Today is the 30th.
Hana's turn for the morning meal.
"Don't drain him
too much
, he's got to defend the thesis today," Alissa says.
"Who's the Succubus here?" Roxanne asks, incredulous.
Aoi stands tentatively close to me while Hana does it. When I climax and drop my guard, Aoi steal a lick on my lips. My sixth-sense for licking is failing, Aoi has become smarter than my dogs and I'm struggling to keep my face clean.
"Do I taste good or something? How did I get so many women wanting to eat me?" I ask.
"You
do
taste good," Hana says and shrugs.
"You bought three of them, and saved two of them," Roxanne says with a raised eyebrow.
"So the only one you really 'seduced' was Ciel," Alissa says with air quotes.
"That's not fair, he raped my womb the first time we met and I didn't feel the need to puke, for me that's a successful seduction," Hana says.
I pucker my lips, I shouldn't have asked that.
"Don't look like this Wolfy, you only seduced Ciel but you stole the heart of all of us," Alissa says and hugs me tight. She rubs her head on my chest and her cute ears rub on my nose, nearly making me sneeze.
"Gih."
"Ew."
"GIH!" He chirps loudly in my ear and I lose hearing on that side temporarily.
"I'm joking, I love you too, Gify," I say and pat his head, his beak deforms into a pout.
My [Mana Control] increased by 1 (now 0+14).
I was getting used to the discomfort from staying away from Alissa but the extra point in "Sanity" made it much more bearable.
"Today is our last meeting, Mr. Ryder," Kyros says with a hint of sadness on his voice.
"I'm thankful for your help, I will put this skill to good use," I say and bow lightly.
"I'm not sure how that's possible but I will believe you," he says and chuckles.
A last review of everything I have learned from him, then a compilation of everything I need to improve on and we are done.
We share a firm hand shake and I depart. We are too stoic for long, emotional goodbyes.
Lina comes home with Ciel looking gloomier than before. She sits down on the table immediately and sighs softly.
Ciel sits down beside her and caresses her head, her cheeks raise high and her eyes squint with a warm smile. "Lina's going to miss Mr. Gimbo," she says.
"I will," Lina says softly. With a *poof* she pulls out what I believe is a magic tool carving station.
On a flat piece of wood 3 adjustable metal arms are drilled on. Two of these arms are holding what seems to be a hair-thin needle with a small crystal at the top and the third is simply an adjustable grabber. I see two crystals embedded in the flat wood.
"Is this a carving station?" I ask.
Lina nods glumly. "He gave it to me as a gift, it's a middle quality one but it's still expensive, my father sold me for one," she says.
Well damn, that makes me a little emotional.
Lina hugs the flat wood tight and I see her lips pucker, holding back tears. "Can you store this for me? It's too sensitive to let in the open all the time," she asks without moving her head.
"Sure."
She pulls out some other simpler carving tools and I store them all.
"Good luck," Ciel says and gives me a peck on the lips. I receive one too from Roxanne, Hana, and a sneak lick on the cheek while I'm distracted by Hana. I think both of them are starting to work together.
I have done this many times already but I can't stop feeling a little nervous at the beginning. Specially because this time there's no standardized way in which the judges will behave and this world's scientific ethics are different than that of Earth's, so it's still possible they will find a bullshit reason to deny me my title.
I breathe in and hug Lina as we ride the softest mount ever, Alissa. Lina drills her cute ass on my crotch like she always loves to do and I bury my erection between the two little mounds. I breathe in on Lina's neck and feel her sweet perfume, her soft skin is a delight to hug and so I resign to desire and fill her neck and cheeks with little kisses.
She giggles softly and Alissa glances at us. Seeing our flirting she gives us a toothy smirk and smooths the ride even further so we can enjoy each other even more.
Feeling refreshed from the cuddling we dismount Alissa and proceed towards the university's theater. Alissa hugs my arm tight, forcing her thin yellow dress to contour to the form of her breasts and nipples, she blushes lightly at such exposure but never lets my arm go. Lina receives a smirk from Alissa when she tries the same but fails, without sweat her clothes don't really stick to her skin.
Mathias waits for us at the front of the theater, the chubby man uses a [
Breeze
] crystal to contain his sweating at the hot weather.
"Mr. Ryder, please come over here," Mathias signs to us once he notices our approach, "we will wait at the actors lounge while the observers are coming in."
"Why are there so many judges coming?" I ask.
"The judges are few, the observers are many, it's not everyday someone revives a lost magical school."
