But, that funnel seemed the least weird thing in this professor’s case. Although his appearance was neat, his beard was so long that it could be used to collect dust and debris from the floor or even a spider web from the shelves, so thick and long it was.
In fact, Smart even used it unintentionally for this purpose, when he took out various stuff from the jars on the shelves, collecting with his beard the dust or junk of spider web with spiders running scared through his beard. Probably this gave the professor a nervous twitch, to rub his beard almost all the time, to clean it.
Another strange aspect was his glasses. Better said ... binoculars instead of glasses. Because he had two magnifying glasses instead of lenses, which made his eyes look huge, like those of a fly on tiny head, still not helping him see much.
And the strangest thing was what he told the children, when he finished setting up a lot of ingredients on everyone's tables, including a pile
“I'm really curious why it came out so red,” smiled Professor Lionel Squisshy, looking at Elizabeth.“Three drops of venom.”“Ah, poisonous cave bat venom? Very rare ... It helps in petrifying spells.”“No, it's just bee venom.”“Oh, it helps you play with time ... or turn the day into night and vice versa.”“Professor Lionel Squisshy, I thought more about being able to ...”“I'm Smart. Lionel is in the room for the creation of luminophobic objects, the professor indicates a dark corridor that led into a room located deeper in the basement of Elmbridge School of Magic.The girl said nothing but looked puzzled at the professor.“I see that you also added the beast herb. It helps you get through various locks. But for what? You just have a key that allows you to reach all the places where you are allowed.”She was about to say somethi
“Now, let's try them,” Professor Lionel Squisshy told the studentsThey all cheered up, as everyone waited anxiously the end of the workshop, to be able to prove their skill."They look like kids who first tasted a shrinking truffle," Alexander told his followers. “Kids ... They will see immediately they are nothing more,” once again the "modest" Alexander managed to judge the others.As if it was natural to turn into a smaller version of yourself. But for kids like Prince Soimesti, used to magic as everyone is used to waking up every morning and falling asleep when night comes, it was nothing but normal.Elizabeth was also a happy kid who managed to make beautiful little things with their hands.But what was to come will make them even happier.“Elizabeth Edwards. Please spell with me ...”The girl waited a few moments, but as Smart said nothing, only admired a small skeleton of ... a mouse a
A lesson impatiently awaited by everyone – the lesson that taught them how to turn into something else. It was one of the most excitingly looked forward course in the school syllabus of the second semester in the first school year at Elmbridge School of Magic.Both on the corridors of the school and on the corridors of the dormitories for younger students, one could hear talks about how diligently they wanted to attend all classes taught by Mr. Hans Von Halgen. A lesson where you could definitely learn how to turn into a multi-headed hydra, into a butterfly, into a lion, or even into a minotaur.“Even if I get sick, I'll still get to that class. I can’t skip the most beautiful lesson in the school syllabus,” said a little blond child in a determined voice, who wore glasses too big for his little nose, forced every few seconds to set them back as they slipped.Everyone around him approved him. At least everyone his age, because when
Prince Soimesti began to laugh when he heard this.“Fight is fight, no matter how easy it is ...”“Please tell me what you d-d-do to d-d-defeat him. I’m l-l-l-listening to you.”The boy slightly cleared his throat, then began to explain: “First I place a bait near him, to draw him in the trap, then I turn into a venomous viper and I wait for him to come. I stay on the chase, and when the mouse comes to eat the bait, I bite him. I then let him go, until the venom takes effect, then I come and swallow him, to win the fight. Thus, my enemy is destroyed forever.”The professor looked doubtful about the explanation.“I know that ... The biggest problem is that I don't know how to shapeshift. But that's why I came to your class. That's why we all came here ...”“Sh-sh-shapeshifting is the easiest part. F-f-for viper you say transformatum Vipera ammodytes for example. And you
Not far from the fountain of the wise, in a small park, Elizabeth sat at a marble table, with legs carved in the form of elephants holding the table with their trunks. The girl was reading, and Alexander was sitting on the fresh, lush green grass reading too.“Alexander, do you read this word ‘distillation’?” the girl asked.The boy looked in the book. Bored, he said:“Yup ...”“If you mix a feather of a swallow ...swallow tail with frog eyes and ... So if you mix a feather of swallow tail with frog eyes and ...”The girl closed the book. She looked at Alexander, smiling.“It was much easier and nicer with pictures. Too bad that spell only took effect for the magic class. But, as Mr. Knudlac said, learning requires work and rehearsal, and I will work and rehearse.”Alexander was reading, so bored that he barely nodded to let her know he agreed with her.“Thank you for helping me
Elizabeth didn’t at all. She was scared.“Yeah, you guessed right. My family was killed by those creatures we considered friends. All our family, which could now be more numerous, died in a few moments. Only my grandfather and his sister escaped ... because they were late. The rest died. Old people, men, women and many children. Like me and you. So stop laughing! Think about that! If they hadn’t been late, now I wouldn’t exist. That’s fate. I know some would be delighted without…the arrogant Alexander Soimesti. But I am still human ...”“Alexander, I'm so sorry ... I don't know what ...”The boy waved the image with that creature in front of the girl's eyes so fast that the girl gave a scream of fear at that moment.“Do you know what's worse? That they were not caught. And it is said that if one feels the taste of a man's blood, he will seek the blood of those in that family for life! Yes,
Elizabeth Edwards was reading a book, while Alexander, bored with so much reading, sat down, back against a shadowy tree. Professor Knudlac was nearby. When the man saw the girl, he got close to them. “Hi, kids. How are things?” “Alexander helped me a lot. After a long time guiding me, I read much better. I very rarely get letters mixed up now. Even more, I get the meaning of the sentences,” the girl exclaimed happily. If I could, I’d give Alexander five points ...” Mr. Knudlac shook the boy's hand with gratitude. Alexander got to his feet when he saw the professor. “Thanks, Alexander. As for the points ... you are lucky you don’t miss a few, because I heard what you did before.” The boy smiled, satisfied. He knew he'd have Mr. Knudlac's gratefulness and respect forever, as he helped Elizabeth. Probably this was the only reason he agreed to train a girl. "My pleasure, anytime. I'm glad I can help. It's not easy with a student like her, but with a lit
Elizabeth looked left and right and was astonished when she saw such an image.They were at the foot of a huge mountain, as if all the mountain ranges in the world overlapped there. Its peaks were barely visible. Many of them were as white as the fur of a great-great-grandfather of the oldest polar bear. When he saw Elizabeth's smiling face, not even Alexander could be silent."Yes, there on those peaks I heard we can see flying snow leopards but also mammoths, snow camels or white squirrels. And ... huge minotaurs with six horns.”But the girl quickly ran in another direction leaving Alexander to talk to himself.After taking less than twenty steps running, the girl stopped at a magic, transparent wall, behind which there was a bizarre creature, looking like a huge flying lizard. She could, in one gulp, swallow the two children in her womb, if it wasn't for that magic shield.All the creature's enormous nest was full of snow and ice, even if