# E2 - As Though Undaunted
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***SIGN*** 5 Years Earlier
**[00:06] student A; female**
They say he can't use magic.
***SIGN*** Will Serfort (10 years old)
**[00:08] student B; male**
People like him exist?
I've never heard of that before.
**[00:11] (Flashback) student C; male**
How did he get into the magical academy?
**[00:14] (Flashback) student D; female**
Apparently, he was bait to lure
Lady Elfaria to the school.
**[00:18] (Flashback) student E; male**
Then we don't need him anymore, do we?
**[00:21] (Flashback) student E; male**
Lady Elfaria has already become
a Magia Vander, after all.
**[00:24] (Flashback) student E; male**
He'll probably get kicked out.
***SIGN*** Rigarden Magical Academy Professor
Workner Norgram
***SIGN*** Rigarden Magical Academy
Headmaster's Office
***SIGN*** Rigarden Magical Academy Headmaster
Caldron Anouve
**[01:24] (Flashback) Caldron**
Very well, Workner!
**[01:27] (Flashback) Caldron**
I shall allow him to continue
attending at the academy.
**[01:30] (Flashback) Workner**
A-Are you certain about this?
**[01:33] (Flashback) Workner**
Will is unable to use magic.
**[01:36] (Flashback) Caldron**
Yes. After all, it's quite interesting
**[01:39] (Flashback) Caldron**
for a sword to yearn to be a wand.
**[01:43] (Flashback) 10 yo Will**
If I study at this academy...
**[01:45] (Flashback) 10 yo Will**
will I be able to ascend the tower?
**[01:48] (Flashback) 10 yo Will**
If I'm strong...
**[01:50] (Flashback) 10 yo Will**
will I be able to go to Elfie?
**[01:52] (Flashback) Caldron**
If you are unfailingly diligent and your
will stands firm, as though undaunted,
**[01:58] (Flashback) Caldron**
then perhaps.
**[02:12] (Flashback) Caldron**
I'm sorry.
**[02:14] (Flashback) Caldron**
But as you have no guardian,
this falls on you, you understand?
**[02:19] (Flashback) Caldron**
Imagine a sword aiming to become a wand...
**[02:23] (Flashback) Caldron**
Now, how will this all turn out, I wonder?
***SIGN*** Episode 2
As Though Undaunted
***SIGN*** Familiar
Kiki
**[04:08] Workner**
When we say "ascend the tower,"
**[04:10] Workner**
we generally mean advancing
to the Upper Institute.
**[04:14] Workner**
To become one of the Magia Vander
**[04:16] Workner**
who reign from the topmost floor
of Mercedes Caulis,
**[04:19] Workner**
you must be recognized by the highest center
of learning. That is, the Upper Institute.
**[04:24] Workner**
There are two principal methods
of advancement.
**[04:27] Workner**
The first is to create a new type of magic.
**[04:30] Workner**
The second is to earn at least
seventy-two hundred credits at our academy.
**[04:34] Workner**
Only a limited number of people
can achieve the former.
**[04:38] Workner**
Which means that the majority of students
must rely on the latter.
**[04:42] Workner**
However...
**[04:45] Workner**
Everyone here is in danger
of not making graduation,
**[04:48] Workner**
much less the Upper Institute!
**[04:51] Workner**
So today, I will thoroughly drill you
in supplementary lessons!
**[04:54] Will**
Sob, sob...
**[05:01] Colette**
I heard that Professor Workner's
supplemental class was unreal again.
***SIGN*** Rigarden Magical Academy Student, Sixth Year
Colette Loire
**[05:05] Will**
Yeah.
**[05:06] Will**
We did everything from consecutive
mock exams to rigorous magic instruction.
**[05:10] Colette**
Will, you've already earned
every possible writing credit.
**[05:13] Colette**
Professor Workner can be
too strict sometimes.
**[05:16] Will**
It's because I've completely failed spellwork.
**[05:19] Will**
But being a failure doesn't mean
I shouldn't work hard.
**[05:23] Will**
Besides, Professor Workner is kind
to give us supplementary lessons at all.
**[05:27] Will**
Most professors wouldn't give us
a second thought.
**[05:31] Colette**
That's true.
**[05:32] Colette**
Professor Edward in particular doesn't seem
like he'd ever bother with extra classes.
