The Diary of a Middle-Aged Sage's Carefree Life in Another World: Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 8] by Kotobuki Yasukiyo

Author:Kotobuki Yasukiyo
Language: eng
Format: epub

The day’s class had opened up all sorts of new doors for Celestina.

Not only had Zelos taught her how to decipher your typical magic formulas, but he’d also shown her a special, incredibly dense type of magic formula that outstripped them. And then there was the question of who she herself wanted to be as a mage.

Having never even been able to use magic until now, that wasn’t something Celestina had thought about before. Her only goal had been learning to use it in the first place.

Her previous efforts toward that end had not been in vain; she’d earned herself the top grade in the Istol Academy of Magic’s theory classes. Yet at the same time, her inability to use magic had seen her labeled a failure at that same academy, and she’d been bombarded by scorn and ridicule by those around her.

In spite of that, she’d refused to give up—and just as she had begun to think about looking into the magic formulas themselves, she had met Zelos.

* * *

Zelos had resolved Celestina’s problem in a flash. He had also shown her a whole new world—and highlighted the dangers that lay within it.

All this was far removed from the sort of thing she was taught at the academy. The only focus there was power, and none of the teachers would engage with the students on broader concepts like how they should treat magic in the first place. There was also, of course, no time for considering what sort of mages the students should actually be aiming to become. No—the entire curriculum revolved around firing off magic and measuring its power.

The students weren’t encouraged to spend any time thinking about their futures. Any time not spent in practical training was taken up by lecture after lecture, the teachers droning on and on in monotone voices; trying to help the students grow as people didn’t even cross their minds, let alone make its way into the classroom. If you met the right conditions, you’d be able to activate even a subpar magic formula; if you didn’t, you’d be branded a failure and left behind. That was all there was to it. While it was true that using magic every day would increase the size of one’s mana reserves, that was the system’s one and only benefit. The students were practically left to their own devices.

As educators, then, the teachers were completely useless. And the academy’s management was only made worse by all the factional infighting that went on inside its walls: teachers would give the cold shoulder to any students not from their faction, while those who were from the same faction as them would be given special treatment.

Those who’d come from influential families tended to get even more in the way of favoritism. In fact, that was the only reason that Celestina hadn’t been kicked out by now—each faction wanted to curry the favor of the Solistia ducal family.

Each of Celestina’s two brothers were already associated with a faction—to be

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