the dark prophecy summary chapter 9 to 12

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After some argument, a plan is formed for El, Orion and a group of talented seniors to attempt a repair of the scouring machine in the graduation hall before the ceremony in one week. Together, El, Orion and some of El's friends (all juniors) manage to collectively repair the barrier more securely.

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Orion has been trying to patch it up, but El learns that a group of seniors have been knocking out his repairs in hopes that mals will feed on the lower-classmen to sate their hunger somewhat before the ceremony. They've created a hole in the barrier which is how the maw-mouth ended up in the school. While Orion's heroics has saved hundreds of students from mals, that means the mals are now desperately hungry, especially the ones in the basement. El feels lucky to have real friends now and people to watch her back. Instead, El works to parlay her new social capital into an alliance with Aardhya and another friend, Yi Liu, for their ceremony next year. They eventually extend El a high-prized invitation to join their enclave, but El has come to realize that she wants nothing to do with the elitist enclaves that prey on and exploit others' desperation. The New York enclavers are puzzled by Orion's friendship with El, since he has never show much interest in anyone else including themselves. She doesn't think anyone will believe her afterwards and tells no one. El manages to single-handedly kill the maw-mouth. There is only one known instance of killing a maw-mouth, and it involved nine powerful wizards. Attempts to repair it have left powerful wizards dead.Įl is in the library when she finds a maw-mouth, a unstoppable mal whose presence means certain death. The lowest floor ('graduation hall') has one, too, but it's been broken since 1886. There is a scouring machine that goes through the halls of the entire school twice a year with a wall of mortal flame that kills all the mals. Preparing for the 'ceremony' is a major part of being a student at Scholomance. It's an area overrun with mals and many die in the process. Moreoever, in order to graduate, seniors cross through the lowest floor of Scholomance (considered the 'graduation ceremony'), which was designed as a barrier to keep mals outs. Still, mals manage to get in, so students must be on alert, especially loners like El. Scholomance is structurally designed to protect young, untrained wizards from maleficaria ('mals'), dangerous creatures that feed on wizards for their mana. Afterwards, the mirror repeats a prophesy that El has already heard before, that El is the bringer of death and will sow death and doom and bring down enclaves. She recruits Aardhya (artificer), an acquaintance of hers, and Orion (alchemist) to help. El is an incanter and has a project that requires all three disciplines to complete. There are three educational tracks at school: incantations, alchemy, or artifice. It leads to a major boost to El's popularity. After the misunderstand is cleared up, Orion continues to hang out with El. However, the actual culprit, Jack, ends up attacking El, and Orion saves her.

Orion starts hanging around El because he suspects she is a maleficer who had something to do with the recent disappearance of one of their classmates, Louisa.

Entry into an enclave is highly sought-after, and everyone sucks up to students born into enclaves, called ' enclavers', in hopes of securing a spot.

Enclaves (identified based on location) are groupings of wizards that share power and protect each other. Orion's family is part of the New York enclave, the most powerful enclave in the world and his mother is soon to be the leader of it. Orion Lake is a very well-connected classmate, considered the 'hero' of their class. Whereas Mana (the 'good' type) is generated through effort, like exercise or labor. Malia (the 'bad' type) draws from the life-force of other living things, and users of it are known as 'maleficers'. There are two types of power that can fuel spells: malia and mana. Others can often sense her darkness, too, which is why El is a loner. Learning non-destructive spells is much more difficult for her, while destructive spells are overpowered in her hands. She doesn't want to be a dark wizard (a ' maleficer'), but her affinity for destruction limits her ability to use her powers in other ways. She's also someone with a very strong natural ability for mass destruction and the dark arts. Galadriel ('El') is a junior at Scholomance, a school of magic.

The dark prophecy summary chapter 9 to 12