Chapter 254. α (3)
Can the green mutant hiding in the outskirts become the hope for the future?
– “The amount of magic power is enough, but honestly, I don’t know how well a dropout from such a remote area can keep up with advanced education.”
The bright bubble-boiling orange Alphauri set out on a journey, promised the start of an orphan’s new life.
Since he had discovered the seed of a new mage. He needed to go back to work and make the necessary preparations.
And even at this moment, in the middle layer, Beta Species were killing their fellow countrymen on the planet…
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…Earth is a beautiful planet.
It may seem sudden, but the Great Mage had been thinking that way since he was reincarnated.
However, calling Earth a comfortable planet is a bit ambiguous.
Right now, Venus has a stylish nickname, but the average surface temperature exceeds 400℃, so stepping on it means instant death.
The topic I’m going to discuss now isn’t as serious as survival on Venus.
But anyway, the Great Mage from Alphauri had definitely been enduring some kind of discomfort since his reincarnation.
“Should I say that Earth has no up and down, or should I make Alphauri people into beings with no up and down…?”
Up and down.
That’s right.
For a creature that lived freely in all coordinates underwater, living as a crawling mammal on land would have felt like having both wings ruthlessly cut off.
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[Academic Hall]
The gaze returns to the past of a certain ocean planet.
From the outside, the gray building looks like a hemispherical object bulging up from the ground.
But once you enter and utilize the marine being’s unique echo location…
– Booom Booom Booom…
From the returning sound waves, you can tell that the internal structure is a perfect circle; this place was the ‘Nurturing Facility,’ the first of its kind among Alphauri.
The building of the Nurturing Facility was established in the former center of a powerful nation.
Once it was the center of an age where the same species fought so much that they even moved their capital to another region.
Now, the former center of the old era has returned to life after a long quiet.
After losing countless compatriots in the war with the satellite species, Alphauri decided to fundamentally increase their lacking military strength by bringing talented citizens to this nurturing facility.
– Oooooh…
Someone emitted ultrasonic waves like spreading wings.
Then the internal structure of this Academic Hall was completely revealed in one breath.
A giant statue inscribed with “Third Nurturing Facility.”
Ceiling. Floor. Walls. Passages located in various places without caring about direction.
And groups of young students swimming in and out of these passageways.
– Wow…
A marine drifter with a white jelly layer made an amazed sound.
Once, only the high-ranking elites of the bloodline could enjoy such technology, and now he too could handle it; his heart danced with joy.
But joy was short-lived.
The once noisy lobby atmosphere suddenly quieted down.
– …!
– Huh?
– Over there…
– It’s here.
A newcomer student instinctively knew who the owner of this unnatural silence was.
– Grmmm…
Looking up, he saw an unfamiliar fellow emerging from the distant ceiling passage.
Descending silently from above was an Alphauri with somewhat thin tentacles and green blood.
At first glance, he seemed like an ordinary Alphauri one could meet anywhere.
But he was different from everyone else.
No, to be precise, he couldn’t be compared to anyone here.
– “The magic power…”
– “A monster.”
– “So long.”
– “What kind of swimming is that quiet?”
Still, the Nurturing Facility, which gathered only those with potential to become mages, saw the overwhelming existence of capabilities appear before their eyes, enough to crush all competitors at once.
– “Is that him? The one said to potentially become the first early graduate?”
That’s right.
The emergence of “him,” who would eventually earn the title of Great Mage in the future.
Moreover, this was also the point in time approximately 2,460 days after an orphan from the deep sea had arrived at the Nurturing Facility.
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– Ahh… Class is so boring.
Someone grumbles.
At this time on alien planets, voice media was still prioritized over text.
In Alphauri, “tuning forks” were used as a means of storing or transmitting information.
Using a special alloy and magic that records voice, when the central teacher struck it, the content to be taught spread evenly throughout the large room.
– I shouldn’t have registered for this lecture.
The students didn’t need to carry books around since they could share materials.
How convenient and efficient this teaching method is! In terms of Earth, this is like having a TV in the medieval era.
– They always just tap the fork and move it aside.
But a marine being, just a few years after arriving at the Nurturing Facility, had grown tired of all the lectures.
In other words, it meant he had already mastered magic studies at the level of the Nurturing Facility.
Once, he had been so naive he couldn’t even differentiate between honorifics and casual speech.
As soon as the green being arrived at the educational institution, he rapidly consumed all the information present in the building as if he had been waiting for it…
– Crazy.
– Crazy deep sea person.
