Chapter 1128: Victor is an excellent teacher. 2
Chapter 1128: Victor is an excellent teacher. 2
Chapter 1128: Victor is an excellent teacher. 2
In a classroom that Victor created with his Powers, he was wearing a teacher's suit as he taught Dun Scaith, who was sitting in front of him.
'How ironic, I became my Master's Master's Master.' Victor thought. Seeing this situation, he looked at the woman who once taught Scathach everything, who subsequently taught Victor everything she knew.
"I see, I see, so this is how you do things." Dun Scaith muttered as she watched Victor teach her about Runes.
"Indeed. Runes come naturally to me. It's a trait of a True Dragon." Victor shrugged.
"…How envious… Is this the privilege of a superior Race?"
"Indeed, but Race isn't the only factor."
"…Oh? What do you mean?"
"Hmm, think of it this way: How many Noble Vampires of good Bloodlines are out there?" Victor began to explain.
"Several, mainly those that Vlad personally created."
"So, why did only 3 of them become important Bloodlines?"
Scathach didn't count because she was sort of the founder of the Scarlett Clan. Only the Snow Clan, Fulger, and Alioth had a great tradition and history, while the Scarlett Clan was a newer clan compared to those three.
"Because even among the exceptional Races, there is mediocrity."
"Correct." Victor nodded. "The same applies to True Dragons."
"The characteristics of my Race are everything that a True Dragon has perfectly mixed with the Noble Vampire. I am a True-Blood Dragon, but even among this talented Race, there is mediocrity. For example, some of my Daughters cannot form complex Runes like I am teaching you now. But in compensation, their Affinity with their Divine Concepts is ridiculously high."
"Talent, potential, even in a superior Race, these things are still important to define your own qualities."
"Of course, since the beginning of the Race is at the highest possible level, we have inherent advantages."
"For example, even the most useless of my Race will still have all the characteristics of a Blood Dragon. After all, this is a racial characteristic that we all have, and even the most useless will be able to make basic Draconic Runes."
In general, it is better to be talentless as a True Dragon than to be talentless among Humans; the difference between them is obvious.
"And these basic Draconic Runes are already much stronger than Nordic Runes and normal Runes… Runes are, after all, the Source Code of the Universe."
"…Indeed."
"What was with that strange pause…?" Dun Scaith narrowed her eyes.
"I never thought I would hear the word Source Code from you," Victor explained with a smile.
Dun Scaith snorted. "I may live in isolation, but I still follow the development of civilization. Sometimes, I would go out and see what has changed. Humans are quite ingenious when they are not busy trying to kill themselves, each other, and their planet."
"Well, that is true." Victor did not deny these words. He knew Humanity's potential to do bad things, but he also knew that there was the same potential for brilliance. But for that to shine, the existence of a guide was necessary. After all, without a guide, the ingenious sheep would just try to kill each other.
Dun Scaith looked around and then asked: "By the way… Why are we in a classroom?"
Victor smiled as he pushed his black glasses up. "Don't you like it? I just thought that since I will be teaching you, I should teach you properly in a proper place."
"And what better place to teach a student than in the classroom, right? My Disciple." He smiled slightly.
"..." Dun Scaith opened her mouth to say something, but only hot air came out, and then she swallowed hard while biting her lips.
Victor showed an amused smile when he saw what she was doing.
Dun Scaith blushed, but she didn't turn her face away as she continued to stare at Victor. "...You know, I just discovered a possible new taste that I didn't know existed."
'He's so hot.. Dammit, no wonder Siren likes him so much.' She thought.
Victor laughed. "Really? I'm glad you learned more about yourself."
"Me too… Me too." She mumbled absentmindedly.
Trying as hard as possible not to fall for the Charm of this man in front of her, she pondered: "Thinking about it now, how many years has it been since someone taught me something…?"
Sifting through her memories, she realized that ever since she was a teenager, from that moment on, she had learned everything on her own, and she had always been the one teaching others and learning by observing others.
"Yeah, it's been a long time since someone taught me anything directly."
"Talented people like us just need a kick to take off on our own, but we can't deny our experience and encounters," Victor said.
"Even if no one taught you anything directly, you learned by observing others, right? After all, the Master also learns from the Disciple."
"…That's true." Dun Scaith nodded. She remembered that when she taught the heroes of her nation in the past. She had also refined her Techniques significantly, and when she taught Siren, her Techniques had risen to another level. After Siren, she never tried to teach anyone else because she couldn't find anyone as talented as her.
Once you have a talented student, it's hard to get used to teaching the mediocre, not to mention that only the talented students helped her learn something new. Usually, these geniuses were the ones who had unique perspectives that could make her see things from a different angle and learn even more.
After she became a Goddess, she completely abandoned mentoring other Beings and focused entirely on her research, only stepping out every now and then to observe how Humans progressed.
"The time for rest is over, let's return to our Rune practices. Repeat after me, my student."
"…If I answer correctly, will I get a reward?" She interrupted and asked with slightly seductive eyes but completely serious.
"Oh?" Victor looked curiously at Dun Scaith. 'Fufufu, I see. If it's a teacher you want, I can be a very strict teacher.'
Victor closed the book with a bang, and his mood became sharper.
"That depends…" He looked at Dun Scaith's eyes that visibly twitched at his abrupt change.
"If you're a good student and learn quickly, you'll be rewarded immensely with perfect grades, a very private lesson from me, and an exemplary future… If you're a bad student, you'll be punished."
"The path you choose will determine your treatment."
