Fammilar of Zero........ Snippet 1
Jaune Pendragon
King Of Servants
- Location
- Avalon
It was an important day at the Tristain Academy of Magic. After all, it was the day of the Springtime Summoning Ritual, an important part of any Mage's education. Today was the day when each mage selected their familiar.
By the second year of their education, each Mage was to select a familiar. Everyone hoped for a powerful familiar such as a dragon, gryphon or a Manticore, but most likely they would get something far more mundane.
Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière however, was currently hoping for something far more valuable than a mere owl or cat. She was a mage who was magically inept, a humiliating prospect for a noble in Halkeginia. She had endured the scorn and derision of her classmates for that.
It was made all the worse by the noble pedigree that she came from. Her father's line was a prominent and important noble clan, while her mother was the renowned Karin of the Heavy Wind. The fact that she could not measure up to her parents was a rather sore spot.
Her heart beat with trepidation. While she hoped for a great and powerful familiar, to shut up her classmates, she really needed to summon something lest she be an utter failure at being a mage in all areas. She might even be kicked out or disowned out of her family.
That scared her. She lived in a land where magic was a synonym for nobility, and without magic, she was nothing better than a commoner. The best she could look forward to was perhaps be used as a bride to be married off. The worst was being cast from the nobility entirely. Wardes, her so-called fiance hadn't even visited her once nor even sent a single letter to her. He was no fiance. Just a man married to his duty.
Then there was Kirche von Zerbst. The one who twisted the knife in further and applied salt to her already painful wounds.
It hurt such that at times she thought of jumping off the tallest tower and being done with it. Only the thought of her Sister Cattleya still kept her from doing so.
But she would not fail. She must not fail. She had studied and studied up to this particular moment, trying to understand the mechanics of ''Summon Servant''. Everything had been staked on this one moment.
If she failed she didn't know what she might do.
''Miss Vallière please step forward and perform the rite,'' Professor Colbert called her.
She stepped forward hesitantly, taking a deep breath, steeling herself, then she began her incantation.
My familiar who exists somewhere in the universe…"
This was her final chance. If she failed here she would likely be expelled. No, perhaps she might actually through with killing herself.
"...my divine, beautiful, wise, and powerful servant, heed my call. I wish from the very bottom of my heart…"
Cattleya perhaps would weep. But in this society where magic was everything.. Her failures as a mage may as make her high ranking Commoner. She couldn't beat the thought of what would happen should she fail.
"...answer to my guidance and appear!"
As she completed her incantation she felt her willpower draining. It drained far faster than she had ever experienced before. Perhaps this time the spell would work?
But instead of a familiar appearing, a huge magic circle appeared around her. It was so huge that some of it appeared under the students who were waiting several feet back.
"Students step out of the magic circle," Colbert warned as he gripped his staff tightly ready for anything to happen. He had never ever seen anything thing like this happen in his life.
Most of the students began to murmur as they had never seen Louise even coming remotely close to succeeding before.
The circle began to brighten as heavy winds began to blow from it nearly pushing several students away. It then split, a copy of the circle rising around Louise as if scanning every in of her before vanishing as it rose above her head.
The circle began to brighten to ridiculous levels as the whole clearing was engulfed in a bright, blue flash, centred on Louise. That was unexpected and blinded everyone except Colbert and Tabitha who had battle experience and had managed to cover their eyes, leading to a great many yelps, shouts, and groans from several students who had spots in their eyes.
As the light dimmed down there was no familiar to be seen. This was expected. Several students gave an audible sigh of relief as they had expected a huge explosion. Even those who couldn't sense the massive amount of will power could tell that a huge amount was used from how bright the magic circle was.
Louise fell down collapsing into a heap and as Colbert approached her, he saw her face completely red. He leaned in to inspect her temperature and he found that she was completely burning up, then her whole body began to shake as she began to shiver and then fell unconscious.
Something was very wrong.
"Class Dismissed!" he called out as he cast levitation on the poor girl and hurried to the infirmary.
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"How is she?" Colbert asked the healer.
"The girl is stable for now." The healer sighed tiredly. "Honestly if you had brought her in a minute later her head might have cooked itself." Colbert gasped. "Fortunately I managed to stabilize her, her brain kept trying to cook itself. It took nearly an hour of constantly cooling her off before she was stable. What the hell happened to her?"
Colbert let out a sigh of relief as he heard that Valerie was stable. He wasn't sure he would survive if the girl had died under his watch. Karin would make sure he'd be dead.
"Thank you!" Jean gave a thankful nod.
"You still didn't answer my question. What the hell happened?"
"I don't know," Colbert answered honestly. He had no idea what had happened.
Perhaps her Magic had misfired differently? Or perhaps she had succeeded and her familiar was the cause of it? He could only hope Miss Valerie would awake soon.
What he didn't know was Louise's brain was not cooked due to a familiar or the failure of her Magic.
Rather the ridiculous amount of knowledge and information that her Brain had to process which was being provided from..... Somewhere...
A human brain is extremely powerful capable of 10 ^ 17 operations per second.
Or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations a second.
The amount of information that had entered her brain was so much that it was pushed to its limit for a whole hour.
