#74. Rangers Restart (2)
“There are two things I want.”
“You’re too greedy. Let’s make it one.”
“Please listen first.”
Kane didn’t seem at all intimidated by Kaisel’s cold voice.
“First of all, first of all……”
Kane raised his finger.
“Please help Charlotte and Ingrid here obtain temporary ranger qualifications.”
“Temporary Ranger Qualification?”
Charlotte and Ingrid were startled.
I didn’t expect Kane to bring up something like this either.
“To officially become a Ranger, you have to take a test in the second half of the year. However, if the professor writes a letter of guarantee, you can receive a temporary Ranger license.”
“yes.”
“Since Senia and I are already qualified as temporary rangers, please write a letter of guarantee for Charlotte and Ingrid as well, just like you did with Eriol. We are a dungeon exploration club, so it can’t be the only ones who can’t enter the dungeon.”
Kane, Senia, and I are qualified to enter the dungeon at will.
However, Charlotte and Ingrid cannot enter without permission from the Academy.
“As your advisor, you can do that much, right?”
“I see.”
Kaisel nodded.
“Charlotte Strasbourg, Ingrid Wiesbaden… I remember both of you did well in the dungeon survival. Since you are qualified, I will write you a certificate.”
“Thank you, professor.”
“Go, thank you!”
Charlotte and Ingrid bowed their heads.
“Then what’s the second one?”
“I wish you could teach me something.”
“teaching?”
“Yes, in a practical way.”
Kane looked at Kaisel with a provocative gaze.
“I would like to receive practical teachings from Professor Kaisel.”
“…….”
Kaisel stared at Kane for a moment.
“Come to think of it, you’re from the Trigger family.”
“…….”
“Were you hiding your hunting dog nature?”
Kane was smiling, while Kaisel was expressionless.
But there was a tense atmosphere between the two.
“Okay, Cain Trigger.”
“Thank you. Then……”
“I will teach you.”
At that moment.
Kaisel remained still, but suddenly Kane’s body was thrown out.
“……!”
The window that was opened just a moment ago for ventilation.
Kane flew out that window.
“Cain?!”
Senia and the others hurriedly approached the window.
Immediately after that, a splash was heard as someone fell into the water.
“He crashed into a nearby pond. If it was Cain Trigger, he’d probably crawl out without any serious injuries.”
“Uncle……”
“I think this should be enough of a lesson for him.”
He deployed his spell at lightning speed and blew Kane out the window.
As expected, Kaisel… …is the wizard with the fastest magic deployment speed among all the wizards I’ve ever met.
“What is it, Eriol?”
Feeling my gaze, Kaisel looked at me.
“Do you want to be taught too?”
“no.”
I shook my head.
“I learned a lot just by watching from the side.”
“I see. So you ended up unintentionally giving extra compensation to me as well?”
“You gave Cain two rewards, so I think you’ve given me two rewards as well.”
“Okay, I guess this is the end anyway.”
After saying that, Kaisel left immediately, and Kane returned a while later.
Like a drowning rat.
“Each!”
Kane, who returned to the club room, sneezed repeatedly.
“Kane, are you okay? You might catch a cold.”
“You deserved it, because you treated Professor Kaisel that way.”
“You are very brave, Mr. Kane…….”
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Anyway, since I couldn’t just leave it alone, I dried the water with elemental magic.
But after I went into the pond and came out, I smelled something strange.
“Damn, I need to go back to the dorm and do the washing machine.”
“Okay, go quickly. It stinks.”
“Yes. I’d better wash it quickly so that it doesn’t smell.”
“That’s right. It stinks.”
“Ugh, that’s a smell that shouldn’t come from a pretty boy.”
“…….”
Kane’s face distorted as he was repeatedly pointed out.
“I keep hearing that I smell, so I feel like I’m being bullied by a group of people…….”
“Then you should go back quickly. We’ll take care of the cleaning here, so go and do your laundry.”
“Okay, got it.”
Kane scratched his head and tried to leave the club room.
But I didn’t miss it.
“…….”
For a moment, Kane’s eyes lit up with a frightening light.
‘I wonder if I gained something from being attacked by Uncle Kaisel.’
He had that look in his eyes the last time he fought Gareth Trigger.
Although he is usually a cheerful and bright boy, Kane is a descendant of the famous assassin family, the Trigger family. And he came to this academy to further develop his assassination skills.
I was reminded of that fact again.
‘What would happen if… … I were to fight Kane and risk my life?’
I suddenly imagined it.
The sight of Cain seriously trying to kill me.
It was a situation that was chilling just to imagine.
* * *
After Kane left, we looked at the data together.
The materials Joshua left behind also included final exam questions.
I suffered a lot of damage from that vampire, but thanks to that, I don’t think I’ll have to worry about past exam questions.
“But Eriol.”
“What is it?”
Charlotte said, checking the past exam questions.
“Are you sure it’s okay to share this?”
“Then you won’t share it?”
“You said you’d regain first place in the comprehensive evaluation in the final exam. You’d beat me, Senia, and even Monarch Orson.”
Because I missed the last exchange, I was demoted from the top spot in the overall evaluation.
Senia, who was the runner-up at the time, moved up to first place, and Charlotte and Monarch, who were in the semifinals, came in second and third place, respectively.
“You’re currently ranked 4th in the overall evaluation. If you really want to reclaim the top spot, you’ll need to score much higher than us.”
“so?”
“I’m saying that it wouldn’t have been better if you had all the past exam questions all to yourself.”
“…….”
Senia also stopped organizing the data and looked at me.
But I said calmly.
“I don’t want to get first place by doing things like that.”
“Eriol……”
“Even if I win first place like that, it doesn’t prove my ability.”
Yes, that’s right.
Kaisel also won’t evaluate the first place he took in that way.
