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Volume 9 Chapter 230

Luke’s Best Friend

On the second day after enrolling in the magic academy, each member of the class had the opportunity to showcase their respective magic they were most skilled in.
My classmates are all badass.
Meldie and Ryuushin, with their abnormal attack power.
Mai and Mei, who could fuse opposite elemental magics.
Rifa, who could gather magical power to the extent of distorting the surrounding space.
Ryuuka, the dragon priestess, who could apparently repair objects as long as magical energy flowed through them.
And Luna, the Support Mage known as an unfortunate job in this world, showed remarkable support magic skills.
Why was she able to use the Max Magic Magical Power Enhancement even though she’s still a first-year student?!
All of them were crazy strong.
I later asked Grandpa, the headmaster, and he explained that because Tina-sensei took on the role of homeroom teacher, she was able to gather all the eccentrics who were originally supposed to be assigned to various classes into one.
I understood why our class had gathered such unusually powerful members.
By the way, during that time, it seemed that Yoko was using magic to make herself less noticeable, so she didn’t attack any of the prepared targets.
Even though I’m the grandson of the headmaster and an apprentice sage, I couldn’t see through Yoko’s magic, so I think her magic is amazing.
It seemed that Tina-sensei noticed Yoko’s magic from the start. Therefore, I think even more highly of Tina-sensei.
Since everyone’s magic was badass, I decided to give it my all too.
I’ll reveal the power of the sage’s grandson!
I completely obliterated the target along with its pedestal using Ultimate Magic, a spell that only a few people in this world can use.
Usually, I skip the lengthy incantations, but this time, I recited it fully to maximize its power.
Everyone was amazed.
Especially Haruto, who understood the power of the Ultimate Magic I used.
He seemed to have noticed even before I cast the spell that I was going to use Ultimate Magic, and he understood the difficulty of narrowing down the range while still unleashing Ultimate Magic.
He’s truly remarkable.
Well, he’s been receiving magic guidance from the legendary hero Tina Haribel since he was a child, so it’s only natural.
So far, so good.
After that, it was Haruto’s turn to use magic, and it was crazy badass.
Among the badass classmates, his magic stood out the most.
I don’t know…… I’m supposed to be an apprentice sage, but constantly calling them badass makes me seem stupid.
But I couldn’t find any other words to describe my classmates and Haruto.
What Haruto unleashed was the lowest-level fire attribute magic, Fire Lance.
That’s for sure.
Both the incantation and the flow of magic were the same as the standard Fire Lance.
What was different was the scale and power of the magic.
Haruto summoned a gigantic spear of flame that seemed to contain nearly 100,000 units of magical power, although the normal consumption for Fire Lance is only 2 units.
100,000 units of magical power are normally impossible.
It’s a scale of magic that a dozen or so advanced magicians would barely manage to wield together.
With such magic, Haruto created a huge hole in the wall of the training ground, boasting strength ten times greater than the intended target.
Are you a monster!? — I wanted to ask my best friend.
But even this isn’t a particularly noteworthy story when it comes to describing Haruto.
I suspect that Haruto might actually be the Demon Lord.
What made me think that was the magic he used.
The Flame Knight.
Upon receiving Haruto’s command, it automatically moves to hunt down and defeat monsters.
Magic that operates somewhat autonomously does exist.
The heroes who came from another world called it 『Programmed Magic』.
It’s the same for Fire Lance, for example; if you program it to fly straight for ten meters and then turn right, there are quite a few mages who can achieve it.
My grandfather is one of them.
I’m not that skilled yet, so it’s not possible for me……
But it’s true that magic can be programmed.
Haruto’s Flame Knight was also a programmed magic, as he himself told me.
However, no matter how you look at it, it’s abnormal.
Being able to pierce through a Magic Gnome, which should have high magic resistance, with a flame spear.
Moving like a human, and the fact that it acts autonomously.
Moreover, being able to coordinate with several others.
The Flame Knight, it’s all abnormal.
If it’s melee combat without using weapons, I think Ryuushin is the strongest in our class.
After all, he’s a dragonewt, the strongest race born from the union of the strongest monster, the dragon, and humans.
Even Ryushin initially couldn’t compete with Haruto’s Flame Knight.
He couldn’t win even one-on-one.
Recently, Ryushin has grown to be able to handle multiple Flame Knights simultaneously in battle, so I think Ryushin is also quite a monster.
Let’s get back to Haruto’s story.
Haruto can apparently control units of such powerful Flame Knights in units of thousands.
In fact, I witnessed Haruto summoning ten thousand Flame Knights and marching them.
Being able to overwhelm B-rank monsters and defeat even demons with just five units gathered together, controlling ten thousand Flame Knights at will.
It’s not unreasonable to think of such a being as the Demon Lord.
I see…… so, I’m the Demon Lord’s friend then?
He’s actually a pretty good guy.
My friend, who is the Demon Lord.
Being friends with the Demon Lord, I’ve seen some unbelievable stuff..I’ve experienced things that I would not normally experience.
Even though he’s like a Demon Lord, he’s really a good guy, so I want to be friends with him forever.
It’s thanks to Haruto that I got a girlfriend.
「Luke-san, sorry to keep you waiting」
「Oh, I just arrived too」
She just arrived, so that’s the end of the story about Haruto.
Going on a date now.
Well then, see you later.
「Luke-san, what were you talking about with the cat?」
「Just talking about my best friend」