If she wasn't being constantly healed and cooled by the healer her brain would have burnt itself out trying to process all the information.
When Louise woke up next she would be very, very different.
By the second year of their education, each Mage was to select a familiar. Everyone hoped for a powerful familiar such as a dragon, gryphon or a Manticore, but most likely they would get something far more mundane.
Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière however, was currently hoping for something far more valuable than a mere owl or cat. She was a mage who was magically inept, a humiliating prospect for a noble in Halkeginia. She had endured the scorn and derision of her classmates for that.
It was made all the worse by the noble pedigree that she came from. Her father's line was a prominent and important noble clan, while her mother was the renowned Karin of the Heavy Wind. The fact that she could not measure up to her parents was a rather sore spot.
Her heart beat with trepidation. While she hoped for a great and powerful familiar, to shut up her classmates, she really needed to summon something lest she be an utter failure at being a mage in all areas. She might even be kicked out or disowned out of her family.
That scared her. She lived in a land where magic was a synonym for nobility, and without magic, she was nothing better than a commoner. The best she could look forward to was perhaps be used as a bride to be married off. The worst was being cast from the nobility entirely. Wardes, her so-called fiance hadn't even visited her once nor even sent a single letter to her. He was no fiance. Just a man married to his duty.
Then there was Kirche von Zerbst. The one who twisted the knife in further and applied salt to her already painful wounds.
It hurt such that at times she thought of jumping off the tallest tower and being done with it. Only the thought of her Sister Cattleya still kept her from doing so.
But she would not fail. She must not fail. She had studied and studied up to this particular moment, trying to understand the mechanics of ''Summon Servant''. Everything had been staked on this one moment.
If she failed she didn't know what she might do.
''Miss Vallière please step forward and perform the rite,'' Professor Colbert called her.
She stepped forward hesitantly, taking a deep breath, steeling herself, then she began her incantation.
My familiar who exists somewhere in the universe…"
This was her final chance. If she failed here she would likely be expelled. No, perhaps she might actually through with killing herself.
"...my divine, beautiful, wise, and powerful servant, heed my call. I wish from the very bottom of my heart…"
Cattleya perhaps would weep. But in this society where magic was everything.. Her failures as a mage may as make her high ranking Commoner. She couldn't beat the thought of what would happen should she fail.
"...answer to my guidance and appear!"
As she completed her incantation she felt her willpower draining. It drained far faster than she had ever experienced before. Perhaps this time the spell would work?
But instead of a familiar appearing, a huge magic circle appeared around her. It was so huge that some of it appeared under the students who were waiting several feet back.
"Students step out of the magic circle," Colbert warned as he gripped his staff tightly ready for anything to happen. He had never ever seen anything thing like this happen in his life.
Most of the students began to murmur as they had never seen Louise even coming remotely close to succeeding before.
The circle began to brighten as heavy winds began to blow from it nearly pushing several students away. It then split, a copy of the circle rising around Louise as if scanning every in of her before vanishing as it rose above her head.
The circle began to brighten to ridiculous levels as the whole clearing was engulfed in a bright, blue flash, centred on Louise. That was unexpected and blinded everyone except Colbert and Tabitha who had battle experience and had managed to cover their eyes, leading to a great many yelps, shouts, and groans from several students who had spots in their eyes.
As the light dimmed down there was no familiar to be seen. This was expected. Several students gave an audible sigh of relief as they had expected a huge explosion. Even those who couldn't sense the massive amount of will power could tell that a huge amount was used from how bright the magic circle was.
Louise fell down collapsing into a heap and as Colbert approached her, he saw her face completely red. He leaned in to inspect her temperature and he found that she was completely burning up, then her whole body began to shake as she began to shiver and then fell unconscious.
Something was very wrong.
"Class Dismissed!" he called out as he cast levitation on the poor girl and hurried to the infirmary.
____________________________________________
"How is she?" Colbert asked the healer.
"The girl is stable for now." The healer sighed tiredly. "Honestly if you had brought her in a minute later her head might have cooked itself." Colbert gasped. "Fortunately I managed to stabilize her, her brain kept trying to cook itself. It took nearly an hour of constantly cooling her off before she was stable. What the hell happened to her?"
Colbert let out a sigh of relief as he heard that Valerie was stable. He wasn't sure he would survive if the girl had died under his watch. Karin would make sure he'd be dead.
"Thank you!" Jean gave a thankful nod.
"You still didn't answer my question. What the hell happened?"
"I don't know," Colbert answered honestly. He had no idea what had happened.
Perhaps her Magic had misfired differently? Or perhaps she had succeeded and her familiar was the cause of it? He could only hope Miss Valerie would awake soon.
What he didn't know was Louise's brain was not cooked due to a familiar or the failure of her Magic.
Rather the ridiculous amount of knowledge and information that her Brain had to process which was being provided from..... Somewhere...
A human brain is extremely powerful capable of 10 ^ 17 operations per second.
Or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations a second.
The amount of information that had entered her brain was so much that it was pushed to its limit for a whole hour.
If she wasn't being constantly healed and cooled by the healer her brain would have burnt itself out trying to process all the information.
When Louise woke up next she would be very, very different.
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