‘Once he slows down, it’s hard to accelerate again!’
On the contrary, Emio continued to accelerate.
‘This will make the others feel the limits of that Leo kid...’
“Hello?”
“...!”
Emio widened his eyes and looked to the side.
There, Leo was waving his hand while riding a broom.
“What, how!”
“I just followed quickly.”
Leo, with a nonchalant expression, summoned mana.
Crackle-!
“This is in return for what you did just now.”
Golden sparks flew from Leo’s hand.
“Lightning Bolt!”
Flash! Crackle!
“Gah!”
Emio hurriedly dodged.
“Sure enough, it’s a magical tool used by Professor Albi! It looks shabby, but its performance is incredible!”
Emio, who sneered, summoned mana in both hands.
Specializing in lightning magic, Emio recited a higher-level spell.
“Chain Lightning!”
Crackle-!
A chain of lightning struck Leo.
Leo easily dodged the attack, and Emio shouted.
“It’s useless!”
‘Guidance function?’
Leo wore an amused expression.
It was a spell that electrified the area around the target, and it seemed Emio had modified the spell formula to add a guidance function.
As Chain Lightning chased him, Leo gripped the broom tightly and lowered his posture.
Crackle-! Crack!
‘Gah! He’s dodging all of it?’
Emio, who saw Leo easily dodging the Chain Lightning that was targeting him at high speed, glared at the broom Leo was riding.
‘Unfair! How am I supposed to win against someone with such a magical tool...’
“Ice Bolt.”
Leo cast a spell forward.
Countless ice shards flew like bullets.
“What are you aiming at!”
“Where am I aiming? Forward, at Chain Lightning.”
Crackle-!
The Chain Lightning Leo cast created a giant web of electricity in the air.
“No way!”
Emio’s eyes widened as a giant web of electricity suddenly appeared in front of him.
The Ice Bolt Leo had cast earlier served as a conductor.
“Gah!”
Emio urgently stopped.
If he were to be electrocuted, the match would end in Leo’s victory.
Whoosh-!
Crackle! Crackle!
Just as Emio heaved a sigh of relief after barely stopping in front of Leo’s electric web, Leo said,
“It’s not over yet.”
Snap-!
“Huh!”
Leo, with an aura of mana in his fist, struck Emio’s magical tool.
Instantly, the magical tool’s spell formula system was disrupted, and it began to act erratically.
“I didn’t break it, so you can fix it.”
Leo smiled and flew into the sky.
“Ah! Whoa?!”
Emio was thrown around uncontrollably.
Whoosh-!
“Gah!”
Then, he started to rush towards the school building.
“S-stop!”
Thud!
“Ah?!”
Emio, who collided with the building wall, slid down.
Seeing Emio’s state, Leo smiled and returned to the finish line.
“I’m back.”
“Leo, it seems you don’t need separate aerial combat training.”
Albi smiled and praised Leo.
Seeing this, Anna, the assistant professor, was surprised.
‘Oh, Professor Albi is praising him?’
Albi, who was usually very stingy with praise, made it a surprising scene for Anna.
“Of course, Albi-senpai also recognized Leo’s true worth! After all! It’s natural! Albi-senpai couldn’t miss such a shining talent! Senpai also acknowledged that Leo is the talent needed for the magic department!”
‘This guy is overdoing it again. He shouldn’t be going overboard in front of the students.’
Anna sighed deeply, wondering when she would have to rein this guy in.
Emio, who had returned with a battered face, shouted angrily.
“I can’t accept this! Leo, you cheated!”
“What did I cheat on?”
“Using aura in a magic department class!”
“There was no rule saying not to use abilities other than magic, right?”
Hearing their conversation, the students began to murmur.
“He used aura?”
“In a magic class, that’s a bit...”
Emio, emboldened by this, shouted.
“The principle of a magic department class is to use only magic!”
“I wouldn’t have used aura if it were a regular magic class. But this is a class to prepare for the inter-departmental competition, right? By the way, most of the knight department students have been preparing for aerial attacks since the beginning of the semester. Flying isn’t a big advantage.”
“Huh?”
Emio flinched at Leo’s words and then flared up.
“Are you saying that the knight department students are better in a magic department class?”
Leo sighed deeply.
“I’m saying you should prepare to counter the knight department’s attacks. Once your wing magical tool was neutralized, you lost your mobility. In the inter-departmental competition, such situations can easily occur.”
The critical flaw of wing magic.
If the magical tool is damaged, you lose your mobility.
“That’s still unfair! You used Professor Albi’s wing magical tool!”
“This?”
Leo chuckled and looked down at the broom in his hand.
“This is just a regular cleaning magical tool, right?”
“What?”
Leo threw the broom to the stunned Emio.
Emio’s face stiffened as he caught the broom.
