Two days go by and the class of 45 has been keeping up with William's lessons. Friday rolls around and with it the first classes regarding the singularity of conversion. As William hurries himself out of room 4009 in order to get himself to room 1021 four floors down.
Whilst William sprints his way down the stairs Hector and Nadia calmly walks out of the classroom heading the same direction.
"You did really well today, Hector." Nadia says as she gives Hector a celebratory pat on the back.
"Thank you. You did quite well yourself." Hector stammered out a response.
The two calmly walked down the stairs. As they did, they noticed other students huddled up on the stairs, some seemed to be studying, others seemed to talk with people they knew, and some seemed suspicious. Their eyes were glazed and droll dropped from their mouths. It looked like they were mumbling something but what they were saying or to whom was unknown. Almost as if they were seeing something the rest couldn’t.
One of these students had a small bag crumbled up in his hands. In the bag was what looked like little pink and green pills.
"Are they... high?" Hector asked.
"It seems so." Nadia responded.
"In the middle of the day and on school grounds? Do they want to get expelled?" Hector questioned.
Nadia stayed quiet.
Hector looked at his newly made friend and noticed that something seemed to be troubling her.
"Hey Nadia, you good?" Hector asked.
"I'm fine it's just. I've noticed more and more people like that now. I know that you got here just a week ago, but I got here about two months ago and got to live here before the school term started." Nadia started.
"During those two months, I've seen people with that same pill just increase in numbers. Apparently, some say that some second year students are the ones distributing it from town into the school." Nadia explains.
"The drug is apparently called Angel eyes. I've heard from some gossip that apparently it lets you see something utterly beautiful. More than that I don’t know."
"There was even a morning where I woke up to a bottle of those pills standing by my bed. I don’t know how they got there, but I threw them away and requested a room change." Nadia told him.
"What? How come the principal or another teacher has expelled the students selling it?" Hector asked.
"They have tried using any kind of magic, but they can’t seem to find them. There are no fingerprints on the bottles, or any people shown on security cameras. They have no lead on who the culprit is." Nadia explained.
"Can’t they just use a form of tracking magic like the one William has?" Hector asked.
"Magic like that isn’t as common as you might think. There are spells that try to search r different objects or individuals, but they often need full knowledge of the individuals appearance age and name or how the object is made or the general area it might be in." Nadia explains to Hector.
"Professor William seems to be a special case since it's a title ability. And from what he told us it doesn’t seem to have much of those restrictions that usual tracking spells." Nadia says.
"Do you think that’s why he was hired? To get rid of the drug problem before it becomes public?" Hector theorizes.
"Maybe, but the way the principal acted with him the day he got here signaled that he knew who William is. Besides if it's just for a drug bust, they don’t need someone with a criminal history if our principal is a part of the ISC. So maybe principal Daniel has bigger plans in mind." Nadia adds.
They continue their talk without realizing they had marched all the way towards classroom 1021. As they got there, they noticed three other individuals waiting to be let in.
A man with quite the tall stature, his face was covered in freckles, he had brown eyes and he had short blond hair pulled back hair. He wore a buttoned up red checkers shirt along with blue jeans.
"Hello there!" The man said putting out his hand to shake theirs.
Hector shook his hand with a big smile.
"I'm Hector, Hector Ramos. From class 45."
"Joakim Åberg. Class 01." The man named Joakim said whilst shaking Hectors hand with an equally big smile.
"Ohberg?" Hector struggled to pronounce his name.
"Åberg. Joakim Åberg. I'm from Sweden." Joakim said as he stretched out his hand to Nadia.
"Nadia Odeh. Same class as Hector." she replied.
"Oh, so you're the ones with that hobo as your head teacher." a female voice rang out.
The voice came from a brunet standing by the door next to Joakim. She wore expensive clothes and didn’t even lift her eyes up from her phone whilst they were talking.
"Hobo?" Nadia asked.
"The nicotine addict that apparently will teach us about conversion." the woman said once again with a stale tone.
"Oh, don’t mind Abigale, she just speaks as she sees stuff. I don’t think she wants to be offensive to anyone. It's kinda hard to tell." Joakim explains.
The third person then walked up to the two with a tired expression.
"Good afternoon." she said, her voice drowsy and on the verge of sleep.
"What happened to you?" Hector asked.
"I thought it was a good idea to stay up all night to paint the entirety of Elysium." she replied.
"It wasn’t."
The girl wore a long sleeved shirt that was full of cat hair and white baggy pants. She wore a beanie on her head and on it was a variety of multicolored pins. Her hair was blond and tied up into a bun underneath the beanie. Her blue eyes fought with all their might to stay open, ash she slouched on Hectors shoulder.
"I'm Charolette Allard. from class 209"
Just then the doors to the room opened up and William stepped out welcoming the five in.
