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Spell It! (2007-2019) - The Spelling Champ
Spell It! was the third Scripps-provided pre-nationals study list. It was released in 2007 and served as the must-know guide for any spellers competing their district, county, regional, or state bees until it was replaced by Words of the Champions for the 2020 Bee Season.
Spell It! is the only Scripps list thus far to split up words by language and is easily the smallest by word amount. You can find the entire list, as well a couple tips on myspellit.com. The following files are lists of all Spell It! words, both consolidated into one document and separated into each of the 14 individual language groups in the guide.
Even though Spell It! is now outdated, I can totally guarantee the words from the list will continue appearing in Scripps’ pre-national bees for many, many years to come. This means memorizing the words on Spell It! is most definitely still worth your time. Feel free to print these and have someone quiz you!
Words: 1,155
Spell It!
Latin has the most Spell It! words out of all the languages, and is thus one of the most important languages to understand. While learning these 144 words, see if you can recognize any patterns. This will help you if you get a Latin word onstage that you don’t know.
Words: 144
Spell It! Latin
There’s a high probability you’ll get one of Arabic’s 83 Spell-It! words at the school, local, regional, or national level, so study up!
Words: 83
Spell It! Arabic
Some of the words in this category can be a little counterintuitive to the average English speaker, be careful!!
Words: 54
Spell It! Asian Languages
At least a few of French’s 98 words will present themselves to you at some point in competition.
You should learn all of them, and watch out for huge vowel clusters!
Words: 98
Spell It! French
An eponym is a word named after a person. A lot of the time, they refer to a type of plant or person with a certain personality or appearance.
Words: 53
Spell It! Eponyms
When studying German, be on the lookout for consonant clusters (on the opposite end of the spectrum from French.) German’s proclivity for consonant usage is unmatched by any other language.
Words: 79
Spell It! German
Despite looking and sounding kind of strange to English speakers, Slavic languages are generally pretty straightforward and consistent with their rules.
If you’re in doubt about the /k/ sound in a Slavic word, k is almost always the letter to go with. (Exceptions: cravat, cossack, and commissar)
Words: 52
Spell It! Slavic Languages
Generally, you don’t want to go too crazy with Dutch.
/ü/ is usually spelled with oo and /f/ is spelled with an f. However, as you get to higher-level Dutch words, it’s crucial that you are aware of its quirks. These include ui being pronounced /ā/, /y/ being spelled with a j, v being pronounced /f/, and /ü/ sometimes being spelled with oe.
Words: 99
Spell It! Dutch
Old English is also spelled much how it sounds: KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) would not a bad strategy here.
/ək/ at the end of a word is pretty much always spelled –ock. Watch out for a couple odd ones here and there; Wiccan, heifer, or pinafore could be tough if you aren’t familiar with them.
Words: 96
Spell It! Old English
For these languages, words were absorbed into English by European settlers who transcribed what they heard when they came into contact with indigenous New World peoples, so naturally the words (which were once mere transcriptions) are mostly spelled exactly as they sound.
This set of languages tends to follow the basic /ä/ = a, /ā/ = e, /ē/ = i, /ō/ = o, /ü/=u vowel scheme.
Words: 56
Spell It! New World Languages
Japanese is widely considered to be a very simple language, 99% of the time.
It follows the /ä/ /ā/ /ē/ /ō/ /ū/ vowel scheme used in the New World Languages, EXCEPT that ā is spelled ei most of the time. It can also occasionally be spelled with an e, but thankfully intuition and feel for the word can usually determine which one is right. /k/ is always k and /ī/ is always ai.
Words: 40
Spell It! Japanese
Greek’s prevalence and extreme importance in the spelling bee is undeniable.
Be careful for /ī/ being spelled y. /f/ is spelled ph. Root words are often very helpful in breaking down a Greek word, and even though you technically can’t ask root questions at any bee below the national level, I’d still strongly recommend being acquainted with basic Greek roots.
Words: 141
Spell It! Greek
Italian is full of terms referring to food or music.
Most of the time, Italian follows the /ä/ = a /ā/ = e /ē/ = i /ō/=o /ū/ = u vowel scheme. Watch out for double letters (belladonna, falsetto, illuminati) and /g/ often being spelled gh. /ts/ is usually zz (think pizza), /ē/ at the end of a word is occasionally e (provolone is the only example on Spell It!), and /sh/ is sc 90% of the time.
Words: 88
Spell It! Italian
If you know the rules, Spanish is usually not too crazy.
Like others, Spanish usually follows the /ä/ = a /ā/ = e /ē/ = i /ō/=o /ū/ = u vowel scheme. /h/ is j and /k/ is c when it comes before a, o, or u, and qu when it comes before e or i.
