Academy’s Second Seat

Chapter 34

After I got back to my room, I lay on my bed and spit to myself.

“I’m worried… … .”

Serena Linsberg.

She is the daughter of the chief elemental of the royal family, and she boasts overwhelming power at the beginning of the story.

Why do you boast overwhelming power at the beginning of the story?

That’s because of the nature of the spirit art.

In the case of magic, it requires several factors, such as intelligence and mana sensitivity to quickly understand the theory.

Not all of these factors were related to talent.

There were elements that required some talent, but most could be covered by elements such as hard work or money.

Of course, this was possible only with basic talent, but most people had that kind of talent, so it didn’t mean much.

But it wasn’t magic.

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Elementalists only had talent.

Spirits were able to know excellent spirits and mere spirits from the time they were born.

This is because the spirit affinity that is most needed for the spirit master is determined at that time.

Spirit affinity is an indicator of the level of spirits that the spirit company can contract with.

If the spirit affinity was low, you wouldn’t be able to summon a spirit, and if it was high, you could summon even a high-ranking spirit.

Of course, in order to summon a high spirit, you need basic mana to handle the spirit, so you couldn’t summon a high spirit right away just because you have a high affinity.

No matter how hard you try, the spirit affinity doesn’t change much.

Of course, being friendly with animals and living in a place like a forest can increase the affinity.

However, no dramatic change occurred.

There was only a degree of maintenance or microscopic growth.

Also, even if you invest money, the return did not come out as much as you invested.

Rather, he studied the direction of cultivating the applied power of the spirit he had, not making any effort to develop affinity.

In this sense, Serena was a man of tremendous talent.

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Since he was born, he has a high affinity for spirits, so he could summon higher spirits right away if he had mana.

“The story will start soon.”

However, the fact that Serena is an early gangster didn’t help us.

Rather, it was a nuisance.

Because it was the boss of the story that started slowly.

The story that will start soon, Homecoming Day.

Homecoming Day is an event where academy graduates visit the academy.

On that day, there is no separate class, and the academy students meet directly with the graduates and enjoy events together.

However, there was a problem with this event.

The fact that outsiders enter the academy.

Although an academy graduate, he was virtually an outsider from the moment he graduated.

In addition, most of the graduates were people of high status.

As a result, they had attendants and escorts, so outsiders other than graduates had no choice but to invite them to the academy.

Of course, they could not enter unless they were involved, but it was true that they became vulnerable to security.

The eyes of those who guard the academy are distracted and they are wary of outsiders, not thinking what the students will do at this time.

So Serena is aiming for one thing at this time.

Spirit Sword, Priscilla.

Priscilla, a special spirit and spirit of ice, was a sealed spirit sword.

There was one hidden fact about Priscilla.

Priscilla was the spirit that Serena’s mother was dealing with.

Serena’s mother and Priscilla had a somewhat complicated relationship.

To summarize briefly, Serina’s mother died, Priscilla ran out of control, and Priscilla, who ran rampant, was sealed with a sword.

And he had come to the academy to study Priscilla.

That was the reason Serena joined the academy.

He came in to take this sword, free Priscilla, and make a contract with him.

Of course, this was not the only way to meet Priscilla.

After graduating from the academy properly, there was also a way to become a researcher studying Priscilla.

However, Serena did not choose to spend that much time.

I made that choice because I wanted to release Priscilla as soon as possible.

“Well, I think Evan will do well… … .”

This case was for Evan to handle alone.

There is one big event on Homecoming Day.

The saint came to the academy and gave him an oracle about the academy’s future.

All Homecoming Day events begin with the saint giving the oracle to the student council president.

There are many things that come down from this oracle, and one of them is an unusual oracle.

The message was to be careful with Serena.

So far, there has never been a warning from the trust to be careful of individuals.

So Astina makes this fact known to others.

The Academy personnel set out to find Serina, but it was Evan who eventually found Serina.

Evan meets Serena like that, fights her and eventually wins.

There were several stories in the process, but none of them mattered.

However, there was one thing that should not be overlooked in this case.

An oracle to Serena.

People took this oracle to mean be careful when Serina is trying to steal Priscilla, but in reality it wasn’t.

It was just that the timing was right. Watching Serena had a different meaning.

Well, it’s not really related to this case, but it was something to keep thinking about.

“I wish there was nothing else to intervene this time… … .”

According to this story, there was no part that I had to intervene.

If a trust-related incident occurs later, I may have to work hard, but in this case itself, there was nothing to do with it.

If so, is it enough to check whether Evan can beat Serena or not?

However, I was wondering if I should do this.

Hearing rumors about Evan, he seemed to be growing well.

“I need to get some rest… … .”

You’ve worked hard all this time, but can’t you just take a break for one story?

In this case, since I am a being who does not show my face, I think I can stay still.