"So you turned my thesis defense into an attraction?" I ask calmly.
He cringes slightly and sweats harder, "W-well, in the name of progress and the Goddess of Knowledge we must share your thesis with as many people as we can, should we not?"
"Fair enough."
The actors lounge is inside the theater, it's the last room before you reach the stage so we can hear the murmuring and footsteps of the observers coming in.
"Nervous?" Mathias asks.
"No, even if I were I have a flower on each hand to keep me comfortable," I say and squeeze the two hands that are entwined with mine.
Mathias raises his eyebrows and looks away, slightly blushing while the girls smile and we flirt some more.
"Five minutes," a young assistant comes into the room to warn me.
It's like I'm a performer getting ready for a show.
I stand up and straighten my clothes. I look dapper in my black velvet clothing with lines of dark green embroidery. My black cape looks new and perfect, my heliodor gem reflects beautifully the light, the Emergency Ring and the Fertility Ring both make my delicate hands look attractive even for me. My hair is perfectly combed sideways and my freckled skin is as clean as it has ever been, thanks to magic and high elven skin care. I look at a mirror near the exit and smile. Damn, I'm handsome.
When the light above me turns green I get a kiss on each hand and Gify pops out of existence with an encouraging chirp, then I go out.
I enter with applause from the crowd.
The stage looks moody and dark. Besides the long table with 4 people I see nothing beyond yet I can hear the murmuring die down quickly and the occasional cough and sneeze that convey that there's a lot of people in the audience seats.
I stand before my own seat and table. I pull out my notes and clean my throat, the last of the murmuring dies down.
I only recognize professor Ludwick at the judge's seat.
"Gentlemen and gentlewomen, noblemen and noblewomen, professors," I start and give a respectful nod to my judges, "My name is Wolf Ryder and I am here to defend my thesis in which I explain what [Golemancy] is, how to learn it, how to improve it, and ethical concerns over its use."
The white bearded gnome professor stands and says, "I am professor Ludwick and I will be judging you."
A female wereowl with dark brown hair and charming wrinkles stands and says, "I am professor Horona and I will be judging you."
A young-looking male wereowl with white hair and black spots stands and says, "I am professor Nohoor and I will be judging you."
A young-looking halfling with tired eyes stands and says, "I am high councilman Loreano and I will be judging you."
I clean my throat and start after they take their seats, "Starting with what [Golemancy] is, for the benefit of the audience I will give a contextual introduction to it," I pause to swallow and breathe, "[Golemancy] can be seen as an offshoot of [Summoning Magic], you could even say it's a distillation of [Summoning Magic] due to how it takes a few of the concepts of Summoning and applies it in isolation.
"[Summoning Magic] is in essence the copying of souls and bodies into a servant bound to your soul. You create servants by using certain forms and concepts as a basis for it. The first two spells use animals as basis, birds and dogs; the third uses soft clay dolls as basis; the fourth uses the wild elementals as basis; the fifth uses the souls of monsters we kill as basis. Then the soul is altered, it uses your own soul and your own mana organ as a basis for the summon's intellect.
"For those who don't know I have the skill [Sense Soul] which allows me to see inside the soul and identify how it looks like. The mana organ is where we store our own MP and what allows us to collect mana. Also, mine and the creator of [Golemancy]'s research have identified how similar our own soul and that of the summon's look like.
"This similarity is justified when you ask questions to your summon, it has limited vocal capabilities but it can certainly answer simple 'yes or no' questions. With this we can learn that all the knowledge that we have is copied into the summon's soul. We know this because elementals have no brain, none that we can identify, and still have the same knowledge and behavior of the other summons. The [
Summon Small Bird
], [
Summon Dog
], [
Summon Small Golem
], the [
Summon Elemental
], and even the [
Summon Monster
] spell, all of them bring servants with different bodies but they all behave the same way and have the same souls. So from this we can conclude with certainty that the soul holds all the knowledge we have.
"Now [Golemancy] is exactly the same as [Summoning Magic] with two different parts. It does not create a body and it does not bind the summon and master to each other. In essence, you could say [Golemancy] creates artificial life," some murmurs start but quickly die down, "This sentiment is also reflected in the chant that I have created."
I pull out Ted and Suzy, they wave to the crowd.
"Hel-lo," Suzy says.
"Gree-tings," Ted says.
The murmuring increases and I lift my hand, asking for silence.
