How a Catastrophe-Level Magician Lives

Free immediately noticed the family head’s intention to go to the middle school academy in the Orwen Empire and build a foundation there early on, without harboring any other thoughts about the family.

From his position, he had no choice but to follow the words of the family head, who was the master of the family.

Moreover,

“If you successfully graduate from there after 3 years, I will provide and lend you several other advanced magic books from the family.”

The family head had first proposed a condition that he absolutely could not refuse.

Seeing Free constantly coming in and out of the family library for several years, the observant family head noticed that Free was quite interested in magic and used it as leverage to make him an offer he couldn’t refuse.

“…I under, stand…”

For him, who had been particularly interested in various magic and magic books containing magic since his previous life, it was an irresistible and attractive condition, even if he had already noticed the family head’s intention.

Free eventually ended up attending a middle school academy in the Orwen Empire, another empire to the south, for 3 years.

And there, he encountered and met people he had never expected.

[On the day of the entrance ceremony for the Orwen Empire Middle School Academy.]

“What? Who are you?”
“……”

For some reason, he witnessed two students, a boy and a girl who appeared to be new students like him, confronting each other in an opposing atmosphere from the first day of the entrance ceremony, wearing the middle school academy uniform.

One was a male student with dark, gloomy red hair even darker than that of the Sunlight family head, sharp eyes, and an impression of having a prickly personality.

The other was a female student with silver hair and crimson eyes, a very eye-catching sculpture-like beauty with a calm and quiet atmosphere.

However, between the two, a fierce aura that was visible to the naked eye was already slowly rising and clashing in the middle.

The red-haired male student was showing magical characteristics of the main flame attribute, the same as House Phoenix.

The silver-haired female student was displaying magical characteristics of the ice attribute, which was the opposite of House Phoenix.

“……”

He didn’t like the fact that coming to another empire felt quite forced, and now this was happening on the first day of the entrance ceremony. He had no idea what was going on.

“Hey! Aren’t you going to look at me? Do you think I’ll go easy on you just because you’re a girl?”
“…Move aside. You’re in the way.”

Before he knew it, the situation had escalated to a verbal argument without any chance to intervene.
The clash of energies was getting stronger than expected, making it impossible to just ignore and pass by. Of all times, for this to happen right before he was about to pass…
…It was a case of adding insult to injury.

Free sighed.
Glancing back, he saw many other confused students who couldn’t pass because of the two people in front.

‘I guess I have no choice.’

Honestly, he didn’t want to get involved with those two fighting from the first day of middle school entrance ceremony, but he had no choice.

Looking to the side, there was a clock tower, and the time it showed indicated that there wasn’t much time left until the entrance ceremony.

So Free stepped forward between the fighting pair.

He first tried to resolve it through dialogue.

“Hey, you’re obstructing other students from getting to school. Can’t you fight somewhere else?”
“Who are you?”
“……”

Whoop! The gaze turned towards him was not a very favorable one.

“Get lost since you’re in the way! I have business with this wench right now!”
“…Wench?”

At the words of the dark red-haired male student, the silver-haired female student’s eyebrow twitched.

“…You’d better take that back right now.”
“Ha! Stop talking nonsense and it would be better for you to get on your knees and beg right now. Otherwise, that expressionless head of yours might fly off.”

As he said this, he menacingly generated flame magic in one hand.

The silver-haired beauty frowned at this.

“You’re the one who should take back what you just said and apologize before I freeze your entire ugly face.”

It was a completely explosive situation.

They didn’t even try to listen to Free’s words.

They were just exchanging sparking glares.

Finally, Free shook his head and decided to resort to action.

Free’s Magical Eye activates in one of his eyes.

Then.

“”…!?””

Both of them widened their eyes at the blue magic circle that suddenly appeared under their feet.

“What…!”
They probably wanted to shout something like “What are you doing?”

However, the silent magic had already been activated.

Slip.
Slippery!

“…!”
“…Ugh!?”

Using the magic he had used once before, Friction Decline, he simply made the two fall to the ground.

At the same time, the fierce aura they were emitting suddenly quieted down.
Free said,

“Stop causing trouble for others on a public path everyone uses.”

Leaving only those words, Free quickly left alone before they could come to their senses.

Seeing this, the other students who had been watching in bewilderment also hurriedly followed behind Free, worried about what else might happen.

“…Silent magic? This quickly?”
“……”

The two who had fallen soon noticed that the magic had quickly worn off and showed different reactions as they quietly stood up.

