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A flame of will, the Fire Festival, headed straight towards the chieftain at Davian's command.
Tremendous heat infused with 8-star superior mana.
The chieftain quickly tried to sink into the desert below.
But.
"How...?"
The desert beneath his feet had melted into a sticky liquid.
"Sand melting?"
A few grains of sand might burn, but he had never imagined them completely melting.
The sticky surface prevented the grains of sand that made up the chieftain's body from sinking into the desert.
"You played a strange trick!"
The chieftain quickly tried to transform his body into grains of sand and fly away in the wind.
Whatever trick had been played, the sand beneath his feet had all melted and could not be moved as he wished.
But this was a desert.
Sand was everywhere.
He just needed to sink back into the desert somehow.
And he could replace the grains of sand burned by the fireball with other grains of sand.
But.
It wasn't just the desert beneath his feet that was melting.
Parts of the chieftain's body were also melting, turning into a sticky liquid.
The areas that had melted into liquid were beyond the chieftain's control.
They simply flowed slowly to the ground.
'I have to return to the desert somehow!'
He tried to send away the grains of sand that had not yet melted.
Whoosh.
A whirlwind blowing from somewhere caught the grains of sand he had sent away and made them circle around the chieftain again.
In despair.
The chieftain saw a few grains of sand that were not caught in the whirlwind.
'That's it. If I can just enter the desert like this...'
Whoosh!
The flame of will spread out widely.
The flame quickly grew into a huge circle.
The desert surface where the flame had passed was all melted into liquid.
'......!'
The grains of sand he had struggled to send away touched the hot liquid and melted together.
Pain.
Tremendous pain surged in.
His whole body was melting from the intense heat.
But what he felt even more strongly than the pain was.
Fear.
The fear of death that he was feeling for the first time since becoming the chosen chieftain.
The fear that the lineage of the Sakhum tribe's chieftain would be cut off like this.
Now, not a single grain of sand on his body would move as he wished.
All the grains of sand had melted into a sticky liquid.
Not only the chieftain's body, but all the sand around him was melting.
It felt like he was barely standing in the middle of a melting hell.
Then.
Splash!
The hellfire that had melted all the surrounding sand disappeared.
And cold water was poured on him.
"Huh? It's hardening!"
Belum, who had somehow approached, pointed at the chieftain.
He had hurt his back when he fell, so he stood awkwardly with one hand on his waist.
"It's true? It's hardening!"
Nubes also shouted.
The chieftain's body, which had been slowly melting, was hit by the water elemental magic that Davian had cast, emitting white smoke.
And then it froze like ice.
Bonita asked.
"Did you freeze it?"
"No."
"Then?"
"It's glasswork."
"Glasswork?"
When silica and calcium carbonate in the sand grains, and sodium carbonate, the constituent of natural soda, are mixed, heated, and then rapidly cooled.
Glass is made.
It is said that a natural soda merchant was looking for a stone to support a pot to prepare a meal, but couldn't find a suitable one.
So, he put the pot on a lump of soda and lit a fire, and when it mixed with the white sand on the riverbank, a transparent liquid flowed out. This is the origin of glass.
"Glass? Davian, did you just make glass? That glass that's on the academy windows?"
"Yeah."
"So that's how glass is made?"
"It's roughly similar."
Nubes, who had approached, tapped the glass surface.
"It's real glass......"
"Hey, hey. Big guy. Don't step on it, the glass will break."
Nubes, startled by Belum's words, quickly took his foot off.
Bonita asked.
"Then is that chieftain dead?"
Davian turned his head and looked at his glasswork.
The glass was frozen in the same position as when he was watching his body melt.
Not only the chieftain, but the entire surface of the desert where the natural soda grains had spread was a giant piece of glass.
"I don't know. I don't know if he's dead, or if he's alive inside there. Anyway, he can't turn back into sand."
It wasn't just the shape that had changed.
The chemical formula had completely changed, creating a new object.
"Amazing, Davian. How did you come up with this plan?"
"I heard the merchants were moving natural soda at dinner earlier, and I planned it then."
The merchants' warriors and Oliver Axel, who had been avoiding them from afar, approached.
"Amazing....... To think of turning the entire area into glass."
On the other side, the Dijeurte continentals, unable to get on the glass, were standing far away and looking at them.
They looked at each other cautiously, then disappeared back into the desert.
"Oh! They're running away!"
"It's okay. We took care of the chieftain, so they're just small fries anyway."
Ting.
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[Quest 'Red Sand Bandits Extermination' Completed]
Party Contribution: 100%
Reward: 30K Mana Points (x2)
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It was a quest where mana points were differentially paid from 10K to 30K depending on the contribution rate.
30K came in.
100 percent contribution.
It means that since they took care of the chieftain, they don't have to worry about the rest.
Other tribes may come over and take over this desert later.
But that is outside of Davian's interest.
For now, the current Red Sand Bandits have been exterminated.
"Dean of the Swordsmanship Department, is that really true?"
"Yes. Davian has eliminated one of the chosen chieftains of the Dijeurte continent. Last night, the magic cube vividly recorded the video."
