ACADEMYS UNDERCOVER PROFESSOR
I looked down at the sullen Aidan and was rather taken back inside.
Whats wrong with him?
At first, I thought that he was going to rebel against .
Was he expressing his subtle dissatisfaction because I had sent him away with wind magic when he had asked to stop at that ti and had been keeping it in his mind?
Looking at his reaction, I dont think thats the case.
He couldnt be acting with his face that looked like he was genuinely sorry and didnt know what to do.
In other words, Aidan really didnt know how to release his property, which was the basis of the elent property magic.
I couldnt believe it.
A rare Uncommon Magic possessor couldnt do such a basic thing?
Wasnt it like saying that a kid who was able to do backwards tumbling couldnt even walk properly?
What should I do with this?
I thought he was telling to look forward to it, but I didnt think it was the case when I saw him stuck.
Was it because of his Uncommon Magic that he was able to enter Sren in the first place?
I can just ignore him like this
I didnt have to pay attention to those who couldnt even follow the basic lessons.
The more I did that, the more I wasted the precious ti of other students.
Hadnt I said sothing when I let the first and second-years take my class together in the first place?
I didnt intend to be considerate of the students who couldnt keep up with my lessons.
It might be a good thing to that Aidan, who might know my secret, was falling behind in my class on his own.
Yes
I didnt have to show any affection to him.
The world, by nature, was such a cold place.
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Aidan. What are you trying to do right now?
Aidan closed his eyes tightly while thinking that the ti had finally co.
Uh, thats.
You arent even doing any elent implentation. Are you going to rebel against now?
All the students eyes were on Aidan and Ludger.
Ludger frowned and looked back at the students.
Have the students who are paying attention to and Aidan already perfected your own elent implentation so you can look away from it? Then Ill have to rember your faces and check it out myself.
Heeek!
The students imdiately turned their heads and began to focus on their elents again.
Aidan was drenched in a cold sweat and was at a loss as to what he should do.
Ludger spoke while folding his hands behind his back.
Aidan.
Yes?
Have you not been able to cast your elent properly yet?
Yes. Shafully.
Aidan wanted to hide in a mouse hole.
All the other students who entered had entered were following the class brilliantly, and he felt like he was falling behind and sothing was holding back his ankle.
Aidan was also able to enter Sren due to so kind of exception that was applied to him, he still lacked basic things that others could do naturally.
What elental properties can you use? You know that, dont you?
Fire, water, and wind.
Three, huh. Thats normal.
Ludger thought he would be specialized in more elents because he was able to deal with Uncommon Magic, but that wasnt the case.
It was basic common sense that the more talented people were, the more elents they could handle.
Then lets start with fla.
Yes, pardon?
Aidan thought he had misheard Ludgers words. It was the sa for Leo, who was sitting next to Aidan, and Tessie, who was sitting behind him.
It ans Ill teach you. I cant let the students fall behind because they cant follow my teachings from the first lesson.
B-but I
I extrely hate the idea of having such a person in my class. I dont take any disagreents. Focus.
Ah, yes!
Gather your mana. You can do basic casting, right?
Yes.
Aidan nodded and made a sphere of mana.
It was a basic process that could not even be called first-tier magic that anyone could do once they were introduced to magic.
Think of turning that mana into an elent. As I just said before, its a fla.
I will try to do it.
Aidan stared intensely at his mana sphere as if that was everything he could do.
Tessie and Leo gave Aidan a cheering stare without saying a word.
Hnnng.
However, it was difficult for Aidan to properly implent the fla property, no matter how much he was focused.
As soon as he thought that it wouldnt work like that, Ludger opened his mouth after watching him silently.
Relax your mind; dont think about it too much. No matter how hard you try to think of fla in your head, it will still be hard at first, so dont just think about it with your head, but feel it with your senses.
Senses?
You can compare the characteristics of the fla to your individual senses. The first one is sight. Imagine the figure of a burning fire. Close your eyes and focus.
Yes.
Aidan focused on the image of fire in his head after listening to Ludgers advice.
However, it was not easy to think of the shape of fire that kept wavering in his head.
Focus. Rember the mont when the fire was most intense in your mory.
Yes, yes.
Since Ludger said that, it made Aidan feel like he had an idea of what to do.
