Magic Academy Bans Harem

Chapter 16, Magic Practice Class
With the return of the Yew Fir School's instructor, the students of Yew Fir School finally got their long-awaited first practical magic class.

Following behind Ritas, who was holding a metronome in one hand and pushing a flatbed cart with the other, six students, plus two assistant instructors and assistant instructors, came to the magic practice field in the backyard of the teaching building.

There are many different types of magic training grounds, and the one that Mr. Yew has reserved today is a large and spacious training ground.

In the training ground, Ritas signaled the students to stand at a distance from each other, and then distributed practice wands to everyone.

Holding the thin wands like short branches in their hands, the students, who probably felt the reality of being in a magic academy for the first time, were all very excited.

"These practice wands will be kept by you from now on. If the wand is damaged or lost, you can apply to the academy for a new practice wand. However, the opportunity to apply for a new one is only once a semester. If you want to apply again, you will need to pay the corresponding fee."

Since Earls Higher School of Magic charges an unimaginably expensive tuition fee every semester, the treatment for students is also very good, and good in all aspects. Although the students of the Yew Fir class are specially recruited, they will not be discounted in terms of treatment.

"Except for students who have become researchers in the eighth semester, it is against school rules for other students to possess wands other than practice wands in the academy. Once discovered, the academy will punish them according to the severity of the situation. But I believe that you have all read the school rules carefully, so there is no need for me to repeat them."

Ritas said as he glanced at the students.

Most of the students behaved calmly, only Miriam and Glenwell looked away guiltily.

". However, these are probably the most important taboos for dropping out of school, so I will still mention them again and again when necessary."

Ritas added after glaring at Miriam and Grenville for a while.

In every class, there are always a few idiots in Earls College who accidentally break school rules due to lack of understanding and are eventually expelled.

Ritas didn't want such an idiot to appear in his class.

"Even though you can carry practice wands at any time, the use of magic without permission in the academy is prohibited. Whether you are a student or a faculty member."

As soon as Ritas finished speaking, he was immediately greeted with two doubtful looks. They were Merci and Miriam. They had seen Ritas use magic recklessly on weekdays.

"However, if there is a legitimate reason, such as in class, seminars, etc., or in some explainable emergencies, even if magic is used, it will not be a big problem. After all, the academy prohibits only malicious acts or acts that abuse magic."

The two doubtful looks towards Ritas became even more intense.

However, Ritas' attitude was still exceptionally calm.

There was one thing he didn't say, which was "Even if it is abused, there will be no problem as long as it is not discovered by the academy. And even if it is discovered, it will be difficult to detect as long as it is not used through a wand."

"Well, before we officially start the magic practice class, I would like to ask you a question. Have you ever used magic before coming to the academy?"

After a short while, a student raised his hand.

"Go ahead, Cadet Sylvie Latras."

"Professor, when I was young, I once used magic under the guidance of my family's wizard. However, after that time, I was strictly forbidden by my family to use magic again."

"Your family's judgment is correct."

Ritas nodded to Sylvie, and then explained to her curious eyes,

"I believe that after this period of study, you all already know the fundamentals of the phenomenon of magic, which is related to 'magic particles'."

As soon as he said this, Ritas noticed a trace of guilt on Miriam and Grenville's faces.

Don't they even know this? What on earth are they doing in the magic academy?

Repressing the thought of changing the magic practice class into an in-class exam, Ritas continued,

"The process of using magic can be said to be a two-way choice between the caster and the magic particles. In other words, magic particles also have wills and can independently choose whether to respond to the caster's requests, whether to follow the caster's strict instructions, etc. Of course, the will of magic particles does not have a very high intelligence and cannot be compared with us as highly intelligent creatures."

"After a long period of research, magicians have discovered that magic particles' perception of a person changes according to the person's age. In other words, in your own perception, you are the same person at one, seven, and fourteen years old. But in the eyes of magic particles, you are not the same individual at different ages."

"This also means that as people age, magic particles will suddenly change their 'attitude' one day, turning from actively responding to turning a blind eye, or vice versa. Therefore, it is common for children who have a high affinity for magic when they are young to suddenly become ordinary at a certain moment. Or people who have no magical talent at all suddenly awaken their talent."

"However, this cognitive change of magic particles will greatly decrease after the caster reaches the age of fourteen. In other words, in the cognition of magic particles, we humans enter a 'stable period' after the age of fourteen. This is also the reason why almost all magic academies now only recruit students over the age of fourteen. Even most countries on the continent set fourteen as the dividing line of adulthood for a long time in the past, which is more or less related to this reason."

Ritas paused and continued his sermon.
"When one starts practicing magic at a young age, once they encounter the phenomenon of cognitive changes caused by magic particles, it will be a huge blow to the practitioner's spirit. If the blow is so great that they develop a shadow and fear of magic itself, and start to question themselves, then the ability of this magic practitioner will undoubtedly decline a lot."

"On the other hand, the more often magic is used, the more fixed the magic particles surrounding the magician will be. In theory, no matter who you are, there is an upper limit to the amount of magic particles you can attract, and it is difficult to drive away magic particles that are fixed around. This results in the old magic particles not responding or cooperating after the cognitive change phenomenon occurs, but the magician cannot attract many new magic particles."

In addition, the practice of magic usually consumes a lot of money and energy.

The apprentice wizard who had paid a lot in his childhood suddenly became a person who could not use magic after he grew up. This was undoubtedly a tragedy for him and the people around him.

