I Quit the Hero’s Party Chapter 248

〈 Episode 248 〉 Dealing with stars (3)

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Chloe grew up quickly.

In the first place, she had accumulated enough basic knowledge under the Black Magic Tower, and Chloe had laid a solid foundation while staying at Aplia Academy.

All that remains is to build my own tower.

And Chloe has just laid down the first brick. He had taken a step towards his own magic (??). With that alone, the purpose of the special lecture was achieved, but…

“I tried to reorient myself.”

Chloe didn’t seem to be satisfied with that.

“You said that in order to control the rampaging mana, you need to modify the circuit, right? So, I changed the concept a bit and tried to use it…”

Chloe handed me a piece of paper.

A circuit was engraved on the paper.

“I’m thinking of changing from the basic circuit. “I’m going to try to modify it little by little so that it overlaps with the characteristics of my mana.”

“…You want to modify the circuit?”

“yes. “I am currently reviewing the ‘Extreme Basic Spells’ workbook that Professor Rania gave me.”

Chloe looked embarrassed and scratched her hair.

“Looking at the sentences and examples there, I thought, wouldn’t there be a way like this? I thought so. “For now, let’s fix it from the basic circuit.”

I silently looked at the paper Chloe handed me.

On the paper was written how the circuit would be modified, its direction, and a brief outline.

Don’t read the circuit like that.

“···huh?”

I blinked a few times.

Of course, what was engraved on the paper did not change even if I closed my eyes. After looking back and forth between the circuit and Chloe, I asked Chloe a question.

“Chloe?”

“Yes, Professor Rania.”

“Have you ever received a lecture on the ‘circuit modification’ part from the Black Magic Tower lord?”

“yes? No, I don’t think I ever learned it.”

“···You never learned anything?”

Then what is this?

I looked at the paper again. Although it was immature and messy, the paper Chloe held out contained a clear circuit modification process.

‘···This is a part that will only be taught to third graders?’

Among the students, the only one who could do this was Resty, who had already received all relevant training and entered the academy.

‘But, a child who had only just entered magic imitated the modification of a circuit? ‘That too by self-taught?’

It made no sense.

Absurd, I asked Chloe again.

“Then how did you do this?”

“uh···.”

Chloe hesitated before answering.

“That’s it, I did it.”

The moment I heard the answer, I was out of breath.

Is this what it feels like to be speechless?

I looked at Chloe with a dumbfounded expression, then opened my mouth with difficulty and answered.

“Well… that’s right. You’re doing great. Just try to get it as far as you can. “Then we’ll watch it together.”

“Yes, Professor Rania!”

Chloe nodded vigorously and walked out of the professor’s office at a brisk pace. I stared at the back for a while, and only after the professor’s office door closed did I turn my head.

“okay.”

Where I turned my head, Master was sitting.

The teacher looked at me from grading the mountain of assignments submitted by students.

“Do you understand my feelings now, Rania?”

“Yes, yes?”

“When I was raising you, you had exactly the same expression as you do now. “Why don’t you at least look in the mirror?”

I looked at the mirror on my desk.

When I look at myself in the mirror, I’m like, ‘What on earth is this guy doing?’ He had an expression that was half bewilderment and half bewilderment.

“Do you understand my heart now?”

indeed.

This is how Master felt.

2.

It was not until ten years later that a consensus was formed with his student.

Roselle stood up, feeling a faint joy at that fact. He then walked towards the kettle placed in a corner of the professor’s office.

A kettle and various tools for brewing coffee prepared for a student who had a particularly picky taste for coffee.

Standing in front of him, Rossell touched the tools one by one, checking the coffee brewing recipe he had received from the alchemist who ran the cafe in the academy.

Rattling.

As she brewed coffee with her now skillful hands, Roselle suddenly burst into laughter.

‘It looks like I’m going to open a cafe after retirement.’

I put one cup of brewed coffee in my hand and the remaining cup on my student’s table.

“so.”

Rossel opened his mouth while sipping coffee.

“That girl named Chloe, what do you think she looks like?”