Words: 72
Spell It! Spanish
Prayer or spell? (Deacon Valery Dukhanin) - For whom the bell tolls
| Valery Dukhanin |
One of the characteristics of our time is spiritual disorientation. It is far from always that a modern person will notice the difference between Christian and occult concepts. Accordingly, not knowing the difference, he will not understand the substitution offered by occult practices.
For example, will everyone be able to correctly answer how Christian prayer differs from a magical conspiracy and spell? Here and there a verbal formula is uttered, here and there the faith of the speaker is required, both presuppose something invisible and supernatural. Is there any difference at all if magicians sometimes mention the name of God, but it happens that they utter the most church prayers?
Let's try to answer this question.
First, let's clarify that a spell and a spell are occult verbal formulas that have a certain difference. The conspiracy involves a technical and magical effect by virtue of the very pronounced formula. This is a verbal expression that captures a person’s faith in some kind of better change for him. For example, a person wants to get well, meet a person of the opposite sex he likes, have good financial wealth, avoid bad obsession - all this is expressed in a conspiracy with the hope that it will turn out by virtue of the pronunciation itself. There are even conspiracies that have entered our speech, have taken root in our culture. So, a mother, rubbing a child’s bruised place, says: “The magpie is sick, the dog is sick, and Mashenka is gone.” The point, of course, is not that magpies and dogs for some reason are obliged to take the rap for our missteps, but that a person wants to somehow remove the trouble with the help of a verbal action, to avert trouble from himself or his loved one.
Such is the conspiracy.
A spell is an imperative, a command, a demand directed, for example, to invisible spirits and having a coercive character. But in general, these concepts can be generalized, since often a conspiracy and a spell act as synonyms. So, any spell (conspiracy) is a sequence of words or sounds, behind which magic power is recognized. They try to achieve with spells what ordinary human efforts cannot achieve: influence the weather, crops, well-being, etc.
Well, someone will say, you made a spell for yourself, came up with a rite and you will already achieve everything you want? No. Experienced magicians will answer that there are a lot of new conspiracies and spells now, but all of them are ineffective. The old spells were reinforced by the experience of the magician's life, that is, his explicit or secret interaction with the dark forces, and his death as a kind of seal.
Prayers are sanctified by the experience of the lives of holy people.
Christian ascetics found communion with God through prayers, in the experience of their spiritual life they created prayers that most dispose the soul to communion with God. Therefore, pronouncing the prayers composed by them (they are collected in Orthodox prayer books), we ascend to God in the same way as the saints.
In magic, it is believed that the incantation formula is wonderful in itself, the meaning of words is far from always decisive. Suppose, in the Middle Ages, spells were pronounced mainly in Latin, which the speaker did not necessarily know. We all know the word "abracadabra", which means simple nonsense for us, passed from an old magic spell. Occultists believe that words have a hidden meaning, like a kind of code that gives access to the laws of the world around us. This hidden meaning is known only to the "chosen ones" who are able to compose new conspiracies and spells. Those who do not know the hidden meaning can use formulas that supposedly help the believer in their effect.
The conspiracy is close to a mantra, in which it is not so much the explicit meaning that is important, but the exact reproduction of sounds, and each sound is considered endowed with mystical meaning. In Christianity, prayer appeal and service to God is meaningful, here the obvious, immediate meaning that is embedded in prayer comes to the fore. “Sing to our God, sing ... sing wisely” ( Ps. 46:7-8 ), we read in the holy book of Psalms. Prayer must be reasonable, that is, pronounced consciously and meaningfully. Where God is, there is meaning and order. Where there is no grace of God, there is nonsense, chaos and all sorts of disorder. Imagine a person who comes to the leader and begins to say something that he himself does not understand - will they listen to him? Let's imagine that he prepared a verbal formula and spoke it without any awareness, like a magic spell - will this affect the leader? Therefore, prayer must be meaningful because it involves personal communication - the turning of the mind and heart of a person to God, Who sees all the secrets of our soul.
However, it may be objected to us that in modern, and not medieval, conspiracies, quite meaningful requests are set out (although "abracadabra" is still used), therefore, in magic, a person understands what he pronounces. Even so, the cardinal difference is that people with a magical consciousness rely on the text of the conspiracy itself, on its sound reproduction as the launch of an invisible mechanism, while Christians rely not on the text, but on God, Whom they turn to in their prayers. Who hears and therefore can help.
Some people are bribed in conspiracies by the fact that there are also prayerful references to Christ, the Mother of God, borrowed from the Orthodox prayer book. Indeed, in many conspiracies there are completely Orthodox speech turns, and some begin emphatically pious: “I will stand, blessing, go, crossing myself ...” (in many cases more frankly: “I will stand, without blessing, I will go without crossing myself” ). But fragments of prayers are found in conspiracies, just as fragments of true words are found in street gossip or in the speech of a foul language - euphonious expressions.
