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When Zek casted the spell, he started to feel lightheaded and his ears rang a bit. He went to go find a wall to lean up against until the side effects of the spell faded away.

Velvet wondered how this class was going to work out for her. After all, she did have the ability of mind manipulation. And there was more to it than just hallucinations- the mind controlled the body, did it not? One could hack into the nervous system and control the senses. Or dig into their memory and use their emotional weaknesses against them. Or even drive someone to the brink of insanity, trapping them in a mental hell between nightmares and reality that could last for years and leave them brain-dead.

Many dark thoughts passed through Velvet's mind, but she quickly dismissed them. Get a hold of yourself. She thought she had heard her grandmother's voice, but she pushed those painful thoughts away as well. As she tried to pay attention to Fizban, she began to wonder if all the teachers here had the power to invade a person's mind. That Nelson guy did seem to have read her emotions...her brown irises narrowed in deep thought. I'll have to work hard if I want to surpass any of them.

When Fizban finished speaking, it took a moment for Velvet to register his words before beginning to search for the said 15 hidden objects.

Deviant cast the spell, letting the effects ease into him slowly so that he wouldn't wind up casting too quickly and messing up something. Hopefully this wouldn't be too hard, it was just fifteen objects, how hard could that be? He might not be the best at finding things, he wasn't a mother after all, but he could find things if he really tried hard enough. So, he started then to search around with the spell, hoping to find at least one or two of the objects.

The incorporeal glow surrounding every supernatural being is an outward manifestation of the entity's magic capacity. Through centuries of experimental research, it has been determined that aura is unique to each individual, and will later be legally recognized as part of the person's identity. Essentially, aura has similar distinctive features to that of a fingerprint. Whenever a spell is cast, aura is produced as a result of the magic residue from the excess mana input.

In her pursuit of knowledge, Laura had always been fascinated by events that defy theories widely accepted by the magical community as the truth. One of such instance would be Demiurge, a supervillian who avoided arrest despite being known to have committed intolerable crimes against the magical community simply because there were no traces of his aura at the places he targeted. Another would be Espada and Spectral, the legendary twin blades crafted by the Blacksmith which have identical auras.

After noticing that she had went off track with her thoughts, she brought herself back and casted the spell for identifying auras as instructed by Professor Fizban and began her search. Seeing a faint trail of aura on the bookshelf at the back of the class, she cautiously reached out her hands to touch it, only to be startled when a lollipop materialized before her eyes.

Talia cast the spell. She didn't know that much about spells and mind manipulation, so she did struggle a little. After her third try, she felt the aura flowing around her. She saw a faint glow around the bookshelves, which suddenly disappeared as Laura touched it, dropping a lollipop. So that's what we get, she thought. Talia turned, trying to sense more, and she felt compelled to a desk. She walked towards it, and upon touching it to search inside, a pack of gum appeared on top without her knowing, as she was deep in search inside the desk. Once she noticed the desk was empty, she stood up, and to her amazement, a pack of gum was just sitting on top of the desk. How could I be so stupid? she wondered.

The side effects finally faded and Zek was finally able to concentrate. It was a wierd feeling, though. He could feel traces of aura flowing around him. It felt like currents of water, except it didn't push him at all. He saw one aura flowing over to a small shelf in the corner of the room. He reached up and felt around to end up feeling a wrapper. He grabbed it and brought it down to find that he found a chocolate bar.

Elliot, after scanning the room to figure out what was going on, observed that others were finding candy from their efforts. Elliot became excited because, while not normally guided by such extrinsic motivations, he was close to giving up. However, he persisted in spite of this.

Elliot was sitting next down at this point, and he finally remembered to concentrate, concentrate after saying the words to the incantation, and suddenly he began to sense a faint orange aura emanating from a wooden floor tile right next to him. He attempted to draw himself closer to the aura, and guided his hand to the floor. He nearly lapsed his focus at that point due to the excitement but steadied himself to notice a packet of sour orange Fizzlewands that had grazed the palm of his hands. Upon closing his fingers around the packet, Elliot nearly jumped for joy.

