A Magical Tale: The Peerless Summoner

Chapter 52: Dusty library

"Well, since no one has reached that stage before, there are no spell books for it." Sephia replied.

"Hmm. I get it now instructor" Helena said while Sephia nodded.

Then Sephia continued with the class while everyone listened attentively.

About an hour later, the class came to an end.

Then everyone took their stuffs to leave the class.

But just as Helena was about to leave after packing her things, Sephia called her back.

"Helena, would you like to know more spells? You know, add hundred to thousand more spells to the ones that you may have possibly learnt from your sisters?" Sephia asked.

Helena's glowed with great shock.

Very quickly, she accepted.

"Yes! Yes, I would like to" Helena said.

"Good" Sephia said.

Then she said further "Now, come with me."

Sephia then led Helena out of the classroom to a store that was really dusty.

It's like nobody had cleaned there in ages.

After walking for twenty minutes, they finally arrived there.

Sephia then opened the door and took Helena by the hands so they could go in together.

The instant she pulled the door open, dust exploded out of the room onto their faces, quickly coloring it brown.

Helena and Sephia both coughed out at the same time. Then they tried to wipe their faces with their hands and dust their dresses that had been covered with dust.

"Why is it so dusty? Nobody actually uses this place at all? I thought you were taking me to a library?" Helena asked many questions at once as her mind still reeled at the amount of dust that poured in her face and on her body

"Well, it's a library for sure. Except that the spells recorded in books here aren't complete. They are like drafts to create powerful spells. But they were never finished" Sephia said.

"Oh. Then they were abandoned here I guess?" Helena asked.

"You thought right" Sephia said.

"But why would I want to learn incomplete magical spells? If I ever tried to use any of them, they could backfire and hurt me instead" Helena said trying to give her reason why she wouldn't want to learn an unfinished spell.

"I know. But you are the chosen one, Helena. If it would hurt the others, it wouldn't hurt you. The Aetha energy that might build up for the spell might disperse if the spell isn't completed." Sephia said.

"Ma'am, there you go again with the chosen thing. What if the Aetha energy that has accumulated for the spell explodes in my face. It couldn't turn my head into mist of blood" Helena said disputably.

"Nope. It won't. Trust me. Besides, as the Chosen One, you could memorize the entire spells and try to finish the spells yourselves. You could add your own touch to it. You know, make it unique for only you." Sephia said.

Helena exhaled deeply.

"Alright. I would try to learn them." She said.

"Good! And I know you wouldn't fail me" Sephia said excitedly.

Then before Sephia could leave, Helena who was looking at the small and large dusty books in the shelves in the room turned her head to look at Sephia who was preparing to leave.

"Instructor, please wait." Helena said.

"Wanna request for something else?" Sephia asked.

"No" Helena shook her head.

"I just want to know why you are doing this for me?" Helena asked.

"Oh." Sephia exclaimed.

"You don't need to read any meaning to my actions. Just see it as you being my favorite student. That's all" She said.

Helena gazed at her and said "I find that hard to believe, ma'am. You have just known me for a day and yet, you are doing all these for me. There is something else other than me being your favorite student"

"No matter how funny, ridiculous or outrageous that it may sound, tell me. I promise not to laugh or rebuke you. Please!" She said further in a pleading tone.

Sephia then inhaled after hearing what Helena said.

"Actually, I want you to become very strong very quickly so I can borrow your vast strength to wipe out a race that destroyed the wonderful and fabulous people of my race." Sephia said with her voice erupting intense coldness that could seemingly turn water into ice.

Then she continued "The race that wiped out my race are known for their nigh-indestructible bodies and power to control metal. And they did this terrible thing all because of an extremely rare mineral resource that couldn't be gotten anywhere in the world except ours. This mineral resource could power their insane inventions. They found about the usefulness of the resource when they came to our world" Sephia said.

"I am so sorry about the destruction of your entire race" Helena said in sad tone.

