The Diary of a Middle-Aged Sage's Carefree Life in Another World: Volume 3 [Complete] by Kotobuki Yasukiyo

Author:Kotobuki Yasukiyo
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 10: Everyone Prepares for the Camp

Beside the main school building for the Istol Academy of Magic’s high school department was a research building that only the students with top grades could use.

It had mainly been built in the hopes that talented young mages would devote themselves further to their studies there, allowing them to reach even greater heights. But nowadays, it had turned largely into a backdrop for students from the different factions to quarrel with each other.

The Saint-Germain faction, which had little interest in those quarrels, simply continued to go about their research. But that was decidedly not the case for another, much more radical group: the Wiesler faction.

The Wiesler faction had originally been formed with the purpose of training up young mages to shoulder battle strategy research and national defense in the future. But at some point along the way, they had transformed into a group advocating for mage supremacism. A major cause of that had been a sigil blueprint, unearthed from ancient ruins, for a wide-area annihilation spell. But the sigil had been incomplete, and the faction’s efforts to finish it had reached a standstill.

In the first place, “ancient ruins” was a vague term, covering sites from a huge span of time. You had the Age of Dawn, which saw the beginning of civilization; the Age of Conflict, full of battles for land; the Age of Prosperity, when the bulk of people lived in peace; and the Age of Decay, where society had come close to ruin. This particular sigil was from the early stages of civilization, when knowledge of magic had still been immature.

At the time, people had used their own internal mana to cast spells; it wasn’t until the later Age of Conflict that the method of using mana from the natural world was invented. This sigil was, of course, something designed on the presumption that multiple mages would be supplying it with mana, but even then, this wide-area annihilation magic had a major flaw.

Mana had the property of transforming into multiple different elements, but it also had the property of being affected by the caster’s mental state.

If multiple mages were to cast the same spell together, then they’d need to be aligned with each other mentally. By stimulating their minds in parallel, it would be possible to activate the spell; but given that there were inherently differences between people’s minds, it was hard to believe that multiple mages would be able to align themselves like that. Each and every person’s mind had its own unique waves to it, and it would be impossible to make them uniform.

It wasn’t a matter of just pooling your mana with someone your heart aligned with; aligning people’s minds together that perfectly just wouldn’t be possible unless you had clones of the same person. And that hardly seemed like a plausible solution.

In short, the mages had been held back by their own individualities, preventing the sigil from activating.

For that reason, wide-area annihilation spells created during the Age of Conflict had switched over to utilizing the mana from nature.

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