(Sorry for wait, was making a character)
"Oh, alright then. If it's not an issue I see no hurry."
Continue listening to lecture.
"Now, to acquire a lifeform's Genetics, we cannot use a physical implement. It's impossible to peek into a soul with a physical implement, since the soul is immaterial. But the Me Kahigan in humans allows us magicians to examine a soul's genetics. It's more difficult to do on animals and people, and it has a chance of killing them... so we will start with plants in the lab excercise I have planned for today. The general principle is that genetics are not strictly necessary for the immediate survival of the subject. Remove them for too long, and the subject dies, of course. But if you do it only for a moment, then you have time to write down what you see without causing too many adverse effects."The lab exercise can start whenever you are ready.
Raioyris promptly produces the tree particle he lifted earlier.
That was misleading, if light elapses distances as such then it can't really have a velocity associated with it can it? That's not even really motion.
"Teach me. My soul is brimming with 'fire.' Quite actually.
Tonight I enter combat to defend my free name from baseless accusers, I intend to fight with my own strength and devices."
"I... I have a class to teach...""I think we could learn a thing or two from that combat," mutters the princess, a sly grin on her lips.
"..."The professor rewrites the next diagram: an enlarged version of the Sha.
"The Sha is able to act as a conduit for fire... by opening the gate of your soul, you open a direct path to a source of energy, and the Sha conducts this energy into whatever it contacts. Some use this open gate to supply energy for Wind magic, others for Thunder magic, but most use it for Fire spells. A rare half-elf with a Sha can practice the Moon arts, but those are quite rare indeed. I don't suppose we have any... ah well..."The bottom of the slide shows a picture of a staff, and a Sha gripping the staff (A human hand is holding the staff as well. Apparently the Sha cannot be used to grasp the staff directly). Several terms in an unknown language, scribed in Higan, are listed next to it:
Firaburz + ShaVukano + ShaJet + Sha((Yes, bloody irregular verbs. I hate those.))
"Me." Dan mutters and stares at flowers. Am I doing this right?
You head over to the Marble Gardens by boat and start staring at flowers. You say 'Me', and then... nothing happens.
"For actually using your Kahigan, imagine arms. One arm from your back, one that splits halfway along its length into two. Don't imagine the fingers, just the arm."You do it right this time. You don't quite feel anything like an arm on your back, but you can tell that it's working, because the flower bed in front of you is now on fire.
((So, light is considered to be infinite speed (but is it?), fire and shadow makes radiation...Hrm.))
"So...Is it, like light we can't see? Like how you can get a sunburn, only more deadly?
...Nevermind, I don't really need to know that just yet."
Keep going down the list.
To make bone, you try to mix a small green sprout with the Sands of Time. It starts to turn red, with blood vessels pumping throughout the leaves. It then turns a necrotic gray, then a bony white, and then withers away into quite literally nothing, besides whatever Time Sand was left unconsumed by the reaction.
My studies didn't focus much on the petty kingdom's of old, so this is certainly intriguing.
"What kind of fortification could decimate an entire kingdom's army?"
"He was an earthmover by the name of Rigel. By carving an immense circle into the ground, he was able to raise a wall of granite to protect the city. But having some skill in fortress design, he had the townspeople topple the wall outward and raised a smaller wall for it to collapse onto. This formed a ramp that the enemy could cross, but not leap off of without plummeting off the edge of the smaller wall propping up the ramp. For the protection of the city, he constructed a second wall within this glacis, one from which the archers could fire from.
This fortification had the effect of fooling the soldiers into believing that the ramp scaled the entirety of the wall. But it only scaled partway up into a ditch, where the first few lines of charging soldiers plummeted to their deaths. But none could hear their cries in the charge, and the soldiers behind them thought that there was simply a downward slope in front of them. Either way, their momentum did not let them arrest, and they plummeted one after the other, like lemmings off a cliff..."