After dismissing the quest notifications, Emily decides to check her oing quest.
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[The Four Fual Forces]
[Rank:] C
[Description:] Learn and uand the four fual forces of physics
Requirements:
-Learn 3/4 Forces (Not plete)
Rewards:
-Blueprint: Universal Transmitter
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“Thought so!” Grinning, Emily opens her notebook to a random bnk page and begins writing:
Eleagic Force – Basic Electrical Theory
Strong Nuclear Iion – Basic Particle Physics
Weak Nuclear Iion – Basic Particle Physics
Gravitational Force – ?
I’m certain these are the four fual forces, but I don’t uand gravity enough for it to t yet. I have some scraps of information from kiics, but only how to use it iion to projectiles. Wait, isn’t this knowledge great for making ons?
tinuing her notes, Emily jots down a simplistic breakdown of her new knowledges to help her process them.
Kiics – Forces, Projectiles, Momentum, Motion
Material Sce – Material Properties/position, States of matter, Fluid Dynamics
Yep, kiics is definitely helpful for ons! I should try making a gun again, this time it shouldn’t require anywhere near as mas blowing up in my face. Material sce will help a lot too. I ’t believe I never sidered the stress explosions p the metal of the gun before. It’s no wonder my creations degraded so quickly.
Nodding to herself happily, Emily drops her quill and picks up the spell scroll from the desk.
I make pns for ons ter. For now, let’s make the most of this knowledge to plete my quest!
Opening the part, Emily sees another simple magic circle, t, and spell name. Within a few seds of reading, a new system notification pops up.
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Spell memorised: Stunning Touch
[Stunning Touch]
[Circle:] First
[Cost:] 20 Mana/cast
[Description:] Sends a pulse of lightning into a target upon tact.
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Satisfied, she tosses the spell part aside and begins sidering which elements to ma .
Water should be easy now that I uand fluid dynamics, and ice as well si’s just the solid form of water. I thial should be doable too. Though I’m not too sure sial is a wide term; I suspect that’s due to their limited knowledge of exotic elements. They should t it if I foaing steel, right? Hmm, earth might be possible too, but it may take a while to work out what bination of minerals, water and air makes it up. I don’t think I do light or darkness yet. I’m still in the dark, heh, on those two. And that’s the same with space.
With a choice made, Emily begins her work on maing elements. After only fifteen minutes of meditation, she mao ma a small, clear orb of water and a shard of ice.
“Two down, oo go.”
, she attempts to ma steel. It es a lot easier to her, and after ten minutes she jures a small k of glistening silver steel.
“Mission plete! Now for the challenge.”
As she expected, maih bees a solid roadblock for her. After a full hour of focus, she finally mao jure a small mass of dirt above her hand.
“Ugh, Goddess I thought I’d never get that. Whoever decided earth should be a o deserves an air bst to the head!” Grumpily dismissing the mass of dirt, Emily sits ba her chair and stretches.
“I need a break.” Just as she mutters this to herself, she hears a knock at the door. “Perfect!”
With a small grin, she stands up and leaves her room to join Juliana for lunch.
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After spending the rest of the reset practisiure-casting spells and theory-crafting ons for her adva requirements, Emily once again finds herself standing in a aing elements. She surprises everyone in the room with a plethora of different jurations as usual, with even Jenny seeming shocked at the sheer quantity of her affinities. As she mas ice, her system notifications alert her to a new quest pletion.
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-Quest pleted: True Magical Genius #2
[True Magical Genius #2]
[Rank:] C
[Description:] Three maions down, three more to go!
Requirements:
-Ma 6/6 Elements in your first maion attempt (plete)
Rewards:
-Meiowledge: Basic Waves
-Meiowledge: Basic Thermodynamics
-Skill: Basic Metalw (passive)
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-Quest Geed: True Magical Genius #3
[True Magical Genius #3]
[Rank:] B
[Description:] You’ve successfully marked yht as a magical genius, now you achieve the impossible?
