Book 1 Chapter 67

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A chilling silence fell.

The Rumerun students looked at Leo with puzzled expressions, while the Seyrun students glared at Leo with grim faces.

"The interpretation… was wrong? What does that mean, student Leo Plov?"

Herdium asked with a smiling face.

But coldness dwelled in his eyes.

Seeing this, Leo scratched his cheek and said.

"That magic won't activate."

"Of course. This is an incomplete magic, so it wouldn't activate anyway."

"Excuse me?"

Leo was flustered.

And he realized that the gazes of the Seyrun students, including Herdium, were not friendly.

'What does a guy whose majors are aura and summoning know about magic that he's acting like that?'

Runia also looked at Leo with a bewildered expression.

"Ha! You seem to be puffed up because you use something similar to Star Magic! This magic is the legacy of the Ancestor, which cannot be interpreted! Countless elf mages somehow restored it to its current form, and you're saying it's wrong?"

The elven male student who had been beaten by Leo retorted furiously.

'Ah… was this lost magic?'

Leo realized his mistake and made an embarrassed expression.

Meanwhile, Runia was flustered upon hearing the male student's words.

'Wait? Magic? Leo clearly used aura and spiritual power?'

"Student Leo seems to have a deep understanding of Star Magic. How interesting. To see what Star Magic looks like through human eyes."

Herdium spoke in a cold voice and offered a piece of chalk.

"If our elven interpretation is wrong, would you show us your interpretation?"

'Tch. I guess I can't refuse to show it.'

He hadn't even thought that, being a basic Star Magic, it might not have been interpreted yet.

'Well. They might not know. This magic was created by Luna when she established the magic system after Star Magic was created.'

What the elves used in this era was Star Magic, but its fundamental nature was different from what Luna used.

That's because the essence of Star Magic was fully passed down not to elves, but to Kyle.

'Because I died before passing that essence to other elves.'

It's no exaggeration to say that the authentic essence of Star Magic was cut off with Kyle.

The Star Magic that elves currently use was merely a copy restored based on the Star Magic incantations Berkhia, Luna's disciple, remembered, and the grimoire Luna left behind.

'It's amazing that they've implemented this much with something incomplete.'

Given the situation, it's not strange that they don't know about magic rated as basic magic.

It was only basic magic by Luna's or Kyle's standards.

From the elves' perspective, it was completely lost magic.

Leo blamed himself for the mistake and stood up, approaching the blackboard.

Meanwhile, the Rumerun students who saw this were startled.

'Ugh! Leo oppa, why did you do that?!'

'It'll be a big deal if you, the grade representative, are disgraced!'

'Gah! Professor Hallind's eyes are shooting lasers!'

Hallind, who was observing from behind, also sent a murderous glare at Leo.

Leo's actions were that tremendously disrespectful.

The students of Class 5 clutched their heads and groaned, while the Seyrun students glared at Leo with expressions that said, 'Let's see how well he does!'

Herdium stood a step back, arms crossed, watching Leo begin his interpretation.

The sound of chalk echoed softly.

*Tap-!*

Leo filled in the missing parts of the broken spell formula.

Naturally, Star Magic incantations unknown to current elves were used in the process.

'What kind of interpretation is that?'

'It looks like Star Magic, but it's an interpretation I've never seen before?'

'It's a completely strange interpretation, isn't it?'

The Seyrun students looked at Leo's interpretation with puzzled expressions.

Even Runia, who boasted the best magical skills, looked bewildered.

'Does such an incantation exist?'

Among the Seyrun students present, no one understood how important what Leo was writing on the blackboard was to them.

On the contrary, their eyes were spinning from the increasingly complex magic incantation.

Only one person, Herdium, was trembling as he stared at the blackboard.

*Tap-!*

Soon, Leo put down the chalk and stepped back.

"I'm done."

Hallind watched Leo intently with his arms crossed.

Hallind, who knew little about Star Magic, could not evaluate Leo's magic incantation at the moment.

Hallind took his eyes off Leo and looked sideways.

And then he looked at Herdium, his expression surprised.

Herdium's body was trembling.

The magic of the Ancestor, which countless elf mages had struggled with for thousands of years without being able to interpret.

Hence, it was magic considered incomplete.

And Herdium, who had studied this magic his entire life, perfectly understood Leo's incantation.

So he knew.

'The magic has been perfectly solved!'

***

"Student Leo Plov. How on earth did you do it?"

Herdium took Leo and Hallind into a small room adjacent to the grand banquet hall and immediately asked.