**[05:41] Lyril**
I'm telling you, it's true!
**[05:43] Lyril**
Sion defeated an Evil Sentinel!
**[05:45] student A; male**
A monster worth ten credits?
***SIGN*** Rigarden Magical Academy Student, Sixth Year
Gordon Vally
**[05:47] student B; male**
By himself? Really?
**[05:49] Lyril**
Yes!
***SIGN*** Rigarden Magical Academy Student, Sixth Year
Lyril Mars
**[05:50] Lyril**
It overwhelmed us immediately,
**[05:52] Lyril**
but when we woke,
Sion had slain the Sentinel!
**[05:56] student A; male**
This'll increase Sion's standing.
**[05:58] student B; male**
He'll probably replace one
of the Top Three soon.
**[06:00] student C; female**
That's Lord Sion for you!
***SIGN*** Rigarden Magical Academy Student, Sixth Year
Sion Ulster
**[06:03] Sion; internal**
*You're wrong.*
**[06:05] Sion; internal**
*The truth is that...*
**[06:20] Sion**
This must be some kind of joke.
**[06:22] Sion**
You're talentless, and yet...
**[06:25] Colette**
Stop, Sion! Why are you doing this again?
**[06:28] Colette**
What are you trying to accomplish?
**[06:40] Lyril**
H-Hey, Sion!
**[06:43] Colette**
What was that about?
**[06:45] Colette**
Will, did something happen between you two?
**[06:48] Will**
Yeah. Nothing much, though.
**[06:53] Edward**
Will Serfort should be expelled!
**[06:55] Edward**
Headmistress Caldron!
**[06:57] Caldron**
My, my. What's brought all this on?
***SIGN*** Rigarden Magical Academy Professor
Edward Serfence
**[07:01] Caldron**
Edward.
**[07:03] Caldron**
Will is already in his sixth
and final year here.
**[07:06] Caldron**
To expel him now when he's come this far...
**[07:08] Edward**
This academy has no need of anyone
who is a warrior and not a mage!
**[07:12] Edward**
Someone who can surpass magic
without being able to use it?
**[07:22] Calrdon**
Will Serfort...
**[07:25] Caldron**
He has good marks in writing.
**[07:28] Caldron**
His reports have an interesting perspective.
**[07:31] Caldron**
If we ignore the fact that he cannot use magic,
**[07:34] Caldron**
he excels to the degree that calling it
mere excellence is insufficient.
**[07:37] Caldron**
A Magia Vander aside,
he could become an artificer or a healer.
**[07:40] Caldron**
There are many paths open to him.
**[07:43] Caldron**
This academy has a duty to produce
learned scholars for the Fated Day.
**[07:48] Edward**
The boy in question doesn't seek
to be a learned scholar,
**[07:51] Edward**
but a Magia Vander. That's the issue here.
**[07:56] Caldron**
Indeed, that is a problem.
**[08:00] Caldron**
In that case, Edward, give him a test.
**[08:04] Caldron**
And since you have now learned his secret,
I'll have you administer the test personally.
**[08:09] Caldron**
Should he fail to find his way
through your test,
**[08:12] Caldron**
I shall entrust the matter of his
advancement or expulsion to you.
**[08:17] Edward**
Are you certain?
**[08:19] Edward**
I am not as lenient as Workner is.
**[08:22] Caldron**
That is no object. I'll leave
the content of the test up to you.
**[08:31] Caldron; internal**
* Test him to your utmost and*
* determine the truth for yourself.*
**[08:35] Caldron; internal**
* You understand the Magia Vander*
* better than anyone, Dark Vipermage.*
**[08:48] Will**
Sorry, Colette.
**[08:50] Will**
I'm always coming to you for help
because I can't use magic.
**[08:53] Colette**
It's fine! This is nothing.
**[09:01] Colette**
You haven't changed, I see.
**[09:03] Will**
Yeah. I'll never get permission
to carry my sword on campus,
**[09:07] Will**
and if I go back to the dorm,
my roommate never lets me leave.
**[09:11] Colette**
It's... Rosty, right?
**[09:15] Colette**
You must be really good friends.
**[09:19] Will**
Just regular ones, I'd say.
***SIGN*** Study Hall
**[09:24] Will**
In year 344 of the Magical Era,
the Battle of Garzaronso broke out.