Occultists can even mention "Our Father", but they also turn to water, clay and other accessories of the created world - such is paganism, embellished with Christian symbols close to the human soul.
There is a very interesting episode in M. Sholokhov's book "Quiet Don", when Aksinya tried to free herself from her love for Grigory by turning to her grandmother:
“- I miss him, dear grandmother. I'm drying on my little eyes... Maybe I dried it with something?... Help me, granny!...
Grandmother Drozdikha looks at Aksinya with bright, wrinkled eyes, shaking her head to the bitter words of the story...
- Come, old lady, early tomorrow. Just a little dawn, you'll come. Let's go to the Don, to the water. Let's get rid of melancholy. Salts take a pinch from home ...
At dawn, Aksinya, who had not slept all night, was at Drozdikhin's window...
Down the lane down to the Don. At the pier, near the bridges, the abandoned front of the cart gets wet in the water.
The sand near the water is ice-cold. Damp, icy haze flows from the Don.
Drozdikha takes Aksinya's hand with her bony hand and pulls her towards the water.
- Did you take the salt? Give it here. Look at the sunrise.
Aksinya is being baptized. He looks angrily at the happy pinkness of the East.
- Scoop up a handful of water. Drink, Drozdikha commands.
Aksinya, having wet the sleeves of her jacket, got drunk. Grandmother squatted like a black spider over a lazy wave, squatted down, whispered:
- Cold springs, flowing from the bottom... Flammable flesh... Beast in the heart... Melancholy-fever... And the holy cross... Most Pure, Most Holy... Servant of God Gregory... - came to the ear Aksini.
Drozdikha sprinkled salt on the wet sandy placer under her feet, sprinkled it into the water, the rest - Aksinya in her bosom.
- Splash some water over your shoulder. Hurry!
Aksinya did. With anguish and malice she looked at Drozdikha's brown cheeks.
- Everything, or what?
- Go, dear, disgrace. Everything» 1 .
And the sign of the cross with the name of God, and the cold springs with domestic salt and river water, and the hope for the ritual itself without personal meaningful participation - everything is mentioned here. True, all this turned out to be completely ineffective for Aksinya herself.
At present, imitating some kind of science, occultists say that conspiracies and spells are ways of concentrating the energy of the magician's will, which is directed to the goal with the help of verbal formulas, this is just some kind of self-tuning of a psychic and nothing more. Modern occultists explain the sign of the cross as energy self-defense with the identification of one's own biofield. Thus, people with a magical consciousness are not interested in either God or prayer to Him. If we talk about the true meaning of Christian symbolism and prayer, then the sign of the cross is, first of all, a symbol of the Cross on which the Lord was crucified for the sins of the whole world.
And therefore, the sign of the cross joins the Christian to the victory of the Lord over the devil and our sins. True prayer is a personal appeal to Him Who is personal. Christian prayer is standing before the Living God, Who sees and hears you, Who strengthens and helps. Prayer cannot be an appeal to soulless objects, for they do not hear and do not able to help spiritually. Of course, there are holy objects, that is, sanctified by the grace of God. But when a priest, for example, sanctifies water, then, overshadowing it with a cross, he nevertheless turns to God: “You, Lord, come and now by the influx of Your Holy Spirit and sanctify this water.” Turning in a special prayer to the life-giving Cross, we thereby turn to the crucified Lord. For a Christian, prayer is a golden bond with God, it is the life of our soul and a treasure trove of all kinds of blessings, because in response to fervent prayer, the Lord endows the Christian with His graces.
Any conspiracy generally corresponds to the idea of occultism, witchcraft.
In witchcraft, a person tries to satisfy his individual, selfish desires, not commensurating them with his eternal salvation. He wants now and here to achieve success, a good harvest, good luck in personal affairs, the favor of a loved one, revenge on an enemy, etc., without thinking whether the method itself is saving, whether the goal pursued is consistent with the will of God. This desire to achieve "one's own" by any means, even at the expense of one's future fate, is the main idea of any conspiracy or spell. In prayer, a person, even asking for something very important in the earthly sense, still entrusts himself into the hands of God, commits the fulfillment of what he asks to God, based on the principle: will the request be useful, will it not interfere with the spiritual progress of a person, does it correspond to the will of God?
If a prayer is a request addressed to God, the Most Holy Theotokos or saints, and, therefore, prayer implies a voluntary response, then the one who casts the spell does not expect an answer from anyone: the spell itself is considered to have coercive power to achieve the desired.
