Episode 149. Special Class at Dawn (3)
Suddenly, the door beyond the transparent ceiling opened with a sound. It was Oscar. Before he could even reveal himself, he let out a sigh so loud it felt like the ground was collapsing.
“Whew… I’m so tired I could die.”
Oscar threw his books onto the bed and fell down. He turned around belatedly and discovered Rubin.
“Huh? When did you come?”
Oscar looked around. He was looking for the mana ball, the only medium between the two rooms. He was about to throw the mana ball with more force than ever.
“Where are you? Miss, where are you? Where are you?”
Managu was in Rubin’s hand. This time, Rubin threw the managu first. Wheeeeeek.
“Oscar, how have you been?”
Tak, Oscar’s expression after receiving the Managu becomes slightly sinister.
The condition for Managu’s throw is to inject more mana than when it was received. It seemed that Oscar was also determined, perhaps because he was happy to see his friend after a long time.
“How was it! How did you feel about going to prison?”
What is a prison cell?
Rubin looked at the mana ball flying towards him. It was a pitch aimed straight at his face. He tried to take it, but changed his mind and dodged it.
Because it contained terrifying mana.
‘Oscar is growing up too.’
Oscar’s Mana is by far the best among this year’s freshmen class, which is full of promising prospects.
If Rubin grows properly, he will be able to reach the end of his potential without having to break the chain of awakening.
Up until now, only the cadets of Class C had been keeping an eye on it, but who knows when word of Oscar might reach the Imperial Guard.
If he devoted even half of his talkative personality to showing off his Mana skills, it would only be a matter of time before his name would leak out of the school.
‘I need to get the edicts off Oscar as soon as possible.’
Hudda!
Oscar, who had been exhausted until he entered the room, jumped up and ran out the door. The shouting of Srehim, who did not allow him to run around, could be heard straight through the transparent ceiling. However, the boy did not care.
“Hey, Luden! Tell me about prison!”
After that, Rubin was plagued by Oscar’s chatter for a while.
* * *
That evening.
While the animals of the Srehim family were walking around and counting the number of people, an unexpected guest came to see Rubin.
The one who had entered Rubin’s room earlier was Headmaster Srehim, but there was someone else who had a different purpose for visiting. A voice came from behind the headmaster.
“Cadet Luden, how was your trip?”
“Professor Benitez.”
Benitez was carrying his luggage on his back, his expression beaming. He seemed satisfied that Rubin had been investigated safely.
“I came here to talk for a moment. I have permission from the headmaster, so if it’s okay, let’s talk here.”
Professor Benitez placed his hand on the back of the chair and nodded, asking permission to sit there. Rubin nodded.
“Oh my, Professor! What are you doing here?”
Just then, Oscar’s voice echoed from the ceiling. Benitez looked up to see Oscar and smiled awkwardly.
“Oh, Cadet Oscar. I have something to say to Cadet Luden, so please excuse me for a moment.”
“What kind of special privileges are you going to give to Luden again!”
“Special treatment? This is about the handling of classes I couldn’t attend because I was under investigation.”
“ah.”
At those words, Oscar’s expression suddenly crumpled. It seemed that Oscar hadn’t been particularly pleasant to recall the past week of back-to-back classes in Movement Magic.
Come to think of it, when we were chatting earlier, I said it with a lot of excitement. It was my first time taking such a ‘body-squeezing’ class.
“Oh, this is ‘Managu’? When I was a student, I was in a different dormitory, so I couldn’t try it even if I wanted to.”
Benitez grabbed the mana ball that was on the desk. With a kind smile, he concentrated the mana inside the mana ball. Then, he leaned back and looked up at Oscar.
“Okay, Oscar Cadet!”
At the same time, he threw it. Watching the mana ball slipping out of the professor’s hand, Rubin realized once again that his homeroom professor was a magician of considerable skill.
The name ‘Benitez’ became known in the wizarding community not only for his research results in the study of movement magic.
