Chapter 73.6- Doom Days

“What?” I asked when the laughter continued, getting more and more hysterical with no sign of stopping anytime soon.

“Nicholas?” I called when he still hadn’t stopped.

“I can’t believe those are still around. Perenelle is going to have a fit when she finds out. She thinks she managed to find all of them”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, think about it this way. Is everything I’ve said to you completely new?” He asked. I thought back and answered honestly.

“No. Well not really. It’s new, but familiar as well. Like the book got some things right, but a lot of it wrong.”

“So you agree that it couldn’t have been written by someone with no knowledge on the subject.” He said.

“Don’t tell me…”

“Well, if you think I was the one who made it then you're wrong. it was an apprentice of mine. A fool by most metrics. After his training, like with all of my apprentices, he swore an oath not to divulge the secrets i imparted into him. Excvept unlike any of my other apprentices, he felt that he knew better than i did how to structure an oath. So he tried to work around it to teach his brothers. Needless to say he died quickly and surely” He explained first, not sounding much saddened about the death of someone who he must have cared about at some point.

"Well, we later found out that he managed to teach some of it before the oath took him. In his case, he taught his brothers a few things and those brothers went to treach others, and before we knew it books were being written about alchemy with so much misinformation that those who tried to implement what they taught died more often than not. Eventually, Perenelle got disgusted enough that she took measures to destroy every single one of them" He said.

“Then why is it funny?”

“Because some idiot must have found one of the few books that survived and somehow decided that summarizing alchemy of all things in a single chapter was possible. It’s a comical level of stupidity, and nothing’s funnier than human stupidity.” He said.

“Can we just continue with the lesson, we don’t have forever.” I said, not really wanting to get into all the thoughts I had about what he'd just said.

“Fine. Fine.” He said, continuing his explanation.