– Don’t speak out loud!
– How can he say such things in the presence of such a terrifying teacher? I shouldn’t get involved.
– Hurry up and graduate. Please.
There were many terms used to refer to the deep sea orphan, but undoubtedly the most frequently mentioned word was this.
Genius.
He was undoubtedly. A prodigy mage without equal.
Understanding advanced courses that left adults stammering at such a young age; it was clear he didn’t need to prove himself with strength.
– “I’m hungry. Eating is a hassle~ I don’t even have time to study…”
Moreover, this green genius, quite unreasonably, had a genuine love for magic studies.
– “Shall I head to the library first today? There are plenty of slate books here, and it’s just great.”
A hardworking genius.
How could the common folks possibly compete with him?
The deep sea orphan climbed to the top of the Third Nurturing Facility in no time at all.
Yet, no one envied or tried to stop him.
In fact, in the early days of entering the Nurturing Facility, the rich middle-class commoners harassed him. (Even within low classes, it’s common to categorize each other.)
He calmly endured the bullying aimed at him, and on a certain day of the mock battle class, took the opportunity to thin out all the bullies…
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Looking back, his school days were a good memory.
– “I understand everything!”
Even if all he remembered was hiding in a dark cave and studying all day long, it would still be true.
– “This theory I learned this time was incredibly fun.”
At that time, the planet’s technology was underdeveloped. All Alphauri still needed food and sleep.
A young mage was already modifying his body artificially due to the lack of time to study, even from the time of the Great War.
To ensure life was maintained.
But to allow for uninterrupted study.
He had voluntarily desensitized most of his desires, including hunger.
– “I can’t waste my limited lifespan on such things.”
Thud, thud, thud.
Sounds of a ball game came from somewhere.
– “Alphauri’s magic studies have yet to reach the very tip of eternal life’s fin.”
After some modifications, the student felt no thrill from the trivial noises surrounding him.
He only thought the peers who appeared to be busy playing were pathetic.
He was growing at an unbelievable speed, having thoroughly controlled himself.
The Alphauri side established this educational institution to cultivate elite core troops for the war. They originally expected it would take at least seven years to raise a higher mage who could change the tide of war, not just to train a specialist knight who uses a single magic.
Two years after enrollment.
No one had anticipated that a genius would emerge who would surpass all teachers in just two years. This place was meant to gather only the lower-class individuals who had no connection with magic studies at all.
Third year.
By this time, the genius could no longer gain additional knowledge within the Nurturing Facility.
Fourth year.
And during this year, the immature genius was already conducting personal research, standing shoulder to shoulder with the faculty.
– “Wait a minute. Shouldn’t I be able to go to the battlefield soon?”
A thought suddenly arose.
He wanted to graduate.
More precisely, he genuinely wanted to experiment with the skills he had honed in the field. Even at this moment, fellow countrymen were being killed by bad Beta Species outside the Nurturing Facility.
Yet strangely, this educational institution wouldn’t release the genius.
– “What the hell? Why? I’m not even trying to play around. I’m just saying I want to protect the country!”
Since proper training for a mage incurs significant costs, the rulers of the nation had strictly controlled this place as a barrier, ensuring the students of the Nurturing Facility couldn’t escape.
Because of this, some orphan couldn’t even take a single step out of this round building without a diploma.
– “Ahem. You… since you’re from the deep sea? For someone like that, you don’t seem massive at all; you look rather neat. Those long tentacles are quite nice to look at. Haha.”
– “Dean. Stop with the strange talk and just look at my magic circle already.”
– “Oh, right. Got it. Just wait a moment…”
The so-called dean.
The highest authority among the Alphauri in this Third Nurturing Facility had said in the past.
“If you submit a perfect thesis for graduation, I will plead with the higher-ups to pass you as the first early graduate of this place. This society needs a corresponding reason to break its established rules.”
The genius wrote the thesis. Perfectly.
But what problem lay within the brilliant experimental results created during the last fourth year?
The genius’s paper was returned firmly, to the point of humiliation.
– “Hmm…”
Now time has passed, and today marks the day about 5 years and 16 days since the century’s genius arrived at the Nurturing Facility.
– “No, this isn’t it. It’s completely wrong. I need to start over!”
Even until the last thesis evaluation, the reasons behind the verdict were vaguely outlined. Now, the teachers just scolded him outright.
– “Ahem. And I’m busy preparing for my class! Don’t even think about coming back this month. Got it?”
The genius soon grasped the actions of his master.
Of course, he didn’t believe that his research was so horrific that it could blind him.
