Chapter 84
" . . . . Iris . "
"Yes!"
I spoke to Iris who was standing in the middle of the crater .
"Looks like the exams are over . Looks like you're practically guaranteed to pass, no need to worry . "
"Yay! . . . By the way I broke it really bad . . . Is it okay?"
"Do you think it's okay?"
"I don't really mind this kind of environments . . . . "
"Humans are a creature that minds this kind of things . "
. . . Well to be honest, I don't really care if the schoolyard turned into a crater .
Cause even some random magic experiments will produce craters .
Or rather, you rarely ever stand on a flat surface in an actual fight, I feel that this environment is better for training .
"So, I'm gonna repair this . "
"Fumu . . . No, let's not . "
I felt like letting Iris to help would worsen the situation .
In the first place, there are only two craters that are 30 meter wide and 10 meter deep in the schoolyard .
Repairing it is easy even for me alone .
"For now, Iris, you're prohibited from using magic unless it's an emergency and you have no choice to or in a test . "
"I . . . I understand! I'm sorry, it's my fault!"
. . . Un . Still, her condition is really bad .
For the time being, Iris is to be a physical-focused power fighter when she's in school .
The teachers probably won't let her join magic classes anyway .
However, humans can use this magic called Physical Reinforcement .
One can power up to a safe level using Physical Reinforcement as long they don't mind the efficiency .
Since Iris's mana is virtually almost limitless, she can ignore the efficiency factor and demonstrates overwhelming power with it .
While thinking about that, I walk around the schoolyard while mending it with earth magic .
I have to walk around because of the Fourth Crest's range .
The repair ended in five minutes .
"Principal . Any problem with the repair?"
"None . Of course there's no problem . . . But repairing it in five minutes after it got damaged that bad . . . "
"It wasn't really different than what I did in the entrance exams back then, just that the scale was bigger . "
"Just how hard do you think magicians in this world struggle to increase that scale . . . Especially civil engineering magicians, I'm pretty sure they'd faint if they saw what you did just now . "
"If they did, I'll rouse them up and teach them chantless magic . "
Well, I can't be arsed to do that myself though, so I'd leave it to the teachers .
" . . . By the by, how's the progress with the barrier material procurement?"
"It's going well . . . . Is what I'd like to say, unfortunately we're having a shortage of a certain thing . "
As I thought .
I could guess what happened .
"We're lacking Glory Crest huh . "
" . . . So you had it anticipated . Exactly . The processing cannot keep up . "
To begin with, there aren't many Glory Crest bearers in the Second Academy .
Since we needed lots of them to refine and process the metal, I had guessed that gathering only beginner Glory Crest wouldn't be enough to keep up the pace .
I also had thought of a way to deal with it .
"What happened to that plan we talked about?"
"About the First Academy?"
"Yes . "
That is, teach chantless magic to First Academy's students and split the burden .
Although they might not be as efficient as the Second Academy students, they should still be able to do refinery even if they've been just taught .
Above all, the numbers are too far apart .
The First Academy has as many students as Second Academy, however all of them are of Glory Crest .
"We're having some difficulties . The First Academy's principals and students are vehemently against it . They don't seem willing to admit that Glory Crest isn't suited for battle . "
"But First Academy students saw how other crests instantly beat Glory Crests didn't they?"
"Their excuse is that Mathias was monstrous, so that had nothing to do with crests . I can somewhat agree with that . . . but apparently the other party can't stomach it . Just the other day, First Academy principal demanded to do the interpersonal match over again . "
"Do over?"
"Yeah . They insisted that the match before was invalid because a demon intruded . "
. . . I see . Doing the match over huh .
Alright .
I've come up with something good .
"Alright . . . . Let's do that match . "
" . . . Normally we wouldn't mind doing so . . . But we're currently in an emergency . We've got no time to wastes with some idiots do we?"
"That's exactly why . We'll shut up all of them in one fell swoop using that match . "
Those guys seem like they really don't want to admit the weakness of Glory Crest .
It's not like I don't understand, after looking down on Disqualified Crest that much, they were suddenly told that the Glory Crest was the weak one instead .
That's why I'll make it so that those guys practice production-type magic without reserve .
" . . . Shutting them all up? Is that possible?"
"It is . . . . But the term needs to be changed so that the other party is unable to make excuses . "