“Damn it…! To think I’d fall for such a low-level magic!”

However, among them, the dark red-haired male student frowned deeply and gritted his teeth once.

It seemed he was quite ashamed of having fallen without being able to respond at all in front of so many watching students.

Beyond shame, now there was even irritation in his expression.

“Damn it!”
“……”

While he spat out a curse in frustration and kicked the ground before leaving somewhere, the other student, the girl who had also fallen victim to Free’s magic, was strangely silent for some reason. Rather, she just quietly stared in the direction Free had left with a curious attitude.

As the middle school entrance ceremony began,
Free sat in his prepared seat in the auditorium, quietly watching the stage with his arms folded.

However, his mind was on other thoughts, not on the principal giving a long speech.

Free was thinking,
‘The Essential Reading on Multi-Magic. The difference between volumes 1 and 2 was clear.’

He was secretly thinking about the Essential Reading on Multi-Magic books he had previously finished reading.

Essential Reading on Multi-Magic.

Volume 1.

An advanced-level magic book that enables simultaneous manifestation of multiple attributes.

Volume 2.

The second magic book that describes content about enhancement magic that further strengthens the manifested attribute magic by double or triple.

In other words, simply put, if you activate and manifest fire attribute magic, the content of volume 2 mainly focused on how to supplement and strengthen it further.

And on the last page.

‘Multi-attribute fusion magic, huh.’

It informed about the existence of volume 3, which contains content about being able to fuse two or more attribute magics into one.

Fusion, not combination.
For example, when activating a low-level fire attribute magic like a fireball, it meant that water attribute magic could exist in a spiral shape surrounding the ball as it’s shot forward.

‘In the first place, it’s impossible to completely fuse fire attribute and water attribute magic, which are inherently opposing. Rather, if the two magics touch, they’re bound to repel each other.’

The scene that came to mind while thinking about this was one where steam rises and the magic fails.

That’s why it’s fusion magic, not combination magic.

You could overlay lightning on fire.
Conversely, you could overlay fire and water on lightning.

‘If you fuse the lightning attribute, which is the thunder attribute, with water attribute magic, it could produce even more powerful effects.’

Free had an expression of being lost in thought, slightly lowering his head while resting his chin on his hand.

‘Also, if you use water attribute magic as the basic central base and surround it with rotating lightning in a spiral shape, the destructive power could increase several times.’

Usually, the basic tactical method among magicians was to alternately activate water attribute magic and thunder attribute magic, which can interact with each other, in order.

Even in the old days, it was common on battlefields to use water attribute magic to fill the ground up to ankle level, and then spread thunder attribute magic to cause electrocution, resulting in wide-area mass destruction magic.

Therefore, as a countermeasure, it was common for allies to use powerful fire attribute magic that could erase moisture to quickly evaporate the ankle-deep water.

It required quick response and quick situation judgment, as one could die from electrocution immediately if not dealt with promptly.

‘But the Essential Reading on Multi-Magic Volume 3, which was described with illustrations on the last page of Volume 2, is literally about attribute fusion magic. It was written that it detailed methods to make two or more attributes compatible with each other, increasing power and affected range to some extent.’

That might be why it was divided into three separate volumes: 1, 2, and 3.

After all, obtaining just Volume 3 would be meaningless without obtaining Volumes 1 and 2.

‘This is just my speculation, but the reason why Volume 2, which contained content about attribute enhancement, came before Volume 3 was probably to further strengthen the attribute fusion magic described in Volume 3.’

As a result of his own reasoning, the reason why Volume 1 recorded the manifestation of multi-attribute magic and the next volume, Volume 2, focused on multi-attribute enhancement was probably due to the attribute fusion magic said to be recorded in this Volume 3.

‘Interesting. It’s a magic I’m looking forward to.’

An advanced magic book divided into a total of 3 volumes.

When all of this is completely read and mastered, the range, power, and even tactical potential will increase exponentially beyond imagination.

And Free had directly received information about the whereabouts of Volume 3, the most important stage of this advanced magic book, from the head of House Phoenix before coming to study abroad here.

Just then, an announcer on the stage announced that the entrance ceremony for the first-year middle school students of the academy had ended.

And the class he was assigned to was…

“……”
“……”
“……”

It was the one with the two male and female students he had seen earlier on the way to the entrance ceremony, who had caused trouble for what seemed like no good reason, though he wasn’t sure exactly why.

Seeing this, Free sighed and thought to himself that his luck was truly terrible.