EP.48 Enlightenment, and growth (4)
Lark Van Grace.
He is from the north and is a brave warrior. Even the warriors of the North recognized Lark’s bravery.
-Master Lark is amazing.
-When I was that age, I was chopping firewood at home, but Master Lark goes around chopping White Fang instead of firewood! Hahaha!
A lively laugh.
Wide, thick fingers tapping his back.
“···hmm.”
Lark groaned briefly.
This is why he suddenly remembered the northern warriors who were patting his back in the tavern.
‘I tried to become a man worthy of the warriors’ expectations…’
Lark feels ashamed.
Because you are feeling afraid right now. And that was not in the middle of a life-threatening battle with a strong man, but during a break before class.
‘It’s a very shameful thing…’
Still, the shaking doesn’t stop.
The reason is the professor who will soon be joining this class. The awe and fear of that person increases day by day.
A professor who crushed a traitor’s skull with his bare hands.
A professor who fought with the Royal Guard and the Hound.
By pure coincidence, Lark watched those two events from close range. And then I had a hunch.
Professor of Mana’s basic trading class.
Rania van Trias.
That it should never go beyond her eyes.
“·····.”
Lark trembled, shook his shoulders, and grabbed his writing utensil. He took a deep breath and gathered his nerves. That was Lark’s way of focusing.
‘I have to concentrate…!’
If you want to follow a class of mind-boggling difficulty without missing a beat, you need to prepare to this extent.
“Uhm…”
That’s when I was looking at the workbook intently.
-Drur.
The door to the classroom opens, and Professor Rania enters the classroom. Students become silent and silence comes to the classroom.
“·····.”
Lark slightly raised his head.
At that moment, I made eye contact with Professor Rania, who was passing by. She looked at Lark and tilted her head slightly.
Even though we were facing each other head on, Lark did not turn his head like usual.
‘Something···.’
Lark feels uncomfortable.
‘Something different?’
Something is different.
It’s hard to put into words, but it didn’t feel the same as usual. Normally, he would have looked a little more calm and distant…
‘Not now.’
It feels like something is unfamiliar.
Lark tilted his head.
2.
Rania van Trias.
She has only given classes twice while standing at the podium. One of them was even given as a public lecture, so it is difficult to count it as one of her classes.
Class conducted normally.
That’s just one class in two weeks.
And, that one class left a strong impression on the students. Either in a good way or in a bad way.
-After taking the class, I think I realized something.
-I learned something. I learned it, but…
-This is a class where you can gain something. There is, but…
The evaluation of her class was generally like that. It’s subtle. It is definitely of a high standard, but if you ask whether it is a good class, it is not.
-It’s crazy difficult.
-I don’t know what I heard. I did understand something, but… no, did I understand it right? Actually, I don’t know.
-scary. Those eyes are very scary. That kind of look in your eyes as if you can do it, but why can’t you do it?
A very high level.
A professor who takes it for granted.
and.
-The assignment was crazy.
-Ten sheets of worksheets, I wonder if this is worth it…
Crazy amount of work.
I wonder if someone is the teacher or the student, and even a sense of malice is felt in a task that takes care of both quality and quantity.
Is it because I have personally experienced that task?
‘What else are you planning to give us this time…’
The students sigh inwardly as they see Professor Rania coming in with a pile of paper.
widely.
She put the paper down on the table and opened her mouth.
“Nice to meet you.”
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A short greeting.
“A few days ago, in Professor Rossell’s class, you learned about the relationship between circuits and stars, right? You must have learned about the stability circuit that connects two constraints…”
Next, Rossel’s class is briefly summarized.
Students feel a little uncomfortable in that tone.
“Today, I would like to teach you about the stability circuit in a little more detail. “Professor Rossell was unable to show us the parts due to time constraints.”
Something is different from the last class.
The tone is strangely gentle.
‘···Something.’
Students feel it.
‘Something different?’
There are students who are straining their backs and widening their eyes, remembering the last class. They were the first to feel a sense of discomfort.
Something is different.
I have such a vague question.
That question lasts for a moment.
“Then, let’s start class now.”
“Okay,” Rania clapped.
