Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2442

"Thanks, but I meant what kind of trouble you have while practicing Void Magic." Lith needed sheer willpower to not laugh like the rest of the room.

The poor girl was already tearing up because of her blunder, looking around like a trapped animal.

"Enough!" Sylpha's roar brought the room to silence again. "If you find it so funny, let's see if you can do better. You there, what's your name?"

She pointed at a girl who had laughed hard and meanly enough to stand out in the crowd. Now that the classroom was looking at her, she found neither the situation funny nor her voice.

The squeaky noise that came from her mouth couldn't be called words nor made sense of.

"I asked for your name, not a magical breakthrough. Is it so hard to remember?" Sylpha crossed her arms, her gaze turning even colder.

Feeling that the mockery of the entire room now weighed on her and aware that the moment she spoke her name it would become a joke throughout the Kingdom, the girl burst into tears.

"See? It's not so easy when you are the one in the crossfire." The Queen clapped her hands, bringing the attention back to the girl with red streaks. "You were about to share with us your troubles with Void Magic, miss…"

"Tyla Garhem, Your Majesty." The blonde girl replied while giving a perfect courtesy. "I have read the chapter about fire and water magic multiple times, but I can't understand how the two elements can be correlated.

"I mean, fire generates fire and water condenses the humidity in the air. The first is useless when the air is thin and the second when it's dry. It would make more sense to me if they were connected to the air element instead of each other."

"I have a similar issue." Another girl, this one with orange streaks in her hair stood up. "No matter how much I try, I can't turn air into earth nor the other way around. One is ethereal whereas the other is solid.

"The only thing they have in common is their affinity for water which conducts electricity and softens the ground. Are you sure that the elements are not connected in sets of three instead of pairs?"

"Same here." One of the few boys carrying the blessing of the gods of magic in the form of silver streaks amid his hair stood up as well. "Except that light and darkness have no middleman.

"Unlike the other pairs of elements, everyone knows how to make them work together but I can't find any similitude between them either. One heals and the other one destroys. They have nothing in common."

Murmurs of approval filled the room as the students nodded to each other.

"I fare just slightly better." Sylpha undid her updo, letting her hair down and revealing the seven streaks. "I can brute force the elements to switch, but it always feels unnatural and I waste lots of mana even for the simplest trick."

She shifted a speck of energy into its opposite for all the six elements, proving to the rest of the class that Void Magic really existed and worked despite its difficulty.

"I see. The root of the problem is that when I wrote the textbook, I never considered that my readers would confuse between the cause and the effect of each element." Lith nodded. "The good thing is that it's not hard to fix that."

His words made no sense and his confidence made even the Archmages feel dumb.