EP.13 Unexpected meeting (2)
Master took me to the royal library and left, saying he had some people to meet. Of course, since I only needed Master’s help to enter the library, there were no major problems.
‘I feel a bit neglected…’
Well, whatever.
You don’t need a teacher to read a book.
“hmm.”
I glanced around.
Royal Library.
A library that only wizards recognized by the royal family or their disciples can enter.
‘In the old days, I lived and worked here.’
When I was young, before I started working at the Gray Magic Tower in earnest, I went in and out of this place every day. Since it was the best library in the capital, there was nothing that was missing.
I learned the history of magic here.
I learned the origins of numerous spells.
To put it mildly, the Royal Library was like my second teacher.
‘It’s been about 6 years since I last stopped by, right?’
I couldn’t come by because I was busy becoming the next magic tower owner.
I walked forward with anticipation, wondering how many new books would come in those six years.
The first thing to look through is the monthly recommended books.
In this place, which is structured like a bookstore while being a library, librarians separately categorize the most popular books in the world every month.
-Category: Magic books.
Even after six years, the method has not changed, and there are about twenty books on the bookshelf floating in the air using floating magic. I picked up about four of them.
The basic system of combat magic.
The concept of battle-mage.
Cradle of Stars, Aplia Academy.
Kyle, a warrior chosen by the stars.
As soon as I saw the title of one of them, I put it back on the bookshelf. Why the f*ck are you in a magic book?
“hmm···.”
I thought about taking out another book, but somehow the contents all seemed to be the same. Things like battle mage and battle magic.
‘Now that I think about it, the dean and the teacher kept talking about combat magic.’
What on earth is a battle mage?
At least I’ve never heard of such a class.
‘Well, if you read it, you’ll find out.’
I brought a book and sat in the corner.
It was the moment when I was about to open the bookshelf.
“·····.”
Suddenly, my eyes fell on a piece of paper stuck to the corner of the table. To be exact, the name on that piece of paper.
-Academic.
-Twelve circuits.
There was something like that too.
I remember receiving a small amount of compensation if I completed and submitted everything. I often solved this when I was young.
Squeak.
I tore off a piece of paper that no one had touched yet and brought it to the front. I was thinking of giving it a try. I was also curious about what kind of problems come up these days.
-Items 1 to 12…
12 problems.
This was a slightly different type of problem from the Magic Society’s difficult problem that Dean Aaron had posed to me last time.
This was not created to solve problems, but to analyze circuits that appear in practice.
For example, trap techniques in dungeons, interpretation of ancient spells left in ruins, things like that.
‘Let me try to solve it.’
I squinted and examined the problem.
Problems 1 to 7 are easy to solve. The really difficult problems start after number 8.
Since money wasn’t really the goal, I started solving question 8. The overall picture of the circuit comes through through the narrowed field of view.
A circuit made by intertwining numerous curves and straight lines.
At first glance, it may seem chaotic, but there are clear rules and laws permeating it.
I look for the law.
It didn’t take that long.
‘If it had been in the past, it might have taken a while…’
Unlike six years ago, I also seemed to have grown.
I guess it’s because of the practical experience I’ve accumulated over the years.
As I encounter thousands and tens of thousands of circuits on the battlefield every day, I can get a rough idea just by glancing at them.
‘The center of this form is here.’
‘Focusing on the area where curves and straight lines intersect.’
‘The diagonal line is a trick. The solid line is this.’
Intuition, trained through many years of experience, is able to derive a solution simply by looking at the circuit.
I took out the pen I always carried with me and fed it Mana.
Soon, the pen slides across the paper.
-square.
Infuse mana into the pen tip to write a simple proof process and answer. There is nothing stopping you from writing down the answer. It was the moment when I wrote down the answers to questions 8 and 9 and was about to move on to number 10.
-Squeak.
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The pen nib scratched the paper.
This was because the mana that should have glided smoothly across the paper did not come out.
“… ?”
Mana does not bleed from the pen tip.
I tilted my head as I looked at the slightly crumpled paper.
‘Is there something broken?’
I turn the pen around and tap it a few times. And then I realize. There was nothing wrong with the pen itself. What was wrong was my mana.
It feels exactly like being bitten by a Mana Eater.
Mana is not drawn up properly. It doesn’t stick together. I frowned at the mana scattering in the air.
Are there any mana blocking experiments done somewhere?
It would be normal to send a warning in a message about something like this.
