After getting thoroughly scolded by the school nurse, Laurent wore a gloomy expression.

This time, she was summoned by the Head of the Disciplinary Committee.

“You were told to keep an eye on Gardner so he could focus on recovery... but you ended up putting him in the infirmary during a spar.”

With those words, the Head of the Disciplinary Committee dragged Laurent away.

Laurent pleaded with me to say something since she didn’t want to go.

But how could I stop the furious Head of the Disciplinary Committee?

I tried to act as if I would stop them, but—

“No, it’s not your fault.”

With those words, the matter was quickly dismissed, leaving me unable to intervene. All I could do was hope for her well-being.

In any case, while Laurent was gone, I headed to the library.

Having gained the ability to manipulate elements, I planned to study more about them.

My goal was the Full Spectrum, the synthesis of the five elements.

“Ha! Huff! Huuup!!!”

In the library's reading room, as I headed towards the section where books on Elemental Studies were lined up, I saw a familiar silhouette.

A petite figure with blonde hair.

With every jump, her twin-tails bounced.

It was Laurent’s rival from yesterday.

Trinia.

She was trying to reach for a book.

It was placed higher than her height, so she couldn't reach it with her arms.

She was jumping with all her might.

It seemed like she was about to give up and take out her Unique Armament, the Crystal Sphere.

Before she did, I walked over and pulled the book down for her.

"Oh, thank you!"

"You're welcome."

"Hmm?"

She looked at my face and frowned, as if she was trying to remember where she might have seen me before.

Then, she noticed the armband I was wearing on my arm.

-Jump!

She jumped in place and shouted.

"Disciplinary Committee!!!"

I was surprised, but she lowered her voice, perhaps remembering we were in a library.

It still felt loud, or maybe it was just my imagination.

Trinia seemed startled, but thankful nonetheless.

"Still, thank you is thank you."

She said this and bowed her head.

"You're welcome."

I responded once more. Then she asked,

"Are you interested in Elemental Techniques?"

Suddenly?

"I’m currently in the process of recruiting students."

"It seems you have a decent understanding of Trinity, so I'll teach you the Full Spectrum."

Signing the disciple contract with Trinia, I added my name to Trinia's list of disciples.

I felt a bit guilty, as if I had betrayed Laurent...

But I couldn't resist getting free lessons in Elemental Techniques.

Since we had to handle elements that might explode, we moved to a different location.

The training room at Vermilion Bird Hall.

It was the teacher's training room right next to the Rose Hall.

It seemed this place was frequently used by Trinia and the player.

Anyway.

After I showed Trinia how I handled the Elemental Technique, she suggested moving directly to the Full Spectrum.

"We need to trap the cycle of light and darkness within the bond of water and earth."

I took out a grenade and moved the elements as she instructed. Four elements were already stored within the grenade but...

Light and darkness uniquely don't interact with other elements.

They just get eroded by other properties.

Soon, only the elements of water and earth would remain in the grenade.

"Before the cycle of light and darkness gets eroded by water and earth, you need to blend fire, lightning, and wind into the cycle."

Hmm...

I followed Trinia's instructions and added three attributes into the cycle.

-Whirr!

At that moment, the elements began to spin at an incredible speed.

Like a carousel gone haywire.

"This, this is..."

The rotation sped up uncontrollably.

I couldn't stop it with my power.

And with the rotation came a gravitational force that began drawing in the elements of water and earth that had been prepared outside.

At first, it seemed the solid fusion would hold, but soon, under the exponentially increasing gravitational pull, they were shattered and absorbed.

An elemental sphere began to shine the moment it absorbed water and earth.

Red, blue, yellow.

The elemental sphere started to shine in every color imaginable.

It was nothing less than the Full Spectrum.

-Pssshhhh-!!!

The colors were beautiful, but the primal mana of the elements I created began to be consumed and transformed into elements on its own.

Fire, earth, water, wind, lightning.

All mana was being sucked in as if stepping into the event horizon of a black hole.

If things continued like this, everything would be drawn in and turned to dust.

Just as I was about to be swallowed by the Full Spectrum, Trinia grabbed my grenade with her hand and forcibly severed the connection between me and the grenade.

Then, my grenade shrank completely.

Trinia threw it into the air.

-Boom!!!

Due to my limited mana capacity, the grenade was crafted to contain mana similar to that used in the Trinity...

However, its power was incomparable to the Trinity itself.

“This is the unification of the five elements, the Full Spectrum,” Trinia said, turning her back to the explosion.

