Magic Academy Bans Harem

Chapter 213 Medium Magic
As the "Bath Seminar" officially had its own venue, Miriam, who had been registered on the seminar's official member list as early as the end of last semester, no longer had a reason not to participate in the seminar activities.

In fact, Miriam was not opposed to the seminar activities. But he still felt that being with Ritas all the time, whether in class, after class or in daily life, was too much of a "professor".

"Even if there is no venue, you have been absent from the seminars so far. As a student of Earls, don't you have a little lack of common sense?"

"Uh"

Facing Noah's harsh lecture, Miriam scratched her head, laughed dryly, and then approached Ritas and asked in a low voice,
"Um, Professor, did I offend Senior Sister Noah? I feel like she particularly dislikes me."

Perhaps, this was the first time that Miriam encountered a senior schoolmate whom she could not "deal with" since she entered school.

"Don't worry, no one has ever messed with her, and she has always been like that. Maybe she really hates you, but you don't have to take it to heart. Because she not only hates you, she may also hate all human beings."

"?"

Is this seminar really okay?

While the two were talking, Courteney came over.

"How should I put it? It's not that I don't welcome you to bring students to visit our seminar. However, do you know the actual content of our seminar?"

Although Courteney thought that since Ritas brought it here, there shouldn't be a problem. However, since it was about work after all, she still asked.

"It doesn't matter. Boudica's situation is somewhat special, so even if she wants to join the bathing seminar, she can do so. Besides, it's already been a month since the second semester, and there are basically no other seminars recruiting new students or open for visits. She actually has no choice."

"That's all. By the way, it's okay if it's just a seminar, but for anything related to the research institute, you may need to find a specialist. You know me, I can only do the most basic record-keeping and clerical work, and I'm just average at that~"

"Why do you sound so proud?"

Seeing Courteney spreading her hands towards him, Ritas said speechlessly.

And he knew that although Courteney said it lightly, it must be because she felt at a loss about the work at the research institute, so she sought help.

Previously, Merci, Noah, and Tabatha's star patterns were all in a stable period, so Courtline could still handle the research and record work. However, after the World Tree Labyrinth incident, Merci's star pattern entered a period of change.

Although Courtline had little experience in research, she obviously knew that the data that could be recorded during this period would be extremely valuable.

“Do you still need help?”

Ritas had not expected that Merci's star pattern would grow so quickly. Originally, he wanted to spend some time recruiting new members for the "Tree Witch Research Institute", but now that time was running out, he had almost no choice.

Re-convene old members?
The advantage of this is that Ritas knows those people inside out, so he can trust their abilities. However, considering that they had made the institute so chaotic before and actually caused the institute to disintegrate for a time, it is unlikely that he can trust them.

"Anyway, let's hold on for a while. When the college exchange meeting starts, Researcher Seren will come to Earls. We should be able to hold on for a while."

The "Seren" mentioned by Ritas is the only member of the Tree Witch Research Institute besides Director Levis, Deputy Director Ritas, and the recently joined Courteney.

Ritas still trusted this Associate Professor Seren. At least, the "explosion" at the Tree Witch Research Institute had basically nothing to do with her.

However, since Associate Professor Seren chose to officially join the teaching staff at the "Arigordo School of Magic" three years ago, Ritas has had less communication with her in recent years.

Of course, regardless of whether Associate Professor Seren would eventually be interested in the research of the "Star Mark Emblem", he chose to temporarily quit his job at the academy and stay in Earls. At least, it should be no problem to hold on until the end of this month.

During this period, Ritas has to consider whether calling those former colleagues together would bring more benefits or more disadvantages.

"Hey~ You're actually tanned. It seems that it's better to open an umbrella when going out in the summer~"

Just when Ritas was in distress, Tabatha's voice floated over.

The female students gathered together and inevitably talked about topics related to "Dark Elves".

Hearing the leisurely tone in Tabatha's voice, Ritas knew that there was one more person in the academy who easily believed Boudica's nonsense.

Together with Boudica and Miriam, the people from the Bathing Seminar toured the seminar venue.

It was not night time and there were no strange people causing trouble, so the visit was rather unremarkable.

At the end of the tour, they came to the old organ room on the first floor of the venue.

As soon as they entered the room, Boudica and Miriam noticed a small door in the corner of the room that seemed to be prepared for cats and dogs, as well as a space like a small fireplace connected to the door.

"here it is?"

“It will automatically accumulate some magical places gifted by nature.”

Ritas replied calmly.

"What do you mean by automatic accumulation? Don't always bully that frog fairy. She is stupid to begin with."

Noah expressed his dissatisfaction and then demonstrated it to everyone.

She took some fresh berries, squatted against the wall and put the berries in through the small door.

Soon, as the berries were taken away, a leaf that happened to be in the shape of a bowl was pushed out from the small door, along with clear dew inside the leaf.

After finding cups, Noah distributed the dew.

"That's about it, that's it."

"." "."

So what?
Miriam and Boudica, still confused, took the dew and tasted it.

Mm. It's just water. It has a sweet taste, but it's very light. However, perhaps because of its unique and mild taste, it tastes surprisingly good.

Looking at these scenes, Ritas just shook his head secretly.

Noah had apparently become very familiar with Topa, the fairy who had come to their research institute to "build a country".

I don't know what will happen when she finds out the fairy's true side.
Taking his eyes off the future Fairy Kingdom, Ritas looked at the corner of the room with some concern.

