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“Ahahahahaha!”
Laughter echoed through the cafe terrace at the Pavilion of Beginnings.
Celia, who was holding her stomach and laughing, convulsed and wiped the tears from her eyes.
“so? “You left magic class after barely solving one problem?”
“Did everyone laugh?”
Leo, with a sullen expression, drank fruit juice.
“So what did I say? “You said there was no use taking magic classes, right?”
Celia calmed down her laughter and raised her teacup and said.
“If you are a Gerdinger, you should focus on swordsmanship.”
“I’m not Gerdinger.”
“If the person who is learning the Phoenix Breath is not a Gerdinger, then what is it?”
Celia looked at Leo with a puzzled expression and sipped her tea.
“Anyway, you’re free until afternoon class, right? “Do you want to train with me?”
“Then should we do some physical training?”
“… … !”
Celia’s face became thoughtful.
For anyone else, Leo’s physical training was close to torture.
Celia smiled awkwardly, remembering the hellish week on Plov Street.
“I’m going to practice swordsmanship…” … .”
“Surely you won’t take it out?”
Leo smiled brightly.
“How disappointed will Uncle Jis be when he hears that you ran away because you were scared of physical training?”
“hey! “Is this how you get revenge for teasing me about going to magic class, you shameful bastard?”
Celia was shocked as she looked at her evil smiling cousin.
“Come on, let’s train hard.”
“no. “Let go of this.”
This was when Celia was scared and struggling towards Leo, who was holding her back and going to the training ground.
“hey! Leo!”
Carl came running in a huff.
“What’s going on? “What about class?”
“Professor Ren is looking for you.”
Celia’s face lit up.
“The professor is looking for you, Leo. “Go quickly.”
“Why are you looking for me?”
“You aced the magic theory test.”
“what?”
Leo and Celia looked surprised.
Panting – Carl, out of breath, continued speaking urgently.
“The class is going crazy right now! “The professor got really angry because the kid who came in first didn’t come to class!”
***
When Karl returned to the main lecture room with Leo, the atmosphere in the lecture room was cold.
The eyes of the students who passed the exam were focused on Leo as he entered the classroom door.
At that gaze, Leo made a momentary expression.
‘What’s wrong with the atmosphere?’
“Student Leo, where did you go when you didn’t come to class?”
When Ren’s associate professor Anna asked quietly, Leo smiled awkwardly and answered.
“I was at a cafe.”
“You said classes would start right after the exam, right? Why in a cafe… … .”
Clap- Clap- Clap- Clap-
Then suddenly I heard applause.
Professor Ren approached with a smile.
“Student Leo! I am truly amazed by your genius. You don’t even touch on the easy problems, and only choose and solve the most difficult problems before leaving class. ha ha ha! Well, to a genius, the test I gave might have seemed trivial. “I can do that even more since I majored in knight science!”
The face was smiling, but the eyes were extremely murderous.
Knights and wizards have had a rivalry for a long time.
Just looking at the Rodren Empire, one of the most powerful human nations right now, politics is divided into the knight faction and the magic faction, led by Jerdinger and Lwalin.
Even among Rumern students, there are extremists who consider their field to be the best.
Therefore, the fact that a freshman representative known to be interested in knighthood entered the magic major class and submitted a blank paper except for one of the most difficult problems was enough to create a misunderstanding.
Plus, Leo didn’t even come back to class after leaving.
Leo said urgently.
“Professor, I think there is some misunderstanding.”
“misunderstanding?”
“I thought I failed the exam. “I didn’t even know I won first place.”
Professor Ren narrowed his eyes at those words and looked straight at Leo’s face.
Although Professor Ren was by far the youngest among the Rumeren professors, he was not so gentle that the new students who entered the school could be fooled.
‘I don’t think it’s a lie. But why haven’t we solved the other problems?’
“I need to have a quick meeting with student Leo. Associate Professor Anna. “Take over the class for me.”
“I understand, Professor.”
