Chapter 186: The Festival Begins (3)
” The future of scroll magic! The future of our Fael University and the Fael Alliance! And Kyung-joon-nim’s scroll programming that will lead all of this! “
Edict shouted confidently, receiving the attention of the people with an excited expression.
” Kyaa! Senior Edict, fighting! “
” For the future of the Scroll Department! ……Hey, hey, is this how you say it? “
” ……Uh, yeah. Keep saying it like that. I’m from the Magic Tool Department, but I acknowledge scroll programming! “
The Scroll Department students who had been scattered among the crowd beforehand.
Their excellent role as shills added the final touch to Edict’s crazy tension.
” Huh? “
” What’s that? “
” Isn’t that the 10 billion liyan scout that was in the Fael Newspaper before? “
Then, not only the students who had gathered from the beginning, but also passing students who wondered what it was, began to gather here and there with more interest.
Among them was Chatty Takatif, who came to find Azuaz, who had run away from the 『1 time 10,000! 1 million if you guess correctly!』 booth of the Combat Magic Department.
” Hey! Azuaz! You made us miss a super sucker because you ran away! Where on earth did you go? I thought you were up to something completely unrelated, but what are you trying to do again at the Scroll Department booth…… What? “
Chatty’s words were cut short.
” …… “
Azuaz, who had little interest in the world and only dreamed of sleeping comfortably, was concentrating on something.
This was a very, very rare occurrence.
Chatty also focused on the Scroll Department’s demonstration at the sight of Azuaz.
” Scroll programming? Kyung-joon? Otherworlder……? “
The things that made Azuaz, the epitome of indifference, focus.
Chatty decided to see for herself what they were.
From time to time, the self-proclaimed rep of the Scroll Department was explaining its greatness.
” Hiccup! The reason why Kyung-joon-nim’s scroll programming is so amazing! There are so many reasons that I would have to stay up all night to list them all! “
Edict, completely drunk, hiccuped and began to praise Kyung-joon’s scroll programming.
Of course, as a student of Fael University, where only the top 1% of the alliance’s students attend, the praise was well-founded.
” First of all, according to the paper, scroll programming shows nearly 5 times the efficiency compared to the existing scroll writing method! And more than double the power increase! “
5 times and 2 times.
These were bound to be huge figures in any field.
Usually, the standard for innovation is said to be more than double the existing technology, but the scroll writing method developed by Kyung-joon far exceeded this.
But what was really important here was not simply the numbers 5 or 2.
” What makes this paper even more remarkable is that it expresses magic in numbers and figures! Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing! And calculating! It’s like the way of the merchants! It may not have been completely absent before, but at least it was the first time I’ve seen it in a paper! “
As Edict said, expressing magic in ‘numbers’ was almost unheard of for wizards.
” Wow! Azuaz, did you hear that? Did you hear that? It’s like the way of the merchants! Calculating magic and stuff? I can’t even imagine! And 5 times and 2 times is really huge, right? They say that even a 50% increase in power is a huge increase! “
The talkative Chatty was greatly impressed by this fact and rattled on to Azuaz next to her.
” At this rate, wouldn’t our Combat Magic Department be able to use scrolls too? Scrolls have been used far less than magic tools in the Combat Magic Department! But if what that senior is saying is true, that relationship might be reversed, right? “
” Yeah. I guess so. “
Azuaz agreed with Chatty, thinking that it would be so.
” Oh, my, my, my! Look at my mind! Now that I think about it, it’s not that simple! It can’t be that simple! “
But then, instead of Chatty, she asked for her agreement.
Then she immediately continued to speak noisily.
” 5 times or 2 times, that’s not what’s important. Think about it. What’s the point of doubling or quintupling~ After all, scrolls are just paper, paper! Scrolls are used in battle a little bit now, but honestly, it’s a fact that they don’t fit the modern combat meta, right? With this, it’s too much to call it a revolution for our Combat Magic Department~ “
To properly use scrolls, a stable and static state is required.
However, this is almost impossible during intense combat.
So usually, while dwarves or beastkin take on the role of warriors and taunters, wizards take out and use scrolls.
” But our Combat Magic Department isn’t that kind of old-fashioned wizard~ “
However, the students of the Fairy-Elven Magic Academy’s Combat Magic Department were a completely different breed of wizards.
One of the main goals that the Fairy-Elven Magic Academy’s Combat Magic Department is pursuing.
That is 『breaking away from the typical wizard』.
The disadvantages that usually come to mind when you think of a wizard.
They are physically weak.
Therefore, they are squishy.
It is difficult to hunt alone without a tanker or support.
They are perfectly countered by rogue classes that specialize in close-range assassination.
Each magic spell is powerful, but their mana efficiency is poor, and if they don’t hit, that’s it.
If they are hit before casting, it’s over.
Etc……
If I wanted to, I could go on and on.
And the founder of the Combat Magic Department wanted to overcome this.