“Honestly, it’s a bit surprising.”

“surprising?”

Rania rarely praises others. Roselle narrowed her eyes as if she was intrigued by the word ‘amazing’ that came out of Rania’s mouth.

“Didn’t you say that to Lestina Lark and Belnoa? “Is she on the same level as those kids?”

“Those kids are great too, but Chloe, I feel like that kid is going in a different direction.”

Rania smoothed her chin.

“Learning quickly? Are you quick to understand? Honestly, it’s difficult to sum it up in one word…”

“Ah,” she let out a short sigh.

“The way of thinking itself feels a bit different.”

Roselle winced and stopped the coffee cup she was bringing to her mouth. Roselle glanced at Rania with his eyes wide open.

“···The way of thinking itself is different?”

“yes. “You’ve only taken one step forward, but aren’t you already bringing up concepts that were long behind you… aren’t you doing things you’ve never taught before?”

Anyway, this is not an unfamiliar story.

“It was fascinating to look at. “I feel like if I give even the slightest bit of wrong information, things will go astray in a strange direction, so it makes me think a lot.”

“Uh, Rania?”

“yes? “Master.”

Roselle looked at Rania with a shocked expression.

“Are you talking about yourself?”

“yes? no? “I’m talking about Chloe.”

Rania blinked and tilted her head.

Seeing his disciple like that, Rossell pointed to his temple. Old memories flashed in my mind, mainly memories of when I first heard of Rania.

「···Raniel? The circuits I was asked to complete within this week must have been 16 intermediate circuits, as I recall. “What on earth is this?”

This was when I was teaching intermediate circuits.

“Well, I just think it would be neater and more powerful if I organized it like this.”

“What?”

“I was watching it and felt something was disappointing. Should I say that it feels unfinished? “I drew it all and had time left, so I tried to narrow it down more neatly.”

After teaching intermediate circuits, the student made up 16 types of circuits containing advanced spells to make up for the shortcomings.

“···how?”

“yes? “It worked because I did it.”

“what?”

The ability to skip processes at will, and when you tell them one thing, you will soon be able to take advantage of it.

‘It’s a learning ability that only makes you laugh when you look at it…’

It’s as if he doesn’t have that kind of awareness, and when he asks, the only answer he gets is ‘It works because I do it?’ It was an answer like this.

“Huh…”

Every time, Roselle would burst into laughter as if it were absurd. And now, time has passed.

“Anyway.”

Roselle looked at the student sitting in front of him.

“Chloe, that kid said, ‘I’m done because I said that.’ rani. I just laughed. “He doesn’t seem to realize how outrageous he has been.”

“···Is that so?”

“yes. I was speechless. “It’s so absurd that I just burst out laughing.”

Ahaha, Rania sipped her coffee while laughing. Even though it was absurd, he didn’t seem to feel too bad about it.

“I’m worried about how to teach.”

Rather, it looks like he is looking forward to it.

Roselle thought as he looked at Rania’s face.

That guy must have hired a disciple like me.

“Okay, well…”

Roselle sipped her coffee and muttered.

“Try to do well.”

“Yes, Master…”

“Teaching is very tricky, and as you teach, you will feel skeptical, wondering what on earth I am teaching… and then you will also feel tension, thinking that if you teach incorrectly, it will be ruined.”

Yes, Master.

Rania, who was about to answer, closed her mouth and looked at Roselle. Roselle looked out her window with faint eyes and gave her advice without even taking a breath.

“I am raising a monster. If you do this wrong, you’ll be in trouble. “You will think that my half-hundred years of magic will be completely defeated by this guy.”

“Master, I’m still twenty-seven…”

“It must be a series of worries every day. What more do I need to teach you when you progress so quickly? tenacity? Should character be taught?”

···tenacity?

Although it felt like the focus was telling a different story, Rania silently listened to Rossell’s words.

“But whatever.”

Only after the coffee cup cooled down did Roselle finish speaking. Roselle, who quenched her thirst with cold coffee, looked at Rania and smiled bitterly.

