Chapter 342 – Mythology Academy
A lecture on meditation taught by the magician Professor Wiline. Seong-il was the first to apply for the class in order to practice what he had been advised by Professor Aron not long ago.
“Nice to meet you all.”
“Hello! Professor Wiline!!”
The number of students appearing to be approximately 2-30. Even though it is a liberal arts lecture, Seong-il looks puzzled at the seemingly small number of students.
‘Why is meditation so few people? Is it an unpopular class in the first place?’
At that time, Seong-il was making a puzzled expression. A familiar and beautiful voice came from behind him.
“Haa… This time… For sure!!”
“…?”
At the appearance of a familiar voice, Seong-il looks behind him with a puzzled expression.
“Huh? Everything… You…?”
“Ah… Long time no see?”
Appearance of Elaine Yves Rose, a beautiful woman with brown hair and an impressive appearance. As she appears in front of her own eyes in her week, her seongil puts on her welcome look.
‘No way, I solved the trouble at that time, so you’re not still holding a grudge against me?’
Seeing Elaine make an awkward expression while looking at herself, Seong-il feels uneasy.
“That…”
“…?”
“Thank you for helping me back then. I’ll say thank you again.”
“Ah, what do you mean? It was me who started the problem in the first place.”
“Whoa… Even so, I brought out something I absolutely shouldn’t have said… If you didn’t stop my stupid behavior and at the same time refresh the atmosphere around me, I would have been in big trouble. Maybe I barely passed the 1st round of the academy. It may have been canceled…”
“Haha… Everything like that…”
Elaine expresses her gratitude with a sincere expression to Seong-il for covering up her faults, and Seong-il expresses her admiration for her attitude.
“And…”
“Hmm?”
“Mo… I didn’t know, but I heard he was a great person?”
“…?”
“You’re a first-class talent that has appeared for the first time in 10 years…!!”
‘Seeing that you know him, there’s no one in school who doesn’t know about my evaluation.’
Even Elaine knows her own behind-the-scenes story, and she feels the fatigue of her absence from her holy days.
“Haa… I envy you. I only have bloodline powers that I can’t handle properly at best…”
‘Ah, this was a sorceress.’
A seeker wizard who uses magic by accumulating magical power and knowledge through arduous training and theoretical learning.
However, sometimes there were beings who used magic as if they were breathing only with their talents, without any arduous preceding process.
One of them is a Sorcerer, a wizard who controls magic with the power of lineage. They were beings who naturally learned magic through blood and spirit power inherited from their ancestors.
Of course, there is a limit to the power of simple lineage, so if you want to go to a higher level, they also need training.
However, compared to the wizards who started bare-bones without any legacy, their talent felt unfair.
‘He probably has the blood of a red dragon? That’s why I remember there was an event that made my hair turn red when I woke up later.’
And to the hardcore fans who dig deep into the game’s setting, Elaine was also a heroine who assumed that she inherited the blood of a mighty magical creature.
‘The wizard is talented, but he is having a hard time because he can’t control his overflowing power…’
Within her game, Elaine has one of the most powerful talents, but her problem is that her talents are so excessive that the magic she learns in human shamanism often cannot be controlled.
‘Obviously, my nickname in the game must have been Bomb Horse.’
Elaine’s magic, which often went out of control. Particularly notorious was the flame-based magic she used.
If the flame magic, which was Elaine’s main skill, ran out of control, the academy training ground would often be destroyed with that power.
‘Is that why you suffered so much? No matter how standard the theory was to apply magic, the problem was that the latent ability was too strong, and the magic often ran out of control.’
Seong-il recalls the in-game setting and looks at Elaine with a slightly pitiful expression.
“No matter how theoretically you use magic, it’s common for it to go wrong… Even if you’re a wizard, you can’t even properly control the meditation method that you should know, so you have to take classes like this…”
‘Ah, is that why the number of students was small?’
I wondered why there were so few students in the meditation class, but Seong-il realized the reason. Come to think of it, if you are a wizard, of course, you should learn how to meditate and learn magic.
‘Well, most of the students who enter the academy are descendants of high families, so they probably don’t need to learn how to meditate. After all, there are many cases where meditation techniques are unique to families.’
“I’m envious… I wish I had talent…”
‘Are you talking about talent? After completely awakening to bloodline magic, I’m sure I’ll be able to chew on my first-class talent.’
Seong-il felt sorry for Elaine, who talked down to herself in a self-deprecating tone.
In particular, when Elaine, one of her favorite heroines, spits out self-deprecating words and gives up in desperation, her seongil feels her heart shake.
‘Hmm… It’s pitiful, but I guess I’ll just give you a hint.’
Elaine, who, with the help of the player in the original game, was able to control the flames of pure magical power or clear fire-related events, awakening quicker and eventually being able to control the power of her lineage.
Therefore, fans of the game who dug deep into the setting probably reasoned that red dragon blood flowed in her lineage.
“By any chance, isn’t it difficult to control magic that runs out of control, especially fire-type magic? It feels like the mana is running out of control.”
“To…?”
Elaine puts on a startled look when her holy day, which has been her silence, suddenly brings up the topic she is most worried about.
“Is not it?”
“That… How?”
Although notorious for her mischief in her hometown, she hadn’t had an accident (?) In her academy yet, so Elaine thought that no one would know of her brilliant deeds.
In the meantime, when her surname is her own, as if she knows her career (?), She puts on a face of astonishment.