“More than that.”

I got up from the bed and sat down.

Then I looked at the desk.

There was a book on the desk.

Levin’s magic book given by Luna.

“Should I use it slowly now?”

This spell book had meaning in itself, but the magic in it also had a lot of special content.

It was a natural fact because it was a magic book that contained the life of an imperial wizard.

Among them, the ones I will bring are black magic that has not been revealed to the world.

It wasn’t like a magic circle that didn’t exist in the world, but magic that was not revealed to the world was in it.

It was that the magic that became the main magic in the magic circle itself was not revealed to the world.

Black magic was originally treated as the magic of the devil and was popular only in the shade.

As a result, there were many cases where only the individual knew the results of his or her research and was not known to the world.

It was that the hidden magics, that is, the black magic that Levian studied, were contained in this book.

The magic that becomes the main in the magic circle.

Those magics were not necessarily available only as magic circles.

A magic circle is what allows you to transform the magic you can just use.

For example, in the case of the magic circle that Luna used last time, it was a magic circle that gave a transformation of light magic.

There was a light, a normal magic that could be used normally, and that magic was transformed into a magic circle.

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So, as long as you extract only the main magic in this magic circle, you can use pure magic that has not undergone transformation.

I picked up the magic book and started to ponder.

“Could you show this to Professor Robert? … .”

I watched Robert for several weeks.

He seemed like a pretty good person.

Although he was bothered by everything, he was a person who worked harder than anyone else to study black magic.

In terms of personality, I didn’t see much of a strange part.

Also, even though Robert grunted at the people around him, he could feel that he cared for them.

He was nice to Professor Cromwell and seemed to be friendly with the grandmother of Cheonggukjang Restaurant.

“Still, I don’t know… … .”

I thought he was a good person, but I thought there was nothing wrong with being careful.

Rather than show this spell book, I decided to show the magic circle first.

I opened the magic book Luna gave me and took out a piece of paper.

Then, Luna found the magic that had failed in the library the other day and started drawing along the paper next to her.

Even if you don’t draw exactly the same, you only need to show how it feels.

I tried my best to draw the same magic circle as possible.

“… … It’s harder than you think.”

However, it was close to impossible for me to draw exactly the same without drawing skills.

This is because the more difficult the magic, the more complex the main pattern itself.

“Well… … .”

After I drew it roughly, I looked at the paper.

And I desperately felt that drawing skills were essential for wizards who mainly use magic circles.

“But… isn’t it a bit similar?”

I looked at the magic circle in the magic book and the magic circle I drew alternately.

It’s a little crooked, but it looks pretty similar… … .

The next day I went to Professor Robert’s lab and handed him the paper.

Robert stared at the paper and asked me.

“What is this?”

I answered this calmly.

“It’s a magic circle.”

Robert looked at the paper, thought for a moment, and handed it over to me.

After that, I looked at the paper in the sunlight and shook it back and forth.

I stared at Professor Robert’s strange behavior.

“What are you doing… … .”

“… … Isn’t that a passphrase?”

“It’s a normal magic circle. Normally used by drawing on a scroll.”

“… … .”

Professor Robert took the paper and went to his desk.

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Then he threw the paper in the trash can near his desk.

“What kind of magic circle is this? What do you think of magic circles?”

“… … It was painted with a lot of effort.”

I did my best.

I tried to draw as much as possible, but what do I do if my drawing skills are poor?

“Even a 7-year-old child would draw better than this. How do you draw a magic circle in a magic theory class?”

“Hmm… … .”

In the beginning, I drew it with my own hands, but as the task became more difficult, I was getting help from Luna.

I didn’t learn only magic circles in magic theory class, so there wasn’t much to draw.

Also, I had no intention of studying magic using the magic circle, so I just used the people around me as much as possible.

Well, to be honest, I was just drawing and redrawing what I was going to submit, though Luna was redrawing it.

I thought I drew it well, so whenever I tried to submit it, I always rejected Luna.

And Luna gave it to me by redrawing it like a mother who draws pictures for me during the performance evaluation.

I felt sorry for Luna for doing this every day, but Luna said that it doesn’t take much time because she just copied and painted the magic circle that had already been configured.

Seeing my magic circle and drawing it in less than 10 minutes, it seemed like the right thing to say.

After throwing away the paper, Robert sat down on the sofa and asked me.

“So what is this? What magic?”

“I don’t know either.”

When I said that, Professor Robert looked at me with a puzzled face.

“… … Did you just give it to me thinking that there might be magic like this in your imagination?”

“It’s not like that, it’s a magic circle that actually exists.”

“But why don’t you know? If you saw it in a book, wouldn’t it be written in an explanation?”

How am I supposed to explain this… … .

After thinking for a while, I made a decision.

“I will come back next time.”

“… … okay.”