A Commonplace Story Of Overpowered Sorcerer

Rio quickened his pace and he arrived in the training field before long. When he arrived, he saw Kouki had a sheepish yet pleased smile when the armored Knight-Captain saying something to him. Rio's sharp eyesight due to his skill caught a small twelve-centimeter by seven-centimeter silver plate in his hand. Rio understood that he was already late and it seems Kouki's hero's stats had come to light.

Well, it wasn't his problem. He had a pleasant time with a lovely young lady and he deemed his lateness worthy as a sacrifice to get know better someone as lovely as Liselotte, who despite her loveliness didn't have significant involvement with canon nor make appearance whatsoever.

As Rio approached the group, his arrival grabbed their attention. The Knight Captain, whose name was Meld-something, and Kouki caught the sight of the approaching Rio first because they were facing in his direction while the other students were showing off their back to him.

Before long, his arrival got known by everyone and they looked at him with a curious, wary or contemptuous look. For the curious and wary look, it was only normal they had that because Rio was a stranger to them. They never met him before. They only knew him after he summoning ritual that transferred them to Tortus from their version of Earth. Meanwhile, those contemptuous looks came from a few boys who were led by a boy with long, reddish-brown hair. They seemed to dislike Rio because of his status as a Gaijin—foreigner—and how Rio acted aloof all the times. These boys were no other than Daisuke Hayama and his thuggish group.

Rio didn't even spare a glance at them, but if they dared to provoke him, Rio swore he would unleash hell upon them. Consequence be damned!

"You came finally! Were you lost?" Captain Meld asked loudly. There was no ill intent behind his question, only honest curiosity.

Rio finally stopped before him and Kouki, and after giving a short nod of acknowledgment to Kouki, Rio bowed in apology towards Captain Meld. Also, he told the truth. He'd strolled around the castle to sightseeing. "I apologize for my tardiness. I was strolling around the castle to familiarize myself with my new surroundings."

"Is that so? Anyway, you came after I gave an explanation about the status plate. By the way, here, this is your status plate." Captain Meld handed over the last status plate towards Rio who accepted it silently. He feigned a confused expression when he accepted the small plate.

"Rio, that artifact is something to check our status. Anyway, artifacts are..." The ever-helpful and deluded wannabe hero began explaining about what were artifacts, what was a status plate, and what was status. It was basically similar to the canon materials Rio knew intimately. Yet, Rio feigned his attention when Kouki helped him to understand the status plate better.

They looked amicable towards each other, and Rio knew why Kouki acted like that around a stranger like him while the rest were wary and curious of him.

Why Kouki was like this? It was in his nature to be unable to see the bad in humanity. Because of the unfinished and incomplete teaching of his late grandfather, who had been an attorney, Kouki's sense of justice was flawed and twisted. He believed that nobody was a bad person and if there was a bad person, they just need help before they can see true justice. His late grandfather could only teach him the good in humanity, but before he could teach the evil humans could commit, he died. It was the cause of Kouki's flawed justice.

That kind of belief was truly flawed because of human nature who could be very sinful to the point of overly disgusting and rotten. The so-called trashy trash, which was better ceased to exist than wasting resources around him.

Though Rio knew about Kouki's flaw, he didn't have the interest in fixing it. If it was easy, he wouldn't mind fixing Kouki's flawed belief. The problem was in how deep his belief rooted. Kouki had believed in his flawed ideal since he was still a kid and after years, it had festered and rooted in his mind to the point of turning him mad if his belief was shaken. Mere words were both enough to change his belief.

Furthermore, Kouki himself was actually a stubborn guy. After all, only a stubborn guy could hold on such a troublesome belief for so long. Thus, Rio didn't have any plan to fix Kouki.

While he was listening to Kouki's explanation, Rio suddenly felt an uncomfortable feeling. His Detect skill and it'd specialized derivation—Bloodl.u.s.t—had warned him of a malicious look directed on him. This derivative skill does not only detect bloodl.u.s.t aimed at him but any kind of ill intention too. However, his other Detect's derivation skills such as Presence didn't give him the location of the owner of this ill gaze, and Rio knew that his Detect skill covered the whole capital city.

'There is only one answer, and the owner of this ill look is...SH*T!' Rio thought and almost lost control over his calmness. He believed the owner of this ill look directed on him alone was Ehit. It seems the fake god is watching over their interaction from their high up place called Holy Precinct.

Rio controlled his chaotic feelings ruthlessly and maintained his calm outward appearance with everything he could muster. His back was drenched with beads of cold sweat, wetting his inner shirt.

"Anyway, since we came from a world where magic is only in fantasy stories, it must be a bit hard to access it for the first time, but do not worry. I will guide Rio until you can access your mana to use your status plate. In regards to accessing your mana, firstly, you need to sense the unfamiliar rush of energy in your body. It is easy to sense because it is a foreign feeling due to the nonexistent mana in our body back on Earth. Alright, try it, Rio! Just ask me for help if you meet trouble in it."

Rio was having a bad time due to the unwelcoming attention from Ehit. It made his plan to hide his true status a bit more complicated than before, but he still had the confidence that neither Ehit nor everyone in the training field while realizing his little trick.

Pushing on his Absolute Magic Control to its utmost limit, Rio imbued a drop of his blood with his mana which was filled with his intent, Creation Magic, and a bit of Spirit Magic. His intent was important because the intent and clear image were the main components behind a successfully cast spell. Creation Magic had the ability to affect inorganic materials as the caster pleased, and in this case, Rio wanted his status plate to display what he wanted others to see, not the real information he wanted to hide. Meanwhile, Spirit Magic was the main reason as to why the status plate could read the status of a person. The status plate was imbued with Spirit Magic that could interact with the negative aspect of the world, and one of the prominent examples was a person's soul where their information is stored.

"Hoh? What a majestic mana..."

Rio heard Captain Meld's comment on his mana color when it outlined his status plate. There was also clamor from the students who saw the procession. If Kouki's pure white mana is called righteous and pure while Shizuku's deep blue of lapis lazuli is beautiful, Kaori's light violet as elegant, while Hajime's light blue mana is warm and full of kindness, Rio's platinum mana could be described as majestic.