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Professor Anna bowed her head and stood at the podium.
Professor Ren took Leo to the class preparation room at the back of the classroom.
“Why didn’t you solve the other test questions?”
“that is… … .”
Leo hesitated.
“Did you think the problem was too easy to be worth solving?”
“That’s not it… … that… … .”
Leo, who was rolling his eyes here and there, muttered to himself.
‘Oh, I’m embarrassed. ‘Do I have to tell you that I, who was an archmage in my past life, couldn’t solve something that even teenagers can solve?’
But you can’t lie.
If things continued like this, school life could have been ruined.
In the end, Leo answered in a hushed voice.
“I thought the problem was so difficult that I couldn’t solve it?”
“what?”
You solve the most difficult problem, but you can’t solve the other problems because they’re too difficult? What kind of nonsense is this?
“I studied magic on my own at home, but the only things I had at home were very old magic books. So I only studied old formulas. I had no idea magic techniques could be so complicated these days. “Like the professor said, I felt like I was taking the magic major with a very complacent mind, so I couldn’t come to class because I was embarrassed.”
After saying that, he asked with a puzzled look on his face.
“But what do you mean I’m first place? “I only solved one problem?”
‘So, I couldn’t solve the summation problem because I didn’t know the structure of the activation spell… … Are you saying that you gave up on solving it and only solved the last problem?’
After hearing the explanation, I understood to some extent.
Certainly, if you taught yourself using an old magic book, you may not know the activation formula.
Although the activation formula is the latest trend, it is not a technique with a long history.
‘It’s not impossible if you’ve only studied magic interpretation.’
Professor Ren took a piece of chalk and wrote a magic spell on the blackboard in the preparation room.
“Let’s solve this. Then I will believe what student Leo says. And I’ll tell you why student Leo came in first place.”
As my anger subsided, I became interested.
The younger generation is sensitive to trends.
It is no exaggeration to say that the activation formula has already become deeply rooted among young wizards and has become a mainstream rather than a trend.
In that sense, Leo can be said to be behind the times in some way.
However, there is a strength that cannot be found in today’s generation of wizards.
‘That’s a solid basic base. The basis of magic is ultimately the ability to interpret spells.’
Trees with strong roots eventually grow large, even if their growth is slow.
Professor Ren predicted that Leo would already be building ‘his own magical world.’
There is only one correct answer when it comes to mathematical interpretation, but there are multiple paths to the correct answer.
I became very interested in how this type of student, rarely seen in today’s generation, thinks about solving magic tricks.
If you look at the process of solving a spell, you can also learn about the magician’s magic philosophy.
‘Let’s take a look and see what kind of interpretation method was used.’
I saw the back of Leo standing in front of the blackboard with his eyes shining.
Leo stretched out his hand to the blackboard while silently looking at the problem Professor Ren had given.
Percussion-! widely! widely!
Professor Ren couldn’t help but shiver every time the sound of chalk rang out.
Leo, who had finished writing down the correct answers, turned his head.
Professor Ren could not see Leo’s solution method.
“You solved everything?”
This is because Leo solved a complex magic formula using mental calculations.
***
‘Why doesn’t this guy come out?’
Associate Professor Anna looked toward the lecture preparation room with a puzzled expression.
Caution or eviction.
I expected that any outcome would be concluded quickly, but it took longer than expected.
Among the Lumern magic professors, the one who was more passionate about magic than anyone else was Professor Ren.
Although he is not famous internationally, he is a man praised as a genius in the magic world.
Anna also read his magic thesis and came to respect him, so she applied to become an associate professor.
‘My image was damaged after I became an associate professor.’
The normally gentle man would engage in all sorts of eccentricities whenever magic was involved.
bang-!
And as if responding to Anna’s concerns, the lecture preparation room door opened roughly.
The students were astonished.
After seeing Professor Ren’s face, Associate Professor Anna looked at the ceiling and lamented.
‘I’m having seizures again. Please don’t act obscenely in front of new students.’
