"๐ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ด๐ฉ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ, ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ, ๐ช๐ง ๐ญ๐ถ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ, ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ต, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐บ ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ."
Novis takes in a deep breath, concentrating his whole core into his sword, and not just that, his entire mind and being into it.
"If you're just going to stand there closing your eyes then you make yourself an easy opponent you know?"
The teacher reinforces her leg with Rock magic making it more durable and definitely more lethal, she directs her anger at Novis ready to knock him out in one last blow, as her leg is about to hit his side again, Novis opens his eyes.
He directs his sword to her leg just in time to block the blow, but she persists and uses her whole body in this one singular attack
"I WON'T HOLD BACK ANYMORE, STAY DOWN NEXT TIME"
Slowly Novis's sword starts to crack just a little as the teacher pushes Novis ever so slightly.
"NO. I WON'T STAY DOWN I WON'T DO ANYTHING YOU SAY, I'LL WIN THIS RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW, I DON'T CARE IF YOU THINK I CAN'T I DON'T CARE IF EVERYONE CALLS ME WORK NOR IF THEY THINK I'LL NEVER SUCCEED, I'LL PROVE YOU ALL WRONG RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW."
"WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT"
Novis's sword gains more cracks within it, imminent death slowly glooms over him.
"๐๐ข๐บ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด, ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด, ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฑ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ'๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ..."
He starts to let the grip of his sword go little by little giving up all hope.
"๐๐, ๐ ๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐'๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐, ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐'๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐'๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐"
Novis grips his sword with all his might and strength left within his body for a final attack against the teacher's blow
"YOU MAY MAKE FUN OF ME AND PUT ME DOWN, BUT IF THERE'S SOMETHING I WON'T TOLERATE IS BEING MISERABLE IN FRONT OF MY FRIEND EVER AGAIN. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Something changed in Novis's sword, he didn't notice it but subconsciously his body adapted to the situation, if he wasn't able to slice through or cut the teacher's leg, then he needed to improve something but what?
His sword gained a new edge, the average human eye wouldn't be able to see it since most of the blade looks the same it's all just water, but the fool and some others noticed something peculiar, on the very edge of the sword a ton of tiny little sharp edges were formed, alone they would do nothing, in fact it wouldn't really change the weapon, but the moment Novis screamed a burst of water was released from the hilt directly to this newfound edge. It worked exactly like a chainsaw.
It was a bit too late when for the woman to notice, the saw-like sword went deep into her flesh clawing it away as if it were paper.
"HOW DARE YOU HARM ME, ESPECIALLY THIS MUCH." She quickly stops her attack and dashes back with a large wound inflicted on her leg.
All Novis could do was just look at the fool in the crowd of students and raise his fist "See? I did it."
He immediately collapsed to the ground with all of the students in disarray of what even had happened, to think out of all the students that Novis would be the one to land a strong blow against a teacher. It was almost insane to even think of.
"WHAT ARE YOU ALL DOING, CALL THE DOCTORS HERE, NOW."
"YES, MISS."
The doctors came rushing in to check the teacher's condition and hoped that the wound wouldn't get infected or cause any permanent damage, they quickly stitched it together with her groaning in immense pain, they operated on her right in front of everyone, and as efficiently as possible, none of the doctors even dotted an eye at Novis.
The fool was giggling at the thought and sight of Novis being able to create something so smart and powerful, he then walked down to him.
"I'm so grateful to have you, you really are something, something very dear to me."
He touches him directly on his back
"๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ท๐ฆ, ๐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ญ๐บ."
A slight amount of the fool's Light is poured into Novis's core, an amount so minuscule it could reach the size of atoms, after it is poured, he starts touching him in various places all around his body and suddenly, he gets up.
"How long was I passed out for?"
"Oh just about twenty minutes, I would've healed you up sooner but I was thinking about everything you did and all the possibilities."
"What I did? What exactly did I do?"
"You know, with the sword and everything."
"What about it?"
"Do you seriously not know about what you did?"
"No Luce I have no idea"
"๐๐ช๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ? ๐๐ช๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ญ๐ฆ๐น? ๐๐ถ๐ต, ๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐."
"Come on. Get up." He helps him up as fast as he can.
"Can you walk? Good come quick we gotta go."
"What's with the rush?"
"We can talk later just quickly."
"HEY, HOW COME HE LOOKS COMPLETELY FINE, I HIT HIM REALLY HARD YOU KNOW"
"Obviously I healed him."
"THEN HEAL ME TOO"
"Why would I?"
"I'M YOUR TEACHER"
"You almost killed your student, and you still ended up being weaker than him, you're useless to me, and the only thing you'll ever end up doing your whole life that actually mattered, is helping a sixteen-year-old boy get stronger by just a fraction."
"I'VE DONE MANY THINGS YOU KNOW THAT."
They both just walk towards their dormitories
"HEY, LOOK AT ME IN THE FACE WHILST I TALK TO YOU, HEY, SOMEONE STOP THEM, HEY"
One student tries to confront the fool.
"She's a little beat up could you help her a little?"
All he does is glare straight into the poor boy's soul, with enough intent to kill that he ends up fainting.
"Quickly Novis here."
"What did I tell you about using your strength on people weaker than you?"
"Yea yea, he'll be fine but I'm in a rush."
"Why are you being so quick about this?"
"Because. You opened up a new door of opportunity, in fact, the door is so big it could fill this entire school. No. This entire Kingdom. No. The entire world as you know it."
"There is no way I could make anything that big."
"Well guess what, you can now, that is if you train with me."
After a little bit, they arrive at their dormitory.
"Sit on the bed for a minute and face the wall."
"Alright, whatever you say."
"Take your shirt off too."
"Alright, whate- HEY WAIT A MINUTE, MY SHIRT?"
"Yes, yes come on, I need to see something."
"F-Fine but only for five minutes."
"Sure that's plenty of time."
"Sometimes Luce sometimes, I'm a little too comfortable with you and your requests."
He takes off his shirt with a bit of muscle building on his back.
"Perfect."
The fool touches Novis's back which links directly to the core, and with it, he's able to see his potential and how much it can increase.
He starts giggling a little "Oh you are so so special, you know that, just as I expected it's greater than I thought."
"Could you not say this whilst I have my shirt off?"
"Oh, you'll be fine not like you mind that much. anyways you can put your shirt back on."
"Thank you."
He gets up from the bed and gets dressed again.
"So, what did you check?"
"I never really got a glimpse of your core, but after that fight, I know you can grow a lot more from everything."
"Really? Do you really think I can become strong like you?"
"No doubt about it, and your magic is so versatile too. You may not be able to imbue yet but your ability to create is so impressive and complex, not any mage can do that, especially in the heat of the moment."
"I still don't know what I did though. I thought I just sliced into her?"
"Exactly, that's what makes you even more special, you were able to do all of this with your subconscious and reflex alone."
"So what exactly did I do?"
"On the edge of your sword, you made tiny little blades and linked them together, and then at your final breath you propelled water from your hilt and gave it a super high-speed edge essentially making it a chainsaw sword."
"I-I did that? Did I really, I really have made it this far already, thank you, Luce, just, thank you a lot, I wouldn't have been able to get this far nor strong without you."
He ends up hugging the fool tightly and crying on his shoulder.