New role

Normans stone masters, and warlocks worked with the construction team from Dweomer. Leizak oversaw the construction. Because this is a small nexus unlike the one in Dweomer. The size of this castle that acts as a focus point for the the power of a nexus. can be much smaller. Only a quarter of the total size.



Well, the construction is happening Norman is forced to go to the Acadamy. He is made a teacher, by Leizak. Much to the contempt of the human staff. Including Greg Summers.



The only one who was happy about this was Caterina Humbre. Terinica her older sister did not respond much to the news. Even though Caterina swears that she is happy about it too.



It did become big news in the city for the first time since the purge. There is a non-human teacher. Someone who is considered to be a rogue and outsider by the Lord Magi, and human school staff.



It seems to be the reason he was chosen directly by Leizak was because of his many accomplishments. So much so that he is recognized as even a Lord in the Federation of Magic.



Just like Greg Summers, who always uses that line when chasing tail. Now that he is also a Lord and wealthy from his business. He became a major womanizer. He is the polar opposite of Norman Grey.



Because Norman is in the city instead of around the Magic Zone proper. Norman wears his copy of the Lioness armor. That his friends made for him the year before. For him, it is a keepsake from Jannett and Sussy.



The Girls made three versions of the Lioness. The basic form is comparable to the huntsman. The light form only has 1/2 of protection but can be worn as daily wear. It is not cumbersome. Then the Heavy Form that has more movement restrictions. But provides 50% better protection. That is the one he wears in the school and the city in general.



The reason is to remind himself, and his enemies that he knows what they did. So take your chances and come at him.



His main job is to work with the students who are about to be dropped from the High Magus classes. Mostly the Non-humans who have a failure rate of 90%. Leizak knows it is a lie most of all when those same students became other mage classes with ease.



In other words, Norman is in charge of the misfits. Of all races and ages. Most of course will be non-human. The purge happened after Norman Jannett and Sussy convinced up to 17 battle magus to join them against the Coalition.



This angered the Brethan who made his policy clear, Dweomer would stay Neutral. Since it was humans who went to fight against the Coalition. Likely manipulated by their non-human teachers. Brethan replaced the teaching staff with Humans who were dedicated to his word. That many of these teachers were human supremacists was soon learned. It has been three years of discrimination.



Norman who was one of those rebels and a non-human who is now a teacher. He will be at the center of this academic fight That Brethan. By finding the students that have the talent to be a High Magus. He can in a roundabout way find the teachers who are failing the good quality students.



That Way Leizak can have those teachers barred from teaching. Then if needed expel them from the city, or post them away from the city. Discrimination is not allowed in this city.



Even Coran is thinking of sending in a D-bee to do the same thing for the controllers. He will likely wait till next year if he sees this as successful. Brethan is stubborn though. He does not believe his hand-picked shadows were wrong, I mean his Lord Magi.



During this transition to being a teacher. News of the going on is learned far faster than in his village. He for instance learned that Fort Andrew was within four years was going to become a massive complex that could hold 2000 soldiers.



They were going to make four forts like the one they have now. Then combine them all with a curtain wall. It is an outside wall of the four forts that combines them to be one big Fort.



If that happened it would have been super hard to push them out of the magic zone. Most of all if they had gotten reinforcements.



The Fort is now called Fort Summers, after Sussy Summers. As can be expected Greg claims it is named after him, and his sister because of how high their quality is. The only people who believe his bull are the students who do not know any better.



I am concerned for the survival of the troops at the fort. Considering it is only manned with 40 men. It can house 480 men. With some work, it can even hold up to 640 men. If the troops swap beds during shits. No other faction of the Federation of Magic has those numbers yet, that live in the area.



The southwest part of the magic zone is the weakest part of the magic zone. In the northwest, there was us magi, a few dragons, and other factions whose power matched ours. That was why we had no problems holding Death Valley. Because if there was an invasion at that point. We would be united in crushing it.



In the North, it is the only way into the magic zone without a Ley line transport. Unless you wanted to spend months making a new path. Thus attracting all the border Lords of the Federation of Magic.



I also learned that Greg convinced our volunteer army to retrieve all the coalition gear for him to sell on the open market. I hope he has luck with that if the money goes to the Summer's village.
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I have 20 kids in my class. Much more than the normal 3-5 students for High Magi. Every day for the first hour was spent in meditation and prayer to the three gods of magic. Where their good traits were mentioned.



The three humans in my class were all failing in this part of training. They could not build a connection to the three. So I had them focus all those traits to Leizak and pray to Leizak alone. I then told them the secret, that it was what I did when I was a kid. So do not tell the other teachers.



Leizak was the world to me when I was four years old and starting my magic training. He was my daddy even back then. I learned that Sussy Summers felt the same way. That explains why he was so adamant about destroying all the people at Fort Andrews. Because one of his own personal priests was killed in an ambush.



Sure the Coalition pulled the trigger. Yet, both he and I know that the Lord Magi let them in and worked with them to set up the ambush. No matter how Brethan may deny it as possible.



It took four weeks for the humans to build the needed connection after that they returned to their normal classes.



For the non-human students. Most of them were right where they should have been. Only two failed outright. One of them was going through psionic changes from puberty. I took him to the techno-wizards. The kid has a necessary desire to learn about machines. He just can't focus on the training of faith with the class because of his headaches. Techno-wizards are both mages and psionic users.



After I explained this to the Techno-wizard teacher. The teacher was glad to have the kid along. I even covered the charges for the kid to change classes. So his family did not need to worry. Plus those classes are cheaper in the long run anyway.



When it came to the dropout kid, he was a rich kid who had no interest so I kicked him out after the first week.



I continued to teach the 15 non-human children until Adan my ship warned me about a massive army moving to Fort Summers. That used to be called Fort Andrews.