Chapter 84

Chapter 84 Strongest Sage, Mending

" . . . . Iris . "

"Yes!"

I spoke to Iris who was standing in the middle of the crater .

"Looks like the exams are over . Looks like you"re practically guaranteed to pa.s.s, no need to worry . "

"Yay! . . . By the way I broke it really bad . . . Is it okay?"

"Do you think it"s okay?"

"I don"t really mind this kind of environments . . . . "

"Humans are a creature that minds this kind of things . "

. . . Well to be honest, I don"t really care if the schoolyard turned into a crater .

Cause even some random magic experiments will produce craters .

Or rather, you rarely ever stand on a flat surface in an actual fight, I feel that this environment is better for training .

"So, I"m gonna repair this . "

"Fumu . . . No, let"s not . "

I felt like letting Iris to help would worsen the situation .

In the first place, there are only two craters that are 30 meter wide and 10 meter deep in the schoolyard .

Repairing it is easy even for me alone .

"For now, Iris, you"re prohibited from using magic unless it"s an emergency and you have no choice to or in a test . "

"I . . . I understand! I"m sorry, it"s my fault!"

. . . Un . Still, her condition is really bad .

For the time being, Iris is to be a physical-focused power fighter when she"s in school .

The teachers probably won"t let her join magic cla.s.ses anyway .

However, humans can use this magic called Physical Reinforcement .

One can power up to a safe level using Physical Reinforcement as long they don"t mind the efficiency .

Since Iris"s mana is virtually almost limitless, she can ignore the efficiency factor and demonstrates overwhelming power with it .

While thinking about that, I walk around the schoolyard while mending it with earth magic .

I have to walk around because of the Fourth Crest"s range .

The repair ended in five minutes .

"Princ.i.p.al . Any problem with the repair?"

"None . Of course there"s no problem . . . But repairing it in five minutes after it got damaged that bad . . . "

"It wasn"t really different than what I did in the entrance exams back then, just that the scale was bigger . "

"Just how hard do you think magicians in this world struggle to increase that scale . . . Especially civil engineering magicians, I"m pretty sure they"d faint if they saw what you did just now . "

"If they did, I"ll rouse them up and teach them chantless magic . "

Well, I can"t be a.r.s.ed to do that myself though, so I"d leave it to the teachers .

" . . . By the by, how"s the progress with the barrier material procurement?"

"It"s going well . . . . Is what I"d like to say, unfortunately we"re having a shortage of a certain thing . "

As I thought .

I could guess what happened .

"We"re lacking Glory Crest huh . "

" . . . So you had it antic.i.p.ated . Exactly . The processing cannot keep up . "

To begin with, there aren"t many Glory Crest bearers in the Second Academy .

Since we needed lots of them to refine and process the metal, I had guessed that gathering only beginner Glory Crest wouldn"t be enough to keep up the pace .

I also had thought of a way to deal with it .

"What happened to that plan we talked about?"

"About the First Academy?"

"Yes . "

That is, teach chantless magic to First Academy"s students and split the burden .

Although they might not be as efficient as the Second Academy students, they should still be able to do refinery even if they"ve been just taught .

Above all, the numbers are too far apart .

The First Academy has as many students as Second Academy, however all of them are of Glory Crest .

"We"re having some difficulties . The First Academy"s princ.i.p.als and students are vehemently against it . They don"t seem willing to admit that Glory Crest isn"t suited for battle . "

"But First Academy students saw how other crests instantly beat Glory Crests didn"t they?"

"Their excuse is that Mathias was monstrous, so that had nothing to do with crests . I can somewhat agree with that . . . but apparently the other party can"t stomach it . Just the other day, First Academy princ.i.p.al demanded to do the interpersonal match over again . "

"Do over?"

"Yeah . They insisted that the match before was invalid because a demon intruded . "

. . . I see . Doing the match over huh .

Alright .

I"ve come up with something good .

"Alright . . . . Let"s do that match . "

" . . . Normally we wouldn"t mind doing so . . . But we"re currently in an emergency . We"ve got no time to wastes with some idiots do we?"

"That"s exactly why . We"ll shut up all of them in one fell swoop using that match . "

Those guys seem like they really don"t want to admit the weakness of Glory Crest .

It"s not like I don"t understand, after looking down on Disqualified Crest that much, they were suddenly told that the Glory Crest was the weak one instead .

That"s why I"ll make it so that those guys practice production-type magic without reserve .

" . . . Shutting them all up? Is that possible?"

"It is . . . . But the term needs to be changed so that the other party is unable to make excuses . "