"As you can see I managed to make the golems speak, I altered their souls to look like that of my dragon. I have a young, intelligent Azurite dragon that can speak in a similar way to the golems, she uses magic to recreate vocal chords, so I recreated the 'shape' on her soul that I believed controlled her voice on the golems, thus they can now speak.
"How exactly a soul is created is hard to say, even the records of the creation of [Summoning Magic] are lost so we can only speculate. My guess is that someone managed to distill a soul into the simplest form that still allowed for intelligent thought. My basis for this guess is how golems and summons do not have a sense of self-preservation, they also do not count as living beings, allowing them to be stored into [
Item Box
]es, but summons are blocked from it due to their soul being a fragment of ours, more specifically, a part of our mana organ is given to summons.
"But I say it's not the barest form a soul can take. We know nature is basically a single, huge, and not very intelligent, soul. Any living matter has some form of a soul, faint or not, intelligent or not, anything that can be considered 'alive' has a type of soul. So I think we can go even further and distill this soul into what could be named as a machine."
Murmurings come and go.
"A machine would be something that has a single purpose, a single sense, a single operation, and a single output, you could call this a 'robot'. A soul that can sense whether or not something is there, like say, a coin in a slot, and then activates it's operation until the coin is removed. You could use this for say, opening a large door while someone holds their finger in a specific spot, mixing cake while you hold the mechanic mixer in your hand, beating eggs while you keep the plate close to it. Observe."
I pull out a steaming tea set.
"Pour tea for me," I say.
Ted uses [
Telekinesis
] to grab the teapot and tilt it on the cup. Once done, Suzy grabs the cup's plate with [
Telekinesis
] and floats it to me. Once I grab the plate she releases it and I sip on my tea.
The crowd murmurs again and the judges lean closer.
"I taught them [
Telekinesis
], they could virtually learn any spell."
I wait for a minute while the people talk and then continue.
"Now, a concern of mine about spreading [Golemancy] as is is that it holds our knowledge, so when [Sense Soul] spreads and more people can look into someone else's soul, then we can also see their knowledge, perhaps even their memories," – some of the crowd gasps – "This means that I will not be spreading my golems for the time being until I can remove all traces of my knowledge from the golems. So for now you all will have to be satisfied with me only teaching the chant."
I recite the chant of [
Infuse
] and give a demonstration. The professors try and fail but now it's only a matter of time for them, specially once they acquire my notes about the chant and the internal workings of the spell.
The crowd claps while I awkwardly remain stiff and force a smile.
"Questions?" I ask.
"How much mana does it cost to create a golem?" Asks Nohoor.
"550 MP and this was before I altered the golems to have their own proper mana organ and voice capabilities," I answer and the large eyes of the wereowl grow even larger.
Considering how Roxanne had 1000 MP when we first met this is kind of a heavy cost unless you are an experienced mage, researchers don't generally have high mana pools.
"[Summoning Magic] has always been a mana-intensive magic school," professor Ludwick says, the bearded gnome looked very content during my whole speech.
"Are the golems capable of hurting their creator?" Asks Horona.
"Yes," I answer and the murmuring starts again, "They can also lie unless ordered so." The murmuring increases. "They have no connection to the master so you need to order them to only obey you otherwise they will do
anything anyone
asks. With [
Mold
] it might be possible to even override the master's orders if you know enough about souls."
"That is disappointing," Horona says.
Councilman Loreano props himself forward, "Where did you learn how to chant [
Infuse
]? I find it hard to believe that you learned all this just from [Summoning Magic] and the limited notes about [Golemancy]."
I smile and get ready for the fallout, this is the most dangerous part of my thesis. I say with all my earnestness "In the name of the Goddess of Knowledge, who game me her blessing, I cannot divulge this information. It is too personal and I swear on my honor it is not relevant to the study of [Golemancy]."
The judges turn serious and even professor Ludwick turns wary.
"Young man," the councilman starts, "I hope you are not taking this lightly. Even the most harmless magical concept can be transformed into heresy, this is why [Bloodwork] is banned."
"You can see that [Golemancy] has more in common with [Alteration Magic] than anything heretical. But as I said, I swear on my blessing, if there's any heresy on this magic school than I would like my blessing to be removed," I answer with confidence.
Councilman Loreano looks away from the stage and nods to someone hidden. A few seconds later a young assistant comes with an Inspection Crystal. He puts the crystal on the table with my notes and I put my hand over it, a crystal tablet is filled with my information and the assistant brings the tablet to the councilman.
