Re: Love & Magic

“All of you must have received basic knowledge about learning spells while you were slowly refining and purifying your Magic Eidos body in junior schools,” Touma-sir said with a faint smile.

Walking some steps with one hand behind his back and another holding the cane, Touma continued, “since you managed to get into the Academy, I take it that you all must have at least mastered one normal spell. Before Awakening your magic-type Labyrinth, I want you to show me your normal spells.”

“Vernisia,” Touma said, “since you became freshmen representative, then it means you scored the highest in the test. Let’s see your most powerful normal magic spell.”

Touma gestured for her to leave the student group and arrive in front of him, “use it against me.”

Vernisia nodded as she walked out and stood ten meters away from the homeroom teacher.

She took a deep breath and pointed her palm forward as it exuded mana. The mana soon turned into a two-meter long saber after condensation as she held the saber with her both hands.

“Mana Saber? Hoh, that must have taken at least 70% of your mana, but that B-rank spell shouldn’t be your most powerful one. Could it be…” Touma said as he rubbed his chin before gesturing with his hand as he beckoned towards her with his palm, “come on.”

Vernisia nodded, and the next thing did surprise everyone. Instead of dashing forward, she waved her saber in a slash motion as a mana slash was released towards Touma.

“Split Mana Slash!” Touma was surprised as he waved his palm and caught the slash before nullifying it as it disappeared, “no wonder you became freshmen representative.”

The students were also startled.

“With that 3-second casting speed and A-rank normal spell, Fortified Split Mana saber, no wonder she took the 1st rank.”

“Her theory should be solid since she managed to weave this spell in her magic eidos body.”

The saber in Virnisia’s hand slightly shortened as well.

“How many slashes can you release?” teacher Touma asked.

“Eleven slashes before the saber disappears,” Vernisia said with a beaming smile.

“That’s a good mana efficiency and mana control,” Touma was impressed as he nodded, “alright, next.”

…

On the other hand, Zevien fell into thought, ‘I need to show something better…better than her. I need to weave a better magic spell. My current normal magic spell is a crude one; it’s just C-rank, Arms fortification.’

Zevien hurriedly closed his eyes and decided to weave an A-rank normal magic spell, Exploding Bullets.

He sensed his magic eidos body and started manipulating mana.

Magic Eidos Body manifested in everyone at the age of 9 or 10, and after that, they can sense and observe their Magic Eidos Body, which essentially looks like their real body but ethereal and black colored.

Once everyone can sense their magic eidos body, they can start absorbing mana from the atmosphere and use that mana to refine and purify their magic eidos body until not even a spec of black is left, and it turns completely white-blue.

Zevien also sensed his magic eidos body. It was a sparkling white-blue colored one, just like everyone on the ground.

Once it turns completely white-blue, people can trigger an awakening with their thoughts. They just need to enter into a focused state and trigger that awakening by thinking about it.

All students on this ground had yet to trigger that awakening since this Academy wouldn’t accept students who have awakened their magic-type Labyrinth beforehand.

Naturally, some academies also accept students based on their magic-type Labyrinth because it’s the second most important thing next to their magic eidos body in a Magician’s life…but their magic-type Labyrinth is the most important source of strength.

Before awakening their magic-type Labyrinth, people can still learn magic spells. These spells are called normal magic spells.

Zevien was precisely weaving one such spell in his magic eidos body. Since he already has memories of his previous life, he knew about several normal magic spells and had mastered them.

In the first step, he conceptualized the core concept of the A-rank spell, Exploding Bullets, with his knowledge as he had already understood this spell.

Afterward, he gathered mana and controlled them into a set of strings to create a spell formation.

After comprehending and understanding a spell’s concept, one can use mana to create spell formation based on that concept. This was the second step.

Zevien quickly created the spell formation by using 15% of his mana. Once he was done, only the last step was left, Spell weaving. This step was very simple. He just needed to weave the spell formation he created into his magic eidos body.

He completed the 3rd step in a jiffy and quickly opened his eyes.

“Next, Sophia,” Touma spoke as he nudged his glasses a bit with his finger while glancing at Zevien for a second.

“What were you doing, man?” Dan elbowed Zevien and spoke, “did you even see my cool B-rank spell?”

Zevien knew what Dan’s B-rank spell was, but he still shook his head and wryly smiled, “my bad. I was lost in thoughts as I remembered some things. So? What was the spell?”

“Hehe, since I have learned taijutsu, I mastered the B-rank normal magic spell, Piercing Palms,” Dan said with a proud grin stretched on his face.

“Oh? That’s impressive,” Zevien acted as if he was impressed and patted his shoulder. But this spell was indeed good for people who had learned martial arts. More importantly, for weapon-less martial arts like taijutsu.

Piercing Palms would create mana strings on both palms of the user and spin in an arranged formation with very thin but condensed output like a saber slash released by Vernisia. They can cut through the flesh and bones of the people like a knife through butter.

Naturally, Normal magic spells of A-rank and below can’t hurt Grade-1 magic beasts. They are not enough to qualify even as the lowest-rank magician.

“Next, Zevien,” Touma spoke with a faint smile, “let’s see what you got.”

Zevien nodded as he cracked his index finger out of the habit of his previous life, where it had been damaged a bit and required constant cracking of his bones to feel good.

Standing ten meters away from teacher Touma, Zevien stretched his palm towards teacher Touma and…

*pop…pop…pop…pop*

Zevien cast the magic spell, Exploding Bullets.

But, as soon as his mana exuded outside and he cast the spell, those bullets exploded in front of him.

Zevien was slightly blown back due to pressure and fell to the ground with a dumbfounded expression, ‘why did those bullets turn volatile and out of control right after materializing?’

‘Wait…so this is what he meant by I wouldn’t be able to wield magic normally?…fuck.’

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