Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

"Magic is cast with Mana so Mana is considered the natural universal base for the magic casting however, there are many weapon users who do not use Aura and instead use Mana.

Why would that be?"

To use Mana in the environment, one needed the Mana nucleus but, if someone was talented enough with a weapon and possessed Aura, they could also use the environmental Mana to a certain degree. Or, there were the skills that allowed one use of environmental Mana to a certain level as well.

"Miss Uriel?"

"Hmm?"

"The question. Did you not hear it?"

"Ah, yes… I did."

He definitely knew how she was cursing him in his head from her expressions, so it wasn\'t surprising that he was asking her that question.

"Then do you not want to answer? I thought you wanted to answer since you had that light in your eyes."

She knew as well what he was talking about so she didn\'t want to argue with him about this \'light\' in her eyes.

"Because Aura is destructive by nature. It\'s stronger, more aggressive, and even though all Aura have a unique characteristic, the energy of Aura is by nature powerful.

One cannot use it in all the situations so, some \'weapon\' users who specialise in tasks other than battles cannot use the Aura itself for various tasks.

Just like how you use your Aura in strengthening the Mana you possess, many individuals use Aura as a supplement, or as an innate force, or as a dependent variable in various things.

Yes there exists Aura that are special in nature and could be used directly, like the Aura of healing and the Aura of blessing that various holy knights use, however, even those Aura are dangerous by nature."

She didn\'t stand up to answer that question but the teacher didn\'t mind that. He wasn\'t really doing this for any kind of discipline but just to see what kind of answer she would give.

"That\'s right."

And seeing the expression he had, it seemed like he liked the answer she had presented.

"Aura is by nature powerful."

He was only a basic Rank-3 knight that could use Aura but, his Aura was unique in itself.

-Oooooooooooong!

It was a mix of purple and red, a unique lavender colour that looked pretty unique.

"It has the power to destroy."

Covering a small piece of the chalk in his unique Aura, he threw it on one side of the classroom wall.

-Booooooooooom!

And as soon as it hit the wall beside him, the entire classroom shook like an earthquake had hit this academy.

"The power to strengthen."

He then covered a little piece of paper in his Aura and threw it up in the sky.

-Skiiich—Clank!

Then he threw a knife at the piece of paper that was cascading down towards the ground, and, when this sharp looking knife hit the simple piece of paper, instead of piercing right through it, it made a strong sound as if it had crashed into a metallic plate.

"The power to affect the environment."

His Mana was fluid like Rein\'s and grandpa\'s. But instead of being similar to thick blood or light water, it was lighter than water and denser than air.

\'It was a unique kind of Aura that was fluid but not air… we can call it a fluid that was as light as clouds.

-Oooooooooong.

It was only the most basic of Aura, not even something that possessed a certain unique characteristic like those of Rank-4 did, and still, when he infused his Mana with his Aura and infused them both into the environment, the room that always possessed a controlled environment started getting hotter.

"We all know there are various kinds of Aura.

Aura that is fluid like water or air, solid Aura that could take the form of walls or mountains, Aura that possesses characteristics of rare elements like darkness, light, space, or something completely unique from the common elements.

We know how the nature and characteristics of an Aura depends completely upon the individual that possesses it, however, we do not have any idea how one\'s subconscious is going to give birth to that Aura.

It\'s a natural process that can not be controlled by our conscious mind."

He demonstrated various known ways that people usually use their Aura, and since there were a number of weapon users in this class that had not awakened their Aura yet, this demonstration was an eye opener for them.

[{ "I still don\'t like how he tricked us." }]

[{ "Let\'s punish him for that later, ok? For now, pay attention. It\'s interesting." }]

Both of us knew almost all there was to know about Aura since both of our grandpas were Knight Kings including the fact that the common knowledge was useless in this field after reaching a certain level.

\'There was a reason there were only a handful of Knight Kings.\'

Compared to those who had reached the level of a King, the number of individuals who were eligible to take the official position of an Elder mage were almost double. And that was also according to only the known data.