The lights of the Full Spectrum rose behind her.

Anyone dedicated to Elemental Studies would have been captivated by this sight.

After creating the Full Spectrum, Trinia and I were sitting at a corner of the training ground, chatting quietly.

“So, you still can’t use the Full Spectrum?”

“It’s still an incomplete theory. Even when I create the Full Spectrum, I can’t control its force unless someone cuts it off in the middle. Usually, Hiro uses the power of her unique armaments to do that.”

The Full Spectrum.

The fusion of the five elements seemed to be still unfinished.

“Iscaliote, the originator of the Full Spectrum, used it often, didn’t she? Is there any related theory or anything?”

“I heard she used a rather eccentric method.”

“What kind?”

It seemed Trinia didn’t want to reveal that Iscaliote was her sister. She referred to her using the third person, ‘she.’

“Instead of cycling light and darkness, I heard she rotated fire and lightning with the power of wind.”

“…”

Is that really possible?

When mana or elements rotate, a force pulling inward is created.

That force must be strong enough to overcome the repulsive power of all elements.

The Full Spectrum I created this time used five elements: darkness, light, fire, lightning, and wind to create the initial force.

Although darkness and light were eroded and disappeared midway by other elements, the remaining elements filled their place.

Creating that level of force with just the wind element?

“Doesn’t that mean you have to create Full Spectrum-level power with only the wind element?”

“Yes, since it's practically impossible for a normal human… that’s why the method using the cycle of light and darkness was devised.”

That way, more people could easily access the Full Spectrum.

"I will become a professor of Elemental Studies and make it possible for all element users to use the Full Spectrum."

'That seems difficult...'

The method utilizing the cycle of light and darkness was extremely challenging and dangerous. If done incorrectly, it could be fatal for the caster. Just researching it would require one to stake their life.

Despite that, why was she so intent on popularizing it?

"It's because, in that way, more people can have the strength to protect themselves."

"…"

"I intend to make people stronger so that everyone can create a world where they can protect what is precious to them."

An uninhabited island under the control of the 5th Division. Deep within a cave somewhere on that island, a parasite cautiously emerged.

"...Are they gone?"

The parasite muttered while looking up at the sky. The sky it gazed at was filled with pitch-black transport aircraft. These aircraft were carrying away the members of the Disciplinary Committee, who had come to ‘cleanse’ this deserted island.

The dangerous creatures within the island were to be cleared out as an upcoming midterm evaluation was approaching.

The parasite was aware of this fact. It was painful for it to lose the creatures it had bred. However, fighting those now would risk endangering its main body. The parasite abandoned all its hosts and waited silently deeper inside the cave until they left.

"…Detestable creatures…"

The parasite recalled the past when it once spread its infamy across the continent.

There was a time when humans feared it and called it the 'Parasite Queen.'

Even if tens of thousands of humans challenged it, it subjugated them under their 'Legion.' Her life was truly befitting of the title, "Queen."

"Those pathetic vermin... If only I could reach a place with more resources than this island, I could annihilate them..."

The Parasite Queen was overwhelmed with the desire to leave this deserted island and infest the continent.

However...

When it crawled out of the cave and faced the beautiful landscape outside—green leaves, red flowers, golden insects, and all the vibrant colors of the Full Spectrum—a buried trauma crept back up.

"T-That one... Only after I become stronger than that one... would it not be too late to emerge..."

The Parasite Queen remembered.

The Full Spectrum Wave that crushed its army.

The monster that pursued it relentlessly, even to the ends of the continent.

A human who commanded all the colors of the world like a Sovereign.

Iscaliote.

The shadow of that figure loomed over the parasite's innermost thoughts.

“Hehe… Yes, that one might still be alive… So, I need to acquire an even stronger body…”

She had been defeated by her once before...

But the largest parasite she had planted to feed off was sending signals that it was alive, asking for help.

If that human is still alive and intact...

Just in case she’s only pretending to be crippled to catch me off guard...

“The moment I step out onto the continent, it might truly try to annihilate me this time.”

The calamity of the Full Spectrum that once covered the sky.

The monster that tried to eradicate her host body.

At the very least, only after creating a body that can resist that monster...

Only then would it not be too late to head for the continent...

“Yes, it’s not time yet... I can raise beasts as much as I want…”

The parasite made feeble excuses as it retreated.

Deep inside the cave.

Into the abyss so dark that one could not see a hand in front of their face.

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