Swoosh.
Oscar was no pushover either. He eagerly reached out and took Managu head-on.
Pfft!
Then he opened his eyes wide and looked down at his hands. It was more than just a chill; it was a force that temporarily made him lose feeling.
“Wow, Professor! This is no joke!”
Naturally, Oscar couldn’t throw the mana ball back here, meaning he couldn’t overcome the mana Benitez had concentrated.
Now that he could focus on his original purpose, Benitez smiled again, his lips pursed.
“Since Cadet Luden has not been able to attend classes for two weeks, we plan to split up our time to provide supplementary lessons.”
“Yes, I wanted to do that too, Professor.”
“That’s fortunate. The Magic of Movement is actually not that popular. There were quite a few dropouts in class last week.”
“I’m looking forward to it. It’s been an area of interest to me from the beginning.”
Almost simultaneously, the two recalled the same scene. The day before the entrance ceremony, when they had met as a ‘hidden merchant’ and a ‘freshman’.
Until then, Benitez had never thought that Rubin was a magician, and simply thought of him as a new student with great magical talent.
“At that time, I thought that Cadet Luden was a master of movement magic.”
“I had no intention of deceiving you.”
“I still can’t believe it, when I think about it, that it was a purely physical movement.”
Benitez had seen drones many times before. Even considering that they were magic drones, Rubin’s movements felt unrealistic.
“Anyway. If the movements you showed at the lake back then weren’t magic, I think it would be worth teaching you.”
“When and where will the supplementary lessons be held?”
“That’s what I was going to talk about. I’ll have classes in the morning and afternoon, so the only time I’ll have is evening… … .”
No, that wasn’t necessarily the case.
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“Actually, I’m fine even before the wake-up time. If the professor gets permission from the principal, I can take a little class before everyone else wakes up.”
“It must be pitch-black in the morning? Hmm… … .”
But Benitez’s worries did not last long. It was a method that satisfied him as well.
“Do you mind if it’s five in the morning?”
Rubin nodded. It would be nice if he could learn the wave attack and the wave attack.
“Okay, I’ll talk to the headmaster about it separately. When would be a good time to start classes… .”
Since it was a matter of increasing combat capabilities, the sooner the better. For the battle with Rosenthaler… … .
“How about starting tomorrow?”
“Starting tomorrow? Hoo.”
Benitez smiled with satisfaction at Rubin’s bold words.
It was the moment when I got the highest authority in movement magic as my teacher.
* * *
As Rubin suggested, Benitez’s supplementary lessons in movement magic began the very next day.
Four thirty in the morning.
Rubin opened his closed eyes. It was time to go to the supplementary class. The first class had started exactly seven hours after the professor had come to set the class time the night before.
“… … .”
Looking through the transparent ceiling, Oscar was asleep, wrapped in a blanket, and so were the other cadets.
In the dormitory at dawn, everyone was in a deep sleep. Rubin walked alone through the quiet hallway.
The beasts of Srehim on guard would crane their necks and look at Rubin as he passed, but they were not wary. This meant that Benitez had spoken to the Srehim warden.
After that, Rubin headed to the principal’s office. The place he had been called to with Oscar on the first day he entered the Rhapsody Hall.
‘This is a temporary classroom where supplementary lessons will be held.’
Since it was still dawn and Rubin was doing it alone, Srehim agreed to give supplementary lessons on the condition that the lessons would be held only in the principal’s office.
Creak.
A place where a wide grassland spread out due to ‘space expansion’. When Rubin opened the door and went in, nocturnal beasts were running around busily. Superintendent Srehim was nowhere to be seen.
“Wow, what a quiet guy.”
Benitez’s soliloquy could be heard from one side. As I approached the direction from which the voice had come, I saw the professor observing the giraffe with interest from behind a large rock.
“Hello, professor.”
“Oh, Cadet Luden! As expected, you’re not late.”