The papers piled up on the podium fly to the students’ seats. The movement is constant.
What kind of study material is this again?
With that in mind, the students looked at the paper they had been given. And then, he tilted his head.
‘···blank?’
Nothing is written.
Eventually, Rania opens her mouth.
“What I have just handed out is a circuit record sheet. All you have to do is record the best circuit you can engrave.”
The students’ eyes widen when they hear the word record sheet.
The circuit recorder is an expensive magical tool known to be used only in magic associations.
The students carefully smoothed out the paper.
I am amazed by the material.
Soon, the students began to engrave circuits on the recording paper one by one. The process is not complicated.
Think of the circuit you want to engrave in your head.
If you have ever drawn the circuit, the recording paper records the circuit based on that memory and experience.
“Take your time. There is no need to infuse mana. Just thinking about it is enough.”
Professor Rania passes among the students and helps those who are unfamiliar with the records.
Just for a moment.
Each student completes the recording of the circuit. As Aplia Academy is a gathering of outstanding wizards, most of the recorded circuits are upper-level circuits.
“excuse me···.”
“That’s a top-class circuit, scorching heat…”
Among them, there are students who have carved top-level circuits.
A subtle gaze falls on Resty, a girl with purple hair sitting quietly in a corner.
“If it’s all engraved.”
Rania snaps her fingers.
“From now on, think about what spell is contained in the engraved circuit and what characteristics that spell has.”
What are the characteristics?
It is not difficult to answer that question. Knowing how to engrave a circuit means that you already know the spell well.
Students write explanations of their orders on the workbook distributed along with the recording sheet. It doesn’t take long. As I was recording it like that, I suddenly realized something.
‘Relaxing…?’
There is enough time to take notes.
After finishing their notes, the students glance at Professor Rania. She is looking at her watch with her arms crossed.
It’s quite different from last time, when I didn’t even have time to write down what was said. A minute or so after all of her students had finished taking her notes, she opened her mouth.
“Now then, let’s understand the ‘stability’ circuit applied to each circuit we carved.”
She tapped and touched the blackboard.
The magical power turns gray. Gray letters are embroidered on the blackboard. These are some of the constraint circuits we covered in the last class.
“The circuit you carved will contain at least one, or at most three, of these constraint circuits. From now on, you will be looking for it.”
The students tilt their heads.
‘suddenly?’
The circuit engraved on the recording paper is messy. Even if you can’t do it, dozens or hundreds of lines and curves are intertwined. This is true even if you separate out the stability circuit.
‘But you want me to find the constraint circuit here?’
I have just realized that the constraint circuit is applied to the spell. But you’re looking for a circuit all of a sudden?
The students just stare blankly at the paper and the blackboard. As if it were a hidden object game.
“hmm.”
As if she had expected that reaction, Rania opened her mouth.
“Just do it…”
Cover your mouth instead of speaking.
Then, after briefly clearing his throat, he spoke again.
“It is easy to find by considering the characteristics of the order. “Let me give you an example.”
She lifts up the circuit engraved by Lark, who was sitting in the front seat. It is a circuit for an advanced striking spell, point-breakthrough.
“What is special about this circuit? Lakh students.”
“It pierces quickly.”
“yes?”
“Quickly penetrates enemy lines.”
Lark speaks confidently.
Rania thought about the answer for a moment, then opened her mouth again.
“I’m asking about the characteristics of the spell, not its effects.”
“yes?”
It looks like he doesn’t understand.
“···What is the difference between the one-point breakthrough spell and the intermediate spell Breakthrough?”
“Oh, I’m only specifying one part. “It has more power than a breakthrough.”
Rania nodded.
“Yes, specifying a range and breaking through it. That’s the advantage of this circuit. So what you found was a specific constraint circuit?”
Lark nods his head repeatedly.
“But there can’t be just one constraint. There’s more. “It’s better to think of your order in more detail.”
Rania touches the circuit.
Her mana surrounds the circuit and reproduces the circuit in the air. Everyone looks at the circuit.
“You shouldn’t think of orders in isolation. There is something I would like to have you produce. “Let’s imagine that we have to explain it with this circuit.”
