Episode 40. self expression (1)

“Brother. This time, let’s go to the flame release-“

As the black-and-white cube regained its shape, the laboratory that Principal Skillbeck gave away was enveloped in black mist.

In a situation where even the flash magic that Dana used with the lantern on it could not pierce the fog.

“… Ignite.”

“Five-!”

Black flames emanating from my right hand moved to the piece of wood in front of my eyes. It shook and burned as if it were alive, but it did not emit any light.

Mixing the cubes again, I asked Dana, who was still holding her palm close to the darkly burning firewood.

“How was it? I didn’t modify the magic formula separately.”

“Then you wouldn’t even touch the temperature. The firepower increased by about 60% compared to when the flames were released without the mana respirator, and again, there was no light at all.”

“No matter what method you use, it doesn’t seem like you can light up with a mana respirator. From the moment this is activated, all magic cast is black.”

As soon as the words came out, the respirator was activated again and flash magic was used, and all the lights lost their light and became dark.

“Then what about magic that glows softly like fairy lights?”

“It seemed to be shading.”

As the dark fog lifted, Dana’s white lab coat slowly came into view.

Lime-colored eyes, shining with interest but slightly quivering, were looking at me.

“Isn’t it good to say that this is mana with color and attributes? The results of the experiment so far all say so. The magic cast in the fog had its firepower and strength amplified, and it turned black unconditionally. Besides, more important than that… !”

“In this black mist, ‘visible mana’ is probably the most important thing.”

Feeling the mana floating in the air in a colorless and odorless form is the biggest barrier to entry for aspiring wizards.

You can tell just by looking at the Mint student’s ability to instantly rise as he feels mana, but being able to see mana… . It’s a big enough event that you can believe that you’re destined to live as a wizard for the rest of your life.

In other words, creating mana visible to anyone is like a revolution that could completely overturn the achievements of all wizards.

“This mist has almost the same structure as the sludge in the pond. If we succeed in research that can vaporize black liquid without any risk, a world where everyone can use magic might come!”

“If you take on the challenge with a light heart, you will feel the infinitely complex magic wall.”

“No. What are the advantages of free magic that your juniors have made popular? Didn’t it mean that the barrier to entry was low because it embodies intuition and experience? With this, even a 3-year-old can become a wizard.”

Like a dragon, Dana seemed to have high hopes for the results of the experiment and what was to be revealed and created in the future… . I couldn’t be happier with her.

“Professor Dana, take note. Magic is someone’s self-expression.”

“Yeah?”

“The second of the hypotheses about the pond. I’ve talked about it before. What if deep ponds weren’t a natural phenomenon, but magic unfolded by something deep down? There is a good chance that something that made mana into that form and dissolved it in a liquid exists.”

“… Do you raise weird monsters in it? What intentions do you have?”

“Yeah. Of course, the direction of the professor’s research is ideal, but… . I think the analysis of the pond itself should be done first, rather than the use of the pond.”

I don’t know what lies at the very bottom of the deep pond.

When the novel starts to enter the middle, I know that the mysterious creatures lurking inside slowly creep up and counterattack… .

In the end, Yuri, the main character of this novel, was possessed without knowing what the lowest class he would face in the end.

3 Under water pressure, even dragons can’t stand the mana and die, so it’s clear that there’s something more powerful than dragons, creatures that have had no rivals so far.

Even if the being at the bottom of the pond had the power to destroy the world, it wouldn’t be strange at all.

“Let’s start with pond research? I’m sorry. I was thinking of digging into the mana respirator once and mass-producing it.”

“First of all, it would be good to do research on the deep water in the pond. I’m still conducting clinical trials on its efficacy, but… .”

“eww… . How did you look so bad? Your junior has a good stomach.”

“It’s interesting that someone who even dived in a pond said this.”

“Is it because I wanted to? !”

Ignoring Dana’s gaze, I gulped down the liquid from the pond in a beaker.

The best way to restore the body when using mana in the body is to drink holy water.