Hallind also looked at Leo with wide, astonished eyes.

Receiving their gazes, Leo pondered for a moment what to say.

'It's best to simply say that I just interpreted it.'

Words like him being Kyle.

Or having learned magic directly from Luna, wouldn't be believed anyway and shouldn't be said.

"I have a great interest in Star Magic and have always researched it deeply. So I had been studying that magic for a long time too."

"That's not a magic one could interpret simply by being interested in Star Magic."

Herdium adjusted his glasses and asked sharply.

It was Hallind who answered that question.

"Leo Plov is not merely a student with an understanding of Star Magic."

"Then what?"

"This student is actually a user of Star Magic."

Herdium's expression turned to surprise at Hallind's words.

"Star Magic? A human? Ah, no. It's not that humans or other races can't use it, but… at this young age?"

Star Magic is a magic system born from Luna.

Over a long time, it was customized and modified for elves, so it had the disadvantage of being difficult for other races to use compared to other magic systems.

Even if one could use it, a high level of magical proficiency was required, making it generally difficult to use at a young age, and even if used, its power would be halved.

'But this student uses Star Magic at merely fifteen years old, in a human body?'

"But being a user of Star Magic doesn't explain interpreting that magic… Can you explain the process of how you interpreted it?"

At Herdium's question, Leo began to unravel the magic interpretation on paper.

Watching Leo's interpretation, Herdium's eyes were increasingly filled with awe.

'Perhaps if the Ancestor had interpreted it, such an interpretation would emerge?'

Leo's interpretation was so natural and perfect that such a thought came to mind.

Soon, when Leo finished the interpretation, Herdium, who took it, trembled.

"Student Leo Plov… this magic… what kind of magic is it exactly? Have you ever used it?"

'I haven't used it directly myself, but.'

Leo scratched his cheek and said.

"It was magic to make flowers bloom."

"Flowers?"

Hallind and Herdium looked puzzled.

"Yes."

"A-amazing. To think that this magic, from which countless elemental magics were derived, was simply a magic to make flowers bloom."

As Herdium mumbled in a stunned voice at the Ancestor's quirkiness, Leo used the magic.

A warm light bloomed from Leo's palm, and suddenly, a single flower had bloomed in his hand.

"It's not simply magic to make flowers bloom. During the Age of Calamity, flowers were almost completely wiped out."

Herdium looked at the flower blooming in Leo's hand.

"To make flowers bloom, fire, wind, water, earth. And light are needed."

Leo chuckled as he looked at the flower blooming in his hand.

"Perhaps flowers were something special to the Ancestor of the Nebula?"

'Look! Look, Kyle! I've finally completed the magic to make flowers bloom!'

'Why would you make such useless magic?'

'Why flowers? They're pretty, aren't they? Someday, I want to reclaim a world full of flowers. Do you want to learn too?'

'I don't need it!'

Looking at the flower in his hand, Leo recalled old memories.

He had been semi-forced to learn it due to Luna's persistence, but he never had a chance to use it.

'I'm using it in this life, it seems.'

The magic Luna loved and cherished the most.

As basic magic, it was the flower-blooming magic imbued with the essence of all the magic he had built up.

'If the elves knew that Luna's reason for creating Star Magic was to complete this magic, what expressions would they make?'

It was when Leo was reminiscing about the past, recalling Luna's bright smile.

"Indeed! This magic might contain the deep meaning of Lady Luna, who loved nature."

'No. She just simply liked flowers.'

Leo shook his head, watching Herdium interpret it as he pleased.

"Anyway, student Leo. I need to talk with Professor Hallind for a moment, so would you study on your own like the other students?"

"Yes."

'It passed without any trouble.'

Leo secretly felt relieved and went outside.

"Our student committed an impropriety. I apologize."

"No, Professor Hallind! On the contrary, we are grateful! To think that the Ancestor's magic, which was thought to be incomplete, was actually such a complete magic! This is a great discovery!"

Hallind gave a bitter smile, seeing Herdium's pure joy.

"So, just in case I'm asking…"

"……?"

"By any chance, student Leo Plov… does he have any elven ancestors?"

"In Rumerun, we don't particularly care who our ancestors were, so I wouldn't know that."

"I see."

"Why do you ask that?"

"Since student Leo Plov is Rumerun's grade representative, I know this is out of place to say, but."

"……?"

"Do you have any thoughts of having student Leo Plov transfer to our school?"

"……"

At the unprecedented transfer offer, Hallind could only look at Herdium with a bewildered expression.