” The battles we basically do in the Combat Magic Department are very intense battles that include close combat, right? I don’t know about ordinary wizards, but what does it matter to our Combat Magic Department if it’s 5 times or 2 times better? Whether or not it can be used in intense combat is what matters, what’s the use if you can’t improve that~ “
The students of the Fairy-Elven Magic Academy’s Combat Magic Department were on a completely different track from ordinary wizards, and recently other wizards had begun to abandon the classical methods and follow suit.
As a result, scroll magic, which becomes unusable if even slightly damaged, was increasingly losing its place.
And it still is.
” Anyway, if we can’t overcome this, no matter how many times better scroll magic gets, it will never be used in our Combat Magic Department, right? Right? Azuaz? Right? Right? “
Chatty flapped her wings like a fly and asked Azuaz for her forced agreement.
And then.
” Kyung-joon-nim already knew this and overcame it! “
A voice from the podium stopped her flapping.
” He overcame it? “
And two voices from right next to her, along with a yawn.
” ……W, What?! “
Chatty’s mouth dropped open as if a bug had flown into it.
” He overcame it? Really? For real?! “
Not only has the power and efficiency of the scroll increased several times, but the weak durability of the scroll, which can only be made of paper, has also been completely improved.
In other words, this means that it has overcome all the shortcomings of existing scrolls.
It was hard to believe.
” How on earth…… “
She opened her eyes and began to listen to Edict’s speech on the podium.
Her chattering mouth was no more.
” Now, look! This is what I, along with my classmates, managed to reproduce of Kyung-joon-nim’s exclusive scroll for scroll programming! “
After reading Kyung-joon’s paper on heat pumps or something from the Scroll Department tree, Edict had spent days and nights working on research and studying, which was rare for him.
Of course, he had only been looking at Kyung-joon’s paper, and had thrown away all the other studies he had done before, including 『A Phonological Approach to Ancient Elven Elemental Magic and a Study of Fairy Ancestors』, and was scheduled to be put on academic probation this semester.
But without a shred of regret on his face, Edict continued.
” My co-researcher, Sister Ezeri, said that it is possible to write scroll programming on existing scrolls if we use the method she personally modified to be compatible with elven mana and the existing method, but in order to fully capture the power that scroll programming inherently possesses, we need to create a completely new scroll like this! “
He took out a scroll.
Kyung-joon’s exclusive scroll, which Kyung-joon had made by borrowing the magic tools and knowledge from Ezeri’s lab.
He took it out of his chest.
” This scroll has more value than just enabling scroll programming! “
Kyung-joon had returned to the Study Villa as soon as he had mass-produced 1,000 of his exclusive scrolls, so he didn’t know this, but Ezeri, who had continued to research it, had found out separately and included it in her paper.
What exactly that was, was naturally revealed by Edict’s next words.
” It is written in the paper that if you write with this exclusive scroll, even if the scroll is crumpled, torn, or mixed with impure mana, it will work without any problems! Even though I’m from the Scroll Department, I didn’t just look at the 5 times and 2 times increase and say that this is the future of our Fairy-Elven Alliance! “
Although Edict was a delinquent senior who had skipped last week’s Attribute Linguistics exam and drank instead of studying for the exams he was supposed to be studying for, he was still a wizard from the Fairy-Elven Magic Academy, which is considered to be the best magic university.
It was not like a magic university student for him to blindly praise Kyung-joon for no reason, based on just one paper.
There was a good reason and basis for him to do so.
” This 『error correction ability』 that scroll programming and Kyung-joon-nim’s exclusive scroll have! This has the potential to pull scroll magic, which has been buried in the sato and becoming a relic of the past, back to the surface and bring about a second golden age! “
The original scroll magic would not work if even the slightest bit of writing was wrong.
That’s why scrolls were originally the most failure-prone magic of all.
However, Kyung-joon’s scroll programming was different.
As long as the writing was done correctly, even if it was slightly torn, wet, or the coding was slightly damaged or coded incorrectly, it would still activate thanks to the excellent 『error correction ability』 of the dedicated scroll itself.
Whether Kyung-joon intended this or not, only he knows.
But whether consciously or unconsciously, what he had done was this.
” Who did all this? Kyung-joon-nim! It was Kyung-joon-nim! Hiccup! “
It was Kyung-joon.
Edict cleared his hiccuping throat and spread his arms out to the crowd below the podium.
” Now! Let us all shout! Let us all praise! Especially those of us in the Scroll Department! Kyung-joon-nim! Scroll programming! “
As Edict shouted, the Scroll Department shill students began to shout along excitedly.
” Kyaa! Senior Edict~! You’re so cool~! You’re so handsome~! Edict-nim! Scroll programming! “
” Kyung-joon! -nim! Scroll♪ Programming~! ……Hey, hey, is this the right beat? “
” ……Uh, yeah, it’s a little off. Kyung! Joon! -nim! You have to break it down like this, three beats. Kyung! Joon! -nim! Scroll♪ Programming~! ……Like this. “
” ……Okay. Kyung! Joon! -nim! Scroll♪ Programming~! “
” Kyung! Joon! -nim! Scroll♪ Programming~! “
And so, the Scroll Department’s festival booth turned into a fanatic rally, chanting Kyung-joon-nim’s name over and over again.
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