Chapter 662 – Mythology Academy
Instead of hastily returning to reality, Seong-il decides to train here and observe the progress of the situation.
“…So, by next time, prepare for a study on the correlation between material weight and telekinesis.”
“Yes!”
One day, a few days after receiving the vision from Professor Aaron. Seong-il was taking classes while monitoring whether he would spread magic awakening imprints on the world as he thought.
‘I don’t think there’s been any reaction from the people around me yet… Is it being verified? If that’s not the case, maybe I should look for a new target…’
Seong-il felt a little stuffy and was thinking about it alone. A female teaching assistant who always helps Professor Aaron in class comes to him and talks to him.
“Sungil-kun?”
“Oh, yes?”
Seeing the assistant talking to him out of the blue, Seong-il looks at him with a puzzled expression.
“Professor Aaron told me to come to the professor’s training room in two hours.”
“…For what reason?”
“Well? It looks like you’re trying to give me advice on training? It’s annoying, but I’ll definitely go.”
“Ah, yes, I understand.”
Seong-il, who listened to the teaching assistant’s words, moves to Professor Aron’s laboratory and training center without saying anything.
‘What…?’
“Are you here?”
When Seongil entered the spacious training hall, he could see that other first-year professors were seated besides Professor Aron.
‘Wherein in Ahindel? Why are there two wizard professors…? Aren’t they psychic?’
Admittedly, even though there are several psychic professors like Fidel and Safihilo in the first year, Seong-il looks puzzled when two wizards are seated in the hall.
Even among them, Professor Ahindel, a professor who is called a rival, is waiting in the hall, and Seong-il looks puzzled because he does not understand the situation.
“What did you call for?”
However, Seong-il hides his doubts as much as possible and calmly and politely asks Professor Aron questions.
“Ah, I called because you awakened a special transformation a while ago.”
Professor Aron explains to Seong-il how difficult it is for first-year students to realize special trait changes, and how amazing it is.
As such, Professor Aron explains that Seong-il has specially invited related professors to properly awaken the special transformation.
“Hmm… But the special treatment is a bit burdensome…”
As equality and harmony are the school’s core motto, Seong-il portrays a student who is burdened with special treatment.
Fortunately, the smoke really touched me, and the professors seated in the hall answered with a smile.
“Whoops! You’re proud to think that way. But, that’s not the only reason we’re trying to focus on educating Seongil-gun this time.”
“…Then what is it?”
Living a life full of secrets about her original body, Seong-il desperately hides her stabbed heart and asks Professor Wee Line.
“It’s simple. It’s because of the power you awakened this time. It’s a really special power.”
“Which…?”
Seong-il doesn’t understand what Professor Ahindel is saying, and asks with a curious expression.
“It’s simple. It’s because of the temporal trait. Do you know how many psychic people in the world can handle that power?”
“…No?”
Regarding the temporal trait, there was no explanation in the game, so Seong-il also had no information, so he looked like he really didn’t know.
“There will be less than five people in the world. And all the psychics who have awakened that ability are making a name for themselves as psychics who command the continent.”
“…!!”
“By the way, the representative psychic who handles that power is Gerhard Steiner, co-director of Mythology Academy, who is currently working outside. Now you know why we are giving you special treatment, right?”
Surprisingly, when the name of a legendary psychic appears in less than five cuts throughout the game, Seong-il looks really surprised.
‘Certainly… If it’s such a rare and powerful ability, I might think so.’
Seong-il feels a little relieved after hearing the professor’s explanation. And Professor Ahindel and Professor Weirin each explain why they came to help on the holy day.
‘Yo… Professor Wirain said that concentration is one of the most important aspects of awakening special traits, so you’re going to teach me customized meditation?’
‘Professor Ahindel said that transforming requires a huge amount of magic, so he will use his specialty, the magic circle, to prevent me from getting hurt or suffering due to lack of magic.’
Seong-il feels moved for the first time in a long time when he hears that as many as three professors will provide customized education just for him.
“But… I have a favor to ask of you.”
“…?”
After the curriculum explanations, the professors all looked at themselves with puzzled expressions and blurted out their words. Seong-il looked at the professor with a puzzled expression.
“Hmm… Temporal quality is a very ‘rare’ force after all. We will fully assist you in awakening, so let us observe the force of time instead.”
With a look of embarrassment, the professors ask Seong-il for cooperation. However, Seong-il realizes that there are benefits to them as well, and feels at ease.
‘If it’s something like this, we can cooperate. Well, unless it’s a study done out of suspicion of me.’
For this reason, Seong-il readily accepts their request for experiments. All the professors who saw this show a friendly look and start laying out the artifacts they have prepared.
Professor Wirain lends Seongil crystal balls, necklaces, and bracelets that protect the user’s spirit and enhance concentration.
Professor Ahindel arranges various reagents and rare magical power crystals on the floor and engraves a magic circle engraved with complex runes to help Seongil not consume too much magic power.
“I will be by your side to monitor in real time so that no problems arise. If a special situation arises, I will give you appropriate advice.”
