SACHI’S ROOM

A special angel who worked under Lady Athena accompanied me to the place where I was staying. I entered my room which was still dark and changed into my night clothes. I lied on my bed and started putting the events in order which happened from morning till now.

I tried to snuggle my pillow by hugging it close to me, thinking about Lady Athena and her actions really made her look cool and super awesome. She really cared about me and got angry on my behalf as well. I truly made a new wonderful best friend.

I tried to sleep but my eyes just couldn’t stay silent. So I decided to stay awake whole night and read the books which I borrowed from Lady Athena and were delivered to my dorm in the evening.

I imagined the presence of light in my room and rays of thick light enlightened the whole room. For some reason I had an idea to try and learn magic after seeing the healing spell performed by Lady Athena!

The books I borrowed from her were all beginners’ level, with titles such as –

‘THE ORIGIN OF DIVINE REALM’

‘THE EXISTENCE OF DIVINE SYSTEM AND ITS MECHANICS’

‘LAWS THAT GOVERN THE DIVINE REALM’

‘LEGENDS OF MOUNT OLYMPUS & THE GODS THAT LIVED IN IT’

‘THE MONSTERS THAT ROAM THE PEAK OF MOUNT OLYMPUS AND THE FOREST OF ELEANORA’

‘THE BLUEPRINT OF THE CARDELIA CITY AND THE WORLD MAPPING GRAPH’

 (No matter what I will uncover the secret of existence of these stupid large amount of stairs and the reason for absence of lifts and escalators.)

‘THE WORKING STRUCTURE OF THE TOWN HALL AND IT’S PEOPLE’

And the book I wanted to read the most was –

‘THE USAGE OF MAGIC AND THE CHANTS TO BRING FORTH THE CHANGES IN NATURE’

It was midnight and I had 6 hours before morning and 6 books to read. There was no time to waste. I flipped the first book open and started reading. By 3:00 am I had already completed five books.

I sure am a book worm and also had a good memory so I remember everything whatever I read as my brain registered it like a computer data processor.

All the books were magically enchanted since they looked thin, light in weight and had standard book size. But when you start reading you find that the book should have been much thicker than it appeared.

The working of the Divine system were quite new to me, I never knew that heaven worked in such a way. One could even compare the ‘divine system’ to an ultra super computer with unlimited storage capacity.

The only viable reason I came up with the existence of stairs was that gods liked to walk even though they can use magic like teleportation.

Also the legends were quite fascinating and it seems that tomorrow was an important day of mount Olympus since the tree of life was going to bear its fruit after 10,000 years again.

Now the main event had come for me to - learn magic!

Will I be really able to do it? Well I think I have been using it in my room, I could make water come out from shower and control its temperature. I could also produce electricity and use dryer and turn the room light on and off at will. Well considering that just by imagining I could conjure water, electricity and light. I couldn’t wait but flipped the first page open and began reading.

Even though the book was enchanted it was still quite thick and heavy. It had a fat brown cover and the book was quite old. According to Lady Athena the book was written by both her father and mother and was the longest book in her own personal library. Also the book was quite close to her heart. The fact that she lent me this book means that she trusted me with her whole heart and it really meant a lot for me. I had already pledged to devote my entire life to help Lady Athena in her endeavours and for that I needed to be strong. If not physically then I have to be mentally prepared for the worst possibilities.

It seems the noise which was coming from the room below till 2 o’ clock had stopped; they were partying late at this hour. It seems that all of the students planned it this way after the banquet hall. Of course they did not invite me; maybe they were doing this just below my room full knowing that I would be listening their happy merry songs and cheers and would be jealous or storm in their party and get embarrassed.

During the briefing in the assembly hall we were told that one of our wishes would come true if we save the world. At that time the only greatest wish I could think of was a place which I could call home and a person who really cared about me. And that wish had only come true, now the only thing I could ask for was to stay by Lady Athena’s side forever. It was a selfish wish but I couldn’t think or want anything else in the world.

So I had no reason to worry about their stupid party and their cheap tricks. I had no longer time to be played by them in their hands or get worked up on their silly views about me. We had six days left to prepare for our reincarnation. I cannot waste a single moment on merry making and idle chit chat. I had to cover as much information about the world of Isleguard and be prepared for any situation. Learning magic and about the geographical and political situation and history of the world was one of the ways I could think of. Battle prowess at present in this weak body of mine was impossible. I could only make a guess, but if we are reborn and have my intact memory then maybe I do have a chance to train my body and learn swordsmanship and become physically strong too.

I started reading from the first page and found out about the meaning of MP and SP. Even one’s life force could be used in magic. Magic can be invoked by using chants and they could be seen as a request petition from their respective gods. There are basically four attributes in magic – fire, water, wind and earth. Light and darkness (dark matter) are two other attributes yet considered as a separate and special branches of advanced magic. Any person can have affinity for one or more attributes.

But my eyes always looked for one missing piece and that was why chants were used in the first place. I did not use chants for bathing or turning off or on the light. It was just pure imagination and thinking. Perhaps the chants could be considered as a descriptive line of the affects of spell and create a strong and vivid picture of the spell function.

The longer the chant, the stronger the magic was and more difficult to visualize it in the first place.

After covering a major portion of the basics I thought to try it myself and learn my place. I was ready to fail in the first place if things did not go well as planned. What if I cannot use magic in the way I think? 

But I cannot allow such thoughts to adulterate my desires and imagination.

As for getting a feel to how magic works I had already seen Lady Athena doing it and how this magic energy materializes in one’s body and its warm feeling.

