The Basics of Magic [C67]

The teacher is an angel girl with blond hairs, with baggy black clothes and a witch hat on her head.

Looking toward the students, the teacher then announced, "Very well, the lesson about the basics of magic will now start!"

Every student in the hall promptly ceased speaking and focused toward the teacher hoping to gain more knowledge possible from the lesson.

"As some of you may already know, the use of a magic spell requires three important phases, the formula, the formation of the mana structure, and its release. Now I will explain what those phrases are used for:

The first phase, the formula, is used by pronouncing the correct chant, requesting the aid from the Qi present in the world;

The second phase, the formation of the mana structure, is the phase where you use your mana to make a 'command' which will modify the environment based on it, for example, creating a ball of fire or morphing the terrain;

The third and last phase, the release, consists as the name says in the release of the structure by controlling the already created 'abnormality' for example, throwing the ball of fire toward your opponent, or moving the already morphed terrain."

Noticing that everyone comprehended what she just said, she proceeded with her lesson, "Once you learn to use a magic spell, the grade of mastery will have three grades: the requesting, the ordering, and the forming.

The 'requesting', is related to the first phase, when you will request the aid from the Qi of the world;

The 'ordering', means that now there is no need anymore to request and the chant will change to ordering the Qi to follow your will, once reached this grade the magic spell will become stronger;

Lastly, the 'forming', means that you will not need the aid of the Qi from the world anymore, and you will be able to ignore completely the need to say the formula, at this grade it will be enough to say the name of the magic spell, create the structure and releasing it."

Pausing for a moment, she hesitated if saying the next sentence but in the end, she chose to speak, "This is only a theory, however after years of study we believe that in an ambient devoid of Qi is still possible to use a magic spell upon reaching the forming grade."

Hearing the last phrase the students got agitated, not because of the possibility of using a magic spell in absence of Qi, but by the existence itself of places with no Qi, "Teacher, may I ask if there are places that do not possess any Qi at all?" Not managing to hold his curiosity, a student felt the need to ask, after all the existence of such places is extremely dangerous, as where there is no Qi, is not possible to cultivate at all!

Hearing his question, the teacher is not surprised, "Yes, based on our studies it seems that once someone flies too high it will be possible to reach a completely obscure dimension, with no air or Qi, but even Longevity Realm experts failed to reach such a high area, so there is no concrete proof of its existence." While explaining this, the teacher got angry for unknown reasons, but why?

Not caring about the angry expression of the teacher, Shu Himo reminisced about what she just spoke and immediately understood: what she was talking about is the space!

The teacher felt the need to vent her anger, but managed to calm down, "The lesson is now completed, also, as you are all at the Dantian Core Formation realm you should be able to perceive the mana in your bodies, so work hard on learning the magic spells! Good luck to all of you!" Immediately after announcing the end of the lesson, she walked out of the hall, going to search for something to vent her anger.

As the lesson concluded, every student went outside of the hall reminiscing about the imparted knowledge.

Only Shu Himo stood still, blanked out, 'Was that all? What kind of lesson end in two minutes?' Shocked, Shu Himo swore that this is the last lesson he will ever take while in D class.

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Clearly feeling the need to know more about magic, Shu Himo went to the magic section, to read about magic from the entry library.

Going inside, as usual, Shu Himo said to Phylia to take five books at a time and sit on a chair.

A moment later, Phylia came back but with a strange expression, "Master, there is a small problem..."

"What is it?" Shu Himo, surprised immediately asked, what could go wrong in a library?

"There are only these ten books in the whole library..." Showing the small pile of extremely thin books, Phylia's expression did not get any better.

Shu Himo, seeing the books felt the world falling on top of him, what is wrong with this school?

First, you do a lesson of barely two minutes, and now in the library, the books are only ten and extremely thin...

Is this Academy really trying to teach anything?

Seeing the reaction from Shu Himo, Phylia added one thing, "Actually, it seems that from the next classes the quantity of magic books increases exponentially."

Hearing Phylia, Shu Himo sighed in relief and took the ten books, at least it was better than nothing.

Looking through the first he then noticed that... the content of the lesson and this book is the same. Speechless, he just recorded the ten books and returned to his room.

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'I have recorded 9 magic spells but I can't choose to learn all of them, it would be unbefitting of me if I were to learn unworthy spells!'

[Why the User doesn't just say that is too hard to learn all of them?]

'It's not!' Ignoring the system, Shu Himo then proceeded to choose the right magic spell.