Academy Munchkin Enslaved

2 – This is Calculus

It was graduation. No, graduation was right around the corner.

I shouldn’t have listened to the professor who told me to go on to graduate school because he would raise me well when I was an undergraduate.

The terrible slave life created by the wrong choice in childhood.

What can you do in society after graduating from the Department of Mathematics? Maybe going to graduate school would be better…

The study of mathematics itself suited me well. Or maybe even trying to become a professor would be fine.

It was wrong to think that way.

Why didn’t anyone dry it? No, in fact, all of the seniors were stopped.

I regretted not listening to their desperate advice.

“But damn… thank god.”

Ahead of graduation, I was scheduled to join a large company as a researcher from next month.

Of course, we don’t know what that life will be like, but let’s enjoy the joy of liberation for now.

Yeah, I should have.

“Hero. The continent is now facing a great danger. Please use that power to protect the continent.”

“f*ck?”

It’s a different world right before graduation. What a summons!

When I came to my senses, I found myself surrounded by men wearing strange robes.

They dragged me in front of a human called the emperor, and I had to listen to their story without knowing the English language.

‘Is this a true story?’

It was a landscape that could only be seen in a fantasy world.

A palace with aesthetic beauty that surpasses any other palaces in Europe, as if it were painted in a painting.

Attire that looks like people from the Middle Ages would have worn it, and facilities that seem to work with magic.

Mystery, beauty and enchantment. It was the scenery where I felt those emotions, but I couldn’t concentrate at all.

That’s right, this isn’t tourism. It was because they were dragged into another world without knowing why.

“According to the prophecy, in the next 10 years, the continent will face a major crisis. And we summoned you, the warrior, according to another prophecy, and we hope that you will grow up for 10 years and protect the continent.”

It was a common cliché, but it wasn’t all that pleasant.

It’s not like I’ve never had this kind of imagination, but I was a bit embarrassed about summoning to another world ahead of graduation from graduate school.

“But I don’t have any skills… “

“Don’t worry about that. You must have received a blessing called a ‘gift’ from the goddess as you crossed the dimension. According to the prophecy, the hero summoned with the gift is so powerful that no strong man on the continent can match. If you grow with the gift, you will become strong in no time.”

“Gift… ? I didn’t have anything like that… “

A gift?

Ability obtained by transferring to another world, status window, etc?

But no matter how much I think about it, I don’t remember receiving anything like that.

I was just lying in bed and when I opened my eyes, it was just a memory of being in a different world.

“Now, wait… your majesty! I really can’t feel any blessings from the goddess from this person!”

“?”

“What? Could it be… “

A certain clergyman who heard my muttering trembled as if he was frightened, pointed his finger at me and shouted.

Even the emperor slammed the throne and stood up.

No, what are they doing among themselves? Please explain properly.

“The Holy Sword… Bring the holy sword! If you are a hero, the holy sword will definitely respond!”

– Yes!

I don’t know, but judging from the expression on the emperor’s face, it was clear that the situation was not good.

Is it because I don’t have a gift? But I never received anything like that.

Then can we go back home? It must have been summoned by mistake.

So that’s right I’m a hero…

It was a mystical experience, but fighting at the risk of one’s life as a hero is not my aptitude.

I was at ease inside and stood in the middle of the common until the holy sword arrived.

And not long after, two soldiers whimpered and brought a box decorated with all kinds of jewels.

“Come on, open it! If Lee Ja is a true hero, the light of the holy sword will surely react to him!”

“Yes!”

Following the urgent words of the emperor, the soldiers slowly opened the box.

And then, through the gap that slowly opened, a dazzling light flowed out, and eventually, when the box was completely opened…

“… Eh?”

“Ah, ah… Unbelievable… !”

The dazzling light lost its way and disappeared.

“Ah… aaa… !!!!”

At the same time, everyone, including the emperor, let out a sigh, and the emperor fell to his knees on the floor all of a sudden.

