The Trendsetting Archmage (1)

The way mornings looked at the Magic Tower recently had become quite different from before.

Regardless of their school, whenever shabby-robed mages happened to encounter one another in the streets, they exchanged the exact same greetings as if they had planned it in advance.

“How many pages did you read yesterday?”

“Don’t even ask. I couldn’t get through a single page. It says you can use telekinetic magic to manipulate sand grain by grain. That’s ridiculous.”

“Hoho, did you actually try doing it? That was the sort of thing you should have left as a thought experiment.”

“It’s called a thought experiment, but doesn’t that really mean you didn’t understand it, so you skipped it to look at the next one?”

“What?!”

Whenever loud voices rang out from somewhere in the building, nine times out of ten, it was a debate—or rather, a fight—over differences in interpretation.

At the center of all this commotion was a single book.

[How to Utilize the Mana of Nature – A Basic Theory Text]...