CH 59

“You’re getting more stable.”

“Yeah, I guess so. I think so, too.”

It was mid-afternoon.

I saw Kunon and Leeya near the school building, away from where the smoker was.

Leeya floating with wind magic, and Kunon looking up at him.

It’s not high.

Leeya’s stomach is about the height of Kunon’s head.

-The most frightening thing about training in flying magic is any accident of height and speed.

If you mismanage your magic and crash into the ground, a tree, or a rock, you can’t avoid getting hurt.

That’s why it’s good to practice at such a height.

“We’ve been doing this since this morning, right? Do you think it’s going to hold up during the day?”

“I think so.”

We were going to start training for flight.

In the morning, we were only going to maintain the levitation, and in the afternoon, we were going to try it out in earnest.

The first thing that Kunon ordered Leeya to do was to use the magic for staying in midair, “wind levitation”, for a long time in a stable manner.

Unlike Hank, the younger Leeya is still not very good at manipulating and controlling magic.

He still lacks the experience as a simple magician to “use magic”.

In order to make up for this lack of experience, he was able to maintain the “wind levitation” for a long time.

I strongly recommended it to Leeya, especially since he hadn’t done much in the way of using and maintaining magic for long periods of time.

What Kunon wants from Leeya is to “fly”.

If he is not able to manipulate and control his magic, it will be very dangerous.

In fact, Kunon had had an accident once.

And that was in the royal castle of the Huglia Kingdom.

He managed to get out of the accident unscathed by his quick thinking, but Dario, the knight, was angry with him afterwards, which is still a bitter memory that he cannot forget.

And Kunon knows from experience that using and maintaining magic for a long time is the best way to train the manipulation and control of magic power.

In fact, Leeya has become so accustomed to it in such a short time.

At first, he wasn’t very stable, but now he can maintain it from morning to noon with ease.

“Well, let’s start today. Are you ready, boy?”

“Oh, yeah……”

Leeya’s voice darkened slightly, but I didn’t care.

I’m not going to get hurt anyway.

……However, Kunon can understand that he still doesn’t want to do it because he is afraid.

Magic is manifested from a sigil.

It becomes magic by drawing a sigil floating somewhere on the body with magical power.

Strangely enough, from the time the crest appears on the body, the sorcerer is able to draw the crest with his senses.

At first, by saying certain keywords – the name of the magic, such as “water ball a ori” or “wash bubble” – the sigil is automatically drawn.

Once you get used to it, you won’t need to say it anymore.

This is the basic magic.

And that’s where the story begins.

It is possible to change the magic by deliberately disrupting, shifting, moving, overlapping, or distorting the completed emblem.

This is the way to create individuality and originality in magic.

A skilled magician will have a wide range of applications for a single magic.

Some of them can be changed to the point of being unrecognizable.

However, these are often the trump cards of individual sorcerers, so they are never published or announced.

The same goes for the “flight” I ordered from Leeya.

It is a typical “there is a magic that is known to fly, but its use has not been announced” – magic.

We all expected that the “flight” would be an original addition to some kind of “wind levitation” magic.

However, even if the theory is correct, the story is very different when it comes to actually doing it.

“Let’s try it then.”

Kunon said, and Leeya was enveloped in a “soft water ball”.

– Leeya Hose is the second son of a baronial family in a small country known as the countryside.

He was born into the aristocracy, but his family was so poor that he probably lived a poorer life than the richest merchant in the country.

In such a fly-by-night baronial family, a promising sorcerer was born.

That was Leeya.

His father, a money-losing baron, worked very hard to raise the money to pay for her education as a sorcerer.

It was probably due to various calculations and an investment in the future.

If Leeya becomes a successful sorcerer, he will be able to earn a lot of money.

If he did, he would at least be able to escape his life of poverty.

If he was an excellent sorcerer, it was not only a dream anymore to marry into a higher-ranking family.

He’s not a duke, but there’s a good chance that he can get married to a count.

……and there must have been a great deal of such calculation.

It was not a bad deal for Leeya either.

His brother, the heir to the family fortune, was well educated, but his younger brothers and sisters, including himself, were not.

I don’t want my younger brother and sister to be poor.

If I wanted to, I could send them to a school in the city.

Of course, I want to be respectful to my parents.

And above all, I want to become a great sorcerer for my future.

