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80 – 80. Demonstration Test (1)

The affair between Count Kutelli and Adele has spread a lot, and the past few days have passed faster than usual due to this incident.

Then the festival is over. It is time to return to being a student again.

A lot has changed since last year.

The festival ended in great success, and in the lively streets, you can see the troupe withdrawing and the local people packing their bags and returning.

On the streets, there is a slightly different atmosphere of regret, wondering if the festival could not have been held a little longer.

Frustrated by the festival that once turned into a banquet for nobles.

I hoped the festival would end as soon as possible.

Isn’t this a very positive change?

And if there’s one thing that has changed the most, it’s the atmosphere inside the academy.

The night market was demolished and the bustling streets of the festival were quiet, but the fighting spirit of the students was burning even more than before the festival.

New school year, new semester. And the students who have been promoted to a new class are looking forward to seizing this opportunity.

But as previously feared, a problem arose.

“You didn’t bring the mana stone! How could you take the magi conformity test in that state!”

Students flocked to buy magic stones, but they were already empty.

Still, the students didn’t worry too much because they usually believed in the rental service, but this time it was not so coldly.

Even if they tried to buy it, the sale was sold out, and all the students were confused by the fact that the academy didn’t even have the magic stone.

“Quack cu cu cu.”

“What kind of magic is a thousand things?”

“You need to know the subject.”

There is a truck of students who came empty-handed because they ran out of mana stones, but there are guys who are overjoyed to know where they got the precious mana stones. Among them, if you look at the color, there are some that are very bright and boast a considerable price.

As expected, the sarcastic guys belonged to that class.

“As you well know, if you don’t have a mana stone, you can’t even dream of manifesting a mana. Get away.”

“School, professor…!”

“Aren’t you guys who have not prepared anything blocking the next person to take the test? Hurry up and follow me!”

Professor Lee, who yells at students, must be the same.

There is no doubt that he is trying to prevent him from even taking the magic suit test by grabbing the pod that he doesn’t have a mana stone.

Students without magic stones will soon be kicked out right in front of their noses and will have to commit to the next test to visually check the scale of their growth.

‘But, if that were the case, I wouldn’t be here.’

What are you going to do by taking unnecessary steps? It was something I had thought of.

“…Professor Chiffon. Did you grab the student by the collar to force him out?”

“Professor Dahlia…?”

Watching that Professor Dahlia appeared, Junon quietly raised the corner of his mouth.

“Leave immediately. You do not have the right to exercise in a place that awakens students’ demons.”

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“Pufu, I’m sorry, but I’m the professor in charge of this academy’s Mathematics Suitability Test. No matter how much Professor Dahlia says so, I still have qualifications.”

“So I told you to get out.”

“What are you talking about…”

Professor Dahlia, who had been resolutely pushing Professor Chiffon, proudly hands over a document.

Only the two of them would know what it was about, but it was confirmed by all the students present that the seal of the Grand Duke was stamped there.

“Tsk!”

After checking the documents, Professor Chiffon couldn’t say anything, and with a distorted face, he slammed open the back door and left.

Perhaps, judging from what was written in the document, Professor Dahlia was entrusted with this mathematics suitability test. It will be something like that.

“Professor. But isn’t it true that those guys haven’t prepared the mana stone?”

“That’s right. It’s a magi conformity test, how can I take the test if there are no mana stones to spend on it?”

“I don’t think there’s even an excuse for saying that Professor Chiffon is in the way.”

Aristocratic children who were very uncomfortable with this scene rushed in and grabbed the pod.

As a rule, yes.

This test cannot proceed unless a mana stone is prepared to check the suitability of an individual’s mana.

However, if there is a theory based on a certain discipline, this principle can be vigorously broken.

“That’s right. Mana Stones are required for the Demoniac Conformity Test.”

“Isn’t it? Then, of course, those guys…”

“You seem to want to say that you have to get out of here because you don’t have a mana stone. But what should I do? On the contrary, I don’t want everyone who has a mana stone to be here.”

“Yes? That’s what…”

“This dressage suitability test will not be held here. It wasn’t long before His Excellency’s approval was given away, but considering the number of students taking the test, it was moved to the Mizar Hall.”

That’s right. This is Dubegwan, where the magic engineering practice room and laboratory are located. It is the perfect place to create something called a mana stone.

Isn’t it someone who is said to have already mastered alchemy in the current generation, rather than being at the level of proficiency in alchemy?

It was easy to predict that the mana stone problem itself would be resolved here.

‘As expected, the problem is next.’

If the problem with the mana stone has been resolved, there will be people who will say no to this.

***

Those who were dissatisfied moved to a separate test site according to Professor Dahlia’s instructions.

The remaining students are instructed to wait a little while Professor Dahlia will bring the materials.

I brought it into Professor Dahlia’s arms, who arrived a few minutes later.

Everyone will be terrified the moment they know the identity of that thing… But that’s the key material for this Mathematics Conformity Test.

“Professor…? What is that?”

“It’s the blood of the beast.”

“Yes, yes?!”

As Professor Dahlia said, a magic stone is more like a stone that contains natural magic.

In that case, if you condense and materialize a substance that has the magic of nature similarly, wouldn’t that be a mana stone?

The word “Processing” Means exactly that.

