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『Checking progress conditions.』

[Main Story Chapter 5: The Leader’s Qualification]

-[The Saint’s Awakening]

-[2nd Semester Final Exam Class Competition Victory]

-[Becoming the Next Student Council President Candidate]

This scenario requires a long-term plan with a view to the future.

The reason is, naturally, the third condition, related to the ‘Student Council President.’

Nifrantz Academy’s Student Council, empowered by the academy’s overall policy emphasizing student autonomy, wields considerable power.

Aside from items requiring the instructor’s expertise, such as academics, training, and regular exams, it essentially has influence over almost all areas.

Management of extracurricular activities, including leisure activities and self-development.

Planning and execution of annual events, excluding competitions, such as the festival schedule and group trips during the final exams.

From managing various facilities to assigning personnel or subcontracting to external companies.

Since it handles the vast majority of tasks, its influence is immense.

And the person who commands all this from the top is the Student Council President.

The ‘Leader’ alluded to in the scenario’s name seems to refer to the Student Council President.

Emphasis on autonomy is also evident in the selection process.

The Student Council President is not an appointed position chosen by the academy headmaster, but an elected position chosen directly by the students’ votes.

In other words, various evaluation factors, including popularity, ability, and reputation, play a significant role.

I already have a track record of winning the individual tournament in the first semester’s final exam, so I am a well-known figure among most students.

Popularity and combat abilities are secured, I would say.

However, the Student Council doesn’t run on brute force.

From now on, the abilities I need to hone are not visible strength, but invisible ones.

Leadership, impression management, speaking skills, political prowess—I need to cultivate various new strengths to achieve the third condition.

Based on this, I need to obtain the qualification of a ‘Leader,’ and further, the qualification of a ‘King.’

The stepping stone to this is the second condition.

A brilliant performance leading to victory in the class competition, the so-called team competition.

I don’t need to address this part now.

I already know, but there’s still some time before the details of the team competition procedures and scoring criteria are announced.

About a month until the decisive battle. Once I finish my work at the Sacred Country and return, I’ll immediately be busy preparing for the final exams.

So what I need to focus on now is the immediate problem.

The first condition, the Saint’s Awakening.

Even I only have a rough idea of what this means.

Based on my observations of Tier, she has been suppressed by all sorts of invisible things.

That’s why her power is significantly weaker than the past Saints of Akasto that I knew.

The large framework itself is no different from the current world, but there are clear differences between her and Akasto in the details.

Especially the characters.

While some characters like the members of our royal family or the Court Mage Corps Commander, Lulu, are the same as in the original work.

Yuri, Aspi, Eve, etc., are definitely people who can’t be found in the original work.

Therefore, Tier was not the Saint of Akasto, of course.

And I can’t help but compare them.

While it comes at a cost, the Saint of Akasto could make the sick instantly spring to their feet with a flick of her finger.

Even the dead would rise with a heartfelt prayer accompanied by hands clasped in prayer.

But the most Tier could do was make my dick stand up.

While her healing magic is superior to other priests, that’s all it is.

With prolonged prayer, she can indeed save a dying person. This would make her a world-renowned doctor by modern medical standards, but in the Akasto world, she’s just a famous priest.

Even I, a layman, wouldn’t find it that difficult to learn and use her magic.

In conclusion, Tier’s power is blocked from growing by some kind of wall.

Maybe simply breaking down that wall for her would instantly make her stronger.

However, while I have some idea of what that wall is, I haven’t fully understood and grasped it yet.

For now, I have no choice but to learn slowly while doing my best in this mission.

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I proudly added my name to the list of applicants for the Sacred Country dispatch mission and left Tier’s room yesterday.

Since I had no afternoon classes, and waiting was boring, I immediately went to the Sacred Country.

The method is simple.

First, fly into the sky, move forward, and repeat this process until you reach the Sacred Country.

Anyway.

The reason I suddenly visited the neighboring country was to designate a checkpoint.

I can’t teleport just anywhere. Especially if it’s a place I’ve never been before.

My teleportation magic, while seemingly simple, is actually a combination of three magic techniques.