Leeya was educated as a sorcerer and studied hard.

As a result, Leeya’s skills grew rapidly.

It was partly because he had a strong desire to learn, and partly because there were only a small number of sorcerers in the small country.

Even if we discounted these factors, Leeya’s growth was remarkable.

At some point in time, he had become an apprentice sorcerer, so much so that he was even said to be “an excellent candidate to be confirmed as a royal court sorcerer in the future” in the country.

It’s not just his parents, but even the country’s top officials had high hopes for him, and he was sent to the magic city of Dillashick with all his heart, and…

“……? What’s wrong? You’re not going to do it?”

“No, it’s nothing……”

And now, I’m a little devastated.

Now?

No, not since the entrance exam.

In my homeland, I was called a genius and a child prodigy, and I had a certain amount of confidence.

But ever since I saw Kunon’s magic, that confidence was shattered without a second thought. He was shattered. It was dust.

The “water ball” that enveloped him now was of a different caliber than Leeya’s magic.

Kunon is said to be able to use only two kinds of magic.

So what?

If you include the number of applications, even twenty or thirty would not be enough.

“I’ll do it then.”

“Yes. I’m going to record you flying and rolling all over the place.”

“Don’t record me rolling…….”

“Oh, really? Failure is also a great sample……. Okay. I’ll replace the part where you fell with ‘I talked to a girl’.”

“Oh, then I’ll just roll over.”

We must never allow any number of failures to be described as “talking to girls,” which can only lead to misunderstandings.

I’ve already failed a hundred times, and I’m going to fail many more times today.

-The “water ball” that surrounds Leeya is a cushion to keep him from getting hurt if he fails to “fly”, and it has saved him from a hundred accidents.

A slightly thick film of water.

With this, no matter how fast I fall or roll on the ground, I can’t help but feel dizzy and scared.

How fortunate to be able to train for the “flight” while staying safe.

However, my heart is mixed.

I can’t help but think that if Kunon had the Wind Sigil, he would have learned to fly by now.

A frog in a well does not know the ocean.

I was confident, but I knew that there were people above me in the world.

I never forgot to be humble and to learn.

But still.

I had a certain feeling that I could not and would not be defeated by my peers.

Now, that feeling has been shattered. It’s dust.

“It’s hard.”

Although Kunon often leaves the room to do business, he returns just as often to check on the situation.

I think it’s because it’s a magic that Kunon himself is interested in.

I made a lot of mistakes today.

I’ve tried more than a hundred times, and I still haven’t succeeded in getting Leeya to fly.

The “Wind Levitation” is a floating magic.

You can move slowly, but it is so fast that it is more appropriate to say that you are drifting.

Floating magic.

To this, I add the originality of speed……

The result is usually a slight increase in speed, but still slow, or a crash due to miscontrol of the magic power.

“Hmmm… The failures are all very similar, aren’t they? If…, then maybe they’re fundamentally different.”

“Fundamentally?”

“Yes. When you try things out, there are little changes, so you can figure out what to fix. But if there’s no significant change after this much trial, then maybe the base magic is wrong in the first place. You might want to consider other possibilities.”

The base magic is different.

It’s just a matter of time before he’ll be able to do it.

Even so, Leeya thinks frantically.

“I can’t help you with this, so I’ll just have to ask you to do your best.”

“I know. I know.”

“So, how about this one?”

The attributes are different, and Kunon doesn’t know much more than a textbook about wind magic.

However, he was still able to talk to Leeya as usual, so his knowledge and expertise in magic was quite impressive.

He’s not just a strange child.

We talked about this and that, and one by one, we eliminated the possibilities.

This was also something that Leeya had never done before.

– However, trial and error with friends was more fun than he thought.

If it wasn’t for my shiftiness, I wouldn’t have anything to say.

“Hey! Kunon!”

“Sorry, I’ll be out of your sight for a bit! Don’t be shy about flying!”

Kunon, who was called by the girls, went with great speed. He didn’t even look aside anymore. I can’t see him anymore, though.

“……Okay, let’s do it.”

But now it’s not about Kunon, it’s about me.

Leeya desperately tried to find a way to fly, thinking about the magic he had as well as the Wind Levitation.

The next day, Leeya’s “flight” was somehow successful.

But Kunon was not there.

Leeya was recruited by the Rational faction and decided to belong to it.