Keys of Divinity Chapter 4 (Patreon)

Ultimecia's primer lesson went on for an admittedly good while as she went over what each class of magic did. How to understand each magic, activate its properties, and such.

But after the lesson, honestly, I was glad she wasn't interested in being a full team teacher or even taking on disciples. Because it would be hard to learn from someone who A had no interest in teaching.

And B, most of her very perky tits were open for all to see.

'Well, I am supposed to be a Time Mage, which has all kinds of funny abilities. Wait, with how I am going to a cultivation and massively enhanced Danmachi AU. If I cast a silence spell on some poor bastard who is mid-spell cast. Woudn't that force an Ignis Faustis and blow them up internally?' I mused to myself.

This particular Foundation sector was still huge, so it was not an entire planet-sized plane of a pocket dimension. There was still a fairly large population. A strong enough population that, while on my Foundation cellphone, I could waste time watching the equivalent of YT shorts or TikToks.

While wasting some time, as I didn't feel like wandering around ogling other people or getting in some kind of trouble. I got a message from the FF Magic Board, who sent the information packet on where I would be assigned for my crash course on Time magic and of course, who my teacher would be.

"Y'shtola Rhul... Isn't that, that cat girl from Final Fantasy 14, I think that's the MMO, but I never played it at all." I mused to myself as I tried to remember anything about her besides being another female mage character in Final Fantasy.

Buuuut. Yeah, I never played the game as MMO's were never my thing, so I was completely lost.

Still, I shrugged and went to the info packet to see the credentials page for this particular Y'shtola Rhul. As it was very likely that there were several of them running around the magic academy for Final Fantasy's own branch of magic.

And looking at her credentials... Well she was like my teacher/master Aqua in being a 'recovered' asset who got Bad-Ended, though it didn't go into any particular details.

But besides that bit, she was marked as having mastery in several magical studies, especially in spatial manipulation, which ran parallel to the time-based magic class.

So I was content with this teacher to say the least. At least there weren't any glaring flaws that made her look like a terrible teacher, akin to Ultemencia, who only taught because she was under a microscope for destroying a whole fucking universe before it was fixed.

After reading the info packet, I went to the empty living room of my apartment and checked the ceiling's height to make sure I couldn't hit it with my keyblade.

I continued my keyblade training as I knew that this soul-bound artifact would be far more important for a VERY long time compared to any magic. Sure, being able to throw a fireball or crush someone inside an orb of compressed gravity was cool.

But the time to learn how to make a stable portal of darkness to another universe with magic. Compared to donning a set of Keyblade armor and riding through the Lanes Between were comically large for people without insane magical talent.

And sure, my body was enhanced to be accepting of magic. My mind as well to boot. But, I was very well aware that I wasn't some once in ten thousand years genius of dimensional magic who could pull the strings of time and space.

Far better to let my keyblade do the heavy lifting for a good while, so I can carefully do my further magic training in peace even after I reach the AU Danmachi world.

I was just about to practice Keyblade throwing and recalling attacks before A, I realized that was a stupid-as-hell idea to do inside my apartment. And B, my phone loudly rang as a message hit my in-box.

"Oh my gerd. My first text message. Is that the school or actually Marin?" I muttered as I had no idea who else had my number anyway.

Dismissing my keyblade with a flash of silver, gold, and black light. I walked over to my phone. And yup, it was Marin who had happily sent a selfie of her in her bathroom doing a peace sign next to her grinning face to prove her identity.

So with a small smile at seeing such a cheerful grin aimed at me. I sent back a teasing message. [I only got here a day ago, Marin and thus you are the first people to get my number. I trust it's you lol.]

And I got a mischievous message back in turn. [Ha! So I stole your first personal text message hahaha! Marin wins!]

Rolling my eye's I kept texting the ultra perky girl who... Eventually got to what she messaged me and indeed stopped me in the middle of campus for. 

She set up a time later tomorrow after lessons so that she could take my measurements and she even offered to buy me some coffee only IF I promised to try the specially ordered bagels she loved from a nearby coffee shop.

Because of course Starbucks's greedy hands were a plague upon the multiverse, and stretched beyond their mortal bounds on the material plane.

"Hmm... Should I go running around and making friends with people I won't be able to bring with me to the world of Danmachi?" I muttered to myself with a bit of melancholy before I realized that while I coudn't directly bring any friends here to the world of Danmachi.

I could still meet some of them if I took up certain Foundation commissions. Where they would teleport me into the realities of the target that needed to be destroyed or captured.

Like that 'Dark' Naruto who destroyed his Leaf Village and went insane. Or a Harry Potter who actually became Master of Death and also went mad with power and just psycho in general. After Ginny and Molly tried to love-potion him or some nonsense.

'Hmm, some actual sparring in my free time woudn't be a bad idea. Who knows what kind of god or goddess I will link up with in Danmachi, with that universe being a messy fusion. I need all the actual combat experience I can get. And here I don't have to worry about my safety with so many actually helpful gods and such that can put me back together if something happens.' 

So even as I got back onto my phone to search up where the sparring arena's were. And there themes as there were plenty. Arenas where the biomancy classes of magic let their monsters/creations fight for data and experience. Just 'normal' dueling clubs and all other kinds of things.

But even as I was doing that research. I was really lost in thought as to what god or goddess I should even aim to join as a Keyblade wielder, as the world was going to be covered in monsters.

I didn't need or really want to join a crafting-based familia because. I already had an unbreakable Keyblade and my Keyblade armor. And as for potions and such? I could just buy like ninety-nine percent of all adventurers naturally did. 

And having my own magic system before I even join a Familia is just asking for the patron god/goddess of magic to ask waaay to many questions. So honestly, I was thinking that a straight Unga Bunga warrior-based Familia was my best option.

"Soooo... What kind of sparring should I throw myself into? There is actual monster-killing rounds where I get paired up with some people around my own strength level. Or I can fight actual people?"

After a moment of thought, I decided that getting some combat experience against monsters was the best play for right now.

Because I was going to a Danmachi universe where the monsters, were actual living monsters for the vast majority that could grow in strength and age without their direct dungeon connection. 

I could always do sparring with fellow adventurers from the same Familia. But combat against monsters woudn't have any form of safety net.

"Alright... So I can join a match in like three hours against some giant armored toad thing called a Chatacabra? Wait, I think that's just a monster from Monster Hunter Wilds isn't it?" I muttered as the name rang a bell.

And looking into this particular dueling club. I learned that it was aligned with several tailoring and forging clubs. Where they would work with the summoning classes to summon monsters for projects, and if the summoning students failed to control them. 

The dueling club stepped in and dealt with the monster and got the rights to deal with the monster's materials.

"This can work." I nodded even though I wasn't some jacked-up superhuman even at this point. The Keyblade did enhance my physical body a good bit. 

Plus, I wanted to take a picture of the Chatacabra's giant ass tongue and send it to Marin to freak her out if I could!