Dun Scaith took a deep breath and closed her legs as if something was bothering her, but her eyes never stopped staring at Victor.
"… May I know what my reward for being a good student will be and my punishment for being a bad student?"
The corners of Victor's lips rose. "Ah~, but that wouldn't be interesting, would it? If you're so curious, why don't you try being both types of students?"
A delicious shiver ran down Dun Scaith's spine. 'Damn, this is definitely going to become a fetish, I know I'm digging my own grave here, but by the Primordial Runes, he's too irresistible.'
"I'm going to be a good student." She spoke with determination, but internally, she was thinking.
'I wonder what my punishment will be for not being a good student… I'm too curious, maybe I should fail on purpose?' She blushed slightly as her brain began to make very vivid images of a possible punishment.
"That's what we'll find out in the future, Miss Scaith." Victor turned his body and wrote a Rune on the board. When he finished, the Rune underwent a change, as it seemed to exist and not exist at the same time, like a glitch in Space and Time. This was a Draconic Rune that symbolized Space and Time fused together.
"Now repeat after me."
"IMAH..."
"Ugh." She put her hand on her head, feeling an intense headache just hearing the words. She could only understand the first four letters, while the other letters were completely indecipherable in her mind.
This headache made her excitement disappear completely, and she returned to her previous focus.
"Pay attention." Victor threw his chalk at his student's forehead.
"Kyaa." She let out a surprisingly cute scream and touched her head. "Why did that hurt so much? It's just a damn piece of chalk."
"Chalk can become a deadly weapon in my hands. Now, focus." Victor snapped his finger, and two apples appeared on the table, one in front of Dun Scaith and one in front of Victor: "Try to make this apple rot only with Time. Now repeat after me."
"IMAH..." The apple in front of Victor rotted completely.
"...IMAH..." Nothing happened to the Dun Scaith apple.
"Ugh, what the hell? I pronounced the word correctly." Worthy of being called a monster of Runes, she learned quickly, very quickly. When she tried to speak now, she repeated exactly as Victor, but even so, the intended result did not occur.
"Intonation does not matter in the Dragon Language. All that matters is the intent, for example." Victor turned his head towards the empty room, and a dummy appeared there.
"IRO."
A small propulsion force flew towards the Dummy, but nothing happened to it.
"I did not mean to harm the Dummy, so nothing happened, but if I want to destroy it..." Victor's eyes shone slightly, and he spoke.
"IROHA"
Unlike before, a great force flew towards the Dummy and pushed it towards the wall, obliterating it.
"Even adding two characters that were not originally part of the word, the result still came out the way I expected because when Dragons speak, it is all a matter of intent and not the word itself."
"I can speak the Wind Rune, but fire will come out if that's my intent. Of course, that kind of thing will make you spend much more Energy than necessary to produce an effect."
Dun Scaith nodded seriously, then looked at the Dummy: '...How did a Dummy made of Divine Materials become so destroyed?' Dun Scaith thought, and soon, she found herself lost in her world.
"Pay attention." Victor threw another piece of chalk at her forehead.
"Ugh." She grumbled as she held her forehead in pain.
Honestly, this woman was worse than his Daughters in terms of maintaining attention, as she got lost in the subject very easily. 'Just like Albedo, her curiosity is what drives her. When she is curious about something, she completely stops what she is doing and just focuses on the object of her attention.'
Just like everything in the Universe, this type of personality had its pros and cons. In Dun Scaith's case, this personality helped her achieve Divinity and Mastery in Runes.
"This Rune means the union of Space and Time. It is a Rune created by my Wife, Natalia Elderblood. It is a Rune of the highest level. Do you understand why I am showing it to you?"
"...To show me my limits."
"Wrong. It is to show you what the current peak looks like."
"What is the main characteristic of Rune Masters?" Victor asked.
"Writing everything together to give a long-lasting effect." As a Master, the words came naturally.
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"Correct. Only beginners speak the Language of Runes with only one characteristic in mind. Rune Masters write long texts like the one I showed you."
Victor snapped his finger, and a hologram appeared on the board, covering the entire board. Where the Space and Time Rune was written was now covered by the hologram, and that was when Dun Scaith saw that this Rune was also in the projection Victor showed her.
"By mixing three different Runic Languages, I can create an effect that will distort Reality on a large scale, and this effect will be permanent for as long as I wish. And the best thing? All of this can be done without breaking the fabric of Space and Time or the Balance because, as you said, my Disciple..." Victor removed his glasses and looked at Dun Scaith seriously.
"Runes are the Source Code of the Universe, and by learning to wield them completely, you will learn how to control a part of the Universe." The other part required very specific Divinities, but with just Runes, a Being could do many incredible things.
"...Fuck me..." She muttered as she stared absently at Victor, his explanation, and the way he made everything clear.
"Excuse me?" Victor raised his eyebrow in amusement.
Dun Scaith blushed furiously and coughed to hide her slip of the tongue. 'Yes, I definitely have a new fetish and a new crush.' This thought made her blush even more.
"It's nothing, let's continue."
"If you insist… But that slip of the tongue will reduce your points, Miss Scaith." He spoke seriously, like a stern teacher.
Dun Scaith closed her legs tighter, and said: "…I will behave."
Hidden from the teacher's sight, she made a hand gesture, and a cleansing Rune was written on the chair beneath her to make the puddle of moisture that formed completely disappear from existence.
"We'll see," Victor said with a playful laugh, her hidden action clearly not going unnoticed by him.
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