Chapter 3: Imagination 1 – Wat (1)

Lucas Eisen has always heard that he was genius.

His father, his brother, his mother, his teacher, all the servants around him, his classmates.

Everyone praised how he was a genius that surpassed even Ayethon, the genius that standardized modern sorcery, that singlehandedly initiated the Magical Revolution, that removed power from the old nobility and took it for the sorcerers.

Of course, such praise came with it expectations as well. Heavy, suffocating expectations.

But to Lucas Eisen's eyes, these expectations were not a burden.

These were a form of validation, the proof that the praises piled on him weren't just empty platitudes, that he truly had what it takes to be called a genius.

And so, with their praises and expectations as fuel, Lucas pushed himself further and further into the realm of sorcery.

By age 10, he learned to cast Inferno, the highest form of fire magic known to date.

By 12, he started assisting his teacher in his theses.

By 15, he proposed a radical idea to his teacher, which prompted Kurt to start researching and writing on the principle of heat conversion: that ice magic and fire magic do not oppose each other but are simply 2 states of the same magical root.

By 17, in recognition of his contributions to Kurt's paper, which has made a huge shift in the way sorcerers looked at magic, he was recognized by the Sorcerer's Society as worthy of gaining the title 'Sir', thereby making him a true, bona fide sorcerer. An official sorcerer. But he declined, stating that while the idea maybe his, and he may have helped his teacher in his research, the paper is most definitely not his own. I will only become a sorcerer once I have published my own paper, he declared to the Society. The same day he made his declaration, he locked himself in his room, saying he won't leave until he finished a draft.

By 19, his paper on the relationship between heat and movement was sent to the Society for review. While not as explosive as Kurt's paper, it still drew the amazement of the sorcerers.

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Nonetheless, Lucas was inwardly disappointed. His original paper was supposed to be about the universal magic root, that is, that all existing magic systems are derivations of a theoretical 'magic root'. But the hypothesis needed a lot of experimental data to prove, and experiments needed time. And time was not on Lucas's side, as he also wanted to beat Ayethon's legend of becoming a sorcerer by age 19. So, in the middle of research, he forced himself to think of a new idea that is easier to prove. After a choosing a new hypothesis, it took him 3 months to create proof for it, another 3 months do write a coherent draft, and 6 months more to refine it for review. 

It's a pity that Lucas miscalculated. Expecting the review process to take at most 1 month, he grew increasingly frustrated as 1 week grew to 2 weeks, 3 weeks, even 6 weeks after the expected 1 month has passed. He even thought to himself that this was simply the Society deliberately delaying the process so that he doesn't break Ayethon's record.

Hence, once 7 weeks passed and no word from Society came to him, Lucas stormed off to the Society's headquarters, mobilizing his family's teleportation circle in order to cut the travel from 3 days to 10 minutes, and from Central Station, zipped off toward his goal, ignoring the 'No Flying' signs scattered around. On the HQ, he ignored the receptionist asking him if he had an appointment, and chanted Inferno in the middle of the indoor garden.

After hearing this, the sorcerers with authority, including Kurt, rushed down to the indoor garden, where they saw Lucas standing tall amidst nervous security personnel with ice and water spells on the ready. Paying the security no mind, Lucas blazed towards the newly arrived sorcerers, and confronted them regarding the turtle-paced progress of the review process.

Seeing his pupil's impulsive anger, Kurt snapped back at him, saying that they were already doing the best that they can, that the review process usually takes 6 months at the minimum, and that if not because the paper was Lucas's, they wouldn't even have bothered to expedite the process, since the review process is on a queue, and there were 3 papers ahead of his that were supposed to be reviewed earlier.

Surprised at the fury his teacher showed him, something that he never saw since he became his apprentice, Lucas stood speechless. Seeing his expression, Kurt sighed, thinking to himself that perhaps he was too harsh on the child. After giving him a few consoling words, Kurt told Lucas to return to the capital and stay for a few more days. That they're almost finished, and that they're going to call him soon for his defense.

Lucas shook his head, saying that he'd be 20 in 3 more days, and worded his desire to beat Ayethon's record as youngest man to become sorcerer. Kurt sighed, and said that if that was the case, he should have swallowed his pride 3 years ago and received the title back then. After saying his piece, Kurt left the shaken young man, beckoning the bystanders to return to their respective jobs, and walked towards the lift. His peers and colleagues responsible for the review process shrugged their shoulders and followed Kurt as well.

Lucas stood still for a good 5 minutes, before releasing a frustrated sigh. He slowly walked outside the premises, under the wary gaze of the security personnel.

It was 5 days later, 2 days after he celebrated his 20th birthday drowned in alcohol, that Lucas received a summons for his defense. It took another 3 days before his paper was released for public viewing, and another 10 days later before it was released on the latest edition of the Journal of Magic Research. By then, Lucas had accepted that he would not become the sorcerer that would beat Ayethon's record.

It was also then that Lucas started neglecting his magic and took to drinking.

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