Apparently, as Professor Aron is the same psychic, it seemed that he was trying to help Seong-il through knowledge sharing rather than material help.
‘It’s honey!?’
Seong-il smiles inwardly when he can receive this much help on the condition of allowing him to analyze the power of time.
A situation where even the sensitivity is not particularly warning. Because of this, Seong-il is convinced that the current situation is a situation that will help him.
“Then let’s begin.”
“Yes!”
Seong-il nodded at the trustworthy teacher’s words and sat in the middle of the magic circle to meditate.
***
‘Whoa… I’m full today too. Although I can still use it only with the help of the magic circle… Still, it’s a really good sign that I can gradually fix the time form around me for a while.’
It was still difficult for Seong-il, but with the help of the professors, he was gradually implementing the temporal traits in reality in 15 days.
‘The problem is the ridiculous consumption of mana… What! Professors say this is a problem that will be solved naturally if I have a better understanding of time in my images through steady training, so it will gradually get better…’
While lying on the bed in the dormitory where Seong-il arrived before he knew it, while he was thinking about time characteristics, augmented reality suddenly turned on and a message came to mind.
『Seongil! A guy named Granz! I think I finally caught him by the tail!”
“Oh!”
A nice sound to hear. Seong-il examines the contents of the video sent by the doll of the Creator.
‘That’s… The ghost cloak of the Rudian family…? Somehow, even though that guy’s alter ego secretly watched it for 24 hours, he couldn’t find anything special. He was wearing that.’
Seong-il realizes that her Lanz has meticulously concealed her whereabouts by using a powerful silver credit artifact brought from her family.
‘Let’s go to the secret room where the ancestor of the Rudian family, one of the main players who created Mythology Academy, secretly hid. If that’s the case, it seems like the family seal and diary have already been obtained… Well, it’s more strange that I got the cloak but didn’t get those two.’
In addition, since all three items are artifacts that can be obtained enough in the first playthrough, Seongil has a slightly puzzled expression.
‘It doesn’t show overwhelming abilities to be called a regressor, but it doesn’t seem like it possesses ridiculously powerful artifacts.’
‘Hmm… Did you just get lucky enough to get the keepsakes hidden by the family’s ancestors early? I’m confused…’
As Seong-il himself had been fortunate enough to obtain this artifact during the first playthrough and proceeded with the event, Seong-il felt a headache as it was hard to suspect that Lantz was a regressor.
‘But, it’s clear that there is something.’
Nevertheless, because of Lanz’s actions, which still smell rancid, Seong-il once again orders the doll of the Creator to carefully monitor Lanz.
‘First, let’s make it a little more surveillance. Then something will come out. Ah-oh! If it wasn’t for the heavily guarded Mythology Academy, I’d put three split-marriage alter-egoes on it… Too bad.’
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‘Shall we meditate first?’
Seong-il, who has finished his thoughts, closes his eyes and begins to practice the power of time once again immersed in meditation.
***
“You’re here.”
As always. After class, Seong-il arrives at the professor-only training room for additional arduous training.
When he appears, he is greeted by three professors who are always with him at that time.
“Today, we’re going to conduct a higher level of experimentation and training. There will be more detailed and stronger stimulation than before.”
Seong-il expresses understanding by nodding his head at Professor Ahindel’s explanation.
‘Today’s mood is slightly different from usual…?’
The atmosphere in the hall seems a bit heavier. The magic circle, which is larger than usual and densely packed with magical power, and the various artifacts installed around it put a little pressure on Seongil.
‘Well, since it’s going to the next step, I guess I can make it like this.’
However, Seong-il decides to quickly organize his mind and focus on training.
“Enter the center of the magic circle. And meditate as you always do. But, today’s stimulation can be strong, so be careful not to be surprised.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Looking at Aaron who warned him with a serious expression, Seong-il nodded in a serious tone and replied.
“Whoa…”
Seong-il, who is seated in a huge magic circle elaborately installed, starts meditating with his eyes closed in a zazen state as usual there.
“Hmm…?”
The magical power of the magic circle that somehow more unpleasant stimuli flowed out than usual. In the end, Seong-il could not stand the feeling and opened his eyes for a moment to look around.
“…Your senses are a bit different today? What kind of training is this?”
As it has been for 15 days, Seong-il asks his questions to solve his questions and advance his training quickly.
In response to that question, the three professors all look at each other and exchange meaning.
“The reason why the feeling is so different is actually simple. It’s because this isn’t training.”
“…Yes?”
Seong-il looks at Professor Aron in a daze with a puzzled expression and asks back.
“Let’s begin.”
After Professor Aaron’s words, Professor Ahindel swung his staff and touched the magic circle’s trigger.
Then, from the magic circle, an incomparably stronger power begins to emanate.
‘This…!!’
And Seong-il, who was directly hit by the stimulus, realizes that this power does not work positively for him.
“What are you doing?!”
Seong-il throws away his polite attitude and yells at the professors with an angry expression. Seeing the usually polite student get angry, Professor Aron responds with a calm expression without feeling sorry or angry.
“That’s what I’m going to say. What are you?”
