The Ivory tower and meeting other magi

Yuuki taught me how to draw mana from the surroundings. It took time compared to using prana. The ability to draw mana faster is called mana rotation, most magi don't train this aspect as it's useless to pull mana faster. All of them just want to reach the akasha, so they don't need to focus on combat. So, it's mostly a quirk, if you are born to do it fast it's good, but there isn't really any need to. Also, using your circuits to improve them is considered taboo as it might hurt the mage. My situation was different. I had to get better at it as I need to use spell craft in combat. So, I had trained to pull mana faster for two months. Of course, my spell craft prowess also increased by quite a lot. My spellcraft was unorthodox, to begin with. I combine orthodox elemental spells with my spells.

The result was that my time to cast them went down even more, now I don't need to create spirit gates using proeitura, my circuits were enough as my elemental affinity was fire and earth. After reading a couple of books, the elements represent much more than what most light novel magic systems have. Fire not only represents aether that heats things and explodes but also things related to thermodynamics, earth can control not only all solids and aether that is formed like one but also things like metabolic rate, healing rate, growth rate, and much more. The elements were in our spirit codes. We evolved them as the four elements were what we all were familiar with and had to deal with. Now I can summon a small but potent fireball in my hand thanks to my mana rotation training. The spell would normally take all my prana. The fire spell that I used first was named inferno by me and it also was improved quite a bit. It takes nearly 270 units of spiritual energy to execute. It takes me 6 seconds to execute. It's a B- rank spell. And my fireballs were C+ rank. Of course, a normal B- spell would be impossible for most magi to do without at least 900 units of prana, but thanks to my ability to recreate the mysteria of flair salamander skin which is a pretty decent catalyst, it took me just 270. Yuuki was deeply impressed with my firepower. It was already on the level of high-ranking combat mages. But my skills are quite lacking even though also learned many kinds of weapons and hand-to-hand martial arts by copying people. Yuuki also told me that I needed to learn spell craft that can deal with supernatural beings, some mages have spells that can negate firepower. After I finished my training today, Yuuki told me,

"Tomorrow, you will be going to the ivory tower to meet some of my acquaintances there and possibly enroll too."

"Huh?!??"

"What?"

"You want me to go back to school again? "

"I thought kids like you always wanted to go to

Hogwarts".

" I have to fucking talk to other people again if I go to school, magical or not".

"Oh, don't be like that. Almost all of the students from old families wouldn't give two fucks about killing innocent people, they don't have a moral, to begin with, so you don't have to argue with them about right and wrong, they're also really smart, so they wouldn't do stupid things that get you mad."

"I am not that antisocial, okay. Besides, that means the ones from new families can do stupid shit."

"You are getting enrolled."

"No".

"Yes".

"No".

"Yes"

"No".

"Yes".

"No".

"Yes"

"No".

"You are going to get enrolled or else pay for your own food and place to stay."

Damn it, this is how low you can go. Take food from the mouth of a defenseless homeless child!

"F.. Fine".

"Great, now, was that hard?"

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The Ivory tower was located in the Big Ben. Well, to be precise the place around it. It was encircled with high spell crafts that made it so

that it would bend the reality around it to cover up its existence. Yuuki told me the mystic field was closer to a domain, I guess I learned a new thing today. We both also hid our faces using craft codes.

Anyway, since I was interested in jewel-crafts and Yuuki knew a guy that could help me with it, we went to him first.

His name was Alfred Abel. He was a third-generation mage. After we entered his cabin, he said,

"Yuuki Nozami, to what do I owe the pleasure?", He looked like he did not like Yuuki's presence. I gave Yuuki a look that

said, 'you sure this guy is gonna help us'.

" I want you to teach this kid your craft".

"So, he's going to be a student?"

"Yes"

"I don't think being affiliated with the guy who ended a lot of old magi families is the best resume to study here".

"Well, you also need to let him use his psychic ability on you".

"What does it do?"

"Just help him learn jewel craft faster."

"Fascinating, it's like the boy was made for spell craft with an ability like that".

Thankfully, Yuuki did not say it was a spell. Psychic abilities are abilities that people get when they have special spirit circuits or some anomaly in the soul that allows that area to be used as a cheap circuit knock. It's similar to spell craft yet it isn't. Psychic abilities are instinctual and they are more similar to the "authority" of gods but far weaker.

"Very well".

I said, " I need to hold your arm for at least 20 minutes".

He gave me his arm. After twenty minutes I became a semi-mid-level jewel crafter.

Authors words:

My novel glitches every time I try to publish the completed version for some reason.