Chapter 38: Tashi’s first official lesson
The Next Day.
The South Dome was a massive structure reserved for high-level experimental spellcraft.
Its interior, shaped like a half-globe, was laced with reflective mana filaments and a reactive floor capable of simulating any terrain or environment.
The structure itself was one of the Academy’s marvels a massive, half-spherical chamber made of spell-woven glass, mithril veins, and layered with ancient mana runes that pulsed with quiet, mystical rhythms.
Its walls shimmered faintly with reactive enchantments, designed to adjust to spell usage, terrain illusions, and environmental simulations.
Here, ordinary laws bent around the will of magic.
Inside, it was cooler than outside, the temperature carefully regulated to prevent even slight fluctuations that might interfere with delicate spellcraft.
The floor was a smooth, pale stone, but even that was illusory, it could ripple into forest terrain, molten rock, or battlefield rubble with a single spell input.
Students poured in by the dozens, then by the hundreds.
Some took seats on the elevated side benches, others sat cross-legged directly on the floor. No one laughed. No one postured.
For once, even the prideful sons and daughters of ancient bloodlines looked quiet, reverent and anxious.
