"Oi brat wake up, I even brought some food for you." "Can you be gentle with a patient Yamata? He almost died that day." A guy wearing a robe scolds Yami for bringing Literal rock hard bread capable of breaking teeths as food.
"I know what I do with my student Doc, Look at this.. *smacks Asta on the head* Oi brat, Yuno became the wizard king." Yami says and Asta stood up like toy with no sense of perception whatsoever and hit his face on Yami's fist.
"Captain!! What? where?...*looks around* I hate this prank." Asta complains in low sound while yami gives the stunned healer a 'get a load of this guy' expression.
"Since you woke up, we can discharge you after a final check up. I will get it d-" "nah, Mimo- Lylia gonna handle that." Yami interrupts as he drags the healer out of the room, Asta heard some voice like he is awake or go in outside the door. Soon saw Mimosa and Charmy enter the room with a bunch of food.
"Yo Asta, I got you some food.. *looks at the bread Yami brought with disgust and kicks it away" What is this rock? Who bought this here?" Charmy announces her arrival as she herself begin munching on the food she brought Asta.
Mimosa comes closer and with a professional serious expression, ran a bit of diagnostics with her plant magic. After a few minutes, she take a breath of relief and throws herself in Asta's arm while sobbing.
"DO YOU KNOW HOW SCARED I WAS? You ain't even a second year yet you literally rushes at the enemies with no planning- *Realisation hits as she quickly backs away* Just don't anything like that ok?" She scolds Asta who seems be barely holding back a nosebleed after getting Mimosa's double weapons.
Charmy gives Him a thumbs up from the side and quickly leaves with almost all the sweet food and left behind only fruits. Mimosa shyly sits beside Asta and silently offers him a whitish fruit that looks like a guava.
"I wa-" "mimosa.. What if I you know changed completely. What will you do?" "Eh? What do you mean?" Asta interrupts Mimosa's words and question her, she looks at him in confusion.
"You know.. like a different person, I become some ruthless guy who sacrifices himself and others for what he wants." He asks again with more details and recieved a questioning stare in return. Mimosa closes her eyes and silently thinks as Asta ate the fruits one by one.
"Even if you change, I know deep down you will be same Asta I always knew, and I doubt you will do something without a reason atleast." She says as she sits beside Asta.
"... I am not the Asta you know." He dropped a bombshell on her, completely ruining her effort in lightening the mood a little.
"What do you mean? You have the memories don't you? What else do you need to be our asta?" "You don't get it.. I have more than just 1 set of memories." Asta replies as he calls for the Machine grimoire which materialized out of his now three gold clovered grimoire.
"I have been reborn not once or twice but eight times. As I get their memories, I don't know if I would stay the same." His eyes hint at sadness as he reads the runes to understand the spells in the machine grimoire.
".. I just wanted to-" before he could finish his words, Mimosa grabbed his head and lay it down on her lap. Asta looks at her face which Reveals a decent shade of red as she ruffles his hair.
"Even if they are your memories, it doesn't mean you have to follow them.. Even if they are different people, aren't they just different versions of yourself?" She tries to assure him like a guardian to stop overthinking.
"Even if you changed a little, at most it will just your personality and not your true self right? If you ever need everyone of the magic knights are there for you." "... Thanks", "Oi asta I heard you w- mind if I join?" Sol comes barging in and looks at the duo going full couple from her perspective, she wanted to keep her superiority complex but her curiosity got better of her.
Mimosa jumps away, Asta fall on the floor head first while sol just stood there at the door and just then Magna, klaus and Charlotte walked in.
"Why are you on the floor Asta? Should I getcha a wheelchair?" Magna Yells in his loud voice while holding a bouquet in his hand, Klaus looks from behind him while holding something akin to a briefcase and Charlotte decided to leave after a wave of hand.
"No need *notices the floors* Magna you do know those floors are poisonous and represent death right?" Asta points at bouquet while standing up and out of pure thoughtless instinct magna decided to sniff the flowers, his body stiffened as he fell on the ground with foam coming out of his mouth.
Mimosa and Sol carried Magna away on a bed while Klaus gets a chair a sits beside Asta, he lifts the briefcase and put it on his lap.
"I got everything we needed, take a look." He opens the briefcase to reveal a red crystal like branch of a coral, a bluish plate around the size of bracelet and a bunch of powder inside a glass jar. Asta picks them up one by one and observed them for sometime before putting them down satisfied.
"How did you even get it so quickly? It- how many days have I been asleep?" "Three days" Asta feigns being unaware of the time.
"I will make tonight if I could, let's meet at outside the academy in argon smithy." The duo decided to meet at the place and Klaus happily left with the items, Asta stands up and stretchs his body to see the morning sun peeking through the window.
He left the infirmary and decided to attend the classes today.
- Ranker and elite classroom, First year campus-
Asta walks in through the main door, the professor is standing in the podium dictating the classroom and turns to Asta.
"Ah Asta you should get to your seat, we are about to start." Asta greets back and makes his way to the corner seat in the back. He finds a notebook that didn't belong to him and quickly read it.