“Whoa…”
Feeling a little displeased at the interruption of the flow, I let out a short breath. Exhale and catch your breath.
1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds…
I count in my mind and focus on the flowing mana. I rip out something that is tying up my mana.
-Tap, knock.
Not long after, mana begins to ooze from the pen tip again. After fixing the fan, I returned my focus to the problem. How far did we go earlier? It’s definitely here…
“hey.”
As I was concentrating on the problem, someone touched my shoulder. I lost my concentration twice in a row, and I got irritated.
“Whoa…”
I sighed and put the pan down. As I looked back, I was frozen by an unexpected person standing there.
“What are you looking at?”
Platinum hair braided to one side.
Squinted golden eyes.
It wasn’t a formal outfit, nor was it something that would reveal one’s status, but there was no need for this girl to wear such an outfit in the first place.
Golden eyes that reveal that he is a member of the royal family.
Because those eyes explained everything.
4th Princess Ayla.
A child loved by the stars (Stella).
She was looking down at me.
2.
The last time I remember the Fourth Princess was six years ago, when she was about twelve years old.
A girl who was still young but had a gun.
At that time, the girl who created a stir in the royal capital was said to be a child blessed by the stars.
I once taught her magic.
Of course, it wasn’t in an official setting.
Every time I stopped by the library, the princess came to me and asked for my teaching.
‘… You’ve grown a lot.’
A girl looking at me.
As I looked at her who had already matured, I realized that a lot of time had passed.
“Is there something on my face?”
“···no.”
I slowly stood up.
I would like to ask for forgiveness for my rudeness earlier.
“The noble one…”
“Don’t do that. “Because I don’t really like it.”
However, Princess Ayla lightly waved her hand and stopped my actions. She looked like she was disgusted by that kind of thing.
“You were concentrating. Now that I’ve hung up, it’s natural for me to sigh. sorry?”
Then he pulls out a chair and sits down.
And right next to me.
“I came here to read a book, not to be treated well. “Just keep doing what you’re doing.”
You say that, but why are you sitting next to me?
I gave the princess that subtle look, but she just stared at the worksheet I was solving.
“Academic?”
It’s an interesting perspective.
She looked back and forth between me and the academic paper I was reading and let out an exclamation like “hehe”.
“I guess you’re a wizard?”
“yes.”
“Are you good at using magic?”
“I spend as much as I can.”
While answering half-heartedly and half-heartedly, I suddenly realized my mistake.
‘Oops.’
This was Raniel’s attitude towards the princess.
If a wizard I didn’t know treated the princess like this, I would have nothing to say even if he was arrested for insulting her.
“·····.”
I looked at the princess’s eyes.
Fortunately, there was no sign of bad mood.
“Hmm.”
Instead, she smiled, pulled the chair a little closer to me and sat down. Then she stretched out her finger and pointed to the problem I was solving.
“Why are you leaving the first problems and solving them starting from number 8?”
“yes?”
“Is it because it’s difficult? Well, problem number 1 is definitely…”
“This?”
I tilted my head.
“Numbers 1 through 7 are simple problems, right? “I left it to solve it later.”
“… “It’s simple?”
“Well, it’s simple, but it’s annoying, right?”
I glanced at number 1.
Sure, it’s easy to solve, but it’s a nuisance. This was a question asking about a ‘solution method’ rather than an answer.
“Because it’s a bit of a troublesome problem to explain.”
“yes?”
“There is such a thing, right? “If you tell me to solve it, I can solve it, but if I ask you to explain the process, it gets a little annoying.”
“ah… “Something like mana trading?”
“It would be similar to that.”
I tried to ignore it and solve the problem, but it seemed like this princess had no intention of letting me go.
“So what do you mean?”
The princess pointed to number 1.
“Can you please let me go right now?”
“···yes?”
“I started from number 1, but I got stuck on this problem. I think it would be helpful if you showed me how to solve it.”
The princess slightly tilted her head and looked up at me.
“Why not?”
I kept asking, and it seemed like they had no intention of letting me go until I solved it. I reluctantly moved my pen to problem number one.
An elaborate, intricately laid out circuit.
It is a circuit made up of ‘multiple’ circuits rather than one.
‘It’s the circuit used by that skull gourd again.’
It seems like I see it often these days.
This is the circuit used in the ‘barrier’ spell used by the ancient lich Skebal, the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon Lord’s Army.