**[09:29] Will**
The dwarves, a race from another world,
were angered by exploitation, overwork,
**[09:34] Will**
and worse treatment than the elves,
**[09:36] Will**
also from another world.
**[09:37] Will**
So they raised an army to wage war.
**[09:39] Colette**
Will, haven't you studied this already?
**[09:39] Will; background**
The dwarf army numbered ten thousand.
In comparison, the tower had...
**[09:42] Will**
Today, I'm reviewing
other races' perspectives.
**[09:45] Colette**
You're already incredible in writing,
far better than me.
**[09:48] Colette**
You don't need to work so hard.
**[09:50] Will**
If I lose even one credit, I won't be able
to advance to the Upper Institute.
**[09:55] Will**
Besides, I can understand how the dwarves felt.
**[10:02] Will**
The Battle of Garzaronso...
**[10:05] Will**
Even in the face of the mightiest magics,
they continued to fight.
**[10:10] Will**
"Never give up."
**[10:12] Will**
Such determination can surpass even magic.
**[10:15] Colette**
Did you learn that from Professor Workner?
**[10:17] Will**
Yes. I love that saying.
**[10:19] Will**
It's why I have to do my very best.
**[10:23] Colette**
Oh, Will...
**[10:24] Colette**
You have a white hair.
**[10:25] Will**
What?!
**[10:26] Colette**
I told you! You're working too hard!
**[10:30] Colette**
Sh-Shall I pull it out for you?
**[10:33] Will**
N-No, I'm all right.
**[10:36] Colette**
I want to!
**[10:38] Colette**
Let me do it!
**[10:39] Will**
Why?
**[10:40] Edward**
What is this commotion?
**[10:42] Will; Colette**
Professor Edward!
**[10:44] Colette**
I-I'm sorry! We were studying.
**[10:50] Edward**
Serfort.
**[10:52] Edward**
Come to the Spellhall immediately. Alone.
***SIGN*** Rigarden Magical Academy
Spellhall
**[10:59] Edward**
As I cannot overlook how
you continue to fail spellwork,
**[11:02] Edward**
I'm giving you a supplemental lesson.
**[11:03] Edward**
I trust you're grateful.
**[11:05] Will**
*You're* giving a supplemental
lesson, Professor Edward?
**[11:08] Will**
And one just for me?
**[11:10] Edward**
That's right.
**[11:11] Edward**
I will ascertain your worth myself.
**[11:22] Edward**
Your assignment is to land
a single strike on me.
**[11:27] Edward**
Refusal is not an option.
**[11:29] Edward**
Should you succeed,
I will award you five spellwork credits.
**[11:33] Edward**
However, should you fail,
I will have you leave this academy.
**[11:37] Will**
I-I'll be expelled?
**[11:40] Edward**
Those without talent should not be permitted
to even look upon the Magia Vander.
**[11:47] Edward**
I've given you reason to fight.
**[11:49] Edward**
Let's begin.
***SIGN*** Ashwind Wand
***SIGN*** Crystal for monitoring Will
***SIGN*** Workner Norgram
Race: Rhizanth
Age: 25
Height: 178 cm
Birthday:
25th of Ellsmoon
Likes: Ice candy
Dislikes: Clairie and Eliza's cooking-offs
First Dragon Love: Demon Dragon Fafnir
Deepest Dungeon Floor Reached: 31st
Equipment: Ashwind wand,
crystal for monitoring Will
Skills: Most forms of wind magic, Dragon's Pulse
Magizoology professor. As one of the few who
understand Will, he's always worried for the
young man. His strictness with students is a form
of love, but he is feared within the academy.
He has many nicknames, including "the Demon
of Remedial Lessons," "the Bespectacled Fiend,"
"The Magical Creature Loving Calamity," or,
alternately, "ThereThere," and "Workner
the Immortal." Friend and foe alike fear him.
***SIGN*** Darkviper Wand
***SIGN*** Edward Serfence
Race: Rhizanth
Age: 26
Height: 177 cm
Birthday:
22nd of Roemoon
Likes: Coffee so strong and black
that it's like distilled darkness
Dislikes: Clairie's deathly cooking
First Magic Love: Dark Deathzone: Arnade Darnatia
Deepest Dungeon Floor Reached: 33rd
Equipment: Darkviper wand
Skills: Most forms of dark magic,
including spells of the highest order
An ascendant who has risen to the highest reaches
of the tower. He is qualified to become a Magia Vander,
but he was beaten by another candidate and now serves
as a professor at the academy teaching dark magic
and the history of magic.