For example, to attract money in modern magic, it is recommended in the evening of the day when 10 saved coins of 1 ruble have accumulated, light two candles, put a glass vessel between them and, filling it with consecrated (!) Water, say: “Let your pockets fill, let the money they will come to my house as soon as I fill a vessel with water ”(spells are often pronounced in rhyme). Then they take coins one at a time and, throwing them into the water, read a spell one phrase for each coin: “I wish you health. I wish you success. I wish you happiness. I wish you wealth. I want gold. I want silver. I want abundance. I want help. I want money to come into my life. I want it, so be it." Candles are left to burn out, and sprinkled with water in the morning from the vessel, the corners of their housing and the remaining water are poured onto the threshold.
The given example of a spell clearly shows that in magic everything is based on the principle "let my will be done", "let my will be done through spells and magical actions.
" In prayer, everything is based on the principle that Christ expressed in the Gethsemane prayer: “Not My will, but Yours be done” ( Lk. 22:42 ). In the spell, the magician believes in achieving what he wants: "I performed the ritual - and I will get what I want." In prayer, a Christian believes in God, Who can give what is asked if it is useful to the soul of the one who asks.
So, in magic spells a person tries to satisfy himself, his passions and mundane needs as much as possible, and in prayer a person strives to realize in his personal life what corresponds to God's Providence. The providence of God seeks in a person the maximum disclosure of goodness and, accordingly, a good attitude towards all other people. Not earthly gain or a carefree life is set as the main goal in prayer. In the end, it doesn’t even matter whether the Lord gives a person something earthly through his prayer — what is important is the prayer itself as communication with God. The Monk John of the Ladder wrote well about this: “Having been in prayer for a long time and not seeing the fruit, do not say: I have not gained anything.
For the very presence in prayer is already a gain; and what greater good is it to cleave to the Lord and to be unceasingly united with Him.” 2 .
In addition, in spells it doesn’t matter at all how pure a person’s heart is, the main thing is to accurately reproduce magical actions and internally tune in to achieve what you want. In prayer, everything depends on what is contained in the heart of the one who prays, how attentively, unabashedly he prays. Therefore, prayer presupposes a moral effort, overcoming in oneself sinful movements and that laziness that paralyzes the soul on its path to God. St. Theophan the Recluse wrote: “When zealous for salvation, all attention should be paid to the dispensation of the heart or to the impression in it of truly Christian feelings and dispositions ... For what is not in the heart is not in fact. If there is no faith in the heart, then there is none at all, even if someone is written as Orthodox. If there are no sighs in the heart, there are none at all, even if someone shakes the air or beats himself in the chest.
If there is no fear of God in the heart, then there is none at all, even if someone looks filled with reverence. If there is no purity and detachment in the heart, there are none at all, even if someone He was pure in body and had nothing of the goods of the world. If there is no person with a heart in the temple, he is not here at all, even if he stands here with his body. So, everything must be done with the heart. Love with your heart, humble yourself with your heart, draw closer to God with your heart, forgive with your heart, grieve with your heart, pray with your heart, bless with your heart, and so on and so forth... For whoever is in the heart, God sees him as such from the height of His throne and accepts him accordingly.0071 3 .
All that has just been said leads to an explanation why some occultists use completely ecclesiastical prayers. Church texts are used, and the idea of pronouncing them is occult. For the magician himself, even if a prayer is uttered, it is no longer actually a prayer, but only a spell in which he does not turn to God at all, since he believes that the utterance itself will affect the necessary invisible threads.
For the occultist, prayer is only a magical formula, a kind of verbal energy acting on the strength of the utterance itself. An answer is not expected from God - the magician is not able to reverently turn to God - but the effect is expected from the verbal formula itself, from the energy contained in it, according to the magician. Since, with the senseless repetition of the words of the prayer, there is no living appeal to God, this person is easily tempted by demons, which give him special feelings, emotions and create the appearance of the effect of the occult use of prayers.
In conclusion, let us recall the words of St. John Chrysostom: “Let us seek salvation not in any way, and deliverance from calamities not in any way, but from God. I say this to those who, during illnesses, use spells and resort to other sorceries to alleviate the illness. This means seeking for oneself not salvation, but destruction, because the greatest salvation is that which is received from God” 4 .
[1] Sholokhov M. Quiet Don. M., 1975. Book. 1. S. 55-56.
[2] John of the Ladder , Rev. Ladder. SPb., 1996. S. 239
[3] Theophan the Recluse, Saint . Inner Life: Selected Teachings. M., 1998. S. 232-233.
[4] St. John Chrysostom. Conversation on Psalm 9 // John Chrysostom, Saint . Creations. T. 5. Book. 1. St. Petersburg, 1899, p. 122.