‘Why on earth is this such a problem?’
I don’t know why everyone likes Skebal’s circuit so much, including the difficult problem presented by Dean Aaron in the Magic Society and the number 1 problem in Academic.
‘It’s a circuit like a lifeless body that falls apart if you touch it.’
Once you have confirmed what the problem requires.
[One. Describe the process of finding the ‘true circuit’ hidden in the relevant circuit and a solution method that can ‘shorten’ the existing solution method.]
After all, it is a problem that focuses on the solution process.
If you just tell them to write down the answer, they can solve it quickly, but if they tell you to describe the solution process, it’s really annoying.
“… ?”
I looked at the princess as if I needed to solve it, but she was just smiling.
‘Ugh…’
I sighed inwardly and moved the tip of the pen. First, I wrote down the answer and then added the solution process on top of it.
-There is no need to dismantle all circuits.
-Instead of disassembling the circuit…
While trying to add two or three lines of explanation, I thought for a moment. Still, the princess wants to see it, so maybe I should write it down so she can understand.
‘Now that I think about it, I’ve explained this before.’
At Uncle Heinkel’s request, I think I once explained to the knights’ magicians how to break Skebal’s barrier.
‘I don’t think I understood most of it at that time.’
So should I write more?
It’s annoying…
I glanced at the princess.
She was no longer smiling mischievously. From the moment I wrote the answer, her expression was frozen.
“What’s next?”
That’s what I ask when my pen tip doesn’t move.
“…I’m just organizing my thoughts.”
The princess nodded her head slightly, then returned her gaze to my explanation.
I moved the pen without saying a word.
It was my first time writing an explanation in such detail, so it felt a little awkward.
In the end, I had to watch the princess’s gaze for a while and add commentary to the commentary until she was satisfied.
weird.
I definitely don’t think this is what I came here for.
3.
“It doesn’t make sense.”
The place where the wizard left.
Ayla, sitting alone in the library, rested her chin and looked at the problem that the unknown wizard had solved.
Academic question number 1.
A problem with the circuit analysis of the ‘ancient lich’ Skebal, who has been firmly holding his position for the past 3 years.
“Simple, you say?”
Ayla lets out a laugh.
“Because we couldn’t solve that simple problem, several battlefields collapsed…”
Ancient Lich Skevall.
The barrier created by the monster cuts off contact with the outside world. Completely isolate the personnel inside.
The time required to dismantle one barrier is at least six hours. That’s six hours, assuming that dozens of wizards can concentrate on dismantling the barrier without being interrupted.
And, six hours.
This is enough time for the isolated knights to be wiped out.
How many wizards put their heads together to shorten that time by even one minute and one second? The difficult problem for which the answer could not be found was the Skebal circuit.
However, how much time did the woman spend just a moment ago solving this problem?
‘Thirty minutes.’
Also, most of the time was spent adding commentary. The moment the woman saw the problem, she wrote down the answer. Let’s calculate the time it takes just to write down the answer…
‘About thirty seconds.’
As far as Ayla knows.
There was only one person capable of such a thing. Because of that person’s absence right now, there was no one to lift Skebal’s barrier, so the battle line was being pushed back.
“·····.”
Ayla silently read the answer the woman left behind over and over again.
Maybe it’s a wrong solution.
The explanation may be that she simply wanted to draw attention to herself as a princess, so she scribbled whatever she felt like.
‘Because I can’t interpret this circuit.’
Ayla’s intuition as a ‘star child’ allows her to vaguely understand what the spell contained in the circuit is.
But, in other words, that’s it.
Ayla doesn’t know exactly what the circuit means or how to dismantle it.
therefore.
Ayla does not know whether this solution is correct or not.
I also don’t know if this is the correct solution or not.
‘But, why is this…?’
The explanation the woman wrote had a strange persuasive power. She doesn’t know much about circuit analysis, but even if she sees it herself, she somehow feels like she can do it.
‘Is it right to send it to Heinkel?’
Maybe it will just cause some confusion.
This is the answer left behind by an unknown wizard.
The opposite s*x replies that it is better not to send it.
However, on the other hand, her intuition is sounding an alarm.
I need to send this to the Knights of Battle.
It absolutely has to be that way.
“···Hmm.”
Ayla tilted her head.
My index finger feels particularly sore today.
A word from the author (author review)
Ayla age 17-18.
Raniel age 26-27 years old.
