"Although even I am a little bit surprised, I guess. I thought that the star power would push most or even all of the mana out."

She added looking at the other teachers before turning curiously towards the black-haired martial artist as if waiting for an explanation.

"Lady Auequas, your guess is close to the truth, but still a little bit off."

And Zoemi delivered on that expectation.

"The thing is I am not using star power to directly influence the earth~! What's happening is me filling my body with the law of Capricorn which causes the ground to naturally follow my command as Capricorn is one of three constellations that govern the element of earth. Moving the mana that's already within said earth is a freebie. Actually pushing that mana out would be more bothersome than moving it all as a whole"

"...!"

The boy revealed causing all teachers to perk up at attention.

"What about the earth created with earth mana?"

The brown-haired woman asked and instantly raised her hand causing a rocky spike to emerge from the palm of her hand.

The gesture was self-explanatory – she wanted the boy to try and do something with the spike, so Zoemi focused on it intending to bend it around...

"..."

"..."

...but nothing happened to it...

"That's actually pretty cool...!"

The black-haired martial artist was the first to comment on it.

"Truth be told the spells made entirely out of mana are weaker against me than spells that use the existing elements as a medium, but it also looks like I can't interfere with the first ones at all until they come in contact with me! That's a really good thing to know~!"

Zoemi was also more excited about the discovery than any of the teachers or the gold-haired corpse puppet observing him from the side.

"Now then..."

Zoemi then nodded and breathed out, turning back to the targets.

He stepped a bit to the side to have a clear view of the short-range dummy and focused.

"Gemini."

*WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH* *crack*

This time around the black-haired boy called out the name of the law he was using, as he did the immensely powerful gust of wind broke the stand that the armor was propped up on and the piece was thrown high into the air where...

*CREAAAAAAK* *thump*x14

...it was torn into pieces by the brutal tempest, and the pieces of ripped metal fell all over the examination grounds – amongst them was the damage-measuring device set free from the armor.

The light it was releasing was... white...

This time no one said a thing, too interested in the spectacle to interrupt it.

Thanks to that the black-haired boy moved to the next spot where he would aim at the middle-range target.

"Oh, just a little heads-up, lords and lady."

Zoemi was already focusing when he suddenly turned towards the teachers and smiled apologetically.

"With the next law, I only broke through the level giving me dominion over the element only recently, so it might not be as impressive as earlier or the latter ones... actually this will be the first time I am trying element control with it."

"...?"

"Aww!"

He made a disclaimer with a surprisingly bashful expression which confused the teachers and made Moxeoni chuckle on the side.

"Pisces."

As the preparation was done, the black-haired boy called out the name of the law he would be using and focused on channeling the star power the same way he did before.

Finally, he achieved the same feeling and straightened his back ready to gather the moisture from the air and earth to form a water sphere around the enchanted armor when...

|...huh...?|

...his vision skewed as if he lost his balance and was falling to the side...

|!!!|

He instantly tried to take a step to regain his balance from such an embarrassing mishap – but it was then that he realized that his feet were still firmly planted on the ground.

As far as his body was concerned he was standing upright without any problems...!

|WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!|

Zoemi wanted to scream but he could only think of angry words as he was experiencing the feeling of falling sideways while losing sight of the outside world as if he was losing his senses.

*UMPH*

|?!?!?!|

All of a sudden, while still falling to the right, he experienced the sensation of breaking through the surface of the water, which confused him to no end.

Was this a side effect of the law of Pisces?!

*UMPH*

Only a moment later the sensation of breaking through the surface of water repeated as if something was forcefully pulling the black-haired boy from a lake that was inside another lake... if that makes any sense...

...because for Zoemi it was making none...

[Wh...?! WHAT IS GOING ON?! ZOEMI?! NOOO!]

|GUIDE...?!|

To make the situation even more unreasonable, a muffled scream of none other than the faceless guardian of the stars, the god Guide, reached Zoemi's shaky consciousness.

The boy could not see the faceless god but he could sense their presence reaching out to him.

|What is going....?| *UMPH*

Without any warning, Zoemi's brain filled up with memories that he was missing as if it was Guide's best attempt at keeping the boy rooted in the reality that he was slipping out of – but that only caused the shocked boy to lose focus...

...and then the sensation of breaking through the surface of water repeated itself for the third time and...

*wham*

"Wha-ha...?!"

A black-haired boy rolled out of his bed and fell on the side jolting himself awake, drenched in a cold sweat.

"...wh... what...?"

He climbed his way back up while looking around his bedroom with foggy eyes slowly clearing out.

"Where am I...?"

The black-haired boy groaned messing his already unkempt hair with one hand...

*thwack* *thump*

"Huh...?"

As he was moving back onto the mattress he hit something and said something tumbled through the floor right under the TV set.

"...?!"

The said thing was a controller of his console and once he looked at the TV woken up by the impact pressing the buttons, the boy was faced with the title screen of a game which the disc was already in...

~Kampf um die Liebe~

~Press any button to start~historical