“Beast’s blood…? What can I do with that…”

“Doesn’t it kill you if you touch it?”

“No. It’s only going to get weird when you drink it!”

“Anyway, the harmful substance is still the same…?”

A deep purple liquid that meticulously filled the inside of the demon beast.

The students began to tremble at the sight of the repulsive substance, and Professor Dahlia spoke slowly, comforting the frightened students.

“You don’t have to worry so much. If something happens if you put your hands on it, how would you have stored it? Besides, if you drink it, you’ll be in trouble, but no one will. Breathing in volatilized vapors isn’t good for your body, but that’s about it. There won’t be any big problems.”

─Yes…

It is fortunate that there are no problems, but the students are not completely relieved yet.

Since most of the students have not even been able to properly compete in the actual battle, they are still feeling hesitant about being the blood of the beast.

Then let me know what benefits you can get from this.

“I know you’re afraid.”

Put a small amount of liquid into a container, and add other substances in proportions. Finally, as Professor Dahlia infused magical power into a substance boasting a sticky consistency, the liquid gradually shrank and transformed into a solid.

“It’s perfect for making the stuff I need for this test.”

“Ohhh…!”

“Oh, what can I do!”

“I’ll do it too! Let me know!”

The students who confirmed the creation of the artificial magic stone with their own eyes rushed at it.

But if you rush like this, you won’t be able to do it, and you will endanger the people around you. First of all, it was a job dealing with a dangerous substance called the blood of demons.

Of course, Dahlia took all of that into consideration.

“Students who do not follow safety rules will not be allowed to manufacture. Especially for students who are greedy in groups like this.”

“Sorry…”

The students bowed their heads to the professor’s caution and quickly admitted their mistake.

“First I’ll need a student to demonstrate under my direction.”

At the word demonstration, the students had expectations once again. Dahlia broke out in a sweat.

‘I’m sorry, but I can’t vote for you guys who openly expressed their impatience.’

It’s a situation that could lead to an accident if you don’t do it, and rather give only fear…

‘Let’s see, who among them was the one who stayed calm?’

Dahlia was rolling her eyes here and there when a person suddenly entered.

The boy’s face in her eyes, which stopped in one place, was no different from now or then.

“The student at the end? You can demonstrate.”

“At the end…”

“Isn’t that Junon?”

A boy with black hair raised his index finger and pointed at his face with a bewildered face.

“…Me?”

Why me all of a sudden?

“What are you so intimidated by? Are you scared?”

“That’s not it…”

I’m just saying this because I don’t know why the professor called me out.

Junon wondered why he was chosen among so many students, especially among those who were taking alchemy lectures.

“You may be in a hurry because the riding suit test is right around the corner, but you have to stay calm and follow my instructions carefully. You understand?”

“…Yes.”

I was wondering what you were thinking.

Students are in a state of impatience as they are about to take a dressage suit test.

And he has seen new things with his own eyes, and the things he handles are even dangerous, the blood of demons.

Doesn’t that mean that you can frantically try to synthesize things out of impatience and then get flustered and mess things up?

‘Besides, if someone fails here, it’s a magic stone and it’s a nabal thing, and it’s like it’ll only increase the sense of fear.’

I remembered what happened during the defense of Osoptera while looking for a suitable person who could obey the instructions without panicking in this situation.

“What should I do first?”

Is there anything more to think, sleep, or do? It’s just something to be done quickly and let go.

***

At first, the reaction of the students who were afraid of the word “Beast’s blood” Did not seem strange.

Still, as a professor and scholar who teaches a certain discipline, this kind of thing doesn’t happen very often.

“”Ohh…””

Students exclaimed at the artificial magic stone Junon synthesized.

But… It wasn’t enough to exclaim that much.

‘Succeeding this one time?’

The mixing ratio may not be right, and it is common that the mixing time is too early or too late.

Otherwise, it was assumed that failure would be natural, since mistakes are bound to appear one by one if one looks closely.

Needless to say, the process of decisively injecting mana even requires a great deal of concentration in mana control.

But why?

Are you saying you can succeed just by copying what you saw the first time?

Moreover, if you were a student who had never taken an alchemy lecture and was in E class the previous semester, it would be clear that you have just taken your first steps in the field of alchemy.

However, I felt a sense of heterogeneity from him that made me wonder if he had prepared for the exam.

“Professor?”

“Yes, yes. Why?”

“You drank while explaining.”

“Explanation… Oh, I see.”

As soon as Junon created the mana stone, he was so absorbed in it that he forgot to explain it for a moment.

But how far did you explain?

“You even explained that after the mana stone was formed by condensing nature’s demonic energy, a part of it was naturally refined from the inside to form the ratio.”

“…Thank you. It seems I’m a little embarrassed that Junon’s success came so easily.”

“It’s thanks to the professor’s good explanation.”

“Anyway, if I’m going to continue the explanation, it’s that I have to condense the magical power of nature and the refined magical power of humans in a certain ratio. It might be possible to succeed at once like Junon’s student, but usually it’s normal to take trial and error. Know that, you know?”

While the explanation continued, there was no obvious outward appearance, but Dahlia’s head was confused.

I tried to forget the discomfort I felt during the defense of Osoptera, but what I just saw was an intense scene that lingers on even if I try to forget it.