Requirements:
-Ma 6/15 Elements in your first maion attempt (Not plete)
Rewards:
-Meiowledge: Basic Fields
-Meiowledge: Basic Biology (human)
-Meiowledge: Basic Chemistry
-Talent: Oh The Elements
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Ign the familiar feeling of new knowledge being filed into her cortex, Emily looks at the new quest with dissatisfa.
Fiftees? I evehat many? That’s more than the ant seems to be aware of too, so I’d have to plete the quest then rewind time.
Ign Jenny gratuting her, Emily quickly mas steel, watg her quest tick up to 7/15.
Maybe if I ma differeals? I’ll test that loop. What about my new knowledges.
Fog on the new information in her head, Emily quickly sorts through for anything that could help ma a different element.
Thermodynamics is useless here. The only element it could help with is fire, and I already use that. Waves definitely help with light, and possibly darkness sihat’s an absence of light? But that only takes me to nine elements, I need six more. Space is too abstract, I get a feeling I will have to look outside of physics for that one, and I don’t feel much of a e with it yet.
The lesson finishes with Emily still stu her thoughts. She leaves the quickly, ign Jenny’s attempts to get her to stay, and visits the information hub to grab another spell. By the time she settles back down in her room, Emily has e to a disappointing clusion.
“Do I have to give up here?” Sighing, she colpses in her chair.
Needing a distra, Emily pulls up her new skill.
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[Basic Metalw (passive)]
User knows how to form metal to their will.
-Grants +10% produ speed when w with metal
-Grants an instinctive uanding of how to best process metals
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Hmm, why is this cssified as a skill instead of a knowledge?
To test, Emily focuses on the cept of metalw and finds no information rising to the front of her mind. fused, she iries thinking about processing a raw k of iron into an ingot, and immediately the processes required for smelting and shaping the metal fsh through her mind.
Ah, I see. This is more an application of my knowledge than new knowledge itself.
With a small, satisfied nod, she moves on to the new spell before her. Following the process of opening the part and memorising the tents, the new spell is quickly added to her Spellbook.
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Spell memorised: Grease
[Grease]
[Circle:] First
[Cost:] 30 Mana/cast
[Description:] Spray a burst of slippery liquid in the dire of the caster’s gaze.
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Emily raises a brow in fusion while staring at the new water element spell.
How odd. I guess it’s water-reted, but the other starter spells have been so basipared to this.
Quickly brushing aside her fusion, and deg she’ll look in more detail at her spells once she’s collected every element’s starter spell, she focuses on finishing off her maions. Light proves more difficult than she expected, taking a full hour to form a stable mental image.
“Tsk, this new knowledge is great and all, but I think I o do some tests with it to fully uand everything.” Clig her tongue, she dismisses the shimmering waves of light twisting together above her hand.
As if to prove her point, even after spending the hree hours trying, she fails to ma darkness. Dropping her head onto her desk, drained from her repeated attempts, Emily checks her mana levels.
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[Mana:] 48/345
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Figures, I think I’ll give up on darkness for now and see if I even work out what other elements I could use. Let’s test copper theate for a bit, I’m exhausted.
Sitting back up, she closes her eyes and follows the same process for maing steel, but this time picturing a k of copper being formed. As expected, she successfully mas the metal, however, her instincts tell her it’s still the same element as steel.
Whatever, I’ll find out tomorrow.
Emily meditates tain her mana, spending the time fog on different elements. She picks out a few, including space, and reaches out to them as she empties her mind. For spad darkness, she feels an instinctive resonation tellihe elements may respond to her call eventually, but they’re still out of her grasp for now. She mao find a few other elements, like sand and sound, that give her the same feeling, but she ’t ma the o fifteen, and she doesn’t manage another maion.
“Damn,” she mutters, opening her eyes after a while. “It would be useful if I had a tool to check my affinities or something. I’m starting to feel like the quest was right when it called this impossible. I guess differeals is my st hope.”
