21st Century Archmage

‘Im gonna go nuts. Before I knew it, rumors had spread all over the school, causing students to turn on their heels and run away at the mere sight of Hyneth.To be a loser here…

This kind of collective exclusion was a first for me, even considering my life in Korea.

“Che, I didnt even do anything wrong,” grumbled Russell while walking next to me.

“Hoho, elder brothers, this small guy is the red kylie flower; it blooms in the spring and releases its fragrance until summer.” The cause of the bullying, Hyneth, got excited all by herself while looking at the campus plants.

‘How can such a scary strength come from such a fragile body? Did her ancestor drink ogre blood?

Old people in Korea would hurry to slurp up the blood of not just deer, but all sorts of animals, as long as it was good for your body. I wondered what kind of hereditary information was being spread through the blood of the Petrins.

“Russell, how did you summon a spirit?”

I heard that commoners who lived in rural areas had higher spiritual affinity than nobles. Because one needed spiritual affinity, mana, and a summoners help on top of that, a commoner becoming a summoner was as difficult as an orc eating garlic for a hundred days and evolving into an ogre.

“My father was a summoner.”

‘Hm? He was? But hes a commoner?

In some ways, summoners received more respect than mages. If you managed to summon an intermediate spirit, you would receive at least 4th Circle mage treatment. But despite being a commoner, Russells father was a summoner.

‘Its fishy. This guy has been hiding something from the start.

He had introduced himself as a commoner, but Russells every action was filled with grace. I would believe it even if you said he was a noble.

“Wow! As expected of theForest of Spirits, it really feels like were inside a big forest.”

I wanted to ask Russell something else, but we had already arrived at the Forest of Spirits on the palace grounds. This was where summoners received their education and spirit-related classes were held.

‘There are just about 20 summoners in the Imperial Family. They have a High Summoner of wind and a High Summoner of earth, right?

Spirits were divided into 5 different classes: Spirit King at the pinnacle and then arch, high, intermediate, and lower grade spirits. A summoners greatest goal was usually to summon a high spirit. Archspirits and Spirit Kings did exist, but historically, the number of people who had summoned an archspirit could be counted on one hand, and no one had managed to summon a Spirit King. Summoning an archspirit would grant you treatment equal to a 7th Circle Archmage.

For Skyknight aerial battles, ranged offense was provided by a magic spear called the Blessed Spear, which I had personally experienced, as well as magic from mages and spirits from summoners. Today, we would be learning about the spirit side.

Unfortunately, some scum were already waiting ahead of us in the class location.

‘They sure crawled out here early, I thought, looking at the no-good bunch.So that guy is the next duke of Fasain?

The leader of the group was a haughty-looking man in his early 20s with blue hair. Perhaps because he was going to be the next head of a ducal family with a high position of power in the empire, the others were wagging their tails around him like dogs.

‘He really reminds me of Hwang Sung-taek. The next Duke of Fasain, Tedran Fasain, gave me the same feeling as Hwang Sung-taek, theCrown Prince of the Ohsung Group back in Korea.

Our eyes met.