Victoria speaks a little too loud "Professor Nalear is sexly."
When Victoria realized what she had done, it was already too late. She entire face turned red, even the end of his ear turned a bright shade of red.
Alex says "smooth move, hot stuff."
Professor Nalear giggled, making Victoria turn an even brighter shade of red. She felt so ashamed of himself that she could only hide her face between her nades. She was incapable of looking at her and bagged her head on the desk.
"I'm honestly flattered by your feelings…" she said while still chuckling "...But I'm not kids. I'm looking for a tall and strong mage as a fire companion. If in six years I'm still single and you haven't changed your mind, I will be happy to resume this conversation."
Victoria wanted to cry and run away, spending the rest of her life hiding in the deepest hole she could find. But she had already made a fool out of herself, there was no reason to add insult to injury.
"Let's begin the lesson. Principles of advanced magic is about." she approached the chalkboard, a long and thin piece of mineral appeared out of thin air in her hand, allowing her to draw a human silhouette. " As you should already know from you first three years every human possesses a certain degree of talent for magic. The extent of such talent is defined by the amount of mana one has stored in his or her mana well."
Victoria followed her speech with interest. "An individual's talen can be roughly split into three categories: the normal human,…" she hit the chalkboard at the level of the silhouette's knees, and suddenly the empty space within it was filled by a glowing blue light up to the point. " the magico,..." this time the mineral hit at the chest level, and the light rose up accordingly. "And finally, the mage." The whole empty space within the silhouette was now filled to the brim with a pulsing blue color.
"While performing the first three tiers of magic, hands signs and magic words are the equivalent fo bucket, that one dropped in the mana will allows you to extract the right amount of power. Hence, the spellcasting will be successful, as long as you are capable of formatting a perfect bucker. Sadly, from tier four and up, this process no longer works."
"This kind of magic requires such an amount of mana, that there are only two ways of extracting it from the will: the first one, that you can learn in minor academies or in the books available for purchase, is to create a bigger bucket."
"This method is feasible but most of the time impractical. It requires so many magic words, hand signs so complicated that either your opponent is a rock or you work with a team that keeps it occupied during a very long spellcasting time."
"Just like using a bucket too big and heavy, extracting mana out of the well that way requires much more time and effort than just using the old bucket twice."
"The second one is only available in one of the six great academies. What I am going to teach you, has its root in the first magic's multi casing skills. Processor Trasque should have already stressed the importance of first magic correct?"
The whole class nodded.
"Multi casting means that an individual has the talent to form and control more than one bucket at the same time. Let's say a mage is capable of dual casting, potentially they can control up to two buckets."
That's the minimum requirement for tier four spells.
"Same may even require three, while only tier five magic demands an even higher mult casting capability. Please, understand that all this talk about buckets and water is just an oversimplification. In advanced magic, mental visualization is a key element for success. You can choose to imagine it as a jar of wine, a chest full of gold, whatever fits your bill is fine. Always remember that the second method had a much faster cast time in exchange for a greater focus and mental strength."
"It's up to you to learn how to form and control more than one 'bucket' at a time. Hand signs and magic worlds are still necessary to form the first one, then you need to be able to sense it and generate as many copies as you can. Those who are incapable of learning a method by the end of the academic year will be dismissed as they show insufficient talent, money and status cannot help you, only talent and a hard world will guarantee your promotion."
The lesson went on for another two hours, and soon it was lunchtime. Victoria as lunch with Alex, Stella, and Arwin. They all go to the next class with Victoria and Arwin going to they war mage specialization class as Stella go the her Master Healer specialization class and Alex go to her mage knight Alex.