Midterm exam (3)

Time passed, and the long-awaited midterm exams began.

In the case of the first year, it is a particularly important test, and it is not an event that is not light for the professor.

In addition, since it was the first test in Helios’ history to be held in ‘Record’, the meaning could be said to be particularly unusual.

To enter the record, the test was conducted in the auditorium, not in the classroom.

Ten warp gates were installed in each of the spacious halls, and the professors were finishing their final checks.

“Ah. Please pay attention.”

The eyes of the students moved forward at the voice that resonated throughout the auditorium.

With only a few days left before the start of the exam, Roshua, who was in charge of managing and supervising the exam, was holding the microphone in the church.

“From now on, we will announce the guidelines for the midterm exam. As this midterm exam is being held in a dangerous area, compliance with the rules is the most important thing, so students, please be sure to keep that in mind.”

He first lifted the artifact in the form of a bracelet upwards.

As the image of the bracelet enlarged on the screen installed in the auditorium, he opened his mouth again.

“This is called a ‘magic control bracelet’. It plays the role of protecting you from the magic of the record, and serves as various safety devices such as calling the professor and returning to school in case of emergency, so never! Please do not take it off your arm.”

Roshua, who particularly emphasized the word ‘absolute’, delivered bracelets through other professors and teaching assistants.

The overall modest design of the silver bracelet locks onto the wrist and adjusts itself to the wearer’s size.

Even after that, Roshua’s enthusiasm for safety rules continued for a long time.

Residency on record by faculty members for the duration of the exam.

That there is a medical team ready to mobilize immediately, etc.

I had a strong feeling that I had prepared in earnest, but the ‘relay system’ was the one I put the most effort into.

Roshua raised a metal orb the size of a fist.

“It’s a ‘replay camera,’ which flies all over the record as you take the test and relays the situation. The relayed footage appears in the control room and here and on the center screen.”

Roshua pointed to the screen in the auditorium and smiled lightly.

If you say this, there will be no students who can’t understand.

It was said that this camera was not only a safety device, but was also used to monitor students’ test progress and cheating.

It was like an unspoken warning not to think about cheating by taking a test on the record.

After Roshua stepped down from the podium with a short greeting, the students moved on to their subjects to be tested.

*

Cynthia stomped her feet.

The first exam I took after coming to Helios was more nervous than usual.

“Ugh… can you do well…?”

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Just do what you’ve been taught. Because I studied hard.

As I was solidifying my resolve inside, I heard a voice from the front.

“fist.”

Yujin Kang appeared in front of the students of Mathematics.

In his hand was a small box that he had seen before.

It seemed to be called an ammunition box, but Kang Yoo-jin, who put it down, checked the number of people and nodded.

“From now on, I will announce the contents of the Great Mathematics exam.”

As he opened the ammunition box, small rats swarmed out.

The rats gathered in an orderly manner through Kang Yu-jin’s mental control were shrew rats that he had seen before.

“The subject of the test is ‘tracking.’

He picked up a shrew and continued.

“Each shrew has its own magic embedded in it. Track down the exact target and try to catch it.”

The tone is calm, but the content is not.

Cynthia, who was paying attention to the rules with a nervous expression, turned her gaze to Estelle in the front row.

Today, instead of sky blue clothes, she is dressed in a neat coat.

The expressionless face looking ahead is as quiet as usual.

After all, geniuses are different…

As I was admiring it inwardly, a child raised his hand.

A girl with white hair and a fur coat.

…Was there a kid like that in Grand Mathematics?

“Professor! What if you bring the wrong child!”

“We have taken measures not to react if the magic wavelength is different. If you try to force it out, it will be counted as 0 points, so keep that in mind.”

he added afterwards.

“And, the time a shrew can survive on a record is 8 hours. If the shrew dies after that time, that too is counted as 0 points.”

“What if I run away too far?”

“Of course it’s 0 points.”

He replied mercilessly, as if asking what he was asking.

Catching the target before it escapes the tracking net is also up to the student’s ability.

“Scoring is chronological. Time is measured the moment you enter the record, so start when you want.”

Having said that, Kang Yoo-jin threw the ammunition box containing the shrews over the gate.

He arbitrarily adjusted the location of the ammunition box, and the moment a student enters, a shrew is released.

While everyone was watching, Estelle was the first to step forward.

She proudly walked to the gate and threw herself inside without a moment’s hesitation.

“Ugh…”

On the other side of the black-draped gate.

The students seemed to be looking around, and they entered in groups of threes and fives with children who knew each other.

A clever idea.

If the number of heads increases, it will be easier to deal with unexpected situations in the record, and it will be easier to track.

There was nothing in the test rules saying that cooperation was forbidden, so there was no problem.

“ah···.”

However, no one was with Cynthia there.

Although her reputation has improved recently, the tendency to avoid her has not disappeared.

It meant that there were still difficulties in pairing up in a major event called the midterm exam.

Cynthia, who looked restlessly at the slowly decreasing number of people, turned her head and looked at Yujin Kang.

It seems indifferent, but the eyes that look closely at the students.

Seeing that, she clenched her fists as if she was determined.

“I can’t disappoint the professor…”

She took Yongyong out of her bag and held it tightly in her arms.

Looking across the dark side of the gate, I tried to hold on to my trembling body.

“Let’s go, Yong-yong.”

-Piruru!

Gathering courage, Cynthia slowly launched herself into the darkness of the record.

*

“It’s dark.”

Upon entering the record, Estelle was a bit startled by the dense darkness that covered the area.

I tried lighting it up, but no matter how bright I turned it up, it didn’t get any brighter than 3 meters.

