chapter 19
19 – Basic Magic Lesson (1)
Meanwhile, going back in time, Deneb and Charlotte poked their heads at the entrance of the classroom while talking excitedly about the upcoming lesson. There was one girl who reached out.
Her name is Justina. She
She is the head of the academy and even though she is a dragon, she wears a school uniform with her youthful face.
She was fine with posing as a student, as was the idea she had yesterday, but the thought of having to study with humans hundreds of years younger made her suddenly feel suffocated.
Was this really the right decision?
Shouldn’t she have accepted it earlier when Zerniel stopped it?
“Ughhh… ….”
“Who is that kid?”
“It’s the first time I’ve seen it.”
“Very pretty.”
She leaned against the door leading to the classroom, Justina poking her head out to peer in caught the attention of passers-by.
However, the only thing Justina was interested in was in the classroom, and only in one specific seat.
That’s Deneb Rehnar’s left seat.
Since Charlotte is already sitting on the right, if she wants to sit next to Deneb, she has no choice but to take the left seat.
Wouldn’t it look weird if I sat next to you? If it’s not Dane, what kind of filth is this? No, actually getting caught by the real Dane would be a problem…….’
The desire to quickly observe whether it is really Dane from up close collided with the desire to sit in the corner as much as possible and observe slowly from a distance.
‘First of all, just in case… ….’
In the meantime, Justina cast a very weak mental spell to ensure that no one would sit in the seat to Deneb’s left.
A magic that makes you want to move to another place because you get rejected for no reason when you get close to it.
Because of her magic, none of the students sat down and avoided it even though it was a good place in the classroom.
‘Wait! You can’t go there!’
However, a variable occurred in her plan.
None other than Prince Joseph was approaching, aiming for the seat to Deneb’s left.
As he broke through the Trial of Fear for the third time when he entered school, Joseph also had a considerable level of resistance to mental magic.
Unable to put it off any longer under these circumstances, Justina made up her mind to push Joseph away and take the seat next to Deneb.
‘I, what should I do now… ?!’
She thought her heart would explode the first time we spoke to her.
After she calmed down a bit, she stared at her to verify that she was really a Dane, but she didn’t really notice anything.
If you were truly reincarnated, your appearance would of course be completely different.
‘You can’t tell just by looking at the outside… !’
If Deneb is convinced that she is a reincarnated reincarnation with her Dane memories, she will reveal her true identity right away, but I couldn’t tell from her appearance alone.
She at least confirmed that Deneb had taken the dagger she kept in the room, but even this did not confirm that Deneb was Dane.
If it was a child of about 17 years of age, there was a good chance that they would have taken it with the emotion that they had succeeded in finding the treasure.
‘Besides, it must be the Rehinar family… ….’
Justina is her objective strongman, and when her Dane appears, she has prepared minor protective measures to protect him from her ‘her’.
However, it was necessary to be careful because such a minor protection measure could be perceived as a kind of kidnapping or confinement in the eyes of others.
Even Deneb is not a commoner or an ordinary nobleman, but the Rehinar family, which has some kind of deep connection with the imperial family that has occupied most of the continent.
If the imperial family, concerned about Rehinar’s safety, made a formal protest, even Justina would be in trouble.
‘Above all…… Because the imperial family has that child. He hasn’t lost his temper, and he has no intention of starting an all-out war.’
In the past 500 years, how many times have you found someone who looked like a Dane and hoped for it, but ended up drinking in vain?
I can’t even remember the number of times now.
That’s why I needed proof that I couldn’t even remove it.
Not only for Deneb, but also for Justina herself.
‘As expected, I’ll have to judge by the way they fight.’
There was a part of her that she believed for sure.
As Dane was a skilled assassin, Justina thought that it would be possible to roughly judge Deneb by watching him fight.
But now it’s time for basic magic lessons.
Unfortunately, she didn’t have to move her body to fight.
‘Was the combat lesson tomorrow? I’ll have to check the timetable.’
Meanwhile, apart from the congestion in Justina’s head, the professor in charge of the magic lecture appeared, and her class began.
“Nice to meet you, freshmen. My name is Darnay, and I am in charge of the basic magic lecture. Please take care of me.”
Exactly 10 minutes after Darnay, a young professor who always uses honorifics, starts class.
“Hmm… Boo….”
…… Justina, who couldn’t stand the boredom of classes covering the basics of magic, soon fell asleep.
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“Hmm…….”
How should I interpret this situation?
A little while ago, the girl next to me stared at me, and after only about 5 minutes, she fell asleep.
Because the basic magic lecture is only for first-year students, he must be a freshman too, so he fell asleep from the first class?
‘Kids these days are really… ….’
She resembles Justina, so she was surprised at first, but when she saw her like that, she inclined to the fact that she was a different person, just like her appearance.
‘I was really surprised earlier.’
For a moment, I really thought that Justina had come to visit me.
She was saying that my five senses, my instincts, were Justina.
However, no matter how rationally she thinks about it, this girl cannot be Justina.
It is almost certain that Justina is the head of the school.
Isn’t there a reason she has to wear a school uniform to pretend to be a freshman in the basic magic class that only freshmen take?
“…….”
I tried to focus on the class, not trusting the functioning sense organs and forcibly trying to turn my eyes to the opposite s*x.
‘Still, if that’s the real Justina I know…….’
However, I tried hard, but it didn’t work out, and my thoughts continued to flow in other directions, mainly Justina.
‘Even though they openly visited me, they didn’t imprison me.’