The room was small and consisted of six wooden chairs, five of them sitting directed at the sixth one who sat in front of an old chalk board.
The five students sat down on the chairs and awaited William’s instructions.
William handed out a small box to each of them.
"Now don’t open the boxes yet. The boxes I have given you include pieces of pure Yade. Now this is extremely dangerous if you were to touch with your hands youd be dead before tomorow. So don’t touch it." William explained.
There five students all shared the same confused look
I'm starting to question your teaching capabilities professor William... Nadia thought to herself.
"Now why did I give you this? Good question. To put it simply this is your end goal as converters." William explained.
"But isn’t conversion of pure Yade impossible?" Joakim asked.
"Indeed, it is." William smirked.
"So how is this our end goal?" Joakim continued.
"Because people seem to have forgotten that it was us sages that killed god. Meaning that what’s impossible and not, no longer has meaning to us." William said coldly.
"But it seems that most of us are still bound by our own imagination. So, I will teach you or teach myself to break that impossibility." William explained.
The room went silent.
"Now open your boxes and witness your end goal." William ordered.
As they opened their boxes a wave of pure power hits the students like a wall as the small green gemstone.
"That small piece could power up an entire country for 30 years straight." William explained.
"That is if we knew how to perfectly harness the energy from them."
"So, what is the act of converting Yade. Well, it's pretty simple. It's when a sage converts Yade from one state to another. But that's not all. Conversion is also converting objects, memories and similar traits into Yade. And the greatest challenge all converters dream of accomplishing it's the act of converting pure Yade, and harnessing the power it holds." William told them.
"Now years ago, monks who lived near in the great amazon rainforest had spent several generations to try to convert pure Yade to stable, then corrupt and then back to pure Yade again." William explained.
"Now these monks had gotten so close that they almost had figured it out. In fact, it says that about 100 years ago a monk was able to convert pure Yade into stable Yade with her last breath. But since then, the monks had gone off the radar." William explained.
"And I will try to complete what they had tried to accomplish all those years ago right in this classroom." William told them.
"Close your boxes and make sure you keep them safe. For these will be yours until you are able to convert them." William said.
William then handed out different wooden objects to the group.
"We will begin with trying to convert objects to Yade and work our way up to converting different states of Yade." he explained.
William stood in front of the group holding a wood carving of duck.
"All things are built up with Yade and what you have to do is feel the Yade that the object is constructed with. To do that just focus your mind on the wooden carving. Feel the warmth of the Yade build up in your palm and then let the warmth flow and guide you through the carving."
"When it feels like the carving in your hand has become a part of you that’s when you start to imagine it dissolve in your mind. Then continue to focus on that image until the entire carving has been converted into Yade." he continued.
"This can take some time to perfect and even more time to do it as fast as a usual converter but if you all just focus, I'm sure you will be experts in this field in no time." William said.
William then sat down on his chair as the group stood around in a half circle focusing and trying to convert the wooden carvings.
They stood there for some time with seemingly no progress more than that they had felt the Yade circling around in their object.
Hector stood focused. His mind was clear only thinking of the wood carving in his had dissolving. So, he stood and focused, eventually he started to feel how the object in his hand had become lighter. He disregarded it as his hand becoming numb and continued to try and convert the wooden pyramid in his hand.
However, eventually it became lighter and lighter, it even became hard to figure out where the pyramid was anymore. Hector opened his eyes to look, and he saw that he had done it. The once wooden pyramid in his hand had turned into a calm yellow light that seeped into his hand.
As it did, he felt a feeling of refreshment, like if he had just woken up from a perfectly undisturbed night of sleep.
Hector looked up and saw that William was looking at him with a proud smile. Hector looked around and saw that he was the first to have successfully converted their wooden carving. The others where only halfway or hadn't even begun to dissolve their object.
"When done with your first carving then take another from this box next to me and keep going. By the end of this class I expect this box to be empty." William announced.
So, Hector when up and picked up a small metal spinner and kept going.
The group eventually where able to get through their objects and by the end of their two and half hour lesson they had emptied out the entire box of metal and wooden objects.
Later that night Hector had been sitting in his room continuing to focus on what he had learnt today. He sat outside of his dorm room as to not wake Jimmy who was his roommate.
Hector sat and slowly converted papers upon papers into Yade just so he could get the basics under complete control.
He sat next to a big window and directly under the light of the moon. When he sat there something moved in the corner of his eye. He believed it to be just his mind being tired, but he decided to look anyway.
Outside the window by the entrance of the school he saw a familiar silhouette standing. The silhouette held a lighter in its hand and lit a cigarette. The light of the lighter didn’t reveal his face, however it was what happened next that made Hector even more curious.
The silhouette mumbled something before speaking out loud.
"Jäger."
As the voice spoke a low hum echoed out from the silhouette before it ran out into the city.
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