“I guess it’ll be okay for you. Because monsters raise monsters. “Honestly, Chloe, she’s amazing, but she’s probably not as good as you.”

“···yes?”

“Where else can there be a child as big as you?”

Roselle tapped Rania’s head with the back of her hand.

“Because there has never been or will ever be a wizard like you.”

Rania blinked.

Roselle fed chestnuts to Rania’s forehead.

“Anyway, try to raise it well. Since I raised a wise man, shouldn’t you also raise at least one warrior? Only then will the name of the Trias family live on.”

It was a playful voice.

Rania nodded and smiled.

“Yes, Master.”

It may not be ‘one’ hero.

3.

The special lecture went smoothly.

Chloe, Ayla, Lark, and Belnoir are all showing a steady upward curve. The plan was proceeding without a hitch and there were no major problems.

Rania called aside the students she had been eyeing and briefly checked the results of the special lecture.

“Compared to the beginning of the semester, the power of the spell has increased a lot. “Through repeated training, my martial arts skills and physical strength have improved significantly…”

When Rania asked, “Is the lecture going well?” Belnoa hesitantly answered.

“···I haven’t figured it out yet.”

Wearing a shadow in the form of armor.

Belnoa had completely mastered that system. As a result of constantly beating her for a month, Rania also understood this part.

‘What I learned was the use and catching skills.’

Of course, that is important enough.

“You mean you can’t move on to the next line?”

This was Belnoa’s problem.

A dragon spell that exists at the next level of shadow armor.

Although Belnoa realized the existence of that system, he still had no idea how to use it.

“yes.”

Belnoa nodded.

“In the trial, Belial, you told me that the shadow dragon’s spell was the next lineage of the shadow armor. But, I just can’t quite grasp it.”

Belnoir repeatedly clenched and unclenched his fist.

“I feel like I’ll get caught, but I won’t. “He said there had to be some kind of trigger, but…”

“It won’t be easy to learn.”

Rania tapped Belnoa on the shoulder.

“For now, I think we’re just laying the foundation.”

He seemed distressed because he didn’t see results right away, but in Rania’s view, it was a needless worry.

‘···Even Belial said that he learned the shadow dragon spell when he was thirty years old. what.’

Memories of what she saw in the Tower of the North.

As a result of cross-checking with Cardi, it is said that Belial mastered shadow magic when he was almost thirty. It’s a spell that even the ancient hero took a lot of time to use. Belnoa was fast enough.

‘When completed, the power is unbelievable.’

Create a storm with a single flap of your wings.

The swinging claws tear the sky apart.

The shadow dragon’s magic that I saw in my memory was at a level where there was no compatibility as long as the right lines were maintained.

“Don’t be too hasty. “You just have to get a feel for it before the next trial.”

“···yes.”

Although he nodded, Belnoir didn’t look very relieved.

“A tree that could not be cut down with one swing of an ax can now be cut down with one swing. “Rather than taking ten shots, you only need to take one shot to get over the tree.”

Lark smiled, revealing his white teeth.

“My ax can knock down a huge pine tree with just one strike. “I have become stronger…”

He looked very satisfied.

Lark nodded deeply, touching the ax on his waist as if loving it.

“When we go back to the north, first place in the ‘firewood chopping race’ is a given.”

“Is there such a competition?”

“It is a race with deep tradition.”

It’s a very… unique culture.

Rania mumbled and checked Lark’s condition. Looking back on the past two months and this year, Lark has definitely grown.

‘Because it was physically complete.’

I just didn’t know how to deal with it.

And, over the past year, Lark has been learning it steadily. How to use spells, how to properly treat my body… and finally.

‘I could feel it up to the wall.’

An encounter with the sword demon Draka.

At that moment, Lark had the experience of facing the wall and stepping into it, even if only for a moment.

“You just have to keep going like this.”

Rania nodded.

Although the growth curve was not steep, Lark was growing steadily. Limit limit limit limit definitely.

“But, Lark.”

“Yes, Professor Rania.”

“If you hit the tree just once, it will pass. “Where did you do that?”

