Pestilence: Rise Of The Pure Undead

"And you told me you weren't good at magic, I never met someone so good at spirit creation and golemcraft" Rosemary but up her hand against Osworth's shoulder, unlike usual, she had ditch her red robe, currently dressed in brown pants and a white shirt with no sleeves, her arms weren't very bulky but definitely well trained, not everyone would get bigger with training after all.

Turning around, she clapped her hand and showed off the creation she and Osworth had just built to her class, in the last month, she had taught both of her classes at the same moment every single time, they needed to get more familiar with one another to form more cohesive groups.

"You will be trying out just spirit creation for today, but look at this magnificent creation, do you not want to be able to conjure such a valuable ally at all times?

By combining a spirit you created with a golem, the result is even more powerful than the sum of both their strength added to one another, it has greater intelligence by default as well, to achieve such a result with either a spirit or golem, lots of works and training is needed, but if you can manage to fuse the two, even if the most basic and weak versions possible, you will have a great source of strength at hand" she explained, clearly very enthusiastic about this lesson.

Unlike spirit calling, bound spirits, familiars and shades, the strength of created spirits and golems was always tightly linked to the mage's own, they were valuable skills to learn, and that even if left to collect dust for a while, would always grow alongside the user themselves.

Unfortunately, the greater echelon of magic was very obsessed with the most basic utilisation of mana, spells conjured by nothing but the sorcerer's own mana control, not that basic magic was bad, it was simply a waste to inculcate young mages that it was all that was worth their time.

Rosemary had been taught the same at first, but being so overwhelmingly talented, she had plenty of time to delve into the other documented ways of casting magic.

"Do not try to inscribe a spell or use an element for it at first" she instructed them, stepping to the side to observe them.

Obviously, some had already read through some of the books their teacher had given them and attempted it before, but still, none were close to succeeding yet.

"Where is Gelter today? I didn't expect him not to watch over Antieeld even if the world turned upside down"

"He has been given a little task, leaving the two of us to ourselves, it would appear, how many of them do you believe will be able of learning spirit creation?" he asked, his tone unchanging throughout the course of his sentence.

"Well, it is hard to be certain, most of them are talented enough to learn it eventually, but the biggest hurdle to overcome concerning both spirit creation and golemcraft is not to create one, but to learn to maintain it, after all, at the beginning, their creations will require their attention not to fall apart, but you would know about this, you didn't tell me you were so skilled" she put her hands on her hips, giving him a look indicating that she wanted him to elaborate.

"You give me too much credit, it just happens that I am good in those specific areas, after all, as you must have noticed, my mana has a special trait, but I am, let us say, blunt when it comes to affinities, I have none, I struggle to invoke even the basic elements" he admitted, looking over the students, all of them still struggling to even form their spirits.

"I am starting to believe that you just underestimate yourself, hearing you talk, it sounds like you were immediately capable of grasping the concept of those two nearly immediately, you should just come by at my place"

"Well, I do not think I can reasonably deny that offer, but I must consult with Antieeld first"

The two of them continued on exchanging pleasantries for the next thirty minutes, only stopping for the occasional giving of advices to the youngsters, she had already hammered the good ways to circulate mana into them, so repeatedly trying to create a spirit wasn't too straining on them, though, those with the most mana definitely had an easier time.

Only after half an hour did someone finally manage to shape a spirit.

"Gelter might have broken his calm demeanour" remarked the masked bodyguard, indeed, the red-haired future commandant had been the first to manifest a spirit, and she was even managing to keep it together for quite a while.

Being made from simple mana, it took on its natural blue colour, somewhat translucent and shaped like a regular knight, coming even with a shield and spear, standing at attention.

The young woman did her best to appear perfectly composed, like it was only natural, but the corners of her mouth curled up anyways, her eyes positively shining at the sight of her own creation, beads of sweat trickling down her face.

"Good job Antieeld, I didn't actually expect such an early success on the first lesson, don't bother on maintaining it for now, focus on learning to create and dispel your spirit as you wish" she rubbed her student's shoulder, noticing that she was quite tense.

"Antieeld was looking forward to this lesson, as a commandant, being able of increasing the numbers on her side as she wishes is a big deal, according to her, she spends her time reading on the various ways to do this" Osworth whispered the Rosemary when she came back next to him.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Unfortunately, I am not an exceptional instructor" he made a light gesture toward her, which she assumed was a silent way of implying that she was exceptional.

"Aherm, it's mostly them, they are the ones who do the majority of the work after all, I just give them the tools they need…"

Without anyone paying attention to him, the headmaster who had walked up to a nearby window was left with mouth gaping for a little while now.

'This smooth motherfucker, he really is doing it!'