“Ho… Have you been looking behind me?”
Elaine hardens her expression and starts glaring at her holy day. She shrugs her shoulders and explains her own abilities with her lies.
“No. Because one of my specialties is handling flames. Miss Elaine gave me a similar feeling.”
“Hehe…? Really…? That’s strange. I didn’t really feel that.”
As much as her lineage is her bloodline, she was also Elaine, who had excellent flame detection skills. However, since she did not feel any power of flame from her holy day, she puts on a puzzled expression.
Wink.
After smiling lightly at such Elaine, her Seongil begins to raise the Sunyang Ganggi in her hand.
“!!”
A small but surprisingly intense power of flame. Unusually, the flames on the holy day feel very mild.
“Touch me.”
“Eh?!”
“Don’t worry. These flames will never hurt anyone without my will.”
“…”
Elaine looks at Seong-il’s Sunyang River with a fearful expression despite Seong-il’s explanation. She seemed to have an instinctive fear of flames.
And the appearance of her on the holy day, waiting patiently for her.
“Trust me.”
“Now… Wait a minute…”
Did he gain courage from Seongil’s calm attitude? Elaine catches her breath and carefully touches Seongil’s cruiser.
“!!!!!”
Then I felt the warm heat. Unlike her own destructive flames, his was so soft and warm.
“Uh… Why…?”
Elaine seemed shocked by Seongil’s pure Yanggi who seemed too docile.
Her Seongil decides to carefully explain to her the strategy of her game, which she knew.
“Would you believe me if I said I couldn’t properly control the flames like Miss Elaine a while ago?”
“!!”
“Really.”
“That… How did you control it?”
“Ah… That’s…”
Seong-il tries to open her mouth to explain to Elaine about her training method and how she was able to overcome her flame during her gameplay.
“Now!! Attention everyone!!”
“…?”
Just as Seong-il is about to say goodbye, a woman’s voice comes from behind him. He looks behind him with a puzzled expression.
“It’s everyone’s first class, so it’s good to introduce yourself to your classmates! But since the professor is here, let’s stop talking! From now on, focus on what I’m saying!!”
An older-looking woman with white hair and a witch’s hat. Seong-il realizes that she is Professor Wirain, who is in charge of meditation lectures.
“…We’ll talk later.”
“Kko… Is it!?”
When she thinks that the man in front of her may have a clue to solve the problem she has been struggling with for a long time, Elaine tells Seong-il with a desperate expression.
“Don’t worry.”
Seeing her mournful expression, Seong-il smiled bitterly at her and nodded her head in reply. Then he turns his back to look at Professor Weirin.
“Nice to meet you. I’m Weraine Avalanche, and I’m in charge of this meditation course.”
“Nice to meet you, Professor!!”
“Yes. Usually, at most, less than 10 people applied for the beginner meditation course in a semester, but this year, it’s quite interesting that so many people apply.”
‘…That must have been a lot.’
“Paradoxically speaking, this means that the students in front of you are talented enough to pass the academy’s exam, despite their lack of foundation, right?”
‘Hmm… I think it’s because they accepted all of them.’
However, Seong-il is not stupid enough to say such a thing out of his mouth. He stands still with his mouth shut.
“And as evidence of that, a first-class talent who appeared after 10 years applied for this class.”
‘…Fuck, is it me again?’
As soon as his name appears out of nowhere, Seong-il sighs inwardly.
‘But, from now on, I’m going out shamelessly!!’
However, Seong-il, who decided to change the concept, no matter what Professor Wi-Rin said, he kept his mouth shut and listened to her while pretending to be expressionless.
“Okay!! Then let’s learn about meditation.”
‘At las!!’
Seong-il is excited about the emergence of a study that can finally control his ability.
“The first method of meditation, as you know, is to go into the microcosm within yourself.
The starting point is the same as a wizard or a psychic. Although, the orientation is different.
Put aside old feelings between each other due to differences in orientation.
The ultimate purpose of our Mythology Academy was established, just like the beginning of the meditation method I teach. It is to find a way to unite or unify the two schools of thought.”
‘That’s a good word.’
“So, at least in my lectures, I hope you don’t talk about psychics or wizards.
Come on… The introduction was long. Shall we really start then?”
At the end of the first speech, Wee Rain takes a sitting posture in front of the students.
“See my sitting position? The first thing you’ll do is get into a sitting position like me.”
When Professor Wee Rain spoke her words, her students followed her in her zazen meditation.
“Actually, zazen is not the best posture. If there is a posture that is more comfortable for you to concentrate on, it doesn’t matter if you take that posture.
However, zazen has the advantage of being able to meditate ‘for a long time comfortably’ among all meditation postures. Therefore, I recommend this standard posture, and at the same time, I plan to lecture everyone based on this posture.”
Professor Wirain calmly explains about zazen. Then she explains the meditation method to her students by pointing to specific areas of herself.
“First of all, gather the mana in your heart while sitting in zazen. Be as careful as possible.”
At her words, the students calmly begin to gather their body’s mana into their hearts.
“Okay. Then, using the blood spurting from the heart as a medium, would you like to spread magic power to every corner of your body?”
After saying so, Wee Line gets up from her seat and walks around her classroom, looking after her students.
‘Gather magic into the heart…? Hmm… Can I do it this way?’
Seong-il, who used internal energy based on Danjeon. For now, in order to do as Wei Lin said, he begins to radiate Dantian’s energy toward the heart.