Episode 42

After the theatrical performance, I went out to the crowded street and looked at the market.

Surprisingly, the food sold at street stalls was not as tasty as expected, and the fruit tasted much better.

“Wait a minute, I lost five games. You have to win one match. If everyone has picked it up, please help me out! Yes?”

And I lost 1,000G in 10 minutes playing backgammon.

“Haha! The dice are honest!”

“Heh heh heh, if we keep winning against you, the picture will be bad.”

“It’s completely different from how it looks!”

“Is it because you think I will win the next round? Those people are so mean!”

“I’m not going far!”

“Long live Aindarok!”

With enthusiastic cheers, he was eventually caught in Hira’s hand.

You can fool the world with your face, but you cannot fool the dice. How come you throw 3 dice and never get more than 10?

I guess this is a bug right?

“Puh, you’re playing well, Rocks.”

“It’s strange… … .”

I would die of regret, but Hira had a face that said she would die for fun. It was Hira who brought her.

“Is that a straight dice?”

“If you use fabricated dice, it will be a big deal.”

“I am out of luck.”

Horses are play, if left alone, it is a gambling board.

However, it is not fun if there is no stake at all, so the empire enacted a related law so that you can bet up to 200G in a small way.

Usually up to 4 people gather, so the money exchanged per game is less than 1,000G. Still, Summer Turge absolutely forbids this, so it was a game that could only be seen when the system came out.

“It’s not good if you’re addicted to gambling.”

“It’s not about money, it’s about pride. you just lost It was the same with Rock Paper Scissors.”

“Then will you win? I will bring out the scissors.”

I quietly met Hira’s eyes.

The smiley smile is suspicious. How do you trust people who say they’ll pay first? I raised my fist.

One, two, three.

“I thought you would use scissors.”

“Mmm.”

I slipped out the scissors I had been holding out. Anyway, I didn’t lose, so it made me feel a little embarrassed.

I was shameless, but I decided to bow down and bow down one more time, and this time I brought up a rock.

Hira kept his promise to the end and brought out the scissors.

won!

“It’s not that I don’t trust you.”

“Wow, really.”

“No, because there was no decent guy among those who said they would pay something first. I mean, it’s been like that all my life.”

I thought he was serious, but soon a giggling sound leaked out.

“I know. I know.”

“You know what you say.”

“So that’s what I wanted to say.”

Hira, who had been walking side by side, suddenly strode forward and turned around.

It was a wide range.

It was evening before I knew it, and the distant sunset was dyed the same color as the scarlet hair.

“I don’t lie to Rocks.”

“really?”

“yes. I won’t do it in the future. Seven o’clock?”

“I know. I have to go back soon.”

Although there can be no bandits in the Empire, especially around the islands.

It’s not good to go up and down the mountain road late at night. Even now, when I arrive, it is just barely at night.

“The biggest blue light.”

It was a word that Hira came out of nowhere.

Before long, I followed Hira, who lifted her head as high as possible, and moved my gaze. Street lamp?

“This was it.”

fire-

The light turned on.

Looking down from the tower, blue lights come out here and there just at this time. It is 7:00 PM, the moment when the lights of the island are turned on.

“I guess this side has the strongest magic. There were many blue lights, but one was particularly bright, right?”

“It did.”

“The red one is over there. I wondered why it was moving, but I had no choice but to move.”

The sunset is still bright, but the alleyways are dark. They were guards carrying torches and patrolling everywhere.

It moves along the road at will, shakes in anxiety, and sometimes disappears when entering an alleyway.

everyone is a star

What I longed for, dreamed of, and finally made.

The world was alive and breathing.

“Looking at it up close, it doesn’t look like much, right?”

“I know.”

Because I didn’t force it.

I have no choice but to be trivial.

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Just a tiny bit of proof that someone exists in this world.

I stood like that for a while, looking up at the light of the street lamp.

“Ah, but I was a little sorry earlier.”

“what?”

“I kept my promise not to lie.”

Sneaking away from her gaze, Hira brushed her hair behind her ears.

