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Dennis, the teaching assistant, asked:
"Are you perhaps talking about Davian Naone?"
"You have a good eye, as expected."
"So, you're changing the entire course curriculum and pouring your passion into this lecture just because of one student? Even preparing for outdoor classes?"
"Perhaps it will be the last passion of my life. Like a gust of wind to a dying ember."
Davian Naone.
He was indeed remarkable.
Lifting lead during the first class.
Completely crushing a huge lead lump during the midterm exam.
However.
"Davian won't even be taking telekinesis magic classes in the second semester, will he? I heard he's majoring in Four Elements magic and even double-majoring in swordsmanship."
"I know. That's why there's even less time."
Dennis stared blankly at Professor Kinesis.
'That's why there's even less time?'
Is he perhaps going to raise that guy into a proper telekinetic magician in the remaining month and a half?
And.
'The last passion of my life?'
Giving telekinesis magic lessons to a quirky freshman for a month and a half?
'Then, what about me...?'
Dennis belatedly fell for the charms of telekinesis magic only when he became a senior, but for the next two and a half years, he focused solely on telekinesis magic classes.
Completely immersed in the charm of telekinesis magic, he even gave up entering the Magic Tower after graduation.
He only wanted to stay here at the academy and assist Professor Kinesis' research.
Another four years passed like that.
He would often hear news from his classmates.
They had made great contributions in monster subjugation operations, achieved monumental research results, or enhanced the family's name.
Indeed, news befitting the alumni of Elton Academy, the best educational institution on the Pax continent.
But it didn't matter.
This path was one that Dennis had chosen willingly.
Assisting Professor Kinesis right by his side, and later becoming a pioneer of telekinesis magic after him.
Being recognized by Kinesis, and later surpassing him.
That one goal was enough.
"Why, do you have anything else to say?"
Professor Kinesis' voice broke through Dennis' reverie.
"Then what am I..."
Dennis, who unknowingly blurted out his inner thoughts, found his gaze tangled with Kinesis' eyes.
Weariness and indifference.
Kinesis had already returned to his original gaze.
"No, it's nothing. Then I'll take my leave."
Dennis left the professor's office and headed to the assistant's office.
"Even after sticking by his side for six years, he never once called me his protégé. And now, for a quirky freshman... he's burning his last passion?"
Dennis reached out towards the magic stone embedded in the hallway wall.
Crack.
Due to the mana acceleration that Dennis caused, the magic stone cracked.
A moment later.
Crash!
The magic stone was completely shattered.
The light that had illuminated the hallway disappeared, and Dennis moved into the darkness.
One week later.
"This is a hill I've never been to before?"
"The academy is really big. Anyway, this is still a freshman area. How big is it if you combine everything?"
Magic department students arrived at a large hill under the guidance of teaching assistants and staff.
"But what are we doing in such a wide place? Are we going to throw things far with telekinesis magic or something?"
"It doesn't seem like throwing things far, does it? Look at those things set up over there."
"Oh? You're right? They set it up for our class? What kind of class is it?"
"I heard from seniors over the weekend that Professor Kinesis isn't the type to do outdoor classes."
Soon, Professor Kinesis walked over leisurely.
Teaching assistant Dennis was with him.
"Alright, today we will practice the mana acceleration we learned last time."
Several students looked at Kinesis with questioning expressions.
Of course, Kinesis had demonstrated it during the last class, but that was only possible because it was Kinesis.
Even moving objects by creating waves in mana wasn't easy, and mana acceleration was even more so something that anyone could do.
"Are you suddenly telling us to do mana acceleration now?"
"Exactly. I can't even lift objects properly yet."
"Is there anyone who can do it? It's on a completely different level from creating waves."
One of the students pointed at Davian.
"That guy. Davian can probably do it, right? I saw him crush the lead lump during the midterm."
"Ah... you're right. That guy might be able to."
Meanwhile, Latia nudged Davian's arm.
"Your specialty is here?"
"What?"
"Mana acceleration. It's your specialty. That thing you did during the first class."
"Now that you mention it..."
He had been thinking that something was strange.
Davian recalled the first semester telekinesis magic class from the previous timeline.
The telekinesis magic classes up to the 3rd cycle were just superficial practices of moving objects, but now it's different.
This was the first time Professor Kinesis had conducted such a detailed theoretical class on mana acceleration.
Moreover, even an outdoor practical class.
'What kind of variable caused this change?'
In any case, it's not bad.
Davian had also been thinking more deeply about mana acceleration.
Teaching assistant Dennis stepped forward.
"Stand in long rows of 10 people. Starting with the nearest steel target over there. The targets are placed at 10 meters, 20 meters, and 30-meter intervals. The farther the target, the thicker the steel plate."
Dennis reached out towards the nearest target.
Crack! Crack!
The thick steel target plate crumpled like paper.
Dennis turned his head with a satisfied expression and looked at Davian.
