Became the Golden Sun of the Academy

3 – Adele Heights (3)

“It’s not allowed, but seeing a student who wants to avoid failing makes me want to help, even if it’s difficult. “

It was a sound that was not even in my heart.

Looking over the round glasses the professor put on the bridge of his nose, his eyes bent like crescent moons in anticipation of embarrassing me.

The corners of the mouth are raised enough to catch on the ears.

The proof was the facial muscles that showed his emotions without even thinking about hiding them.

“Okay then, let’s start the analysis exercise. Considering that the time limit is a retest, I will give you only 30 minutes.”

As if he had just floated the test scores in the air, the professor took out another piece of paper and floated a strangely shaped magic circle in the air.

A geometrical form in which the lines extended like tree branches within a sphere are endlessly repeated.

…… Then it slowly changed its shape while wriggling.

It was a highly variable magic circle created to improve the problem that if the magic circle is drawn in advance, the magic is fixed, so it is impossible to respond quickly to changes.

“What is that?”

“If the magic circle changes, how do you interpret it?”

Students around me murmured.

I knew this because I had played the original game, but they didn’t seem to have learned it yet.

Seeing that he evaluated something he hadn’t learned and asked to solve it, he must have wanted to make Adele suffer.

I got up from my chair and climbed onto the stage where the magic circle was.

That is a magic circle that has not been decided yet, as the students say.

To put it in an analogy, when I play rock-paper-scissors, I’m in a state where I can play rock-paper-scissors after seeing me play scissors, and I can play scissors after watching me play paper-paper.

In other words, just by sitting still like this and looking at that magic circle, it means that you cannot know what kind of magic circle it is for.

However, reacting to change means that you can deliberately cause change and determine magic.

“Well, take it slow. There is still not enough time.”

The professor showed his white teeth and laughed and relaxed. He must have thought that I wouldn’t be able to figure out the secret of this magic circle.

I stood in front of a rotating magic circle that emitted blue light. Through the translucent magic circle, I could see the students whose eyes were focused on me.

Kyle immediately gave up on interpreting magic, saying he didn’t know much about magic.

Lucy is still staring with twin wicks in her eyes for the morning.

And even Anastasia, who opens a notebook in the front row and tries to interpret this variable magic circle.

All the main characters I had to overcome seemed convinced that I couldn’t interpret this magic circle.

‘The mountains I have to climb are high.’

Adele’s ability is clearly outstanding.

However, it is not perfect because it is a wall that the main character has to overcome. It’s like this kind of magic circle interpretation that reveals such loopholes.

‘But it’s not an impossible mountain.’

I raised my fist as if to declare war on those who had to overcome to avoid being flogged.

“Professor, let me tell you the answer. The magic designed by this magic circle.”

Then, it hit the magic circle as hard as hammering.

The variable magic circle responds to changes.

It is designed so that you can quickly use magic that emits light in a dark place and magic that warms your body in a cold place.

And there is a magic that is not missing in the design.

It is versatile enough to be used anywhere, and most importantly.

“It is a defense magic.”

Boom!

The fist did not cut through the air.

It was because the magic circle, which was only dotted with blue light magic, was changed into a shield made of a set of translucent hexagons as designed.

“What, what…… !”

Embarrassment spread across the professor’s face, who was wearing a nasty smile.

However, he acted as if he was not taken aback in an instant and asked as if he believed that the correct answer this time was just luck.

“I got the answer right. But the explanation is lacking. Without an explanation, it’s impossible to tell if it’s random or skillful. So please explain to me and the students.”

“Okay.”

I stood on the podium and looked into the eyes of the students, as if to represent an unqualified professor who did this out of personal feelings.

Some, like the professor, thought I was just taking a picture and guessed it, and some seemed to have expectations that I could even explain it.

“… ….”

Anastasia, who sat in the front row, was the latter.

She was staring at me with a pen on the blank page next to the page full of slashes, as if the magic circle was blocked.

She looked at me with a little bit of interest and interest in me who interpreted the magic circle that she couldn’t even interpret.

“As you saw earlier, the magic circle is a fractal whose part has a geometric structure similar to the whole.”

It’s my voice, but it was shockingly arrogant and nasty.

A voice that made me think of many things, as if to thank me for passing on my knowledge to you, as if I didn’t know this, as if sarcastic.