Aidan, who was focusing his mind, was slowly able to bring out the most impressive mont in his mory.
When he was burning the firewood in his country ho, the senses he felt at that ti.
A fire that was burning in the fireplace.
His own family had been watching it.
The scarlet fire at that ti wavered and shook from inside the heater.
Ludgers voice rang in his ears.
Now think of the sound of fire.
Instead of answering, Aidan followed Ludgers instructions.
Crackle crackle.
The sound of fire and burning firewood in the wind.
The sound of fluttering embers put an end to the serenity and cold in the chilly air.
Ludgers voice was heard again.
Next is the sense of sll.
No, it was close to guiding him deep into his inner side.
Aidan wandered deep into his unconsciousness.
The smoky sll of fire that was burning the firewood At the sa ti, he could detect the subtle scent of charcoal.
Aidans family had even cooked stew over that fire.
Since fire doesnt have a sense of taste, think of its sense of touch. Recall the senses in your skin when you faced the fire.
Following Ludgers guidance, Aidan evoked the mories of his past like he was staring at a painting.
His senses which were being guided one by one clearly recalled the mories of his past.
And he could rember it
Eight years prior
In the cold winter when it snowed
It was a day with a raging blizzard over the dark blue window outside.
Wrapped in thick clothes to avoid the cold, he had put firewood in the heater so that the burning fire wouldnt go out.
His two younger sisters had clung to Aidan while whining that they were feeling cold.
That was how the whole family had gathered in front of the heater harmoniously and eaten together.
His younger siblings chattered, his mother nagged, and his father smiled softly as he bore witness to such a scene.
Even though they couldnt eat fancy food and there was a cold wind blowing through the gaps of their clothes that werent properly sewn. Obviously, the mory of that ti was as vivid as if it was just happening.
The fire was not hot.
He wasnt even scared of it.
Just
The fla that he felt back then was so warm.
He rembered that he could spend a warm winter because of it.
Thats exactly it.
Ah.
As if it was a ripple on the calm water, Aidan opened his eyes after he heard Ludgers voice.
And then he saw it
The small fla sphere that was burning in front of his eyes.
!
Aidan opened his eyes wide in disbelief.
It seed to have summoned the warm fla that existed in his mory.
The fla was closer to warm rather than hot, and closer to soft rather than destructive.
Did I really implent this?
Thats pretty good.
Aidan was stunned by Ludgers praise.
It was the first ti that Ludger, who had been brutally pointing out the flaws of the students who were called geniuses instead of praising them, complinted soone.
Aidan didnt know if he could call that a complint, but Ludger spoke a positive sentence from his mouth.
Other students, who pretended not to pay attention while pricking up their ears, were also shocked by Ludgers words.
The fla transford beyond the ordinary elents to beco your own fla. Instead of imitating others and blindly implenting only what others have taught you, you showed the elent of fire that you felt by yourself. Aidan. Thats your own magic.
This is my own magic?
Aidan stared at the sphere of the fla he had created like a man who had sent half of his soul flying away.
Was it because he lost his concentration?
Fwoosh.
The fire disappeared like a mirage without a trace.
But it felt like its lingering scent was still in the air.
Aidan.
Yes, Professor.
Dont forget that sense.
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Ludger left such words behind and moved on to approach the next student.
Aidan was still feeling like he was dreaming.
Leo and Tessie, who were watching nervously from his side, tapped Aidans arm.
Aidan. You are aweso!
How did you do that just now?
Huh, huuh?
Ludgers praise for Aidan fueled the motivation of the students who had yet to be evaluated.
Ludger glanced at the students and opened his mouth.
Im sure youve noticed, but this is the thod I wanted to teach you before I went into this class.
The students all pricked up their ears.
It was the application of your senses through your own experience.
The students waited for his next explanation after the words application of senses.
The elental property should be based on a basic understanding of the related elent. Even a three-year-old child knows that the fire is simply hot and the ice is simply cold. If youre a true wizard, you have to put sothing special in it.
Sothing special?
Think of the elents that you want to cast as intense monts that you actually face, not as so vaguely encountered mories. Not just simply your sight but your five senses should also feel the elents.
Dont just simply follow with your eyes.
Feel the elents with your five senses.
