Elemental Control - 1

After a few seconds, he tried to open his eyes, but he couldn't do so; however, he could hear that the beeping sound had subsided.

After a few minutes, there were two people that appeared beside Faykes, one of which, a man, muttered,

"Damn it, it's just the first day and there are two incidences happening in the advanced track class?"

His partner, a long-haired woman, just giggled and looked at the recordings of the building. As she was scrolling to the time frame where the event occurred, something caught her eye.

"Oh? This seems interesting. Brian, look at this." She gestured her colleague Brian closer and showed him the video.

"What is it Amelia? ...Ah? So the defense protocol was activated accidentally. So this kid here was just chasing the other student, huh?" Brian said, before his shouting once again.

"WAIT! How was he able to move like that?? I can actually sense elemental nomological properties in his movements? What element is this? Air? No, it doesn't seem flighty or even elegant. Earth? It's not it as well since there's no hint of sturdiness in his movements... Could it be? No, that's impossible." Brian muttered. Upon hearing this, Amelia couldn't help but be surprised.

"Nomological properties were detected? Are you sure, Brian? From the looks of the kid, he looked like 7 or 8 years old. We know that elemental nomological properties only appear when that person has grasped a key aspect of an element. Are you saying this kid managed to do something Mythic magicians have been attempting to do to breakthrough to the next class?"

Brian snapped out of stupor and responded earnestly, "No, I'm sure of it, it has the trace of elemental nomological properties. I can't confirm right now whether the element I'm thinking of is what the kid has."

"What do you think it is?" Amelia asked, curious how a kid could elicit such a fervent response from Brian, who was known as ice-cold in the university.

Brian shook his head, and began furiously typing on his watch; the video recordings from the nearby buildings were also played. He deleted the video recordings from the buildings' monitoring system data bank and set the level of confidentiality to 9 stars, the second highest level. Even Amelia wouldn't have any access to the videos.

Using his authority, he changed the authority coding of the monitoring system: Upon detecting the kid in the video, it would automatically be set to 9 stars confidentiality level and sent to the main database of the university, before being deleted in the monitoring system.

"Amelia, do not breathe a word out of this incident to anyone, except to the Dean and the Vice-Dean if they ask. This is a classified 9-star confidential information. Also, if I'm not mistaken, you are going to teach the Elemental Control class this semester, correct? Make sure to take note of the kid." Brian looked at Amelia solemnly, and Amelia had realized the gravity of the situation and nodded in response.

"What about the kid outside?"

"That kid? Just let him thaw before the class starts. You know that the gel released by the defense system is formulated based on the elements of the opposing party, making sure it counters/hinders their ability. Since that kid showed water and wind elements, probably the gel mixture this time is based on ice and earth elements; just use a fire element nearby to slowly melt the structure."

Brian waved his hand, not caring about this matter anymore. His attention was caught by something else: Xander.

Xander, who was busy exploring the wide building, didn't have any idea of what had happened outside the building.

Even if he did, he paid no attention to it, as he focused on reading the information he had related to the building he would soon treat as a second home for the duration of the year.

Xander discovered that the building had 3 floors in total, with the first floor being as large as the other two floors combined. The first floor didn't have any desks or chairs, but sets of training mats in one side and an open area on the other side.

The second floor was a canteen, with the dishes being served the same as the previous canteen in the other building. The third floor was a small library. When he attempted to go in, he was stopped by an old man who was dozing off in the counter by the entrance.

The old man looked quite unkempt and had a feeling of vagrancy. In fact, Xander could detect some sort of hidden power within the old man, but didn't let it show in his gestures. The old man gave him a look before giving him a piece of paper that contained the rules and regulations of using the library.

1. This library is for internal use only; only students and fellow teachers can use this library.

2. No books can be brought outside of the library. If a book acknowledges you completely, you may bring it out.

3. Do not damage the books. Any damage to the books is payable, at minimum, 500 SCPs and 10,000,000 Etas.

4. Every hour you stay inside the library will cost you 1 SCP, and for teachers, 1000 Etas.

5. No photocopying or scanning of materials allowed.

6. Please remain silent.

By entering the library for the first time, you consent to the rules of the university. Any student or teacher discovered to break any of the rules wantonly and without regard are to be punished accordingly by the university, ranging from expulsion to death sentence.

Xander carefully read the rules and returned them to the old man. The old man just waved his hands and signaled him to keep it. Since Xander wasn't going to go to the library, he headed downstairs and ate lunch.

While he ate lunch, he was quite curious concerning the 2nd rule of the library; what did it even mean to be recognized by a book? Do they have spirits, or are they similar to sprites?

After an hour, Xander finished eating; the meal had cost him 15 SCPs and 10,000 Etas in total. After all, he didn't have an abundance of SCPs to spend, so he bought some of the regular, filling food available.

However, he did put it in his memory that he needed to learn how to cook in the future.

He checked the time and saw that classes would begin in 15 minutes, so he headed downstairs and saw that there were roughly a hundred or so students present. There were some new faces, but roughly half of these people were from his first class. He randomly selected a vacant mat to sit on and checked the curriculum outline for the course.