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Handy of Louise the Zero / Volume 1 / Gandalf. Chapter 4: Fouquet Clay Ball
There was a wizard thief known as the "Clayball" who terrified the nobles of Tristain. It was the Fouquet Clay Lump.
When the criminal heard that a nobleman in the north of the kingdom had a diadem inlaid with precious stones in his mansion, he immediately went to get it; when he heard that in the south of the kingdom a nobleman had a family treasure in his villa - a staff given by the late king, he destroyed the dwelling and took this treasure; when he heard that in the east of the kingdom a nobleman in a luxurious palace had a pearl ring - the best work of art of the masters from Albion, he took this jewel without hesitation; when he heard that a nobleman in the west of the kingdom had a hundred-year-old vintage worth a thousand gold coins a bottle in the wine warehouse, he enthusiastically took this wine.
This was a completely elusive, very mysterious thief. A very mysterious thief-wizard. This was the Fouquet Clay Lump.
When it was thought that the method of his theft was to delicately sneak into the mansion, he, after destroying a country villa to smithereens, carried out a daring theft; when it was believed that he would raid the Royal Bank in the open in the light of day, the criminal broke into a private house under the cover of night.
His demeanor was unreadable, and the mage guards from the Royal Guard units who were in charge of public security in Tristain were also worried.
However, there were unifying points in his methods of stealing. When Fouquet made his way to the place where the desired trophies were hidden, he mostly used the Transformation spell. Having turned doors or walls into clay and sand with the help of this magic, the thief climbed into the opened hole.
Why, the nobles weren't stupid either, so it goes without saying that they took countermeasures.
The walls and doors of the mansions were protected against the Transformation spell by the Lock spell, cast by powerful mages summoned to do so. However, Fouquet had a strong Transformation spell. In most situations, regardless of the Fortify spell, the thief would turn doors and walls into a heap of clay.
Thanks to this art of stealing, the criminal was given the nickname "Clayball".
When Fouquet didn't just break into rooms, but razed mansions to the ground, he used a giant earth golem. The giant's height was approximately thirty emails.
It was a golem that seemed capable of destroying an entire fortress. Putting to flight the assembled magicians-guards, the thief stole treasures in the open in the light of day.
No one has ever seen the true face of Fouquet. They had no idea if he was a man or a woman. Everything they knew about him...
This is what, in all likelihood, the thief was a triangular mage of the element Earth.
In addition, he left a playful inscription on the wall at the crime scene: "Your favorite .
.. (the name of the stolen item was indicated here) was definitely received. Fouquet Clay Lump."
And one more thing: he, above all, loved the so-called magical artifacts - numerous famous treasures endowed with powerful magic.
***
Huge Twin Moons illuminated the walls of the Main Tower of the Academy of Magic, where the treasury was located on the fifth floor.
Moonlight illuminated the vertical shadow of a man on the wall.
It was Fouquet.
The figure of a person standing still, imperturbable, with long green hair fluttering in the night wind, the figure of a mysterious thief who terrified the nobles inside the kingdom, hovered in the air.
Fouquet, who felt the sensation of a wall from his feet, clicked his tongue in annoyance:
- As expected from the Main Tower of the Magic Academy... Weakness - a physical blow? If it's that thick, there's just no other way, right?!
The thief measured the thickness of the walls with the soles of his feet.
For an expert in earth magic, which was Fouquet, this case was not particularly difficult.
- Definitely, although there doesn't seem to be any enchantments in place here, except for the Binding spell... even with the might of my golem, I probably won't be able to break it...
Fouquet languished with his arms crossed over his chest.
Due to the most powerful Fortify spell, it was not possible to make a hole in the wall with the Transformation spell.
“Although I finally managed to get here…” Fouquet gritted his teeth, “On the other hand, I won't leave without giving up the Staff of Destruction…” So standing with his arms crossed on his chest, he plunged into deep thought.
***
While Fouquet was languishing with his feet on the wall of the Main Tower... there was a disturbance in Louise's room.
Kirche and Mistress Saito glared at each other. The familiar in his "Chicken's Nest" lost his head because of the famous sword that the red-haired maiden brought.
Tabitha sat on the bed and opened the book.
- And how is this to be understood, Zerbst? - akimbo, Louise glared at her sworn enemy with an angry look.
Kirche calmly parried the gaze of the mistress of the object of her love:
- After all, I got the sword that Saito wanted, so I came to tell him to use it.
- I sincerely sympathize with you. As for the weapons the familiar uses, they already have them. Right, Saito?
However, contrary to what Louise said, the boy was in seventh heaven from the sword that Kirche had acquired. He drew his blade and stared at it intently.