The heavy, humid air that filled the air squeezed the lungs like a stone on each breath.

“···stuffy.”

The field of view is narrow, breathless, and the body feels heavy as if submerged in water.

It was truly a sample of a hostile environment, but what was most devastating was the unidentified magical powers that filled the record.

Even Estelle found it difficult to withstand the mana that ran wild and tried to burrow into her body.

“Let’s focus…”

He lifted his coat and drew a revolver from the holster at his waist.

I held the grip with both hands and took a posture with my face raised to the side.

These days, if I do this, I feel like I can concentrate better.

Estelle gently closed her eyes and began searching for the shrew’s magical power.

‘… Magic cannot spread far.’

The record’s magical power is so strong that Estelle’s magical power keeps dissipating.

At this rate, it is impossible to track it with normal magic power detection.

However, Kang Yoo-jin is not the kind of person to be entrusted with impossible tasks.

Even if it seems impossible at first glance, there must be a solution in it.

Estelle slowly began to recall what she had learned before.

If it was Yujin Kang, he would have hidden hints in the middle of the class.

“ah.”

However, her troubles did not last long.

The native creatures that inhabit the records gathered after hearing of Estelle’s presence.

“plaguy.”

Hwareuk-

A torch soared from her revolver.

After meeting Aragos, he practiced countless times, and now he was able to bestow holy fire as naturally as breathing.

bang!

In a circular motion, he drove bullets into the native creatures.

Those who appeared in the flash of light resembled cephalopods and were very disgusting, but after being hit by a bullet containing a holy fire, they turned to ash and disappeared.

Do these guys want to be similar to witches?

Next time, let’s try to see if communication is possible in the master language…

The moment I carelessly reloaded the bullet.

An idea flashed through Estelle’s mind.

“Masua.”

How to write magic language.

It is to systematically grasp the structure of magical power.

In addition, the technique of vocalization through fine tuning according to the color and tone of voice.

In other words, it is a skill to delicately read and adjust magic power itself, breaking away from linguistic concepts.

If so, wouldn’t it be possible to borrow only that method and use it for the magic of the record?

Estelle immediately began to interfere with the magic of the record.

By interpreting and adjusting the magical power of the record, it is to find the magical power of shrews that will be mixed in between.

“you can do it.”

It is known that the magical power of the record is impossible to interpret and calculate due to its original disorder, but unfortunately, there was a lecture explaining the method a while ago.

The three formulas Yujin Kang announced in a special lecture.

He demonstrated the use of a first-of-its-kind formula to calculate the magical power of a record using the three formulas.

Naturally, Estelle, who had listened to all of his special lectures, took notes and reviewed them several times.

It was a very difficult formula, but Estelle didn’t mind.

Estelle, who instantly calculated the magic pattern with the writing utensil she brought, began manipulating the record’s magic based on the value she found.

It gives regularity to chaotic magic power, and removes the curtain of unnecessary magic power based on the derived output value.

After erasing the record’s magic value, the only thing left was the magic power dwelling in the shrew.

“done.”

Her expression reminded me.

A face full of color with a soft smile with reddened cheeks.

The place is not far either.

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Just walk a little and you will find it in no time.

Also I’m a genius

She spun the revolver she was holding, and put it nicely into the holster at her waist.

It was a ‘Kang Yoo-jin’-like finish that I practiced all night without Hanna’s knowledge.

flutter –

And finish it off by blowing off the coat at the end.

Estelle smiled in satisfaction.

Without knowing at all that a relay camera nearby was filming it.

*

so much-

Silent footsteps cross the darkness of the record.

The hooded face and the shrunken back, the thin, dim lights that illuminated the front looked suspicious in themselves.

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Jason strode across the record, neither slow nor fast.

“Is it really…?”

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Jason inspected the contents of the cross bag worn around his waist.

At first glance, it looks like a normal bag, but when you open the zipper again with your own blood on it, a completely different storage space appears.

A magic that pierced even the strict inspection and surveillance of the test supervisor.

No, what was hidden behind the supernatural ability, which was not even known to be magic, were countless orbs drifting in a turbid air current.

Beads of a color that made them look ominous rippled like waves in the bag.

He remembered the words of the woman who had told him this.

‘It’s a bead of refined magic. In the inactive state, no one can detect it. Even if it’s the owner of the mage tower.’

‘Magi…? How are you going to do this?’

‘The magic of a record causes an enormous chain reaction when it meets Magi.’

The voice that chanted with laughter.

The voice that seemed to whisper in my ear was very uncomfortable and awkward to hear.

‘What kind of effect will the magical power of record runaways have on weak students? Aren’t you curious?’

‘You’re crazy…’

‘hahahaha. Are you curious too? do not worry. If you spread the beads across the record, your wish will come true.’

So Jason received a bag full of marbles.

In fact, words are marbles, but this was no different from a Magi bomb.

If even one explodes, a radius of 10 meters is contaminated with demonic energy.

“I am not at fault.”

Scattering marbles all over the record, he traversed the length and breadth of the record.

The relay camera didn’t even take a picture of him.

I don’t know how, but the robe the woman gave him hid him from the eyes of the relay cameras.

he walked fast

Before these bombs explode, someone has business to do.

Cynthia Westerlund.

He headed to find the place where the demons were.

Author’s words

Students sometimes learn aspects of their teachers that they do not need to learn.

When I was in high school, there was a person who always took out and put in the textbook in strange movements, and it became a trend and there were children who followed it.

In the eyes of children, it must have seemed strange and cool…

Not that I did.

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*Added description of Jason’s bag.