Succubus' Life in Another World

Chapter 129: Afterschool Training

The incident at the start of the week was annoying but thanks to that, the participants of our afterschool training sessions have increased to seventeen. Fifteen of them are from Class A, while the remaining two are Solas friends, mages currently attending Class B. The only ones who havent joined us are the first prince factions Glen, Milt, and their three lackeys. There are 20 students in Class A, so even the members of the second prince faction joined our sessions.

As usual, were having a training session after school today, so I headed to the training area at the previously scheduled time. By now, Im already close enough with the professor processing the documents to have short chats with them. Personally, Im rooting for you. When I was told this, I really felt guilty about scaring them with the principals signature.

As I arrived at the training area, I saw that someone was already there. It was a real mystery how she got here earlier than me despite our classes ending at the same time.

Miss Hermie, youre quite early. Well, it seems like I was a bit overexcited.

This person that arrived ahead of me is the lady of a purple peer household, Miss Hermie of the second prince faction. She should have become the leader of the second prince faction since Tebby sided with us, but she was the first to join our training immediately after that incident.

Frankly speaking Miss Hermie, is it really alright for you to participate in my training? Of course, theres no problem at all. To begin with, for the second prince faction, the advancement of magical technology is a joyous thing. While this is certainly something we would have preferred to carry out with our own hands, if this advancement should happen under your leadership, it is still a joyous happening nonetheless. How about it? I do believe that we have the same intentions in mind, dont we? -whoop, Im not falling for that one. Ill cooperate with what I can, certainly, but I have no intention to take part in political activities. Oh, thats a shame.

True, the second prince faction is aiming for the reinforcement of the kingdoms national power through the advancement of magical technology. They likely decided that if the reformation of the academy would result in more excellent sorcerers and mages, then its more important than any trivial factional dispute. Still, it doesnt seem like the second prince faction is in complete unity and all.

It seems like everyone is here. Well then, lets start todays training in high spirits as usual. To start, everybody; please split into two teams: A and B.

Since there are seventeen participants in total, sixteen with me excluded, I divided all the participants into groups of 8. What were going to do today is everybodys favorite: dodgeball. Ball games being effective for magic training is something already proven with Adans training. Having everyone juggle balls is fine and all, but since we have this many people now, it should be better to have a game where everyone can play with each other.

It might be nice to incorporate soccer and volleyball eventually. Baseball is probably not suited for training, I think? Rugby would be a bit dangerous with female students playing too. What other games are there again? Tennis might be suitable for magic tool use training though.

-whoops, the game was settled while I was distracted with my thoughts.1 Todays game was between Tebby and Hermies team A, and Urania and Soras team B; but it seems like Ive made a mistake with the team balancing as team A had an overwhelming victory. Rather, only Urania and Sola were capable of receiving Tebbys throws. While he was one of the first training participants, Tebbys growth is terrifying.

The balance adjustment for team distribution is something well have to solve. Unless we assess everybodys abilities and distribute the participants in a way that would make the games a close match, it wont be effective as training. After all, if the match is too one-sided, theyll barely have any contact with the ball.

I considered going for another round, but we need to make efficient use of our time, so I decided to move on to the next training exercise. The training Im conducting is currently divided into three stages. The new participants who arent familiar with manipulating magic power, and the two mages that cant use magic in the first place, are at the first stage of training. Participants like Hermie who can manipulate magic power but dont have great control over magic are at the second stage. Lastly, Urania, Tebby, and Sola are currently in the third stage.

The first stage, as you know, is the training of magic power manipulation through juggling, but in addition to that, Ive also handed out modified grimoires. Unlike Uranias grimoire, these dont have the magic recording function, but they are equipped with the magic power manipulation support function. While I call these modified grimoires, theyre in the shape of a wand, so calling them grimoires might be a bit weird.

When activating these grimoires, three balls will appear, and they will have to juggle them while supplying a fixed amount of magic power. At first, the grimoire will automatically draw out magic power from its user, so even those who arent familiar with regulating their magic power can practice magic power operation. With that, theyll have to start by mastering how to control their magic power. Its the foundation of everything, so if they stumble at this point, they wont be able to do anything. No matter how slow the progress, mastering this is necessary.

The second stage is magic mastery. Learning magic construction is important and all, but in the end, the most important thing is the ability to control ones magic. People that arent proficient at it like Adan and Miss Hermie can have their magic hijacked and could cause them harm. It was a shock to discover that most of the students neglect to learn magic mastery.

So for these people, I had them train in pairs and do Light Ball battles. This one is also based on what we did during Adans training, but compared to what we did, the participants are showing off some pretty high level techniques. Like producing six Light Balls and firing them instantaneously, making them flicker to cause confusion, the level of creativity is amazing. Though if only the one that produced six at the same time didnt get their magic hijacked due to the lack of control, I would have given them a passing grade.

Ive also taught the second stage participants how to hijack magic. As long as youre somewhat decent at magic power control, hijacking magic is surprisingly not that difficult. More importantly, when you know how to do it, you can directly apply what you learned to magic mastery.

And lastly, the third stage participants do nothing but mock battles. However, they have to wear the magic sealing bangle I made. This magic tool has the effect of sealing certain magic while also disturbing ones magic power control. Naturally, it makes manipulating magic difficult, and they absolutely cant use the magic thats sealed off.

The magic sealed could be the users favorite magic, offensive magic, defensive magic, and many more. Sealing attributes instead would consequently incapacitate Tebby, so I limited it to certain magic. I honestly had a hard time figuring this out, but thanks to that, I was able to create my secret weapon, so it was worth the trouble.

Incidentally, Im currently fighting them 3 on 1 with two of those equipped in each of my four limbs. This really makes for great training. First of all, hijacking their magic is impossible, and constructing magic itself becomes considerably harder.

Even so, I dont have any intention to lose, and as of yet, I still havent lost. After all, since Uranias magic comes mostly from her grimoire, the construction is too clean; and while Tebbys firepower is amazing, hes easy to counter since he only uses one attribute. To be honest, the most troublesome among them is Sola. Since she uses water and fire attributes independently while occasionally firing off composite magic, she has the most varied move set out of them. I guess the point to improve would be her lack of power then?

In the meantime, I decided to focus on the training of the new participants for today. At their current rate, I might be able to take them along with us this weekend after all.

1. Lyly: Lol, thats too much distraction