“yes? “Of course…”

Rania wordlessly handed a piece of paper to Lark.

It was a notice that was recently sent through the university.

『Recently, a tragedy has occurred where entire trees have been cut down in the mountains behind Aplia and in the Harmain Forest. The cut down trees were neatly organized like firewood, but it is difficult to understand what the intention was. Requesting cooperation to find the culprit…』

“······.”

Lark was silent.

“lakh.”

Tap tap, Rania touched the paper.

Lark broke into a cold sweat.

“Let’s be careful.”

“···yes.”

Although there were some minor problems, the special lecture was going smoothly.

In the case of Belnoir and Lark, there was a strong feeling of establishing a foundation right now. By visiting and knocking regularly, Rania helped them solidify their foundation.

In the case of the other two, there really wasn’t that much for Rania to do.

“I’m trying to figure out how to command the stars and how to manipulate powers. “I feel like there’s a lot I don’t know yet.”

Ayla researches her powers.

“I’m researching the ‘how to handle familiars’ that Kelhalm taught me. “It is a method of dividing the circuit and transplanting it to a familiar… increasing the number of individuals that can be controlled at once…”

Resty was conducting research on summoning, and neither of them seemed to need Rania’s hand that much.

For now, it seemed sufficient to analyze the performance brought in every week and provide feedback.

‘It’s not yet time to think about it and teach it. ‘I plan on teaching that in the next year or so…’

And finally.

“Professor Rania!”

The next hero candidate, Chloe.

“I finally succeeded!”

If I had to pick one student who had experienced the most changes in the past month, it was definitely Chloe. Thinking of Chloe’s achievements, Rania let out a faint smile.

They are all kids worth raising.

And, it wasn’t just the students who were paying attention. Aplia’s overall level was steadily trending upward.

‘I also raised the overall lecture tempo and it seems to be going well. There’s no problem.’

I tried increasing the amount of homework, and everyone seemed to follow along without saying a word. One way or another, everyone is growing. Rania stretched out, feeling the reward of her teaching.

If we just keep going like this, there won’t be any problems.

And as always.

The problem was that it came suddenly.

4.

Early in the morning, a knight arrived in front of the mansion. Rania opened the door in her pajamas and blinked as she saw the knight who had visited her mansion.

‘It’s a face I feel like I’ve seen before.’

That too, a little while ago.

Instead of staring intently at the knight’s face, Rania clapped her hands.

“Turbulent Rocks!”

It was a knight I had encountered on the battlefield.

Rox blinked at Rania’s words.

“Do you know me?”

“You know! Isn’t this the friend who was completely wiped out by a landslide on the Western Front! Thanks to that…”

Rania’s voice, excited by meeting her fate on the battlefield, became quieter as she went on. Rania added at the end, her voice crawling away.

“I heard from Raniel that we were able to easily control the situation.”

“Are you talking about Raniel?”

Fortunately, Rox paid attention to the back part.

Rox looked at Rania with shining eyes.

“It seems that the Gray Wizard, Raniel, told my story to his sister. “This is an honor.”

“Yes, it was great…”

“haha. It was worth gritting my teeth and jumping into the battlefield where Raniel was staying. “Seeing that the wise man remembers me, I guess my efforts were not in vain.”

Rox scratched the back of his head as if embarrassed.

“So, what happened?”

“Ah, I came here because I have a letter to give to Rania. “The principle is that information related to this must be delivered directly.”

A knight who would be staying on the battlefield comes to the royal capital and personally delivers information. A knight with sufficient skills. Rania nodded her head, expecting that the electrolyte information was out of the ordinary.

“I would like to convey this to Rania Van Trias, the educator in charge of Chloe, the next warrior candidate.”

While holding the artifact hanging around Rox’s neck in his hand, he relayed the knight commander’s words to Rania.

“The next hero candidate, Chloe’s ordeal has been decided. The trial date is next spring.”

Rania narrowed her eyes.

Rox spoke the last words.

“It will be held three months from now.”

Chloe’s trial date has been set.

It was a much faster schedule than Rania expected.

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