Chapter 9

Chapter 9

I Installed a Dating App and Girls from Another World Became Obsessed with Me.

Episode 9: Introduction (3).

Immediately after deciding to learn magic, I settled down on a small pile of rocks.

Thump-

While waiting for the lesson with a slightly nervous heart, Iris brought a thin, large stone slab from somewhere.

The surface was so smooth that anyone would think it was cut with a water jet.

There’s no way something like that would be lying around in a place like this mess, so it must be made by Iris.

I didn’t know how she made something like that with those thin, slender arms, but I just assumed it was the power of magic and moved on.

The more I thought about it, the more respect I had for my teacher.

Of course, it wasn’t fear.

-Oh? Sir Hyeon-u, you didn’t do your homework?

-Th, that’s… I’m sorry…

-Sir Hyeon-u, aren’t you curious about the power of water when it’s sprayed at high pressure?

…Maybe.

“Then, Sir Hyeon-u? Let’s start the lesson now.”

“I’m always ready.”

“Hehe, you’re full of confidence. I like that.”

The lesson began with Iris’s refreshing smile.

Although it was accompanied by the patheticness of turning on indirect lighting with a cell phone flashlight because it was too dark, I had no doubt that it would be the happiest lesson in my 21 years of life.

“First, I’ll explain the basics. You said you know that what’s in the atmosphere is called mana, and what’s refined inside a living being is called magic power, right?”

“Yes.”

Even though knowledge about magic was precious, this much knowledge was so basic that you could find it on the internet.

“Then do you also know that knights and wizards are divided according to how they use magic power?”

“I’m not interested in knights…”

It seemed there’s a job called a knight, as befitted a fantasy world.

Of course, it existed on Earth too.

In most European countries, the term knight was a little more famous than hunter.

“That’s understandable. To explain it simply, the difference is that knights gather magic power in the core below the navel, and wizards gather magic power around the heart. Knights call the place where they gather magic power ‘lower core’, and we call it ‘heart’.”

Gathering magic power in one place of the body was the same, but the decisive difference between knights and wizards was the method of operation.

“Knights who have gained enlightenment through training can release the magic power accumulated in their lower to the outside, which is called aura. Aura is divided into various forms depending on the weapon. Swords are called sword aura, spears are called spear aura, and so on. They all use powerful and sharp magic power, but they only use magic power in its raw state. We wizards are different.”

As soon as she finished explaining, green haze rose from Iris’s palm, and a beautiful rose was created.

It wasn’t difficult to realize that it was magic power.

The magic power became a rose, then a bird, then a jewel.

“The use of magic power by wizards is free. Much more than knights. There is no end to its variety. However.”

Iris began to write something on the stone slab.

Of course, there was no chalk here.

Scrape-

She was writing with magic power that bloomed at her fingertips. No, she was carving the stone slab.

“…”

Was that how it looked like when she was suppressing her magic power?

“Sir Hyeon-u? Do you know what I wrote?”

A collection of countless formulas and shapes inside a neat circle, I didn’t know what it meant with my knowledge.

However, it was a shape that anyone who has lived in modern times and had been exposed to the internet even a little bit couldn’t help but know.

“It’s a magic circle.”

“That’s right. To be precise, it’s the magic circle of fireball, a fire-type throwing magic belonging to the elemental series.”

Iris said with a smile.

“Magic creates phenomena that wouldn’t normally occur through magic power and magic circles. Knights use magic power to maximize the cutting power of a sword, but wizards use magic power to create a huge storm. There’s no need to compare who’s greater. The directions knights and wizards pursue are different.”

Of course, knights who had reached their limits also created phenomena that cannot occur. They created a sword without mass and killed enemies.

Nevertheless, wizards were different from knights.

“One of the prerequisites for using basic magic like fireball is creating a mana circle, which is the alpha and omega of wizards. A wizard without a circle is just a scholar, not a wizard.”

Both the academic approach to magic and the practice to create a mana circle were important enough to be incomparable.

However, no matter how good you were at studying, you couldn’t become a wizard if you couldn’t create a mana circle.

“Sir Hyeon-u, can you show me your wrist for a moment?”

