Magic Class
p>The morning light broke, and as I emerged from the temple, I found myself in my academy professor's office, carefully adjusting my outfit.
p>Since the first class at ten o'clock was magic, it was held in Meiel's classroom rather than Aria's, and right now, I was also Meiel's avatar.
p>“This should be fine.”
p>Dark blue wavy hair, a fluffy robe covering even up to the mouth, half-closed eyes with a sleepy haze.
p>I had already double-checked five times. The first real-world class had left me tense, so I double-checked. There probably wouldn't be any problems.
p>Glancing at the clock, the time was 9:55. It was almost time to leave, so while I finished checking my clothes, I pulled the staff I had set up beside the full-length mirror with a light telekinesis.
p>“Shall we go now?”
p>By now, everyone should have finished preparing and gathered. I opened the classroom window and floated out, soaring into the sky.
p>“As expected, gliding through the air feels great.”
p>The best thing about being Meiel was this.
p>Unlike the other jobs I had—swordswoman, archer, chef—all physical types who ran around on the ground, Meiel the mage didn't need to move her body for even a small action.
p>After all, everything could be handled with magic.
p>Of course, the outfit she wore was the final tier, so I wasn't weak in strength, and I couldn't move directly. But using magic in daily life was a different matter.
p>Moreover, when I changed into Meiel's body, the way I naturally understood mana manipulation was almost godlike.
p>Right now, floating and gliding through the air was nothing more than an ordinary application of mana, not some skill.
p>“Mana really is too convenient.”
p>In theory, if one could handle mana perfectly, they could become omnipotent, as I said earlier. Of course, even I couldn't reach that, and nobody could.
p>As I flew, lost in these pointless thoughts, before long I reached the sky above the sports field, my classroom.
p>Looking down below, the sports field already had a crowd of students who looked like they were taking magic class.
p>They weren't lined up in perfect formation, making it hard to count them, but from a glance, there had to be more than forty.
p>Thinking back to the modest twenty to thirty in my previous life, this was far more.
p>“And I have to teach all these students.”
p>No matter how I looked at it, I felt like I'd taken on an impossible challenge. I wanted to go back to the past, but it was too late now.
p>This was all for the future, so I comforted myself and slowly descended toward the sports field.
p>“““……….”””
p>As I started to descend, one by one they noticed me and fell silent. Soon, everyone was staring at me, and the lively chatter stopped. A heavy silence settled.
p>But now only I was in trouble…?
p>I couldn't hide the unease from the heavy silence pressing on my shoulders, but I couldn't call out to make them noisy again either.
p>Since this was my first time as a professor, I had to endure this atmosphere. I grabbed my fluttering robe and softly landed on the small dais in front of the students.
p>And I looked back at the silent students.
p>Unlike the Arin I'd seen in yesterday's A class, the standout characters were Pina from the healer job group, Shaty from the mage job group, and Fran from the shaman job group.
p>The students taking magic class were representatives of job groups related to magic.
p>Staring at the three of them, I smiled faintly inside my robe and introduced myself to my students like yesterday.
p>“Everyone, welcome… I'm Meiel… From today, I'll be teaching you magic class…”
p>My voice came out altered by Meiel's unfamiliar filter.
p>In my voice that sounded like it could fall asleep at any moment, a few students let out soft laughs. It wasn't mockery; it was the cute kind one sees when meeting a living creature. I didn't point it out and continued.
p>“I hate wasting time, so… I'll start the class right away…”
p>With those words, I shook the staff I was lightly holding.
p>The goal was to move the earth's mana and create a very solid dummy target. Following my will, the soil from the sports field gathered and rose at the students' center.
p>“Uwah?!”
p>“This is… a pillar?”
p>“Is it a dummy?”
p>Students scattered in a circle in surprise as a mud dummy suddenly appeared in their midst.
p>I flew over them and landed beside the dummy.
p>“This is… a dummy I made. From now on, we'll start measurements with this…”
p>“Excuse me, Professor. Measurements?”
p>“Um… just as it sounds. Shoot the magic you're most confident in here. If you know defensive magic, I'll attack…”
p>I had spent a lot of time yesterday thinking about what to do for the first class.
p>It wasn't like a state-mandated national exam class teaching real combat. So I had agonized for hours, and the conclusion I reached was this.
p>Measure the students' abilities.
p>For actual combat, I could explain and demonstrate what I knew, but the problem was adjusting the difficulty.
p>So I needed to measure the students' abilities. Then average them and teach accordingly.
p>‘Mana Synchronization, Durability Enhancement, Super Regeneration.’
p>I waved my staff several times toward the dummy I created and cast enhancement magic. Since forty students were hitting it and it still had to stand firm, I worked diligently even though it was troublesome.
p>After finishing the spell, I turned my head to the students standing in a circle around me and the dummy.
p>“The ones who are confident come forward first… Oh, and if you place first, there's a big reward, so go all out…”
p>If there were no rewards for this test, it wouldn't be fun at all, so I had prepared a big reward for first place.
p>The reward came from the Pope. It was a staff made of Cheprithia wood.
p>A high-grade wood where even a single piece was worth 100,000 gold and had excellent mana responsiveness. For mages, the staff made of this wood was the dream staff.
p>Well, it was a staff one could only use at level forty in the game, so it was plenty as a product.
p>Nodding at what I thought was a fair product, a girl walked out from the crowd of students.
p>“Is it okay if I go first?”
p>“Ung… It's fine.”
p>The girl who came out was none other than Shaty. A character I'd explained a few times before, but one who competed with Arin, the swordswoman representative, for first and second in popularity.
p>Shaty, with ash-colored and pink hair mixed half-and-half, sky-blue eyes, and about 160 centimeters tall, was the same height as me. She was clearly showing that she was one of the characters fighting for first and second popularity.
p>She wasn't as kind as Arin, but her confident personality with such an appearance was more than attractive.
p>I nodded at Shaty's question, and Shaty put on a confident smile, pulled out her staff, and pointed it at the target. She closed her eyes tightly.
p>Then, slowly, several magic circles rose around Shaty. The surrounding students stepped back a little at her appearance, and I looked up at the sky where her mana felt, murmuring to myself the words I hadn't been able to say out loud.
p>‘If it's not my magic, I won't be able to break it…’
p>Since I had put full power into the enhancement magic.