“Dice, it’s fake.”

“Whew.”

There is no fox.

* * *

Final exams are over.

It was worth spending almost an entire day on. There was no one who studied as much as me in the first place, and I finished the practical work well without any problems.

What was introduced was the 3-star magic “Storm Wind”.

I was the only one who could use magic using imagination theory right away, so the result was obvious.

–

[1st year chief]

Lockstrin Aindarok

Handwriting: 40/40

Practical: 40/40

perfect score

–

Many people thought it was a predestined result, and even though I got a perfect score because I couldn’t update my highest score, the response was less than that of the midterm exam.

They say Rocktrin got a perfect score, but that’s not what everyone knew, now that you’re a professor, it’s like that. Did I study hard too?

“A treasure hunt?”

“It’s tradition.”

“They say that any treasure you find will be given for real.”

“Give money, give shops, and rumors say there are artifacts.”

“Huh, really?”

Is it true, fools?

I know that artifacts come out wherever you dig. If so, would I be suffering like this? I clicked my tongue.

“Anyway, the flying insects are the problem.”

“Eat me… … ?”

“Never mind. Now, again.”

“yep!”

Freed answered vigorously and gathered his mana.

The weather is nice and the exams are over, so people are crowded in the leisure facilities all over the campus. I took my free time and went out to the lakeside in front of the main building.

slap.

“Five… … .”

A handful of water floated into the air.

Soil is compatible with water. Freed, who specializes in soil attributes, has never dealt with water, but from this time he starts practicing and can handle dual attributes with the main character from the second semester.

And the important thing.

“Think of water in a glass.”

It is magic based on imagination theory.

If you have a specific memory, the more it resembles its shape, the easier it is to implement magic.

“That’s because I haven’t touched a glass much… … .”

“ah.”

Pong.

The barely rising water falls back into the lake. Oh, my heartfelt condolences to the dirt spoon Frid.

Glass is a luxury item.

“what is it… … . Just take a look.”

Since I had almost exhausted my mana in the lab, even though my chest was tickling, if I included the ring, my mana was level 5, so I could afford this much.

Chew!

Following my gestures, the water gushed up and floated into a sphere the size of a soccer ball. A perfect sphere with no sharp corners.

Wow, admiration flowed from the students around.

“This is the first step.”

“I think I can.”

“Then look at the next one. In the previous formula, it was called compression, but I think it presses with the same force in all directions.”

Grasp the outstretched palm.

The flowing surface turns into a straight line. At first glance, the firmly fixed sphere of water looks like a glass marble.

“Isn’t there a big change? It is water.”

“okay.”

Unlike wind magic, water doesn’t change much in volume when compressed. A divergence arises here.

Since I can’t see well with my eyes, I don’t recognize this condition.

“But you must keep in mind that you are giving strength. Right now this lump is being squeezed, it’s being incredibly squeezed, keep pumping it into your head.”

“Yes.”

“Then, at some point, a small hole is made in a small part without force being applied.”

Phi-

A stream of water shoots up towards the sky.

Another small fountain was created. Refraction occurs and a rainbow unfolds.

“What if the hole is narrow?”

“It will be sharp.”

“What if the pressing force is strong?”

“The water will flow much faster.”

“That’s the 2-star magic [Water Cannon].”

If you go to that stage here, it is considered offensive magic, so it is a violation of the rules.

“If the mass of water is smaller than this, it will become a one-person [Sutan]. If you move the mass while in a blistered state, you get a 3-star 「Water Slash」. Is it easy?”

“this… … .”

“The important thing is that you understand the scene. Nothing happens if you forget the most fundamental thing, the fact that you are pressing.”

with a plop. The lifted water fell into the lake.

Clap clap clap clap! Applause poured in. It’s just a retelling of the lecture given on the weekend with only the attributes changed. It was fire then.

“It is not class time. Stop clapping.”

“Please do the soil attribute too!”

“I will keep it brief at the beginning of the next lecture. This is a trailer.”

“That’s a trailer!”

