School (2)

Five minutes later the door opened and three other teacher came in. The one in the lead was a old man with a wise look, while the second was the complete opposite, being a burly man with arms as thick as others tights. The last one was a small girl, which looked as if she was only about ten years old.

"These are the ones who will teach your crafting", Mrs. Mertinez introduced them. She gestured towards the old man, "This is Sir. Keller who is responsible for teaching engraving. Sir. Keller if you could please tell them what engraving is about."

Sir. Keller nodded sagely and then spoke in a horse voice, "Engraving is the art of using rare metals to create diagrams in other objects and apply a permanent magic effect on them. It has a multitude of uses but requires a good three dimensional imagination, so not anyone is able master it.", he then continued by giving some examples like effects for armor.

After he finished his introduction on engraving the teacher gestured for the burly man to continue.

"Hello students, I am Mr. Evan and I teach forging. In forging you will learn to craft all kind of tools made by metal while imbuing it with magic to improve it's properties. In the last step we often work together with the engravers to create an even better piece.", he then talked a bit more about forging and pulled some examples of items made by former students out of his inventory to show everyone what could be possible.

"Now for the last and most difficult area", the woman takes over after Mr. Evan finished his explanations. "You may call me Miss. Klein and I will teach a selected few of you pill refining.

As I said, pill refining is much more difficult than the other two areas and it has strict requirements so I will choose which students I will teach. Of course you have the option to chose another area to learn but don't come to me later if you change your mind."

Of all of them this woman seemed to be the most arrogant, but the others just accepted her words, so they were either used to it or she was in the right about what she was saying.

"Pill refining is the art of using raw materials to create pills which provide a temporary or even permanent effect. Just about every effect you can imagine is possible as long as you have the right materials and recipe. Sadly most people don't have the recipe or the materials or the skill they would need to fulfill their imagination, so I will teach you how to research new recipes, find out the effect of materials and lastly how to craft a pill from them."

When Ivan heard that any effect was possible he thought about his skill Evolution. * Maybe I can craft a pill which increases the chance for a successful evolution? I guess I'll have to ask Van Carl about it later. *

After Miss. Klein finished her introduction too, it was time to ask some questions and Ivan listened intently since quite a few of them where something he had asked himself too.

"Great, now that everyone asked his or her question it is time to decide what you want to learn. First of Miss. Klein will announce the names of these who are capable of learning pill refinement and then you can choose.

Miss. Klein please."

"Alright, this year there are only two people how have the necessary talent for pill refinement and these are Mr. Muckovik and Mr. Hope."

Ivan was positively surprised, * So Serge and I are the only ones. That's great. *

If Greg would have been in the same class as him he really wasn't sure he could stand it since this guy seemed to never stop talking.

"Does any of you two not wish to learn pill refinement?"

The two of them hurriedly stated that they would love to learn pill refinement after Miss. Klein glared at them to warn them not to reject the offer.

"Great, I will come get you tomorrow for the class then.", with these words she turned around and left without waiting for the rest of the selection to finish.

After that the other students in the class split up between engraving and forging and both areas got about the same amount of students.

"Great, now that that is done, it is time for a break. I will see you again at this room in an hour.", with these words Mrs. Mertinez followed the other two out of the classroom, leaving behind a room full of excited students.

"I didn't know a school like this would have a pill refinement class and you two even got in.". Not even a second went by, before Greg started talking.

"Is it that surprising?", Ivan asked since he had thought that the offered classes were the same everywhere.

"Of course. Pill refiner are rare, so even though all schools are supposed to offer this class not every school manages to get a pill refiner to hold it. Since this is a school which doesn't even has a rank it is quite surprising to find on here.

And not only that there are even two guys who are capable to learn it and they are my friends too."

Greg happily jumped up and down, while pulling them out of the room and towards the canteen.

"Are they really that awesome?"

"Pff, Ivan even if you have amnesia you should try to learn more about life fast.", Greg criticized him for his lack of knowledge. "Most pills have to be made by pill refiners, so if you want to get a healing pill or a boost pill you have to buy them from them. It is the profession which earns the most money."

"Then do you know what kind of pills there are?"

"Of course this brother knows.", Greg elevated himself to the status of brother. "There are two main differentiation which Miss. Klein already mentioned, which are permanent pills and temporary pills. By the way healing pills fall in the category temporary pills even though their effect is basically permanent."