“Summoning… The summon seems to be wrong, Your Majesty. Lee Ja is really just an ordinary alien with no abilities!”

“It can’t be… When will the next summon be possible!”

“At least 10 years… Maybe it will take more than that… “

“Then it is useless!!”

Quang!

That summoning magic isn’t something that can be done arbitrarily.

It’s a heartbreaking story, but there was nothing I could do. It’s a pity.

“Then I… Can I just go back?”

“I can’t do that. According to the prophecy, the hero must defeat the demon king in order to return to the original world.”

“Yes, yes?”

So you can’t go back home? You have to live here for the rest of your life?

“Then what will happen to me… “

“This, this must be a conspiracy of the demons! There must have been some trick in the summoning process to induce the wrong summon!”

“Right! The summoning process was perfect!”

Perhaps they were worried that their throats would be blown off, the summoners started shouting in unison.

Things got increasingly dizzy. I’m not sure how to get home right now, but they’re fighting each other.

Wherever you go, are humans the same?

“I don’t know if this person has any evil ulterior motives! Maybe it has something to do with the demons… “

“Yes? What bullsh*t is that… “

“Sure… Hello! Redeem the interest!”

“No f*ck… what is that… “

What kind of bullsh*t is this.

I tried to protest that I didn’t know anything, but they didn’t listen.

I literally didn’t know anything about this situation, so even though they said nonsense, I couldn’t prove that it was nonsense.

After a day-long investigation, it was revealed that I was an ordinary alien with nothing.

However, the attitude of the people of the other world towards me was still not good.

The frame is already covered.

Wrong summoning, this world is dangerous.

None of them was my fault, but I had to be treated with contempt just because I was a party to the summoning.

And the result was who I am today.

“f*ck. It’s terribly tasteless.”

The academy’s slave.

The most comfortable option to dispose of me was to be cast as a slave.

Each country, including the empire, refused to summon me from the other world, and eventually I was sold as a slave to the academy, a transnational institution.

The academy was also a group of strong people, so it was also because no matter what I did, I was able to suppress it the fastest.

Of course, I don’t have the strength to resist.

“Life is really messed up, this… “

It’s been four months since I lived as a slave to the academy.

Considering that I have been working since vacation, two months before the entrance ceremony, I have only been working in earnest for about two months.

I quickly got used to it because it was a slave life focused on simple labor, but this damn situation only got worse and worse.

“Hmm?”

Late lunch time, one of the best times to rest.

I was supposed to have a lunch break during the first lecture in the afternoon after the cadets’ lunch break.

The menu has always been chewy bread.

Even though dinner was fine, lunch always threw a piece of bread and a piece of milk and it was over.

“This is… I forgot to throw it away.”

Chewing and swallowing hard bread with milk.

I was lying on the grass in a daze when I found that the paper Lorraine threw to me in the morning was still in my pocket.

“That cheap b*tch… If it’s pretty, it’s a unit price.”

On that paper, strange pictures and formulas were listed.

Seeing that the circle is drawn with a red pen, it seems to be something like a slip of paper.

Probably Lorraine’s paper test. Seeing that she got everything right reminded me of her words about her basic subjects being boring.

“Magic… It’s all full of numbers.”

FYI, the place where I am working, the Lushana Academy, is a magic academy for wizards.

There are two academies on the continent, and the other one is said to train knights.

Anyway, all the cadets here learn magic.

That means this note is also a test for basic magic.

Let’s take a look. I don’t know how to look at it anyway.

“… Hmm?”

However, as I was quietly looking at the test papers, I somehow felt familiar.

No, I could tell at a glance. I was so used to it that it was ridiculous.

“I solved it by unnecessarily complicated fitting, but… “

The quadrants are not drawn, but the figures are drawn at regular intervals.

And the equations listed under the question to calculate the next magic circle.

I didn’t use a proper formula or theory, but looking at the results alone, it’s clear…

“… Calculus?”

It was calculus.