Deviant searched around the room, trying to search out an aura. He saw one under a chair and moved towards it, it was a a faint glow but he saw it. Then, he started concentrating on the spot where the glow was coming from, and a small wrapped piece of chocolate seemed to appear there. He reached down and picked up the small treat, a small but still present smile on his pale features, glad to have found at least one thing.

A few moments after Velvet had cast the spell, she went hunting. Candy? she questioned silently as she watched her fellow classmates. One of her brows raised slightly before she felt an aura right next to her. She turned to look down at single chair that sat in a corner of the classroom. Velvet hesitated for a few seconds before reaching out and touching the chair, only to have a peppermint drop onto the floor. She picked up the peppermint and studied it for a bit before directing her questioning gaze towards Fizban. I'll be paranoid by the time I finish this class.

Elliot had deduced that the back wall of the classroom was the best place to look next, having observed that everyone was crowded for far too long in a single area in the front. He gazed at a small poster above his head. He muttered Fizban's incantation again as he concentrated on reading the words. "Confidence is key? How convenient! I guess I'm learning this pretty quickly."

Sensing another aura, Elliot reached as high as he could to nab a small chocolate with what appeared to be caramel swirls. Though he wasn't particularly fond of chocolate, he offered up his findings to Deviant. Walking over to him, Elliot said, "Here you go. You looked the most hungry when I saw you pick up the other chocolate earlier, and I found another one." Elliot started to turn around to find more candy, but figured he'd stay awhile and chat. "Oh right." Elliot nervously laughed. "I'm Elliot."

Elliot had deduced that the back wall of the classroom was the best place to look next, having observed that everyone was crowded for far too long in a single area in the front. He gazed at a small poster above his head. He muttered Fizban's incantation again as he concentrated on reading the words. "Confidence is key? How convenient! I guess I'm learning this pretty quickly."

Sensing another aura, Elliot reached as high as he could to nab a small chocolate with what appeared to be caramel swirls. Though he wasn't particularly fond of chocolate, he offered up his findings to Deviant. Walking over to him, Elliot said, "Here you go. You looked the most hungry when I saw you pick up the other chocolate earlier, and I found another one." Elliot started to turn around to find more candy, but figured he'd stay awhile and chat. "Oh right." Elliot nervously laughed. "I'm Elliot."

The short boy gave a small nod and took the chocolate with his small, boney hands, "Thank you." Deviant said, his voice was rather soft and quiet for someone of his age. He usually didn't eat much at meals, so he usually glad to get extra food later on. "My name is Deviant, it is rather nice to meet you." He responded, managing another small smile, he wasn't one to be all smiley and giggly constantly, so he usually didn't smile very often. He then put both of the chocolates away, he'd eat them at a later time, most likely as long as he remembered to do so.

Zemas cast the spell and starting to feel the pulls of magic. He started noticing a magical aura in the corner. He concentrated when he approached the area and soon a candy cane appeared. This isn't so hard, I could get the hang of this.

Mads watched the others cast the spell and find what ended up being candy pretty easily. He finally got up, cast the spell, which was not any trouble for him, and followed it to an aura that was up on one of the window panes. He quickly reached out with one hand to grab what he expected to be a chocolate bar or such, however his hand wrapped around a bag of small chocolate buttons that was larger than the chocolate bar he expected. As he absentmindedly squeezed his hand, the bag popped open, and the chocolate buttons burst from his hand. He froze as the chocolate buttons continued to spill onto the floor. He then slowly turned around, bright red, and saw that some of the others in the room had stopped what they were doing and looked at him.

Shit.

After Fizban saw all 15 candies were collected, he decided to end the class.

"Well that's all for today!" he said as he clapped his hands together.

"I hope you retain this knowledge and once again, welcome to Maelstrom Academy."

"So your next class should be lunch, so have fun!"

The group moved along, mostly silent. Zek could hear a few wispers but he couldn't tell what was being said. They made their way into the cafeteria and he notices that it was havoc there. Kids were already showing off their magic, some doing mischievous stunts, and only a few were sitting down silent. Zek decided to sit down and just see who came to him. Immediatly after sitting down a nice wad of pasta, a small, juicy, medium rare steak, and 7 pieces of buttered bread immediately appeared on his plate with his favorite drink, applecider, in a glass cup. Now this is a meal