A Sorcerer Rises (Song of Sorcery Book 1) by Guy Antibes

Author:Guy Antibes [Antibes, Guy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: CasiePress LLC
Published: 2017-10-27T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

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R icky arrived at Advanced Sorcery, waiting with the remaining three students for Professor Calasay to arrive.

“We are disbanding the class. Everyone but Hendrico will return to my first-year course.”

“What’s the deal with Valian?” Victor asked.

Ricky could see the anger begin to build on Victor’s face.

“He is working on a special project for me, and I will require more of his time.”

Victor grunted. “You are saying that he is a better sorcerer than I am? Is that what you claim? You know that is impossible. He’s only a commoner.” He shook his head, his face turned even redder. “I can’t accept this. I’m stronger than he is!”

Professor Calasay put her hands on her hips. “Stop this whimpering right now. I refuse to classify your relative strengths, but Hendrico has an idea that he wants to work on. I promise that I’ll put enough additional content into the first-year course to keep you from being bored, young Taranta.”

Victor snorted and clomped up the stairs and stopped at the door. “You’ll regret ever starting your chicken-brained project, Valian!” he said before he left. The other two students looked at Ricky with suspicious eyes. He had made no friends with them.

“You are all dismissed, including Hendrico,” Professor Calasay said, looking rather peeved.

~

Three weeks later, Ricky had finished the books and now faced the daunting task of reading the scrolls. The stack of paper and pens for notes that Betti had brought in were nearly filled with notes, and Betti quizzed him relentlessly. He now spent three hours a day in the Administration Building.

Saganet still insisted that Ricky sweep out the gymnasium and keep up with his conditioning.

“I am tired,” Ricky said. “I can barely read the scrolls. They are all written by hand.”

“But there must be treasures inside,” Saganet said as they went through staff forms side by side.

“I can only stuff so many treasures inside my head. I need a break.”

“I’ll insist you take a few days off. I am your legal guardian, you know.”

“Legal?”

Saganet raised his eyebrows. “I wasn’t supposed to tell you that we made your guardianship permanent. Merry and I thought it safer for some reasons to use my name rather than hers. I am afraid you and I are stuck together for the foreseeable future.”

“Does that make Mina my sister?”

“I didn’t adopt you,” Saganet said laughing. He broke out of his form. “If I adopt you, there might be complications, if and when we challenge Dino Noacci’s claim to your family dukedom.”

“That is a possibility?”

“Don’t worry about such a thing. We wouldn’t dare try it until you are twenty and a legal adult. That’s more than five years away,” Saganet said. “Until then, no claims, no talk, and no action on your noble background.”

Ricky shrugged. At this point, he knew the future could change in an instant. Loria’s anger had finally subsided and was replaced with total indifference. She had finally joined a circle of noble girls, but Benno always hovered close by.

“I’ve been fine with keeping my background a secret.

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