The first thing I wanted to try was to form water out of thin air. So as per the knowledge I have the air around us consisting of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water vapour and other gases in fixed proportions. Since we are humans so the divine realm would also have a similar composition of gases. First I had to try and separate water vapour from other gases. Also I should keep in mind the properties of other gases while I am separating them, since I cannot allow oxygen and hydrogen to mix so I needed to keep the oxygen covered in an envelope of nitrogen and same for other gases which are combustible. Water vapour is just water at a much higher temperature so to convert it in water I just needed to drop the temperature and had to keep in mind the various kinetic energies of the water molecule and also the laws of thermodynamics which governed these processes. And there it was I opened my eyes and globules of water floating in front of my eyes above my palm. Also by controlling the rotational kinetic energy and translational kinetic energy of water molecules I could control the movement and the speed of water flowing around my hand. Then just for fun I tried to launch the water in a glass kept on the table 5m away from where I was sitting. While half the water landed inside the glass, the other half spread all over the table and wetted the carpet. Also while launching some of the water leaked from the projectile leaving a trail in its mark.

I was still new at this and this innovative way of imagining things was too slow, the whole thing took one minute just to conjure water while Lady Athena could conjure water in large amount in no time at all.

I kept on practicing the same thing again and again and the whole time was reduced to 15 seconds in which I could conjure enough water to fill a bathtub. I was just too excited at the thought that when I take bath next time with Lady Athena then I would conjure water myself and surprise her.

But in all this practice, the whole room was drenched in water. So I just tried to control the temperature of water again and tried to evaporate it. For some reason it was taking a lot of time because the area in which I could control the temperature was still small. Also when I move to the next portion I had to start raising temperature from the beginning.

‘This won’t do? This way I will waste more time. It just started getting fun and now I had to clean the mess.’ I started stretching my own hair and banging the back of my hand on my forehead.

I am sure no one saw me in this shameful act. Whenever I got frustrated or felt embarrassed I started banging my head. One could describe it as neither too hard nor to soft.

Just then I had an idea, why not use hot wind currents to increase the rate of evaporation in the whole room. I set up a convection current system in the whole room and the humidity in the room was raised to an extent where I was sweating all over but the idea worked and the room was restored to its usual dry state.

Now what to do about my body and my clothes. I needed to change quickly otherwise the sweat might affect my body. Taking a bath was a nice idea and it was already four in the morning and outside through the window it almost looked like it was dawn even though there was no sun. For some reason it felt peculiar and remarkable at the same time.

I put off my clothes and entered the bathtub and prepare a cold water bath to cool off. While I was in the bath the idea of evaporation and separation of gases at molecular level gave me an idea to conjure fire.

So while I was relaxing in the bath, I started separating air again in its different molecular form. I trapped each gas separately and enclosed them in an invisible sphere of nitrogen to keep them away from reacting separately and go kaboom.

Then I took the sphere of oxygen and dissipated the nitrogen covering and raised the temperature of the sphere which lit up a bright yellow flame. It was not as large as I wanted it to be but combusting a small amount of oxygen at regular intervals was much safer than combusting large amount of oxygen in one go and burn the entire room. Getting kicked out of your room on the first day by the landlord was a tragic fate I did not wish to suffer.

 I later wanted to try it with hydrogen but it could be dangerous in a closed space. Maybe I can ask Lady Athena to assist me to an open and safe area.

I came out of the bath and felt refreshed more than ever, for some reason practicing all that magic was quite tiring. Maybe because it was my first time.

I then used a cool breeze to dry myself than a towel. Every time I did it, I always feel so happy and content. Let’s do it once more. It tickles…

I turned back and looked at the bathtub in which there was still cold water. I had used fire and water. The question is can I use both at the same time to raise the temperature of cold water in front of me in one go.

I remember once reading about an experiment in which the box lid opened on itself when the steam pressure built inside the box was high enough. Also if we keep on pumping steam inside a closed box or there is a sudden high influx of steam or gas inside a closed container it might be reduced to bits and torn apart in an instant no matter the material used.

So to create such tremendous amount of steam in one blow I had a pretty good idea of achieving it with what I had just applied. Most of the people will consider fire and water elements are incompatible and mostly work against each other diminishing their effects, but this incompatibility just may give rise to a compatible power I am seeking for.

Its like this!

I conjured small amount of water in one hand and tried spinning it in only one direction forming a hollow sphere. For some time the shape would distort but I think I got the hang of it for now. In the other hand I conjured fire by combusting a small amount of oxygen I tried to spin it in other direction. In both of my hands were two basic non compatible attributes of magic but in hands of a genius science student they can open a lot of possibilities and variations. For some time it was quite difficult to maintain them in the spinning sphere state otherwise it just extinguished or dissipated.

After confirming that I won’t lose focus and the spheres of fire and water are intact in both of my hands. I forced them together into one.

YES. You heard me I just shove them together into each other. One would say that the water would extinguish the fire. I will too agree but don’t forget these are magic attributes spinning in opposite direction and the water sphere is a hollow one. The two spheres combined as I had predicted and formed a much larger sphere than before and were now spinning in one direction.

To keep the explosion small, I kept the fire attribute in check so the flames were less powerful than water. Hence the final energy ball was spinning in the direction of water and vice-versa. Also I think if I increase the fire attribute there will be more chances of a bigger explosion, maybe I will try it next time. For now I have to do with this.

I launched this orb of explosive magical power into the bathtub.