Elemental Control

Description: Teach the students the fundamental theories of elemental control, as well as give the students practical experience and training in using the elements.

Elemental Theory (1)

Elemental Theory (2)

Elemental Control: Outwards

Elemental Control: Inwards

Elemental Control: Repulsion

Elemental Control: Attraction

Elemental Fusion (1)

Elemental Fusion (2)

Practical uses of Elements in day-to-day life

Training (1)

Training (2)

In a few minutes, a figure appeared by the entrance of the building, and upon seeing her, most of the students became quiet. It was a young woman with long, blond hair. Her eyes were emerald green, hiding behind her pair of glasses. She wore an open lab coat, allowing it to look like she's wearing a cape.

Upon seeing this, Xander couldn't help but roll his eyes, and branded her as an attention seeker. After all, no one actually uses glasses in world, not even commoners. For some unexplainable reason, since 200 years ago, no one has had a case of bad eyesight.

Many scientists and researchers attributed this phenomenon to the increasing density of magic in the planet, while others believe it was due to the improving genetic inheritance. Some even say it was a modification of the whole planet population as a whole, done by a single spell.

Nowadays, glasses were merely a fashion statement, and has no practical use. Of course, it's possible that it serves as a magic artifact, one related to sight.

This was unlikely for their new teacher, however. Xander had investigated her like Ms. Sandra Lim. Miss Amelia Wineheart, one of the tenured professors in the university, age 36 years. She has another identity, which is the 13th out of 18 protectors of the university. Her power is no joke, however, as she is a Legendary-8 powerhouse. According to the latest information about her, no data about any known magic artifact relating to glasses or sight was recorded.

Magic artifacts are basically items imbued with runic writings and elemental energy, giving them certain functions. Only 1 out of 1,000,000 people can successfully be an artifact maker. The problem with magic artifacts is that it uses the magic circles of Master magicians and above.

10,000 years ago, ever since the great war, every racial representative, which is basically the strongest amongst their own kind, met and came to the agreement that every single magic artifact must be recorded and strictly monitored impartially worldwide.

1. Anyone, regardless of their methods, may actually get a magic artifact; however, they must immediately register it within a year of receiving it. Upon registration, a specialized runic writing is placed on the artifact to ensure it is not unregistered.

2. Everyone has access to the database where the magic artifacts are registered in, however, only the names of the artifact, quality, and function are available for perusing.

3. Every year, there will be a world-wide magic artifact check; magic artifacts that resonate during the check are not registered, while those that stay inert are registered. At that moment, every non-registered magical artifact's location and energy signal is recorded by the satellites. When non-magic artifacts resonate, they broadcast a copy of the life energy of the person or being that holds them, allowing enforcers to identify them immediately. Anyone detected to have a non-registered artifact is subjected to the death penalty, rarely would there be exceptions.

4. Magic artifact owners are liable to their own artifacts until they report it missing. Upon reporting it missing, they are now considered non-registered artifacts and the owners absolved from liability. If the owners are then detected to still have the 'missing' magic artifacts, they are subjected to the death penalty, or pay a non-numerical fine (in terms of servitude or assets).

5. Governments may use the database to track potential threats to their respective countries, allowing them to view the latest information about the magic artifact and the current registered owner. To view this information, they must have a certain clearance available for them.

6. Magic artifact makers may create artifacts for purposes of auction and not for direct sale. Upon the creation of one, they must register it to the database. The owner it is registered to would be the auction company that they decide to sell it to. If they decide to use it themselves or give it to someone, they must register themselves or the receiving party as the owner of the artifact.

7. For any disobeying magic artifact makers, government of the maker's country must enact either of the 2 proposed solutions: Complete memory wipe, or death penalty.

8. Any government attempting to use magic artifact makers for purposes of military might or espionage automatically allows their country to be unilaterally targeted by all races and countries with justification for war, and their lands divided.

Over thousands of years passed, and no one dared to violate these rules set forth. Of course, when this was initially passed, there were those that attempted to do so, but were immediately dealt with and their lands, properties, seized and distributed. Some tried to modify their magic artifacts, but they still reacted with the yearly scan.

Those magic artifact makers tried to play tricks as well, like forging the runic writing seal, but even so, the unregistered artifacts still reacted to the scan. After thousands of years with no way to circumvent this, a lot just gave up and followed the rules set forth.

Little did they know, the material that was scanning for the artifacts, both registered and unregistered, was from a Sage-class cultivator. Even Xander didn't know of it until he had accidentally read through some classified documents with the help of his system.

Concerning Amelia, however, she only has one magic artifact registered to her, which is her lab coat. According to the database and the files he had on her, the cape's general function is for protection, repelling physical materials targeted to the wearer. It's secondary function is actually flight.

Miss Amelia, upon reaching the front of the class, looked at the students and smiled.

"Students, welcome to Elemental Control class. I am your Teacher, Miss Amelia. You can call me Miss Amy. For today, we are going to discuss about elemental theory. After all, you can't learn to run if you can't walk in the first place; this applies to controlling the elements. To control the elements, you need to understand them."

Amelia paused for a moment, and looked at the students intently. "So class, my first question to you all, what is an element?"