Sirims Andrian, Dean of the Magic Department, asked.
"Aren't the chosen chieftains beings who cannot die?"
"I don't really know the principle of making glass. Somehow, Davian melted all the sand around the chieftain and turned it into glass."
"Are you saying he melted the desert sand and made glass?"
"Yes. With the chieftain too."
Hugo Moulton, the president, stroked his long beard and laughed heartily.
"Not only magic and swordsmanship, but also scientific knowledge....... He's a great student after all. Davian Naone."
Sirims Andrian, Dean of the Magic Department, nodded.
"Even if any of us had gone, we might have been able to subdue him by force, but we wouldn't have been able to eliminate the chieftain and return."
Leo Martian also nodded.
"Even if we were told to go and fight now, I don't really have any ideas on how to deal with the chieftain who is one with the desert."
President Hugo Moulton asked.
"But why were the Dijeurte continentals in our continent's desert?"
"They said they lost their base to the Marino Empire."
"The Marino Empire?"
"Yes."
"Those guys have now begun to reach out to other continents in earnest."
Sirims, Dean of the Magic Department's expression darkened rapidly.
"We need to prepare thoroughly too. What's the atmosphere like in the royal family and the capital?"
Leo, Dean of the Swordsmanship Department, who had been to the capital until last month, slowly shook his head.
"Those who are only interested in their own safety and power are covering the eyes and ears of the King. At this rate, I wonder if we can properly confront the Marino Empire......"
President Hugo looked at the two department heads alternately.
"So the role of our academy is even more important. We don't know when those guys will reach out to our continent, so we must cultivate as many talented people as possible. They are the future and hope of our Alkancia."
"That's right, President. We can just do our part."
"Oh, how is the spy detection going?"
President Hugo sighed deeply.
"There's no way to figure out how many have come in. We've identified about four so far, but they don't know each other's existence, so there's no use in torturing them."
"Was there a student among them?"
"Dilan Nedon. There's one student who has been promoted to 5th grade this time. He has been expelled, and has been sent to the palace at the request of the royal family."
"He went to the academy for four years. Deceiving everyone perfectly."
Leo, Dean of the Swordsmanship Department, asked.
"Dilan Nedon......? I've heard that name somewhere."
"He's a student who had a formal duel with Davian Naone before. He has already confessed that the duel was also under the instructions of the higher-ups."
"Ah! I heard it from Professor Stella. That guy was a spy."
"Yes. He tried to kill Davian under the guise of a formal duel."
President Hugo laughed heartily again.
"But he got beaten up by Davian badly."
Sirims, Dean of the Magic Department, nodded.
"That Davian guy. He's skilled, and he always gets involved in things. He's already been involved with the spies more than ten times."
"To keep getting involved with bad guys means he's that much more righteous."
"Oh, is that so?"
"Saving the freshmen this time too. Wasn't it an act caused by an upright heart that couldn't stand injustice?"
"As for Davian's upright heart, I even tested it with the Crystal Ball of Truth. Davian is always on the side of the weak and is a talented person who will greatly help the Alkancia kingdom."
"That's right. A gem like no other has entered our Elton Academy."
"This is no ordinary gem."
Magical Tool class time.
Professor Barron Tools picked up a mana stone and showed it to the students.
"As you already know, it's a mana stone. A mineral that has absorbed natural mana for a very long time."
All the 2nd grade Magic Department students were sitting in front of Professor Barron.
Magical Tool class is a common class for 2nd grade Magic Department students.
"It's the most important material for making magical tools. With this, magical tools can operate on their own without the magician having to directly inject mana. Simply, you can make streetlights that light up the night, and complexly, you can make carriages that run without horses or ships that move without wind."
On Davian's desk, there was a bag containing various materials such as large and small mana stones and several scrolls.
A basic kit for magical tool making practice.
The mana stones in the practice kit alone are worth several houses where ordinary people live.
Ordinary people rarely even see a scroll in their lifetime.
This is the majesty of Elton Academy, the best educational institution on the continent.
The same kit is placed in front of all 2nd grade Magic Department students.
Just a kit for practice.
"In order to make magical tools, you must accurately understand the flow of mana. It can be used by anyone, but that's why not everyone can make it. No matter how great a blacksmith or architect is, they cannot utilize this mana stone without an understanding of mana. So making magical tools is almost exclusively the domain of us magicians."
In the previous playthrough, Davian showed quite a bit of interest in this magical tool class.
It was kind of fun to imagine the various items he used before possession and make magical tools.
It was also a class time where he could temporarily escape from the obsession of having to get stronger quickly.
Anyway, he had to take the required common subject classes to graduate, so it was a time when he could legally slack off.
'What should I make this year......'
While Davian was making grand plans.
"One of the important elements for making great magical tools is undoubtedly imagination, but what's more important is the basics. If you don't build the basics properly, you will definitely hit a wall someday. Today, as the first step in that basic class, we will make a mana lamp that turns on and off when you press the switch."
Davian already knows the next line that Professor Barron will say.
"Those who have perfectly made the practice assignment are free to make other things during the remaining time."
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