On My First Day Undercover, the Organization Collapsed - Chapter 124

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The Organization Collapsed on My First Day of Infiltration Episode 124

 

 

An Unprecedented Class (2)

 

 

“In last semester’s classes, you didn’t use mana. The intention was to build up your basic physical strength and reflexes.”

 

Many students nodded their heads.

It had been a hellish class.

Mana usage restrictions.

And even sandbags on top of that!

 

‘We really ran ourselves to death.’

‘After class, I’d just go straight to sleep.’

 

There was even a student whose insomnia was cured.

It was so difficult that at the time, there were students who vowed never to take Teacher Ziel’s class again.

But now everyone’s eyes were sparkling brightly.

What amazing thing would he teach them this time!

 

‘Looking at the classroom location, it definitely won’t be physical training.’

 

.

The previous liberal arts class had been hell.

That day, after finishing class, all students returned to the dormitory exhausted.

There were even rumors that the painkillers kept in stock at the dormitory had run out.

That’s how intense the class had been.

So the students thought they could at least sit comfortably today.

 

“But from this semester onwards, we’ll be actively using mana. This will be especially true in Magic Doll Sparring and in this class.”

 

Ziel nodded to Gilbert.

 

“Gilbert, distribute them.”

“Yes, Boss.”

 

Gilbert brought in a box from outside the lecture hall and showed them what was packed inside.

 

“What the Teaching Assistant is showing you now are magical tools. They help with smooth mana collection and prevent any potential mana runaway.”

 

The students were surprised by two facts.

First.

 

“Magical tools? We’re using magical tools in our class?”

“But we’re first years…?”

 

At Sword School, classes using magical tools were only for fourth years and above.

And second.

 

“This… is really expensive.”

 

As expected, Maris immediately recognized it and was surprised.

 

“Teacher, is this perhaps a ‘Retilo’?”

“That’s right, student Maris Sopen. You know it precisely.”

 

Even with all eyes suddenly on her, Maris asked what she was curious about first rather than getting cocky like before.

 

“How did you obtain these?”

 

Ziel’s answer was the same as with the Magic Dolls.

 

“I borrowed them.”

“Ah.”

“Arcane School lent them to us.”

 

Both the Magic Dolls and these Retilos…

What exactly could Sword School offer in exchange to borrow these things?

 

“Now, take one each. You there, student. Celia…”

“It’s Rihart. Does the Teaching Assistant also address people by their family names?”

“Should I? Boss calls people that way. Here, next. Student Delev Kundel.”

“Thank you.”

 

The students received their Retilos one by one while chatting.

As the students examined them curiously from all angles, Ziel spoke.

 

“You will focus on increasing your total mana capacity during this semester.”

 

Total mana capacity.

In other words, increasing the amount of mana they currently possessed.

Though it was an obvious explanation, some students had questions about it.

 

“Teacher, do you mean artificially increasing our total mana capacity?”

“The expression ‘artificially’ is incorrect, student Omar Lucon.”

 

Omar.

A student who hadn’t taken Ziel’s liberal arts class last semester.

Most of the students with questions were those taking Ziel’s class for the first time this semester.

Meanwhile, the other students waited patiently.

 

‘There must be a reason.’

 

“I understand that total mana capacity can’t be influenced except through natural increase.”

“That’s correct. As you breathe mana through the breathing techniques you’ve each learned, your total mana capacity gradually increases. I’m not trying to artificially increase your total mana capacity.”

 

Ziel’s explanation was just beginning.

 

“From now on, you will learn a new breathing technique.”

“Huh?”

 

So, the real questions were just beginning now.

This time, all the students were surprised without exception.

A new breathing technique?

 

“Are you saying we should abandon our existing breathing techniques?”

“No. That’s not it, Karen Aswan.”

 

Karen felt disappointed.

 

‘I wanted to throw it away.’

 

The breathing technique her family had somehow managed to obtain for her.

While she was grateful, its performance was somewhat lacking compared to other families’ secret breathing techniques.

 

“The breathing technique I’ll teach you will only be used for accepting mana. It has nothing to do with your existing breathing techniques.”

 

Ziel had conceived this breathing technique from the assassin training he had received.

The Polar Night Breathing Technique.

That was a dream-like breathing technique for assassins.

Because it doesn’t store mana.

It makes it harder for opponents to detect the assassin’s threat.

But currently, it was a breathing technique that only Ziel had succeeded in mastering.

Therefore, the assassination group had created another ‘method’ as a second-best option.

The method conceived from that was exactly the ‘breathing technique’ Ziel was talking about now.

 

“Does anyone know about the total mana formula?”

 

Yurio raised his hand high.

 

‘This is content I studied before.’

 

Yurio was confident.

He knew more about mana than anyone else here.

 

“I know it!”

“Come up and write it down.”

