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Shirou tried his best to distract his friend asking if he had already talked about joining the student council but his friend blushed and said he was looking into it.
A bit later on the day he had gone to the club with Liz in tow since she didn't want to be left alone at the house. Rias received the maid with a smile saying that she could arrange for their new sensei to be their official supervisor which she accepted on the spot and moved to help setting up his new forge/workshop.
There was a small reform in one of the spaces of the old school, the Gremory Clan had a construction business with also tourism, and all he had to do was set it all up. Friday arrived fast and things went down smoothly enough and they were almost finished.
Since it was the last day before the weekend It was his day of cooking as well and he was going to meet another member of Rias' peerage. Her advice? "Make something that will taste good and she will adore you."
So Shirou got his old good cookbook the night before and made plans to make something nice. "Politics is a complicated matter and when the supernatural is involved you can expect a bigger mess and lots of cans of worms just waiting for someone to open them." Waver proceeded with his lesson bringing Shirou back to the present, his last class for the week.. "There are many factions and pantheons in the world but many have become irrelevant. The reason why is the lack of legitimate power houses to support them. Usually it's easy to tell if one faction is strong by just asking if they have someone acknowledged as powerful amongst them." Someone raises their hand. "Yes?"
It was one of the devils in the class, Hanakai Momo. "Sir, you are saying that only a few factions are relevant but which one are they?"
"A fair question," the man starts to write names on the blackboard, "let's put the most famous exemples here. Japan is a neutral power on the supernatural, it's divided in between many powers even if the Xinto faction under Amaterasu still is considered strong but they have a hands off approach." He wrote the name of the goddess and below her he wrote 'yokai', 'spiritualist' and 'normal humans'. "These are the factions inside the faction. Amaterasu doesn't lead them directly but there is cooperation, support and mutual assistance if needed between them."
Waver writes another faction to the side, 'Clocktower' and below it he wrote 'magus', 'spellcaster', 'sorcerer' and, surprising some, 'devil'.
"Where the split is almost imperceptible on the first exemple the Clocktower is not part of the devils faction. Rather it is its own thing but is officially allied and affiliated with the devils, if one is attacked the other will also respond to an extent." Waver then wrote a name besides 'Clocktower' that read 'Lorelei'. "Considered the strongest magician around, Lorelei Bartolomoi is called the 'Queen of the Clocktower'. Many of the magicians here and even some devils must have heard of her."
Shirou had no idea who she was but from the faces his peers were making it was obvious she was someone he didn't want to mess with. He was about to raise his hand and ask who this person was but another student did it first. "Uh… sensei…. who is she?"
"Who is she? Basically our equivalent of Lucifer!" It was Shinji who bragged. "The second in command of the Clocktower only below Mephisto-sama himself, Lady Bartolomoi is the the Lord of her family and regarded as the absolute pinnacle of magecraft that a human can reach without becoming a sorcerer!"
"Matou-san is correct." Waver nods to the purple haired boy. "Thanks to her ability, talent and bloodline it is safe to say that few in this world can compete with Lorelei. However, noticed something? She is relatively unknown while many here know the actual Lucifer." Writing the name 'Sirzechs' and 'Underworld' at the side and above Lucifer before he continued. "While strong for human standards it is hard to compete with a being that ended a civil war and has the power to literally annihilate anything. But the Clocktower is allied with such a being and that makes it relevant. That and the fact it is the center of learning for magicians of the whole world."
"But what about sorcerers? Shouldn't they also be really powerful?" Hanakai asked.
"Unfortunately for many people the last true sorcerers are an odd bunch." Velvet stopped for a bit, thinking on how to explain his thoughts. "They are more like natural phenomena, powerful but limited. There are only two left alive, codenames the 'Blue' and 'Kaleidoscope' and neither is that much of a fan of the Clocktower itself."
"Why are there only two?" Shirou didn't notice when he asked but he did.
"Because there are many factions and even the weak and forgotten can still break the world if given a chance." It sounded like a warning from how ominous his worlds were. "There are still powers in this world we have no idea how strong they really are. Don't underestimate the unknown, more often than not that it is that which will bring out your ruin. It is the basics of magecraft that the more one thing is undiscovered the more powerful it is"
At that moment the signal for the end of the class and the activities for the day, the students started to pack their stuff to leave.
"Remember to make the next three chapters of the math book. I won't tolerate laziness. Also prepare something to present to your peers in a month's time using any of your skills. What it should be is up to you but it will be graded." With that the teacher left.
Shirou waited for his friends to get ready and the three of them moved out of the classroom with the intention to go to the ORC. "Shirou." Except they were intercepted by Shirou's old friend Issei.
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