Episode 27
EPISODE.14
“….”
It happened in the blink of an eye.
Daria approached Russell, who was standing in a daze, unaware of what he had done.
He reached out and tapped his shoulder.
“…I guess we should have a celebration party today. Congratulations on reaching the 4th circle. I am the youngest.”
Only then did Russell stutter, feeling his consciousness being called into reality.
“Use 4. Big. yo. this?”
“okay. It must have been that the rotational force of magical power that began to rotate at an ignorant level in a state where the circle was overheated and amplified to the limit drew a new circle.”
The amount of magic power that is close to the 4th circle must have also played a role.
Growth beyond an instant.
“Is that possible?”
Russell asked back, as if still unrealistic, and she nodded.
“It’s not that many, but it happens occasionally.”
Will it stop to the extent of transcending the limit for a moment or will it be left complete as a single circle?
It all depends on his life and experience as a mage he has accumulated over the years.
“You are the latter.”
“okay.”
Russell, who finally understood the situation at Daria’s explanation, nodded.
I still didn’t feel it.
However, the existence of the fourth ring felt in the corner of my heart was definitely real.
“okay. So, you can rest for today.”
It’s a little earlier than planned, but since I just completed the 4th circle, I guess I need a break.
Daria said so.
But Russell thought differently. Completing the 4th Circle and Daria’s teaching were two different issues.
He didn’t want to waste any of this time.
“If you’re considering me, there’s no need for that. Master. I can still do a little more…”
A dizzying sensation reaches my brain before I can finish my words.
The world reflected in front of my eyes spun around.
Daria supported Russell.
“It is about forcibly opening the limits of oneself and stepping into a new circle. I admit that my mood is elevated, but when my head starts to cool down, I will be more exhausted than I am now.”
After lightly patting him on the back, he corrected his posture.
“So don’t overdo it today and go back to your room and get some rest. Tell your employees to bring some sweet things into your room.”
“All right.”
Russell nodded, probably because he experienced a tingling sensation.
“Then let’s go in first. Master.”
I agreed with her words and left the underground gymnasium prepared for training.
Daria murmured as she watched Russell walk away.
“How did you manage to get the time right? It was good that you applied saliva in advance.”
I laughed thinking about the annual event held for graduates of each academy every year.
What kind of expression would that old man make if he found out that such a talent had been taken away?
“Your expression of inspiration is already good in my eyes.”
The sound of giggles echoed throughout the hall.
* * *
At Walkerhill Academy.
No, in all the academies that existed in Endymion, there was an old tradition that had existed since the past.
A tradition often referred to as ‘selection of towers’.
“The selection of the tower is not far away, so let’s get to work.”
“I’m already looking forward to seeing how many of this year’s graduates will be called to the tower.”
“First of all, we will have to share the failed students first. In fact, we can’t show our academy’s disgrace to the tower’s selectors, can we?”
selection of tops.
As the name suggests, it means an event in which selectors from the Magic Tower select talents they want to recruit into their tower.
The target is the graduates of each academy.
In fact, it can be said that how many people are selected in this selection is one of the important indicators of whether the academy is prestigious or not.
Professors spurred on teaching students, while at the same time preparing to welcome the selection officers.
Professors at Walkerhill Academy were no exception.
Among them, there were also a lot of cases where they were talking about which student would be selected for the Mage Tower.
“In fact, this time, our academy won’t have any big worries, right?”
At the words of a professor, the eyes of all the faculty members present were focused on him.
He coughed once at that gaze and murmured.
“That’s why our academy doesn’t have that child. that child.”
“If he is…”
“Russell Russell Raymond.”
“ah!”
“It is. The child was there.”
At the word Russell, some faculty members openly admired him.
It’s a completely different evaluation from when the semester just started.
In fact, even until the end of the first semester, the evaluation of Russell was not so favorable.
It was said that he achieved great growth in half a year, but it was because he had a past of being an inferior student for the past three years.
The evaluation was overturned by a letter that arrived just two months ago. A letter stamped with the seal of the head of
the Daria Snow White
Tower had the power to change a single student’s evaluation.
Some professors, including Isadora, who were openly reluctant to Russell, had no choice but to keep their mouths shut.
“In any case, isn’t one person sent to a famous magic tower worth more than five people sent to an ordinary magic tower?”
Not to mention, it’s not an ordinary mage tower, it’s a salt pagoda, one of the four great mage towers in the royal capital.
“For the student in charge to go to the same tower as you. I hope you feel good. Professor Hubert.”
Hubert did not answer the question of a professor thrown at him.
Instead, he thought as he buried his head deep between the stack of papers he was holding.
‘Those who overturn the judgment of students in an instant are like reeds.’
