“You all should know that the source of mana is the soul. It is born from the spirituality within the soul. As for how it’s born and other deeper topics, we’ll talk about those later.”
The magic class had been going on for an hour, and the lesson was on track.
As she explained mana and lightly tapped the magic wand in her hand, the teacher said so.
Seeing this, the classmates nodded in agreement with faces full of recognition.
On the magic screen behind the teacher, images flashed one after another, showing the composition of the human body and the channels within humans for storing and circulating mana.
And the origin of all this was a blue flame located in the human brain, obviously much brighter than the channels, emitting powerful mana fluctuations.
“You just need to know that, as one of the top races on the continent today,”
“We humans possess souls as powerful as any other race, but unlike magical beasts and other races,”
“Most of them are born with powerful talents, allowing them to harness the power of mana within their bodies through those talents.”
The screen switched, showing the differences in body structures between humans, other races, and magical beasts.
As one of the top races on the continent.
The brightness of spirituality in human souls is not inferior to elves, vampires, and most high-level magical beasts.
But the drawback is that the channels responsible for supplying mana flow in the human body are sparse and narrow, making it difficult to circulate and use.
“Although this makes the mana born in human bodies sufficiently pure, in most cases, it leaves people with a body full of mana but low efficiency in releasing it. Besides learning magic, there are no other ways to utilize the mana within the body.”
“This ultimately gave humans magic and related knowledge far surpassing other races, and allowed humans to pilot Magitech Knights, these steel-bodied war machines,”
“But in the distant past, people were once driven to the brink of extinction by this constitution.”
Thinking of all this, Teacher Hera sighed helplessly.
“You all probably felt it yesterday.”
“Even when piloting Magitech Knights, when facing attacks from Class President Isxila and the others, you were basically unable to produce any effective countermeasures.”
The reason they were beaten so badly by Ye Xu and the others yesterday, unable to release magic that could produce effective counterattacks, was a fundamental cause.
“Even when piloting Magitech Knights, you’re only having your mana passively extracted by the magitech core.”
“Just like human ancestors ten thousand years ago facing magical beasts and other races, besides using the Magitech Knight itself and its armaments for attacks,”
“You have no other means of attack.”
“This is also why, in the present where Magitech Knights are the main human combat force, magic can still reign supreme over magitech and alchemy, becoming the most important discipline.”
Teacher Hera waved her hand, and the screen behind her changed to two images.
The left was a diagram of the human body composition, the right was a simple structural diagram of a Magitech Knight.
With such a stark contrast, the classmates clearly noticed the great similarity between Magitech Knights and human body composition.
“Magitech Knights are essentially another body for humans, allowing humans to release magic and confront magical beasts and other races without using their weak flesh bodies.”
“Stronger body, greater power, faster magic release, higher potency. Besides that, there’s no big difference from the human body itself.”
“Magic is the core means for humans to harness internal mana for attacks.”
“In other words, even piloting the same Magitech Knight, if you don’t know magic, once you use up all the armaments, your Magitech Knight will become a sitting duck in front of others, unable to counterattack, at their mercy.”
Teacher Hera waved her hand, enlarging the Magitech Knight structural diagram, while shrinking the human body diagram and placing it inside the Magitech Knight.
This time, people could clearly see something connecting to the human soul in the head, while the magitech channels inside the Magitech Knight directly linked to the mana channels in the human body.
Whenever the human inside made a movement, no matter how small, the Magitech Knight could reflect it without difference.
“Similarly, every skill you train, like swordsmanship, magic accuracy, and so on, can be fully manifested when you pilot the Magitech Knight.”
“In other words…”
“Even without practical classes, students should go to the school’s training grounds in their free time, practice more magic, and if possible, train close combat skills like swordsmanship. Got it!”
The teacher called out coquettishly, and the classmates immediately nodded in agreement: “Understood~”
Even Ye Xu at the back of the classroom nodded imperceptibly.
It felt like in the blink of an eye, the two-hour magic class was over.
If the second morning class wasn’t a practical one, there was no need to change classrooms.
The teacher ran to the students’ positions in the tiered classroom, chatting and joking with the classmates like a real sixteen-year-old beautiful girl.
Of course, more than that, nearly half the classmates were waving their magic wands.
Condensing wind bullet spells on them, occasionally throwing one at a friend when they weren’t paying attention.
—- Just in the last part of that class, the teacher taught the classmates five basic magics: fireball, water ball, wind bullet, earth condensation, and illumination.
Of course, she only allowed the use of wind bullet in the classroom.
Because it was harmless enough, and wouldn’t mess up the classroom like water ball or earth condensation, making it hard to clean.
Anyway, these basic magics were pretty much the same: converting mana to the corresponding attribute, then condensing and releasing it. The specific magic formulas used were similar, just with slight differences in details.
“Li~ttle~ Ye~ La~i~xi~ Cla~ss~ma~te~”
Just as Ye Xu was boredly condensing a dozen wind bullets on the tip of his wand to play with, Teacher Hera…
Although he had known these things since he was eight, the teacher lectured in a witty and humorous way, paired with easy-to-understand lesson plans she prepared, so listening was fine.
“Well then, since you’ve all understood the principles of magic and such,”
“The teacher will teach you first-level magics.”
“Now, everyone take out your magic wands…”
…hopped over cheerfully and approached him with a grin.
“Hm, Teacher, do you need something?” Throwing the condensed wind bullets out the window toward the sky, watching them gradually dissipate as the distance grew, Ye Xu then asked the teacher puzzledly.
“The next class is history~ ” Hera sat beside Ye Xu, grabbing his hand with a smile and asked.
Seeing this, Ye Xu was very confused and puzzled. He took a sip of the water Emon had just brought for him, then asked: “Hm, what’s the matter?”
And seeing Ye Xu ask it himself, Hera replied as such: “Nothing much~”
“Mainly, the first unit in the history textbook is the general history of the Radiant Sun Empire.”
“You know how far our Endless Mountain Range is from the Radiant Sun Empire. Teacher heard you were brought back from the empire by your brother.”
“And looking at your movements and such, they exude the flavor of a great noble from the Radiant Sun Empire. You must know the empire’s history well, so…”
Teacher Hera licked her lips, her eyes turning slyly.
“For the next class, how about helping the teacher and lecturing the classmates together~”
“!”
As the words fell, Ye Xu sprayed out a mouthful of water.
No, how could she judge that he knows the empire’s history well just from that???
Do his movements exude the flavor of a great noble from the empire?
He’s just been marinated by the empire, not only in the physical sense, but forcibly marinated.
“Cough, cough, cough…”
Wiping his mouth, Ye Xu then explained: “When I was young, I worked behind a noble in the empire, maybe picked up some habits through osmosis. But Teacher, you should have checked my childhood conditions; I really don’t know much about the empire’s history.”
What Ye Xu said wasn’t wrong; he really hadn’t deliberately learned about the empire’s history, and what he knows might not be more than what’s in the textbook.
As for working behind an empire noble…
The royal family should count as nobles, helping the emperor handle official business behind him… Yeah, no problem.
“Uh, ah…”
Seeing Ye Xu’s sincere gaze without any flaw, realizing she had misjudged, Hera was a bit shocked.
That can’t be; she had interacted with a marquis from the empire before. Even without deliberately following those etiquettes, the elegant flavor in Ye Xu’s movements would probably make that marquis want to hang himself if he saw it.
How could he not know the empire’s history?
Biting her fingernail, sighing that her plan to slack off in the next class had fallen through, Teacher Hera helplessly sighed, said sorry for bothering, and then went down the steps back to the podium to prepare for the lesson.