"It's fine, Helena. No need to feel sorry. I believe we have all lost one thing or the other due to the chaos that reigns supreme in the entire universe. But if you, Helena can become immensely powerful on time, you would be able to use your astronomical devastating abilities to put an end to all these." Sephia said.

It was Helena's turn to exhale.

"It's going to be very hard to reach that stage where I can fight extremely powerful, ominous summoners and evil magical warriors" Helena said.

"I know. Even here isn't that safe. Once those baddies discover that the girl who would dominate all of them has arrived in this place, they could try to infiltrate it to kill you silently. And if they can't, they would invade here in massive numbers and try to wipe out you and everyone else. That's why you must seize every opportunity to rapidly grow stronger than your peers." Sephia said.

Then she continued "Jennifer who has made herself your enemy is only a drop in the ocean of enemies that you would have. So, don't focus on the small battle that you guys are going to have in the nearest future. It's greatly inconsequential. It wouldn't affect anything. Instead, look at the bigger picture. Think of the powerful enemies that you are going to take down for some level of calmness to return to some regions in parts of our universe"

Helena nodded her head while Sephia left to leave Helena to study.

"But it's too dusty to study in here." Helena said and sighed.

Then a thought suddenly struck her mind.

With a smile appearing in her face, she aimed one of her hands and said "Galro Windus"

Immediately she said that, a strong gale of wind manifested in the room and swept out all the dust in the room.

"Now, I can read without inhaling any dust." She said with a smile.

Then she removed a number of books from one of the ten large shelves in the room and placed them on the floor. And as soon as she did so, she sat in the cross-legged position before them and started going through each of the books to read what was written in them.

The numerous books in front of her all had writings of ancient language that she could surprisingly, partially understand. But if she could place more attention on them, she would understand them.

As one born with immense mysterious powers, she would be able to decrypt any spell and comprehend it. Just like how she understood the spells in the book that her sister, Alyssa gave to her, and how to effectively use them to create solid condensates of Aetha energy which she can hurl at her opponents as attacks.

Slowly, her mind which seemed like it could read and understand all languages began to translate the words for her so that she could understand.

Not long, her speed in reading the ancient words written in the books increased by leaps and bounds.

However, they didn't make that much of a sense to her as they weren't complete.

'I guess I would have to complete them myself, just like how instructor Sephia had said.' Helena uttered within.

Then she continued to read.

***

"Mom, what's so special about that Helena girl?" Jennifer asked her mother.

"Well, she's the Chosen One" Jennifer's mom replied, Anissa.

"What? Mom, don't tell me you believe that bullshit!" Jennifer asked and shouted in shock.

"Well, I don't know what to actually believe again." Anissa said.

Ugh!

Jennifer uttered.

"But mom, do you believe that she is special?" Jennifer asked.

"Daughter, I said I don't know. Olivia, her deputy and the other higher-ups who are overseeing the affairs of this camp believe that she is the chosen one. So, who I am not to believe that she is the chosen one." Anissa said.

Anissa then looked at her daughter with a smile in her face and said "I think I know what your problem is"

Jennifer looked at her mom and said "I don't have a problem, mom"

"You do dear. And it's because of that ninety-ninth room which was given to that girl instead of you. I believe it is what is making you rant everywhere and show your anger at everything. It would be best you calm yourself down. Now, you have successfully stopped yourself from attending Sephia's lecture. You better take things easy. Or you wouldn't like where you would end up."

"But mom, don't you see it as cheating? I was cheated. I am the strongest in my batch. So, why wasn't the room given to me?" Jennifer asked angrily.

"Well, all I can say is that your love for material things has totally blinded your eyes. Instead of you to be learning new spells and adding to the ones that you have already mastered, you are here busy complaining to me about some room that you would leave when you reach the Earth level of spell crafting" Anissa said unhappily.

Then a look appeared in her eyes which she used to look at her daughter.

"But if you are fully sure that you deserve that majestic room, go and battle that brat. If you are however beaten, don't come running to me. Or I would slap into a six-year coma" Anissa said and warned with intense anger evident in her tone.