Thin fingers move.
“What’s needed is to unclog it. So what is there to think about here?”
Spread out five fingers.
And then fold them one by one.
“What will we break through? In what form will it be pierced? How far will it penetrate? “At what speed will it penetrate?”
He points to his remaining finger and says:
“And how much will it cost to manufacture this tool?”
It’s easy if you think about it.
Saying that, she continues her explanation.
“Let’s make it as soon as possible. What I’m doing from now on, you won’t be able to copy it. Looking at the curriculum, it seems that you only learn it in the third or final year. For now, just know that there is a way.”
She flicks her wrist up and down briefly.
Then, draw your finger horizontally.
“A circuit is ultimately a sum of order languages. A circuit is a schematic diagram of the order language. The schematic spell language is called Rune.”
Letters rise along her fingers.
Students recognize the first letter that comes to mind. However, the letter quickly changes its appearance.
An unknown pattern engraved on the circuit.
With such patterns, the letters are reversed.
“You may have simply memorized the circuit. That’s not wrong. It would be very difficult to schematize the spell language into runes. Memorize it first and teach its meaning later. “It is an efficient teaching method.”
Patterns continue to pour in.
“But, you’ve probably heard it at least once.”
Fire, the letter representing the most basic element is curved. turns into a pattern.
Subsequently, the spell language called Start is also changed to a pattern. This is the spell language I often used when I was young, learning the process of casting spells.
The two patterns are combined. The circuit thus revealed is something they are well aware of.
Ignite.
“Okay,” Rania snaps her fingers.
The starlight in a flame the size of a finger burns softly. Everyone looks at the flames as if they are possessed by something.
“A circuit is ultimately a transaction letter sent to the stars.”
I’ve heard of it.
This is a sentence written on the first page of the educational book. However, it is a sentence that no one tried to understand.
There is just something like that.
Because it was a sentence written with that feeling.
“A circuit is like a transaction book for dealing with the stars. “I want this, I’ll pay this much, so give me what it says on the transaction.”
She explains the sentence.
“What should be most clear in a transaction? “What do I want to receive and how much should I pay?”
She points to the new characters that came to mind.
“Then, as I said before, let’s create a circuit to break through one point. “For now, don’t think about the cost.”
Move your fingers.
Characters come to mind.
“First of all, breaking one point is a batting order.”
Damage.
“And it’s the type of spell that delivers shock.”
Shock.
“The impact will be straight.”
Straight.
“It has to be sharp so it can pierce well, right?”
Sharp.
“The speed must be fast and heavy.”
Acceleration.
Weight.
“Anyway, it’s a breakthrough.”
Breakthrough.
“Piercing through one point.”
One point.
“Then, it looks like this.”
Incantation languages are transformed into patterns.
They are mixed together. are arranged.
So, the circuit is completed.
The completed raw circuit is similar to the circuit drawn by Lark. Similar but different.
“This circuit is trash. It’s just something that came to mind. If it appears like this, it will bounce in all directions and pierce the caster as well, right?”
She pays attention to the difference.
“So, we put restrictions here to stabilize it. First, let’s specify the direction and lower the cost by lowering the power a little.”
Certain, Reduction.
“Still, it’s a bit confusing, isn’t it? I feel uneasy about something. So, let’s refine it a little more.”
Restrictions are added one after another.
The students look at it blankly. Languages, such as the spell words written on the blackboard, turn into patterns and melt into circuits.
“Then, it will be completed like this.”
The completed circuit matches the circuit drawn by Lark.
Students saw the entire process.
feel something
Something that seems impossible to catch is fluttering before my eyes.
It is an inspiration that has not yet developed into enlightenment. A flash that never became yours. I can get the rough outline, but I can’t hold onto it.
In the previous class, I ended up not being able to grasp it.
But this class is different.
“Of course, it is difficult to convert the spell language into runes and draw a circuit like this. Even the wizards of the Magic Tower who create new spells are unfamiliar with this.”
Rania opens her mouth.
“I don’t want this from you right now. There is no need to learn runes here. “I’m just saying, let’s make the order concrete as if it were a transaction table.”