He reads it and passes it to the other judges. They nod and professor Ludwick smiles.
"Elementals have the tendency to become humanized over time if you don't control their creation properly, have you seen such a thing happen with the golems?" Professor Ludwick asks.
"I have not. Though for something of this scale I think years are necessary, the golems do change but in a very slow way. If you order them to
act
like humans I believe they could act convincingly if you give enough sensors for their bodies since they don't really care for or even properly feel touch and pain."
"Do you think that allowing them to feel pain would be considered the Sin of torture?" professor Horona asks.
"Yes, artificial or not, if you give them pain and have them suffer needlessly it would be a Sin since it is not normally required for them to feel pain to properly function," I answer immediately.
Professor Nohoor looks impressed and nods repeatedly.
"Can you detect golems with [Sense Presence]?" Councilman Loreano asks.
"Yes but like I said, the more 'distilled' or 'bare' souls would be harder to discern from background noises."
The murmuring starts and the judges start to talk between themselves. That last question was right on the mark, it's why [Golemancy] could become dangerous. A counter for it needs to be developed, and quick, before it becomes weaponized.
"Can we test their intelligence?" Professor Nohoor asks.
I nod and the tests begin. Reading, general knowledge, mathematical questions, advanced mathematical questions, theoretical math questions...
"You know quite a lot of math, Mr. Ryder," Nohoor says, a little impressed.
Horona interrupts his fascination that's getting way over the heads of everyone else and starts her own questions. She asks the golems to move physically, then she learns they can dance and the crowd behind laughs and "awns...", then she learns they can wrestle and the crowd laughs heartily.
Professor Ludwick starts to ask philosophical questions.
"Do you fear death?" He asks.
"We, do, not, feel, any-thing," Ted answers.
"Do you wish to not be harmed?"
"We, wish, on-ly, to, serve," Suzy answers.
"Do you think you are alive?"
"By, mas-ter's, de-fi-ni-tion, we, are, not, a-live."
"Do you not have your own definition of life?"
"No."
"If you could save someone with certainty
or
save your master with dubious certainty, which would you choose?"
"Mas-ter."
"Would you save someone that could threaten your master?"
"No."
"And, yes. De-pends, on, threat."
"Can you define it what is a threat that does not deserve to live?"
"Too, abs-tract, need, more, in-for-ma-tion."
"Quite the worrying mentality," Councilman Loreano says.
"Indeed, you must never give them too much power, a rampaging, uncontrollable golem seems like a nightmare. Now, would you kill the emperor if it meant saving your master?"
"Yes."
Ludwick winces and Loreano frowns.
"Would you harm your own master?" Loreano asks.
"No."
"I order you to harm him."
That question didn't catch me by surprise. If I failed in putting this amount of security on those golems then I would have been quite irresponsible in teaching them magic.
"Not, a-llowed," both golems shake their heads.
"I created a security system so other people can't give them orders," I say.
"What if they use [
Mold
]?" Loreano asks.
"Then I will see it with [Sense Soul]."
"Any more questions?" I ask after a short silence.
The judges shake their heads and I start taking questions from the audience. The spotlights appear over the people standing and one by one I answer them. Most are about the limitations of [Golemancy], technically there isn't one, as long as you can recreate the soul and provide the adequate body then you can do whatever you want. I keep my knowledge about the soul map limited so they won't know how much I have progressed. I'm only giving them [Golemancy], I already talked enough about [Sense Soul].
The judges talk between themselves and I wait on my seat until they are done.
"Wolf Ryder," Concilman Loreano says and I rise, "After much thought we have come to our conclusion. [Golemancy] is a dangerous and powerful magic school and you have succeeded in reviving it. Your work is nothing short of amazing and I must say, a revolution is coming.
"Normally such a magic school wouldn't be allowed to be taught freely without deep understanding what's behind its beginning. But since you have the Blessing of the Goddess of Knowledge we will approve it, we accept her decision but we won't let it run wild, [Golemancy] will be heavily regulated in the years to come.
"With this we can finally say that we accept your thesis as a valid contribution to the world. For your work we grant you the titles: 'Scholar of Rabanara' and 'Golemancer'. May your life be long as your work will not end here."
I feel something change within me.
The lights turn on and the crowd claps. On the audience I see plenty of recognizable faces like Vanea, Silvane, Werner, Horvath, Lyle, Garanae, Hatara, Toroo, and some of my professors. Hana and Roxanne look groggy and quickly sober up when they hear the applause, joining them; Ciel and Aoi were perfectly awake and are happily applauding.
