- Lilith: Whew, I didn’t expect the effect to be that strong.
- Hel Rekdal: Did any of you know that one can destroy the fabric of the Bluestream with a lousy Wave Shield?
- Teacher: Of course…
- Teacher: … not!
- Ars: 15 points.
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The Red Hall 032
└ posted on Tuesday, 17 January 2012, by Novil
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So just like that, everything turned out all right in the end.
…Except that part of the room exploded.
…aaaand, nicely done.
Explosions are always fun =)
poor Ars now has a mess on his hands….
You have won this round Lilith. But I will read Gaia until I see you fail! And you’ll see who will have the last laugh.
(Of course it would be Novil but ’till then, let us pretend ). :]
@ Jace:
Didn’t know Ars HAD hands. I always thought those were talons/claws.
15 points?
Must be a scale from one to ten.
Bonus points!
Still rooting for the underdog side character archer to eventually have her time to shine, though of course Rangers aren’t magic types. Anyway, Lili’s got talent and enough skill/smarts to shield everyone from the lab experiment gone wrong that she was kind of responsible for.
15 points to gryffindor!– er… to those two girls!
destroy the fabric of the bluestream? that sounds rather serious, hope it doesn’t come back to haunt them.
You think that is messy try combining in DDO the metamagic feats – Enlarge, Enhance, and Maximize with a Fireball Spell. I do not recommend it unless you are high level and do not object to getting yelled at by the GM’s!
Wait… did she put up that shield entirely of her own raw talents, without a wand or anything?
Interesting – this brings a new angle to the magic in this comic
@ Gorm:
5 points for breaking the protection spells, 5 points for destroying the target, 5 points for throwing up a sufficiently-powerful (AND making it wide enough to cover Ars) shield between one panel and the next, and one celebratory hug.
@ Gamefreak506:
XD GOOD ONE!!
@ Deo:
As I said to Gamefreak, GOOD ONE!!
FUS RO DAH!
Should have written this.
I must say, I LOVE Ars’ “Well done” look on his face in the last panel. PRICELESS!!
Lilith owns. Period.
Well I would have pointed it differently. Passable mark at best. Especialy when she didn´t know how strong that effect would be…
And well Headmaster is wrong… waveshield can not do it… lousy combination of three spells can…
Pyro wrote:
I suspect that it was necessary for everyone to know that such an effect was possible. I think that knowledge is going to come in useful later.
I don’t know why, but this comic really made me laugh.
And I love Ars, I hope we get to see more of him! “15 points” indeed.
And that’s why you read books ladies and gentlemen.
Twenty five out of twenty available? Disqualified for hacking the voting booths.
Did I miss part of this comic where they explained why there are people living inside Ars’ pendant? Or is it a transmitter/camera? I’d read through the comics again but I’m at work. *cough*
And he says 15 points like no explosion happened before!
@ Mythril:
His pendant is an All-Seeing Eye. Ilias mentioned it in The Red Hall 022.
Just who are the people watching through the All Seeing Eye? This sounds like very dangerous knowledge in the wrong hands…
There wouldn’t be any foreshadowing going on now would there??
@ John the Wysard:
The headmaster and presumably the council of the school.
John the Wysard wrote:
Effect is already described in some obscure book on theory of advance defensive spells. but I do not find this thingparticulary usefull… one has to cast four separate spells onto target which may be attacking. And three of these spells will boost targets defence to everything else. And if target is using own magic or magical tools it can actualy be even more devastating. Field practicality is effectively zero.
^ unless said target already cast these spells on Themselves to achieve invincibility. One Luminare later and bye bye target. Good to know her reflexive shield is strong enough to block it though.
Is the scarecrow okay?! D:
15 points out of what?
So 6 is a bad score, but 15 is a “HOLY CRAP OMG” score…
“…remind me to never use that protection spell!”
@ tfeth282:
Well, if we equate that too the United States’ educational system and assume that the maximum score for any given portion is a 10, then yes a 60% (failing in High School, passing in College) to a 150% (impossible even with all the AP and GT modifiers applied) is a huge leap.
@ Francisco:
Sure will be, just like Chekhov’s gun!!!
@ towerwarlock:
Try having one of you companions do it in a 10′x10′x12′ (high) wooden structure, in a major city that has outlawed major workings of magic because of a similar “accident”.
I love Ars’ expression in panel 4. Is he mad because his lab is destroyed or because Lilith had to save him?
I know it really doesn’t go with this page, but Ars is sooooo freaking cute >.<
@ MOUSEANDERSON:
Probably both… I still wonder… what spell was the white sphere in the first pictue… it seemed to try to contain the explosion.
Maybe that was Ars´s spell that simply did not withstand the pressure.
Still, best part is when even the exam jury don’t know about the Wave Shield and Bluestream Fabric. Not even the director, who according to the background texts is supposed to be the best archmage in town…
….that mustache goatee combo
and now we have another move the kill an enemy :]
Hmm, Chekov’s gun for later?
Wow! They lived!
I had just been reading manga, and I read this whole page backwards.
I actually snorted at my own incompetence.
Kitt wrote:
I think what that means is that Mages can utilize spelsl they have studied well without a focus, but doing a spell they don’t know is easier with one. And most convenient focus for spells would seem to be in wand form.