Demonic Skeleton God-Chapter 114: Mind Range

The next subject is Mind Range; after that, only Magic and Runic Magic remain. Mind Range is supposed to focus on increasing Flain’s intelligence, which made Flain guess he wouldn’t attend—unless it turns out to be useful, in which case, of course, he would.

Flain is fairly confident in his intelligence, and Spell Master will also continuously increase it because when creating a spell, he has to think and calculate so many things that it’s not even funny. So he’d rather train than attend Mind Range, but it’s worth a try.

In a corner of the academy where no one was, Flor called Flain over.

"Are you mad that I went all out against Nyvar?" Flain asked once they got there.

"Not really, it didn’t cause any major attention that Nyvar praised you a bit. In any case, it would be good, as I already said, if you didn’t draw too much attention to yourself—though you already know that. The reason I wanted to call you is that tonight a corpse similar to your fake human body should arrive, so stop by after class," said Flor with a smile.

"Ah, alright. I just wanted to go all out to hear the evaluation from an expert," said Flain.

Another 20 minutes passed, and it was time for Mind Range. Flain found a crowd of students heading into the classroom, so he joined them and sat by his two acquaintances whom he regularly sits with.

The professor began walking toward them. It was a girl, and she had soft, pearl-white hair tied back in a loose braid, with two strands edged in silver thread sticking out. She had deep purple eyes that radiated beauty. She wore a stretchy dark blue tunic embroidered with symbols of the ancient rune of knowledge. At her waist hung small parchment scrolls with magical formulas. freёwebnoѵel.com

She walked to the front of the classroom and stood on a platform. "Greetings, I’m Aina Imia, and I’ll be teaching you Mind Range. The purpose of Mind Range is to increase your intelligence, strategic and logical thinking, and to speed up spell learning. Does anyone have any questions?" she asked.

Whispers echoed through the classroom, but no one said anything out loud. Many students were stunned by her beauty and would have loved to go on a date with her, but it was clear to them that she must already have a husband.

Aina looked around the room, and when no questions came, she continued. "Alright, let’s dive straight into the first test—it will be something easier. In front of you, you’ll see the Abacus of Thought."

On the desk in front of each student, in a soft glow, appeared rows of small abacuses made of pinewood, each with a different number of wire layers.

"First: move four beads of each color from the left side to the right. If you can do it within five seconds, I’ll immediately assign you to the advanced version," said Aina.

Tension filled the classroom. Puzzles and tasks that combined time pressure with precision had, ever since the professor previously triggered storms of frustration at this academy. The students weren’t stupid—they knew that copying from their neighbor could go wrong, especially if their neighbor also did it wrong.

Even the sound of the ticking clock on the wall was gone – the whole class had their eyes fixed on the small wooden abacuses. Aina Imia, standing upright with calm in her voice, waited.

"We’ll start right away," she continued. "On my signal – three, two, one... now!" she initiated.

The room was instantly filled with the sharp dissonance of fingers and beads. Light blue, blue, green, and yellow beads moved swiftly along the wires, but after just three seconds, the atmosphere shifted from alert anticipation to a quiet rustle of frustration – hands began to fall behind, and irises sought a quick glance at their neighbors’ hands.

Flain, seated in the corner next to Itai, calmly placed the beads: lightning-fast fingers, a mental algorithm trained through endless time in dimension X. Only one second remained. A moment later, five more students finished the task just under the time limit.

Aina nodded. "Excellent. Those who failed will have theirs burned to ash. Those who did well will get slightly more ink in the next test," she said.

Many students’ beads caught fire and, after a few moments, turned into a few tiny grains of dust. Flain, Flor, and Itai passed, although Itai only barely made it. Within moments, it became clear to Flain how it was supposed to be done – the correct order was yellow, light blue, green, and blue.

At the top is the sun, symbolized by yellow, followed by the sky, which is light blue, then green representing nature, and finally blue for the seas.

At Aina’s signal, parchment scrolls emerged from beneath the desk – the foundation of every Mind Range test. A parchment scroll and a quill with ink appeared in front of each student. Those who completed the first test correctly received slightly more ink.

"Your task is to write on this scroll a short attack strategy using a small unit against an imaginary fire orc, in three sentences. In war, you won’t have time for many moves or time. You have two years... just kidding, three minutes. Also, your ink is very limited," Aina said and laughed at her own joke.

Flain didn’t know what an orc was in this world, but in his home world, it was a large green creature living in caves, quite aggressive and slow, but nothing like a fire orc existed. Flain would consider the orc from his home world, just adding fire-based attacks.

Flain dipped his quill into the ink and fixed his gaze on the blank paper. He calculated an internal model of a fire orc – large hard head, weapon usually a cleaver, strong red skin. He began to write:

"The attack unit will exploit the slowness and the element of surprise, concentrating a labyrinthine diversionary strike followed by a flanking maneuver from the sides, thereby wounding the orc and reducing the fire orc’s combat effectiveness, allowing units to pierce the tough skin. Soldiers will climb on its back and focus on being as fast as possible, thus depriving the orc of the ability to use fire attacks."

You may wonder how Flain managed to write it when the system taught him to write in the language used in the Empire of Light. The truth is that Itai taught him long ago.

Flain then reviewed it to check for any mistakes...

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