“Fractal is a basic structure of nature that can be easily found around us.”

When I glanced at the professor, he was biting his nails unrefinedly as if he had an intuition that I would explain perfectly.

But he can’t be put out.

This is because we promised a fair evaluation in front of many students.

He can’t forcefully judge me down, and to do that, he’ll have to add a reason that will convince all the students here.

They fell into the trap I dug.

“As such, fractal is stable even when using the mana that is spread in nature, and using that point, even if some of the magic is transformed by changing it, the case of the magic going out of control can be reduced.”

I don’t know if my explanation was easy to understand because I’m just reciting the setting of the academy’s strongest swordsman.

However, as if it seemed plausible, many students changed their attitude and were listening to my explanation.

“Because of those points, I realized that this magic circle is a variable magic circle that can change the magic designed according to the situation, and created a situation where the defensive magic had no choice but to work.”

Looking at the professor as if asking what the explanation was like, he cocked his head cheekily.

I wanted to find fault with it, but the professor had no choice but to admit me through gnashing of teeth to see if there was anything wrong with the perfectly memorized setting book.

“That was an impeccable explanation… ….”

He continued as he corrected my score, which was only 3 points.

“However, since this is a special opportunity to avoid failing, I cannot grade like other students.”

It’s a perfect answer, but it’s not a bit of a stretch to ask for a perfect score for an opportunity you’ve forced yourself into.

It is obvious that there will be a backlash from students, and it is only adding to the number of enemies.

Here, I had to move on thinking that I somehow managed to change Adele’s score, which was impossible to recover.

“I understand.”

I bowed my head to the unknown professor, got off the podium, and sat down.

Thanks to the quick completion of the evaluation, there was still plenty of time left for the lecture, and the professor started the lecture that was supposed to be given today.

“… ….”

I was in the middle of listening to a lecture comparing the information I knew to see if there was anything else, but for some reason I felt a gaze from the side.

I just looked at the professor until the end of the lecture because I thought we would meet eyes if we turned our heads away…….

* * *

“Today’s lecture ends here. In the next lecture, there will be sparring as announced, so please take good care of your body.”

The long lecture has come to an end.

It usually felt short, but it felt like that because I couldn’t concentrate.

Thanks to that, I couldn’t even write properly in my notes.

“… ….”

The reason Anastasia, the current head of class A, couldn’t concentrate was because of what she had seen and heard before today’s lecture started.

Because I had taken a quick look at the curriculum, the idea of a variable magic circle was in my head.

There was a time when I looked for a book in the library and studied it for preparation.

However, no matter how much I looked at the variable magic circle I saw today, I couldn’t easily interpret it.

That was natural.

The variable magic circle that Anastasia saw in the library was a concise and practical magic circle to help students understand, whereas the variable magic circle that the professor gave to Adele today was a needlessly complicated magic circle for problem solving.

Anastasia herself understands that, so she knows that she is not lacking.

Then what about Adele, who solves the problem with her eyes for the sake of it?

“Was he a good person?”

Because he was not interested in the surroundings of Wonchae, he only knew that he was a bully and didn’t know the rest.

However, considering the lowest score of 3 I saw today, I didn’t seem to be a very good interpreter.

Then, was the solution arranged with the professor and staged a show?

That’s what I thought, so the professor’s embarrassed expression after hearing the answer didn’t look like acting.

“I don’t know.”

You can be confident that you know better than anyone else when it comes to interpreting formulas and magic, but it was difficult for people to understand.

Anastasia held her writing instrument to her mouth and looked at Adele as she prepared to leave her classroom.

She is Adele who solved what she couldn’t solve.

As much as it was a field I was proud of, I was hurt and resentful about it, but I also developed a little bit of curiosity toward him.

So, Anastasia, who doesn’t talk to others first, spoke to her first, unlike her.

It wasn’t a big deal.

I wanted to ask if there was a book related to today’s explanation.

“Over there.”

Adele turned his head to see if he had called him.

When their gaze met the emotionless eyes of a machine, Adele turned her head away again.

Then he got up and hurriedly left the classroom.

It was a complete disregard.

“Wait… ….”

Looking at Adele’s back as she left, Anastasia stretched out her hand awkwardly and blankly blinked at her.

“What?”

The empty eyes that seemed to have no emotion wavered in shame.