"Did you copy these notes gless? I could have done so myself you know." He turns to gless who gives him a nervous smile that confirmed his predection. The professor officially starts the class.
"Students, today I will teach about the difference in mana purity and its effect on mana." He says as he creates two different orbs of water in each hand, the orbs float above his palms. The right orb us more transparent while the left orb is more blue.
"The right orb is made from higher purity mana but can anybody tell the difference except the colour?" He questions while turning to the students as he floats towards them. One by one he showed them the orbs from nearby but got no answer.
"Maybe the power?" "No young Gless, anybody else." Gless guessed but still didn't get the answer right. Just as professor reached asta, he looked at him hoping for a answer.
"The control, the right one is moving different directions without breaking but the left one is just moving in one." Asta claims as he senses the movement of mana in the orbs, professor smiles as he quickly turns the orbs into cylinders.
"Correct, The higher the mana purity towards a attribute the greater the control that a mage of that attribute has on it." He released the right cylinder and focused on the left one and soon different coloured mana particles begin coming out of it as it grew more transparent.
"The more attributes the mana has the harder it is to control because if you can't use the other attributes they will just be burden on your magic." The professor says he floats back to the podium on his floating disk, he turns around and gathered nearby mana in front of the students.
"And to reach a high purity. You must convert the other attributes to yours. You must instill your own mana as catalyst and restructure the wild mana into a version of your own." The students watch as a wisp of mana comes out of professor's hand and floats to other mana particles in the air, the professor's mana surrounded the raw mana and under the pressure it changed to water attribute mana.
The professor than quickly grabbed a pen from the desk and begins writing in the tablet in front of him and the same words appeared on the board behind him. The students each open their notebooks and begins writing notes including Asta.
'maybe that's how anti-magic works, since it has no fixed attribute, it just has no weakness on converting mana while it just changes to opposite mana to convert or prevent itself from being converted. Since It has no attribute I can use any sort of mana as high purity but it's density makes it more burdensome on th mana nerves.' Asta writes notes not only of the class but also his own from the experience he had with anti-magic.
"Now students, you must try to purify your own mana as it is, to reach stage 4 of magic a mage must atleast have 40% mana purity he could maintain constantly and subconsciously." The professor announces and the students begin trying to purify their mana but it just wouldn't instantly purify like the professor's, their own mana could barely effect nearby mana.
"Asta, maybe we s-" gless turns to Asta who is turning experimenting with a ball of anti-magic, gless watches as the anti-magic instantly devours the nearby mana like a starving beast lunging on food.
'I see. Since anti-magic is constantly changing at the polar opposite elements fight with eachother for domination and that makes it unstable and hard to use.. what about attributeless mana?' Asta too focused on the experiment didn't even hear Gless's voice, he tries to weaken all the attributes and soon the turn to powerless orb which couldn't be converted or convert others he then tried something he experienced when Jassen took over.
The orb returns to anti-magic and Asta starts infusing his ki into it, he watches in amusement as the ki overpowered the anti-magic's resistance among each attributes and made it easier to control. He tried changing anti-magic to the elements the grimoire could use like the wind, blood or the new telekinesis which counts as weaker merge between Space and gravity.
Asta focused on his magic, completely unaware of the professor standing beside him and staring at the constantly changing magic, 'Just what sort of magic is this? So unstable but also strong.. it looks like a jumbled mess of many attributes but the boy seems to control it.' the professor thinks and lightly puts his hand on Asta's shoulder.
"What sort of magic is this boy? I have never seen such unstable element before." He asks while Asta finally comes out of his hyper focused state. He looks at the professor and the rest of the class staring at him.
"Anti-magic.. it has no fixed attribute and constantly changes." Asta says while keeping the high density and conversion ability to himself. The professor leans closer while bringing out a magnifying glass from his pocket.
"Can you try attacking this for me?" He says as he creates a small orb of ice in the air, Asta complies and directs the anti-magic towards the orb. The class professor watches in terror as the anti-magic took on properties of Fire, earth and water despite not converting to it and devoured the orb in a split second.
"Can you try removing your control on it?" He asks Asta again and now watches as the anti-magic slowly breaks itself down to tens of particles of basic raw mana due to instability and begins being converted by nearby mana into different attributes but to the others it just appeared as if it was converted by nearby mana.
"Interesting... *Looks around* Why is everyone staring at him? I told you to focus on your own mana" the professor roars at the students who quickly went back to their work.
Some time later the class finally ends and Asta was now training physical excercises under Yami again, Magna seems to dying out lack of breath.
"Somebody get him some air" someone comments and Yami arrives, he looks at magna in disgust and kicked him into the a pit he instantly dug.
"Hope you get a better next life Latom" yami says with one hand raised into a prayer while Asta fills the hole with mud.
"You two monsters, not everybody trains till half death every day like you" Magna blasts through the hole and comes up all black like charcoal.
It was then the same period of sparing with gless and eventually they reached ki class again.
Asta spended the next 3 hours again trying to grasp the flow but couldn't control it more than a few seconds. The instructor looks at him and internally gives him a thumbs up while praising his efforts.