“Then you will see the shortcomings, and what will make up for those shortcomings will be the constraint circuit.”
Students nod their heads slowly.
But the expression is subtle.
I feel like I’m getting a feel for it, but I can’t put it into action yet. He was just blankly looking at the text and the circuit he had drawn.
“hmm.”
Seeing that, Rania smiles bitterly.
But it doesn’t say anything else.
Let’s go.
All they do is clap and gather the students’ attention.
“It would be difficult to follow right away. So, let me help you today.”
Eventually, the circuit the students carved floated in the air.
It wasn’t the students who floated it. This is the work of Professor Rania, who saw it at a glance and immediately reproduced it.
There is no time for students to be surprised.
She bends her index finger. She pulled the circuit. The circuit is dismantled. The disassembly process is simple and there is no waste.
We don’t just dismantle it.
The circuit is dismantled according to established rules and laws.
The circuit thus dismantled is dismantled once again.
The twisted pattern is the correct rune.
Runes return to being a spell language.
Students watch the process.
I stare blankly at the circuit being dismantled before my eyes and restored to its original meaning.
It’s like watching the process of a line of sentence written without much thought being divided into words, and the words being separated into syllables.
And then it is put back together again.
The completed sentence is the same as the first, but the students’ perspective on it is not the same as the first.
They saw ‘how’ the things they had memorized were organized and organized.
Something flashes.
There are those who reach for it.
A sparkle reaches my fingertips.
Examples don’t show everything.
Space was left for the students to fill in on their own. And one by one, they start filling that empty piece.
“ah.”
Someone sighs.
The lament continues. As if they realized something, they slowly draw the constraint circuit.
There is a difference between slow and fast.
However, there is no one who does not attain enlightenment.
Every student gains enlightenment.
Hold the fan and transfer enlightenment.
Enlightenment becomes letters and fills the blank page.
That’s how time passes.
It feels like dozens of hours have passed. However, when students finished taking notes and checked their watches, only a few minutes had passed.
After finishing recording, students look around.
A light shines in the eyes of the students who are recording. It is the light I see for the first time. And, it would be the light that he had been carrying until just now.
Immersion.
Students were immersed and experienced immersion.
As people began to wake up one by one from their immersion, the professor standing on the podium opened his mouth.
“hmm.”
I briefly cleared my throat.
She continued speaking slowly.
“I don’t want this from you. Runes are a very difficult concept, so it may be difficult to get used to them right away. What I want to tell you is…”
She extends her hand.
I scan the runes floating around with my fingertips.
“Just the circuits you memorized.”
The letters became a spell language, then a circuit, and then back again as runes.
“Even the most basic things, like meaningless patterns and unique lines and curves.”
Tap, and touch the text.
The starlight hidden deep within the letters twinkles.
“The stars were there.”
she smiles
“I just want you to know that.”
Dang, daeng.
As soon as she finishes speaking, the bell rings, signaling the end of class.
“I’ll stop here.”
She leaves with the bell ringing.
“·····.”
There is silence in the classroom.
Even though class is over, no one leaves. With eyes as if possessed by something, he sees what he has written.
It is enlightenment.
He caught the flash and made it his own.
Students remaining in the classroom have different impressions from previous classes.
I learned something.
That you clearly understood the class.
So, he made it his own.
What I feel is a sense of fulfillment.
Young wizards will never forget the immersion they felt now. I think back to the moment when I was briefly touched by brilliance.
That way, they learn.
A word from the author (author review)
The original copyright of this class belongs to King Sejong the Great.
Decomposition of morphemes, something like that, I remembered what I learned so I tried using it 😀
I thought a lot.
I feel like I need to clean things up and move on at least once, and I wanted to try something like this.
Actually, magic is a very vague concept, right? I’ve heard it a lot somewhere, and when I read fantasy novels, it often pops up, and magic circles appear often.
And there are also runes.
It’s familiar, but the settings are different for each worldview, so what’s the point of governing as one?
So, I organized it the way I wanted!
I hope readers enjoy reading it.
* Over 9,000 characters…
As I wrote, I kept thinking, hehe, I have to write this and that, and the length has grown.