 

Tap, tap tap.

 

He confidently wrote down the formula.

It was quite complex, but Yurio was unhesitating.

 

“Wow, is Yurio a genius?”

“How does he know all that…?”

 

Breathing techniques don’t require complex and difficult formulas.

You just need to feel it with your body, accept it, and get used to it.

Formulas are the domain of scholars and mages who study mana.

 

“Well written. You know it perfectly, Yurio Harmatan.”

“Actually, I looked into various things because of my body…”

“The thirsty one digs the well – does that saying fit here?”

“Huh?”

“I saw it in a book.”

“That’s… right.”

“I see. I’m pleased.”

 

I wish Teacher Ziel would read those kinds of books more often.

Not the weird books.

 

“Then what are the advantages of increasing total mana?”

“Increasing the total amount improves combat endurance and makes the power you can output stronger. The reason people commonly talk about… ‘experience’ being important comes from here.”

 

Experience.

The experience of knights.

The experience of mages.

It means they became strong because they saw and experienced many things, but on the other hand, it also means they’re strong because they lived ‘long’ and accumulated much mana.

This is why old knights and old mages, even if their physical abilities have declined, can never be ignored.

Therefore, total mana is important.

 

“Good answer. You may sit down, Yurio Harmatan.”

“Yes, thank you.”

“Oh right.”

 

Ziel took something out from his chest for the first time in a while.

 

“It’s a praise card.”

“Ah!”

 

Yurio eagerly received the card.

 

“Thank you!”

 

Several students looked puzzled.

 

“What’s that?”

“A praise card?”

 

Ziel explained while he was at it.

 

“I award praise cards to students who participate actively in class or show good performance. According to records, there are prizes if you collect 5 cards.”

“Oh!”

 

Was that what the team leaders were throwing around in the ruins during practical training?

 

“What’s the prize, Teacher?”

“I won’t tell you yet.”

“Ah! Just tell us!”

“No.”

 

Another person envying in the midst of all this!

 

‘W-will you give me one too?’

 

Gilbert wanted to receive one too.

That Praise Card rather than that unremarkable ordinary dagger!

 

“Anyway, let’s return to the lesson. The total amount of mana increases according to a formula. But it’s a very small amount. The amount that will increase while you’re listening to this entire lesson will be very small. That’s assuming you don’t listen to my lesson.”

 

Delev was curious.

What kind of method had Teacher Ziel brought this time?

 

“Therefore, in this lesson, we’ll use that magical tool Retilo to repeatedly fill and empty your mana. We’ll increase the total amount as much as possible.”

 

As expected, it was an absurd method.

Delev raised his hand high.

 

“Teacher, I have a question.”

“Speak, student Delev Kundel.”

“When you empty all your mana, it takes quite a long time to refill it. In my case, it takes more than a day to recover through meditation.”

 

It was pure curiosity rather than resistance to the teaching method.

There was no way Delev would resist.

This was the lesson of Teacher Ziel, whom he respected endlessly!

 

“Not in my lesson, student Delev Kundel. You can fill your mana immediately after emptying it.”

“H-how?”

“We use this.”

 

Ziel pointed to the opaque glass case.

 

“With just this, we can fill your mana right away.”

“What is that…?”

“I can’t tell you. You will circulate and empty your mana as much as possible through the breathing I teach you. Then you’ll repeatedly fill your mana with this. It’s simple.”

 

It was simple in words.

It wasn’t complicated either.

 

‘Increasing the total amount of mana like this…?’

 

Though it seemed absurd.

Mana naturally increases.

That’s a kind of law and fixed notion.

Everyone learns how to use mana, but they don’t learn how to accumulate mana.

Because once you learn breathing techniques, it’s naturally resolved.

But Ziel had presented a method to increase that total amount of mana.

 

‘That’s impossible. Can you really increase it that way?’

 

Delev had said earlier.

It takes a full day to fill mana through meditation.

Simply put, an inefficient method.

According to what mages have measured, it’s much better to increase it naturally rather than emptying and filling it to increase the total amount.

But that formula was about to be broken.

Of course, this wasn’t the end.

 

“And you won’t empty your mana directly through breathing. You will cultivate by sending mana to every corner of your body using the breathing techniques you’ve learned as much as possible, then empty your mana.”

“…!”

 

Cultivation comes first.

Students who thought this lesson would be comfortable made long faces.

 

‘After doing that cultivation, I’ll be exhausted all day…’

‘We’re screwed.’

 

Mana cultivation was indeed quite physically demanding work.

It was also because the students weren’t yet familiar with cultivation.

 

“Then, let’s see a demonstration from the not-yet-skilled Teaching Assistant.”

 

Gilbert, who was about to step forward as if he’d been waiting, hesitated.

 

“N-not-yet-skilled Teaching Assistant?”

