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by the high wizards. I'm sure we could get you a few days in Red Hall. If you build a gate, how much time would that take? We could schedule more time to pass on the other magic and have more students on hand to try them."
Sebastian waved off the man's insistence and answered, "If that is what they want, I will go where they need me. You'll have to get that past Raven Leros and maybe even King Alain. He tends to want to know where I am working as well."
A chuckle from Serrena drew his attention. The fire wizard commented, "Well, he's basically a national treasure. Alain even sends him to visit kings like King Qeyless of Sileoth."
The thought wasn't exactly wrong. Sebastian had been allowed to sail off to look for the Grimnal based on a hunch and some equipment loaned to him by High Wizard Darius. When he returned with even more new spells, Raven Leros and the other battle mages started trying to keep him out of dangerous situations. It didn't always work because he was also the most adept at using portal magic. If more wizards or battle mages learned how to do what he did, Sebastian had no doubt that he would end up confined to Hala or one of the schools to train more wizards and mages.
"Red Hall could use his training as much as any school and spread the magic faster," Gefflen stated and the owl mage wondered if he said it aloud to see if the argument sounded convincing. It was likely to be a similar statement that would be the man's argument to get the leaders of Hala to send him away for any length of time.
"Well, until then," the fire wizard Hassar moved the conversation back to the magic that they had come to see, "what of these Hollow Swords?"
Wizard Gefflen had kept his people on task. Before Sebastian tried to show them how to make the Hollow Swords, they checked out the gate apparatus. Erethia drew the runes onto a large pad of paper. Using a glued spine, several large sheets were bound together. Only among wizards and their schools was such a thing likely to be found. Paper makers charged a greater price than regular people could usually afford. Using up paper for drawings was virtually unheard of because there was the possibility of waste.
Ignoring the probable cost of the pad, Sebastian led them through using the gate. As usual among any students trying to learn portal magic, few could understand the spells deep enough to actually create a gateway. Hassar had the talent, while the other four merely wound up watching the fire wizard or Sebastian use the gates and locks on them to turn the openings around. It was still important to see and even those without the talent might be able to teach the basics to other wizards in the future.
His lock rune was simple enough. Sebastian wasn't sure that Hassar or Erethia, who recorded the markings, could ever copy them onto metal; but it wasn't his first concern. The mage wouldn't mind having someone else capable of doing the work, but imparting the knowledge always made him worry that someone would get a hold of the magic and use it against Southwall.
That was unlikely to happen with teachers and leaders of a Southwall school, but spies who were good at their work could infiltrate into areas the mage couldn't believe. A human wizard had become a teacher in the dragon city of Mar'kal only to later reveal that he was working for the emperor after more than a decade of learning and teaching dragon magic.
It wasn't his story, but the girl who had taught him the spell to fly had lived through his betrayal. Added to a friend being turned into an instrument of betrayal last summer, Sebastian was understandably leery.
After an hour, the Red Hall wizards had exhausted their questions for him on that matter and they waited for Sebastian to fetch one of the newest swords ready to go to the armory. It had been made using his formula for steel. Whether the metal was truly better for sword making by a normal smith, he wasn't sure. The mage did know that the wrong steel would
Sebastian waved off the man's insistence and answered, "If that is what they want, I will go where they need me. You'll have to get that past Raven Leros and maybe even King Alain. He tends to want to know where I am working as well."
A chuckle from Serrena drew his attention. The fire wizard commented, "Well, he's basically a national treasure. Alain even sends him to visit kings like King Qeyless of Sileoth."
The thought wasn't exactly wrong. Sebastian had been allowed to sail off to look for the Grimnal based on a hunch and some equipment loaned to him by High Wizard Darius. When he returned with even more new spells, Raven Leros and the other battle mages started trying to keep him out of dangerous situations. It didn't always work because he was also the most adept at using portal magic. If more wizards or battle mages learned how to do what he did, Sebastian had no doubt that he would end up confined to Hala or one of the schools to train more wizards and mages.
"Red Hall could use his training as much as any school and spread the magic faster," Gefflen stated and the owl mage wondered if he said it aloud to see if the argument sounded convincing. It was likely to be a similar statement that would be the man's argument to get the leaders of Hala to send him away for any length of time.
"Well, until then," the fire wizard Hassar moved the conversation back to the magic that they had come to see, "what of these Hollow Swords?"
Wizard Gefflen had kept his people on task. Before Sebastian tried to show them how to make the Hollow Swords, they checked out the gate apparatus. Erethia drew the runes onto a large pad of paper. Using a glued spine, several large sheets were bound together. Only among wizards and their schools was such a thing likely to be found. Paper makers charged a greater price than regular people could usually afford. Using up paper for drawings was virtually unheard of because there was the possibility of waste.
Ignoring the probable cost of the pad, Sebastian led them through using the gate. As usual among any students trying to learn portal magic, few could understand the spells deep enough to actually create a gateway. Hassar had the talent, while the other four merely wound up watching the fire wizard or Sebastian use the gates and locks on them to turn the openings around. It was still important to see and even those without the talent might be able to teach the basics to other wizards in the future.
His lock rune was simple enough. Sebastian wasn't sure that Hassar or Erethia, who recorded the markings, could ever copy them onto metal; but it wasn't his first concern. The mage wouldn't mind having someone else capable of doing the work, but imparting the knowledge always made him worry that someone would get a hold of the magic and use it against Southwall.
That was unlikely to happen with teachers and leaders of a Southwall school, but spies who were good at their work could infiltrate into areas the mage couldn't believe. A human wizard had become a teacher in the dragon city of Mar'kal only to later reveal that he was working for the emperor after more than a decade of learning and teaching dragon magic.
It wasn't his story, but the girl who had taught him the spell to fly had lived through his betrayal. Added to a friend being turned into an instrument of betrayal last summer, Sebastian was understandably leery.
After an hour, the Red Hall wizards had exhausted their questions for him on that matter and they waited for Sebastian to fetch one of the newest swords ready to go to the armory. It had been made using his formula for steel. Whether the metal was truly better for sword making by a normal smith, he wasn't sure. The mage did know that the wrong steel would
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