2000 Years of Magic History in My Head

Period 1 (3)

Fire in one hand

Water on the other.

Both were basic elemental magic, normally only summoning one would be embarrassing, but the two magic tricks were both manifested simultaneously.

"Huh, huh."

Min-hyuk's eyes shook. He couldn't believe what he saw.

He had high expectations that it might be possible, but his heart pounded when he saw it with his own eyes.

'This is an evolution.'

Double Casting.

Dozens of years since the disaster, Double Casting was deemed as a highly sophisticated technique that only geniuses performed. However, he was able to use it easily. The training process was simply a repetition of the Fire and Aqua system, and it was also thanks to the tips from the other world.

'One must allow the autonomy of mana.'

In the world where Min-hyuk lived, he is taught to focus on his mana when casting.

Since the circle is made artificially, the mana is only surface level.

The information was half right.

Lacking mana control would cause it to escape unwantedly, but when used well, it leads to 'automatic casting theory'. Mana accumulated in the body has 'memory'. It tends to remember and replicate the flow, like muscle memory. Once your body becomes used to the flow, it will come naturally without any calculations.

It's a straightforward method.

'But given that Klinsmann's world considers the creation of elements to be basic, it couldn't have taken them long to confirm this theory.'

The problem is...

'Why do I have this privilege?'

There are people in the world who risk their lives using magic.

Although few in number, people like Lee Hak-beom dedicated their lives to magic.

How come such knowledge went to Min-hyuk, who knows nothing about magic?

The thought consumed him.

He leaned against the chair.

Looking at the ceiling, he cleared his head.

'Klinsmann's world was a highly magical civilization.'

It's completely different from Min-hyuk's reality.

In the Ganghwa civilization, where Min-hyuk lives, studying magic is odd.

Magic did not come naturally to him.

Magic requires a long and tedious process. The long hours of practice would only result in minimal destructive power. It only slightly improved one's physical combat abilities and had many limitations.

For example,

'Magic is ineffective on a Class-A Monster's shell. '

Monsters of Class A and above, classify as massive disasters, and can completely depreciate the value of magic.

However, the world of Klinsmann is different.

They said that if there is magic, other physical skills become obsolete.

'I still don't know much about their world. Unlike ours, their magic is mighty. There is a prejudice in this world that magic cannot exceed a certain level, but the other world has pioneered more than six unknown circles. '

The sixth circle.

That magic does not exist in this reality.

Scholars are continually researching about it, but only a few 5-circle magic have been made.

If we can bring more knowledge from that world into this reality, it will trigger a magic evolution.

'That is, if I can replicate that experience again....'

Min-hyuk could hear his heart beating.

The reason he wasn't interested in magic before was because there were so many apparent limitations.

But this situation is different.

'I could discover new things and prove my worth.'

Magic had suddenly offered him endless possibilities.

His chest continued to pound.

* * *

His life had suddenly changed.

When Min-hyuk entered the magic department, he always attended class but never listened.

Yes, willingness to learn and the unwillingness to learn makes a big difference.

He gradually built up basic magic knowledge, but he had yet to experience Klinsmann's again. Even after the full moon, nothing had changed. He worried that it was a once in a lifetime experience. Min-yuk was greeted with loud noises.

[Guardian Gate]

Geomun is located in Seoul, Korea.

Min-hyuk entered a building nestled on a vast land, it measured thousands of pyeong big, and a scene unfolded before his eyes.

"One!"

Hook!

"Two!"

Hook!

Cloud.

They shouted from the front and swung the sword on the instructions of a man named Suhomun. They were all his disciples. Drawn to his power, people came here to learn sword fighting. Min-hyuk simply passed by and never even glanced at them.

He continued to walk.

"Min-hyuk."

Min-hyuk ran into a man on the way.

A carving of a sword across the shield could be seen on his chest, along with his colossal physique, showing that he was a first-class disciple subject.

"Is it worth going to the magic department?"

"It is."

"Are you listening to your teacher, are you really working hard? It does not make any sense? Even if you can practice magic for a hundred days and reach its peak, it means nothing to a Class-A monster."

The name of the man speaking to him was Jeong Jeong-soo.

His intentions were transparent.

Kang laughed while deliberately scratching his face.

"I still have to do something. I am the eldest son of Suhomun, but I can live as a non-combat resource."

"...... Well, you're right; still, it's strange to see you mastering magic. Why don't you just focus on sword fighting again? I think If you

do your best, if you think about it, swordsmanship is still more useful than magic.

He continued to persuade Min-hyuk.

Deciding that it was no longer worth dealing with, he cut Jeong-soo off for a moment and moved along.

Unbeknownst to them, Min-hyuk heard them talking behind his back.

"Why did he become like that?"

"Is this a joke? Suhomun's eldest son, who had the whole world's attention, is studying magic at the age of 17. Very pitiful. Suhomun's only successor is poor at sword fighting."

"I pity him. No matter how hard it is, isn't it a bit too much to throw away the sword and cling to magic?"

Those words stung, but they rang true.

Unknowingly, he clenched his fist and moved calmly as if he hadn't heard it.

Min-hyuk had no choice but to do so.

If he gets angry here, it'll only get ugly.

* * *

The Guardian Gate.

Kang Min-hyuk's home life was filled with swordsmanship.

Of course, he had learned swordsmanship since he was young. Still, he gave up his honorary position as a successor to Suhomun.

Even when Min-hyuk was his successor, Jeong-soo treated him carefully. But shortly after entering the department of magic, people began to look down on him.

"The heavens have abandoned Kang Min-hyuk."

"He was blessed being born unto Suhomun, but became a tragedy because of his lack of talent."

"Suhmun chose the son of Gassin, not Kang Min-hyuk, as his successor."

These are the hurtful words he often heard at the Guardian Gate.

Hearing those words affected his self-esteem, Min-hyuk sat down on a chair and looked up at the ceiling.

"Come on."

He cheered himself on.

Kang Min-hyuk, who abandoned swordsmanship, was treated like a loser at the Guardian Gate. In the Magic Academy, people were hostile because he was from the Guardian Gate, known for their disregard of magic. Even Lee Hak-beom mistreated him before Min-hyuk explained double casting.

Min-hyuk was angry.

He hated this reality.

'I wish I was talented enough to please my father.'

It's meaningless to think that now.

His father's eyes looked at him.

Although his face showed no emotion, his father was clearly disappointed in him.

His successor was a failure, having no talent for combat at all.

"How miserable."

The world turned around and around.

After crying for a long time, Min-hyuk calmed down. And he began to think of Klinsmann's world.

'Their magic is special.'

He recalled something Klinsmann's classmate said,

"What is the magic of the eighth circle? Why would a man who entered a magic academy ask such a question? In short, magic over eight circles is a natural disaster. A thunderbolt from heavens can strike, and turn the ground upside down, killing thousands with a single spell."

It is different from the magic that Min-hyuk knows.

If magic could be that powerful, you can be appreciated in this world.

'I want to learn magic.'

There's no hope for me in sword fighting.

He voluntarily put down his knife, but in reality, it made no difference.

But Min-hyuk needed to be confident and bet everything he had on magic.

''Klinsmann's world', I need to know more about it.'

He was eager.

Was it a rebellion against Jeong-soo's words?

Did the air ever feel this cool?

And that evening...

'Ah.'

He opened his eyes.

Not as Kang Min-hyuk, but as Klinssman.