As Leo said, it was just a regular cleaning magical tool.
“I don’t even know how to use wing magic. I haven’t learned it.”
“What?”
All the students were surprised by this.
“You don’t know wing magic? It’s the basics of the basics! No! How did you chase me without wing magic?”
“I used Fly magic.”
“Fly magic?”
It’s a levitation spell that has existed from before the Age of Catastrophe to the present, boasting a long history and tradition.
However, with the invention of wing magic, it has become a spell that is rarely used in the current era.
“No way.”
Emio wore an incredulous expression.
“Wing magic is indeed easier and allows you to fly quickly. In that sense, it might seem like an advanced version of Fly magic, but...”
Leo wore an indifferent expression.
“But that’s all it is. It’s heavily influenced by the magical tool, and the spell formula has clear limitations.”
“Leo Flove is right. Wing magic is a spell based on Fly magic. It allows anyone to fly quickly through a magical tool, but that’s all it does. It focuses on convenience, so delicate control like Fly magic is impossible.”
The students who had claimed there was no problem with mobility avoided Albi’s gaze.
“The development of wing magic did indeed overcome the mobility issue that was the biggest weakness of mages. But that’s only in general cases. You are not ordinary mages but students of the Hero Academy.”
Everyone flinched at Albi’s words.
“And the students from other departments you will compete against are also Hero Academy students. Don’t think that ordinary methods will work against your competitors. The biggest problem is not the knight department but the summoning department. Mages who rely on wing magic are perfect prey for summoners who handle aerial summons and wind elementals.”
“Yes, sir.”
Seeing the weak responses from the magic department students, Ren signaled to Anna.
“Everyone, from today, we will practice Fly magic. Ren-sensei and Torua will help, as well as me and the assistants. We will conduct a test to divide the class by skill level. Please line up.”
The students began to form a line at Anna’s words.
“Gah!”
Emio glared at Leo once and then went to line up.
Ren approached Albi and Leo.
“Leo will receive guidance on magical combat from Albi-senpai.”
“Don’t I need to take the test?”
“The mobility part is already passed based on what you showed in the match, Leo.”
Ren, who chuckled, was about to go guide the students when he noticed Torua standing beside Leo and frowned.
“What are you doing here, Torua?”
“You already know everything! Stop making excuses and help the juniors!”
Ren grabbed the back of Torua’s neck and dragged her away.
Seeing the bustling practice field, Albi said,
“We need to move to a different location.”
Albi casually waved his hand, and an entrance to another space opened in the air.
‘Fairy magic.’
Leo crossed the space entrance.
He immediately arrived at another magic practice field.
“What will we do now?”
“Study on your own.”
“Aren’t you going to teach me anything?”
Albi, sitting in a chair in a corner of the practice field, closed his eyes.
“I don’t know what I can teach a first-year who can modify Fly magic to that level.”
Albi, who had just seen how powerful the spell Leo cast was, said,
“It seems there’s nothing more I can teach you at the first-year level. But proceeding to higher-level classes on my own would be overstepping my authority. So, as a teacher, the only thing I can do is have you study on your own.”
“Then, I have a request, Professor.”
“What is it?”
“Can I enter the Lumern Forbidden Library?”
Albi opened one eye and looked at Leo.
“Access to the Forbidden Library exceeds a teacher’s authority.”
“I’m asking as a member of the Jeron family, not as a teacher.”
“...”
The Jeron family.
One of the three great hero families of Lumern, with an absolute level of influence in the city.
“Why do you want to enter the Forbidden Library?”
“I want to find a document.”
“What document?”
“A history of the Hero Records that are not widely known.”
“...”
Albi, who had been silently looking at Leo, nodded.
“If that’s what you want, I’ll write a recommendation letter.”
“Oh.”
Leo was pleasantly surprised that things were going better than expected.
“Of course, even with my recommendation letter, you can’t enter the Forbidden Library. You need the permission of the head of the Jeron family, my older brother, Alteck Jeron.”
Albi took out a piece of paper and wrote on it.
“All I can do is arrange it. The rest is up to you.”
“Ah.”
Leo looked disappointed.
Actually, a recommendation to meet Alteck was already a huge deal.
Even royalty couldn’t easily meet Alteck.
As Leo received the recommendation letter, he thought about Alteck.
‘The Infinite Spellcaster, right?’
He was a powerful hero who handled infinite spells.
“Wait, isn’t the head of the Jeron family currently dispatched to the southern front of Tartarus?”
Alteck was absent, fighting on the front lines against Tartarus.
“You can meet a proxy.”
“A proxy?”
“Yes. You can meet them easily. They’re your senior.”
“Who is it?”
Albi, who rarely sighed deeply, did so now.
“Lumern’s third-year, Elena Jeron.”
He wore an expression of a headache and clicked his tongue.