As he gripped the hilt of his sword as expected, the runes on his left hand glowed. At the same time, there was a feeling that his body became light, as if it had turned into a feather. He would like to practice with the new sword, but since he was in the room, he put that thought aside.
Damn it, what's the point of making the runes on my left hand glow?
Although it is clear that as soon as I take the sword, this glow appears.
However... Now I am in seventh heaven from this magnificent sword.
- Cool... Still, it's so cool... It sparkles so brightly!
Louise kicked her familiar.
- What are you doing?!
- Give it back. You already have a chatty sword, don't you?
- Oh, it's definitely interesting that he talks, but...
He's rusty and jagged. In the end, if you really use something, then definitely, more beautiful is preferable. Besides, Kirche gave it to me just like that...
- Jealousy is unattractive, isn't it? Vallière, - the red-haired girl said in a triumphant tone.
- Jealousy? Who's jealous here?!
- Isn't that right? I easily got the sword that Saito wanted and gave it to him, that's why you're jealous, isn't it?
- Who?! Stop already! I don't want anyone from Zerbst to do me a favour, even with a grain of soybeans! Only and everything!
Kirche looked at Saito. He stared at Louise's long sword, and in his eyes one could guess the unwillingness to part with the weapon.
- See? Saito lost his head from that sword, didn't he?! You know? That this thing was forged by Lord Shupe, the famous German alchemist sorcerer? Kirche threw an excited sidelong glance at the familiar. - Listen, you. Understand? That both swords and women born in Germany are the best? As for the women of Tristain, they are, like Louise, terribly jealous, quick-tempered and unrestrained, hysterical and exceptionally proud, and nothing can be done about it.
Mistress Saito gave Kirche an evil look.
- What are you looking at? This is the truth, isn't it?
- Odd. People like you are just loving idiots, aren't they?! What? There are no men left in Germany who would serve as objects of your claims, and that is why you came to study at Tristain?
To provoke her opponent, Louise showed an icy smile. Her voice trembled. Accordingly, she was probably furious.
- Are you talking to me? Vallière... - Kirche changed her face. Louise triumphantly added:
- What are you watching? This is the truth, isn't it?
The rivals simultaneously drew their magic wands.
Tabitha, who had been reading the book attentively until now, waved her staff faster than the debaters.
The rising whirlwind snatched the wands from the rivals' hands and threw them aside.
"In the room," Tabitha said indifferently.
She seemed to mean that it was dangerous to fight here.
- Who is this girl? She's been here a long time," Louise muttered angrily. Kirche replied:
- This is my friend.
- Why is your friend in my room?
Kirche glared at her opponent:
- Is something wrong?
"H-hello." Saito turned to Tabitha, who was reading the book carefully. There was no answer. The blue-haired girl silently turned the pages. She seems to be rather taciturn.
Louise and Kirche were still exchanging angry looks. The red-haired girl looked away and suggested:
- Shall we let Saito decide?
- Should I decide? To me? - the boy was stunned by the fact that he was suddenly thrown off the responsibility.
- Exactly. Because we're arguing over your sword." Louise glared at him angrily. Saito was exhausted. If we talk about the sword as such, then his heart leaned towards the sparkling blade bought by the red-haired beauty.
However, if I choose Kirche's sword, my master will surely not forgive me. I will probably be deprived of food for a whole week. If I ask Siesta for food, I guess she will feed me, however...
Saito looked at Louise. She stared at me so angrily. When I was recently seriously injured, she looked after me ... She is smug and arrogant, but ingratitude is bad. In addition, Saito apparently liked Louise more.
However... Kirche bought that expensive sword just for me. Although she is a stunning beauty, she fell in love with me. I believe that after this, in my whole life, not a single beauty like Kirche will fall in love with me.
If you think so, you won't be able to make a choice. Choosing a sword is the same as choosing one of these two girls.
- Which one?
Kirche looks angrily. And Louise looks angrily.
- Well, can't you do both at the same time? Saito scratched his head in amusement. Two opponents kicked him at the same time, and he crashed to the floor.
"Listen," Kirche turned to Louise.
- What do you want?
- We won't settle this quickly.
- Looks like it.
- I hate you to death.
- And I - you.
- How we understand each other.
Kirche smiled and then looked up.
Louise also stubbornly puffed out her chest. The rivals simultaneously exclaimed:
- Duel!
"Stop and settle things peacefully," Saito said indignantly. However, both Kirche and Louise, eyes wide with mutual anger, glared at each other angrily, so they did not hear the familiar's phrase.
- Magically, of course? - as if celebrating a victory, announced Kirche.
Louise bit her lip, but immediately nodded:
- Yes. I want this with all my might.