“Wow, then what’s on the lecture?”

“I bet you didn’t listen to the lecture last time?”

While the students were making a fuss, Frid was repeatedly lifting and dropping the water.

Once you master it, you’ll be ten times faster than me. It is also fun to teach because you can understand it easily if you teach it.

I see, yes

The fact that it is long-lived is a funny story if it is long-lived when left alone.

‘If I teach you, you’re just a genius, right?’

what are you waiting for

you can teach

Since he is the main character’s rival, I expect that I will be able to catch up soon.

“I think I can.”

“okay. Good luck. You can.”

“It’s just a thought I have from time to time.”

“yes?”

I was about to go back to the Professor’s Research Building when Frid said that.

“How can Lord Rockstrin trust me so much?”

You may have doubts.

When I first met him, I put him down like that, but in the prison of Areas, I was entrusted with more weighty responsibilities than anyone else.

I entrusted the weapon and handed over the hammer.

made people kill

It was Freed who preemptively attacked the battle mages. I don’t know what would have happened if I had failed.

“I don’t want to believe it is me.”

“Yes?”

“I believe because I have no choice but to believe.”

not how It is ‘somehow’.

The part that I, not the main character, cannot do, someone else must do.

I have to fill it up somehow. It’s not a matter of belief.

Aini, Frid, Euril, Kanin, Baeller, Jerome, Lamu… … .

all in place.

I have to do my part.

Can it be done only by faith?

“If that’s betrayed, it’s because I’m lacking.”

The parts all fit together.

It is my job to assemble it.

You have to take responsibility for making it tight with no room left. If you squeeze it, maybe oil will come out.

“It can’t be. betrayal… … That sounds a bit grandiose, so I believe in Lord Rockstryn.”

“OK. Then set a goal. Fusion magic, how long do you think you can do it?”

Frid answered confidently.

“Two days is enough.”

Fuck!

“Ouch!”

“This child is bluffing. If that’s that easy, the empire will unify the continent in a year.”

“Well, about a week… … ?”

“Ten days.”

“It should be enough.”

“cheer up.”

I sent Frid away with a slap on the back.

In the meantime, the place we are heading to is not the tower, but the practice room. There was never a time when his sturdy back seemed so wide.

“Rockstrin! Can you help me for a second?”

“Yes.”

Time to get back to work.

I entered the Professor’s Research Building to immerse myself in magic practice, and met Kanin waddling around with his baskets full of junk.

“What is all this about?”

“These are items that will be used for treasure hunting.”

“It doesn’t look funny to me.”

“Heh heh, aren’t you the professor? You just don’t know where to hide it. The list will be made public.”

While going up the elevator, I peek through the contents of the basket, but everything flashes.

It’s a small event, so there aren’t many of them, right?

“But are there really that many?”

“There are so many excellent students this year, so I robbed a little of my private lab in the South.”

“A private laboratory… … ?”

Kanin Mage Artine.

Any mage who has reached 7 stars is widely recognized as a great mage, but Kanin’s prestige is unique among them.

the age of eighty-two.

A legend that is so alive that two pages are recorded under its name in history books, and its name appears in fairy tales that children read.

If it was a subjugation operation on the Confederate front, he usually stood at the forefront. In his heyday, he caught and killed dragons, so rumors circulated that his private laboratory would be enough to buy an entire country.

“There was a disturbing incident, so I want you to give me strength. It contains a little bit of selfishness.”

In the basket Kanin lowered his gaze to, there was a jewel that had been emitting brilliant light from earlier.

“Ugh.”

I couldn’t keep my mouth shut.

[ITEM]

[Dragon Heart]

: The heart of a young dragon that Kanin, the archmage of Rongrute, slain in his prime. After long research, it was processed to be consumed.

[Effects when taking]

– Increased mana operation speed

– Magic Resistance Lv +1

– Permanently +1 Magic Lv (ignoring the growth limit)

“Are you willing to try hard?”

I nodded as if possessed.

It was not a trivial event.

You have to find it.

must.