Installing an oracle at the destination, extending a thin veil of aether from the starting point to create a path, and then dematerializing to quickly travel along that path.

Looking at the detailed process, ‘warp’ is a more accurate term than ‘teleport.’

Therefore, I visited beforehand without any equipment to set the destination, which is the essential condition for teleportation. I realized only after I returned home drenched in sweat late in the evening.

“Ah.”

Anyway, only I can use this magic…

It’s like… what do you call it, the kind of person who gets the hard questions right but the easy ones wrong? That was exactly me.

As a user of teleportation magic that can only be mastered by taking utility magic to its peak, it took me longer to remember that it’s a single-person transport than it took to travel abroad.

Well… I’m glad I didn’t lose anything by doing it.

While talking with Nix at night, I realized that I could modify this teleportation magic to accommodate multiple people by using the [Shadow Domination] magic.

But when day broke and I met Tier again, it was ultimately useless.

“You… you know that’s illegal entry, right…?”

“I don’t know, whi- whi-”

Why is this illegal? I could just go over there and report going through the border guard properly, right?

Whatever.

“Ha… At least you told us before trying to use teleportation magic on all of us.”

Tier touched her forehead, looking exasperated.

There was another reason why the teleportation magic was useless, besides being illegal.

Through the official dispatch procedure, we all had to use the same transportation and travel along the pre-planned schedule and route.

That’s why everyone on the dispatch was to meet together.

The place, of course, was in front of the Aither Temple.

“Saint, who is this…?”

“Ah—this is additional support personnel.”

“Hmm…”

Many priests had gathered in one place, waiting for the appointed time, beside Tier. The one who approached suspiciously was someone I had clearly seen the other day.

I was hiding inside Tier’s room, but this was our first official meeting.

“Nice to meet you. Narias Philbrogue, first year, Nifrantz Academy, Department of Magic.”

“Yes… Alex Midmayer, Aither Temple, Third District Priest… ”

Yes, his name was Alex. That guy I briefly spoke with as Tier frantically fidgeted with a dildo in her pants.

When we lightly shook hands, Alex tilted his head and stared at me.

“What’s wrong?”

“No… it’s just that… you look familiar…”

No way. While hidden in Tier’s room, I had a blanket and, just in case, an ether veil, so seeing me through that would be impossible. He would have caused a disturbance immediately if he had seen me under such circumstances.

So this is…

“Ah—!! The champion noona-!!”

It means we met somewhere else.

Coincidentally, someone loudly exclaimed with surprise, recognizing my face, and approached—not Alex, but another priest behind him.

And, thinking back, the priests of the Aither Temple had visited Nifrantz Academy once before during the first semester final exam. They came for medical support with Tier.

As soon as one person said, ‘Champion,’ others start chiming in like, ‘Where?’ or ‘Oh, it’s really her!’

“It’s been a long time! How have you been?”

“I was really impressed by your final match!”

“I’m a fan! Can I have an autograph—?”

Haha, this popularity. Even Narias, not a princess, is now recognized on the streets.

“So the person who came to help was Miss Philbrogue?!”

“With Miss Philbrogue, we’ll be safe!”

Since my combat skills are proven, I naturally blended in with the priests.

Tier stared at me with wide eyes.

“…You again.”

“Humph—”

Was she jealous of the priests fawning over me? She turned her head sharply and retorted coldly.

“Now, it’s time. Everyone, stop fooling around and get in formation.”

“Yes, yes sir…”

“Sorry…!”

The priests clinging to me scurried back to their places. Soon the ‘means of transportation’ we would be using came toward us.

Now that I think about it, I missed one important detail.

A means of transportation that could accommodate such a large number of people, travel long distances, and still be formal enough to be sent from the Lumious Central Cathedral.

A large bus, perhaps? No way.

“Wait… Wait a minute…”

Clunk- clunk- Hee-eeeng—

The means of transportation was, without any twists, a carriage, of course.

And I get carsick.

Whether they knew it or not, two spirited horses were cleaning their nostrils, flicking their tongues towards us.