Chapter 221: Amendatory Arcanics - Part 2
"Daisy Della Recca. Her specialty is long-range casting, and every spell she produces is anti-magical in effect. But you already know that. What you don’t know is that her body is slowly losing the ability to produce mana. She can extract some from her environment, similar to those of a pure demonic or angelic heritage, but with each year since discovering her magic, she has been less capable of producing spells without a ready store of mana to extract from. In other words, enchanted tools and other students."
She paused to sip from her cup. "Needless to say, it would be expensive for her to perform magic in the future, and in the worst cases, magic like hers would consume her entire being as she tries to draw enough mana for a spell. So she can never allow herself to run out of mana while casting. While finding a matron would keep her in practice, it would likely be solely for her utility as a weapon. That is no fate I would wish on such a young mage, not when she might wish to be something other than a weapon."
"You know they call her ’The Destroyer’ right?"
"Oh, I am aware. Like most her age, she would rather pick fights and be feared than have everyone know her secret. I’m sure the spells you used in your duel kept her charged for at least a couple of weeks."
"So when she dueled me-"
"It was the equivalent of having a second lunch, but more amusing from what I saw. I have yet to see her challenge a professor, but I’m sure she will if you reveal it. Not that I’m going to allow any dueling now that the regulator construct is gone... I gave five years of my life to the Duat before I found that thing and now it’s in the hands of Heresy. I bet not even gods know what he’s up to with my castle."
Kir didn’t want to bring up his father, so he cleared his throat and changed the subject back. "How do you know about her? Or any of these students."
"How else does someone running a school know anything? I communicate with parents and observe through the teachers. When it comes to- came to the duels, I had the regulatory construct show me duels while I did paperwork. Daisy gets along with Professor Tawre by the way." She took a moment to shuffle to the last set of papers, laying the others together. "Now, these are all the students in good standing. The last one is going to be your biggest headache."
She cleared her throat.
"Your last student is Bailey Black. He’s a local delinquent who had the audacity to try to break into the Academy a few years ago, thinking he could rob the place."
"So you made him a student?"