Magic Academy Bans Harem

Chapter 214 New Road
"More powerful, flexible, precise, difficult to interfere with, and irreplaceable. These are the most foreseeable benefits of increasing the number of magic steps."

"It is powerful, no doubt. Unless, like the magic I cast before, many invalid steps are added. Of course, sometimes, depending on the specific situation, adding some invalid steps can make your magic more elusive. And this is the aspect of 'difficult to interfere' mentioned before."

"Sometimes, external forces can interfere with magic. For example, strong winds, sudden downpours, and other changes that occur during the casting process. Under the influence of these external forces, a certain step of elementary magic is restricted, which basically makes the magic invalid. Even if the environment is like this, if you encounter a wizard who specifically tries to interfere with other people's magic steps, this situation will be even easier to achieve."

"Assuming that the most basic elementary magic also requires five steps, then if the wizard who wants to interfere can stop the opponent's magic release with just one or two steps, it is actually a very cost-effective thing. What's more, after the key steps are interfered with, it is not impossible for the magic you use to be 'taken away' by other wizards."

"As for medium-level magic, as the number of steps increases, as long as some preventive steps are added during the casting process to ensure that the key steps are never interfered with, then even if the surrounding environment changes suddenly, or when facing a wizard with malicious and hostile intentions, the magic will still be released and take effect."

“As for flexibility and precision, they seem to be similar concepts, but in fact, there are some subtle differences.”

As Ritas spoke, he took out a rapidly inflating balloon from his pocket and suspended it in mid-air.

"After adding my magic, this balloon is almost impossible to burst with any elementary magic. The reason is very simple, it will dodge. Is there any student who wants to try it? Okay, student Iris, please."

Looking at Iris, who looked more impressive than many other students even without raising her hand, and had a stronger presence after raising her hand, Ritas made a "please" gesture.

Next, Iris began to rack her brains to try to remotely destroy the balloon hanging in the air not far away.

Although Iris's magic was slightly weaker than others, it was obviously enough to burst the balloons. In addition, after her heart knot was untied, Iris did not slack off in her magic practice, so she mastered many types of magic.

But it was just as Ritas said, because the balloon would respond or dodge according to Iris's magic, no matter how she tried, the balloon still floated leisurely in the air as if mocking her.

"hateful!"

Looking up at the big sun in the sky, Iris had the illusion that the balloon seemed to be making faces at her. She picked up a stone at lightning speed and threw it at the balloon.

I can only say that this was the most dangerous time, as the stone almost flew past the balloon.

"Student Iris—"

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry that I lost my cool."

Although Iris cast the most basic strengthening magic on herself when throwing stones, she still knew that her behavior was a bit impulsive and inappropriate, so she immediately clasped her hands and apologized to Ritas.

"No matter what the moment, the mage must try to remain calm."

After a brief sermon, Ritas asked Iris to return to her original position.

"Next, I will demonstrate the medium magic specialized in 'flexibility' and the medium magic specialized in 'precision'."

As Ritas spoke, the fireball that he had released earlier and had not dissipated slowly rose into the air.

The fireball, which looked no different from the elementary elemental magic, flew straight towards the balloon, which would actively dodge. Facing the threat, the balloon dodged to the left. But the fireball reacted quickly and turned an almost right-angled arc, caught up with the balloon, and stopped before it could break.

There was no need for Ritas to explain, the students also knew that after adding steps, Ritas's fireball became "flexible" and could change temporarily according to the opponent's movements.

When the fireball returned to Ritas's hand, he continued to demonstrate his "precision" medium magic.

At the beginning, the trajectory of the fireball was not much different from before. The difference was that when it was some distance away from the balloon, the fireball stopped before the other party could dodge.

Then, like a small ball with strong elasticity bumping around in a sealed box, the fireball began to rush in all directions, leaving unpredictable tracks.

The balloon just stared "dullly" at the fireballs flying around it, without any reaction, but just "trembling" in the center.

