Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 207

Chapter 207: Learning Spree
The girl hadn’t spoken to anyone about it, so when the following morning her classmates discovered that she had dropped out, the mood of the class dropped.

Time flew by, passing as quickly as the winter’s winds and the end of October finally arrived.

“I am happy to announce, that out of the twenty-nine students in this class… none of you has failed the test”

All the students obviously already knew about it, since they had told each other beforehand, but they still smiled and celebrated their “victory’.

‘…They are incredible, even those with a common class, who do not gain as many stat as their classmates with rare classes, have made up for it by working like crazy and spending a lot of time meditating…

But still, they leveled up a whole lot.

Unfortunately, since they aren’t true mages, their level is a requirement to advance…

The system gives out tier advancement books only when it seems the person is ready, so it usually happens at the standard levels…

And that means that everyone here has passed level fifty.

That’s not a growth rate anyone other than them could achieve, since the meditation skill has increased their wisdom, allowing them to hunt for longer periods and even beasts stronger than themselves, drastically increasing their leveling speed.

But what I’m even more grateful for is the Academy’s organization when it comes to the students’ leveling and hunts…

They have free access to all the gates, just like official hunters, but they are always escorted by a supervisor, and just as hunters do, they are paid, not in money, but in credits, that they can use to buy everything they want inside the academy.

This allows them to obtain experience safely, and also earn money for those who want to spend a bit more in their daily life.

It’s like a simulation of how their lives will be after leaving this place…

The dean has also achieved her objective since the number of awakened in Los Angeles has increased, which was one of the reasons why she built the Academy in the first place.’

“Now, since you have all passed the test, that means you all have a chance at learning the special spell I want to teach you, brace yourselves since learning this is even more difficult than mastering the meditation technique I taught you last time…

That Is why, from today on, up till the end of the year, I am going to teach you personally, every day, we won’t do anything else during class.”

The eyes of the students, which had been brightened by the good news, had now lost a bit of their vigor, as they realized how hard it would be to learn a spell if even their teacher described it like that.

“Open your ears and listen up…

What I am going to teach you is a technique called {layering}, but you can give it whatever name you like when you use it.

It’s a technique that allows mages to use power that goes beyond their tier and circles, and it can be adapted to any spell…

The concept is simple, applying it not so much, I’ll show you what I’m talking about right now…”

‘Let’s see… what’s the most basic spell I can cast right now?..’

Hans raised his hand in the air before concentrating his mana into his palm and creating a little sphere of light:

{lume}(tier-0)

Even though it wasn’t particularly bright, it still lit up most of the room since the electric lights were turned off, and all the light came from the wide windows.

“Woah… teacher, you know how to cast light magic?”

One of the students asked in surprise.

“Just a little, but that’s not the thing you should be focusing on right now, this is a simple spell, it doesn’t have any effects other than being useful for exploring dark places like caves.

However… if I add the skill {layering} on top of this average spell…

As Hans wrapped the spell with another spell, the first one fused with the second, and their brightness combined was many times that of the two summed up, as if it had been multiplied…

Something similar to a flash grenade exploded in the classroom as soon as Hans was done creating the second layer, and the students, half-blinded and stunned by the spell, slowly raised their chins and opened their eyes to watch what stood in front of them…

The spell had already disappeared, but they all needed a couple of seconds to recover completely, only a few of them managed to hold their positions by reacting in time before the spell was cast.

“What you have just seen is the effect of {layering}

I have just wrapped the spell into a layer made of the same spell, this consumed quite an amount of mana, but it was well worth it.

Doing this will usually boost the spell by one tier, but as you’ve just witnessed, its effects can be greatly altered by the affinity with the spell…

It works extremely well with attack spells like {fireball} and {lume} so much so that this (tier-0) spell became equivalent if not superior to a (tier-2) flashbang spell, but it doesn’t do the same with spells like {earth wall} or {roots cage} since the only thing it can do is multiply their strength, and not things like their area or their speed of movement.

Whatever your element may be, this will be incredibly useful, so make sure you learn it properly…

This spell does not have a tier, but it has a mastery, the higher your mastery, the faster you cast it and the higher the tier of the spells you can use it with, I will give it my all to let all of you reach at least the third level of mastery so you will be able to use it with your newly acquired third tier spells.”

…

In the meantime, in the control room of the Academy, one of the screens monitoring the classes turned off… a security guard put down his coffee for a few seconds, checked to see if there were any other problems, and then picked his coffee up once again…

“Man, I need to call the electrician again, seems like one of the cameras got disconnected”

….

Hans had taken precautions to avoid the spell from being leaked, cutting up a little cable with a wind spell wasn’t anything too bad at the end of the day.

The final month of school felt like a few days, especially for the students of the first magic class, who did nothing but train in their classroom for three hours a day during Hans’s lessons.

The results were… incredible.

In order to teach them the {layering} spell, Hans had already practiced it on his own, and it had taken him a month to get it to the sixth tier, then, as he trained alongside his students, he managed to get its mastery up to the seventh tier.

In the meantime, in just four weeks, the results yielded by the class were astonishing:

Colton Hayes, the highest-ranked mage of the first class, advanced to the fifth tier and managed to get the mastery of {layering} on par with his magic.

Other than him, all the students above the fourth tier apart from David managed to get it up to the fourth level.

‘It’s such a pity’

Thought Hans…

‘David uses mostly enchantment spells like my {strenghten}, or my {load} to enhance his martial arts, meaning that layering his spells will increase his martial arts’ damage exponentially… if only his comprehension of new things wasn’t so slow…

I mean, he still managed to reach the third tier, but just barely…

Compared to him… that guy’s a true monster…’

Logan, was incredible, even if he was in the middle stage of the fourth tier, his learning speed was incomparable to that of all the other classmates, it had taken him just ten days to get the {layering} mastery up to the fourth tier, almost the same time it took Hans…

“I might have underestimated his talent when it comes to learning…”

“Mh… you probably have”

A voice spoke in his mind….

Caelan had become like an assistant for Hans during the past month…

Since he spent most of his time after school hours reading books to increase his wisdom and researching new spells, Caelan asked Hans to summon him while he was teaching the students, and Hans agreed.

The increase in Colton’s powers wasn’t just a coincidence… Caelan had begun teaching him already, using Hans as a medium obviously, and with the new meditation method, the student managed to increase his powers even faster.

He didn’t play all day after class, just like his classmates, and after giving it his all and raising his level to one hundred and one, it didn’t take long for him to break through the peak of the fourth tier and become an official fifth-circle.

“He’s crazy… to think I would see such a young tier-5…”

Caelan commented.

“I mean… weren’t we both above tier six at his age?”

Hans asked.

“Huh… I guess we shouldn’t compare ourselves with normal people…

By the way, how is it going? Your plan of breaking through the eighth tier…”

“It’s going well… I’m almost there ”

[Wisdom: 3498(+10)]