Ning listened to Sherry explain about Aether and couldn't help but shake his head at how wrong she was.
Aether was unique, yes, but the reasons she gave for Aether being unique was nothing but a lie. Or at least it was misinformation due to a lack of knowledge about the fundamentals of the universe.
Aether was a rare type of energy that could only be found on some planets in the universe. Ning didn't expect a teacher to have knowledge of this so he said nothing.
What he didn't expect her to be wrong on was that Aether could have Solid, Liquid, or Gaseous forms.
That was just plain wrong. Aether had none of those forms. Aether was just a type of energy. Like all the other types of energies, it held no physical form.
What it did do was find a certain solution of liquid, native to worlds like these and inhabit it. That small, violet liquid was what the world really knew as Aether, when in fact Aether was just energy that inhabited that liquid.
Similarly, for rocks, that same liquid was trapped in those ores that made Aether ores. As for being gaseous, it was small molecules of this same liquid flying independently in the air.
So, Aether, the liquid did have different forms as the teacher explained, but that was not really the Aether. The real Aether held no form.
Another thing the teacher said that was wrong was that Aether, unlike other energies didn't transform to different types of energies and only remained in one form. She also said that Aether, unlike the rest of the different types of energy, could be destroyed.
He could see why she would think that, but that was wrong as well. Aether followed all the rules of the universe. It was just that, the rules of the universe the teacher knew had some information missing.
Aether could transform into other types of energy, but it required something as a medium to do so. It couldn't do it on its own.
And that medium was the humans.
When an Enchanter used their Aether on something, the Aether in their bodies would change the property to become a different form of energy.
It would become mechanical energy if the enchanter wanted to move something or strengthen something. It would become sound energy if the enchanter wanted something to make noise. It would become heat energy if the enchanter wanted something to get hot.
In this way, the Enchanters were able to transform Aether to another type of energy.
As for the destruction of Aether, the most usual example given was an Invoker. An Invoker would create objects using Aether. However, after some time, depending on the creator's strength, that object would also be gone.
The people of this world took that as a roundabout way of Aether getting destroyed. However, that was not true at all.
When an invoker used their skills to create an object, they weren't just creating a physical object. They were also transforming the Aether in them to be part of whatever object they created.
The physical aspect of the object would be some part of the Aether, while the energy would be the other part.
At the end of the day, when the object disappeared, all the energy in the physical part of the object, including the object itself would return back to being Aether and disappear into the wind.
That was all. There was no destruction or anything. It was just Invoker turning Energy into different energy and physical object at the same time, which returned back to being Aether.
Ning knew that the teacher wasn't knowingly spreading misinformation, and wanted to correct her, but he didn't see the need to. In fact, he felt that this sort of revelation might bring up questions as to where he learned it or how he learned it.
He didn't want to deal with those troubles right now.
The teacher continued. "Not everyone in the world is born with the ability to use Aether, but they can acquire it if they were to be exposed to something rich in Aether. For example the ore I just showed you," She said. "Unfortunately, these items are incredibly expensive and not everyone can get them."
Finally, the teacher got something right. Ning nodded when she said it. He remembered back in the day when he gave Famir the juices of the fruit to awaken him as an Aether user.
"However, Potential and Talent is set from birth and it can't be changed at all. The most you can do is practice to be good at what you can do and stick with it," the teacher said.
Ning sighed, surprising Rachel who looked at him with a weird face. The teacher was wrong once again. Ning didn't want to think about it when he just had the same thing happen with Rachel.
He ignored his thoughts and listened to the conversation.
"You guys have some of the best potentials we have seen in a long time. Especially, you two there at the corner. I hear you are the cream of the crop this year with sky-high potential," Sherry said as she stared at Ning and Rachel.
"Now let's hope you can make good use of it."
Ning looked to the side in a bit of surprise. He remembered his results on the day of the tests, so for someone else to be called a genius alongside him, he was curious just how good Rachel was.
Rachel too was similarly surprised. She didn't think she would be compared with Ning and looked at him with a hint of shock on her face.
"The rest of you are not bad either. You are the best of the best, chosen from all around the country to be able to become proficient in Aether. Make sure you don't waste it," she said.
"Alright, let's move on. Since we are talking about Aether, let's continue talking about it. More accurately, let's talk about the user side of the Aether," she said.
A book flew from the desk and landed gracefully on her hand which she opened and read.
"Let's start with Enchanters."