However, if he drank two bottles of Saint Presen holy water every day, he would surely go bankrupt even with Kiruna’s full professor’s salary, so he was drinking 1 water pressure abyssal water with a concentration similar to that.

I may not be able to see it now, but Sepia, who gained notoriety as a warlock in the original work, used this method.

“Ah, Professor Dana, I won’t be able to join the pond study tomorrow.”

“Eh. Are you ready for class again?”

“Yeah. The day after tomorrow, the magic lecture was scheduled.”

“I’m teaching the kids, why do they care so much… .”

I was able to receive the list of class applications a week ago, but my head was already hurting even though the class hadn’t even started yet.

First, Yuri and Karin… .

In fact, they had some expectations.

‘Yuri, who became interested in me, signed up for my class, and Karin must have followed her like a friend to Gangnam.’

By the way… . There was one more unexpected person.

* * *

The most beautiful thing about magic formulas is that there is an answer that no one can deny.

Even if someone develops a method that is more efficient than the existing magic formula, the magic formula will only be interpreted in one way. Outdated approaches are abandoned, leaving only the more efficient ones.

“Niagmin… . Here, the proof of niagmine tertiary light source control… .”

Karl Gaur, who composed the 6th circle magic ceremony in 3 minutes, did not go through the sword calculation. His calculations couldn’t have been wrong, and a more efficient interpretation couldn’t have existed.

The word that Carol, who loves magic formulas, hates the most is ‘various interpretations’, and that’s the reason why she applied to the Department of Magical Linguistics.

A department that always pursues only neat answers.

The atmosphere here, where everyone only pursues undeniable things, suited him very well.

however… . The atmosphere started to change from winter vacation. After a new professor came into the Mado Linguistics Department, the academic traditions here were collapsing.

At this rate, it seemed that the Department of Magic Linguistics would lose its identity, but in the end, Carol, who hated meeting people, might have to go to the Department of Magic, which was reputed to be the loudest.

‘It looks like what Professor Hadley said is true.’

His golden hair, which was long enough to block his view of the surroundings, covered his face, but he could feel the stares staring at him, and he couldn’t concentrate.

20 minutes before the start of Professor Ian’s lecture. Carol, who arrived a little early and settled down, tried to pass the time building a circle ceremony as usual… . There were a lot of faces that were burdensome and unfamiliar.

One of the things Carol liked about the Department of Magical Linguistics was that it was a minority department. Even if you open up several magic circles, everyone in the department knows each other well. It was nice that I didn’t have to pay much attention to my surroundings.

By the way… . In Professor Lee Ahn’s class, which I first took, there were too many first-time acquaintances.

A white-haired boy and a dark-haired friend next to him. A Lang tribe who doesn’t know if it’s a wolf or a dog, a girl with blonde hair… .

‘uh? Isn’t that the frill princess… ?’

The quiet Mado Linguistics department had changed drastically in a matter of days.

‘Karl, you are the hope of this department. You are the only student who can refute Professor Ian’s class point by point!’

‘… Me?’

It was hard to even imagine that Carol, who doesn’t like talking to people, would fight someone, but when it comes to discussions about magic… . I was confident that I could beat the new professor.

Although I wasn’t confident enough in the theory to say that Carol was that good at talking or that she surpassed the professor.

Since magic formulas are problems with fixed answers, it was a discipline in which failure of interpretation could not be justified by any rhetoric if one could prove that one’s formula was correct.

As the man who was my father did… .

‘Carol, listen carefully to your mother. You’ll never live like your father, okay?’

‘mom… .’

‘Don’t challenge time and history. All you have to do is walk on the path that people smarter than you have already paved. There is a correct answer to magic, and if you try to go against it, you will be abandoned by your family and academics like your father… . okay?’

Yes, the problem is trying to challenge a problem with a fixed answer.

Although he hadn’t met Professor Ian in person, Carol already didn’t like him.

‘There must be a reason why everyone says so, so why bother trying so hard to overturn everything that was supposed to be?’

Looking back at a problem that has already been proven by the wise men of the past is no different from digging through food waste.

The soldier looking down at him now didn’t seem to think so at all, but Carol believed what Professor Hadley and her mother had said.