– “Oh, is this teacher…?”
It might be unfortunate for the thief, but the student in this setting, while lacking social skills, had rapidly developed keen intuition due to his innate intelligence.
《 “Creative Design of Amplification Magic Circles” – Researcher ▤▨▧ 》
After a while.
The genius secretly found evidence in the dean’s room through his surveillance magic.
A letter sent from a place called “Academic Hall.”
The content expressed gratitude for presenting a brilliant theory at their institution last year.
If one checked the title of that theory at the top, it became easy to tell that the teacher had stolen the student’s research and announced it as his own.
Confirmed guilty.
But the genius decided to generously give the sinner one chance.
– “Good morning, Dean.”
– “Huh? What? I told you not to come this month…”
– “I have something to discuss.”
With a youth untouched by the stains of society.
The long silhouette of the marine being continued.
– “Specifically, it’s about the research data I submitted last year.”
He said to the supervising teacher. He would pretend not to know that his experimental data had been stolen in the past, and simply ask to graduate this year without issue.
His tone was surprisingly polite for someone expected to skip a grade and be extremely arrogant.
– “Oh, just let me write one paper under my name. After all, it was a light research topic…”
Even though the results of a year’s work were stolen, there was no hint of anger.
He felt a sense of happiness while staying in this Nurturing Facility.
Though he might be inferior compared to others, there were still things to learn from the teacher before his eyes, so he thought of simply considering this small fraud as a way to repay the teacher’s kindness.
However, the genius’s patience only went so far.
– “Ah, I understand. I will surely help you graduate this year. Just bring me the materials to submit to the higher-ups. I’m talking about the thesis you brought last time.”
A month later.
The professor in question violated the promise and stole the completed materials only.
– “Look, I’ve thought about it for quite some time, but it seems a primary spell wouldn’t suffice, and I think only a secondary magic circle design would fail to satisfy the higher-ups.”
– “Dean….”
– “In any case, if you keep this up, you’ll be torn to shreds and killed the moment you meet a Sky Being. Isn’t it better to stay here for exactly two years and then leave with the same duration as your other peers?”
Besides, he tried to achieve his goals through brute force.
The teacher wanted to keep the genius in the Nurturing Facility to steal even one more of his experiments.
But when the student refused to retreat, the head of the Nurturing Facility tried to cast magic as if saying, “Then should I just let you leave this building as a corpse?”
– “I am a 99-year-old observer of this era, and furthermore, I am a member of an upper bloodline taught since my family lineage has powerful innate spells. No matter how much you struggle, all you are is an academically precocious child who just happened to develop his knowledge a bit early! Having publicly announced a paper of a humble person like you under my glorious name! How dare you now refuse to listen to me?!”
Tch.
The student thought briefly in front of the yelling teacher.
○ This world is currently in the Great War.
○ Many fertile waters have been seized.
○ However, the issue of troop reinforcements cannot be postponed, leading the nation to pour enormous resources into this Nurturing Facility.
○ Therefore, the lives of the common citizens outside are becoming increasingly hellish.
…In such a situation, should this greedy thief exist to consume the scarce food?
Calculation complete.
He arrived at a benevolent decision for the benefit of the same Alphauri compatriots. This was due to the basic patriotic education conducted while staying at this Nurturing Facility.
And not shameful for being titled a rare genius, he immediately acted on the thought that arose.
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…Thus, in the end, someone’s school days came to a close.
– “What the hell?”
Swish.
Something rectangular, continuously fluttering with the flow.
And the wreckage of the building from the completely destroyed underground second floor to the ground’s third floor.
– “It really wasn’t anything special, was it?”
To be blunt.
He ruthlessly ravaged his teacher, who had provoked him with all sorts of new magic to forcibly obtain his graduation certificate (barrier pass).
Cutting off all tentacles except one, he coerced the dean into stamping it.
And after getting what he wanted, he immediately killed the opponent.
He couldn’t let this slowpoke survive; who knew when he might seek revenge?
– “This dean, I’ve heard he’s from a noble background, but I wonder if I can clear this up with my fellow countrymen outside.”
Pulling out the Alphauri’s unique transparent spine.
And spreading the opponent’s jelly layer thinly on top like a flag became a profoundly humiliating act.
– “Honestly, but isn’t this self-defense? The teacher didn’t let me graduate for two years!”
Thus, the genius of magic studies who had emerged after thousands of years completed his basic education along with the death of his master.
This happened when he had reached about 14 years of age in Earth years.
