Yesterday was the last day of the current school year. Louise had gone home for the month while I decided to remain here. Travelling to the Gramont mansion would take days. Days I'd rather spend training and preparing myself. Not to mention I couldn't face Guiche's parents...
How would they react?
I had no idea what to do.
So I remained in school.
I breathed in the fresh morning air as I sat on the grass with a few papers and a "pencil" I made by transmuting wood into graphite a small stick of graphite.
I leaned against a tree, watching the sunrise from the academy courtyard.
I honestly do not know why people sleep in so late. It feels so refreshing, the cool breeze and the warm light from the sunrise feels heavenly.
With my mind relaxed I began my work.
Something wanted to do...
I began to try and personalize the chant for the familiar summoning.
or perhaps plagiarize a few lines...
Don't look at me... its too cool not to be used!
Silver and iron to the origin.
The first mystical metals ever used by mankind, this referred to the beginning of the mystery, and of civilization with both of them being excellent conductors of prana. So no changes there.
Gem and the Archduke of contracts to the cornerstone.
The ancestor is my great master Schweinorg."
This part referred to a contract made by a family of mages to the Second magician and the fact that most of their magecraft centres around Jewel craft. I had to change I had no contract or anything to do with Zelretch.
The alighted wind becomes a wall. The gates in the four directions close, coming from the crown, the three-forked road that leads to the kingdom circulate.
These ones were not needed for me as they were what connected the mage to the grail if they were going to be a master in the grail war.
Shut (fill).
Shut (fill).
Shut (fill).
Shut (fill).
Shut (fill).
Repeat every five times.
Simply, shatter once filled.
I announce.
This uses the magic circle drawn with a precious metal to build up energy in five layers. Once they were filled completely the circle would glow brightly, and with the last two lines of the chant, the gathered prana from the grail and the mage is used to reach the throne. The grails prana is used to reach the throne and the mage's prana is used to find a compatible servant if a catalyst stronger connection than the mage isn't used.
Your self is under me, my fate is in your sword.
In accordance with the approach of the Holy Grail, if you abide by this feeling, this reason, then answer.
Here is my oath. I am the one who becomes all the good of the world of the dead, I am the one who lays out all the evil of the world of the dead.
This chant will be heard by the heroic spirit, here you speak your oath, what exactly you wish to accomplish by summoning them and what they might gain from the summoning in this case the holy grail. If the heroic spirit accepts then good, else it will go to the next compatible heroic spirit and they will hear your oath, what you wish to accomplish by summoning them and what they gain. This repeats until a heroic spirit accepts. And since the throes of heroes exist outside time and space, this takes in an instant for the mage.
You, seven heavens clad in three words of power, arrive from the ring of deterrence, O keeper of the balance!
These final words bind the heroic spirit who is bound to the command seals. The three absolute command seals with the symbols for Command, absolute, and order hidden within them using an intricate design based on the servant class. Each command seal, unique in its design and never the same.
Unfortunately why I had no idea. I suspect is also something belonging to the second magic.
I wasn't doing a servant summoning put I plan to some of it for the familiar summoning ritual, after all, why fix something that wasn't broken?
It took me a while of scribbling around but I think I was happy with how it turned out.
It was definitely going to sound so cool!
I couldn't wait for the summoning ritual!
Now then time to get my daily morning exercise.
With a wave of my wand, I levitated several clumps of earth to wrap around my arms and legs and then transmuted them into iron.
My hand immediately notice the slight weight. but not as much as my legs it was quite different since I usually practised with the sword. MY upper body and my lower bodies strength were imbalanced.
This had to be corrected.
I should have done this the moment I came here! With magic healing damaged muscles or helping them repair quickly was a non-issue... Though I definitely have to be careful not to tear them.
Torn muscles are fucking painful!
Taking a breath, I began my new daily routine.
Running around the academy.
I would run until I couldn't run anymore after which I'd use levitation to float myself to my room where I had a ward with runestones erected. Five runestones made the ward, the runes carved into obsidian and four of them on each corner with one in the centre. I had to use
obsidian instead of the actual gems to make true runestones because I am kind of short on money at the moment. But I won't regret spending what I did for Louise. Anyways, each rune had a gem that suited it for it to reach it to show its full power. Only Dagaz and Laguz would reach their full power on Obsidian. So at least one of the runes I used for my ward is reaching its true potential.
ᛊᛚᛗᛖᚲ
( ᛊ ) Sowilo for healing, (ᛚ)Laguz for potential, (ᛗ)Mannaz for the self in the centre, (ᛖ)Eihwaz for adjustment, and (ᚲ) Kenaz for transformation.
The entire ward was made to enhance my healing and encourage my growth. As I released my levitation spell on top of my bed I fell with a thump. My aches slowly beginning to ease up as the primordial runestones began their work healing and improving my body.
With the second wave of my wand, I shut the door and locked it before I removed my clothes with another small spell.
Brimiric magic might not be as structured as Nasuverse magic but it's damn convenient.
Then I cast the first wind spell I managed to make.
The Airconditioning spell.
The spell cooled the air in the closed room and the walls and the furniture down to a comfortable temperature.
It also utterly exhausted my mental energy as I had to push much more energy since my element was earth.
With that my consciousness drifted to sleep and I would wake in a few hours for lunch and to talk with Colbert if he was free and then research and practise my blade technique before practising reinforcement, structural analysis and projection until I was exhausted then went for dinner before falling asleep again.
This would be how my month passed and soon the holidays were over within the blink of an eye.
The springtime summoning ritual was upon me.