“Are you Karl Gaur?”

“Yeah.”

“Chief of Magical Linguistics, 3rd in the Ministry of Magic. I don’t know why you, who are now in the 3rd year, requested to repeat the basic magic class that 1st year students take, and Professor Hadley approved it… .”

Professor Ian, who approached silently, looked at Carol without paying attention to the magic ceremony he had unfolded.

“I made a good choice. You can look forward to it.”

“… hahahaha.”

It took 30 minutes on average for the professors to construct a 6-circle magic that would not take a few minutes even if Carol was just solving it.

Carol had never placed her expectations on the professors before.

However, since it was the first time the professor had challenged him, Ian’s declaration of war made Carol’s nonchalant eyes shine.

* * *

‘It’s the best ever.’

From the first day of April, the difficulty of the class was not easy. I didn’t expect to feel the tension in the auditorium again in this small lecture room… .

‘The first student I need to pay attention to is Carol.’

Karl, who was introduced as the 3rd in the Ministry of Magic and a genius in calculating and constructing magical formulas, was a supporting character who appeared three times in the novel.

In October of this year, once as a combat power meter to stop Rize from running out of control and lose narrowly.

When Yuri, a sophomore, is still struggling to face Sepia, the black magician, one-on-one, the second time is to face Sepia as a third-year student in the Ministry of Magic representing the school.

The third is an all-out war with Greyvine, who appears directly after Sepia is defeated.

‘I’m not a student who appears as a villain. It’s obvious just by looking at his eyes. I think Professor Hadley sent me to check… .’

Fortunately, I know his personality and background.

“Uncle, I’m sure. Those guys aren’t the guards. First of all, looking at me is suspicious!”

“… They are high priests.”

Chapter 1 of the main story. It seems that the story of Karin Huland, the saintess of Stica, came earlier than I thought.

‘Originally, the episode should have occurred in early May… .’

Karin gets along well with Yuri and adjusts to school life. As a result, Karin gradually forgets her heavy duties as a saint, and the high-ranking priests, who could not see it, infiltrated the school and began to control her.

Karin, unable to reveal to Yuri that she is a saint, grows darker day by day due to the priests’ pressure.

after so many days. Yuri, who finds it strange that Karin often misses classes and goes somewhere and returns late at night, follows Karin and rescues her… .

“It’s still April 1st, so why are you doing that already?”

“You know how you are treated at this school. Isn’t that why you’re like that?”

“Um… .”

It seems that rumors about my unconventional class contents and methods have also been heard in Saint Stica Cathedral.

My class may be dishonest to the saintess, so I’ll keep an eye on it… ? Is that the intention?

“I’m not a parent chasing you all the way to school, what are you doing?”

“Look at his expression… . Poor.”

They have been controlling her freedom and placing heavy duties on her for a very long time, so Karin cannot fail to recognize their faces. Of course you won’t be happy

‘And… .’

Sitting next to her were Frill and Ina, who had transferred to the Mado Linguistics Department this year.

I bowed briefly to Frill, and she was greeted casually.

The trust between me and Frill was already famous in school, so only Carol, who had no interest in anything other than magic, couldn’t figure out the situation and her eyes widened.

“Since the number of people is right, I won’t call attendance separately.”

After a brief glance at Yuri, who was staring at me suspiciously, I told everyone.

“There must be students who are new to each other. let me introduce myself Ian Leiber, first-time professor at the Department of Magical Linguistics.”

There are quite a few eyes that look at me hostilely. Carol, the priests behind the classroom, and the first year students from the Paideia dormitory.

I did what they wanted to say.

“If anyone knew me, they would have come here with doubts. Professor Ian is teaching a magic class? How could a cheap demagogue popular with the underclassmen teach free magic and teach about magic formulas and circles, which are the gates of truth? while thinking that.”

Their reactions were pretty funny. Towards my enemies who seemed to have been stabbed to the point, I spoke as if I were speaking to an unspecified number of people.