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The reset, Emily cycles through all her elements again in css. After the four on, she summons lightning, ice, light, and steel. Then, while ign her cssmates’ disbelief around her, she mas copper. Cheg her system quest, she sees 8/15 marking her failure.
Thought so, it feels the same as steel and the system ts it as such. I think I have to give up on this quest. I’ll just reset until I have a free spell from each element The ant has then move on.
Disappointed, she accepts her inability to plete the third stage of her quest and begins the slow process of repeating the same day over and ain with no ges.
After three more resets, she runs into a problem.
“I’m sorry Miss Coldstone, I’m afraid I ’t give you a spell for a you ’t use. Miss Forsythia has already registered your affinities, and while the list is long, it does not include darkness. Please choose another element,” the clerk behind the ter tells her with an apologetie.
Shit, I didn’t think this would be an issue sihey asked us which element we would like, but I guess full firmed maions has limited my choices.
“Fire then please,”
Cheg the spell after returning to her room, she finds the same burning hands spell.
“Tsk, guess I’ll have to live with one of each element.”
Once agaiing at the end of the day, this time around Emily doesn’t ma any elements in css and successfully cims a darkness element spell. She repeats this again to cim a space spell, pleting her colle of all avaible free spells.
Finally, she resets o time to live out her day correctly.
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Walking into the , Emily walks straight towards Tom aer.
“Hey! e sit with us!” Tom calls out for the tenth time.
“You gonna talk through the lesson as well?”
“No, don’t worry!” Tom fshes a toothy grin which Emily mirrors as she settles down with the twins.
A few mier when Jenny is doh her expnation, she invites everyoo the dais again and Emily happily skips down to cim her tribution points.
Time to show off!
Fire.
“Ten points to Emily Coldstone!”
Water.
“Ten points to Emily Coldstone!”
Wind.
“Ten points to Emily Coldstone!”
Earth.
“Ten points to Emily Coldstone!”
After the first four elements, Emily looks at her cssmates to see them staring at her with familiar sho their faces, and two equally familiar gres of hatred and envy from Jeremy and Kyle.
“Incredible Emily! Truly a talent blessed by the Goddess herself. Do you think you attempt any other elements?”
As expected, Jenny quickly derails the lesson to foily after this dispy.
“I try.” Emily smiles as she closes her eyes and cycles through the rest of her elements.
Light. Ice. Lightning. Metal.
Opening her eyes at the end of her dispy, Jenny cps for her enthusiastically.
“Outstanding! Three higher form and one fual element. Have you had training before ing here?” Jenny questions as she walks back to her podium again.
“No, Miss, I’ve never been taught a thing,” Emily lies on a teicality with a smile.
“Good, then for that unbelievable dispy… One hundred points to Emily Coldstone!”
A collective gasp breaks out across the line-up of students. As all of them stand in a stupor and Emily basks iares of envy with a grin, Jenny approaches the students again.
“Would anybody else like to try their hand at another element?” she asks with a knowing smile.
Pausing for a few seds and hearing nothing but silence, she dismisses the css, advising each of the udents on which elements to focus on. She asks Emily to stay behind afterwards, to which Emily agrees this time before waving Tom aer out while promising to talk again ter.
“So, Emily, why don’t you tell me a little about yourself and how you ended up here?”
Her versation with Jenny flows simirly to the first time till the end.
“No problem, I’m happy to help.” Emily stands up and starts walking out, waiting with bated breath to see if Jenny calls her again.
“Oh, and Emily.” Hearing Jenny’s call, Emily clicks her tongue silently as she turns around.
Damn, I thought I hid my reas better this time!
“If you ever hit a roadblo yical studies or need help or advi anything else, my door is always open. I’m in room S118. I’ll make sure The Dome has yistered as wele iaff dorms,” she says with a kind smile, catg Emily slightly off guard.
“Ah, thank you, Jenny,” Emily says, matg her smile. “See you lesson!”
She bows her head lightly before stepping out.
Success!