Although the balloon was not popped until the end, after Ritus' demonstration and recalling Iris's helplessness before, the students also understood in a clearer way that intermediate magic was naturally superior to elementary magic.

They also knew that Ritas separated "flexibility" and "precision" for demonstration. In fact, medium magic can be more powerful, more flexible and precise, and it is difficult to interfere.

Even though they are both fireballs, the fireballs of elementary and medium magic are completely incomparable.

"Finally, there is the part about 'difficult to replace'. This is actually very easy to understand. To put it simply, although elementary magic is also divided into many types such as elemental, defensive, and enhanced magic, in fact, it is very easy to defend with elemental magic, enhance with defensive magic, and use enhanced magic to give off the feeling of elemental magic. When it comes to intermediate magic, the characteristics of each type of magic will become more distinct."

"As you practice intermediate magic, you will fix some magic particles around your body. When you practice advanced magic, your magic will become more difficult to be 'replaced'. At this time, it is difficult to be replaced not only in terms of type and appearance. Instead, each advanced magic will be fundamentally different from other magic, and the advanced magic cast by different people will also have different changes, and will be closer to 'unique'."

"However, you don't need to think too much about these advanced magics for now. For now, just concentrate on improving each elementary magic you have mastered to intermediate magic."

"Because, even if I ask you to 'add steps' directly, you probably don't know what to add. So, here are some notes with my personal suggestions for you to refer to. Of course, you don't have to follow the above steps to expand. The most important thing is to add the factors you think are necessary."

After he finished speaking, Ritas began to distribute the notes he had prepared in advance.

As the lecture session on Ritas ended, the students officially began the actual practice session.

Ritas divided the students into groups of three.

The male camp includes Kraft, Miriam and Grenville as a group.

On the female side, there is a group consisting of Merci, Iris and Sylvie.

Boudica, who was suddenly transferred to the magic academy and was actually completely confused about magic, and Xia Lu, who was recently caught as a slacker, were both noticed by a pair of stern eyes and were "honored" to be assigned to the same group with the lecturer Ritas.

As Xia Lu continued to complain, each group began to try.

As for the three groups, the one that made the fastest progress was naturally the male student group consisting of two talented mages, Miriam and the second-place student in the elementary department.

"Compared to Student Orange, Student Yew's progress in the magic practice class is much slower. Student Orange had already learned intermediate magic in the practical class before the 'practical test' last semester."

"Hey, the other students are progressing so fast."

After listening to the inside information about the "rebel ninja" Kraft, Grenville could only sigh.

Perhaps, a whole semester ago, especially during the initial period of magic practice class, Grenville would definitely be unhappy to learn that his class was far behind other classes in terms of progress and level of students.

But now, he began to feel that those things were no big deal.

"But let alone medium-level magic, it's already very difficult to cast elementary magic in the labyrinth. Especially, magic that can accurately hit the enemy, not the companions."

Kraft, who recalled many unpleasant memories, spoke with a dim look in his eyes. The latter part of his voice was more like talking to himself than a conversation. "Although I don't even understand elementary magic. However, compared to the level and scale, the best magic must be the magic that suits you."

Grenville said, patting Kraft on the shoulder.

"Also, if you say 'our class' rather than 'Yewwood class', it will give me more points."

".I don't know what the extra points are for you, and I don't know what the point of elementary magic is in the second semester. But. Yeah, our class is progressing a little slower."

Kraft breathed a sigh of relief, his expression somewhat relieved, and shook his head.

Before, in the class of Chenghui, Kraft's popularity was undoubtedly not very good. And this was also something that could not be avoided.

After all, he spent all day reading Professor Fritas's books, often embarrassed his two successive instructors in class for no apparent reason, and even did something ridiculous, such as openly challenging Cecilia but being left behind.

I think that in a few years, when Kraft himself thinks back to this period, he will want to find a place to hide in. Not to mention how other people will look at him.

Kraft didn't care much about this.

He knew what others thought of him, but so what? He was also not interested in hanging out with those people.

And it's incredible.

