Author's Reincarnation in a Fantasy Setting

Chapter 57 Zaforths Academy

Nothing much happened after Ryfin noted the rank of every individual in the class since today was the first day.

We were dismissed 1 hour later and in that period he told us the history of the Zaforths Magic Academy, why it is the number one academy to learn magic, and what privileges we'll get once we graduate from here.

I never paid attention to what he said because if this is the same Zaforths academy as the one in the novel then I already knew everything there is to know.

This academy was built to produce great magicians and spread the art of magic worldwide.

'Given how much of a useful art magic is, I want it to be used in every nick and corner of the world' were the words of the man who founded the academy.

He hired the best of the best magicians as the teachers and started this academy. No one knows why but only this academy was backed by the government even though there are many other magic academies.

Due to the government's support, it didn't take much time for the academy to gain popularity and fame among the citizens.

The higher-class nobles started sending their sons and daughters to this academy and seeing that the other nobles did the same.

The urge to not get left behind by the other nobles caused a chain reaction, and in no time, the academy that was supposed to be for everyone ended up being an academy only for nobles.

Five years after its establishment, this academy took first place as the best magic academy in the Zenith kingdom and is holding the number one spot for many years now.

The privileges offered to the students once they graduate were also nothing to joke about.

Your family will climb up one rank in the hierarchy of noble families if you graduated from class A.

You will be able to get any job related to magic by showing your graduation certificate and there will also be a chance for you to get into the royal army, if your talent is good enough then it will be possible for you to be hired as the personal guard of the royal family.

In short, you won't have to worry about having a successful and luxurious life if you graduate from this academy.

Well, this is what's on the surface and known to the general audience. That's why Ryfin only explained this much to us. I doubt even Ryfin knows the secrets of this academy.

I knew this confidential information due to the memory of that novel. I helped loli_pop in editing and correcting his mistakes to avoid any visible plot holes so I read his novel very carefully.

As a result, the storyline is carved into my memory. 'I don't know whether I should be thankful to him for this or not?'

Anyway, the real reason for why this academy was built and why it has the government's support, is this.

A year before when the academy was founded, the man who founded this academy discovered a portal in barren lands.

It was emitting weird energy signatures and a huge amount of mana was concentrated around it.

Upon entering the portal the man found himself in a world totally different from this one. The land there was burned and rocks were melted, the atmosphere was dense and thick, black clouds shrouded the sky.

It was the world where demons reside; later it was named the demon dimension.

The man himself never encountered any demon because the sheer look of his surroundings was enough to make him turn his tale and run for his life.

He ran away and came back to this world. A few weeks later the portal disappeared, and though his mind told him he is safe now, a feeling of fear was engraved deep in his heart.

While he never encountered a demon, he did saw them from far away. They had whole cities built in that world. And then the man thought.

What if they came to this world just like he went there? What will become of his homeland then? The answer was simple…it'll be pure destruction.

He had no logical reasoning for this but the power he felt in the demonic dimension, the density of mana he felt there, was nothing he could ever dream to have. Leave him, not even the best magician could compete against that power.

Humans have a special trait to them, [They fear what they can't control]. The same went for him also.

Thus, he reported this incident to the king and informed him of the upcoming threat. The king heeded his call and he got the support of the government and the royal family.

And as for why the king believed him? Well, it was because that man was in fact the strongest magician humanity had at that time.

Like this, the Zaforths Magic Academy was founded. The main goal of this academy wasn't to spread magic across the world, but to produce magicians capable of defending the world when the time came.

This was the secret history of the Zaforths magic academy, which only a selected people know about.

"How much this will be?"

"50 C"

"Okay, here is it."

I handed the money to the man in front of me and received a fluffy thing from him.

The thing in my hand had a crispy texture from the outside and soft from the inside, due to the white creamy thing filled in it.

It was a creampuff I purchased just now.

The class was over so I was headed back and then I remembered I have eaten nothing in breakfast. So I went to a store—a bakery to be precise—that's built inside the campus and bought a creampuff to eat.

"Damn it's good~"

Taking a bite my cheeks puffed up as a delicate sweet flavor covered my tongue.

As I ate the puff, I walked away from the store, though I was not headed toward the dorms.

Right now I was going in the direction where class 1A was located. I wanted to confirm if I really was in that novel and this was the last thing to make me believe it.

I was going to see another character from the novel and if they are the same as I know then it'll be sure that this world is the same as the novel. Once it is confirmed, I can then focus on my plans to dodge my death and on things after that.

A while later I reached my destination, their class also seems to have ended as the students were all out in the corridor.

I sneaked my way across the crowd and looked for my target. The one I was looking for was the heiress of the family, second in position to the royal family.

And not long after, I found my target. Or rather found her, she was indeed a girl and one who'll be a member of Leon's harem.