“For those who think so, the first misunderstanding I want to clear up is that I am not trying to obscure or disparage the value of magic. This school doesn’t teach anything about free magic, so I may have seemed like a strange professor teaching it… .”

“… If so, please tell me about the value of the magic formula you think. Didn’t you talk about the value of free magic over three lectures?”

Carol, who sat in the front row, challenged me pretty quickly.

I was going to talk about his question anyway, so I nodded casually.

“All magic is self-expression. Not only free magic, but also magic rituals contain individual thoughts and will. The moment you recognize this, you will be able to feel the value of the magic ceremony that seemed boring.”

“… Professor, you are also leaning heavily towards free magic. It is the construction of the magic formula that allows no involvement other than logic and thinking. There is no such thing as one’s own thoughts in a magic ceremony. There are only right and wrong answers.”

“Carl, do you really think you can’t show yourself with formulas and arguments?”

“It’s just an individual’s feelings toward a magic ceremony, but in the end, what matters is the proof and the result… !”

“It is human beings who give meaning to everything. It is human beings who can find their own value in the proof and conclusion of the magic formula. It’s difficult to convey this in words, but… .”

eyed.

As in the third supplementary class.

Even after chanting the light, the lecture hall went dark in an instant. And, the buzz of the students in amazement soon turned into exclamations.

“This… !”

“This is the circle.”

I chanted the light again and launched a brightly glowing orb out of the darkness.

The magical languages gathered to form a sphere.

It was shining clearly like a sage’s consciousness, unclouded and clear like a revealed truth. Even when students touched it, it was unshakable and clearly existed.

Sorcerers say, the circle is like a universe.

It was alluding to space creation through magic language, not that the circle really resembled the universe.

“Wait, is the circle moving?”

Like planets orbiting each other, all the words forming Ian’s circle were rotating at different speeds and interacting with different lights.

Carol’s eyes began to get dizzy at the soundless convolutions of the magical languages.

“I transferred the shape of the circle you envisioned in your head. You guys create such a beautiful ‘space’ every time you cast your magic.”

Carol jumped up and looked at me.

“lie… ! This is a scam, the circle doesn’t move! that it is stopped Have you ever seen a mathematical formula work by itself!? I’m even doing this to get the support of the students… !?”

“Karl, the circle is so beautiful to some people. A dynamic and luminous universe. If you can move magic formulas and circles with your own will… . In addition to the interactions of magic language, new variables such as rotation direction and speed are created. To put it simply, it is an extension of the realm.”

As Carol pointed out, the circle was a static form for mages.

Ian’s claim to be able to move it suggests the possibility of finding a more efficient and colorful proof of magic by adding rotational speed and direction to the current magic formula.

In terms of mathematics, it is a revolutionary event that can be compared to drawing a vertical line called the y axis in a world where there was only a horizontal line called the x axis.

“That is just an illusion. Who the hell said that nonsense… !”

“This delusion was demonstrated at an imperial conference a year ago. It’s a theory that’s undergoing a very thorough review at the society, but I haven’t been able to find a single error in a year. It’s an atmosphere that’s actually accepted as orthodoxy within the society, but… .”

The Imperial Academy shared this new research achievement only within the conference, and wrote this thesis as if it were hidden without a seminar.

It was a strategy to preoccupy this revolutionary research achievement and widen its status with other academic societies.

A large reward and a letter of appointment as a member of the Imperial Society were given in exchange for delaying the presentation of the ‘Circle Rotation Theory’, which was scheduled to be announced by the Imperial Family three years later.

In other words. After 3 years, all magic will face a new possibility of the rotation of the circle, and accordingly, most of the correct answers to all the magic formulas that have been believed will be wrong.

“If you don’t believe me, you can look up the ‘Circle Rotation Theory’ paper yourself.”

A man who challenged the impossible and broke the mold of magic.

A person who loved the beautiful circle more than anyone else and wanted to develop it further.

“In Pav Gaur’s eyes, the circle was so beautiful.”

“… father?”

Karl Gaur, as expected, seemed shocked… .

‘I’m going to reconcile with my father later anyway, so do it sooner.’