To be fair, Glenwell, whose mind might be even less nutritious than the weeds in the yard, is certainly far inferior to those top students in Chenghui's class.

However, Kraft never felt ashamed to be compared with Grenville and other students in the Yewwood class.

"So you've learned it before, and you can even cast medium-level magic. Then isn't this class of yours very boring?"

"Boring? What the hell are you talking about!?"

Hearing Grenville say this, Kraft immediately became excited.
"Even though the core content is similar, Professor Ritas's easy-to-understand lectures and vivid demonstrations are incomparable to other people's lectures! It was not until today that I had the first feeling of knowing exactly what 'intermediate magic' is. It was also the first time I discovered that this academy is so generous that I can enjoy such a high-level course without paying any extra fees!"

"Uh"

Grenville scratched his head.

He felt that this situation was his own fault.

It's probably not an accurate analogy, but if someone actively harasses a mentally ill person and is attacked by him, it's definitely not the mentally ill person's problem.

"Also, do you know how many kinds of complex magic the professor used at the same time during the demonstration? Only an outstanding wizard can do this? In the future, you should improve yourself, student Grenville, otherwise, you won't even be able to appreciate and understand the professor's excellence."

"Millie! Ah! Millie, what have you been mumbling and fiddling with since before?"

Knowing that he was definitely "no match", Glenwell hurriedly went to look for help.

You don’t know it by looking at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it.

While Grenville and Kraft were chatting, Miriam, who had been muttering to herself, actually created a huge fireball, so big that it was more than enough to enclose a person.

"Hmm, I always feel like something is wrong."

"Uoooohhh!"

"Hey, hey, hey! How do you create magic of this magnitude when practicing with a magic wand?!"

Not only Grenville, but also Kraft was shocked. Only Miriam looked at the medium magic she had made with a look of disapproval.

As Miriam turned her eyes away from the huge fireball she had created, Grenville and Kraft, who were very worried about their own safety, jumped more than ten meters away.

"Do you understand? It's the kind of cooking that requires you to keep adding ingredients and seasonings from the beginning to the end until the dish is ready, and you may need to continue adding seasonings after it is ready. Indeed, there are such dishes. However, you can't always make that kind of dish and eat only that kind of dish forever. In addition, the result of constantly adding seasonings will only make the taste heavier, thus losing other flavors and layers. Also, if you make dishes like this, it is very likely that the final taste will be completely different from the original idea?"

"What does that feel like? Or rather, is this really your first time trying medium magic!?"

Looking at Miriam, who was almost transformed into light under the illumination of the huge fireball, Kraft responded with his voice raised an octave.

Although, since the first semester when Malik Azan went to recruit Miriam, Kraft knew that the other party must be an extremely rare genius.

But really, it was only with Miriam's magic that Kraft could never figure out what she was doing or saying.

"Ah, I know, I know, that's the feeling, right? Anyway, can you put this ball away first?"

Grenville, who was sweating, said, "It's impossible for him to understand."

Next to the fireball, Miriam looked at her magic, frowned and shook her head again.

Recalling the day's lessons, Miriam always felt a subtle sense of strangeness.

In the past, Ritas always encouraged the use of magic for various purposes, but never encouraged the use of magic to fight against others.

However, during this day's course, all of Ritas's lectures seemed to be "specialized in combat."

Only magic with flexibility and precision can hit the opponent. Only magic with sufficient complexity will not be interfered with or snatched by the enemy.
Putting aside these unnecessary distractions, Miriam was also very sure that his "medium magic" could not hit Ritas's balloon anyway. Even so, he could still make the fireball even bigger.

There is
"How do we take back this medium-level magic?"

Miriam forced an awkward smile on her face and asked the classmates around her who were rushing to evacuate.

Because, in the end, it was Ritas who was responsible for cleaning up Miriam's final mess.

Therefore, Ritas also saw the new struggles that appeared in Miriam when the magic stage entered the "medium" stage.

So, after a period of research and experimentation, on this day in early October, Ritas planned to use a new method to continue to expand Miriam's magical path.

(End of this chapter)