**[12:15] Workner**
You called for me, headmaster?
**[12:17] Caldron**
I'm sorry to make you come
all this way, Workner.
**[12:21] Workner**
Not at all.
**[12:23] Workner**
So, what did you need?
**[12:25] Caldron**
I thought I should fill you in.
**[12:29] Caldron; internal**
*Clair Molda.*
**[12:37] Workner**
What?
**[12:38] Workner**
Will? And Ed?
**[12:41] Workner**
Wait a moment, please! What is this?
**[12:44] Caldron**
Workner.
**[12:45] Caldron**
Edward is currently conducting a test.
**[12:49] Caldron**
You are forbidden from stopping him.
**[12:53] Caldron**
Just as I have recognized your advocacy
for Will, whom you have watched over,
**[12:56] Caldron**
I must recognize Edward's concerns
in equal measure.
**[13:00] Caldron**
That is the decision I have made.
**[13:03] Caldron**
I am having him ascertain whether Will is
worthy of attempting to become a Magia Vander.
**[13:10] Workner**
This can't be...
**[13:12] Workner**
Why Professor Edward, of all people?
**[13:16] Workner**
This is just...
**[13:18] Workner**
It's just too cruel.
**[13:20] Caldron**
Oh? And why is that?
**[13:22] Workner**
Why? Because he...
**[13:25] Workner**
He's the closest to actually
becoming a Magia Vander!
**[13:28] Workner**
He may have been defeated, but he's an
ascendant! He's reached the top of the tower!
**[13:33] Edward**
Dax Darbicans.
**[13:40] Will; internal**
*Dax Darbicans?*
**[13:41] Will; internal**
*That's a low-level dark magic spell.*
**[13:44] Will; internal**
*And yet look at this power!*
**[13:51] Edward**
Darge.
**[13:53] Will; internal**
*His defense is impregnable, too!*
**[13:56] Edward**
Kicking at a magical shield?
**[14:00] Edward**
You truly are hopeless.
**[14:13] Will; internal**
*He's casting his spells with no incantations.*
**[14:16] Will; internal**
*They activate so quickly!*
**[14:19] Will; internal**
* There's not one hole*
* in his offense or defense!*
**[14:24] Will; internal**
*I can't even scratch him!*
**[14:29] Will**
He's so strong.
**[14:36] Edward**
Two, Serfort.
**[14:39] Edward**
The only magics I will use are my
black flames to burn you
**[14:43] Edward**
and my shield to repel your
unsightly savagery. Just those two.
**[14:47] Edward**
Magical Doctrine Number 27...
**[14:52] Edward**
You, who shall never attain
a thousand magics,
**[14:55] Edward**
should strive to master a single one.
**[14:58] Edward**
It shall become as a thousand arrows for you.
**[15:01] Will; internal**
*He's overlapping a single spell?*
**[15:04] Will; internal**
*Is this a Series?*
**[15:06] Will; internal**
*He's going to fire a barrage of Dax Darbicans!*
**[15:11] Edward**
The talentless should simply disappear.
**[15:37] Will; internal**
*I can't beat him.*
**[15:40] Will; internal**
*So this is what a top-tier mage is like...*
**[15:42] Will; internal**
*If only I had my sword!*
**[15:53] Colette**
I wonder if Will is all right.
**[15:56] Colette; internal**
* A solo supplemental lesson*
* with Professor Edward?*
**[16:00] Colette; internal**
* What if he's being lashed*
* with a whip or tortured?*
**[16:05] Will**
No!
**[16:06] Edward**
This is nice, isn't it? This is nice, isn't it?
**[16:17] Colette**
Kiki?
**[16:19] Colette**
Why are you injured like that?
**[16:24] Colette**
That's Will's...
**[16:26] Colette**
Don't tell me something's
happened to Will!
**[16:43] Edward**
This goes without saying,
**[16:45] Edward**
but the Magia Vander are
the pinnacle of all mages.
**[16:50] Edward**
If you cannot overcome someone like me,
**[16:53] Edward**
you have no chance to reach such heights.
**[16:56] Edward**
I will set you a question
regarding the Battle of Garzaronso.