“It’s Professor Benitez’s special class, but it’s a waste of time.”
Rubin showed his determination to get serious about the lesson. He put aside the wizard robes he had been wearing out of courtesy and stood opposite Benitez in an active outfit.
At the same time, he instantly extended an aggressive dark smoke and drove the struggling giraffe away.
In a jiffy.
“… He’s gone. But there’s still some time left until five o’clock… … .”
Rubin’s eyes were so serious. Professor Benitez had no idea that it was Rubin who had been chasing the giraffe.
In the end, the professor shrugged and began the class. He couldn’t turn down an enthusiastic student.
“First of all, it’s too dark here right now… … .”
Benitez set up a certain area around the two people. Then, he cast a simple spell. The area was filled with light.
The nearby beasts, startled by the light, all ran away to the other side of the meadow.
The next moment.
‘It’s a whirlwind.’
The shape of Samhwi’s sword appeared in his field of vision. The speed at which the sword was drawn was very slow, so that Rubin could see it clearly.
“Would you like to know what kind of magical spell this is?”
“… It’s a break.”
The shape of the flag is a right triangle, with the longest side pointing to the 11 o’clock direction.
“Yes, that’s right. It’s a basic attack magic of the air series, Wave.”
According to the classification of the spells, the spell was classified as an attack spell, as Benitez said.
However, several years ago, Benitez published a personal paper titled ‘A Study on the Magic of Movement in Wave’, and thanks to this, a new way of using Wave spread widely throughout the continent. There is already a school of thought that classifies Wave as a movement magic rather than an attack magic.
‘… Is the breakpoint being cast now?’
This is because the slow-moving Whisik has finally stopped.
In the darkness, my senses were heightened to the max, and I felt a part of the air coagulate. That point was right in the middle, where Rubin and Benitez were standing facing each other.
Passssss.
A portion of the air condensed into a ball, which then began to rapidly contract. It was all thanks to the smoke that I could sense all of this.
And the next moment.
The breach was triggered with a fairly loud noise.
pop!
Swoosh.
Rubin didn’t take a defensive stance because it wasn’t a threat. It was harmless, but he couldn’t help but get pushed back by the explosion of air.
On the other side, Benitez was also pushed back. In the end, the distance that the two were pushed back was about 3 meters each.
However, the two men’s attitudes were different. Rubin looked like he was being attacked by surprise, while Benitez looked closer to a soft floating.
“This is ‘Pagog’. It’s a magic that temporarily compresses and bursts the air floating around. The current one has almost no power. If you cast this as an attack magic, it’s a different story.”
Rubin nodded.
As an offensive magic, Burst compresses and bursts a part of the air, including the enemy’s body.
In this way, the enemy takes physical damage as if they were in contact with an invisible landmine magic.
‘However, even the most skilled warriors would read the flow of air and twist their bodies right before the attack is triggered.’
On the other hand, the break of the path as a movement magic has a completely different ‘casting point’. It is cast by targeting the void that is in contact with the body, not the body itself.
Rubin, with his heavily forged senses of 5-star dark smoke, can feel the air coagulating in front of him, but it would be difficult to detect that small gap with just his aura, not dark smoke.
“By compressing the void that does not contain the body, you can move the body with that explosive force.”
“Yes. Right now, I just detonated it in one shot. But what if I detonated one in front, calculated the distance it would be pushed back, and detonated it at the exact spot? And what if I did this process continuously?
“You will be constantly gaining momentum and be able to fly to wherever you want.”
“That’s right. That’s the principle of ‘Yeonpa-gong.’”
It sounds simple, but it really isn’t. If you don’t apply the right amount of pressure to the break, you’ll end up torturing yourself rather than moving your own body.
“From now on, Cadet Luden will be drawing the Whirlwind of Waves repeatedly. So many times that it’s almost boring.”
Rubin shrugged.
This is exactly what he wanted.