- Seriously? Louise the Zero. Is dueling with magic okay? Kirche muttered in a mocking tone. Louise nodded. Not sure. Of course not. However, this wench from the Zerbst family proposed a magic contest, and it's impossible to just walk away.
- Of course! Who else is going to be defeated?
***
Fouquet, clinging to the wall of the Main Tower, felt signs of someone approaching.
Pushing off the wall, he immediately flew down to the ground. Just as he was about to hit the surface, the thief silently cast a Levitate spell, slowed down, and landed like a feather. Then the offender disappeared into the thickets located in the courtyard.
***
The ones who appeared in the courtyard were Louise, Kirche, Tabitha, and Saito.
- So let's get started? - the red-haired girl suggested. The boy asked with visible concern:
- Are you really going to duel?
- Exactly, - Louise was also quite ready.
"Because it's dangerous, stop..." Saito said in an indignant voice.
"Certainly, getting hurt would be crazy," Kirche said.
"Exactly," Louise nodded.
Tabitha approached her friend and whispered something to her. Then Kirche smiled:
- Oh, how great!
The red-haired girl also whispered to Louise. She nodded:
- Ah, that's good.
The three girls turned to Saito at the same time.
The boy had extremely nasty premonitions about what was about to happen.
He pointed at the girls.
- Hey, out of your mind? You three." Saito asked in a plaintive voice, but no one answered.
The boy was tied with a rope, and now he was hanging from the Main Tower, dangling in the air. "Still, it would be better if I chose one," he thought.
Far below, small figures of Kirche and Louise were visible on the ground. Despite the fact that it was now night, thanks to the Twin Moons, everything around was sufficiently illuminated.
On the top of the tower was a figure of Tabitha riding a wind dragon. The beast held both swords in its teeth.
The twin moons softly illuminated Saito.
Kirche and Louise, standing on the ground, looked up at the boy. They could see the familiar, tied with a rope and hanging from the tower, swaying slightly.
Kirche crossed her arms and said:
- Do you hear? Vallière. Whoever cuts that rope and lowers Saito to the ground wins. The familiar uses the sword of the victor. All clear?
- Understood - Louise nodded with a serious expression.
- What magic to use is up to you. But I'll be second. So to speak, handicap for you.
- All right.
- So, please.
Louise raised her wand. Tabitha on the roof started shaking the rope that Saito was hanging from. The boy swayed left and right. The hit percentage for spells like Fireball is very high. If the rope did not move, it would be easy to hit the target.
However... Before worrying about whether or not to hit the target, Louise had another problem: whether she would succeed with the spell or not.
Mistress Saito is exhausted from her doubts. What will be successful? Wind Release? Fire Release? The elements of Water and Earth are not even taken into consideration. Attack spells that can cut the rope are few and far between. Nevertheless, the element of Fire is needed here. At the same time, we must remember that Kirche is a master in the element of Fire.
I guess her Fireball will easily cut the rope. The error is unacceptable for me.
Exhausted, Louise finally decided to use the Fireball spell. This is a spell that shoots a small burst of flame while aiming at an object.
The girl briefly muttered a spell. If I fail... Saito will have to use the sword that Kirche bought. For Louise, who had a high sense of pride, this was unacceptable.
She finished casting the spell. Cheered up, the girl waved her magic wand.
When the spell is finished, a ball of fire should shoot out from the end of the wand.
However, nothing came out of the end of Louise's wand.
And a moment later, the wall behind Saito exploded.
The boy's body shook with a shock wave:
- Are you going to kill me?! Louise heard a cry from her familiar. The rope remained intact. If the mistress thought that she would cut the rope with a shock wave, then it seems that this decision turned out to be weak. The wall of the Main Tower cracked. And Kirche... clutching her stomach, laughed:
- Zero! Louise the Zero! What can be done so as not to cut the rope, but to blow up the wall?! Talent!
Louise was disappointed.
- After all, no matter what spell you use, everything explodes with you! Ha ha ha!
Mistress Saito fell to her knees in apparent annoyance, tightly clenching her fists.
“So, now it's my turn.” Kirche stared at the rope with Saito hanging with the eyes of a huntress. Tabitha was shaking the rope, making it hard to aim.
Despite this, the red-haired girl smiled coolly. Briefly whispering a spell, she held out her wand with a familiar gesture.
The Fireball spell was Kirche's signature number.
A ball of flame the size of a melon shot out from the end of her wand and flew towards the rope on which Saito was suspended. The ball accurately hit the rope and burned it in an instant.
The boy began to fall to the ground. On the roof, Tabitha swung her staff and cast a Levitation spell on Saito. Thanks to the slowing spell, the familiar slowly sank to the ground.
Kirche, celebrating her victory, said through laughter:
- My win! Vallière!
Depressed, Louise sat down on the ground and began to pluck grass.