Although he hadn’t shown outstanding results in the past, he was a hardworking and diligent Russell.
Nevertheless, when Russell showed a lack of appearance, there were several writers among them who did not treat students properly.
Even if it wasn’t, most of them were dry.
‘I wonder if I can call them educators.’
When no answer came back, the professor who had asked the question turned his head away with an embarrassed expression.
“Hmmmm.”
I coughed lightly.
It was then.
Suddenly, the door opened and another professor appeared.
“Hey guys. Look at this.”
Entering the faculty room, he draws attention by putting a bunch of letters in his hand on the desk.
“The list of selection officers to be sent from each Mage Tower has just arrived. Everything has arrived!”
“Oh oh.”
“This is the letter with the names of the selectors.”
Upon hearing that the list had arrived, the professors’ eyes immediately turned to that direction.
It was a pretty important issue for the professors as to who would come as the screening officer.
‘If someone close to me comes to the selection hall-.’
‘It would be a little more convenient to send my student to the Mage Tower.’
Even so, it was not possible to send even those who lacked skills to the Mage Tower.
Everyone had at least one student in charge that they were raising with great care.
“Let’s see, our Caliburn Emperor’s selection officer…”
“Oh. The selection officer at the Loen Blue Tower is -ro.”
Put the name of the administrative city where the tower is located in front of it to classify it and check the selectors for a while.
-.
The movements of the professors who were flipping through the envelopes stopped all at once.
A rose door that burns like a flame.
It was with a letter in front of him with Flair Rose’s seal on it.
The sender’s name is written below the seal.
“Hehehe.”
“This is Professor Hubert’s…”
Feeling the gazes of the other professors flying towards him, Hubert lifted his buried head.
glimpse.
Scary to see the sender’s name written on the outer envelope, a shadow is cast over his face.
The shadow that was thick enough to make the otherwise strict face look desolate now.
In a moment, an inconceivable sigh escaped from between his rapidly fatigued lips.
Why?
“It’s been a headache.”
I felt like I was getting a migraine that I never had before.
* * *
The time taught by Daria is over.
Returning to the academy, Russell was able to confirm that the atmosphere around him had subtly changed.
‘hmm.’
Even at the end of the first semester, there was no atmosphere like this, but it wasn’t to this extent.
In fact, this atmosphere was formed because of rumors that Russell had been to the Mage Tower on a special dispatch request.
The reason why he did not come to the academy despite the beginning of the semester was known to the students.
Of course, in reality, it was not a special dispatch request, but he received direct instruction from Daria.
It was a fact that only professors knew.
Although it is far from the truth, the fact that he received a special dispatch request from the Mage Tower was enough to make him an object of envy among the students of the academy.
The first to show such a reaction were the students in the Alpha and Beta classes, who had a history of being beaten badly by Russell.
‘Russell requested a special dispatch from the Mage Tower…
‘
Could it be that it has truly become an untouchable existence?
It was because those thoughts ran through my head.
But not everyone was like that.
Just like in the first semester.
Some of the students in Gamma and Delta’s classes, who had never been beaten by Russell, underestimated him.
“joy. Luckily, there must have been a situation to work with the Mage Tower.”
“I don’t know what happened to that guy, but if I had been there…”
Alpha Beta Gamma Delta class general showdown starting from the 2nd semester.
It was a conversation between the talented members of the Gamma and Delta classes who achieved high results in that match.
Low-pitched sounds that sound like whispers.
But Russell did not respond to the whispers.
It’s not just because of the age difference.
Even compared to my age in my previous life, the age difference between them and myself was only five or six.
At most, about seven.
It wasn’t to the point where I could do it especially because of the age difference.
Why didn’t you come out anyway.
It is because the world Russell sees has risen far above them.
‘4th circle.’
Even compared to the first-time professors at the academy, he is not at all behind.
He could have joined an academy immediately after graduation as a professor, if he so desired.
On the other hand, the level of those who gossip is at the level of a student no matter how high you set it.
There is no need or reason to go along with such low-quality provocations.
Besides…
‘The stage where I have to reveal myself is already prepared.’
The selection of the tower that came just two days ago.
That was the real stage where he had to reveal himself.
– Go and show me. I mean whose disciple you are.
Russell clenched his fists, recalling the words his teacher had jokingly said before leaving.
A mission window flickered next to Russell.
[Mission]
Selection of the tower.
Show an overwhelming level difference and win the recognition of the selectors.
[Reward]
Lesser Manastone (Edible) x3
A mission created the moment you leave Daria’s mansion.
His target could no longer be his classmates.
‘What I’m aiming for is-.’
Recognition of selectors.
dragon-swallowed wizard