“I will regain the top ranking in the overall evaluation in a way that everyone can agree on.”
“…….”
“…….”
Charlotte and Senia both looked at my face without saying a word.
Charlotte looked surprised, and Senia looked somehow pleased.
“Wow, Mr. Eriol. Isn’t he so cool? He’s so, so cool…….”
“I was just saying what I thought.”
“But it’s so cool!”
Meanwhile, Ingrid was hovering around me, fussing about something, as if she was obsessed with it.
“I’m glad you came here! I’ll be counting on you in the future, Mr. Eriol!”
“Wait a minute, Ingrid. Don’t cling so tightly to Eriol.”
“Yeah, yeah.”
Charlotte grabbed Ingrid’s arm and pulled her along, and Senia followed suit.
“Anyway, Eriol. So from now on, you’re only going to study for your finals? There’s still almost a month left until the finals.”
“The lecture is still in progress, and the real studying will take a little longer.”
“Then why don’t you try participating in the creative magic contest?”
“Creative Magic Contest?”
“It was posted on the bulletin board on the first floor earlier. Didn’t you see it?”
“Oh, I’ve heard of it!”
Ingrid chimed in from the side.
“It’s not reflected in the overall evaluation, but it’s a magic competition that clubs can participate in. I heard that they give out a portion of the club budget supported by the Academy as prize money.”
“Then the amount would seem to be quite large.”
“Yes. If we get that, it will be a great help to our club activities.”
“What should I do?”
“As the name suggests, it’s a competition of creative magic. The goal is to see who can come up with the most ingenious magic.”
“Isn’t that too subjective? How do you evaluate creativity?”
“They say that instead of one or two people evaluating, they vote in groups of a hundred. That’s why flashy and cool magic tends to be evaluated.”
“It’s a gorgeous and cool magic….”
It was so vague that I couldn’t really understand it.
Because I’ve never thought of magic from that perspective.
“Since other club seniors will also be participating, our chances of winning aren’t that high… but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to give it a try for experience.”
“I see. I should think about it too.”
“I’ll think about it too!”
If it’s about evaluating practicality, it might be worth a try… … How on earth should I prepare for this?
* * *
That night.
I was lost in thought in my dorm room.
Because I wanted to test my magical abilities.
‘Now that the Rangers have reassembled, we’ll be entering the dungeon again soon.’
During that time, I experienced various battles outside of the dungeon.
Since I don’t know what will happen in the future, I have to check in with myself frequently to see what I can do.
‘My main attack method right now is elemental magic.’
Among elemental magic, my specialty was fire magic that utilized the element of fire.
Although he used ice magic and gale magic, his main attack method was still fire magic. If he used throwing, shooting, and homing appropriately, he could deal with most situations.
‘And I’m also making good use of the dragon teeth summoned by the command magic.’
The Dragon Tooth Soldier Deathweiss, summoned by the command magic ‘Summon Dead’, was an important force for me.
Not only does it step forward and engage enemies in close combat, it also acts as a shield while I prepare my magic.
In situations where Kane or Senia are not available, you will have to rely heavily on Deathweiss.
‘I don’t have any use for biological magic during battle, but I’m still pretty good at using it.’
Although there is no opportunity to engage in direct melee combat using bio-enhancement magic, it is utilized effectively in various ways.
When you wander through a large dungeon like Labyrinthos, you will often need help with bio-magic.
‘Electromagnetic magic… …I haven’t learned it yet, so I need to study more.’
At this point, Helios is probably better at electromagnetic magic.
With my current skill level, it’s difficult to use either brain magic or magnetic magic in actual combat.
If you practice and refine your skills even more inside the Labyrinth, you will be able to get good grades on the final exam.
‘And, the optical magic is… … .’
I slowly composed the recipe in my head.
As the ritual was projected into reality, a faint photon was fired from the tip of the finger.
The power was suppressed because it could easily make a hole in the wall.
‘I still need more practice with light magic. Above all, the speed of forming the spell is too slow.’
I thought of Alexander, whom I had met at the exchange.
That guy was incredibly fast at shooting beams.
‘It’s important to focus the photons in one direction and make them fly… … but that’s difficult.’
If not focused properly, the light beam will scatter in many directions.
I need to create a single beam of light to pierce the enemy in front, and the process takes a lot of time.
How does Alexander focus his light so quickly?
‘but…….’
I made up an additional recipe in my head.
The resulting ‘mirror’ was placed in mid-air to reflect light in a different direction.
‘I can use the reflex technique skillfully.’
A while ago, I had the opportunity to briefly look through The Book of Light at the Deep Library.
I didn’t understand much of it because I read it in a hurry, but as a result, I was able to use this reflex technique.
‘I also returned Alexander’s beam attack with this.’
Constructing a reflection spell can be done faster than attacking with light magic.
Since you can adjust the reflected angle by adjusting the pressure angle, it is an effective counter to enemies that use light attacks.
‘Optical magic requires further study. But if we continue to examine the movement of photons with this kind of thing… … we will be able to understand it better.’
With that in mind, I practiced creating photons little by little and changing their angles using reflection magic.
Because it’s inside a room, just a little bit at a time, so as not to leave a hole in the wall.
“…….”
Create photons and reflect them.
Create photons and reflect them.
Create photons and reflect them.
Create photons, reflect them… … .
“……?”
When I was repeating like that.
A thought crossed my mind.
“Let’s stay still.”
I thought about it for a moment.
Now I have a proper understanding of reflection magic through the Book of Light.
If you utilize this… … .
“Is this possible?”
Magic you’ve never heard of.
That came to my mind.
If I can make this happen… … .
“A flashy and cool magic… I think it’s possible.”
An idea for a magic show to be held at the Creative Magic Contest came to mind.