After the World Tree Labyrinth incident, Ginny, who had once been "abandoned", recovered earlier than Ritas. According to her, the location where the World Tree Labyrinth space connects with the space where the academy is located is very, very, very deep underground. Ritas didn't know how long three verys were, so he ruthlessly asked Ginny to dive a few more times.

Finally, after repeated attempts, Ritas got a rough data before Ginny fell.

Almost a kilometer.

Therefore, normally, their seminar hall and the World Tree Labyrinth do not form a passage. Rather, as long as the angle is slightly changed from the starting point, the other end can actually be in any corner of the academy.

But even so, Ritas still felt a little uneasy when he thought that there was such a huge, ancient and mysterious space under his feet.

"Eh? Has the appearance of this organ changed?"

What interrupted Ritas's thoughts was the Bathing Goddess who had been complaining that she was the only one who couldn't drink the dew provided by the fairies.

"Yes, the previous organ had a lot of broken parts. So, I simply replaced it with the latest magic organ that can produce three different tones."

Ritas said this and simply played the piano a few times for the curious bathing goddess.

There are three kinds of sounds: one is like a flute, one is like a string instrument, and one is like a bell-like percussion instrument.

"There are actually three tones? Your magic technology is really developing rapidly in a strange direction. However, since it is just for display, according to your style, shouldn't you buy an old-looking fake piano and put it here?"

"The fakes are superfluous. This is not out of my personal preference, nor is it just for show. It just so happens that student Miriam is here today. So, go get familiar with the piano keys and the like. From now on, your seminar activities will focus on 'music rhythm'."

".Eh?"

Miriam, who had thought it was fun to play the magic harp after seeing Ritas making it, was eager to try it out, but her face immediately fell when she heard that it would become a future topic.

"This is a new way of practicing magic that I have prepared for you based on your special situation."

Ritas has always respected the students' ideas, so he mostly uses suggestions instead of orders. Although sometimes his suggestions have a kind of boldness that cannot be refused, they are still suggestions after all.

But he took an unquestionable attitude only when it came to Miriam's magic training.

Because, the moment Miriam really followed his conjecture and delved into cooking, Ritas had already decided to take on Miriam's special path of magic.

“But, don’t we already have food?”

Listening to the conversation between the teacher and student who lived together, the people around them looked more or less confused.

What is the relationship between practicing magic, music, and cooking?
Is it a code word?
"That's just the basics. Recently, we started learning 'intermediate magic', and you should have felt a little uncomfortable."

"Well"

Miriam scratched her face as if something had hit the nail on the head.

Starting from the end of September, after An sorted out the basics for everyone, Yew Fir Wood's magic practice class officially began to learn intermediate magic.

"For those who don't know much about magic, they might think that the progress of magic learning in the academy is a bit too fast. At the beginning of the second semester, we have already touched upon intermediate magic."

"But in reality, it's not that fast. Because to some extent, intermediate magic is the beginning of formal magic practice."

"First of all, are there any students who know the basis for magic grading?"

In the practical class, Ritas, who had returned, was giving a lecture to the students of Yew Fir Wood School on the training ground.

In response to Ritas' question, Kraft Schneizer raised his hand higher than anyone else.

"Okay, Student Xia Lu."

".well?"

Since being "caught" by Adeline, Xia Lu's head has been a lot bigger every time she is in class. After racking her brains for a moment, she answered uncertainly,

"Steps?"

"Correct. In the past, when magic was mostly used in combat, there were different ways to classify magic. Now, although those classification methods have been retained in some areas, the most important way to classify modern magic is to look at the 'complexity' of magic. As for the standard for measuring complexity, it is naturally based on the number of magic steps."

Ritas said as he casually rolled a fireball.

"In your opinion, what level of magic is my fireball?"

Ritas continued to ask, and this time he pointed to Kraft, who might have taken off if he didn't point to him.

"It looks like just the simplest elementary magic, but since the professor asked this question, I guess it's actually intermediate magic."

"Correct, Cadet Kraft."

Ritas nodded.
"Perhaps, in your understanding, casting elementary magic only involves two steps: 'chanting' and 'releasing'. If we extend it a little, it would be three steps: chanting, aiming, and releasing. But in fact, even the simplest magic involves about five steps."

"For example, the fireball in my hand. Even though it is elementary magic, it involves chanting, casting, levitation, staying beside me, and lasting for a period of time. There are five steps in total."

"In addition to this, I added upward rotation, downward rotation, left rotation, right rotation and other conflicting steps to the fireball at the same time. Thus, the magic that seemed to be only elementary became intermediate."

"Of course, there is no point in me doing this. I am just wasting my magic power and energy in vain. In other words, if we only talk about the strength of magic, intermediate magic is not necessarily stronger than elementary magic."

"For example, here is a huge fireball that can burn a mountain directly. But as long as the steps are few enough and pure enough, it is just elementary large-scale magic. Even if it can knock down the moon in the sky, it still can't reach the intermediate level."

Ritas paused for a moment.

"As for the specific classification method, more than ten steps are medium, and more than a hundred steps are high. However, as I explained before, you can see that the term 'steps' is subjective. Therefore, the classification of magic on the edge of each level will become blurred. If it is an exam, the examiner will generally ask you to complete the corresponding steps, and judge whether you have passed based on whether you have successfully completed them."

Thinking that the midterm exam was not far away, Ritas mentioned it casually.

"Next, now that you have an understanding of the levels of magic, let me explain the significance and necessity of medium and high-level magic."

(End of this chapter)