Chapter 30

Chapter 30 Strongest Sage, Prevents Queer Yells

"Look carefully, this is my new weapon!"

Guyzar-sensei drew the sword on his back and pointed it at a target .

And then-- .

"Nunn!"

A small fireball shot out of the tip of his sword along with Guyzar-sensei"s yell .

The target only shook, but Guyzar-sensei didn"t mind it .

"Nunn! Nunn! Nunn!"

Small fireb.a.l.l.s shot out of the sword"s tip in rapid succession and the target got destroyed on the fourth shot .

After seeing that, Guyzar-sensei changed his target .

"Nunn! Nunn! Nunn! Nunn!"

The target this time also broke after four shots .

Guyzar-sensei"s crest is the Third Crest .

The Third Crest doesn"t have much power, but it has a high rapid-fire rate .

And with training that rapid fire brings about brutal firepower .

It"s still not as strong as the Fourth Crest that"s specialized in close-quarter combat, but it"s a highly reliable crest in a group battle .

Because you can raise the overall firepower simply by bringing more users .

"Wasn"t Guyzar-sensei supposed to be hardly able to use magic?"

"That sensei, with magic . . . . I mean, don"t you think he"s strong at it?"

"That target is the fifth target right? They seemed weak during Mathias"s demonstration, but breaking a fifth target in four shots means that the magic is as powerful as the upper low cla.s.s magic . . . . "

"If Guyzar-sensei can do it, I think I can do it too!"

Seeing a teacher who was obviously a swordman type used chantless magic ended up encouraging the students .

I was a bit dissatisfied since even the magic I used should be usable for Fourth Crest bearers if they just trained for a short while, but I guess having the usefulness of chantless magic known is a good enough result .

The magic earlier should be regarded as common in only several months .

"By the way, Guyzar-sensei only started training chantless magic yesterday, mind you . When a teacher who originally could use magic trained on it, it would look like this . "

And then one of the magic-type teachers used a magic, knocking down two targets .

"Awesome . That was as powerful as a mid-cla.s.s magic . . . . "

That"s quite some power, even if that teacher has the Second Crest (the crest has no special characteristic at first, but it can shoot powerful magic once you train it . )

I wonder if it was because his mana was abused by habitual uses of chant magic . It seems this school"s instructors originally have well trained mana with them .

I dunno what"s this mid-cla.s.s magic stuff about though .

"Sensei! Are all of the teachers able to use chantless magic!?"

At one of the students" question, I felt that the teachers" atmosphere froze for an instant .

And then the teachers look at each other and put on apologetic looks on their faces .

"No . To tell you truth, most of the swordsmanship teachers can"t do it yet, and only a third of magic teachers are able to . It appears that correcting your longtime habit is really hard after all . . . . "

The mood in the schoolyard darkened .

Looks like changing their way after using chant magic for dozens of years isn"t so simple after all .

However, the mood completely turns around with the next few words from the teacher .

"Alright . Let"s start the chantless training for real now . Stand before each targets . Can every one of you use fire arrow? Even though you"re Cla.s.s A, there"s one who aspires to be a swordsman if I"m not mistaken . . . . "

"Yes! I want to be a swordsman, but I can use fire arroow!"

Alma raised her hand while saying that .

Apparently, the sole swordsman partic.i.p.ant was Alma .

She"s with Ruli like usual, she"s sticking close to her .

"Then let"s start with learning the movement of mana . Everyone, shoot a fire arrow at the target and--"

And then a magic lecture similar to the one I taught my elder brother Reich began .

About 10 minutes later .

"Ooh, the magic came out! I did it!"

Some students have successfully grasped the sensation of mana and invoked chantless magic .

The first one who did was Alma .

"Look look! Nunn! Nunn!"

Alma readied her sword, pointed it toward the target and shot fireb.a.l.l.s . The target broke with two fireb.a.l.l.s .

Looks like the magic of Alma who has the Second Crest is already more powerful than Guyzar-sensei"s .

However-- .

"Hey, Alma . "

"What do you think? That was my magic!"

"You"re doing well . . . . But there"s no need to mimic that yell you know . "

"Eh? . . . Ah"

It seems she didn"t notice .

Good thing I pointed it out before it was too late . I don"t wanna hear 『Nunn!』 buzzing in the battlefield in place of chanting .

Well, I"m just glad that the propagation of proper magic is going smoothly .

If I were in my past life, I would catch some random magic combatant, teach them immortality magic and various stuff and rear them for several hundreds years into a magic combatant ready to fight s.p.a.ce monsters in a party with me, thus there would be no need to do all this, but--

At the present state, forget about expecting some powerful magic combatant to appear, humanity might get wiped out first instead .

I"d like to popularize at least the basic of chantless magic to prevent that from happening .