**[17:01] Edward**
The foolish dwarves incited a rebellion
with a force of ten thousand.
**[17:08] Edward**
Now, how many mages
did it take to quell the battle?
**[17:15] Edward**
One!
**[17:17] Edward**
With a wave of a wand, ten thousand
dwarven warriors were annihilated!
**[17:22] Edward**
*That* is the way of this world!
**[17:24] Edward**
A sword will never reach a wand!
**[17:27] Edward**
Never!
**[17:29] Edward**
Abandon your foolish aspirations.
**[17:33] Will**
Even so...
**[17:35] Will**
Even so, I...
**[17:38] Will**
I want to reach the Magia Vander!
**[17:47] Edward**
What is it that drives you so?
**[17:50] Edward**
Just what noble reason do you claim
lives in that heart of yours?!
**[18:01] Will**
I want to be with the person I love!
**[18:07] Edward**
What?
**[18:08] Will**
I want to keep the promise I made with Elfie!
**[18:15] Edward**
What nonsense.
**[18:17] Edward**
Impure! Immoral! Foul!
**[18:19] Edward**
A foolish, pathetic, worldly love
pushes you to reach for the apex of magic?
**[18:24] Will**
Even if my reason seems ridiculous to you,
and no matter how harsh my path may be...
**[18:30] Edward**
Have some sense of shame!
**[18:31] Will**
In spite of it all...
**[18:32] Will**
I will go and see the sunset with Elfie!
**[18:38] Colette**
Will!
**[18:44] Will**
Thank you!
**[18:45] Colette**
All right!
**[18:54] Edward**
That isn't a wand...
**[18:56] Edward**
That's a sword in your hand, you deviant.
**[19:00] Edward**
I will defeat you!
**[19:09] Edward; internal**
*He sliced through my magic?*
**[19:11] Edward; internal**
*Is that a Moria blade?*
**[19:14] Edward; internal**
*Nevertheless!*
**[19:16] Will; internal**
*Here it comes. Another magical barrage.*
**[19:19] Will; internal**
*I'm scared. I'm scared!*
**[19:22] Will; internal**
*I'll be burned again.*
**[19:23] Will; internal**
*It's a terrifying volley of a thousand flames.*
**[19:26] Will; internal**
*My arms and legs are shaking.*
**[19:28] Will; internal**
* This is the barrier between me*
* and the Magia Vander!*
**[19:32] Will; internal**
*I want to run away!*
**[19:35] Will; internal**
*But...*
**[19:36] Will; internal**
*this is my only way through the barrier!*
**[19:38] Edward**
It's over!
**[19:42] Colette**
Will!
**[19:46] Will; internal**
* There's more to the story*
* of the Battle of Garzaronso.*
**[19:52] Will; internal**
* A brave dwarven general named Gareth*
* fought even as he lost all his brethren.*
**[19:57] Will; internal**
* And in spite of everything,*
* he landed a single blow.*
**[20:02] Will; internal**
* In honor of his bravery,*
* the mages recognized the dwarves' status.*
**[20:13] Will; internal**
*That's right!*
**[20:15] Will; internal**
*A sword saw a wand...*
**[20:17] Will; internal**
*and reached it!*
**[20:45] Edward**
Will Serfort, you are hereby
awarded five credits.
**[20:49] Colette**
Will!
**[20:56] Colette**
Will? Will, are you all right?
**[21:00] Caldron**
Well done!
**[21:07] Workner**
He chose to dive into the barrage.
**[21:10] Workner**
He hid himself and attacked
from a blind spot overhead.
**[21:14] Caldron**
Yes, and with a strike powerful enough
to break through that shield.
**[21:19] Caldron**
He can manage a slashing attack
capable of overcoming magic.
**[21:26] Caldron**
It was truly as though he was undaunted.
***SIGN*** Detached Dorm, Magical Academy Outskirts
**[23:15] Rosty**
Hup!
**[23:17] Rosty**
And to finish it off, I'll add lots of love.
**[23:21] Rosty**
Done!
**[23:24] Rosty**
Will sure is late.
**[23:27] Rosty**
I wonder if he'll be home soon.
**[23:37] Will**
Next time on *Wistoria: Wand and Sword*,
**[23:40] Will**
episode 3, "Order & Watcher."
***SIGN*** Episode 3
Order & Watcher