NTR: I became a noble?

'Should I admit it? He seemed interested in the research of spell, and he is strong too.' Natasha seemed tensed, she did not want a potential student to know of her misery.

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'Might as well do it!' She nodded in a gruff manner, agreeing to Rae's hypothesis.

They reached the lecture hall in silence, much to Natasha's relief Rae did not seem bothered by her answer.

Just when they reached the lecture hall, the empty lecture hall only had one student to their surprise.

Even Rae himself was surprised at such low turn out for a class like this.

"Xavier? You are also interested in this class?" Rae asked surprised, the only student that was still waiting for the lecture was a senior year student Xavier.

"Not really! But I might as well give it a try. Since, this looks so empty." Xavier commented, he was aware of Natasha's habits, so, he had informed the few first year students to come after an hour or two.

"Is this it?" Rae looked at Natasha with a questioning gaze, wanting to ask if this was normal. If he had not seen the spell Natasha was learning then he too would have some doubts about this new topic's credibility.

"Honestly, few of the first year students from civilian background would participate but not the nobles." Natasha explained to Rae.

"And that too if they don't specialise in direct confrontation. Since, it's mostly the noble families who fund this research, we are bound to get the results of the research anyways."

Xavier explained the reason behind the low interest of nobles in spell classes.

"I think I came late! Most of the interested students would have already left after seeing the empty hall." Natasha sighed, she looked stressed and guilty.

Xavier wanted to rebuke but he held back.

'No use offending a professor, no matter how useless she is!'

He did not want to get at the bad side of a professor and confess that he suggested the students to vacate the hall and come back later, since, professor Natasha is always late.

"Since we are here anyways, might as well begin with the lecture." Rae suggested, not bothered with the number of students in the lecture hall.

Natasha looked in his eyes, seeing the conviction, she decided to begin with the basic introduction of the topic.

'He is really interested in the topic.'

"There is this theory about the existence of an advanced civilization, an era which belonged to the forbidden rituals and other advancements."

"We do not have many evidences as if the knowledge of that era had been systematically erased. Very rarely, we find a ritual in some ruins and a few spells along with it."

"Mostly, these rituals are a very normal application of energy in a spell formation. But due to the intricacies of the methods, it's hard to get to the depth and learn it's basics."

"A ritual is an easy to use spell, a dumbed down application for masses to use. And mostly it's connected with sacrifices, that's why we don't allow it to be practiced."

"A spell is a complex and intricate use of ki and since all of the spells seemed to interact with human body, we assume for now that creating new spells need human anatomy understanding."

"Remember the spell I was trying in my room? That was just an entry level of that spell. From my speculation, that spell would be Instantly activated and that would be more powerful than a body reinforcement technique and a physical construct of defence combined together."

She looked at Rae as she mentioned the spell she was practicing excitedly.

"And what was the bead? The stone like thing between your palms." Rae asked

Natasha instantly recalled the moment when she was bending over to reach out for the stone and realised that she was naked.

Her face stiffened and she began to look at Rae's eyes to check if he was thinking of something strange again.

"That bead is an alloy made by combining beast cores, herbs and metal to improve the control over energy."

"The requirements of practicing a spell directly without no proper foundation is too high. So, I decided to get something which increases the sensitivity and control over energy overall."

For instance, there are some very basic spells that are different from the ritual and can only be practiced by people with excellent control over their energy." Natasha presented three unique spells which was open for them to learn.

"They are tried and tested already. It is just that the difficulty of keeping them active is not worth it because of efficiency."

"How to use these spells then? And what are these structures and diagrams? Any special meaning to them?" Rae asked

"Normally, we just adjust the output of our energy to our body parts and we are able to boost that body part." She explained as she demonstrated an excellent control over her ki and only boosted her one hand.

The right hand she showed was shining an ethereal glow, making it obvious that she was reinforcing that part with her ki.

"When it comes to intricate use, then we make physical constructs and solidify our energy or use it as a fog to sense our surroundings.

Most difficult is the part where we have to solidify the energy inside our body and make a physical construct. We visualise different things to make a construct and slowly get used to it." Natasha again demonstrated a manifestation of ki which seemed semi physical.

It came close to a physical construct but was still far away from the real thing. Rae knew this because he was once there at that stage.

'She has already realised the theory behind it. She just needs to decide upon the manifestation logic and she would be able to make physical constructs.' Rae thought as observed Natasha.

It was easy for Rae to make physical constructs because he knew that there were atoms and many other small molecules that made up the bigger things.