I can think of two reasons.
I wasn’t sure that I was a Dane, or that Justina and her thoughts in the memory of the dagger have changed.
The latter would be better, but…… In the case of the former, I decided to ‘hold it off for now’, so I planned to watch it for a while.
‘My senses are clear… Aside from the fact that that woman was Justina, she was warning me that she was dangerous in itself.’
After watching for a while, if I decide that Justina is not a threat to me, then she will be able to meet with a thrilling reunion.
But until then, it was put on hold.
“I even explained that most wizards cast magic using the magic inside their bodies… Now, let’s start with the classification of magic.”
By the way, I quite liked the young magic professor named Darnei.
Classes have just started, so I can’t evaluate my teaching skills, but the mild impression and somewhat expert-looking style seemed to prove the dignity of Denbergen Academy.
I tried to concentrate and accept the magic he taught me as much as possible.
“The possibility or potential of magic is developing even at this moment, so it is not possible to confirm the classification, but at least it is taught by dividing it into five categories that are easy to learn for students.”
Even if all weapons are handled the same, some warriors use short-range weapons like knives, while others use long-range weapons like bows.
Even close-range weapons are subdivided into swords, axes, and spears.
Likewise, the concept of a series existed even for wizards.
“First of all, it is the most widely known general magic. Most of the time when you think of magic, all the images you think of go into this side. Like throwing fireballs or making lightning strike from the sky.”
As Darnay lectured, he cast magic in real time.
With just a few words of chanting, chunks of icicles naturally created in the air flew around the classroom like daggers with strings attached.
“Aagh!”
“Okay, I was wrong, professor!”
“hahahaha, you don’t have to worry as detailed manipulation is possible. You can think of everything like this as normal magic. What I am going to tell you about now is magic that is not common.”
In an instant, the icicles floating on the podium melted and disappeared, and before I had time to wake up, another magic unfolded.
“Huh?”
“School, why are there two professors?”
“What are you talking about?”
“If there are two professors, are there twice as many classes?”
Some students screamed in surprise, while others tilted their heads as if nothing was wrong.
“Charlotte, what do you see?”
“No, I don’t really… ….”
Me too, the professor looked like a normal person, and so did Charlotte.
Darnay snapped his fingers and focused his attention on the confused situation, not knowing what had happened.
“That’s mental magic. If you are new students, you must be used to it because you all went through it when you entered school yesterday.”
Some students looked around, noticing.
Ah, come to think of it, even if you didn’t take on the Ordeal of Fear, they said they would let you in during the evening.
They seemed to be students who hadn’t even taken on the challenge at all.
“Of course, it is a magic barrier that the chairman himself placed, so it is different from the spirit magic I cast a while ago. I’m not even an expert in mental magic, hahahaha.”
“Professor, I just didn’t see it. What happened?”
“Good question.”
The student who raised his hand and asked a question was a dark-skinned boy who had complained about the injustice during the Trial of Terror.
Like him, the students who weren’t affected by mental magic at all, including me, nodded and expressed their doubts.
“First of all, I am not good at mental magic, and there are people among you who are particularly resistant to mental magic. It’s not an innate ability… It can be explained by abstract concepts such as willpower and mental strength.”
It was only then that the students nodded as if they understood.
Students who were not affected by Professor Darnay’s spirit world shrugged their shoulders, and those who did were depressed.
However, Professor Darnay soon said that he could have as many spirit-type magic resistances as he wanted, and only then did his face turn bright.
“Third and fourth, magic is magic, but it is a kind of auxiliary magic concept. Protection-type magic mainly has the effect of amplifying the target’s ability, and weakening-type magic does the opposite.”
Generally, it is said that priests who heal or assist others often learn protection-type magic.
On the other hand, weakening magic is often used for bad purposes, but Darnay said that it should also be respected as a branch of magic.
“I think I should explain it here. Weak magic is different from black magic. Black magic is not at all included in the category of magic I am talking about today. They deal with curses and necromancy.”
Only then did the fuss of the students stop.
Meanwhile, as soon as the topic of black magic came up, I thought of elfin.
‘Even after 500 years, the perception of black magic remains the same.’
Still, I once thought that if 500 years had passed, my awareness of black magic, such as necromancers and curses, might have improved, but that was not the case.
Rather, within the empire during those 500 years, black magicians once lived and even caused terror, so the perception was worse.
I don’t think Elfin, who has both talent as a warrior and talent for necromancy, didn’t suffer because of that…….
“The last one is summoning magic. I can’t show you this because only a very few wizards with clear aptitude have learned this. Having said this, I believe that everyone understands the basic classification of magic.”
In the first year, you take basic magic, but it is different from the second year.
Choose at least one major out of the five categories that Professor Darnay just described and go through in-depth education.
So, as a first year student, the top priority was to try various things and see what kind of magic I had an aptitude for.
“Come on! Now that the explanation is over, let’s take the time to try it out. Everyone is trying to cast the basic spells written on the first page of the book on the spot. See which spell works for you, and call me right away if you need any help.”
I was dumbfounded when Darnay clapped his hands.
Right from the first class, I actually use this kind of magic and check what kind of magic I am good at. The progress is faster than I thought.
Looking through the book, all the basic spells were magic that was safe enough not to harm the surroundings.
‘Now then, let’s take a look.’
What kind of magical aptitude do I really have?
The moment I started reading the first page of the book, swollen with anticipation, I heard a small drool talking next to me.
“Hmmm… Umm…”
…… Shall I wake you up?