I Choose The Heroine's Route

35 History Of Magic

The teacher of History of Magic definitely arrived much earlier than Teacher Zen did earlier. It was only 12:45 when the female teacher arrived. It's a good thing that we returned from the cafeteria around 12:30, but I guess it'll be fine either way if we arrived much later since the teacher did also say that she wouldn't consider a student late as long as they arrive before 1:00 PM has passed.

Somehow, there was also this tacit understanding in the whole class to just let the seating arrangements be the way it is before – letting groupmates sit close together. So we all still ended up together.

The female teacher didn't say much, and after introducing herself, she immediately started teaching.

"As some of you might have already known, Magic is given to us as a blessing and gift by Linus, the God of Creation who have given life to everyone and everything in this world," the teacher paused, then she raised her hand that's holding some sort of a small remote control, pointing it towards the viewing screen.

The white screen then change, and an image of a vague figure clothed in a cloak appeared. The face isn't visible because of the cloak, and there's also no way to tell if it's a. man or woman. Moreover, the image shown is merely gray and black.

I didn't listen much to what was being discussed since I already know about it. Glancing for a moment at Anastasia and the others, it seemed like they also don't plan to listen much... aside from Percival that's probably pretending to listen even if he definitely already knows.

Linus, the God of Creation is portrayed like this in this world because no one really knows what they look like.

It just seems like the citizens or humanity of this world has already known about a being called God that exists from the very beginning, thinking that since they exist, there must have been someone who created everything that this world has now. It was then solidified when thousand of years ago, Linus is said to have given their message to a priest of their temple 'Linus Temple'.

"Only 37% of the world is blessed with the gift to control Mana. When Magic was first discovered, people were shocked and didn't know what to do – until they encountered monsters."

That caught my interest a little, and at the same time, the image on the viewing screen changed again. From the image of Linus to the image of... monsters.

Hideous monsters with different appearances – one picture is a seemingly big snake, there's a picture of a goblin, an abnormally large and feral-looking wolf, and more.

I usually don't like listening to lessons unless it's something I'm interested in, and this is definitely becoming one of them. After all, it's History of Magic, and Magic is what I love so much. Learning about its history is different from taking a math or science class – I'm exactly saying that I hate them, and I'm aware there are people who like taking them, there are even rare times when I'm actually interested in them.

But most of the time, that will only be the case if I can actually understand the lesson or whatever it is that was being taught.

Learning History of Magic is more like... learning

"Monsters are one of the enigmas of this world. One day, they just seemed to have appeared out of nowhere – creatures who feast on pain, destruction, and chaos, the natural enemy of humankind. This made the people question Linus. But then, another message was given," The image on the viewing screen change again to something like a cartoon image of a female priest kneeling on the ground with both palms pressed together.

"The priest chosen by Linus to be their messenger told everyone, these are monsters! Beings that are created and born naturally because of all the world's natural flow as well as its cruelty, negativity, and wickedness. Instead of getting rid of them, Linus thought of an alternative instead because even if they erase them at that time, if it's born from the world's natural flow and not by their creation, then as long as the world and other living organisms exist, monsters will also continue to just be born."