But fortunately, Professor Ren left the classroom immediately.
Leo slowly came out of the lecture preparation room.
“What did the professor say, Leo?”
“They told me to take a class.”
“Yes, please take a seat. “I will teach again.”
Associate Professor Anna picked up the chalk without paying any attention.
The students’ faces became strange.
A professor who suddenly storms out of the classroom during the first class, or an associate professor who doesn’t pay any attention to such a professor.
Something was strange.
Unlike those students, Leo reacted calmly.
Of course, Leo couldn’t figure out why Professor Ren did that.
‘But how many days or two have wizards been acting like idiots?’
Leo understood the creature called a wizard better than anyone else.
***
bang-!
The door to the magic building’s teacher’s office opened roughly.
The professors who were working raised their heads.
After seeing Professor Ren’s face, they focused on their work again with a willing expression.
“Seniors!”
Professor Albee turned his head with an expressionless face.
“thank you! Seniors! “You gave me a great gift!”
Professor Albee grabbed the face of the running junior and threw it aside like he was taking out trash.
And I left the teacher’s office without any regrets.
Because I know that being involved with Professor Ren is tiring.
Professor Ren, who had fallen to the floor, jumped up from his seat and followed Professor Albee out.
“Why are you like that today?”
“Leave it alone, it’s just for a day or two.”
Fellow professors also reacted calmly.
“Seniors! “I will give it a try soon.”
“I’d like to hear the reason for all the fuss.”
When Professor Albee asked his junior who suddenly expressed his gratitude, Professor Ren grinned.
“Leo Plov was recommended by my senior as the class representative.”
“Why that kid?”
“Student Leo is a magical genius.”
“… … ? “That kid is a knight major?”
“no. Leo students must come to the Department of Magic.”
Professor Ren spread his arms.
“That kind of magic genius from the Department of Knights? Oh. Oh. There are no jokes like that. That child is not a vessel to be wielded. “Sending a student like that to major in chivalry is an insult to magic, senior.”
Afterwards, Professor Ren explained what happened during the first class, spitting out words.
After hearing the whole story, Professor Albee also looked surprised.
“Seniors! That Leo student taught himself the magic interpretation skills of a 5th grade level! “If this isn’t genius, what is?”
“What do you want from me?”
Professor Ren, who asked the question bluntly, smiled meaningfully.
“Senior, please do your best to ensure that student Leo chooses the Department of Magic.”
“The choice of department is up to the student, and if he is that talented, he will choose magic without me having to tell him.”
“I guess so.”
Professor Ren gave an expression of understanding.
“Even if you have that much talent, you’d be a weirdo if you didn’t choose magic.”
“I don’t think that’s what you want to say.”
***
Time has passed since the new students entered school.
Before we knew it, it was the last day of the temporary school day.
after school.
The students were each sitting in their classrooms.
Now students choose a major and begin classes in earnest.
Although the students did not know, homeroom teachers had already been assigned to each class.
The teaching assistant in charge of supervising students during the temporary class period began to explain.
“From now on, we will start selecting departments and registering for classes. As I already explained, there are no elective liberal arts classes in the first semester of the first year. “The timetable is filled with all required subjects.”
From classes needed as a hero such as combat and heroism to language, math, history, etiquette, and morals.
There were a total of seven subjects that students in the class took, and the timetable was set.
In the meantime, I had to sign up for major classes.
Class 5 students quickly filled out department application documents and course registration schedules.
The teaching assistant stood at the teacher’s table and carefully checked the documents brought by the students.
And when he accepted the last document, he paused for a moment.
“Student Leo?”
“Your assistant teacher.”
“You wrote your major wrong. “I wrote down three majors.”
The assistant smiled kindly and returned the documents.
Leo said, handing the document back to the assistant.
“No, I applied properly.”
“yes?”
“I will take all three majors.”
At that moment, the eyes of the classmates were focused on Leo.
Leo said calmly.
“I’m in all classes.”
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