Chapter Chapter 36: RATH 36 TL: Eevee (1/2)
RATH 36
TL: Eevee
5. Welcome to the summoner’s school. (6)
There’s so many of them. There’s just too many documents.
“Currently, people are watching over our academy to the extent that they are heralding a new age of summoning.”
That’s One **ece(1) for you. Just because I used a slightly-edited version of the speech it started a new wave of piracy, no, summoning fervor.
Now if we had a protagonist character shout “I’m going to be the summoner king!” then that would be the perfect scenario!
Well, still.
“First, it will probably be good to filter out those with insufficient magic power first.”
Whether there really was a new storm or not, but along with those with the talent, too many kids without any talent also applied.
Since even kids who would have submitted their applications to Mercaria sent them into us complete with perfect office worker formatting, that should say it all.
With a base of a contract with a summon, and using the abilities of the summon, comparatively speaking, summoning uses less mana than magicians or battlemages, but just because you’re using less doesn’t mean that it’s okay if you have little mana.
Even though the summoner can control the automatic supply of mana if needed, when summoning the summon itself, that process takes up a significant amount of mana.
And from there if you want to bring out the power of the summon then you need mana again.
As an example take No.17’s Surtr who normally acts as a sandbag, when he’s manipulating fire then No.17 supplies mana to Surtr, and Surtr uses that mana to create fire.
Maybe if my goal was to contract low-ranking summons, but to achieve my goals of making contracts with high-ranking summons then I don’t really need as much mana as my old disciples in Howling, but at the very least I need kids on the level of your average magician.
“Mmm… how about this one?”
“Hm. His magic power seems slightly lacking, but his experience seems to be decent. Pass him through the first round for now, it would probably be better to pass him on to Maroon or Professor Aruhan.”
-Wiing? Discrimination?
-Kids good at close combat are exceptions.
The applicant that the other lecturer had brought was a commoner, but he had qualifications as a C rank mercenary.
If you were C rank at 18 years old then that means you’re at least better than normal.
Of course since his mana seems to be lacking it seems like he’ll have a hard time forming sword ki, but becoming a C rank despite being a commoner means he’s probably seen his fair share of mayhem.
If we hand him over to the army lecturers, and link him up to the imperial armory then he should be useful fighting potential.
-But, owner? Those armory contractors, aren’t they all forced conscripts?
-Not forced. Since the condition of a contract is enlisting. Enlist first, contract later.
The imperial armory.
Filled with all sorts of famous weapons and armour for the course, it’s a place with many magically enchanted weapons and armour, the empire succeeded in tying these equipment with their soldiers as summoner and summon.
Thanks to that, a bunch of soldiers who could use all sorts of weapons and armour in battle were born!
And if you were to talk about a peculiarity, this wasn’t a contract between a summon and a summoner, but a summoner and the empire, and so the summoner is automatically enrolled into the army.
And after this, they are trained and work as imperial army officers.
Meaning, a summon that guaranteed enlistment!
Thanks to that, even though they get all sorts of perks, that’s why not many people follow the summoner’s path.
-So this is why owner brought in the mister army men!
-The empire’s military is a great workplace with a 100% employment rate after all!
Among the four great academies, no one ever asks about the employment rate after graduation.
Conversely, that means if we do it right, we can appeal with employment rates!
If we get anyone hired into the imperial palace we can say, [000 of Yugrasia Class of 000, employed by the imperial palace! Employment rate 100%!] is the overall plan.
And the best way to realize that plan was to have No.17 come to us…
-‘Course not. I’m saying it because you’re my owner, but if owner wasn’t my owner then even I wouldn’t stick around. Even tho’ the kid doesn’t know that owner’s owner, but since you look similar ’nuff, running away would be natural.
Although nothing she says feels at all serious with that short tongue of hers, but reality is reality.
Although we’ve already gone through over 600 applications, No.17 is nowhere to be seen.
Hoho, this cute kid.
If she’d come I would have given her relatively preferential treatment and had her on the student council this year, student council president next year on the top-speed elite course I had prepared for her.
And to think she’d run with her family as an excuse.
-I will use her as the sacrifice to reveal the splendour of Yugrasia’s progress.
-Uwii, so petty. My owner’s so petty!
No, you dolt!
They say that a wise man’s revenge is not late even after ten years, but since I am not a wise man I take it immediately!
“Ohh! The Letia family’s Miss Aris!”
“Pass, a hundred percent pass!”
But in the hopes of ‘maybe, just maybe,’ I kept searching through the documents for No.17’s name when I heard shouts from a corner.
If it’s the Letia family, then it’s one of the empire’s famous Ten Great Families.
And the girl called Miss Aris is that family’s oldest daughter. Meaning.
-Owner’s baiting finally hauled in a big one! Poor kid!
-It’s all fine if we give her a splendid summon!
I’d looked through roughly 300 applications but there was no one on that level.
The highest was a Count.
And even then the majority of those kids fell short of standards, and to think an eldest daughter of a Ten Great Family came!
-I’ll contract her with the best summon so we can use it for promotion!
-So cool! My owner that doesn’t think of the students first, but prioritises profits is so cool!
Even other than that I found a few noteworthy individuals that might be of use.
We succeeded culling the second round of applicants to 300, then 100 truly outstanding students out of those.
And now, around a month later.
“My peers, do you want freedom!”
-Freedom!
“Then, follow me!”
-Uwooooooo!
With the student council at the head, this world’s first-ever student rebellion began.
#3 Their Story: A certain student council president’s story.
“You are a child loved by the spirits.”
The person who said so smiled as she stroked my head.
An elf, who was said to have been loved by nature from their creation, said that to me.