The teacher was an Elf and it was definitely not their usual behavior to joke around.
They were mostly serious when they were doing their jobs and the teacher that walked in also was genuinely serious, I can tell from that smirk on his face.
"It's a simple oral test so just answer me if you know the answer or don't say anything at all.
Though, if you do decide to talk and the answer isn't something I would like, then you can spend the rest of this class outside and have fun."
His blue eyes were moving across the room, looking at the people that he found amusing or acceptable and also the people that seemed of humble origin and were also not as special as his standards.
But he was excited, I can tell again, because his eyes were looking at me a little too much, trying to read me, see through my screen, and fathom the powers that I possessed.
But he was naturally not getting much of anything.
He might be able to sense my Aura, a bit of Mana but my Mana nucleus was perfectly concealed with Solnova. There was nothing higher class about my way of dressing up, and there was also no noob feeling to me that other students with similar characteristics as me here had.
He could see there was something unique but couldn't pinpoint what that special thing was… but he had this little surprise test to figure it out.
"Alright, the first question to the house captain of the [True dragon].
How is Mana weaving related to the strength of the magic."
He was asking the first question to Alpha, another person who wasn't wearing some attractive clothing and was relatively normal looking but special.
"Mana weaving is the process of creating the spell from the most basic elements to its release.
It is a process at the end of which, as a result, we get the magic circle that represents the magic that we would be manifesting in the form of change, phenomena, or removal.
The process of spell weaving is directly related to the structure of the spell, and the structure of the spell is directly related to the strength of the spell.
Not only the spell of two similar tiers but different structural constructions produce a different result from the other, this structure also determines their strength, release patterns, and other characteristics.
Simply speaking, the spell weaved with a better structural balance and complexity, its formation which is directly related to the kind of spell it is used to channel, and its affinity with the individual caster, determines the output which is, simply speaking, the result of what and how we want to change what already exists."
He stopped after saying that and looked at the smiling teacher who looked at him with a new accepting gaze.
"Good, good. Next, Captain of [Turtle defenders].
What is the final integral result of a spell circle made with three separate elements with a numerical structure that looks something ."
He lifted his hand and a plain white magic circle appeared on it, surprising everyone with how it was only made of circles and no lines.
'Magic circles have two elements, Circles and Lines. Though magic casting without a circle is possible and happens widely, this is a theoretical class that is mainly focused on the theory part of higher-level magic. So there were mostly only going to be theoretical discussions in this class.'
But they weren't expecting to see a rare magic circle with only circles. It looked simple but also strangely complicated.
And to tell a long, difficult mathematical calculation just from a look wasn't something many of them could do.
And the students in the class also thought the good-for-nothing Prince of Roxana would also just shut up and pass on the question instead of doing something foolish.
But he did something foolish and spoke up, surprising everyone that thought like that.
"It would be the total of the second, third, and first circle when taking the sixth one as a center and the fifth, fourth, and sixth's when taking the first as the center.
Taking a different point in space as a center, the answer would depend on the integrated calculations of the magic's element and properties but taking all of them as A, B, C, D, E, and F, we can say that it would be sigma (A+B/D-F) upon C+E."
Many students in the class were surprised. Many of those surprises were from the people that didn't know the answer and thought whatever he had said was wrong, while some who did know the answer to the question and could tell what he said was right, had a surprise of unexpectedness.
They had thought he was just a good-for-nothing Prince that mostly just cooped up in his castle and didn't do much. But the story was different… maybe he was hiding what he was truly capable of all this time.
"Right, but I should have specified this structure is three-dimensional and the center of it is the north pole from seeing from the front."
As he said that, the structure in his hand which was only made of six circles until now, transformed into a three-dimensional structure with the upper tip of it glowing in a light blue.
He then looked in our direction, but not at me but at the one sitting beside me.
"Vice-captain of [Fascinated mages]. What do you think the answer to the same question would be when assigning six major elemental attributes to these circles , and specifying they are the lowest power of (tier-1) spells."
The circle in his hand which was previously plain white, glowed with red, blue, green, brown, yellow, and black but the tip still remained unique.
It was a three-dimensional structure and for any other students, I would say many mages below high level, this question would be near impossible to answer but the one he had asked was far above those common high-level mages when it came to mathematical calculations like that.
'And three-dimensional magic structures and circles are his specialty so…'
"It would be the central integral bracket, integral of sigma (fire+water+wind/earth+fire+water+wind) plus…"
His answer was long, and with each passing moment, everyone was getting a greater absurd look than before.
They believed if the one answering was Alf, the prodigy dubbed as the greatest young mage of the era, the answer could never be wrong.
But from the answer they were hearing, it was just absurd to them how he could calculate all that in mere moments, even absurd that there was a smile on their teacher's face.
And it was a smile and not a smirk like the one he gave to everyone when he first came in. It was absurd in itself that he received such reactions from an elder mage, someone that was one of the few that were far above the general magician's level.
"Good. That was the perfect answer I wasn't expecting to hear on the first day.
Your current vice president from the last batch was the quickest to answer but even she took three minutes to come to an answer acceptable to her, and even that wasn't as perfect as that.
Good. You get a class point for the answer.
Next, the famous elementalist Miss Isabella.
Elaborate on the elemental spirit summoning magic circle commonly used on the western continent."
"It's ineffective from my point of view actually, but…"
She first expressed her opinion but gave a perfect textbook answer that was the best one can give, and the teacher was happy with that answer.
It was good, and the atmosphere of the class was getting better as they let go of the shock they had received after Alf's answer.
The teacher was asking questions to everyone randomly but if one looked closely, they could tell the questions he was asking largely depended on the areas the students were comfortable with.
As a teacher of the academy, he already had his unique teaching methods, and though his questions were something the students could answer if they knew their own field of expertise, they weren't as simple as something normally asked.
Not everyone here had read countless books like some of us, had minds like some of us, or had skills like some that could help us with the answers.
Many of the students couldn't answer the kind of questions they were asked so intend of gambling, they just decided to stay quiet. And yes, there were some exceptions who spoke their mind or answered with their own unique life experiences, thankfully no one was too foolish to say some crap and go out of the class.
If anything, those who couldn't answer and decided to stay quiet were good people as because of them, we got to know the answers to those questions from the teacher himself.
And his answers weren't something one can find in books so it was good stuff.
It was also a good experience listening to the answers from the other students.
It told me many things about them and helped me decide how useful they would be for certain things.
'Ah, and I was especially taking notes of those in my house. We had to put them to good use to regain the lost glory of our house, after all.'
Anyway, time passed and the teacher was asking everyone questions, and everyone's turn had ended by the time he finally looked back at us again, and this time, he was looking at me.
"Vice-captain of [Wisdom phoenix]… can I know your reason to attend this class?"
As I thought, instead of directly receiving the question, I was faced with a personal question, something that happened for the first time in our entire lecture.
And everyone was looking back at me again, looking back at us, just like how it was in our previous classes.
It was peculiar, but I had a question to answer, and curiosity of a (elder) mage to quench.