Chapter 26

Chapter 26 Strongest Sage, Gets Surrounded by Teachers

"Now introduce yourself starting from . . . Well anyone"s fine . Alright, Mathias the top grade of the school year! Let"s start from you!"

Looks like the princ.i.p.al is calling us by our names .

He"s not calling the surname probably because your houses, upbringing and such are irrelevant in this school .

If there"s someone with a famous n.o.ble name or something among us, the other students will be conscious of that person even if they don"t intend to after all .

I"m in agreement with the goal and only tell my given name for my introduction .

"I"m Mathias . Just call me Mathi . Err . . . "

Come to think of it, I haven"t prepared what to say here at all . This is my first self-introduction in hundreds of years after all .

. . . . Well, there should be no need to say superfluous stuff since this school is kinda like a military academy . Guess I should just tell my combat orientation .

"My crest is the Fourth Crest . . . . I mean . Disqualified Crest . My specialty is in the short-range magic and physical mixed combat . Nice to meet you . "

The crest isn"t commonly known as the Fourth Crest in the present age, so I called it as they would .

The cla.s.sroom rustled a bit after hearing my introduction .

"Magic and physical mixed combat, what"s that?"

"Rather, can Disqualified Crest even use magic?"

"I also has Disqualified Crest and I can"t use magic you know?"

The princ.i.p.al is grinning to see the cla.s.sroom .

"Next! The runner-up, Ruli!"

After my introduction was over, the princ.i.p.al looked down at the paper on his hand and called Ruli"s name .

That paper probably has our grades on it .

"Yes! My name is Ruli . I"m good with magic and a little bit with swordsmanship . I want to become a magic augmenter! Um . . . Nice to meet you!"

Ruli introduced herself while looking slightly tense .

The cla.s.sroom rustled again, though not as loud as with mine .

Apparently, it"s rare for a First Crest like Ruli to be wanting to become a Magic Augmenter . The First Crest IS the crest for Magic Augmenters though . . . .

The current world values Crests the complete opposite .

It"s so bad that I begin to suspect that someone with a malicious intent made it this ineffective .

"Next! Ace!"

"Yes!"

The cla.s.s continues with the introductions .

All the second to seventh ranked people had the First Crest .

And five of them besides Ruli wanted to become magicians .

"The next one"s the last . . . . Alma!"

"Yes . The name"s Alma . I"ve got the Regular Magic Crest so I"m aiming to become a warrior . Though I can"t win in either magic or sword against Ruli . . . . I"ve got some confidence with a bow though . . . . "

The introduction was quite unfortunate somehow . Well, I guess it"s only natural since the other party is the runner-up of the whole school year . The difference in their swords" performances is also quite huge .

And for some reason she"s aiming to become a warrior even with the Regular Magic Crest which is well suited for magic .

"And that"s a wrap . Anyone has a question?"

"Sensei, I have a question!"

Alma raised her hand .

"What is it?"

"Mathias-kun"s scores on the pa.s.sing announcement were weird, was that a mistake!"

"Ah . That huh . The weird one here is Mathias, not the scores . How he is weird, you can check for yourself during the practical lesson . For the time being, S cla.s.s and A cla.s.s will have joint lessons . I"ve got talk about that with you, Mathias, come to the princ.i.p.al office later . "

After such and such, our first homeroom ended and I was taken to the princ.i.p.al office .

What do they want from me I wonder .

"Alright . I see that everyone is here . "

A lot of adults were already inside the room when we entered .

They"re most likely this school"s teachers . Several faces look familiar from the exam and the entrance ceremony .

30% are of scholar type, 40% are of magician type and 30% are of warrior type huh .

The fact that there"s not even one mixed physical and magic combat type slightly bothers me, but they have good balance if we put that aside .

"Sorry for being so sudden, Mathias, please solve this problem . And this too . "

The princ.i.p.al said that and handed me a paper with two problems .

And then, the scholar-type teachers begin to observe me as to not miss even a beat of my hand movement .

One of the problems is the same problem from the entrance exam back then .

Perhaps they"re doubting me of cheating .

Fortunately, both of the problems are of rudimentary magic circle mathematics . The first problem can be solved in 20 seconds as long as you know Pythagorean theorem . The next problem is a bit more complex, but three minutes are enough to finish it .

I write the formula on the provided paper and derive the answer while being careful with mistakes .

Well, I can do it with my intuition without calculations for this level of magic circles .

Rather, magic circle maths are the basic for magic augmenters, they won"t be able to do even fivefold augmentation if they can"t do this much .

I finished solving the problems while thinking that .

" . . . In . . . an instant . . . !?"

"Oy, is this correct?"

"It"s an unsolved problem . There"s no way we can make sure of it unless we construct the magic . "

"But I can"t see anything contradictory at the very least . Perhaps this is . . . . "

"The teacher in charge of magic augment should be able to test and confirm it shouldn"t he?"

"P-please wait, I"ll bring back magic stones for experiments!"

The princ.i.p.al office clamored the moment I finished the problems, some teachers even ran off somewhere .

Huh? This seems different from them doubting me of cheating somehow .

"Did I do anything wrong", I looked at the princ.i.p.al with that in mind .

"Princ.i.p.al-sensei, this is--"

"Mathias, do you know what you just solved?"

"The problem in the entrance exam of this academy and the extended version of that problem right?"

The princ.i.p.al grinned when he heard me .

"That is certainly a question in the Second Royal Academy"s entrance exam . . . . . Under the a.s.sumption that it won"t be solved that is . "

"a.s.sumption it won"t be solved?"

"Yea . It"s there for us to see how far would the partic.i.p.ants think it through, even if they can"t solve it . . . . You seem to have solved it though . "

Such a simple problem is a.s.sumed to be unsolvable, what a weird thing to say .

If magic augmenters can"t even construct this level of magic circle, that means no one in this world can make a proper magic sword .

Don"t tell me that the magic swords in Ba.s.s"s store are treated as proper ones, there"s no way, nuh uh .

"Let me tell you the correct answer . The first problem is a question in the Royal Magic University entrance exam, the second problem is an unsolved problem that hasn"t been solved even after the country gathered the entire magic scholars . "

. . . . Ha?