Start of Training

The next morning, I heard the sound of bells in the distance.

I woke up immediately, perhaps having slept too little. I got up from bed and looked out the window, and saw an island with a large bell floating a little further away. I wondered if someone was pulling on a string there to announce the time. The strange sight made me approach the window, but when I looked down, I was a little nervous because the altitude was as high as ever. I hurried away from the window.

... Come to think of it, I was told to go to the cafeteria when I woke up in the morning.

Suddenly, the world changed yesterday. I was surprised at myself for accepting it to some extent, even though I was exposed to the light of adjusting my mind and body to this world. Besides, I had some worries about the future. The distance between me and my students. I couldn't sleep well last night and thought a lot about it, but I decided to first learn more about this world through something like the educational program here before making a decision.

When I went to the cafeteria, there were a few students eating. Kohinata had not arrived yet. When I walked in, the two first-year students bowed lightly without saying a word, but the rest of them ignored me.

Phew…

I was a little worried, but in order not to irritate the students in the cafeteria, I ate my meal a little away from them. It seemed that Millet was not here today. A young male clergyman brought us our meals. As usual, the food was very comfortable, even for those of us from Japan. I ate a salad with a slightly acidic flavor and watched the students.

The students were learning magic that they had never seen or heard of, and seemed to be enjoying their time in this world. I heard them talking about how they wished they could use healing too. I could not wait to try using magic myself. I was told that I could use life magic.

After finishing their meal, the students left the cafeteria. I was supposed to get a briefing on this world after this ... The man from earlier had left the room, and I was wondering what to do when I saw a ... woman? No, it was a man with long hair? The man walked into the room.

"Good morning. Shigeto-sama. My name is Karimah and I will be explaining the features of this world to you. I look forward to working with you."

I wondered if it was a woman after all. Is it still a woman? The voice sounds a little ... No, it's not. Maybe it's something like genderless. Height is male-like, but ... No, it's okay.

Um... I was guided by the ... man to one of the rooms on the first floor. The room was neither small nor large, about the size of a kendo court. There were two chairs there, and I was told to sit on one of them.

“Shigeto-sama has been told by Millet-san that your program will be held separately from those young people, so you will be using this room for your daily activities. It's a little small, but I think it will be fine for one person."

"I see... Thank you for your consideration."

"No, we are here for those who come from other worlds."

"Indeed, we come from many different worlds..."

The explanation, which began with light chitchat, greatly stimulated my intellectual interest in learning what I did not know.

First of all, the God of this world is said to manage several worlds at the same time. One of them is the Earth we had arrived from. There was a myth or a sentence in the Bible that says, "God created man in his own image", and in the same way, God created man in the image of himself in various worlds. Normally, this would be a difficult thing to accept, but in light of the current situation, I had no choice but to accept that this was true.

Therefore, people from various worlds were transferred to this world, and since they were almost similar humanoid life forms, they were able to reproduce and have offspring with each other. They were like people from parallel universes.

The reason why this world came into being was also quite extraordinary.

In the various worlds managed by the "GS" God, a phenomenon sometimes occurred in which a hole opened in the dimension and a route to another world was created. Originally, people who fell into such holes were almost always buried alive in a void of nothingness. Therefore, it is said that God began to use this world, which had not yet been created, as a receptacle to receive people who had been sent through dimensional distortions.

Therefore, there were many beings called monsters that originally existed on the continents of this world, and there were many dangerous, uncharted areas.

To return to the story, Karimah, who was talking to me now, and the other inhabitants in the lower world were all from another world if they traced their ancestry back. It was an astonishing story. This world was a civilization formed by people who had been transferred from other worlds.

In this world, people who had been transferred to another world were directly benefited by the light of God, and therefore, their children. In other words, people born in this world tended to be a little less capable than those born in other worlds. Of course, this was only a trend, and it was said that among those born in this world, there are many who could be considered prodigies.

It sounded strange, but it made sense to me, so I accepted it without any sense of discomfort.

After talking about the world to some extent, I was actually taught how to use the magic bestowed upon me by the light of God. First of all, however, it was something called "life magic" so that I could get a sense of what it was.

Magic in this world could be thought of as a kind of supernatural power. It did not seem to be used in the same way of chanting spells and activating them. Among them, life magic, also called basic magic, was the basic magic of each attribute, creating something like a chemical reaction.

Fire magic would light a fire. Water magic would make water spring up. Wind magic would cause wind. Attributes referred to types of magic power, and each type of magic power had its own strengths and weaknesses.

"Shigeto-sama has wind magic and non-attribute..."

So, we first practiced how to generate wind, which was easy to visualize. The term "non-attribute" did not mean that there were no attributes, but rather that a small number of attributes that could not be classified in the various attribute tests were lumped together and treated as non-attribute.

In other words, the problem was that the non-attributes could not know what kind of attribute-effective magic they could use, but they would try out typical ones while training in various kinds of magic.

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"Wonderful. Yes. Now you can generate wind.

"...But what can this wind be used for?"

"Yes, it can be used to make a fire, to dry your hair, and to cool off..."

"I see... I understand the meaning of life magic."

Even this little bit of magic is quite interesting because it is a strange phenomenon that I have never experienced before. I was getting dizzy and lightheaded as I was getting on with it. Karimah said, "You are out of magic power.", and we had to take a break from practicing magic.

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