Episode 59 – I am Kiel Rroda (1/2)
After handing his exam pass to Rau Eryey, Kiel approached the first apparatus It was lass objects of various shapes and sizes Therefore, the number of objects that he would be required to activate simultaneously couldn’t exceed 100 If he could cast 100 sih, he would be able to achieve full marks
Kiel felt a bitter-sweet feeling as he gazed down on the pretty glass figurines When he took the exa test was the first one that he failed to complete flawlessly It was the start of his downfall
He remembered it quite clearly He tended to remember bad memories extreet
This first apparatus required hier spells couldn’t be any sie like hiave it his all, at er spells before his mana was completely depleted And the only reason why he would succeed in casting that many was because of his flawless execution
Yet, even if he used up all his er spells, he could at most reach 10 points And after that, he wouldn’t have any mana left to use on the second apparatus Therefore, his final result would be 5 points
The Temperature spell that he would need to cast to control the cubes used in the second test was about 3 tier spells The upside was that he only needed to cast it once and he would be able to control that cube until the end of the test
Since there were 50 white cubes in the spiral, he deduced that at most, he would need to control 50 cubes If he spent all his mana on the second apparatus, he would be able to control around 30 cubes at most
Therefore, Kiel calculated that if he went all out on the second apparatus, he would be able to reach around 16 points ( the final result being 8 points)
Since he paid close attention to the demonstration of his examiners, he kne many spells he would need to cast for the first 15 points or so of both apparatuses He used that knowledge to calculate ar he savored every drop of histo find a distribution of his mana between the two apparatuses that would allow hihest score possible
The second apparatus had a rather stable cost efficiency, while the first apparatus had high cost efficiency at first, but it kept dropping sharply
In the end, he calculated that he should aim to reach 6 points on the first apparatus and spend the remainder of his mana on the second apparatus Because hethe second test, and because reaching the final stages of the second test took so him score 14 points on the second apparatus That way, his final score ed to reach 10 points
10 measly points
He remembered clearly how shocked the examiners hen he scored 6 points on the first apparatus He renawed on his lips unconsciously until they were blood red He remembered how his cheeks burned in shame
He relad that other examinees weren’t allowed to spectate Glad that their reverence didn’t turn into scorn and conteraceful score would have spread far and wide He would never be able to live down the humiliation
Just thinking of the shame he suffered the year before made his blood boil
Never again! I will never again allow myself to be humiliated like that!
His gaze towards the crystalline objects turned heated
This tile one of you!
His eyes narrowed into a chilling glare that couldthat his face wasn’t turned towards the two professors, for they would be shocked to see that graceful and aly murderous in an instant
Without further ado, Kiel concentrated all his attention on the task at hand He started weaving the trigger spell upon a slass sphere which was currently the only object which was gloith light Since the trigger spell was beyond siht to dim
Two more objects lit up, but an instant was all it took for theain
Glass objects kept lighting up and diain in and endless cycle
This cycle repeated so fast that both Rau and Kady were startled
6 objects 8 12 16
On and off they went
Kiel didn’t pause at all It looked as if he was in life and death struggle As if the glass figurines had offended him somehow and he had to destroy all of them without mercy
He wasn’t even breathing He was too focused on destruction to breathe
The eyes of the two professors were turning wider and wider
This boy! Such incrediblepotential!
It looked as if he wasn’t weaving at all As if every light his gaze lands on would iht or effort As if it was only natural for the ic to bend to his will
If weaving was like writing letters, then what he was doing was not writing letters but sta them with a seal! Stamp, stamp, stamp One swell swoop and the spell was formed
Kady’s face turned sole away from her face
Kiel’s casting speed ed to reach 25 points, so it was understandable that he was able to weave trigger spells fast However, to weave all of the that could be explained by casting speed alone