He was just standing there blankly, looking straight ahead as if he was thinking about something else.
"Ooh."
"Amazing. Teaching assistant Dennis was that good?"
"He was a great person."
"But why the sudden demonstration? There's never been one before?"
"Both the professor suddenly doing outdoor practical lessons and the teaching assistant are strange. Everyone's acting weird."
Staff members ran over and knocked down the crumpled target and set up a new one.
Several targets were prepared and lying next to it.
"Alright, start with the first row!"
Teaching assistant Dennis went back and stood next to Kinesis.
"Dennis, it's rare for you to give a demonstration."
"Ah... the professor is even conducting outdoor practical lessons, so shouldn't I do something too?"
"Well done."
The students in the first row started practicing.
Everyone stretched out both hands as far as they could and manifested telekinesis magic.
But the 10 steel targets remained standing as they were.
"Next."
The same went for the next ten.
Mana acceleration was impossible for first-year students who couldn't even handle basic telekinesis magic.
"Next."
The third group included Davian, Latia, and Luna.
Everyone stretched out their hands and concentrated on mana acceleration.
Only Davian was not stretching out his hands.
Davian was still lost in thought.
Telekinesis magic.
It is magic that senses mana, manifests magic power, and creates waves in that mana.
With that wave, you can move objects or perform simple manipulations.
And mana acceleration.
It is forcibly increasing the speed of the wave by pushing your magic power into the mana wave created by telekinesis magic.
Basic telekinesis magic that creates mana waves does not require much magic power, but mana acceleration is different.
It is forcibly pushing the mana in which waves are created with the power of your own magic.
Of course, you can't do mana acceleration just because you have strong magic power.
If you can't create waves through telekinesis magic, no matter how much magic power you release, natural mana will not be pushed away.
The natural mana is always naturally filling the space.
You must be able to feel this mana and naturally create waves to do the next step.
'But as Latia said, I created mana acceleration on the first day of class.'
It wasn't intentional.
It was the first day he properly felt mana and used mana waves to lift objects on the desk.
He was by no means at a level to create something like mana acceleration when he hadn't even completed mana waves.
When Professor Kinesis instructed him to move the flowerpot, he just unconsciously pushed in more magic power because he thought the distance was too far.
'It was a mistake back then, but I have to accurately remember that feeling.'
After that, he was called to Professor Kinesis' office for more than ten days.
They would have casual conversations, and then at the end, he would be asked to try telekinesis magic.
At first, he would often break and destroy objects because he wasn't used to telekinesis magic.
He only properly moved objects two or three times.
But.
'Thinking in reverse, if I assume that I attempted mana acceleration, then succeeding means when I break the object.'
He recalled the memories and sensations from that time.
He succeeded in reading the mana and creating waves, but he didn't have confidence in telekinesis magic control, so magic power rushed in.
Davian gathered the memories and sensations from when he failed to move objects.
'Then, is this how I do it?'
Davian finally opened his eyes and looked straight ahead.
He could see a steel target 10 meters away.
The target next to Latia was starting to dent little by little.
He could hear murmuring noises from all around.
"Look over there! Latia's target is starting to dent!"
"As expected. There's a reason why she's called the genius magic girl of the Meridiem family."
"What is Davian doing next to her? Did he give up?"
"Isn't he not even trying because he thinks he can't do it? If he tries and fails while sweating profusely, he'll be compared too much to Latia next to him."
"But Davian won during the midterm?"
"That's true too."
Davian raised his right hand towards the target.
'Thinking that I don't have the confidence to send the wave that far. If I forcibly push in this much more magic power...'
Crack!
It was instantaneous.
Davian's steel target was completely crumpled and unrecognisable from its original form.
"W-What!"
"Huh? He crumpled it in one go? Steel?"
"No way... It's crumpled even more severely than when the teaching assistant demonstrated it earlier?"
The staff member who confirmed that Davian's target was completely crumpled ran over and laid the crumpled target next to him.
After that, he could see the 20-meter target.
Davian activated telekinesis magic again.
Whoosh.
He could feel the flow of mana passing between his fingers.
He released a small amount of magic power and grabbed the mana.
Then, he created a wave.
A wave that barely reached 5 meters.
After accurately aiming at the more distant target.
He blew magic power into it and pushed out the wave.
Crack!
The much thicker second steel plate cracked.
The mouths of the students watching this also dropped open.
Although he wasn't gaping like a child, Dennis and Kinesis were also surprised.
One of Dennis' eyebrows twitched.
Kinesis didn't have time to look at Dennis' face because he was too busy looking at Davian.
'It's by no means easy to make the natural mana, which avoids even the tender grass in the field, tear apart that thick steel. But. Mana is the power itself that surrounds this world. If you can use mana acceleration fluently, you can unleash a destructive power that is on a different level from Four Elements magic. Do you understand, Davian Naone?'
The second target, which had become like a rag, was also removed, and Davian's gaze was fixed on the last third target.
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