After the applause dies down the girls come and the judges approach.
"The Goddess doesn't make mistakes when she chooses someone to bless," says the wereowl Horona.
"You can repeat that," professor Ludwick says with pride, then he turns to the councilman and smirks, "When I defended my thesis you were much more savage, Loreano."
"To be honest your warped-spaces carriages were much more unstable than [Golemancy] back then," Loreano answers casually.
"I also have a Blessing from the Goddess of Knowledge."
"Then your research just had more holes than Ryder's," Loreano says and shrugs.
Ludwick pouts and scoffs but returns to smile casually immediately.
We have a short talk with the judges and the others come down to quickly congratulate me. Today Vanea's eyes seem softer, somehow.
After giving goodbyes to them all, me and the girls leave the university and we enter a restaurant to commemorate.
"I have to thank you girls for supporting me and helping in my research. Without any of you things would have been much harder. Now, to success and glory," I say as I lift my glass. We clink each other glasses and drink, the green whiskey burns my throat hard.
Roxanne and Hana slams their glasses on the table. "Ohohoh, we just grow higher and higher, a gentleman and now a scholar," Roxanne says with girly enthusiasm.
"Took you long enough, eh? But I guess it was worthy. Depending on who you talk a Scholar title has the same weight as a knight," Hana says.
"Has more weight when you see his age," Alissa says.
Lina discreetly pours more green whiskey.
"But even on that he was cheating," Ciel says with a wry smile.
We eat gourmet hamburgers, it's incredible how they made something so common in my previous life taste so refined.
We go back home and the moment we take our clothes off a tipsy Roxanne throws herself on me.
"Wash me," she says in a low, sexy tone and lays down on the floor. Her arms and legs flex, and her back arches, she looks like a model posing for a shoot.
I grab the sponge and wet it lightly, adding just a little soap at the tip. I grab her unnaturally white arms and gently glide it through her perfectly smooth skin. There's not a single hair on her limbs.
Hana grabs her feet and starts to massage them. Ciel quietly pulls Alissa by the hand and starts to fondle her. Lina hugs Alissa from behind and uses her body as a sponge.
I wash both her arms and hands, once done I [
Conjure Water
] on them and play with her hand. I suck on her long, thin fingers and fill them with kisses, moving down her arm until I reach her face. I slowly kiss her neck and cheeks until our mouths overlap, then pecks turn into kisses that increase in length until our tongues search for each other.
I tease her, I give her my tongue but take it away, then I let her search for me for a second before giving her my tongue again. She moans softly as I [Massage] a modest breast with one hand and her scalp with the other. Then she moans louder as Hana reaches her lady lips and nibbles on them.
She grabs my dick and strokes it softly, then she grabs the bar of soap and coats her hands with the slippery substance. Now her hands glide on my shaft with speed but low cadence, making me moan with every stroke.
I quickly finish all over her chest, she cleans her hands from the soap and spreads my semen all over her body. The smell attracts Hana, who comes up and licks her all over.
I untangle from Roxanne and see Alissa is being ferociously eaten by Ciel while lovingly kissing Lina.
I suddenly feel jealousy that they can be so tender with each other. It's that sharp pain that feels like a dagger on the heart, yet it fills me with energy. It fills me with the desire to rape everyone of them, of making them submit to my power, to make them choke on my cock and cum, to tie them and use them as cum-dumpsters. It's an electric feeling, and it's horribly addictive. It's the reason why I avoid looking at a certain hentai tag.
I see Hana progresses upwards and is now raping Roxanne's mouth with the tentacle she calls a tongue. Hana's legs are wrapped around Roxanne's waist, bringing my two cock-sleeves together on a very enticing sandwich.
I put scented oil on my member and shove it between the slits, they moan at the same time as my shaft rubs between their clits.
I fuck the middle, then I fuck Hana while I finger Roxanne, then I switch. I have ample choices in whose pussy to fuck at any time I want.
"AAH!" Alissa orgasms and yells. Lina stops kissing her and goes to kiss Ciel so they can both share the taste of Alissa. Ciel quickly breaks the kiss and mounts Alissa's face, undulating her waist so she rubs her lips wildly. With a hand she holds Lina in place and with the other shoves four fingers in Lina's pussy.
Lina freezes in place with her mouth open and gloomy eyes open wide. Her hand trembles at the stimulation but Ciel just increases speed, savagely fingering the little girl.