“Right. You did it once yesterday, so you’re not skilled yet.”

“…”

 

Don’t they usually introduce someone as a skilled Teaching Assistant?

Gilbert sat in front of the students with a sense of injustice.

 

‘But why isn’t Boss doing it himself?’

 

Though it is the Teaching Assistant’s role…

 

‘Could it be related to Boss’s mana amount being at an ordinary person’s level?’

 

Gilbert set aside his questions for now and began cultivation.

 

“Right now, the Teaching Assistant is using his breathing technique to cultivate mana. When you cultivate mana, your body adapts more to mana, allowing you to adapt to combat more quickly.”

 

Simply put, warming up.

The reason why everyone who uses mana starts their day with cultivation and ends with cultivation is precisely this.

In the morning, to quickly warm up the body.

At night, to cool down the warmed-up body.

 

“I’m done now.”

 

After about 20 minutes, Gilbert finished his cultivation.

The students looked at him with surprised gazes.

 

“He finished in 20 minutes.”

“Isn’t the Teaching Assistant skilled?”

“It takes us an hour….”

 

Cultivation that takes even the fastest students here nearly an hour!

But Gilbert finished it in 20 minutes.

There’s always a reason why students get exhausted after just one cultivation session.

Meanwhile, Gilbert actually looked refreshed!

 

‘This is because I’m from Grade 1 Crow.’

 

“Did he get up early just because we’re in front?”

“The Teaching Assistant’s cultivation is finished, student Omar Lucon. Upon checking, the mana in his body is well activated.”

“S-sorry.”

 

He was just whispering, so how did he hear that?

 

“Now release all your mana using the ‘breathing’ I taught you yesterday.”

“Understood, Boss.”

 

Gilbert then used the breathing technique Ziel had taught him.

Honestly, he didn’t fully understand it all.

 

‘A passage for releasing mana.’

 

Boss who knows every corner of the human body!

According to Boss, mana is released from a point about 10cm away from the crown at the back of the neck.

He also added something chilling.

 

‘If you stab that spot precisely, all of the opponent’s mana will drain out.’

‘They’d die before that though, Boss?’

‘It’s an efficient way to kill, Gilbert.’

 

Hmm.

I must never expose the back of my neck in front of Boss.

Anyway, mana slowly draining out without interfering with the existing breathing technique.

At the same time, Gilbert’s complexion gradually became pale.

 

“Look at the Teaching Assistant’s face. He’s getting really haggard.”

“Is mana really draining out…?”

 

A nauseating feeling and the sensation of strength leaving his entire body.

This is what happens when mana is consumed relatively quickly.

Of course, even if consumed slowly, feeling unwell is inevitable.

 

‘I’m really going to die.’

 

If Gilbert was like this, the students would probably almost faint when they consumed all their mana?

 

“Huff, wheeze….”

 

Gilbert finally consumed almost all his mana.

Seeing this, Ziel spoke to the students as if he had realized something.

 

“I’ll make a correction. If you consume almost everything as I just said, it would be difficult to proceed with the class. Leave one-fifth remaining. I was thinking based on the Teaching Assistant’s standards.”

 

Gilbert was gradually becoming a test subject.

 

“Huff, huff… I’ve emptied almost everything, Boss.”

“Good. Put your hand in right away.”

 

Gilbert struggled to get up, staggered, and barely managed to bring his hand to the opaque glass case.

And shortly after.

 

‘I experienced this yesterday too… this is really insane.’

 

His pale complexion instantly returned and vitality began overflowing throughout his body.

And somehow, though very subtle, he even felt like his total mana capacity had mysteriously increased!

 

“Wh-what!”

“He’s really returning to normal?”

“Was it really true that mana gets refilled?”

 

The students’ astonished exclamations.

Gilbert, who finally removed his hand, had a completely normal expression.

 

“As you can see, the Teaching Assistant’s mana has been fully replenished. His total capacity has probably increased again as well.”

 

To summarize: cultivate mana to the maximum, then release mana using the special breathing technique Ziel taught.

Then refill the mana.

Using the Necromancer King’s Heart that the students couldn’t possibly know about.

Of course, it was very safe and actually….

 

“Boss, but I feel like my physical condition is better than yesterday.”

 

It seemed to have an effect that boosted vitality even more than before.

 

“It should help with the next class.”

 

Of course, even that amazing effect was just class material to Ziel.

Anyway, all the demonstrations were finished.

 

“First get familiar with the breathing. Anyone want to try?”

 

The students who had witnessed the effects with their own eyes.

 

“Me!”

“I asked first!”

“As the exchange tournament leader, I think I should go first!”

 

The participation was very good.

 

“Good. We’ll proceed in the order hands were raised. Student Ann Peshwa, come forward.”

“Yes!”

 

An unprecedented style of class was continuing.

 

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