***
From the bushes in the courtyard of Fouquet, without looking away, he watched everything from beginning to end. He saw with his own eyes how the wall near the treasury cracked from Louise's spell.
Damn, what was that magic? Although the Fireball spell was cast, nothing came out of the end of the wand. Instead, the wall exploded.
I've never seen a spell like this that blows things up.
Fouquet shook his head. However, he could not miss such a chance. The thief began to cast a spell. Long spell.
Having finished saying it, Fouquet waved his magic wand towards the ground.
The thief smiled faintly.
The earth was noisily rising.
Fouquet Clayball showed his ability.
***
- What a pity! Vallière! - triumphant Kirche laughed loudly. Louise, seemingly humiliated by the defeat of the contest, continued to kneel with drooping shoulders.
Saito stared at his master with confused feelings. And then he said in a low voice:
- ... To begin with, untie the rope.
He was tightly wrapped around her, like some kind of bale. The boy was unable to move his body.
Kirche smiled:
- Yes. With pleasure.
At the same moment.
Kirche had the feeling that something huge was behind her. She looked back.
And I couldn't believe my eyes.
- Wh-what is this?! She opened her mouth wide in amazement.
Isn't that a giant earth golem approaching here?!
- Aaaaaaaaaa! - Kirche, uttering screams, rushed to run. Saito called after her:
- Hey! Do not leave me!
A giant golem came close to his eyes. The boy panicked:
- Wh-what is this?! Hulk!
Saito struggled to escape, but because he was tightly wrapped in ropes like a bale, he couldn't escape.
Louise came to her senses and ran up to him:
- Why are you so tied up?! Exactly you!
- It seems to me that it was you who tied me up!
Above their heads, the golem raised its foot.
Saito resigned himself. After all, he was motionless.
- Louise! Run away! he yelled.
- Oh, this rope...
The hostess struggled with all her might to untie the bonds.
Golem's foot goes down. Saito closed his eyes.
When they were close to death, Tabitha's wind dragon slithered towards them. He firmly grabbed Louise and her familiar with both paws and immediately slipped out through the gap between the golem's foot and the ground.
Where the guys had just been, a giant's foot slammed with a roar.
Hanging from the clutches of the wind dragon, Saito and Louise looked down at the golem from above.
The boy asked in a trembling voice:
- Wh-what was that...?
- I don't really understand... I guess it's a giant earth golem.
- Such a giant! Everything will be OK?!
- ...This giant earth golem can be controlled by a triangle magician, no less.
Saito bit his lip. He remembered that just recently Louise had tried to untie the ropes on him, despite the danger.
- Okay... why didn't you run away?
The girl answered firmly:
- A magician who abandoned his familiar does not deserve to be a magician.
Saito silently stared at his mistress. Louise looked somehow absolutely dazzling.
***
Fouquet, who was on the shoulder of the giant earth golem, chuckled faintly.
Neither Kirche, who was running away, losing her head, nor the visible figure of a wind dragon circling in the sky bothered him.
The thief was wrapped in a black cloak from head to toe. If the face of the criminal is not visible under it, then you should not worry.
The earth golem's fist hit the wall from above, which had a crack in it.
At the moment of impact, Fouquet turned the golem's earthen fist into an iron fist.
The hand hit the wall. There was a dull sound, and the wall collapsed. Under the hood, Fouquet grinned.
Moving along the golem's arm, the thief entered the treasury through a hole in the wall.
Various treasures were inside. However, Fouquet had only one goal: the Staff of Destruction.
A variety of magical staves and wands hung on the wall. Among them was an object that did not look like a magic staff, no matter how you look at it. About the length of a mail, it was made of a metal never seen before. Fouquet glared at the iron tablet hanging under the object.
It was inscribed: "Staff of Destruction. Not allowed to be carried." Fouquet's smile grew wider and wider.
The thief took the Staff of Destruction.
The offender was struck by the lightness of the item. What the hell is he made of?
However, there was no time to think now. The thief hurriedly climbed the golem's shoulder.
When the offender was leaving, he waved his wand. And right there, an inscription was printed on the wall: "The Staff of Destruction definitely received. Fouquet Clay Lump."
***
Once again placing the mage in the black cloak on his shoulder, the golem moved away. He crossed the fortress wall of the Academy of Magic in one step and moved across the plain, creating a rumble from the shaking ground.
A wind dragon was circling in the sky above the giant.
Sitting on his back, Tabitha swung her staff, which was longer than she was. She used the Levitation spell to transport Saito and Louise from the dragon's clutches onto its back. Then the blue-haired girl swung her long staff again. The air vibrated as if a kamaitachi had flown by, and the rope wrapped around Saito was cut.