However, Tas didn't think it was necessary to tell the students these words. After all, their presence here meant that they had passed the "screening" of magic particles and were qualified to become mages.

After listening to Ritas' explanation, Sylvie showed a look of enlightenment.

And Ritas actually found her reaction a bit strange.

Since the Latras family could afford to hire a magician and had the knowledge to stop Sylvie from learning magic in time, why didn't they tell Sylvie the reason?
Perhaps Sylvie's family situation might be more complicated than imagined.

"Well, since you haven't studied magic in depth, let's start the practical class by testing your compatibility."

Ritas continued his lecture and moved the flatbed cart he brought with him to the front.

"When magic is actually used like this, magic particles gather around the caster."

In the magic training ground, Ritas picked up his practice wand and headed towards the open space in front.

Soon, six flat mounds of earth rose from the ground and rose to the perfect position for seats. Then, after using a breeze to blow away the dust and sand on the mounds, Ritas thought about it and made two more mounds of earth seats next to him.

One seat was for Ann, who was "listening in," and the other was for Adeline, although she probably wouldn't use it.

"However, magic particles cannot be captured with the naked eye. Therefore, this magic tool is needed--" Ritas pointed to the large object on the flatbed cart.

The large dark-colored object has a trapezoidal base and six trumpet-shaped objects of different sizes are hung on top. In addition, there are intricate finger-diameter pipes of unknown material connecting the base and the top from various angles.

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In stark contrast to the slight excitement shown by Ritas, the students' expressions when looking at this magic tool were quite subtle.

Because, even though it can be seen that the magic has signs of careful maintenance, the ubiquitous rust and evidence of age make them think of one word.

Newly unearthed.

"This is the magic tool, the 'Truth Mirror', invented by the sage Kamon about four hundred years ago. The Truth Mirror was the first in the history of magic to confirm the real existence of magic particles. From then on, magic, which had always been in a barbaric state of blindfolded groping, officially ushered in glory."

Ritas took the opportunity to instill important knowledge points into the students, and then stood in front of the truth looking glass.

"The peephole is now in a properly adjusted state. You can try to use it to observe what changes will occur around me when I cast magic."

As Ritas spoke, he kept a faint light on the tip of his practice wand.

Among the students, Miriam bravely moved behind the truth looking glass.

".Eh? Am I standing in the wrong position? Professor, why can't I see anything?"

"Look down along the largest lens at an angle of about thirty degrees."

When Ritas was directing, Grenville and Iris also came over. But soon they also responded with the message "can't see anything".

Just when the Truth Mirror was not working at all and there was a commotion in the training ground, the voice of Adeline, who had been watching silently, came over.

"Hehe, Professor Ritas, are you sure you want to use this antique from four hundred years ago to test the compatibility of magic particles?"

Before Ritas could respond, An added,

"My lady, this is just a replica. Even if the Truth Mirror made by Sage Kamon survived to this day, it would be carefully preserved in a museum."

"Or is it a fake?"

Adeline was surprised for a moment, then her smile widened.
"Since it is already four hundred years later, Professor Ritas, I still suggest using simpler and more convenient magic tools to detect magic particles. As luck would have it, the research institute is not too far from here, so let An borrow some of the latest magic tools."

“But this is the prototype of the Truth Mirror.”

Ritas wanted to argue, but he thought that the more important thing now was to let the class go on smoothly. So he sighed and planned to ask An to go to the research institute area for help.

At this moment, Merci's voice came over.

“Is this something that can be seen now?”

"It seems to be true."

The students immediately gathered around with great interest.

Perhaps because they knew that this newly unearthed ancient magic tool was just a "fake", the students who dared to tinker with it managed to tinker with it even though they didn't know the principles behind it.

Seeing the students constantly looking into the mirror and making sounds of amazement, Ritas breathed a sigh of relief.

The brief malfunction of the magic tool can be considered a minor teaching accident.

So, when encountering this incident, Ritas' heart was far from being as calm as it seemed.

After all, it was also the first time for Ritas to serve as a class tutor. The reason why he was always so serious and cautious was that he was more afraid of failure than others.

But in his opinion, the incident of the sky collapsing to a certain extent seemed to be nothing to the students of Zishanmu School.

After the Truth Mirror began to operate normally, the students entered the stage of detecting the compatibility of magic particles.

According to the ratio of magic particles gathered when attracting magic particles, it can be roughly seen which type of magic the attractor is more suitable for practicing.

Since this kind of detection still has a lot of randomness, unless a certain type of magic particles accounts for more than 30% of the magic particles attracted, otherwise it will only be considered within the error range.

The test results showed that among the six students, only Glenville had an excellent compatibility with water element magic particles. The magic particles of the other students were distributed relatively evenly.

However, this is not a strange thing, most magicians have this kind of affinity close to "moderate". Ritas himself is just slightly better than the affinity of wind element magic particles.

This compatibility itself does not mean whether the tester is a genius or not, it is just testing whether he or she has a particularly suitable field.

What really reflects some talent is the magnitude of the magic particles that are attracted.

Among the six students, Iris's talent was the worst.

Since Merci was coated with a special potion that suppressed the star pattern, she struggled greatly when attracting magic particles. But even so, Merci's performance was better than Iris's.

However, everyone in the training grounds was not focusing on Iris.

Because, at this moment, even more exaggerated phenomena are happening elsewhere.

This moment can be seen clearly through the looking glass of truth.

The magic particles surrounding Miriam are like the bright stars in the night sky.

(End of this chapter)