\'Those who have no official records of them, the wanderers who hide from the eyes of the world or the Sadhus that spend most their lives in seclusion aren\'t included in this analysis.\'

Aura was a unique power of mind, not something present in the entire environment around us, but… that did not mean it was something completely unique.

"The differential earlier wasn\'t that fun, so let\'s do it again with this new question.

Doron, what is the smallest unit of matter."

"Hunh?!"

He was asking everyone something once again. And this time, his question was not as difficult as earlier, so even the young boy before us was able to answer it.

"Wouldn\'t… wouldn\'t that be, energy particles, s-sir?"

"Hn-hun. That\'s correct. Then, Miss Rashel. How do these particles form?"

He started writing down something on the board while he asked that question to the (tier-2) mage.

"They do not form, sir Jezebel. The energy particles do not form and they cannot be destroyed either. They only change their forms— shift from one state to another."

"Correct. And how does this form-shift work, Haruto."

"The particles bind together to form greater elements, elements give rise to matter particles of various kinds, the combination of certain matter particles give rise to various physical objects that we see around us, including our own bodies."

"Right."

In a matter of moments, he had filled an entire side of the board with colourful words, and a certain kind of magic circle.

"Miss Celicilia. Can you tell us what this is?"

It was strange to some of them how we had started with the class and though some of them were still thinking everything that was going on right now was a little strange, the class had started and there was something important on the blackboard right now.

So, as some of us had realised already, it was time to take notes once again.

"I…"

The magic circle was a complex one, so, it was obviously normal for a student to not know anything about it.

"I apologise, teacher. All I see is a complex magic circle that looks pretty…"

She was a smart one, but even she did not know about this thing. But her answer was enough for our teacher.

"That\'s right. This is a complex magic circle. And you\'re right. It looks pretty exactly because that\'s how it\'s supposed to be."

He placed his hand on the magic circle on the board and channelled not Mana, but Aura directly into it.

"Captain Alpha. Enlighten us."

The Aura didn\'t affect the entire magic circle directly and instead was absorbed into the borders of the magic circle first, and then, it slowly spread towards its center.

It took a few seconds, but, soon, the entire magic circle was glowing with the Aura that was stably attached to the lines of the magic circle.

"What do you see?"

Captain Alpha had a surprised and delighted look on his face as he stood up in his place.

"An energy degrading array."

"And what does it do?"

The ever stoic vampire teacher had a concerningly visible smile on his face as well.

[{ "I will never understand this vampire bastard." }]

[{ "He\'s trying to lighten up the mood, Rein. Just enjoy it." }]

It was obvious that he was not only enjoying this moment, whatever was going on in his mind right now, was not very good.

\'He was showing a complex, high level magic array that not only we weren\'t going to learn until our third year, it was also not something that we will learn in the common classes.\'

It wasn\'t something that all of us were going to learn or use in the future so it didn\'t make sense that he was showing it to us in the common class understanding of Mana in our first year.

"It decomposes the energy applied to it."

He specialised in Pure magic. And a large part of pure magic was the energy that was applied every time magic was used.

"Correct."

The Aura that was attached to the magic circle slowly started becoming dimmer and fading away into nothing right before our eyes, and at the same time, as the mages could see, the concentration of Mana around the blackboard increased by many folds.

"Lucifer."

He looked up at me, and he didn\'t have to ask the question for me to know the answer to what he was going to ask.

"Aura, all energies in fact, are Concentration of particles."

Decompose Aura, you\'ll get Mana, decompose Mana, you will get purer energy Particles.

And the same logic applied to Aether, Arcana, Solnova, Demonic energy, Holy energy, Divine power, or whatever that was considered pure forms of energy.

"Even our soul… it\'s all a unique concentration of these basic blocks of energy."

Everything that existed was made of a certain foundational unit… a fact that not many people of this world understands properly.