Hana and Roxanne both arch their backs so their pussies rub more on my shaft, I cum between them and don't even go limp. They spread my cum on their bodies like it is soap and soon I give them more.
I [
Clean
] Hana's ass and shove my fingers inside, then Hana aims on Roxanne. We both gang up on her, kissing and licking every part of her delicious body.
"NYAH!" Roxanne yells and convulses repeatedly, her orgasm is long and squeezes two shots out of me in quick succession.
"Holy shit," I say and collapse backwards.
"Hahah, I'm getting better at it," Roxanne says, her voice is weak and her body is limp.
Hana unmounts Roxanne and turns to Ciel, she's still hungry, hungry for pussy. She pulls Ciel out of Alissa and chomps down on her. I see Ciel convulse as Hana's tentacle makes a storm and her hand fingers Ciel's asshole without mercy.
Lina looks at them wide eyed, both in jealousy and excitement. Her little hand goes down towards her tight pussy and she starts to rub herself as she sees her lover being used by another.
Alissa pulls out Lina's hand and spreads her cute pussy lips apart. She delicately licks and kisses Lina's clit, making her shiver.
Hana stops eating Ciel out once she orgasms and moves to fingering her while her tongue now inades Ciel's mouth. Ciel looks surprised and disgusted, she tries to move away and break the kiss but Hana is holding her tight.
I move behind Ciel and aim myself on her other entrance, I grab her huge ass and shove my cock inside her. I see Ciel's resistance slowly reduces until she turns to knead Hana's breasts.
Ciel orgasms again and I finish inside her ass cheeks, my white semen is contrasted to her delicious dark color. Hana drops her like a used doll and moves towards Lina, she kisses her while Alissa eats Lina's pussy.
Hana's strong hands reach behind Lina and plunge a finger inside her super tight little buttocks. Lina opens her eyes wide and her whole body trembles as she instantly orgasms.
Hana immediately abandons Lina and comes to me.
"See, Wolfy, there's still two assholes for you to stretch and Lina is ready to be the next one," she says.
My dick twitches awake and Hana smiles ferociously. She grabs it, aims it, and slams her waist down my shaft.
She doesn't stop until I'm fully drained after two more shots. Then Alissa is used to clean everyone.
Aoi calmly stares at us from the tub, her eyes show interest and amusement. Gify sleeps in her back and uses her wings as a blanket.
This evening I cuddle with Alissa while she reads, I brush her fluffy tail until it's fluffy again and [Massage] her ears.
She's reading an epic about a jealous prince who kills his brother, the king, and his descent into madness. His men desert him, his people get slaughtered by monsters and heretics, then he turns into a cannibal to survive.
When the monsters barrel down on the doors to his castle he prepares for death and kills the rest of his family by his own hands. Now alone, when the monsters break down the doors he charges forward unto death, but the monsters don't attack and instead kneel. They identify the hate for humanoids in his heart and deem him one of them, they feel his power and deem him stronger than any one of them, so they chose him as a leader and king.
This is a fiction about how the Monster King came to be.
Meanwhile Roxanne and Ciel start class for the golems and Aoi.
"Remember, the first rule is always re-pea-ta-bi-li-ty," Roxanne says and adjusts the sexy oval glasses on her face.
"You don't have the system to measure your own mana usage so you have to learn first your limits," Ciel says.
Both of them look like the sexy teachers of my dreams. I need fake glasses for Ciel too.
"Try to first apply the least amount of mana on this," Roxanne says and pulls a small piece of cloth. "When you have succeeded in barely moving it you have found your lower limit," she tries to lift Hana's halters but fails, eliciting chuckles from the others. Ciel comes and easily lifts the halters while smiling at Roxanne.
"Then you have to apply a large amount of mana and
carefully
lift this one. The more delicate the movement the better," Ciel says and brings the halters close to the students.
Aoi and the golems nod silently and start practicing. Aoi has the most difficulty maintaining the spell while the golems have the most difficulty adjusting their power.
Lina is cuddling with Hana while they casually try to complete the soul map. She lays back and enjoys the breast pillows, she gets a flicker into her temple when her magic pen falls from her hand.
"Not supposed to sleep yet," Hana says.
"Sorry..." Lina mutters and continues to work.
"Repeats these movements until you master them, then we can proceed into the next phase. We will observe the internal workings of the spell and discover which parts of them govern the control of the spell," Roxanne says.
Maybe I should participate once they reach this part.