When they followed his advice, the students responded with joy.
Oh, ooh? It works!
Whoa! Its much better than it was before!
The students, who were happy to learn such magic, were more focused on not forgetting the lesson.
Ludgers words were not a lie.
Their mories and experiences were combined so the elents were more carefully recalled and implented, so an elent that was much more intense than the previous ones was implented.
Even the feeling of the elent itself changed depending on their experience and tendencies.
The elent was painted in their own color.
At that mont, a loud shout broke out from sowhere.
Whoa. Crazy. Whats that?
Overlapping elent? Youre already able to use that?
Flora Lumos was at the center of the shocked gazes.
She had created that elent with a confident expression.
To be exact, it was a combination of two elents.
Fire and ice.
The shape of the burning fire had turned into the light blue color of ice, but the ice was still swaying a little.
It was the so-called frozen fla.
Hmph. This is nothing.
At first, Flora had intended to implent just one elent properly.
Because she thought it would be enough for her not to be disapproved by Ludger.
She was already learning how to implent elents through her five senses, and because of her unique magical synesthesia, she was able to implent properties that were much more complete than others.
But when Ludger had carefully taught a first-year student and even given him a complint at the end
Sothing had heated up in Floras heart.
Her pride had not approved of the situation.
Lets see if he will complint as well.
It was not enough for her to simply fully implent one elent.
She was Flora Lumos.
She was peoples favorite in magic who had never let go of the title of genius, even in Sren.
If the magic she casted was only a single elent, it would obviously hurt her pride.
So she casted two elents.
And those two elents were fla and ice, which could be said to be the opposite of each other.
If the two magic techniques were coordinated and woven together so that they did not infringe on each other, fire and ice could coexist.
Rather, each elents characteristic was combined to change into a new form.
Just like she had done.
The overlapping of elents was called the advanced level of Elental Properties.
Flora Lumos could easily combine the two elents.
Flora suddenly beca greedy.
Maybe it was because she was in a strangely good condition and she was spiritually high.
At that mont, perhaps she could succeed in triplicating the elents, which she had been unable to do before.
Frozen fire If I put the wind elent in here and make it swirl
A magic that was created by overlapping two techniques
Flora started creating another new technique from there.
Three overlapping elents by adding one elent to the existing two elents.
It was a magic that had always failed before, but sohow, she felt like it was going to work.
She was already laughing while imagining Ludgers face that would be ruined in a good way for her when she completed the technique.
It didnt take long for Floras complexion to change.
Oh, oh?
Flora first saw it through her own eyes.
As soon as the three colors were about to beautifully blend, they suddenly deviated from their shape and began to collide with each other.
Stench perated through her nose.
It only ant one thing:
It was the mont when the magic flowed in a different direction than what she had intended and ended with failure.
No!
In the end, greed only caused misfortune.
Three properties collided with each other, generating an intense energy.
Flora clenched her teeth and tried to suppress the energy, but it didnt work out as smoothly as she wanted.
The magic that was already beyond the threshold was out of her control.
As the three elents rged into one, they began to emit intense light.
Oh, oh?
W-wait.
The intense mana was felt in the center of the classroom, and the students realized that sothing was strange.
Flora? Flora! Hurry up stop!
Her best friend Cheryl, who was sitting next to her, shouted, but Flora could not answer her.
Biting her lips, she could only desperately suppress the out-of-control mana.
But it started to get harder and harder.
I should block it, no matter what!
At that rate, it would explode.
With the determination to at least avoid damaging the surroundings, Flora put a magic barrier around herself.
Even if the magic exploded, the magic storm wouldnt spread outside.
Then, Flora closed her eyes tightly.
At that ti
Her hands touched sothing warm.
Oh?
Flora opened her eyes.
Ludger stood in front of her.
While facing her, his hands gently wrapped around the back of her hand as he was holding the magic as tightly as possible.
How on earth? She was sure she had spread up a magic barrier.
Ludger, who had easily broken down the magic barrier, spoke while adding his mana.
Focus, Flora Lumos.
Pr-Professor?
Dont give up; control your mana.
Flora stared blankly into Ludgers eyes.
Despite the impending explosion of mana, Ludgers eyes showed no sign of fear.
Because I will help you.
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