Calculus is basically a study that deals with change. It is not an exaggeration to say that it forms the basis of modern civilization, a widely used study.

I am solving the problem in a non-productive way, but in the end, the question of ‘calculate the next magic circle’ mentioned in this paper test is, in the end,

It was the same as ‘differentiate the following graph’ and ‘integrate the following graph.’

“Magic was calculus?”

Of course, there must be some more process before you can use magic. Like Mana, for example.

Basically calculus of the magic circle, thinking that magic is being used made me laugh.

“It doesn’t seem like derivatives or formulas were used, but… If you only look at the result of an operation, it’s calculus. So, does magic mean the result of differentiating and integrating the amount of change in the graph called the magic circle?”

Perhaps using mana according to the change amount, or changing something…

That could be the principle behind how magic is used.

From my standards as a modern person, that seemed a reasonable explanation.

Yes, even in a fantasy world, you can’t just use a mysterious technology like magic in an unscientific way.

No matter how much the world is created by liberal arts.

As expected, mathematics and calculus are great.

Ummm.

For some reason, my shoulders shrugged and I carefully looked into the problem.

The problem was that both a graph called the magic circle and the range of the function called the amount of mana were presented.

Calculating the amount of change in mana within the range of the proposed function.

Looking through the problem, the amount of mana, that is, the scope of the function, was intuitively known, so if you mastered it a little, you would be able to use magic with only the magic circle.

Maybe it’s because it’s a basic course for the first year that even the amount of mana is kindly presented.

“No. 1. Elemental Magic – Fire. Is this fire magic? A semicircle, a quadratic function… “

Starting with problem 1, it was simple.

A shape similar to fire with a semicircle with a radius of 3 and a quadratic function in the opposite direction.

Looking at the correct answer written by Lorraine below, it was a problem that could be solved by differentiating this graph.

“It’s at the level of a middle school student. I can solve this with mental arithmetic. As per the given range… “

After spending several years in the mathematics department, I was able to solve this level of differential without using my hands.

Lying on the grass, closing your eyes, and feeling the cool breeze, mental calculation.

The cold feeling of the wind brushing my skin strangely made me feel better, and I was able to concentrate better.

It feels as if nature and me are the only two in the world.

Doing simple mental calculations in the meantime was completely different from the feeling of reading a thesis while shedding tears of blood while sitting in a laboratory during my graduate school days.

It feels like nature and mathematics are becoming one…

Ah… Go away… !

“The answer is… !”

Operation completed within a few seconds.

As if writing in your head, you completed mental arithmetic and recognized the correct answer,

My mental arithmetic became one with the wind brushing my skin, and the refreshing sensation that was scattered stimulated my five senses.

“… f*ck!”

At the same time, there was a flash of fire in the palm of his hand, and the tip of the note he was holding in his hand was slightly burnt.

“Uh, uh… ?”

Magic. It was magic. It was using magic.

That mathematics is nature, or maybe mana. The sense that mathematics becomes one with mana and disintegrates into the natural world.

That cool sensation coldly brushes your skin, and that blue light rushes into your field of vision like waves rolling in.

The cool scent like peppermint stimulates the tip of the nose and coolly spreads around the ears like the sound of waves.

A feeling of blue that fills your mouth with a refreshing feeling, like drinking a cool soda.

The senses stimulate the five senses and become one with nature…

“Magic… Mana… “

That was magic, and that was mana.

It was a sensation, feeling, and experience that I felt for the first time in my life, but I knew it instinctively.

This is mana. This is the foundation of this world.

Civilization here was made through this power, not science.

I felt that new math at once.

“Funny… “

At that moment, I didn’t think of anything else.

Just the feeling of my knowledge and mana becoming one and being sprayed coolly.

Enchanted by that sensation, I longed for this new discipline like I did when I first fell in love with mathematics.

With that mysterious first experience of using mana, magic fell in love with the act of ‘calculating’.

I ‘calculated’ the magic written on Lorraine’s test paper to the point of being late for my afternoon routine.