight of an inkling.
“Come in.” I called, then turned around.
Two people entered, one of which I recognized from before. It was the stowaway blond teen, and he was still giving me a respectful gaze. The other was unmistakably a god, thanks to the ...
2025-09-11 17:52:47 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 26
Leyline Invocation was a powerful spell that compressed the power of multiple lands into a single fractal, but at the same time, it left me with a single land’s worth of mana afterwards. So until the lands replenished their power, I was left with my usual elemental magics. More importantly, the generated fractal had several conditions to it.
I had to use the sea serpent formula to shape it for aquatic battle, and the command program is...
2025-09-09 16:45:06 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 25
“From Quandrix, Roy D. Staff.”
I started walking the moment my name was called, approaching the female elf and owlin at the far end of the stage. Today was the day I finally graduated from Strixhaven.
The graduation ceremony was held in one of the performing arts halls on central campus, instead of in the Biblioplex’s Hall of Oracles like freshman orientation was. Despite its relatively small size from the outside, the inte...
2025-09-08 15:24:39 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 24
I sat in the stands with my friends, just another face in the crowd as I waited for Nivall to make her appearance on the Rose Stage. Since we were more than halfway through the project presentation period, the audience was significantly bigger in size. As expected, there were observers from outside the school; they might not be judging the performers at the same standard as the professors on the panel, but their impact on the performers’ future ...
2025-09-06 16:38:59 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 23
Professor Sunmane tapped the stack of papers on the desk to straighten it, before looking around the class.
“Alright. With this, there will be no further tests for the remainder of the semester,” He announced.
The combined sighs of relief were audible. The importance of these mini-tests to our final grades wasn’t as much as the usual term exams we went through in previous years, so there wasn’t too much at stake for faili...
2025-09-05 19:34:53 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 22
Almost there…! Just one… last… stroke…!
The quill in my hand felt like a heavy metal bar with a boulder at the end, and my fingers were trembling as I struggled to maintain my grip on it. The rest of my body felt much the same; I was dripping sweat as I resisted the crushing weight on me, every muscle in my body screaming from the strain.
I finished that last stroke and lifted the point of my quill off the paper, compl...
2025-09-02 16:42:53 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 21
One of the Oriq mages thrust out a hand, sending a dangerous-looking bolt of purple magic at me. I quickly sidestepped, returning the attack with a spell of my own, a crackling orb of lightning-infused fire. It exploded against a hastily-erected shield, sending the mage stumbling back slightly.
The other one drew out a wicked-looking dagger, which he used to slash his palm. The red blood was enveloped in a blackish aura, and he flicked it at...
2025-09-01 00:00:45 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 20
“Excuse me, but we don’t allow mascots into this store!”
“I am no mascot. I am a messenger with a missive to deliver!”
A commotion at the store entrance drew my attention, and my glance in that direction caught sight of a spirit statue walking into the place. Its stone face turned this way and that, and a sinking feeling filled me when it locked onto me and started heading in my direction, shoving past the shop staff tr...
2025-08-30 14:39:29 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 19
“Wonderful!”
That single word was accompanied by a flap of the snow-white feathery wings on the back of its speaker, which sent a sparkling wind blowing across every student in the class. Backs straightened, and bodies literally radiated with glowing pride. No matter how many times I saw it, the level of skill a master orator could demonstrate over us students never failed to impress.
Dean Shaile folded her wings back behind ...
2025-08-28 23:23:39 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 18
Channeling Red mana into the staff I was holding, I blasted the enchanted testing tool with the power of an inferno in the form of a flamethrower. As my magic flowed through the item I had found in the dungeon, the discs that made up its head spun at varying speeds. I held it for ten seconds before cutting off the attack, and took note of the effect on the tool. It was currently smoking and a little charred, but still sturdy enough.
In...
2025-08-27 17:15:21 +0000 UTC
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Prismatic Education 17
“Ah, Roy, good to see you. Come on in,” Professor Alaric invited me into his office.
I had been in this room a few times before, and its interior proudly proclaimed its owner as a scholar of life sciences, albeit from a mathematical point of view. In addition to the usual collection of reference books every professor had pertaining to their specialty, there was a board filled with sketches of plants and animals next to scribb...
2025-08-26 10:48:16 +0000 UTC
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