(PDV 3° person, Five Elements Academy)

Lorne took a similar box, with a gray color with a star on the golden disc.

(Lorne): “This is my grimoire. As you can see by the color, it’s a neutral attribute. The color is directly related to your attribute, as you can see it. the emblem in the box is the emblem of your magic color. Now, try pressing it.”

He says, pressing the emblem on his box. When he does this it shines faintly, and the box opens in the upper part, and something comes out. Serena does the same. As the upper part disappears, something comes out from the box.

(Serena): “Cards?”

(Lorne): “You may be thinking right ow, my grimoire is a deck of cards? Yep, it is. We thought about doing it on the shape of books, but it’s more practical to use cards. Each one of these cards can store a charge of mana to fuel spells, a complete spell and a monster. Of course, you always can get more cards.

These cards can also be used as currency between students, since the cards are only bind to the user if they store a monster or a spell. An empty card can be taken from the school for free, just request them on your SG. If you fill you card with elemental mana, it can be used as currency. You guys can judge the valor, after all, is just mana to be used to fuel spells.”

He says. Serena takes a card. It’s divided in two sections in the face, two squares, one in the upper half and one in the lower half. The borders are golden, and the back is white with golden borders with a golden sun in the back.

Both squares are empty. Serena looks at the cards. All of them are exactly the same.

(Lorne): “We also can store enchanted items on the cards, as well artifacts. Basically, the grimoire will be your main tool during all your life as a mage. I will now explain the properties of the grimoire.

Like your SG, the container, or the Grimoire Holder, will always come back to you, together with the bound cards and the ones that you chose to be bound. To explain the binding, when you first pick up the container, the grimoire, the cards, were bound to you.

If someone else tries to pick it up without your permission, the card will turn grey and will be unusable. However, that are limited to the bound cards. The cards are bound to you in the moment you touch them the first time.

In your SG, you can see the list of artifacts, monsters and cards bound to you, and from there you can unbind them with by just touching the icon and selection the option. When unbinded, the card can be given to someone else.

In the case of your cards getting stolen, just go to your SG and it will immediately summon your cards from wherever they may be. The cards can be requested through the SG as well.”

Serena looked in her SG in Class Mode. She couldn’t access internet and the games, but all her personal information and rankings are still accessible. As she checks her personal information she sees a new tab, indicating the items bound to her.

She quickly glances to the slacker besides her, and gets surprised to see him typing on the SG in the Class Mode.

(Serena): “I guess that I judged him wrong.”

She thinks, going back to class after looking at Maria making notes. Lorne restarted:

(Lorne): “Anyway, we will start on the way to channel mana in a few days, but for now, I will also give you guys a warning. Later, in a few days, you guys will also go through your first combat lesson.

You will learn how to use cold weapons. Even the SCW series won’t be a good weapon for mages. It was really a blessing what the Unsung Genius did for us. However, they gave the normal humans a chance against the monsters.

However, only the normal humans. They take too long to take down the bigger monsters, and they are inefficient for mages. Cold weapon, in other hand, are far better conductors for mages. Also, your physical body is always being reinforced by magic, and in the end, you guys will be way stronger than a normal human. Also, you guys know that this school has students of the whole world, so obviously there is a language barrier, right?

Nope. While within the area covered by the Five Pillars you will be able to communicate in any language of the world as if it was your own, as well understand any of them. anyway, since my time in this class is about to end, I’ll see you guys tomorrow.”

He says as the bell rings. Serena watches her teacher goes out of the room, and the nest teacher ether. This period was math.

(a few hours later, lunch time)

After the morning classes and lunch, the students came back to class to one more class about magic. Serena is chatting with Maria, and the slacker on her side is sleeping again, until the bell rings and they start paying attention to the class.

They get surprised seeing the sexy woman entering the classroom. Clearly on her twenties, her curled, blonde hair goes to her waist, and her big breasts and sexy body are tightly hugged by a white button shirt with a gray blazer over it, and her legs by a gray office skirt.

Her gray high-heels making a loud sound as she walks. Her skin, white and porcelain-like and her pretty and cute face matching her bright blue eyes. Stopping at the table, she smiles and says:

(Freya): “Hello, and good evening. My name is Freya Karma, and I will be your teacher in monster anatomy.”

She says, with a seductive voice, making the boys sigh and the girls get jealous. Turning on the screen on the same way Lorne did, she started her class.

(Freya): “Well then, let’s start with the basics of the basics. Six years ago, the monsters appeared out of nowhere. However, why did the monsters appear? The reason, is mana. According to the most recent researches, mana always existed on earth.

It was more prominent in the past millennia, when the supernatural was more believable than science. We discovered that human conscience affects the mana around the world. This will be looked deeper in the optional course of the next year, Magic Theory.

Six years ago, for a reason that I will teach next year to you guys, mana on earth reached its peak, and finally overflowed in the world. Because of that, the monsters appeared. I will speak about the origin of monsters in another class, but now we will go to the basics about must monsters that you guys will be facing this year.

That means the ones that we call ‘Low Monsters’. They are monsters that barely have any intelligence, with few exceptions. These kinds of monsters are the ones that show up the most around the world, and of course, here on the Five Elements Island. Anyway, to the monster.”

She says, touching her table and making a slide show to appear to illustrate what she talks.

(Freya): “The always have something called ‘core’. A crystal that appears made of elemental mana. It normally forms out of thin air where the mana is way too dense. This normally happens isolated and full of nature, exposed to the color that forms its element.

A core then forms a body, creating flesh and organs through pure mana. We call these monsters the ‘first generation’ monsters. First Generations are stronger, as they were made of pure mana, so their affinity to magic is nearly perfect.

Their offspring are the most common, what caused havoc six years ago were in great majority were them. anyway, independent of the type or form of the monster, the core will be always in one place: the heart.

Strike there, break the core, and the monster instantly dies. However, you will lose an important material. The core is an important material and ingredient in a lot of artifacts and potions. And before you ask, yes there are alchemy and artifact crafting courses, but this will be for the counselors to tell you.

However, if you want to keep the core, you must kill it in other way. Monsters in grand part don’t regenerate, apart from the green monsters, which regenerate. It’s rare to find a green monster that doesn’t regenerate.”

She says, as she changes the slides to illustrate what she’s saying. Her sexy moves making hard for the male students to focus.

(Freya): “Of course, all the body of a monster can be used as material. Muscles can be used to craft, for amazing that it seems, strings for clothes, bows, etc. The hide, for armors and other utilities, the bones for weapons, blood for alchemy, etc.

And this, my students, is the class where I will teach you how to kill them!” She says with a beaming smile. “For starters, the Low Monsters in almost every situation share a common trace. Vitality.

As their soul is directly linked to the core, you guys will need to destroy the vital points. Mainly, the head. Decapitation is a good way, or bleed them to death.”

She says, as she keeps explaining weak points of the monsters, leaving Serena conflicted about the content of the class, and how cheerful her teacher was as she explains the gruesome details.