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Magical circles inspired by Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor anime.

Jolly's POV

They split up after that. All students shared rooms with one other. Unfortunately, he was forced to share a room with Malfoy as they were year mates. Jolly made a note to use his blood runes to protect his stuff. Who knew what the other boy would try to get back at him. Fortunately, he was skilled in runes and inscribing them thanks to his time at Nightingale.

Unlike other schools, his required all first-years to take an apprenticeship. His official apprenticeship was in technomagic but he had several. He was proud of the fact that he was able to juggle his course work and get straight Os. Part of him feared that his studies would lag behind because he was at Hogwarts. They didnt offer the same courses but then again no one did. Nightingale was unique in the fact that its courses were always changing based on what masters were available.

His own master was Matthew Keller who was the Deputy Headmaster. Keller was a Master of several disciplines of magic despite his lazy attitude. Despite the laziness, he looked after Jolly. He was just as good of a person as Mondo.

It wasnt just with Jolly though. He had a protective streak with all of his students. When the attack happened Keller had been out on the frontlines using his technomagic and magic circles to defend the students. He killed several members of the resistance.

It was only when he dueled Mad-Eye Moody and Kingsley Shacklebolt that he was injured. Jolly saw him go down in the fight but was unable to make his way over for several moments. Keller was in stable condition but still unconscious last he heard. That had been a few weeks ago now.

Sighing Jolly rubbed at his eyes tiredly before he grabbed his sunglasses and put them on. Once he changed into his uniform he went down into the common room. The last thing he grabbed was his prototype spacial rings and his spacial bracelet. They worked much like a bottomless bag but much easier to overlook.

The bracelet was a little different than the rings. Instead of holding items, it held magical circles. Focusing his magic there and calling out the required incantations would allow him to perform new spells. Already he had an electric shock spell that had several variants. An ace up the hole if he needed it while here. Unfortunately, he had yet to battle test it. That was something he was looking forward to but he had to wait for Keller to do final checks on it first. For all, he knew it could blow up in his face the moment he tried to activate a magical circle.

If he got it approved and it was battle-tested then he would be an iron ranked Technomage in magical circles. He would be by far the youngest to receive the mastery in the subject. With a few more tweaks he would be ready to show off the spacial rings. They would gain him a mastery in the spacial specialty.

In the common room, there were a few Nightingale students awake but it was too early for most people. They followed him out to the hallways and into the Great Hall. Unsurprisingly it was almost completely empty. There were a few Ravenclaw students reading but the food wasnt out yet.

Sitting at the Slytherin table he pulled out his schematics for a new magical circle. It was different from the shock spell. This one was far more intercut than the previous one. So far he had four of the five glyph circles approved by Keller. The more glyph circles on had the more powerful the spell. The downside was that it took more power to even activate the circle. That didnt include what was needed for the actual spell.

The glyph core the tips of an eight-pointed black star on the outside as the main symbol with the tips of a supporting eight-pointed star of white in between the black tips.

A three-ringed border is the next layer, consisting of black teeth pointing towards a golden chain ([]=[]=[]) in the center.

The next layer is a contained border of script with an inverted layer of hollow teeth whose tips after it, pointing toward the center with stylized waves of fire (two curving crests and two troughs underneath the crests) around that layer.

The fourth layer is a simple material ring with three circles arranged in a triangular pattern each having their own symbol within, is the ring that binds the circles or if another chain.

The fifth was constantly changing right now. Until he had that last part to stabilize the magic circle he couldn't even begin etching it magically into his CAD. There was too high of a chance that it would blow up in his face. From there it would still need an incantation sequence.

They weren't the only projects that he was currently working on. There was one more that he was close to finishing. It just needed to have the magical circle embedded into a card. Keller had already approved it to be etched and used for a battle test.

Unlike the others, he could not bring it out in public. It was a collaboration between Mondo and the Hunter's Guild with the approval of the Guild Council. Fool's World a magical circle that didnt require an incantation. It was embedded into a tarot card known as the Fool.

Within 20 feet of the card, no one would be able to activate spells. He needed to test its limitations beyond range. From early tests, he knew it would stop magic circles from forming. What was untested was whether or not it would interfere with wand magic. Some changes to the frequency last month should have taken care of that. If not it was back to the drawing board. Changing a magic circle after finding a way to make the previous balance had been set was difficult. There was a chance he would have to create an entirely different circle to utilize both.

Jolly barely noticed as the hall began to fill with hungry students. He was busy with his sketches of the fifth glyph circle. It wasnt until a blond-haired body plopped itself next to him uninvited that he looked up. A dark glare was sent to Malfoy who was trying and failing to understand what he was doing.

He demanded in a high pitched voice, "What hell is this? You think this kind of magic would do anything."

Not even a second later the entire Great Hall's attention was on them. It was official he hated this school.