“Yes?”

“Excuse me.”

Iris’s slender fingers wrapped around my wrist.

I had clearly touched her chest and held her hand, but why did my face turn red and my heart beat fast every time our skin touched?

“Now, can you close your eyes and concentrate?”

I didn’t know what to concentrate on, but I closed my eyes for now.

The already dark vision became pitch black.

When my vision was blocked and I couldn’t hear any sound, my sense of touch became clearer.

The touch of Iris’s hand and fingers holding my wrist, and the rough beating of my heart because of it.

“Read, understand, and memorize. The framework of learning. Magic is the same. Read, understand, and accept mana. Now, focus on your wrist.”

With her gentle voice, I tried to focus on my wrist.

Something began to be felt in the place where only my body temperature and hers were felt.

It was cool. It was like putting your hand in cold river water in the middle of summer.

“Do you feel it?”

“…Yes.”

“Then imagine the river flowing. Warm weather, warm sunlight, chirping birds, babbling river.”

Iris got up from her seat, and my arm went up above my head along with her, and naturally, the energy felt in my wrist began to flow down towards my shoulder.

What was cool only on my wrist at first, now my whole arm was cool.

And my collarbone and chest.

In the end, even my heart, which was beating hot, became cold. It was such a strange feeling that I wondered if I was alive.

“How is it?”

“Hmm… I don’t really know, except that my heart area is cool.”

The shock of the unfamiliar sensation was brief, and the sensation began to lean towards cool and pleasant rather than just cold.

Now, I felt that the air in the cave, which I thought was a bit chilly, was just right.

It was an ironic phenomenon. My whole body was clearly cool, but I felt warm.

“What Sir Hyeon-u is feeling now is mana. It just feels unfamiliar because it hasn’t gone through self-assimilation yet.”

“This is mana…?”

Somehow, I felt strangely energetic.

“As expected, Sir Hyeon-u, you had talent. Even though I injected mana directly, it’s not easy to feel mana at once.”

“Oh…”

When Iris let go of my hand, the mana didn’t move as easily as before. But there was definitely a residue of mana left in my body.

Especially, I could feel it gathering more and more around my heart.

“Can you close your eyes and concentrate again?”

When I closed my eyes again, the thick darkness came to me.

And the magic power that brought fresh vitality to my whole body.

It felt like I had become a completely different person from 5 minutes ago, even though I had only closed and opened my eyes for a moment.

Not quite omnipotence, but this was definitely a power that made me a completely different person from what I had been.

“Can you feel where the mana I injected is now?”

“…My heart.”

“Sir Hyeon-u, I told you before, right? The mana in Sir Hyeon-u’s body hasn’t gone through the self-assimilation process yet.”

“Yes.”

“As I explained earlier, wizards go through a self-assimilation process to accept natural mana and make it their own. The more the amount, the more time it takes for self-assimilation, but the amount in Sir Hyeon-u’s body now is not that difficult. So, concentrate.”

With the feeling of melting the mana swirling around the heart into a part of the body.

Think of it as flowing through your body from the beginning, like blood flowing through your blood vessels.

Don’t push it away because it’s unfamiliar, treat it kindly.

Mana was a wizard’s companion.

Kang Hyeon-u observed his body with a terrifying concentration before he even finished listening to Iris’s explanation.

In this place where the cell phone flashlight was the only light, a clear blue haze began to rise.

Kang Hyeon-u was going through the self-assimilation process of mana turning into his magic power.

Iris was shocked by the sight. Although she didn’t show it, it was truly unbelievable talent to feel mana at once and guide it to the heart.

Even now, he was going through the self-assimilation process.

This series of processes would have taken an ordinary wizard at least several years.

Even she, who was praised as a genius, took two months to complete the introductory process of magic.

‘What on earth is Sir Hyeon-u…’

She was planning to finish today with just a theory class. She injected mana because she thought she had to get used to mana as much as possible, so she was going to do it regularly every day.

Shortly after Kang Hyeon-u opened his eyes, Iris was convinced.

“…Congratulations, Sir Hyeon-u.”

A new wizard was born.

Ding-

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